EMU Board grants funding
increases for several groups
The board also delayed hearings for programs requesting
additional funds because of an accounting error
BY PARKER HOWELL
SENIOR NEWS REPORTER
Despite initial projections that it
would need to cut services, the EMU
Board of Directors budget committee
approved funding increases for sever
al programs on Wednesday.
If approved by the full board next
week, the growth would increase the
total budget for EMU programs by
3.76 percent, or $30,187, a figure be
low the 7 percent benchmark ap
proved for the board by the ASUO
Student Senate. The budget calls for
EMU program expenditures of about
$3.7 million next year.
The committee postponed hearings
for programs whose budgets included
growth requests because of an ac
counting error. EMU officials original
ly predicted they would need an ap
proximately 9.2 percent increase to
maintain current service levels, board
member Aryn Clark said. Yet later cal
culations showed the program would
only need about a 2.9 percent increase
to keep its services intact, she said.
Clark said the first model included
money for EMU building reserves, a
large item removed from the budget
several years ago.
Budget Committee Chairwoman
Heidi Zlatek said the board could not
return to the Senate for a different
budget after it discovered the error
because the deadline had passed for
adjustments. But she said communi
cation between board members and
senators alleviated the need for a new
official benchmark.
Clark said the committee reviewed
each program’s budget individually
to gain an understanding of the budg
ets before allocating growth “so that
we treated all budgets fairly.”
Committee members came to the
Wednesday growth meeting with pri
oritized lists stating which programs
they believed should receive growth,
Zlatek said.
Zlatek said the board asked groups
to identify potential revenue-generat
ing areas in their budgets, as well as
areas to cut.
She said groups kept those areas in
their budgets after the board lowered
its benchmark projection.
Zlatek added that committee mem
bers met with representatives of the
programs requesting growth on Thes
day before forming their priority lists
for Wednesday.
ASUO Vice President Mena Ravas
sipour delivered the executive recom
mendation, suggesting the committee
pass a current service-level budget in
cluding funding for the EMU Informa
tion Center and a half-time or three
fourths-time daytime custodian,
according to minutes from the meeting.
The committee voted 4-3 to approve
$11,700 for EMU Facilities to hire addi
tional custodial help. The EMU current
ly has 7.6 nighttime custodians and no
daytime custodians, Zlatek said.
It also voted to grant $10,948 for
the Child Care and Development
Centers, $5,355 to extend the EMU
Club Sports director’s pay to cover
an additional two months of work
per year and $1,484 for the EMU Ad
ministration. The committee ap
proved $500 for the Outdoor Program
for its new student orientation and
$200 for the EMU Board vice chair
stipend for next year as well.
The committee did not allocate in
creases to UO Scheduling and Events
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were nominated, they read through
the monologues and picked the roles
they would most like to perform.
“After picking roles, we were given
worksheets to fill out about the
women we were portraying,” Rabago
said. “We had to think about stuff like
her name, her education, her sexuali
ty and the different activities she did. ”
“We have to remember that they
aren’t our stories, they are someone
else’s,” said high school student Cory
Kirshner-Lira, who is also participat
ing in the show.
The performance is a series of
monologues and group tag-team ap
proaches to other roles. At a rehearsal
Wednesday, three women practiced the
“wear and say list” with a variety of re
sponses. At the end of the “say list,” the
monologue ended with “more! more!
more! ” as the woman arched her back
and ran her hands through her hair.
The performance was met with laugh
ter and applause, and as the lights
came back on, a cast member ex
claimed: “She has sex-hair!”
“After each monologue, there is
spontaneous applause and a feeling
of ‘you go, girl; you did great,’” cast
member and Vice President of Stu
dent Affairs Anne Leavitt said.
English and women’s and gender
studies instructor Ann Ciasullo was
nominated for a role in “The Vagina
Monologues” by a student and is per
forming “My Angry Vagina.” Her
monologue is about a woman who is
“pissed off at the way we treat our
vaginas,” Ciasullo said. “It’s about
tampons and gynecologists, and
there is a lot of swearing."
Ciasullo chose to participate in the
monologues because of the direct cor
relation to the subjects she teaches.
“It’s educational and empowering,”
Ciasullo said. “It’s funny and moving,
and both men and women could learn
a lot about women by seeing it. ”
Other women chose to be in the
monologues because of the aware
ness the production raises for
women’s issues.
Senior Margaux DeRoux came back
from studying in France and was told
about the nominations by a friend.
“I didn’t really have expectations.
... The more I know about it, the
more excited I get,” DeRoux said. “It
forces you to be honest with yourself
and women’s place in the world.”
The monologues open Friday at
7:30 p.m. in Agate Auditorium. The
show will also be Saturday at 7:30
p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m. Tickets
are $7 for students and $10 for the
public. Tickets are available at the
University Ticket Office.
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