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PFC: Budget
nearly $8,000
less than 1997
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losing money. To top it all, then our
fees are cut, too, so we’re getting hit
with a double whammy.”
$125,000 is roughly the same
amount the Emerald was allocated by
the PFC in 1990-91 and nearly $8,000
less than the amount the Emerald
was funded from 1997 to 2000.
Newly confirmed PFC member
Mike Sherman said he was impressed
that the Emerald is operating with the
same amount of money it did 14
years ago.
“Considering the surging price and
increased student population in the
University, I would say the new pro
posal is very reasonable,” he said.
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Fees: Students at Charleston campus request better gym facilities
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University in which “we pay each
other’s health fees. ”
He said the health center pays for
students in Charleston to visit the
doctor because there are no college
health centers there.
PSAC President Gary Blackwell
said the money the University’s
Portland students have spent on
higher fees hasn’t been given back
to students.
Nelson also said PSU recently in
creased its prices to a level above the
University’s fee. But she said PSU is
charging University students $30
more per term now, instead of the
$11 difference between the current
University fee and the PSU fee.
Working with PSU
Steven Hopf, a contract officer for
PSU, said he has been “trying to get
to the bottom” of the existence of
reciprocity agreements between the
University and PSU regarding health
fees and recreation center access.
He said he understood there was
some kind of agreement regarding
health fees, but “finding it in writing
has been a challenge.”
He said University students are
able to access the student health and
counseling centers at PSU under the
agreement that exists now, but PSU
students in Eugene are only able to
access the health center.
He said he is trying to contact peo
ple at both campuses to find a writ
ten agreement.
“It appears it’s just been a good
faith effort on the part of both
schools,” he said.
Hopf said an agreement between
the PSAC students and the PSU recre
ation center appears to be new and
outside an official agreement be
tween the two schools. He said PSU
has an agreement with Southern
Oregon University in which each
school collects fees from the other’s
students who use its facilities.
“So far, that’s not to my knowl
edge taking place at the UO,”
he said.
He said the schools should contin
ue efforts to reach an agreement.
“I think if the administration on
both sides wants to get this done, we
should go ahead and do it,” he said.
A contract officer from the
University could not be reached
for comment.
Departmental concerns
Nelson said Architecture and Al
lied Arts Dean Robert Melnick has
proposed a new $125 fee for all
A&AA students, including architec
ture students. She said the fee will
be assessed with 60 percent going to
A&AA and 40 percent going to the
respective A&AA departments of the
fee-paying students. But she said
questions remain regarding how
much of the 40 percent will make it
to Portland.
But Melnick said the 40 percent
will go to students in Portland to
use as they see fit, adding that
A&AA administrators solicited
feedback from students in Eugene
and Portland and made changes
based on that feedback.
“That, to me, is rational, demo
cratic and the right thing to do,”
he said.
Blackwell said his group would like
to see the arrangement in writing.
“There’s some skepticism on our
side that we would not get that
money unless it’s clearly worded,”
he said.
Nelson also said architecture stu
dents in Portland already pay a $50
per-term fee to the architecture de
partment used to pay off an
approximately five-year mortgage on
metal desks the University pur
chased for architecture labs at the
main campus.
Yet Melnick said the $50 fee
will sunset in about two years, the
remaining time needed to pay off
the desks.
He said students in Portland also
benefited because they received
some desks.
However, Blackwell said the
desks were sent to Portland be
cause the program has grown,
not as replacements. He said
the desks in Portland are “nothing
like the desks” in Eugene, describ
ing them as “quite inferior.”
He added that some students have
discussed buying hardware to
augment their desks because of
structural instability.
“They’re sending inferior stuff to
us, and we’re expected to figure
out how to get it to work up here,”
he said.
Gym access for
Charleston students
Another group requesting services
provided by the incidental fee
is the student council at the Oregon
Institute of Marine Biology in
Charleston, which was recently de
nied a $1,900 funding increase by the
ASUO Programs Finance Committee
to purchase gym memberships.
Although the group has some
gym equipment for students study
ing at the institute, Oregon Marine
Students Association Director Ahna
VanGaest said it is insufficient.
“We have a second-rate gym,”
she said.
Incidental fees pay for students at
the University’s main campus to ac
cess the Student Recreation Center,
a facility students at the coast can’t
easily access.
VanGaest said the group will keep
trying to receive incidental fee fund
ing for recreation center access.
“What it comes down to is we’re
going to keep trying every year to get
the funding. We believe we have
every right to have a gym member
ship,” she said. “As students, that’s
what we pay for.”
She added that more students
are expected at the Charleston fa
cility because it is now offering a
marine biology major. She said a
gym membership would help
attract prospective students.
She said she considered filing an
appeal with the PFC but decided
against it.
“I entertained the idea and de
cided against it, because I had
heard they had over-budgeted and
decided just not to waste my time,”
she said.
She said relations between
OMSA and the ASUO have been
smooth during her two years with
the program, although the group
is still trying to recover from
a “huge budget cut” it underwent
several years ago. She added
that some ASUO members seemed
to misunderstand OMSA.
“I felt it was really hard to make
ASUO in our PFC meeting under
stand where we’re coming from,”
VanGaest said. “1 really felt like we
didn’t connect on that really basic is
sue of how we’re different from
most ASUO groups.”
During the PFC meeting, Senator
Kevin Day said: “I don’t think
any student takes full advantage of
the incidental fee, and so I don’t
think any money should be taken
out because (the OMSA students)
are not taking full advantage of
their fee,” according to a Jan. 12
Emerald article.
VanGaest said OMSA would
“stick with this one issue for now”
to “see if the ASUO is willing to go
in this direction.” If the group does
n’t receive gym funding next year,
she said it will go to the department
for help.
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