Oregon Daily Emerald: OK, if you can give me your name, your major year in school and what seat you’re running for.
Kevin Day: I’m Kevin Day and I’m a junior. Currently, I’m listed as a computer science major with a minor in business, but I’ll be switching to business. I’m running for seat 9 ADFC. Two year.
Emerald: OK. I’ve got a list of six questions, won’t take long. How will you figure out how to spend the surplus?
Day: This year, currently I am part of senate right now so I’ve had dealing with that. Spending the surplus is one of those tough things, because a lot of groups want the money for different projects, and not projects but events and things that they are working on. I feel that the groups who show the most effort in budgeting and show that they can actually use money wisely and the events are helping serve the entire University — whether it be a small part of it or just any way that helps out the University as a whole — would be the groups I would help give that money to and that’s pretty much it. As long as they’re following all the rules and everything.
Emerald: OK. How would you interact with student groups?
Day: Concerning…?
Emerald: How will you know what they’re doing? How will you take part? How will you be aware?
Day: Look at the bulletin boards because a lot of groups post flyers around. After that go up to them and see what they’re actually doing. Read their newspaper, just keep my eyes and ears open, that’s probably the best way to do it.
Emerald: OK.
Day: You don’t want to be to overactive or you’ll lose your desire for it.
Emerald: That’s a good point. What are the most important issues facing the students you represent?
Day: I want to try to probably relate to my general seat, seat 9, because I’m working the Athletic Department with student seating. So I would say making sure that students actually use all their tickets for both football and basketball. Because an issue that could arise is if students keep picking them up and not using them, there’s a possibility of losing those seats. And then further down the road, make sure if a new Mac Court is in the works the students have a voice for that.
Emerald: What is the most important thing you should know in order to deal with the budget process?
Day: That’s a tough one. Just all those weird terminology that’s used. I mean you hear reserves, you hear, there’s one I’m looking for I can’t think of it right now. (Inaudible)
Emerald: OK.
Day: And understand the terminology to the best so when you look, actually go down and look at the budget it makes sense. And then once you know that terminology you can look at the groups and see what each group desires and their needs. For that — terminology trips up a lot of people, and where that terminology fits in the budget, whether it’s added to the program.
Emerald: OK. Who is responsible for the payment of stipends to senators?
Day: Stipends? Who is responsible for that? The PFC is the one who does the budget for the senate and that’s where the stipends come in is through the PFC and then they’re given to us by the controllers.
Emerald: Do you know specifically?
Day: You mean specifically who it comes from? It’s the students. It’s the students’ money.
Emerald: Well…
Day: But, the PFC allocates it to us and then the senators, and the senators make themselves a model if that makes sense.
Emerald: Right.
Day: But it’s PFC’s job to say where we fall under in the model.
Emerald: Right, what they were kind of looking for was the senate president and vice president, which you actually just said.
Day: That’s a tricky question because the way you worded it.
Emerald: What’s the most important part of section 5 of the ASUO PFC bylaws and why?
Day: Most important?
Emerald: No, you can’t look.
Day: Can’t look? All right to tell you the truth, I haven’t memorized them because it’s not part of our duty to memorize them in full.
Day: It’s our duty, as you saw I was doing, to utilize the Green Tape and check them — to see that we are following them as much as possible. If we’re not, it’s the job of the ombudsman to check that. So I haven’t these…
Emerald: That’s fine, I’ll take big notes…
Day: –and we are currently changing–
Emerald: –that you would look.
Day: And we are currently changing the rules so there could be more added and what not so it doesn’t feel right now to specify that (inaudible) next term if I’m in office there could be something different that could be more important.
Emerald: Do you know what section 5 is, like, off hand?
Day: It’s — not off hand.
Emerald: It’s the section that talks about your duties as a senator. So, of the duties that you perform what do you think is most important?
Day: OK, duties are most important. Just to fulfill all your duties. I mean, you’ve got so many you can’t pick one. I mean I’m not going to say ‘oh my duty is to go to all the meetings’ cause that is one of my duties but there’s — I think they’re all important. If you don’t do one of them, you’re not fulfilling your job. And, the last rule on the Green Tape is you can’t suspend a bylaw so…
Emerald: All right, that’s it.