{"id":3124,"date":"2016-03-04T14:38:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T22:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2016-03-04T14:38:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T22:38:52","slug":"two-percent-cut-ifc-funded-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/two-percent-cut-ifc-funded-clubs\/","title":{"rendered":"ASWOU receives two percent budget cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Alvin Wilson\r\nStaff Writer<\/pre>\n<p>The Incidental Fee Committee plans to increase the amount of money students pay each term in fees while decreasing the funds for some programs.<\/p>\n<p>ASWOU is one of the programs that will see cuts in its budget, but only by a small percentage.<\/p>\n<p>This year, ASWOU received $294,239 from the Incidental Fee funds. This amounted to 6.9 percent of the total IFC budget. <\/p>\n<p>Next year, the committee will only allocate $290,699\u2014or 6.6 percent of the total budget\u2014to ASWOU, which is a two percent cut from this year\u2019s budget.<br \/>\nASWOU\u2019s budget gets distributed to many different areas, according to Sofia LeVernois, director of business and finance for ASWOU.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the clubs at the university fall under ASWOU,\u201d said LeVernois.  \u201cYou have funded clubs and non-funded clubs. Non-funded clubs are not funded by IFC, and then you have the other umbrella of clubs that are funded by IFC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some student organizations that receive IFC funds from ASWOU are the Art Club, Triangle Alliance, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztl\u00e1nand (MEChA), and the Business and Economics Club.<\/p>\n<p>LeVernois said the clubs can spend their money on anything from food and refreshments to guest speakers.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, she said ASWOU\u2019s funds go toward sending their members to Oregon Student Association (OSA) meetings. OSA is a nonprofit student advocacy group that represents 110,000 Oregon students. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have our payroll account, and we have OSA. That helps our OSA representatives go to the different board meetings that they have to attend,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>ASWOU also pays for a retreat for its members at the beginning of the year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all to help the office function so we can be at our top point to represent and help students,\u201d LeVernois said.<\/p>\n<p>The budgets for all clubs and ASWOU departments will be reduced evenly, according to Levernois, so no clubs will be affected more than others.<\/p>\n<p>She said the cuts won\u2019t be easy, but it\u2019s not impossible to work around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter talking with Corban, it was decided that we would be able to handle a two percent cut,\u201d said LeVernois. \u201cWe have to cut back, but it\u2019s not really preventative. It can be a burden, but there\u2019s things to alleviate that. It\u2019s difficult, but it\u2019s about reallocating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Contact the author at awilson15@wou.edu or on Twitter @awilsonjournal <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Incidental Fee Committee plans to increase the amount of money students pay each term in fees while decreasing the funds for some programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}