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Programs Finance Committee
Recreation Sports escapes budget cut Tuesday
Abo, the Survival Center's budget is approved,
allowing the program to retain two student positions
BY ADAM CHERRY
NEWS REPORTER
The Programs Finance Commit
tee allocated more than $1 million
in incidental fees Tliesday during a
relatively quiet night.
Students of the Indian Subconti
nent, the first group scheduled, had
its hearing postponed because the
PFC was unable to establish quorum.
The Vietnamese Student Associa
tion’s hearing was also postponed be
cause the meeting was running late.
Hearings were held for Recreation
al Sports, the Student Recreation Cen
ter, the United States Student Associ
ation and the Law and
Entrepreneurship Student Associa
tion. The PFC elected to follow the
executive recommendation — the
funding suggestion ASUO controllers
make — on three of the four groups
before adjourning for the night at
about 10:15 p.m.
PFC Vice Chair Mason Quiroz
questioned the necessity of the of
fice coordinator position in the
Recreational Sports program, and
moved to defund the position, rec
ommending a total budget of
$129,008 for the program. Quiroz’s
recommendation would have been
$23,953 less than the program’s cur
rent budget of $152,961 and $24,739
less than the executive recommen
dation of $153,747.
Quiroz said the fact that students
pay incidental fees to the program
and then have to pay registration fees
if they actually play a sport is unfair,
and compared it to double taxation.
“If we were to eliminate (the office
coordinator) position, that would
open up money so that the students
could play for free and wouldn’t have
to be charged at all,” Quiroz said.
“They’re already paying, basically,
just for positions here — not to actu
ally participate in sports. If I’m going
to pay for Rec Sports, that’s exactly
what I want to pay for. ”
Rec Sports Director Brent Harrison
said the additional fees help cover the
cost of having referees and officials at
games and that without funding for
the office coordinator position, fees
would have to be substantially higher
or the program might cease to exist.
“It’s not realistic for someone to
inherit the responsibility (of the of
fice coordinator),” Harrison said.
“This program would not be able
to function.”
ASUO Controller Christina Diss
was critical of the defunding motion.
“We feel that Rec Sports is provid
ing a good service to students,” Diss
said. “You’re making this program
less efficient. You’ve not been con
sistent in what you’ve done; I think
that this is a really bad motion.
You guys are hurting the
program significantly.”
“Do you really think that taking
away the funding for a position be
cause of the fundraising that they do
is justified?” PFC Chair Persis Po
howalla asked Quiroz. “I guess I
don’t understand why you’re doing
this. A lot of contract groups are set
up like this.”
PFC member Khanh Le seconded
the motion and declined to speak to
his second, but after asking Rec
Sports representatives several ques
tions, Le amended the motion to
include funding for the position. The
funding brought the budget back up
to the executive recommendation
and the motion passed 3-0-1. Quiroz
was not present to vote.
“I think the students like their Rec
Sports program,” PFC member Dan
Kieffer said. “It may or may not be
running as smoothly as possible, but
it’s going to continue to be run as it
has been run.”
Harrison was pleased with the out
come, even though he was unable to
secure $338 above the executive rec
ommendation as he had requested.
“I’m happy it passed,” Harrison
said. “I think that Rec Sports is a very
valuable program. A large percentage
of students participate and I’m appre
ciative that the PFC and ASUO sup
port this program.”
The rec center received $900,536,
a 15.64 percent increase, in a vote of
3-0-2. Some committee members
were reluctant to approve the budget
because of its size.
Dennis Munroe, director of Physi
cal Activity and Recreation Services,
said students pay approximately $20
per term for use of the center.
“The students on this campus
have a real bargain,” Munroe said.
Increases in the budget were par
tially due to the fact that the building
has recently been required to estab
lish a reserve fund, which in part will
cover unexpected repair costs.
The PFC approved funding for the
Survival Center at $21,877 by a vote
of 4-0-1, electing to continue funding
two positions the executive had rec
ommended eliminating.
The Survival Center uses a model
in which all members are co-directors
and have equal weight in decisions,
which created a discrepancy with the
funding model used by the executive.
Quiroz moved to fully fund the
positions, rejecting the ASUO
stipend model on the grounds that
the group should not be hurt just
because it’s different.
In other business, the U.S. Stu
dent Association received $13,225,
a 37 percent increase, to help cover
the costs of rising membership and
registration fees. The Law and En
trepreneurship Student Association,
a first-year ASUO group, was fund
ed at the executive recommendation
of $300, the maximum allowed to
new groups.
adamcherry@ daily emerald, com
Secret names make
for unusual election
BY SALLY BUZBEE
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Four days be
fore historic elections in Iraq, many
candidates’ names are still secret.
