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Show u N I I T y Not everyone cheering after line-item debates By BILL JUSTESEN ENIOR STAFF WRITER Last night, the residents of the Cedar Care Center stepped back to the-past as they danced the night away at the inaugural Senior Prom. Here, Troy Reese, a Junior political s.cience major from Las Vegas, Nev., dances with Care Center resident Carol Winkel Sponsored by the United Greek Counr:t~ this philanthropy ts scheduled to become an annual event, with care for the elderly being the main charity focus of UGC. Reese, the UGC president, said, "It's so great to be able to help out the people everyone forgets about, and show them a good time.· wonde ring what lo do," he sa!d. Debate for the dramatic cut centered upon a memorandum ·ent from enator burned the mid night oil Wilkey, lJ A Pre ident Treion Mullcr Tuesday vening in an exha u ting fiveand oth rs to, U Pr · ident 'tt'vcn D. hour meeting to discu s line-item Bennion. It made direct refe rc:ncc lO a requests from variou organizations on $6 atflJetic fee increa e to make ·uu camp us. Titl -IX ompliant. Title IX mandate • Initially, ahout 100 students and taff that the numher of men 's and women 's mcmhers rowded the room t expre p rt are equal. thank to enat r · for con idering each The memo included the f llowing oftbeir o rganization 's money reque line , "We the 1998-99 USA fo r next year. After che open-forum, ex cutive council have agret'd lo the cvernl tude nts remained, hut the $6 athletic fee increase ... with the numhc r ·uh tantially d windled a th following provisions." The first two meeting progre scd. p rovi ions included a new 1'-Bird The projected amo unts for each mascot and a home for the organizatio n w ill he voted _o n Tuesday. Wa ukeenyan . The fi nal provision said, A list showing propo ·ed funding w ill "The re was di c ussion concerning be posted next to the UUSA offices c heer- quad funding. The executive throughout the week. ate Wilkey, council me mbe r e xpect that the U A academic vice pr ident, said athletic department will co nsider that there will be no debate "unless funding the cheer quad fo r the sole reason tha t the athletic organizatio n ome huge earth- haltering event are the ole beneficiaries of Lhi e ntity." occurred and a change had to be made. HThree groups, Alpha Ep ilon With that provision in mind, senators said they too expected th~ athletic Delta, the Geology Club, and the department to pick up the funding fo r United Greek Council, were tricken from the line item funding because of the Cheer/Yell Leaders. Jack Bi bop, left-over money from previous line director of athletics , said that he was items or becau e they had requested to never approached about paying for the be removed. cheerleaders, hut only to match funds Each remaining organi1.ation and final from the UU A Senate. Also he said that when the recommendation for the line item amount are a follows: Alpha fee increase was made, that Chee r/Yell Phi $1 ,500; Art Guild, $1 ,000; Center for Politic and Public ervice, $3,500; Leaders funding was not part of the issue. "It was only made to fit Title-IX Centurium Consulting Group, $1,000; compliance," he added. Child Care, $2,000; Clubs and But now that the burden of funding Organizations, $7,000; Convocations, the squad has been squarely placed $9,000; Delta Epsilon Chi, $1,200; upon the athletic department, Bishop International Club, $1 ,200; literary said, "We' U do whatever we can. Jfwe Guild, $2,300; Masque Club, $700; can 't fund them in one place, we'll Music Club, $2,700; Native American fund them in another. I wi hed I w o uld Student Association (NASA), $2,000; have had an opportunity co have a Orchesi , $1 ,200; Psi Chi, $1 ,000; dialogue with omeone ahout this Rodeo Club, $3,000; SJFE, $2,500; [issue). • Sigma Chi, $2,500; Sigma Nu, $1 ,500; The SUU Wo men 's Soc e r luh was Stage n, $1 ,800; VICA, $I ,700; also reduced co zero dolla r . Wilkey Waukeenyans, $1 ,200; and Ze ta Tau aid that becau e of the inc rea e of Alpha, $500. enator pared the the athletic fee to become Title-IX earliest requests in half to meet their · compliant, senato rs agree d that the $52,000 budget limit. inc reased revent1e could he lp The organizatio n hardest hit by cuts upport the newly fou nded port. was the Cheer(Yell Leader . They had club. originally requested IO, 110, but the In o ther busine , Lisa McEwen, a senate reduce that amount to $3,600 e nio r e lemen tary e ducation major last week. By the end of Tue day fro m Cedar City and wife of Sen _ evening, tho ugh, the amount had Justin McEwen (HSS), pre ented a dropped to zero. Troy Braun, a junior survey in which she had asked 11 7 physical education major from Cedar students about spending 60 cents of Oty and member of the squad, said he their student fees for a drive-through was not there for the '!13-in part of the debate when senators ~axed" the total. library book drop box. he said that "If there is not going to be any money .81 students, about 70 percent, for the cheerleaders, then we will be looking at life pretty hard and ' \• |