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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
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spending. PFC,
again taking a
change of leader
ship into account,
kept the group at
current funding by
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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
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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.
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