As one-fifth of the committee that bargains with the Athletics Department to secure student tickets for football and men’s basketball games, the student elected to ASUO Student Senate Seat 7 acts as both a senator and a member of the Athletic Department Finance Committee.
With a budget this year of about $1.3 million, the ADFC “acts on all matters relating to the allocation and appropriation of incidental fees for the Athletic Department,” according to the ASUO Constitution.
| PART 4 OF 5 Wednesday: Programs Finance Committee Thursday: Student Senate Friday: EMU Board Today: Athletic Department Finance Committee and Associated Student Presidential Council Tuesday: ASUO Executive |
Each year, members of the ADFC negotiate the number of student tickets and amount of student money that will be used to purchase them. Those tickets are then available for students on a first-come, first-served basis.
This year’s ADFC decided to cut 400 football tickets and 300 basketball tickets per home game as a way to save money and reduce the no-show factor — a recurring problem in which students receive tickets to games but don’t use them.
| Seat 7 Term: One year Salary: $125 per month Time commitment: Two office hours per week |
The budget also brought the committee for the first time in fulfillment of a contract stipulation requiring students to fund 50 percent of the fair market value of sports tickets.
As a part of the 18-member Senate, the person who wins Seat 7 will also vote on whether to approve the Programs Finance Committee and EMU Board of Directors budgets. Those committees control roughly $8.7 million in additional student money.
ASPAC
With the ear of University President Dave Frohnmayer, students elected to the Associated Students Presidential Advisory Council meet twice each term to advise him on “matters of concern to UO students,” according to the Green Tape Notebook.
ASPAC includes representatives of the ASUO Executive, student programs and campus publications.
