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NEWS BRIEF PFC benchmark could secure a $76,761 increase in spending for 2004-05 Student groups could get a little more money next year if the ASUO Student Senate approves a bench mark that the ASUO Programs Fi nance Committee set last week. The benchmark would secure a 1.6 per cent increase in spending for the 2004-05 fiscal year. The proposed benchmark increase is far less than the 16.1 percent in crease that was approved for the 2003 04 fiscal year because of fewer state mandated increases this year, PFC Chairman Adrian Gilmore said. Last year, the state of Oregon man dated increases totaling $62,230 for items such as minimum wage increas es. This year, the mandated increases total just $18,523. Overall, the PFC benchmark calls for a $76,761 increase in spending, which would result in a $4,908,830 total budget. "What we do is we go through line by line and approve each item in the budget," Gilmore said. "It's basically to give an estimate of what the budget should be for next year." Student groups can apply to the committee for funding increases, at which point PFC determines whether the increase is warranted. "Based on the evidence presented (by student groups) at the (PFC) hear ing, we decide if that number would be appropriate or if there's another number that might be appropriate," Gilmore said. Gilmore said the intention of the benchmark is to create a boundary for PFC allocations. If PFC allocations ex ceed the benchmark by less than sev en percent, they must go to the Stu dent Senate for approval. If the allocations exceed the benchmark by more than seven percent, however, the matter is referred to the ballot for students to decide. The 2004-05 benchmark includes $900 in start-up funding for new stu dent groups. The new groups that have sought funding are the Associa tion of School Psychology Students, Art 1 listory, Family Law and Practice and U-Lindy, a swing dance group. — Chuck Slothower UO professor earns national position Alec Murphy is now the president of a geography organization that boasts nearly 8,000 members By Jared Paben News Reporter As a child, Alec Murphy liked to plan trips by poring over maps and atlases. On plane flights he insisted on riding in the window seat where he could study the patterns made by the landscape. 1 le was fascinated with the world. Murphy has been a geography pro fessor at the University for 16 years and has risen through the ranks of the geography world to take the pres idency of the Association of Ameri can Geographers, a national organi zation comprised of close to 8,000 geography professionals and stu dents from 62 countries. "He's a real leader on campus as well as in the national arena," said Murphy's colleague Cathy Whitlock, who recently finished two years as president of the American Quaternary Association, a national organization for the study of the environment throughout the last two million years. "He's a very important voice on pro viding a geographical perspective on current events that are happening both nationally and internationally." As president of the Association of American Geographers, Murphy has many hats to wear, he explained. I le attends regional meetings, which take him around the United States every week, and delivers keynote ad dresses, which he said give him some influence over what people in the geog raphy world are thinking about. In addition to personal prestige, Murphy said there are other benefits to sitting in the "hot seat." "It's also a chance to enhance the visibility of the University of Oregon and our department here," he said. "I think we're already a visible and well known department. The fact that I can go around the country not only as president of the AAG but as a pro fessor of geography at the University of Oregon I think enhances the standing of our program." Murphy was elected as vice presi dent of AAG in 2002-03 before as cending to the presidency this year. 1 le first joined AAG as a graduate student at the University of Chicago, where his focus was and still is politi cal and cultural geography with an emphasis on Europe. He said that was one of the reasons he was no ticed by the geography world. "Doing a lot of things having to do with the geopolitical changes unfold ing in the wake of European integra tion and the collapse of the post-World War II order, I was able to develop a body of scholarship that was some what recognized," he explained. He also drew attention through his instrumental work in lobbying the College Board of New York to add ge ography to the list of Advanced Place ment classes in U.S. high schools. "Doing things of that sort I suppose gradually increases your Turn to PROFESSOR, page 6 Guster performs at packed Eugene venue The eclectic Boston band played its mellow brand of rock to a full McDonald Theatre on Thursday By Carl Sundberg Pulse Columnist Boston-based group Guster brought its soulful and catchy mu sic to the McDonald Theatre for the first time on Thursday. Despite it be ing Guster's first Eugene perform ance, the McDonald was a packed house of ecstatic fans. Ihe highly entertaining Trachten burg Family Slideshow Players kicked off the show. They called themselves an "indie-vaudeville conceptual art rock pop band," and, yes, they are an actual family. Member Jason Trachten burg switched between guitar and key boards and sang the songs, with wife Tina operating the slideshow projector. 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