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the Cultural Forum is considering refunds.
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Commentary
It’s time to vote for ASUO Exec,
and the Emerald offers its choice.
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■Various departments on
campus are collecting canned
food donations to donate
to Food for Lane County
By Katie Franz
for the Emerald
There’s something fishy going
on at the law school.
Construction is under way to cre
ate a “Tower of Tuna” in the Knight
Law Center reception office on the
first floor. Currently, almost 150
cans of tuna are forming the base of
the tower, which so far is only about
ten cans high. According to Norma
Allensworth, the development offi
cer of the law school and instigator of
the tuna tower, more tuna is needed.
The reason for building this new
structure is the campuswide food
drive that started at the end of Janu
ary and will continue until March 4.
“There are 650 people in the
building, students and faculty com
bined, so our goal is for each person to
bring in at least one can of tuna to add
to the tower,” Allensworth said, “But,
of course, everybody is welcome to
bring in tuna for this great cause. ”
Allensworth heard about the
tower of tuna concept at the initial
campus employee food drive meet
ing and thought it would be a good
idea, especially as protein foods
are in high demand this year, she
said. The law school is working
L on a “Bastion of Beans” to accom
!i! pany its tuna tower.
$ The University has been hold
| ing food drives in cooperation
p with Food for Lane County for
j| more than 10 years. The adop
tion of this annual practice
Turn to Food, page 3
Photo illustration by Adam Amato and Heather Gee-Pape Emerald
Governor says
budget deal
moves closer
■Despite continued disagreement over the budget,
some cuts and revenue sou rces are already approved
ByLeonTovey
Oregon Daily Emerald
In his latest proposal to balance the state’s 2001-03 budget,
Gov. John Kitzhaber on Tuesday vetoed six bills from the spe
cial legislative session that concluded Feb. 11 and threatened
to veto more before he calls the Legislature back into session
on Feb. 25.
While Kitzhaber and the Legislature continue to spar over
what cuts and additional sources of revenue are needed to
patch the $830 million hole in the state’s biennial budget, the
governor pointed to $295 million in agreed-upon cuts and
$284 million in agreed-upon revenue sources as a sign that
they’re getting close to an agreement.
For higher education, that agreement may have already
been made. While Kitzhaber vetoed
bills that would have cut money from
the Oregon Health Plan and borrowed
money from the Common School Fund,
he made no mention of bills which
* would cut $48 million from the Oregon
University System.
University Provost John Moseley said
that while he had not seen the gover
nor’s latest proposal, administrators are
operating on the assumption that $48
million is the cut the OUS will face.
That would mean an $8 million cut to
the University’s operating budget, a
number Moseley said the University
could live with.
“If the numbers stay with what’s been predicted, it’s highly
unlikely that the kinds of cuts we will have to make will be
cuts to academic programs,” he said.
Moseley said cost-cutting measures the University had al
ready made, combined with revenue from an expected en
rollment increase next year will allow the University to meet
the proposed cuts. But the debate is still far from over, and
Moseley said he wouldn’t declare victory until after the budg
et was finalized.
“We’re still biting our fingernails,” he said.
E-mail higher ed editor Leon Tovey at leontovey@dailyemerald.com.
Housing code faces road blocks
A lack of
funds is
making it
difficult to
develop
citywide
housing
regulation
By Marty Toohey
Oregon Daily Emerald
Like in years past, the ASUO and can
didates running for next year’s student
government are pushing hard for Eu
gene to implement a code to regulate
housing conditions across the city.
Previous executives, just like current
ASUO President Nilda Brooklyn and
Vice President Joy Nair, have advocated
for the city to regulate rent control, mini
mum standards for energy efficiency
and number of bathrooms per resident,
among other elements of student living.
But city administrators said Eugene
simply can’t afford to enforce a code.
Sunna Murray, a city development plan
ner, said a recent budget report indicates
funding a regulatory agency to monitor
housing conditions isn’t possible.
“There just wasn’t any money avail
able for something like this last time we
took a look at the number,” Murray said.
Eugene maintained its own code from
1966-1983 but also had to cut it due to
lacking funds. More recently, the city
created a nine-member advisory board,
which studied housing issues in Eugene
from 1995-1997 and created several rec
ommendations for the implementation
of a code.
Again, the city council nixed the
proposal because it couldn’t find
enough money.
“Basically, what it came down to was
that all the work done by that committee
couldn’t be put to use because of a lack
of money,” Murray said.
The state of Oregon has its own hous
ing code, but student government mem
bers said the state version is only a vague
blueprint from which cities or counties
could draft their own codes.
Turn to Housing, page 3
Online voting starts today
me ASUO primary election begins today.
Students can vote online on DuckWeb—
duckweb.uoregon.edu—from 9 a.m. to
5 p.m. today through Friday. The ballot is
under the DuckWeb student menu.
Unless one ASUO Executive cand idate
receives more than 50 percent oi the
vote, the primary will determine which
two tickets face off In the general election
Feb. 27 to March 1.'
Ten Executive tickets are on the primary
ballot. Twenty-two candidates are
running for 18 ASUO Student Senate
seats. The primary will determine who
wins senate seats that have one or two
candidates run ni ng . Fo r senate Seat 7
and senate Seat 14, which each have
three candidates running, the two who
receive the most votes will advance to
the general election, unless one
candidate wins more than 50 percent ot
the vote,
Other positions on the ballot include two
member at-large seats on the A$UO
Programs Finance Committee, at-large
senate seats and one E MU Board
member at-large position. One candidate
is running for the Associated Students
Presidential Advisory Council. No
candidates are running
for the Athletic
Department Finance
Committee member at
large position or the
Student Recreation and
Fitness Advisory Board.
Information about the
candidates and their platforms is included
in the ASUO Voter’s Guide, which was
printed in Tuesday’s Emerald. The Voter's
Guide will also be available on DuckWeb.
Primary election results will be posted
Friday at www.dailyemerald.com.
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