Campus Planning Committee
airs basketball arena concerns
Issues such as energy
efficiency and parking were
discussed at a recent meeting
By Ali Shaughnessy
Senior News Reporter
The Campus Planning Committee
met early Wednesday morning to dis
cuss concerns about the new basketball
arena, which is scheduled to be built on
11 owe Field.
University Vice President for Ad
ministration Dan Williams spoke on
the behalf of University President
Dave Prohnmayer, who asked the
planning committee to help with
the arena process, and answered
questions on everything from park
ing concerns to making the new are
na energy efficient.
Williams said a big reason for
building the new arena was simple
business economics. Generating
more revenue by expanding the are
na was better than increasing the
price of tickets, he said.
Architecture Professor G Z Brown
expressed the most concern about
whether or not the arena will be ener
gy efficient. Brown encouraged the
committee to ask for energy efficien
cy as soon as possible so architects can
plan it into the design.
Outdoor Program Coordinator
Dan Geiger expressed his concern
about the pace of the project. Geiger
said he is concerned that the arena's
fast track will displace other pro
grams currently using the area where
the new building will go, such as the
Outdoor Program.
"Soon there will be bulldozers at our
door," he said.
Williams reassured Geiger and the
coordinators of other programs that
will be displaced that construction
will be scheduled to secure the
fewest amount of delays and incon
veniences.
"1 think we'll learn from this
Tim Bobosky Photographer
Dan Williams (middle) discusses the new basketball arena location on Wednesday.
experience," Williams said. "We hope
we can avoid unnecessary delays."
Planning committee members
also spoke extensively on presenting
a long-range plan to the architects.
There will soon be an open forum,
and planning committee Chair
woman Carole Daly suggested invit
ing the architects to attend.
Planning committee members are
now going to work on a letter to send
to Frohnmayer outlining the goals of
the committee
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Benchmarks addressed in
ASUO Senate meeting
The ASUO Student Senate tackled
benchmarks for the ASUO Athletic
Department Finance Committee,
ASUO Programs Finance Commit
tee and EMU Board of Directors at a
one hour, 30 minute meeting
Wednesday night. All three of the
groups gained slight increases in
funding.
The ADl'C, with the support of
the ASUO Executive, received a 7
percent benchmark increase. The
ADFC will operate next year with a
$1,369,845 budget guideline. Sena
tors unanimously supported the
ADFC benchmark.
The Programs Finance Committee
received a benchmark increase of 3.4
percent. By a 13-3 approval of the sen
ate, PFC will operate next year with a
$4,996,813 budget guideline.
Senators devoted a significant
amount of time to debating the PFC
benchmark, with much discussion of
how the process could be improved in
the future to more accurately reflect
what the PFC needs.
"We need to change the process at
some point in time," senate Ombuds
man Mike Sherman said. "1 believe
we should focus more on what a
benchmark could be."
An ASUO controller talked about
the importance of having an accurate
benchmark.
"You need to look at the bigger pic
ture, the process," Sara Henderson
said. "You have to think of all the
repercussions that could come from
having (an inaccurate) benchmark."
The EMU board received a 4.8 per
cent increase to $3,400,928. The mo
tion passed 14-2.
The increase was less than expect
ed because of a salary freeze and sky
rocketing energy costs that were pre
dicted but never materialized. The
increase includes an operational re
serve fund.
"It's kind of like a rainy-day fund,"
EMU Board Chairwoman Christa
Shively said. "We're really only start
ing to prepare for the EMU Master
Plan, which will be a massive renova
tion of this building."
— Chuck Slothower
University professor to
speak on Middle East
University geography Professor
Ronald Wixman will give a lecture
tonight about the geography of eth
nic and religious conflict in the Mid
dle East.
The lecture, which will focus on
Iraq, is titled "American Policy in the
Middle East: Geographical Perspec
tives." It is open to the public and
will begin at 7 p.m. in 150 Colum
bia Hall.
Wixman, who has spoken interna
tionally on the geography of Europe
and the Middle East, frequently lec
tures for cruises and other educational
trips sponsored by the Smithsonian
Institution and the American Geo
graphical Society. He has also advised
planners and politicians in many
parts of the world, according to a Uni
versity press release.
The lecture is sponsored by the De
partment of Geography and is in ob
servance of National Geography
Awareness Week.
— Chelsea Duncan
PFC increases Career
Center's budget
The ASUO Program Finance
Committee commended the Univer
sity Career Center's budgeting strate
gies at its meeting Wednesday night.
The Center answered questions
about its budget so the process will be
less complicated when it presents next
year's budget to the PFC for approval
in December.
"They do run a tight ship," PFC
Vice Chairman Tobias Piering said. "I
do think they are a fiscally responsi
ble group."
The Center's proposed budget is for
$258,702, which is an increase of
$43,521 from the PFC-approved
budget for 2003-04.
The Center will ask for the increase
as it implements a plan to decrease its
reserve account. The reserve account,
which was created via ballot measure
for the construction of a new build
ing, was instead used for renovation
of the current Center because the Ore
gon University System determined
the funds could not be used for con
struction.
The PFC plan calls for the Center to
exhaust its reserve funds by using
them to finance ongoing programs by
2005-2006 and in turn receive smaller
allocations of incidental fees. The
$43,521 increase in the Center's budg
et would be a step in reducing its re
serve account.
PFC members agreed the plan was
the best strategy for the Center's budg
et.
"It's the Career Center; you've got to
help students get jobs," PFC Chair
man Adrian Gilmore said.
The PFC also approved late budgets
for two student groups after debating
the legitimacy of their situations at
Wednesday's meeting.
It approved an extension for the Al
ternative Dispute Resolution Advo
cates because the group was not in
formed of the budget deadline.
Piering said he did not mind ap
proving the deadline extension as
long as other groups did not begin
taking advantage of the decision.
"We have to set a clear precedent,"
he said.
The PFC also extended the deadline
for the Chinese Student Association
because of a misunderstanding about
when the proposal was due.
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