Campus buzz
Thursday
Talent search (meeting, sponsored by:
Office of Admissions), 9 a.m.-1 p.m., EMU
Ben Linder Room.
BFA Terminal Project Show (art exhibition),
10a.m.-5 p.m., LaVerne Krause Gallery,
Lawrence Hall, free, 346-2057 or 346-3610.
"Cheating & Plagiarism Using the Inter
net" video conference, 11:30 a.m.-1:20
p.m., Knight Library Studio A.
Student forum, 1 p.m., Beall Hall, free.
Yoga for musicians workshop (guest artist
workshop with Laura Barron), 1 p.m., 178
Music, $5, limit 30 participants; sign up
with Steve Vacchi: 346-3748.
"Swimming Against the Tide: Women
Writing in Pakistan" (lecture with Kishwar
Naheed), 3:30-5 p.m., Knight Library
Browsing Room 106.
"Simultaneous Chess" (sponsored by
University Chess Club), 4-8 p.m., EMU
Fir Room.
"The Way of Sages & Saints: A Way to
Inner Peace & Outer Harmony"
(course will explore the Way of Sages
and Saints, known in India as Santmat),
7:05-8:50 p.m., St. Mary's Episcopal
Church, 166 E. 13th Ave., donations
accepted, 868-1574.
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finance last year. He’s currently in
volved in the Student Bar Associa
tion and is running for this student
government position because he
wants to get involved in the greater
University. Andries did not know
the two ways the senate can call a
special meeting or that Section 5
lists senators’ duties.
Q: What is the most important
thing you should know in order to
deal with the budget process?
Andries: I don’t know if it’s some
thing you need to know, but I think
an ability to logically, reasonably
look at all sides of an issue. And I
think that’s something that I really
do. I mean, especially being in law
school, I’ve got the financial back
ground, I have a degree in finance,
so I understand how to deal with
money. But you have to logically
look at all sides of an issue, and I
don’t believe everybody knows how
to do that. Once you do that then
you can make a better, wiser deci
sion and I think that’s a real key to
this job, being able to look at the
whole side of every issue, look at all
groups’ applications and requests
from a wide variety of bases.
Q: How would you determine
how to spend the senate surplus?
Andries: Well, I think you have to
take that on a case-by-case basis.
You can’t just make your assump
tions right now and say, “Well this is
what I want to do.” I mean, if you do
that, you’re not looking at the Uni
f
versity as a
whole, and I
don’t know all
the books off
hand by now
because I
haven’t been in
the PFG, and I
haven’t gone
through all the
hearings.
Beth Over- Overgard
gard, a fresh- °
man political science major, is a
member of the Oregon Marching
Band, the Oregon Campus Band,
the Oregon Concert Choir and
Gospel Choir. Overgard also en
joys several outdoor pursuits such
as hiking, canoeing, biking, fishing
and riding motorcycles. She cor
rectly identified the two ways the
senate can call a special meeting,
but did not know that Section 5
lists the senators’ duties.
Q: What is the most important
thing you should know in order to
deal with the budget process?
Overgard: The most important
thing to be known is that each group
that the PFC funds is in need. Each
group has financial shortcomings
that are worthy of granting a portion
of the surplus. You have to be aware
of this going in, otherwise you
could mistakenly grant funds dispro
portionately.
Q.: If you are elected, how will you
determine how to spend the senate
surplus?
Overgard: I will listen to all cases
presented with an open mind and
disperse the
surplus propor
tionately to the
most needy
and convincing
organizations.
Michael
Sherman is in
his second
year at the
University but
has earned
enough credits
to have senior standing. He is a
triple major in political science,
economics and business and is the
incumbent, with a year of experi
ence in the budget allocation
process. Sherman knew one of the
ways the senate can call a special
meeting but did not know the frac
tion of senators required. Sherman
knew Section 5 pertained to sena
tors’ duties but said every duty was
important, and he couldn’t choose
one over another.
Q: What is the most important
thing you should know in order to
deal with the budget process?
Sherman: I don’t think there’s re
ally one important thing. I think
there’s an entire process that needs
to be understood. And that process
includes first, the rules that govern
that process, which would be the
PFG bylaws, Constitution of the
ASUO, and then just general senate
rules. I really think it’s important for
senators and all student leaders to
know those rules. I do know the
rules fairly well. What’s so hard for
new students coming into it, is that
Sittner
they don’t un
derstand how
it works. They
don’t under
stand where
the groups are
coming from
and how the
precedents
should be used
in allocating
those fees.
Q: How
would you determine how to spend
the senate surplus?
Sherman: The question is if there
will be any surplus next year from
senate. If there is surplus from sen
ate next year, it’s an opportunity
that you have, that otherwise you
would never have. I think when
looking at special requests and
spending from surplus you have to
look at the fundraising that the
group has done.
Chris Sittner is a sophomore
double major in journalism and
economics with a minor in busi
ness. Sittner is a native to Eugene
and is a staff writer for the Oregon
Commentator. He added he felt he
would make a good senator be
cause he could “represent some of
the unspoken minority of conser
vatives on campus.” Sittner did
not know how the senate can call
a special meeting, and he misiden
tified Section 5 as the guidelines
for receiving funds and couldn’t
name any senator duties.
Q.: What is the most important
Andries
thing you
should know in
order to deal
with the budg
et process?
Sittner: I
think that peo
ple should be
very educated
on how ac
counting and
finance works,
not necessarily
that they have to take an account
ing class or something, but I think
that they should sort of be taught
when they become a finance sena
tor the system and given a little tu
torial on how everything’s budgeted
and how everything’s prioritized.
Q: How would you determine
how to spend the senate surplus?
Sittner: I want to spend it with
anything I feel is necessary to help
benefit the education of students
on campus. I’m going to try and be
fiscally responsible and I hope stu
dent groups are, too. I really only
want to help fund student groups
that are fiscally responsible. I feel
that you should always be open to
the other side on arguments so
that you can be better educated
yourself. I feel that it’s necessary to
look at both sides of things, and I
think that having a diversity of stu
dent groups on campus helps stu
dents become more politically and
culturally educated.
Contact the senior news reporter
at jenniferbear@dailyemerald.com.
In times of conflict
respect, dignity and the essential
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Kind words can be
short and easy to
speak, but their
echoes are truly
endless.
Mother Teresa
I must respect the
opinions of others
even if I disagree
with them.
— Herbert Henry Lehman
We must learn to
live together as
brothers or perish
together as fools.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I’m not concerned
with your liking or
disliking me... All I
ask is that you
respect me as a
human being.
—Jackie Robinson