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Legal Services receives
major funding increase
Despite lack of money, the
ASUO Programs Finance
Committee gave more money
to groups last Thursday
Ben Fuchs
Freelance Reporter
The ASUO Programs Finance
Committee handed out funding in
creases to all eight eligible student
groups appearing at Thursday night’s
meeting despite repeated references
to a “tight budget.”
Legal Services scored a substantial
victory with its newly approved
budget of $175,682, a 27.91 percent
increase. The two representatives
for the group defended their request
with a flurry of arguments, including
the issue of salary. The group, which
offers legal aid to students in trouble
with the Eugene Police Department,
is composed of lawyers working for
far less money than they would
make off-campus, the representa
tives said.
The Office of Student Advocacy,
which shares its office with Legal Ser
vices, also received a dramatic fund
ing increase. PFC members, taking
notice of its outstanding record of past
spending, awarded the group a new
budget of $130,903 for 2003-04, an in
crease of 22.80 percent.
Student Advocacy members said
the “vital services” provided by the
group warranted the budget hike.
“By advocating for individual stu
dents, we protect all students’
rights,” Student Advocacy Director
Hilary Berkman said.
The International Resource Cen
ter’s hearing was the most contro
versial of the evening’s meetings.
The group’s request to increase
funding for the framing of exotic
pieces of art was met with opposi
tion from campus gadfly Bruce
Miller, a retail business consultant
and self-described “protector of
PFC hearing results, Jan. 23
Campus Recycling
Office of Student Advocacy $ 107,478
Legal Services $ 137,349
international Resource Center $51,848
f Deita/CSO ' " zero-funded
Old budget New budget Change
$113,126 $123,180 8.90%
$175,682
$54,904
Crisis Center
Journal of Environmental
Law and Litigation
Asian Pacific American
Students Association
Total
$18,233
$7,600
$14,055
$449,689
$652
$19,784
22.80%
27.91%
5.89%
n/a
8.51%
$7,979 4.98
; $14,740
$527,824
4.87%
1738%
student taxpayer money.”
“This room has no function of dis
playing artwork that involves
extra funds,” Miller said. “The cost of
making display cases for statues and
framing art are grossly wasteful.”
Seemingly undaunted by Miller’s
comments, PFG proceeded to give
the IRC a budget of $54,904, a 5.89
percent increase.
The Journal of Environmental
Law and Litigation, a group that
annually produces an environmen
tal law journal used in courts and
universities nationwide, received a
budget of $7,979, an increase of
4.98 percent.
PFG awarded Campus Recycling
for its history of careful spending
with a new budget of $123,180, an
8.9 percent increase.
The Asian Pacific American Stu
dents Association saw its budget
fall short of the funding it had pro
posed. PFG members passed a
budget of $14,740 for the upcoming
year, and while this is a 4.87 per
cent increase, the group had origi
nally requested an 8.78 percent in
crease. A large portion of the
budget request was related to an
annual event APASU co-sponsors.
The Delta-Graduate Students
Organization tasted victory at their
budget hearing when PFG gave
them a fresh start for the next
school year after being zero-funded
in 2002-03. PFG gave the group a
new budget of $652, showing confi
dence in GSO’s potential.
“We’re looking to make a decision
off past spending, and we feel this is
a good start coming off last year’s
zero-funding,” Nair said.
The Crisis Center received
$19,784 for 2003-04, about half of
their original budget request and an
8.51 budget increase.
Two other student groups were
also scheduled to appear before PFG
Thursday evening. The first group,
Lane County Legal Aid to Stop Vio
lence, failed to turn in necessary
paperwork before the ASUO dead
line and was not officially recog
nized as a student group in time to
be assigned a budget for next year.
The second group, the Ba’hai Cam
pus Association, will have to re-as
sess its mission and goals statement
in order to receive a budget after
questions arose regarding the
group’s religious affiliation.
Ben Fuchs is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
Poetry
continued from page 1A
Crenshaw and Autry to speak to his
classes after he heard them open for
the Eugene Poetry Slam competition
at Foolscap Books.
“I was just blown away by them,”
he said. “In some of their poems,
some of the ideas I try to convey
over a whole term, they summed up
in three minutes.”
Platt added that poetry slams
provide an avenue of communica
tion for voices that aren’t heard in
other forums.
Poet Jahan Khalighi agreed. “You
need all sorts of kinds and races,” he
said. “All races, all backgrounds;
(the poetry slam) is open to any
body that has a story to tell.”
The senior English major said he
has been writing poetry for four
years, and he has participated in at
least 15 slams. He added that this is
the first year he has participated in
a formal celebration to commemo
rate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Lane Community College soph
omore and self-described “life”
major Hunter Blackwell said he
participated in the slam to reach
out to others and promote positive
transformation.
“Everything that I write has a
very conscious message, and I re
ally try to touch people,” he said.
“It’s not just the simple exercision
of my vocabulary. Words change
the way people think and feel, and
therefore, they can change the way
people operate.”
Senior English major Martha
Grover said her purpose was similar.
She added that the overall subtext
to her poetry is accountability.
“It’s not enough to stand up on a
soapbox and point your finger at
people,” she said. “You have to take
responsibility for your own actions.”
Artists Hannif Panni, Erick Lack
ie and Terri Riggins were the slam’s
other student competitors. The six
judges also allowed poet Michael
Franklin, who said he stumbled off
a Greyhound bus from Tucson,
Ariz., to enter at the last minute.
Themes ranged from homeless
ness to feminism to cultural contro
versy, and audience members com
plied with ’ the emcee’s
encouragement to loudly voice their
opinions, on both the judge’s scor
ing and the poetry itself.
"In some of their
poems, some of the
ideas I try to convey
over a whole term,
they summed up in
three minutes "
Jason Platt
Poetry Slam coodinator
Riggins emerged the winner —
gamering a $50 prize — with Panni
in second, and Grover and Khalighi
in a close tie for third. A resulting
“slam-off” rendered Khalighi the of
ficial third place winner.
However, the evening’s emphasis
was on its intent and lasting results
rather than numbers and scoring. In
fact, Lackie said he didn’t even
know the event was a competition
when he entered.
Perhaps Blackwell summed up
the entire event in his poem.
“Words last longer than people,”
he said.
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