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Student Jobs at the Computing Center
The UO Computing Center is interested in hiring several new student
employees to work part time in the User Services and Network
Applications group. This is an excellent opportunity to gain valuable
experience and work on interesting technology-related projects.
Strong candidates will have excellent interpersonal communication
skills, a customer service orientation, and extensive knowledge in
(preferably) several of the following areas:
• programming in C/C++ using gcc/g++ and standard Gnu
programming tools
• knowledge of PCs running Windows XP/Windows 2000, and
Macs running OS X
•Unix/Linux, including experience with Darkwing or Gladstone
•the World Wide Web, including cgi-bin programming in Perl
• multimedia design and creation, including photography and
video production (but NOT development of Macromedia Flash)
■ Other responsibilities will include providing routine consulting support by
U email or phone, or on a face-to-face basis, and additional projects as assigned.
We currently plan to hire for these positions as soon as possible, and
anticipate that these positions will continue through the 2003-2004 school
year. Pay range will be for a Student Assistant #5 [$8.40-$10.90/hour).
To apply, complete a Computing Center student application for employment, attach a cover
letter explaining how your skills match one or more of the desired areas of specialization,
provide a copy of your transcript and a sample term paper written for one of your classes
as an example of your communication skills, and the names and phone numbers of three
professional references.
Applications are available from Ms. Lynn Buffing, 253 Computing Center
(lbuffing@oregon.uoregon.edu, 541.346.1772)
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Nation & world briefing
Republicans eliminate
low-income tax credit
James Kuhnhenn
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
WASHINGTON—With the stroke
of a pen, President Bush this week
speeded up tax cuts for middle- and
upper-income taxpayers, but Repub
lican congressional tax writers put
the brakes on a provision that would
have sent more money to millions of
low-income working families.
The decision not to speed up that
benefit, overlooked in the rewriting
flurry that preceded the tax cut’s
passage last week, created a furor
Thursday, with Democrats demand
ing an immediate adjustment.
The proposal in question would
have allowed certain low-income
families to receive bigger child tax
credits. If they pay little or no taxes
because their incomes are too low,
the government sends them a check
for the child credit.
Under the 2001 tax-cut law, fami
lies with incomes of less than
$110,000 were entitled to up to
$600 in credits per child, and in
2010 the credit would rise to
$1,000. The new law accelerated
the $1,000 credit to take effect this
year. But as tax writers in the House
of Representatives and the Senate
worked to fit the tax-cutting bill
into a $350 billion package, they
jettisoned language that would have
allowed low-income families to ben
efit from the accelerated credit.
“The unfairness of this omission
in a bill that provides tax breaks of
some $93,000 per year to million
aires is particularly stark,” Senate
Democratic leader Tom Daschle
wrote in a letter Thursday to Bush.
The White House defended the de
cision, arguing that tax cuts should
benefit taxpayers, not low-income
families who pay little or no taxes.
White House spokesman Ari Fleisch
er said that under the new tax reduc
tion, 3 million people who used to pay
taxes no longer will have to pay. He
questioned whether those individuals
should get even more, in the form of
a child tax-credit payment.
“That, in the end, is a redistribu
tion of income; that is public assis
tance above and beyond what people
pay in their income taxes,” he said.
Low-income families aren’t enti
tled to a full tax credit. Their por
tion is calculated on the basis of
earnings above $10,500. The 2001
tax cut based the payment on 10
percent of earnings above that
threshold. For instance, a family
with earnings of $15,000 would re
ceive a payment based on 10 per
cent of $4,500, or $450.
Under the 2001 law, the percent
age of earnings formula would grow
to 15 percent in 2005. The law
Bush signed Wednesday accelerat
ed the expanded child-tax credit
but didn’t increase the percentage
of earnings formula.
Bottom line: Even though most
families are now entitled to up to
$1,000 per child, a family making
$15,000 will still only get $450. If
the percentage rate also had in
creased, this family would have
been entitled to $675.
The Center for Budget and Policy
Priorities, a liberal Washington re
search center, estimates that nearly
12 million families won’t be eligible for
an enhanced child credit payment.
©2003,Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.
Rumsfeld is trying to make
foreign policy, officials say
Joseph L. Galloway
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
WASHINGTON — President
Bush, Secretary of State Colin Pow
ell, national security adviser Con
doleezza Pice and other top officials
are spending hours coping with fre
quent, unsolicited attempts by De
fense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
to make foreign policy, according to
senior administration officials who
are directly involved.
The officials said Bush himself had
to quash a Rumsfeld proposal last
month to send Deputy Defense Sec
retary Paul Wolfowitz to South Korea
to announce that the United States
was pulling American troops off the
Demilitarized Zone that separates
North and South Korea.
The announcement, involving no
prior consultation with allies, would
have come on the eve of new South
Korean President Roh Moo-hyun’s
first official visit to Washington.
The officials, who spoke only on
the condition of anonymity, said
such a move would have embar
rassed Roh and sent the wrong sig
nals to North and South Korea about
the steadfastness of the U.S. com
mitment to defend South Korea.
From his first days in office,
Rumsfeld has inundated Washington
with a blizzard of memos regarding
foreign policy, not usually the re
sponsibility of a defense secretary.
“There are literally thousands of
them,” said one frequent recipient of
Rumsfeld’s foreign policy ideas and
advice. “The theme is control. He
wants everyone to have to play on
his field.”
In an April 29 memo addressed to
Bush, Cheney and Powell, Rumsfeld
suggested that the administration
launch information operations to
destabilize the communist regime of
North Korean dictator Kim Jong II. It
was an idea that skeptics elsewhere
in the administration dismissed as
unlikely to make a dent in so rigid
and secret a government.
April was a banner month for
“Snowflakes” and “Rummygrams,”
as the defense secretary’s classified
and unclassified memos are called.
Rumsfeld’s frequent foreign-policy
forays, with Vice President Dick Ch
eney supporting some of them be
hind the scenes, are driving Powell
and his aides to distraction, the offi
cials said. The secretary of state and
former chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, the senior officials said, has
kept his nose out of Defense Depart
ment business.
© 2003, Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.
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