Alitor & 152 W. mechanic, You wight think Mott's years of experience would cost you Au Contra ire •s people who Free Medical & Graduate Admissions Seminars Thursday, May 22 MCAT 6pm GRE 7pm Eugene Kaplan Center 720 E. 13th St., Suite 204 Learn strategies to help you navigate the graduate & medical school application process and increase your GRE & MCAT scores. | | jj Reserve your seat today! Call 1-800-KAP-TEST. ! ] \ i Test prep, admissions, and guidance. For life. Wednesday "Stop and Celebrate Diversity" (perform ance), 11 a.m.-3 p.m., EMU Amphitheater. Sexual assault awareness meeting, 4-6:30 p.m., EMU Walnut Room. "Species — What's in a Name" (biology Campus buzz lecture), 4-5 p.m., 10 Pacific. Don McPhearson (speaker), 6-8 p.m., EMU Ballroom. "Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books" (author reading), 7 p.m., Knight Li brary Browsing Room, free, 346-4331. "Cloning" (panel discussion), 7:30-9 p.m., Dyment Hall Lounge, Walton Complex, 346-5414. Vocal jazz ensemble, 8 p.m., Beall Hall, $5 general public, $3 students and senior citi zens, 346-5678. Tuition continued from page 1 who are getting competitive offers to go out-of-state, to provide opportu nities for minority students and to bring graduate students to Oregon to conduct important research — research that will fuel Oregon’s new economy,” Frohnmayer wrote in the letter. But co-Chairman Rep. Randy Miller, R-West Linn, defended the proposal, saying that Frohnmayer’s views are respected “a great deal” within the committee, but the co chairmen had a problem with fund ing college presidents’ efforts to re duce tuition for certain students. “Should university students be paying, through higher tuition, for authority of presidents to offer sweet deals to students?” he said. “To the extent that we subsidize tu ition, I’d say it does have a general fund impact.” Miller said the item was put on the budget without much in-depth study, however, and therefore is subject to change. He also ex pressed a willingness of the com mittee to talk about the issue with Frohnmayer. More than 5,000 resident stu dents at the University were dis counted a total of #6,856,500 in the 2002-03 academic year, while 868 non-resident students were dis counted a total of #2,684,712, ac cording to a University fact sheet. The average fee remission award was #1,221 for residents and #3,093 for non-residents. Amelie Welden, spokeswoman for the Oregon Student Association — which supports other parts of the co-chairmen’s budget to replenish Oregon Opportunity Grant funds — said she understands that tough de cisions must be made with the budget, but that access to higher ed ucation is in dire straits. “We feel that students are already facing an extremely unaffordable educational system, and this will just make it worse,” she said. “We are definitely continuing to lobby hard against (the reductions).” Concerned individuals can con tact Schrader at (503) 986-1720, Miller at (503) 986-1437 or com mittee Vice-Chairman Sen. Steve Harper, R-Klamath Falls, at (503) 986-1728. Contact the news editor at janmontry@dailyemerald.com. Debt continued from page 1 of the Executive’s budget and how it has handled the current deficit. Senate President Jackie Ray said the way the Executive has dealt with its election debt is very trou bling to many senators. Groups that ask for money must be able to show that they are turning to the senate as a last resort. Ray specifi cally pointed to the Executive’s spring fundraising account, which contains more than $10,000 in leftover funds. Pilliojf said while the^ is a huge sum of fundraising money leftover from the spring ASUO Street Faire, the money is traditionally ear marked for the incoming Executive. The Senate is also dissatisfied with the Executive’s behavior because they continued to spend money from the account after they knew the mon ey was gone. This violates the simple purpose of a budget — do not spend money that you do not have. “They knew that they didn’t have the money and continued to ex haust their funds,” Ray said. “To go that far in deficit is a lot of money to explain.” Ray said the Executive’s handling of the special request and the over all situation was questionable. Ray said she was also troubled because Pilliod did not approach her to dis cuss the Senate’s reservations with the request or to inform Ray that she planned to withdraw the re quest. However, Ray said she was re lieved that the Executive decided to pull its special request because the issue might have caused friction be tween the two government bodies. “I think we were glad we weren’t go ing to have to deal with it,” Ray said. Contact the senior news reporter atjenniferbear@dailyemerald.com. Now leasing for fall Starting at $335 Bring your friends poolside for FREE hotdogs, snacks,Coca Cola products, and lots of great stuff! • $100 gift certificate to Applebees • 2nd Place wins $80 gift certificate to Circuit City When: May 17th Where: University Commons Apartments universiTY COMMONS apartments Time: 11-5 pm How to Enter: Sign up your 4 person team in the clubhouse. Space is limited. 01S525