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Tuesday, February 19,2002
Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 103, Issue 99
PFC hears
appeals
to groups’
budgets
■ In addition to more recall hearings
of previously approved budgets, PFC
listened to appeals by groups
By Robin Weber
Oregon Daily Emerald
Many student groups have seen budget
recalls by the Programs Finance Commit
tee in recent weeks, and this pattern con
tinued Monday night. However, many ap
peals of the recalls were also heard, some
leading to increases from the previous al
locations.
The Recreation and Intramurals annual
budget was the first to be recalled. PFC in
creased the budget 17.8 percent to
$125,727 to retain graduate teaching fel
lows and student officials. This increase
was deemed necessary by the group’s leaders.
Turn to PFC, page 4
UO considers
discount price
on late classes
■ Students might receive lower tuition
on unpopular class times as a way
to ease the burden of higher enrollment
By Katie Ellis
Oregon Daily Emerald
In response to increasing enrollment
and decreasing state support, the Universi
ty is considering later classes and tuition
breaks as a way to accommodate the rising
number of University students.
The tuition model currently being dis
cussed, known as the access-based model,
focuses on dispersing teaching hours and
classes more evenly throughout the day,
providing lower cost tuition alternatives
and providing more choices for students in
terms of cost, time of day and number of
available courses.
Turn to Tuition, page 3
‘People don’t care. ’
— Theodore Eugene Adams, senior, referring to the ASUO Elections
Thomas Patterson Emerald
Senior Theodore Eugene Adams says students are disillusioned by the election process. ‘They see tons of names, but it just doesn’t mean anything,’ he said. He said the
posters sprouting up around campus don’t ‘educate the students. We see all these names for a week, then they just disappear. Our leaders are invisible. ’
Apathy hangs over
campus elections
■ Many students on campus can’t relate the
ASUO Executive to their everyday lives
By Diane Huber
Oregon Daily Emerald
With 10 tickets crowding the ASUO Executive bal
lot, this year’s election is unique.
But that’s about the point where the singularity ends.
Just like last year and every year since 1990, the Ore
gon Commentator is running it’s joke candidate. And
once again, many students say they haven’t been keep
ing up with elections — and they don’t plan to vote.
Like past years, the campus is divided between the
small percentage of students who are involved in stu
dent groups or student government and who are pas
sionately preparing to vote, and the majority of stu
dents who can’t relate the ASUO Executive to their
everyday lives.
“Students don’t see a connection. They don’t see that
ASUO is meaningful to them,” Elections Coordinator
Courtney Hight said.
Hight said she hopes the unusually high number of
tickets, each appealing to a different constituency, will
draw more voters. This year the ASUO Elections Board
has tried to increase awareness about the elections in
an attempt to increase voter turnout from last year’s 9
percent to 20 percent, Hight said. The goal is low, but
realistic, she said.
“We want to reintroduce the idea of voting,”
Turn to Elections, page 4
Candidates
on display
Meet the ASUO Executive
candidates during the
candidates fair.
From 11a.m. to 4p.m.
Tuesday and Wednesday,
ASUO candidates wilt be
in the EMU Amphitheater
to talk to students and
answer questions.
Ticket seeks improved facilities, easier ticketing, later lab hours
■ ASUO candidates Mannix
and Willett have a long list
of ideas to improve campus life
for students and faculty
By Diane Huber
Oregon Daily Emerald
Ezra Mannix, a junior journalism
major, is running for ASUO presi
dent. Lucas Willett, a senior envi
ronmental studies major is running
for vice president.
Q: There are, at last count, 10
tickets running for ASUO Execu
tive this year. What do you think
will set yourselves apart from the
other candidates?
A: I’d wager that Ezra can drink
more “Ezra
Brooks Ken
tucky bourbon”
... than any of the
This is the last Other candi
in a 1(bpart dates, myself ex
series of question- eluded, and
and-answer we’d be willing
sessions with to challenge
ASUO Executive them in an offi
candidates. cial contest.
Q: What is
your platform?
A: We’re tired of the degradation
on campus. There are a lot of build
ings that have slight problems
worse than the
high schools
we’ve gone to
— especially
Klamath Hall
and Pacific
Hall. We want
new desks, new
chairs, better
lighting, more
things for stu
dents and better
technological
improvements in lecture halls
We support a 24-hour building
with 25 public computer terminals
and coffee served at all hours.
There’s no reason why a public
university with
17,000 students
doesn’t have a
24-hour com
puter lab.
Q: What will
you advocate
for on the state
level for stu
dents, and how
will you carry
out your plans?
A: We’d like
to bring the Portland Trail Blazers
to play an exhibition game in
McArthur Court before their season
begins in November. We’d also
mandate that the Oregon Universi
ty System prevent public safety of
ficers — that is DPS — from carry
ing guns or any sort of firearms.
Q: What specific campus-orient
ed initiatives will you champion?
A: We support free airport shut
tles from campus during finals
week, the dorm meal card being ac
cepted at EMU food vendors, we
want to change the UO Housing
leasing options so it’s term by term,
we want creative writing to be an
eligible major and we want the var
sity baseball team to come back.
Q: How would you define diver
sity? And how would you plan to
Turn to ASUO, page 3