Almost no one is out pressing the
flesh. And fliers threaten death to
anyone who dares vote.
The violence in Iraq and the secu
rity precautions it has prompted
have put an unusual — and some
times troubling — twist on the na
ture of the campaign leading up to
Sunday’s elections.
“How can you choose somebody
to represent you without knowing
even who he is?" one Iraqi woman,
Ibtisam Safwan, who is living in
Jordan, asked this week.
In a beauty contest, she quipped,
“you know about every inch in the
contestants’ bodies.” But on the
lists of Iraqi candidates, many
blanks remained as of Wednesday.
The fact that candidates’ names
remain unknown has raised con
cern that many Iraqis will choose a
slate based mainly on the top few
candidates, without knowing much
about anyone else on the list, or
their positions.
It also means many Iraqis are sus
ceptible to influence from people
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they trust — voting, for example,
according to what their imams or
tribal leaders recommend.
Despite such peculiarities, the
campaign overall has been relative
ly enthusiastic, with posters plas
tered on the capital's concrete walls
and clear signs of grassroots, get
out-the vote drives.
In a remote corner of the predom
inantly Shiite south earlier
this week, for example, two
clerics drove a BMW on unpaved
roads in heavy rain — getting
stuck in the mud several times
before reaching the remote
al-Musharrah area.
They gathered some people at the
home of the head of the powerful al
Sawaed tribe and made a pitch for
them to vote, as a religious duty, for
the candidate list endorsed by Iraq’s
top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali
al-Sistani. After that, they drove on
to meet the leader of the Kahla tribe
in the Bomohammed area, to make
the same pitch.
In addition, few parties have'put
out detailed descriptions of their
stands on the issues, including what
type of constitution their members
would push for if elected, the
official noted.
Iraq out-of-country vote
Less than 25 percent of eligible Iraqi
expatriates signed up to vote in
Sunday's elections.
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10,957
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31,0451
United
States
25,946
1
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12,983
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14,725
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30,961
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26,416
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4,187
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11,806
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20,166
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12,581
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Deadliest day for U.S. troops since Iraq war began
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aboard, and six other troops died in insurgent ambushes in the heaviest single-day loss of life for the
U.S. military in 15 years.
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Iraq: Four marines die in insurgent ambush
Continued from page 1
The group calling itself al-Qaida in
Iraq warned people to stay away from
the polls, threatening attacks. “Oh
people, be careful. Be careful not to
be near the centers of infidelity and
vice, the polling centers ... Don’t
blame us but blame yourselves” if
harmed,” a Web statement issued
in the group’s name said.
In addition to Wednesday’s
crash deaths, four Marines were
killed in fighting in Iraq’s Anbar
province, the military said.
A reporter embedded with those
troops, Jim Dolan of WABC in New
York City, said the deaths came
when insurgents ambushed a Ma
rine convoy leaving the town
of Haditha, northwest of
Baghdad, hitting a vehicle with a
rocket-propelled grenade.
Also Wednesday, insurgents at
tacked a U.S. Army patrol near the
northern town of Duluiyah, killing
one soldier and wounding two oth
ers, and in the Baghdad area a
roadside bomb killed another sol
dier and wounded two others, the
U.S. command said.
According to an Associated Press
count, 1,409 members of the U.S.
military have died in Iraq.
Law: Charlesworth says media's role strong
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were female, and the majority of res
cue workers portrayed by the media
were male, she said. She added
that major players making deci
sions in response to the event were
predominantly male.
Sept. 11 featured “men attacking,
men saving lives, then men re
sponding,” she said, calling the
United States’ efforts to build an
anti-terrorism coalition “a men’s
only event.”
Charlesworth said efforts to re
build Iraq have spurred tension for
women’s involvement in the new
government, with women getting
sidelined to accommodate different
religious and ethnic groups. She
said women will continue to be ex
cluded “until there is proper securi
ty in the area,” although more than
50 percent of the Iraqi population
is female.
She said media coverage of the
war has also shaped perspectives of
women’s roles.
“The only consistent coverage of
women has been as victims of ter
rorism and victims of oppressive
governments,” Charlesworth said.
University freshman Amanda Ko
plin said Charlesworth, an interna
tional law professor from the Aus
tralian National University in
Canberra finishing up a month-long
residence at the law school, offered
“a non-U.S. citizen perspective.”
University junior Emily Kauf
man said she was happy to hear a
new perspective on women and
gender roles.
“1 wanted to hear a perspective
on women that wasn’t just about
victimization,” Kaufman said.
karahansen@dailyemerald.com