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Since 1900 | Volume 106, Issue 65 \ Monday, November 29, 2004
University students will knit
scarves for disadvantaged kids at
the'Stitch and Bitch'gathering
BY JARED PABEN
NEWS EDITOR
Manisse is an athletic girl who most people
don’t recognize as athletic.
Her camp counselor, University sociology
student Crystal Cathcart, did, and she collect
ed a football to give her for the holidays. She
knew it would hit home for the girl.
“I think it’ll be good for someone to recog
nize she’s talented,” Cathcart said. “She kind of
gets pushed aside a lot because she’s a girl.”
Manisse is one of 15 11- to 13-year-old girls
Cathcart is collecting gifts for this holiday sea
son. Cathcart — who is a counselor at Camp
AmeriKids — a New York-based camp for
children who are affected by or infected with
HIV/AIDS — is one of many counselors col
lecting presents to give to the children in De
cember. But hers are different, she said. Her
gifts are personalized, and after enlisting the
help of other University students, many of
hers will be handmade.
Tonight in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Transgender, Queer Alliance office in the
basement of the EMU, nearly a dozen Univer
sity students will knit scarves for the kids. At
the ‘Stitch and Bitch’ gathering, some mem
bers will learn to knit and others will perfect
their art, but all will be knitting gifts for dis
advantaged kids they’ll never meet.
For Denise Miller, a student at Pacific Uni
versity, and Sheryl Ryan, a University anthro
Tim Bobosky | Photographer
Sheryl Ryan, left, who is in her fifth year post-baccalaureate, and Denise Miller, who is getting a master’s in teach
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and a little about the socializing.
“We started it because both of us really
liked helping out people in need,” Miller said.
The two women hatched the idea for the
group after learning that Cathcart, who is a
co-director of the LGBTQA, was collecting
toys from members of the LGBT community.
thing personal...,” Miller said.
“...that somebody actually worked on,”
Ryan said, finishing Miller’s sentence.
Cathcart said she’s already collected sports
equipment, a CD player, a jewelry-making
STITCH, page 4
IN BRIEF
Knight-time library hours
to begin on Tuesday
With the term winding down, final class
projects are due and exams are on their way.
Those who are willing to stay up all night to
get the work done can head to the Knight Li
brary, which will be open 24 hours a day
starting Tliesday until Dec. 10.
The Knight Library started the all-day, all
night program in spring 2003 to cater to stu
dents’ extra study needs during dead week
and finals week. Library spokesman Ron
Renchler said the library has had “a very
good turnout” of students using the facilities
overnight in the past.
Last year it cost the library about $5,000
per term to implement the extended service,
according to a March 8 Emerald article.
Students, faculty or staff who wish to re
main in or enter the library during extended
hours will need to show their University IDs.
While users will have access to photocopy
machines, printers and computers, they will
not be able to check out materials, videos or
reserves during these extended hours.
Extended hours run from 12 a.m. to 8
a.m. Monday through Thursday, 7 p.m. Fri
day to 11 a.m. on Saturday and 7 p.m. Sat
urday to 11 a.m. Sunday. The library will
close at 7 p.m. on Dec. 10.
All other University libraries will maintain
their regular hours.
Intersession hours begin for all libraries
from Dec. 11 through Jan. 2. Campus li
braries will be closed weekends until Jan. 2,
when the Knight, AAA and Science libraries
will be open from noon to 6 p.m.
— Ayisha Yahya
ASUO Executive vetoes
funding benchmarks
The Student Senate will reconsider a possible 'disparity' it made
in deciding the budgets for three University organizations
BY PARKER HOWELL
SENIOR NEWS REPORTER
The group that uses incidental fees to buy
athletic tickets for students received a larger
budget increase for next year on Tuesday
night after the ASUO Executive vetoed the
group’s original allocation, forcing the Stu
dent Senate to revisit the decision.
The executive vetoed the funding bench
marks for the Athletic Department Finance
Committee and the Programs Finance Com
mittee, which the Senate set two weeks ago,
to allow the Senate to reconsider what Fi
nance Coordinator Mike Martell called a
“disparity” in the manner in which the
budgets were decided.
The Senate passed a 7 percent increase
for the ADFC, up 1.7 percent from the
group’s previous benchmark, and reaf
firmed its original benchmark of 5.62 per
cent for the PFC.
