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PFC allots $250,000 Tuesday PFC outlines the 200405 budgets Tuesday for ASUO Legal Services and calls an executive session early on By Chuck Slothower News Reporter The ASUO Programs Finance Com mittee continued its march toward allo cating funding for the 2004-05 school year, approving funding for eight groups totaling $251,428 on Tuesday. ASUO Legal Services was the biggest winner, receiving $ 190,295 in funding, an 8.3 percent increase. The extra funding will go mostly toward pay raises of about 2 percent and the addition of health insurance for the assistant director position equivalent to that which state employees receive. Director of Legal Services Ilona Koleszar described providing health insurance as a matter of "conscience," and added that Legal Services recov ered or saved $38,261 for students fall term through legal action. The University's highly successful Forensics Program, which director Pe ter Mohn said was founded in 1876 and is the oldest student group on campus, received $31,462, an increase of 10 percent. Mohn said the pro gram, a co-curricular activity funded by the ASUO and the Robert D. Clark Honors College, once funded the football team. Mohn said the increased funding was justified due to restrictions placed on the program's ability to pay for out of-state travel with general fund money. "Any sort of state money we get is limited to in-state travel only," Mohn said. "I'd love to ask for smaller in creases and that's my goal." The ASUO Constitution Court re ceived $4,892 for 2004-2005, a 1.3 percent decrease from this year. Al though the court has done little this year, it is the third branch of student government and deserves adequate funding, PFC Chairman Adrian Gilmore said. "One year nothing will happen, then the next year for some reason there will be a rash of constitutional issues," Gilmore said. "We don't want to bank rupt a branch of student government." The Coalition Against Environ mental Racism, which will host the ninth annual Environmental Justice Conference Jan. 23 through Jan. 25, received a budget of $13,739, a de crease of 10.1 percent. The coalition hopes to snare a national speaker for its conference and perhaps for anoth er event as well. PFC decided to fund the Chinese Student Association, which will hold China Night Feb. 1, at $7,735, a 14.1 percent increase. "We have been experiencing a very severe budget crisis this year," CSA member Michelle Jin said, adding that the group had a "dire need" for the funding. Dance Oregon, a group that seeks to enhance dance students' education, received a budget of $3,114, a .06 per cent decrease from this year's budget. The funds will be used to lure guest artists to campus and advocate for Turn to PFC, page 16 MEWS BRIEFS Knight Law Center to hold wildfire symposium The University's Journal of Environ mental Law and Utigation will host its annual symposium, which will give a comprehensive overview and history of wildfire issues across the West. The symposium, which is open to the public and free of charge, will take place today in room 110 of the Knight Law Center from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Besides providing a public forum to exchange information and strate gies, the symposium's purpose has been to educate participants on inter national, national and regional envi ronmental issues. "We have three very different speak ers covering a broad range of issues re lated to current states of wildfire poli cy," said Dominic Campanella, editor in chief of the Journal of Environ mental Law and Litigation. Keynote speakers will include Marc Fink, a staff attorney of the Western Environmental Law Center; Andy Stahl, executive director of the Forest Service Employees for Envi ronmental Ethics; and Scott Horn gren, an attorney who has represent ed timber companies in post-fire timber sale cases. Campanella said symposium coor dinators put out advertisements for the event in local publications to spark an interest in the community. Although the designated location accommodates more than 100 attendees, he said he has heard enough buzz between the envi ronmental studies department and the law school to have confidence in to days attendance "I think we'll have a pretty solid turnout," he said. — Caron Alarab Fall-term law school flood causes $10,000 in damage Flooding that occurred in the Knight Law Center the weekend be fore fall term finals caused more than $ 10,000 in damage Law School Assis tant Dean of Finance and Operations Jamie Moffitt said. The carpet in the Wayne Morse Com mons area and some of the wood un derneath were destroyed, and some wa ter may have damaged nearby hallways. "It was custom carpet, so it was definitely on the more expensive side," she said. The commons reopened this term; however, the carpet has not yet been replaced, and Moffitt said it could take eight to 10 weeks to replace because it was custom made to match the area. She said the flooding was a minor inconvenience to students, but the area is a place students like to congregate. "Luckily we don't tend to do too many events in that area," she said. Moffitt said this was "surprising ly" the first time this area has flood ed, and that excessive rainfall led to clogged drains in the parking lot outside the area and caused the flooding. "The water built up in the parking lot and got k) a point where it over flowed," she said, adding that falling leaves probably caused the drains to clog more than usual. 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