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Show Issues class wili continue, gets new rules ie budget plagued Contemporary s class will be taught this quarter, xtionment Board okayed ASUU iing $15,968 to pay for the schedules cers and to pick up bills from fall ter. ASUU Executive Council ap-sd ap-sd the actions of Apportionment d on an 8 to 4 vote Thursday night. . ie Contemporary Class was $8,052 in fiole at the end of fall quarter, anil it estimated that this deficit could run d $36,000 by the end of the year if all ned speaker contracts were main-;d. main-;d. The deficit arose from both an irestimation of expenses and from an estimation of income by Artists and ikers, according to ASUU accountant i Moosman. Finance Board hopes to ent this wrong estimation in the re, but chairman Jerry Jensen said he v as early as October that the program Id run into a deficit. "The reason the ition got here is that we didn't want to :el the class. We preferred to over-id," over-id," Jensen said. . check of ASUU available cash by artionment board revealed more than ugh money on hand to cover both the deficit and to continue the class at t through winter quarter. of the program will be held in a contingency contin-gency fund and spent only as it is needed, rather than being allotted in a lump sum. In effect, ASUU has assumed complete sponsorship spon-sorship of the program. The class is under the direction of Dr. Ray Canning, professor of Sociology. Dr. Russ Hales of the Division of Continuing Education is responsible for the night student participation and registration. As a result of deficit spending by Artists and Speakers Committee, the class's talent supplier, new rules and restrictions will be clamped onto the committee's operations. The board voted to require all commitments commit-ments countersigned by a yet undecided University official, such as the comptroller. com-ptroller. Finance Board of ASUU also expressed a desire to check the committee's commit-tee's estimates of income and expenses event by event. ASUU President Randy Dryer indicated that the mechanisms for a running review of the committee's actions already exist, but are just not being employed. Apportionment Board, together with University President James C. Fletcher, are requesting the University's legal department depart-ment to go over their new proposals and "put some teeth into them." Artists and Speakers Committee Chairman Chair-man Scott Anderson reported that all contracts for the winter Contemporary Issues class have been cancelled with the following exceptions: Chet Huntley, Bill Russell, and the rock group Fairport Convention. Con-vention. The appearance of Murray Farr is still tentative. The Contemporary Issues class will feature fea-ture drama critic Stanley Kauffman Jan. 14 in the first class session speaking on "A New Era in the Theater." Other speakers slated for the course include Dr. David Jones speaking in conjunction with the presentation of the "Cherry Orchard" in Pioneer Memorial Theater; Kate Millet, a women's liberation leader talking on "The Sexual Revolution;" Bernadette Devlin, member of the British Parliament speaking on "Religious Freedom and the Right to Dissent;" Bill Russell, basketball star focusing comments on "The Plight of the Black Athlete," and Chet Huntley, former newscaster discussing "An Insider's View of Washington." Anderson's abbreviated program for the class will require a minimum of $6,000. But apportionment Board Chairman David Ailion pointed out that penalties may be forthcoming on those contracts which have already been signed. Ailion suggested a $5 "lab fee" could be charged to class members to help defray the expenses involved, but no action was taken on this. It was decided that the ASUU money which will finance the rest |