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CKPF1 cemeR. Space wMLAZLe Reasiep loowl Large Format Photo Fri, Mar 4 & 11 Sat, Mar 5 & 12 10:30a-1:30p $50 Handcoloring Photos Sun, Feb 6 !2:OOp-4:OOp $25 w/term pass $30 w/out term pass Beginning Ceramics Tues, Jan 18 - Feb 22 3:OOp-6:OOp $65 Heldrcth Fri, Jan 21 - Feb 25 10:15a-l:15p $65 Kowitz Hand Built Teapots Tues, Jan 18 - Feb 22 6:3Op-9:30p $65 Intro to Raku Firing Sat, 1/15, 10:30a-l :30p Sat, 2/5, 1 l:OOa-6:OOp $39 Speed Quilting Wed, Jan 19 - Feb 23 6:30p-9:00p $49 Weaving (Honeycomb) Tues, Jan 11-Feb 8 6:OOp-9:OOp $49 Drawing Mon, Jan 24 - Feb 28 6:OOp-8:30p $5 5 w/ term pass $60 w/out term pass Oil Painting Thurs, Jan 20-Feb 24 6:00p-9:00p $63 w/term pass $68 w/out term pass Matt Cutting Sat, Feb 26-Mar 5 10:30p-I2:30p $22 Whole Bike Health A. Mon, Jan 24-Feb 28 6:3Op-9:00p $49 w/term pass $54 w/out term pass B. Tues, Jan I8-Feb 22 6:30p-9:00p $49 w/term pass $54 w/out term pass Japanese Hand Planes Fri, Feb 25 - Mar 11 10:30a-l2:30p $32 Travel Guitar Mon, Jan 10 - Feb 28 (no class l/l 7) 3:00-6:00p (materials included) $135 Beginning Fabrication Tue, Janl 1-Feb 22 6:30-9:30p $65 Please Join us For Our 25th Annual Craft Center “Fanyly Alburri Siflow” Opening Reception Friday, February 4th 5:00-7:00pm at the Adell McMillan Gallery University of Oregon Erh Memorial Union For Information cull: 346-4361 craFteenler.uoregon.edu UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Student groups lobby for funding Debate between committee members and SASS representatives leads to 'heated verbal exchange' BY GABE BRADLEY NEWS FREELANCE EDITOR Tempers flared during the six hour Programs Finance Committee budget hearings Thesday night. The Oregon Medical Marijuana Law Reporter requested $300 for publication. After brief discussion about the applicability of the OMMLR to the University as a whole, PFC voted to approve the budget. The executive team prepared a $34,929 recommendation for Sexu al Assault Support Services, which was about 33 percent short of the $51,786 SASS requested. The executive team expressed concerns that SASS was duplicating services already available through groups and programs on campus. However, after receiving infor mation from the Office of Student Life and the Women’s Center that called the duplication into ques tion, the executive recommended tabling the budget until a commit tee could be formed to investigate whether duplication exists. About 20 representatives from SASS were present to argue for the importance of the services they offer. The debate became heated be tween the executives and PFC members who want to delay the approval process any more and those who said they wanted to “Are we mentally ready for this budget hearingr Persis Pohowalla | PFC Chair ^Ctuac U1 U11UC1 spending. PFC, again taking a change of leader ship into account, kept the group at current funding by icjLyiv. me uouc mini muitr minima tion was available. “I think that if we do anything other than give them the money that they’re asking for at this mo ment then we’re not doing the stu dents any service," said PFC mem ber Mason Quiroz. Quiroz made a motion to ap prove a $51,786 budget for SASS. The motion failed 2-3-0. Immedi ately afterward, PFC member Khanh Le made an identical mo tion, which also failed 2-3-0. After more discussion, PFC member Jael Anker-Lagos made a motion to ap prove SASS’s budget request. The motion passed 4-0-1. In the recess immediately follow ing the hearing, there was a heated verbal exchange about the process used to approve SASS's budget. Before returning from recess, PFC chair Persis Pohowalla asked dpjjiuvmg d 4>zoo uuugei. The National Association of Black Journalists, which has exist ed at the University for more than ten years, requested incidental fee money for the first time this year. They were granted the $300 maxi mum that a new group can receive. PFC tabled the budget for the Oregon Future Lawyers Associa tion because the payroll for the editors of the group’s journal was not budgeted according to the stipend model used by incidental fee-funded groups. The Pre-Law Society was de funded last year because repre sentatives from the group failed to appear at their budget hearing. A group of students seeking to res urrect the group was granted a $260 budget. gabebradley@dailyemerald.com the group, “Are we mentally ready for this budget hearing?” The group then approved a $145,647 budget for the Office of Student Advocacy, which includ ed a 7.1 percent increase from last year to cover the cost of increased insurance that the University now requires all its contract workers to carry. The Public Relations Student So ciety of America was granted a 14.2 percent increase for a total budget of $738. The Oregon Law Student Public Interest Fund was allotted $1,391, which represented a 0.5 percent in crease from last year. Student Affiliates of the Ameri can Chemical Society received a 13.4 percent increase to help fund the group’s trip to a national con ference. The total approved