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men’s and women i shop EL U X ette Tr®vourseI|to premium Mjewefl^feiat will bring out Jlje in you. * • JEWEERY ART STUDIO jpt^E. Broadway • 343-2298 n.-Fri .40-6 p.m. Sat. 10-4 p.m. Se habla espanol www.goldworksart.com Student government begins using new accounting system The new system will make accounting more efficient for the ASUO MEGHANN M. CUNIFF NEWS REPORTER The ASUO recently implemented a new accounting system that will im prove the way student groups man age funds and will allow the Student Senate to oversee funding allocations more efficiently, according to ASUO Accounting Coordinator Jennifer Creighton-Neiwert. The new system, which took effect July 1, will distinguish group fi nances into five different funds: Inci dental fees, restricted event revenue, general funds, non-event revenue and non-restricted revenue. Event and non-event revenue will no longer be grouped with incidental fee funds, making it easier to deter mine how groups are using allocated funds, Creighton-Neiwert said. “Now (the) Senate has the ability to easily identify where the funds are going,” Creighton-Neiwert said. Because the majority of student group funding comes from the inci dental fees, Creighton-Neiwert said it is important to ensure that groups price event tickets and activities at appropriate rates for how much inci dental-fee funding is used. With budgets more finely parsed, it will now be possible to examine how much revenue an event generates ver sus how much a group spends on the event, Creighton-Neiwert said. “It’s a better way of looking at an event and seeing what we should charge for tick ets,” Creighton-Neiwert said. The Senate will no longer hear budg et transfer requests, Creighton-Neiwert said. Rather, groups will request from the Senate a “release of funds” from one of the five areas of their budget to another or from Senate surplus. The only problem officials have had with the new system has been explaining it to student groups, ASUO Controller Christina Diss said. How the system operates has not Tim Bobosky | Photographer Senior journalism and math major Christina Diss (bottom left), junior environmental sci ence major Carie Henderson (center) and junior planning, public policy and management major Rosie Sweetman staff the ASUO Controller’s Office. been put into writing, making the task of explaining the system to stu dent groups difficult, Diss said. “There isn’t any language in the Senate rules about the new account ing system,” Diss said. Diss and fellow ASUO Controllers Carie Henderson and Rosie Sweet man are responsible for ensuring stu dent groups understand the new sys tem and are following it. This has been difficult without written documentation, but not im possible, Diss said. “Hopefully [the Senate Rules Com mittee] will meet before their dead line in the fall and pass the new rules,” she said. Creighton-Neiwert said officials have anticipated these difficulties. “Any time you make a change or go through a transition it’s going to be difficult because there’s a new sys tem to learn,” she said. Because the system was only recently instituted, Creighton-Neiw ert said it is too early to evaluate its effectiveness, but she said is confi dent that student groups will be able to make the adjustment. ASUO Women’s Center Office Co ordinator Lori Brown shared this confidence. “I think [senators] are constantly asking themselves how they can en sure student groups are using student fees responsibly and in a way that is re ally meeting the students’ needs,” Brown said. Though the new system may mean that groups have less freedom in how they spend certain funds, Brown said the fiscally responsible “spirit” be hind it is commendable. “It’s definitely going to hold us to a higher level of accountability,” she said. meghanncuniff@dailyemerald. com To place an ad, call (541) 346-4343 or stop by Room 300 EMU E-mail: classads@dailyemerald.com Online Edition: www.dailyemerald.com Room 300, Erb Memorial Union, P.O. Box 3159, Eugene, OR 97403 105 TYPING/RESUME SERVICES EXPERT THESIS/DISSERTATION editor, Grad School approved since 1974! Papers, resumes. ON CAMPUS! robin, 344-0759 120 MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE Textbooks - Don’t be ripped off by the bookstore. Save up to 50% all ti tles. www.campusi.com NO DRAFT FOR IRAQ Patriotic Bumper Sticker $3.50. Or der today at: bushliedthousandsd ied.com Register. Your vote counts! Register today! 120 MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE Best prices on laptops $99.99 and up. Computers $130 and up. Com puters Desks $39.99. 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