Programs Finance Committee
Vice chairman attempts
to table LTD discussion
The finance committee also debated whether the
University Forensics Program is actually a sport
BY EVA SYLWESTER
DAILY EMERALD FREELANCE REPORTER
The Programs Finance Commit
tee allocated more student fees
Monday in a meeting that included
a struggle over the use of incidental
fees to fund Lane Transit District
bus passes and an attempt to reclas
sify the University Forensics Pro
gram as an EMU Club Sport.
University students are allowed un
limited rides on LTD buses for $10 per
student, per term — the service is fi
nanced by incidental fees.
Andy Vobora, LTD’s service plan
ning and marketing manager, said he
initially wanted to increase the rate to
$11.79, LTD’s current group-pass rate,
but after talking with ASUO Finance
Coordinator Mike Mart ell, he became
willing to compromise at $11 per pass
for next year and increase the rate the
following year.
PFC Vice Chair Mason Quiroz said
he was against raising the rates.
“We should be treated a little bit dif
ferently just because we do buy so
many,” Quiroz said.
PFC member Jael Anker-Lagos
spoke in favor of the bus
pass arrangement.
“I think that if students find out
they’re paying $11 a term for this,
they’d think that’s a great deal,”
she said.
The current rate for an adult three
month pass is $95.
“Yeah, it’s cheap, but maybe we
won’t use it all,” Quiroz said, compar
ing the bus pass situation with buying
a large jar of mayonnaise at Costco and
saving money, but having some of the
mayonnaise go bad before it is used.
Quiroz questioned why all students
must pay for a service that only about
a fourth of students use. According to a
two-day average count taken by LTD in
November 2004, 3,551 people got off
the bus at University stops each day.
“Like everything we fund, not every
student is going to benefit, but they’ll
have the opportunity to benefit,” PFC
Chair Persis Pohowalla said.
Quiroz also raised questions about
the confusing budget that had been
presented to PFC.
“All these discrepancies make me a
little hesitant to spend $650 (thou
sand) of student fees,” he said.
Quiroz made two unsuccessful mo
tions to table the discus
sion on LTD. However, a
budget of $639,700 —
lower than the executive
recommendation of
$645,865, but still an in
crease of 9.68 percent —
was approved by a 3-1-1
vote.
The University Forensics Program
also faced debate over its budget.
The program, which has been in ex
istence since 1876, normally raises
money by hosting speech and de
bate tournaments. The group has
not hosted a tournament for the
past three years due to administra
tive turnover, but a tournament is
scheduled for October 2005.
Due to the competitive nature of
speech and debate, Quiroz questioned
whether the group met the ASUO’s cri
teria for programming.
“Sounds to me like you guys are a
sport more than doing programming
on campus,” Quiroz said. He suggest
ed that the program become a Club
Sport, because the majority of its budg
et is devoted to tournaments, trans
portation and lodging.
“The difference between this and
a program is that in a program,
everybody gets to go,” Quiroz said. “I
don’t know how you guys wound up
under the ASUO.”
Forensics Program assistant coach
Aaron Donaldson said the program is
part of a credited class and anyone can
take the class, although not everyone
who takes it travels to tournaments.
“There hasn’t been anybody this
year that has asked to attend a tourna
ment but has been unable to do so,”
Donaldson said. He also said the pro
gram is working with Concerned Fac
ulty for Peace and Justice to develop a
series of free events regarding the War
on Terrorism.
PFC member Eden Cortez suggest
ed helping the forensics team find oth
er funding rather than tabling the dis
cussion. In the end, the
group was awarded
$31,929 with the expec
tation that it would find
other sources of funding
in the future.
The International
Student Association re
ceived $23,914. The
10.2 percent increase is intended to
help with the expenses of Interna
tional Week and Night.
ASUO Child Care Subsidy’s budg
et of $233,656 passed with a 4-0-1
vote. Staff member Ben Strawn said
the group helps student parents by
reimbursing them up to 50 percent
of their child-care expenses, de
pending on the gap between the
parents’ income and expenses.
“They’re not asking for very much
increase,” Quiroz said. “I think it’s just
an incredible program. ”
Ecological Design Center, a group
primarily composed of students in the
Architecture and Allied Arts school
who are devoted to promoting sustain
able architecture, received $22,066.
The executive recommendation was
$400 lower, but PFC member Khanh
Le moved to add money for the
group’s speaker series.
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Visit www.dailyemerald.com
for coverage of the Jan. 14
PFC meeting, where budgets
for the Nontraditional Student
Union and MEChAwere
considered, among others.
ROTC: College prepares strong leaders
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Hessel will graduate in June as a 2nd
Lt. and attend a course in combat engi
neering for 18 weeks before assignment
to a full-time Army battalion.
For Hessel, being a soldier and offi
cer is a very personal affair. He currently
has friends who are fighting in Iraq and
wants them to know his time in college
has prepared him to be a strong leader.
"We as soldiers don't make the
policies, and we don't choose the
wars, but when the call comes, we go
and we fight, and sometimes we
die," Hessel said, adding that for
him it is a privilege to be in the mili
tary. "It's what I as an honorable per
son want to do. It's my choice, and
it's my duty."
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