budget was $570. The executive recommendation for the Pre-Health Society was a 6.6 percent decrease from last year be cause the society underspent its budget last year. PFC decided to keep the group’s funding steady be cause of a change in leadership at the Pre-Healih Society. PFC ap proved a $431 budget. For the Pre-Dental Society, the executive recommended a 53 per cent decrease be Tension heightens in a six-and-a-half-hour meeting where members questioned how to factor transfers BY MORIAH RALINGIT NEWS REPORTER Thursday night’s ASUO Program Fi nance Committee meeting concluded a week-long marathon of meetings as the committee trudged through six and a half hours of tense number crunch ing and negotiations. Black Women of Achievement en dured the longest hearing — more than an hour. Tensions rose in the room as the PFC examined the $4,000 budget. The group’s initial recom mended allocation was damaged by “a bad spending year,” PFC Senator Khanh Le said. But ASUO Controller Rosie Sweet man, acknowledged she wasn’t sure how transfers should factor into a group’s recommendation. “I don’t know if it’s consistent across controllers,” she said. Sweetman added that the previous year’s directors created a deficit in the group’s fundraising account. The ini tial allocation recommended a 13.5 percent decrease because of the group’s recent poor fiscal behavior. After the PFC took the budget through multiple iterations, Vice Chair Mason Quiroz appeared baffled. “I abstain. I’m confused now,” Quiroz said. PFC Chair Persis Pohowalla ap peared worn out by the lengthy meet ing, at one point saying, “I’m sorry. I think I’m losing it.” Part of the debate arose when some PFC members proposed dramatic in creases, up to 27 percent, for BWA’s budget, but Sweetman emphasized the group’s fiscal history probably did n’t warrant such an increase. However, Sweetman added the PFC should take into account the group’s spending habits in this fiscal year, which have been fairly good. In the end, the PFC approved a $4,653 budget, a 24.2 percent increase, including $85 for Higher Learning Col lege Shadow Day and $1,000 for the Ebony Man Showcase formal. GLOSS, the organization of graduate students in the linguistics department, received a 13.4 percent increase for a total budget of $710. Dance Oregon received a 10.4 per cent increase for a total of $3,448. PFC members were hesitant to help fund the group’s trip to the American Col lege Dance Festival after the group couldn’t go last year and let the allocat ed money go to waste; PFC members alloted them $200 to subsidize costs. The Criminal Law Association’s budget was decreased due to past poor leadership and fiscal irresponsibility. The PFC decided to go with the ex ecutive recommendation of $282, a 48.7 percent decrease from last year. ASUO Controller Will Richard praised law student organization Fam ily Law in Practice’s “positive growth. ” But Quiroz took issue with FLIP’S acronym. “Be careful about your acronym,” he said. "It’s a derogatory name for Filipinos.” The organization’s leaders agreed to reconsider the name. FLIP received a total budget of $370 to be used for speakers and networking socials. Recently reborn Art Law Forum, in active for about six years, had its hear ing after the BWA hearing; Quiroz criti cized the PFC for not being consistent. “We’re funding this group 100 per cent without scrutinizing the group,” said Quiroz. The PFC allocated the full executive recommendation of $284 to help fund an exhibit and speakers. African Student Association hearing followed and Pohowalla lauded the group for its fundraising efforts. “You guys have done insane amounts of fundraising,” she said. “I think we should factor that in. ” ASA Director Haben Woldu agreed to forgo a director’s stipend and a phone for ASA’s office to ensure that maximum funding went into African Culture Night and other programs. “We’re representing our continent and we’re willing to do anything to put it on,” she said. The PFC allotted the group $1,959, a generous $400 increase above the ex ecutive recommendation, for a 44.9 percent increase. The Jewish Student Union’s budget passed with little debate. Richard not ed the group raised an impressive 60 percent of its budget. The group re ceived $7,022, a 3.4 percent increase. Amnesty International’s budget showed a troubled fiscal past. Last year the group was zero-funded, and in an attempt to get funding back, the group put money from fundraising in line items to demonstrate it could be fiscally responsible. Unfortunately, when the group failed to spend $80 of the budget, the money, raised by the group’s members, went back to the in cidental fee surplus. “I think it’s too bad you lost the £80,” said Le. “Maybe you can try and get it back from Senate.” The Japanese Student Organization received $4,759, a 16.24 percent in crease. moriahbalingit@ daily emerald, com S0U20 MANIC Monday 14' 1 topping Pizza and 2 24 oz. drinks 824 Charnelton 686a5808 Sun-Wed Ham - I am Eugene, OR • 97401 Exp. 1/10/05 Thurs-Sat llam-2am
