PFC
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world ... at almost no cost to the stu
dents," he said.
The Child Care Subsidy was next
on the docket. The program is "an op
portunity for student parents to get re
imbursed for some of their childcare
expense," ASUO Senate President Ben
Strawn said.
Its budget of $233,472, a 1.19 per
cent decrease, was passed unanimous
ly. The majority of the money directly
subsidizes day care for the children of
student parents who qualify.
Student parent Tanya Graves ex
pressed her gratefulness for the program.
"1 wouldn't be able to go to school
if it weren't for the subsidy," she said.
PFC passed the Hong Kong Student
Association's budget of $2,985 for a
24.1 percent increase. Its budget in
cluded funding for an annual sports
day that the club puts on with other
cultural organizations.
The Chinese Student Scholar
Association's budget of $3,196 was
passed unanimously by PFC for a 5.6
percent increase. A substantial portion
of the money will go to the group's
largest cultural event, a celebration for
Chinese New Year.
The Arts Administration Student
Fomm's representatives appeared visi
bly frustrated with the tedious PFC
process, but its budget of $590 — a
0.5 percent increase — was passed
without contest. The group said it had
been haunted by past financial mis
handling.
"Last year's group wasn't effective,
financially or otherwise," group rep
resentative Jessica Capitano said.
The Association of Anthropology
Graduates had its budget of $300 ap
proved unanimously for a 100 per
cent increase to fund speakers includ
ing anthropologist Dr. Bea Medicine.
The International Law Student As
sociation rounded off the evening.
The group's budget had been previ
ously tabled because of questions
about the legitimacy of its fund-rais
ing. The issue was settled and PFC
unanimously voted to allocate the
group $2,440 for a 105 percent in
crease. This new increase will fund a
stipend for a summer editor for its law
journal.
Moriah Balingit is a freelance reporter
for the Emerald.
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priately based on fiscal responsibility
and stuff like that, but also to make
sure that all the programs feel that this
is a fair process and (a) comfortable
process, or at least as comfortable as
we can make it," PFC member Toby
Piering said.
PFC Chairman Adrian Gilmore
said some issues should be dealt with
outside of the committee's time.
"It seems like there are issues with
particular individuals," Gilmore said.
"I feel that instead of bringing those
to the meeting or bringing them to
me and me having to bear the weight
of that, just talk to that individual in
the office before the committee or
something like that because my life's
stressful enough, and I don't want to
feel the wrath that is meant for some
one else."
However, ASUO Student Senate
President Ben Strawn said that is part
of Gilmore's duty as chairman.
"I'm sorry to add stress to your life,
but I do think that as chair you have
some responsibility ... if there's a
problem with an individual or a cou
ple of individuals, to address that,"
Strawn said. "And as chair who's tak
en a fair amount of flack for various
individuals at various times, I think
that's just part of the job."
Also during the executive session,
ASUO Controller Sara Henderson
discouraged PFC members from
commenting on the relative value of
student groups. Henderson said re
marks such as "I like this group" are
"completely inappropriate" during a
PFC meeting.
While Henderson continued talk
ing, PFC's tape of the meeting ran out
and was not promptly replaced. As a
result, several minutes of the executive
session were not recorded.
place, and that's where we need to be
going, and it just seems like there's so
much else going on," Melton said.
Gilmore responded to Melton's
comment before the meeting was
called into executive session.
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Sherman said the Emerald and
other groups now have full access to
the meeting's minutes and will be
able to report on the content.
The Emerald filed a grievance
Jan. 20 against PFC for calling the
meeting into executive session
without giving prior notice, for call
ing the meeting into executive ses
sion without citing the appropriate
state statute and for calling the
meeting into executive session for
inappropriate reasons.
The grievance also attested that
the calling of executive session pre
vented the Emerald from reporting
on the meeting; state law discour
ages media from covering executive
session proceedings. In the griev
ance Schmidt asked that the
minutes from executive session be
made public.
Although Sherman did not
specifically address which meet
ings laws were violated, he said
further emphasis will be placed on
the statutes during the training of
student leaders.
Sherman also said he would rec
ommend that PFC adopt language
about executive sessions into its by
laws to ensure that such violations
do not occur in the future.
PFC Chairman Adrian Gilmore
could notbe reached forcomment.
—AyisbaYahya
Although the purpose of an execu
tive session is to give governmental
boards a private forum to frankly dis
cuss sensitive matters, the committee
and ASUO President Maddy Melton
spoke bluntly before entering the ses
sion. The conversation revealed some
tension between the executive and PFC.
"I'm not trying to be up in your
business and no one else is trying to
do those things, but... this is a full
scale process that makes the student
incidental fee what it is, and I feel like
that's the process that needs to be taking
"I feel that — maybe perception on
my part — that there's a lack of re
spect, " he said. "And I feel like, as a
chair, that I have done nothing but try
to extend respect to everyone, as I
should extend it.
"We all have exceptions where it's
a bad night or something like that,
and you apologize, but I feel that the
respect is not flowing down a two
way street."
Contact the campus/
federal politics reporter
at chuckslothower@dailyemerald.com.
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