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Wednesday, February 11, 2004
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Volume 105, Issue 97
Finance
committee
allocates
roughly
$5 million
PFC completed budgeting
allocations for the 2004-05 year,
settling on a final tally that fell
shy of the $4.8 million benchmark
By Chuck Slothower
News Reporter
The ASUO Programs Finance Committee
has finished approving the budgets of more
than 125 student groups, resulting in alloca
tions totaling almost $5 million. The budget
appropriations constitute a slight increase
from last year but fall comfortably short of
PFC's benchmark.
INSIDE
To see a complete
listing of ASUO
Programs Finance
Committee allocations
for student groups,
turn to page 6A.
"There's a good
amount of healthy
growth in here that's
needed and support
ed by students," said
ASUO Student Sen
ate President Ben
Strawn, who helped
approve PFCs bench
mark in November. "I
think for the most
part it went well."
According to tentative numbers provided
by the ASUO, PFC allocated $4,889,127 to
student groups — a 1.18 percent increase
from last year — in a series of marathon
budget meetings that began in January.
The allocations will fund 2004-05 budgets
for student incidental fee-financed groups.
Turn to ALLOCATIONS, page 3A
Hooded meaning
Some of the hoods placed over meters
near McArthur Court provide
free parking before
4 p.m.
l >/i liiffivffi
Parking spaces with the
following hoods are OK
to park in until 4 p.m.:
Red Hoods (labeled “LTD”)
Brown Hoods (labeled "media”)
Dark Green Hoods
(labeled "special donors”)
Dark Blue Hoods
(labeled “visitingteam’s bus”)
DoNOTpark
in spaces with:
• White Hoods
(labeled "TV trucks")
• Yellow Hoods
(labeled "no parking”)
• Light Blue Hoods
(labeled “disabled")
SOURCE: Department of Public Safety
By Lisa Catto
News Reporter
Tl he dark blue ones are only
used for visitors and the dark
green ones require a large dona
tion. The yellow ones aren't available
and the red ones are for buses.
These are several of the meanings
behind the colored hoods that cover
parking meters at men's and
women's basketball games. The Ath
letics Department pays for the hoods,
and many of them allow free parking
until 4 p.m. on game days.
According to Rand Stamm, De
partment of Public Safety parking
and transportation manager, the
spaces with red, brown, dark green
and dark blue hoods are available for
free parking until 4 p.m. The spaces
with white, yellow and light blue
hoods, however, are not available for
parking. None of the spaces with
hoods are available for parking dur
ing weekend games because game
times change.
PART 1 OF 2
Today: Parking at hooded
meters on campus
Tomorrow: Parking stickers
versus hanging permits
The red
hoods reserve
space for Lane
T ransit District
buses, spaces
with brown
hoods are for
the media,
spaces with
dark green hoods are reserved for
special donors to the Athletics De
partment and the dark blue hoods
retain space for the visiting team's
bus.
The white hoods save space for tel
evision trucks, die yellow hoods read
"No Parking" and the light blue
hoods reserve space for those with
disabled parking passes.
Dave Williford, assistant athletic
director of media services for the Ath
letics Department said that, on aver
age, around 3,946 people attend
women's basketball games and
around 8,984 attend men's games.
He added that $1,095 is spent for
meter hoods at each women's bas
ketball game. That fee pays for 73
Turn to METERS, page 3A
Proposed OUS cuts could relieve University’s burden
OUS representatives met
Tuesday to discuss cuts
to the Chancellor’s Office
which could aid the University
after Measure 30’s failure
By Chelsea Duncan
News Reporter
The Oregon University System took
the first step in weathering Measure
30's failure on Tuesday by proposing
funding cuts to the Chancellor's Of
fice to share the overall burden of cuts
to higher education.The state legisla
ture had predetermined areas for
budget cuts in case the measure was
defeated, focusing on undergraduate
education. The Chancellor's Office
was originally not included in the
budget cut proposals.
Members of the Oregon State Board
of Higher Education Executive Com
mittee, along with OUS Chancellor
Richard Jarvis and the OUS presidents,
conducted a telephone conference to
discuss the proposed cuts.
In an effort to absorb some of the
impact of the $7.5 million higher edu
cation cut resulting from the measure's
failure, the Chancellor's Office will un
dergo review, and 125 employees have
been notified that guarantees cannot
be made for employment extension or
contract renewal beyond the current
contracted date of June 30,2004.
"It is just a way of letting people
know that we're anticipating con
tributing to the response to Measure
30," Jarvis said. "This would initiate
the process."
State Board of Higher Education
President Neil Goldschmidt said the
universities should not feel the full ef
fect of the cuts on their own.
"Without it, where we would be left
is that the campuses would have to
take till of this burden on themselves,"
he said.
He said he does not yet know what
percentage of cuts will be taken from
the Chancellor's Office budget be
cause the process is just beginning.
"We ought to be on the same play
ing field, the same circumstances as
the universities were," he added.
University President Dave Frohn
mayer emphasized that the possible
employee cuts are limited only to the
Chancellor's Office.
"This action obviously affects only
the Chancellor's Office," he said,
adding that students have recently ex
pressed concern about budget cut im
pacts on University faculty.
"It is limited to administration,
limited to the central office, it does
not extend to the campuses and does
not extend to our instructional or re
search faculty," he said.
Committee member Donald Blair
said it also is important to note that the
notification is not a finalized decision.
"This is only a preliminary heads
up and not a notice of layoffs or other
specific actions," he said. "We're not
far enough along to determine what
the actual steps would be."
Further discussions about budget
impacts will take place next week and
in March. Budget cuts are expected to
be implemented by May 1.
Goldschmidt said further under
standing of the Chancellor's Office
budget is needed to make more spe
cific decisions.
"None of us understand enough
Turn to OUS, page 3A
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