The Senate passed the original bench
marks for the ADFC, PFC and EMU Board of
Directors during a three-hour meeting on
Nov. 17, giving the PFC and the EMU Board
what they requested, but approving a lower
amount for the ADFC.
Senator and ADFC member Kevin Day
filed a grievance alleging that the PFC and
ADFC were funded in inconsistent ways.
The Green Tape Notebook, which con
tains the administrative rules used to run
student government, dictates that the Sen
ate approves funding benchmarks for the
groups each year, which serve as guidelines
for the amount of student funds the pro
grams can allocate to other groups. The
rules give ASUO President Adam Petkun
veto power over all allocations of the Stu
dent Senate.
The Green Tape Notebook dictates that
the Senate must finalize benchmarks for the
following year by Nov. 30.
After receiving the executive vetoes, the
Senate had to either reaffirm its original
benchmarks by a two-thirds vote of its filled
seats, a larger majority than is normally re
quired for a Senate decision, or set new
benchmarks for the groups.
The Senate voted 9-4-2 to pass the execu
tive’s recommendation of a 7 percent in
crease for the ADFC, which bargains with
the Athletic Department to provide student
tickets to games.
Previously, the Senate narrowly approved
a 5.3 percent increase, an amount some sen
ators feared would cause the ADFC not to
fulfill its contractual obligations with the
athletic department. The contract stipulates
that students pay 50 percent of “fair market
value” for tickets.
During the Nov. 17 meeting, Day said the
ADFC currently funds about 48 percent and
has never met the obligation. He said the
5.3 percent increase would meet the obliga
tion if football ticket prices remained con
stant, but he said they will probably rise
next year.
Day told the Emerald he filed the griev
ance because the 5.3 percent increase
wouldn’t allow for the ADFC to maintain its
ASUO, page 5
IN BRI.EF
—
Gash found on vessel's cargo tank
after Delaware River oil spill
PHILADELPHIA — Divers found a six-foot
gash on the tanker that leakbd 30,000 gallons of
crude oil into the Delaware River, creating a 20
mile-long slick that killed dozens of birds and
threatened other wildlife, officials said Sunday.
Divers investigating Athos I on Saturday found
holes in the underwater cargo tank closest to the
rear of the vessel and in an outside ballast tank,
said Jim Lawrence, spokesman for the tanker’s
Greek owner, Tsakos Shipping and Trading SA.
The company said something probably struck
the tanks underwater, but the Coast Guard inves
tigation has not confirmed that, spokesman Lt.
Buddy Dye said.
T\vo tug boats were guiding the 750-foot tanker
toward a dock in Paulsboro, N.J., where the
Venezuelan crude oil was to be delivered to a
CITGO Petroleum Corp. refinery, when the leak
was discovered late Friday.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials said 50
birds were dead from the spill, 300 others were
affected and fish also were threatened.
More than 300 workers fanned out along both
sides of the river Sunday to make a cleanup strat
egy. Crews also set up floating booms to try to
keep oil from spreading into the tributaries that
flow into the Delaware, but they probably won’t
be able to completely contain the damage, said
Bradley Campbell, commissioner of New Jersey’s
Department of Environmental Protection.
“This is going to be an effort that’s going to
take weeks and months,” he said.
Acting New Jersey Gov. Richard J. Codey has
said Tsakos will foot the bill for the cleanup,
which he estimated will take two to three
months. Campbell said the company has been
cooperative and he didn’t anticipate it would face
any fines.
Residents were still fuming about the spill, the
worst on the river in nearly a decade.
“It’s terrible. It’s absolutely terrible. Being a res
ident here and seeing the impact on the wildlife, it
makes me sick,” said Brian Goldy, 48, who often
Efforts under way
to contain oil spill
Private contractors were called
in to skim the 30,000 gallons of
heavy crude oil that began
leaking from a tanker Friday night
into the Delaware River close to
Philadelphia.
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spots hundreds of Canada geese from his water
front home in Essington, Pa.
He said he found five geese on a grassy slab by
the river Sunday, all of them blackened and un
able to fly. In an effort to clean themselves, the
birds appeared to be ingesting the oil, he said.
— The Associated Press