PFC begins task
of recalling approved budgets
■The Career Center receives
the largest cut so far while
LTD’s budget remains intact
By Danielle Gillespie
Oregon Daily Emerald
On Thursday, the ASUO Programs
Finance Committee made a $150,000
budget cut to the Career Center for its
largest reduction in funding thus far
in the budget recall process.
The Career Center’s budget
dropped from the $334,788 it was
previously awarded to $184,788 for
the 2002-03 year.
“We decided not to cut programs
as much as ballot measures because
they have other sources of funding,”
PFC member Nadia Hasan said.
The Career Center has a fee elimi
nation fund previously allocated via
ballot measure for a new building
that was never constructed. The fee
elimination fund is generated by a $3
per student, per term fee, and has
been used the past five years as a
funding source for the Career Center.
Career Center director Larry Smith
said, “I want to work collaboratively
and be a good steward of PFC money,
but reductions stay there year after
year, and I don’t want to designate
valuable programs.”
PFC voted against cutting the Lane
Transit District’s budget at this time be
cause it is a service to many students.
“If any student does not use any
other part of the incidental fee, they
will use this service,” PFC member
Joe Streckert said.
The University Counseling and
Testing Center received a $14,022
budget cut, changing its budget
from $277,751 to $263,729 for the
2002-03 year.
PFC made a $2,500 cut to the
Campus Recycling budget, giving
them a new allocation of $113,126,
down from its previously awarded
$115,626.
PFC also reduced the United States
Student Association’s conference line
item because PFC believed the group
could do fundraising for conferences,
giving them a new budget of $1,100,
down from its original $2,500.
Asian-Pacific American Law
Student Association received a
budget reduction of $733 in its
stipend, changing its budget from
$2,223 to $1,450.
Asian-Pacific American Student
Union budget decreased as well,
from $14,589 to $13,607. PFC also
reduced the Coalition Against Envi
ronmental Racism’s budget from
$15,993 to $15,494.
The Pre-Dental Club was granted
a budget of $261 for the 2002-03
year, a 25 percent decrease from the
2001-02 year. Model UN received a
budget of $1,620 for the 2002-03
year, a 45.2 percent decrease from
the 2001-02 year.
The PFC voted unanimously
against DELTA-GSO’s appeal be
cause the group missed the budg rt
submission deadline for the 2002
03 year, and it did not use the mon
ey previously allocated to its budget
until the end of last fiscal year.
E-mail reporter Danielle Gillespie
atdaniellegillespie@dailyemerald.com.
Gov. Kitzhaber announces further cuts in the education budget
■a aay Detore the Legislature
plans to meet, Kitzhaber said the
recession is causing even more
spending cuts and tax increases
By John Liebhardt
Oegon Daily Emerald
Student leaders reacted with sur
prise to Gov. John Kitzhaber’s an
nouncement Thursday calling for an
additional cuts to higher education.
Speaking one day before the Legis
lature will meet in a special session
to balance Oregon’s budget deficit,
Kitzhaber said the deepening reces
sion has forced him to call for even
more spending cuts and ask for addi
tional tax increases. The state’s deficit
is now estimated to be between $750
$830 million, but Kitzhaber warned
that it could hit $930 million.
Kitzhaber s new proposal called
for $10.1 million in cuts “in educa
tion, primarily in universities and
other education services.’’
Jon Coney, the governor’s
spokesman, said the complete de
tails for the new plan had yet to be
worked out, so he could not specu
late on how much of the cuts will hit
the Oregon University System.
John Wykoff, legislative director
for the Oregon Student Association,
said while he was surprised at the
announcement, he believes the gov
ernor may be forcing legislators to
understand the full extent of the
dire fiscal straits afflicting the state.
“These cuts are nowhere near as
bad as all the budget cuts , but he is
raising the stakes a little,” Wykoff
said, referring to an earlier proposal
in which Kitzhaber outlined nearly
$830 million in program cuts,
which would cost the OUS $8 4 mi 1
lion. Kitzhaber s latest proposal also
included $17.3
million in ad
ditional cuts in
human services
and $3.1 mil
lion in cuts to
public safety.
He also urged
the Legislature
to limit a tax de
duction for sen
ior citizens’
medical ex
penses. The deduction allows all
people over 62, regardless of their
income, to deduct all medical and
dental expenses.
Since early January, both the gov
ernor and different members of the
Legislature have created proposals
to balance the budget deficit. Each
of these plans has proposed cuts to
the OUS. The plan by the bi-parti
san legislative budget committee, a
group of two Democrats and three
Republicans, calls for $526 million
in program cuts, including $48.5
million for OUS. Kitzhaber's previ
Students for Choice start
monitoring protesters
■Though clinic protesters
are usually peaceful, escorts
provide a reassuring presence
By Diane Huber
Oregon Daily Emerald
Anti-abortion protesters at Eu
gene’s All Women’s Health Services
are mostly men over 50 who wear
rosaries and pray softly as they sway
back and forth on the sidewalk bor
dering the clinic parking lot, Stu
dents for Choice co-director Lauren
Manes said.
The protesters are usually peace
ful, but Students for Choice mem
bers wearing yellow vests that say
“pro-choice escort” will stand on
the sidewalk to make sure the pro
testers don’t threaten patients who
come to the East 11th Avenue clinic
for an abortion.
The group monitored protesters
for the first time last week as part of
a training session, Manes said. For
privacy reasons, she declined to say
what day. During that day, the pro
testers were very nonconfrontation
al, she said.
Students for Choice are instruct
ed to have minimal contact with
protesters and patients. If protesters
cross into the parking lot, the stu
dent escbrts have been told to say,
“This is private property. You need
to leave immediately,” Phillips said.
Depending on the severity of the
situation, the escorts have cell
phones they can use to call the po
lice, she said.
Students for Choice members
said escorts’ presence is important
so that women feel safe coming to
the clinic, even when the protesters
remain nonconfrontational.
“We stay as long as the protesters.
We’re mainly there as security and
support and to be a presence for the
patients,” Students for Choice co
director Kathryn Phillips said.
The protesters aren’t allowed to
cross the sidewalk and go into the
parking lot, and they usually obey
the rule, according to clinic staff.
The most extreme act of protest
was when the protesters blocked
the driveway to the clinic and gave
pamphlets to the blocked drivers.
Before Students for Choice mem
bers began training to be clinic es
corts, Willamette University Stu
dents for Choice members drove to
the Eugene clinic to monitor pro
testers, Phillips said. The clinic that
offers abortions in Salem rarely has
protesters, she said.
Willamette University Students
for Choice member Nat Okey and a
woman in charge of security at the
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ous plan recommended $414 mil
lion in program cuts, including
$44.5 million for the OUS.
“I hope through this process that
the governor and the Legislature will
understand that it is in die best inter
est to insulate the university system
from these cuts,” said Tim Young, a
student representative to the State
Board of Higher Education.
Before Thursday, higher education
funding had been partially spared
during the informal budget negotia
tions between the Democratic gover
nor and the Republican-controlled
Legislature. Most of the disagreement
between the two parties centered on
the governor’s plan to raise certain
taxes and the legislators’ plan to raise
revenue by spending money from the
Common School Fund and the
Health Care Trust Fund.
The governor’s revenue propos
als include repealing Measure 88,
passed by Oregon voters in 2000,
which allows Oregon taxpayers to
deduct federal tax payments up to
$5,000 on their Oregon taxes. He
also proposed raising taxes on most
beers and wines by 5 cents a glass
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