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Health Professions GRADUATE SCHOOL FAIR VV7 ■ .... 2005 f radu "K- • and Professional School • % m o U N-iVKR.SITY OP ORUGON m Career Center .’20«9Wlricks Hail* 346-323S ■ ME SURE YOU ARE COUERED sigh up STUDENT HEALTH IHSURHHCE It's easy... Just go to the UO Health Center at 13th and Agate. But don't miss the deadline. Sign-up runs noiu through April 15. Spring term premium also couers summer! Reuieiu details of the plan on our met) page: http://healthcenter.uoregon.edu Rny questions? Call 346-3702 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON http://healthcenter.uoregon.edu • appointments: 346-2770 IREfiflN DAILY EMERALD — ^ eF, IN BRIEF Student Senate ratifies PFC budget, finally After weeks of delay and controver sy over pay cuts for some student lead ers, the ASUO Student Senate took less than 15 minutes to approve the final budget for the committee that allocates student money during a meeting Mon day night. The Senate voted 11-2-2 to pass a $5,231,949 budget for the Programs Fi nance Committee, a 7 percent increase from last year. Last week, Senators re jected the PFC’s budget because of concerns from student leaders that pay cuts unfairly affected some student groups. The finalized budget taps about $7,800 of unallocated reserves to provide one paid position each for eight groups that were initially slat ed to lose all stipend positions. The budget also increases monthly pay for the ASUO president and vice president from $175 to $400. The budget includes a note recom mending that next year’s Senate use over-realized funds and other reserves to provide additional stipends for groups and create a “relief committee” by April 30 to oversee the allocation of those funds. Also at the meeting, the Senate re called and altered the EMU Board of Directors’ budget to reflect pay changes resulting from the finalized PFC budget. — Parker Howell Legislature: Tuition freeze is subject to state's tax reform Continued from page 1 what’s going to get money to where it’s most needed.” Legislators attempted to appeal to the concerns of both students and oth er taxpayers. Rep. Sal Esquivel, R-Medford, said the state cannot continue raising tu ition, but he isn’t convinced that a freeze is possible in Oregon’s current budget situation. “(The freeze is) nice and warm and fuzzy, but the reality is this: Until the state can stabilize its funding, and I mean a tax reform, we will not be able to stabilize monies for the universities, for higher ed.” Esquivel added that the plan to fund K-12 education pitched by House Speaker Karen Minnis, R-Wood Vil lage, could be adapted to higher edu cation as well. Senate Democrats adopted and overall revenue forecast in March that was about $300 million higher than Republicans’ forecast and pitched a budget supporting a tuition freeze. “We’ve been talking about that in our caucus because a tuition freeze re ally goes across the board,” Sen. Vicki Walker, D-Eugene, said. “It benefits those students who can afford to go to school, and so we’re having the dis cussion: Should we put it all into the Oregon Opportunity Grant, which re ally targets the kids that need the mon ey, or do we do a tuition freeze, or both? I think we’re looking at a combi nation of both.” Petkun said he hopes the legislature can at least compromise to assist stu dents. “If worst comes to worst, we’ll meet in the middle, and students will be bet ter off for that.” adamcherry@ daily emerald, com are coming PRIMARIES April 6th, 7th and 8th GENERALS April 13th, 14th and 15th For more info: asuoelec@gladstone.uoregon.edu 541-346-0629 • asuo.uoregon.edu ASUO student elections are coming we want all of you to
