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cePf*>n Adult Store TOYS* LINGERIE •MAGAZINES* •VIDEOS* •DVDs* Open 24*7 (Almost) "*«sS5hA-SpTi^gfi«'d 726-6969 NEWS BRIEF Senate transfers funds to create shuttle service At its meeting Wednesday night, the ASUO Senate dissolved Nightride, merged the organization into Project Saferide and changed the name to Assault Prevention Shuttle. The move came in response to a rul ing from the federal Office for Civil Rights that Saferide, a women-only service, violated Title IX's gender equality requirements. The reconstituted Assault Preven tion Shuttle will provide many of the same services as Nightride and Saferide, but women and men will no longer ride separately. The senate transferred a total of MkbomWpt i B £ lStH ftw. Pugene (between Oak &1 Pearl) $32,098 from various Nightride funds to make the move happen. The voting was nearly unanimous, with one different senator voting no on a rotating basis for each of the nu merous transfers. Senators displayed some confusion as to whether having one "nay" vote would make it easier to reconsider a motion that has already been passed, should that become necessary. "(It's) an urban legend," Ombuds man Mike Sherman said. ASUO Vice President Eddy Morales thought the opposite. "With one nay vote, it is easier to recall it," Morales said. Sherman promised to investigate the matter and give a full report at next week's senate meeting. The senate also responded to ASUO President Maddy Melton and Vice President Eddy Morales' decision to veto an International Student As sociation request for funds. When senators passed the $350 mo tion last week, they were under the im pression that they were funding the ISA for the entire year instead of one term. Melton and Morales caught the mis take and exercised a "friendly veto," ac cording to Senator Kevin Day. The senate reacted by funding the ISA with $116 for fall term. Senators also rejected a motion to provide a spending guideline for the year by a six to nine vote. The motion would have advised senators to spend 30 percent of their surplus funds fall term, 30 percent winter term and 40 percent spring term. Morales and a few senators ex pressed concern that the motion could tie the senate's hands. "I'd recommend that you not set something else up that can slap you in the face later," Morales said. In other business, the senate nomi nated senators to internal committees. External committee nominations were postponed until next week. The senate also briefly discussed some goals for the year, including in vestigating a resolution regarding stu dent records and a possible student bill of rights. — Chuck Slothower North Campus 579 E. Broadway 686-1166 South Campus 2870 E. Willamette 686-1600 STUDENT ID SPECIALS • Show Your Student ID • Order by Number X-LARGE 1-TOPPING The Big New Yorker MEDIUM 3-TOPPING Pan, Thin ’N Crispy or Hand Tossed STICKS N WINGS 10 Breadsticks, 12 Wings X-LARGE 3-TOPPING The Big New Yorker a MEDIUM l-TQPPINGS Pan, Thin 'N Crispy or Hand Tossed STICKS N WINGS 10 Breadsticks, 24 Wings .$999 .$999 .$999 $1199 $1199 $1199 FREE 2-Liter of Soda with Any Above Order! Delivery charges may apply FACULTY continued from page 1 of 2.5 percent per year over and above the performance of our com parators until we achieve the 95 per cent goal" of salary parity with other universities. The "White Paper," as the ongoing project is known, estimated in March 2000 that it would take five to seven years to accomplish this goal. At the end of 2002-03, the Univer sity paid assistant, associate and full professors an average of 87.8 percent of what comparable institutions paid. The other universities, chosen by the Oregon University System, in clude the University of California Santa Barbara, the University of Col orado-Boulder, the University of Indiana-Bloomington, the University of Iowa, the University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, the University of Virginia and the University of Washington. Despite the University's lower salaries, newly hired professors said that they weren't scared away. "There are many factors that in fluence the decision (to accept a job)," Marcin Bownik, a newly hired assistant professor of mathe matics, said. "Oregon's medical benefits are quite good." Bownik also entertained offers from Kansas State University, Okla homa State University and Iowa State University. "One (salary offer) was much low er. one was about the same and one was a little bit higher," Bownik said. An avid hiker and camper, Bown ik said he was also swayed by the Eugene area's outdoor recreation opportunities. Another recently hired professor echoed sentiments that there was more to his decision than monetary considerations. "The dollar amount is different, but that doesn't mean that it's a bet ter or worse offer," geological sci ences assistant professor David Schmidt said. One University administrator said he's been able to offer competi tive salaries. "We've gotten our first choices," School of Journalism and Communi cation Dean Tim Gleason said. "Salary is only one factor in any re cruiting scenario." Average University faculty salaries for this school year should be avail able the first week of November, ac cording to Andrea Larson, senior re search analyst and database manager for University Resource Management. Contact the campus/ federal politics reporter at chuckslothower@dailyemerald.com. ous continued from page 1 However, the news comes at a time when higher education funding is dropping and students are paying for more of their education than ever be fore. According to the OUS Web site, students will pay for about 64 percent of their education out-of-pocket, with the other 36 percent covered by state funds during the 2003-05 biennium. In 2001-03, students paid about 54 percent of the cost. Students and the state split the cost of education in the 1999-01 biennium. Wykoff said he knew the state was in "tough times." "That's why things like this would happen," Wykoff said. "But the bot tom line is that students are being overtly asked to fund other state insti tutions. I haven't seen something like this before." University Senate Budget Commit tee Chairman Lynn Kahle said the University must try to "bootstrap" its way to survival through the budget difficulties the state has suffered. "Taking away more money will make things more difficult for the University," Kahle said. Kahle, a professor of sports market ing, said the return of up to $5 mil lion in tuition and fee revenue from the University back to the State was unfair. Kahle said it would be difficult to plan a yearly budget without know ing exactly how much money will be drained by the state. With a possible special election in February to strike down an income tax hike that legisla tors passed to finance state services, the university system could face even more cuts. Additionally, court chal lenges to some of the pension plan changes could result in more budget difficulties for the state. "It's hard to plan what to do when you don't know how much money you will have," Kahle said. Kahle said the loss of a potential $5 million from the University would "hit us harder" in the 2004-05 school year, adding that he hopes the state will reconsider taking away millions of dollars from the University if state revenue increases in the next year. "Ultimately, we Oregonians are go ing to need to have a discussion on taxes," Kahle said. He said reforms needed to be made to the state tax system in order to keep access to higher education from decreasing any further. "Everyone is concerned that a lot of students are being priced out of an education," Kahle said. Contact the city/state politics reporter at shoikeda@dailyemerald.com. CALENDAR continued from page 1 Considering the calendar is domi nated by spirited yellow and green, features University students and is ti tled "Oh Girls," OTM Director Matt Dyste gave Patterson a letter asking him to voluntarily stop selling the calendar because of concerns that the product design could infringe on University licensing and trademarks, Patterson said. After Patterson stopped selling the calendars for two days, his lawyer said OTM didn't have a right to tell him to stop and responded with a letter telling the office to leave his client alone. Be cause the University will not license the calendar, Patterson has been looking for new locations to sell his product. For those interested in buying a cal endar, Patterson has been selling them on the balcony outside of Red Rooster Barbershop, located directly across from the bookstore, when weather per mits. Prospective locations are listed at www.ohgirlscalendar.com. Patterson said he has sold 300 cal endars so far and needs to sell anoth er 700 to break even. Even without a trademark, Patter son hopes the University Bookstore, which values the opinions of the OTM, will still carry "Oh Girls" and "Oh Guys" in August 2004. "With 'Oh Guys,' I think our female clientele will grow," he said. "Howev er, I have seen a large number of fe male buyers so far this term." Contact the business/science/ technology reporter at caronalarab@dailyemeraid.com. CAMPUS BUZZ Friday "GetSawy" open house, 1 p.m.-3 p.m., 68 PLC. Archaeology celebration lecture, 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m., 175 Knight Law Center, Tom Connolly will give the lecture.
