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Sweet way to support cause student life
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Cameras gain student support
Student club fundraises for philanthropic effort
ASUI endorses Dorschel’s request for increased campus security
Daphne Jackson Argonaut
People walking past the Idaho Commons courtyard or the 6th Street Grid Wednesday were serenaded by fundraising engineers, who offered the chance to support a far-off village through a simple, sweet purchase. While the University of Idaho chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) gets the majority of its funding from grants, the club members also have two annual fundraisers. They hold a gala in April and a Krispy Kreme fundraiser in March, where the group sells about 1,400 doughnuts. On Wednesday, the club brought musical instruments in an attempt to attract more attention to raise money to help a Bolivian village called Carani get access to clean drinking water. “We drive up to Spokane super early in the morning and get a bunch of Krispy Kreme doughnuts, and then sell them for $1 a piece, or $10 for a box, to raise money to cover travel costs and food, and of course supplies and stuff for the actual building and implementation of things,” said Meg Licht, EWB member. Licht has an undergraduate degree in biology and is current-
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Although the University of Idaho campus and the greater Moscow community are relatively safe places to live, work and attend school, UI Executive Director of Public Safety and Security Matt Dorschel said emergencies sometimes do happen, and the university needs to Dorschel ensure it can respond effectively. This is one of the reasons Dorschel hopes to install 291 security cameras on campus, as well as alarm systems and an operations center, he said in his address to the ASUI Senate Wednesday evening. Dorschel said the ability to have an increased awareness of the campus and surrounding areas could help the university security team do their jobs more successfully in potentially dangerous situations.
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Engineers Without Borders members Ben Clark (left) and Mike Jones play music in an attempt to attract customers to buy doughnuts for a fundraising effort Wednesday outside the Idaho Commons. ly pursuing a master’s degree in theater arts with plans to potentially change to a master’s degree in education. She said she is currently the only non-engineer member. Mike Jones, president of EWB, said getting clean drinking water to Carani is going well so far, although the project isn’t far underway. ”We are saving money for our first assessment trip,” Jones said.
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“We did have some folks in the club visit the community last summer, just as kind of a preliminary visit, and they found that there are some water sources that are unprotected and somewhat contaminated.” Jones said the preliminary findings were enough to formulate an objective for EWB. “What the community would really like is to have that water
distributed, so we’ll be working on a distribution system, hopefully some quality improvements,” he said. Licht said the club formerly worked with a different village, Chiwirapi, but the project fell through because of political SEE sweet, PAGE 5
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Hiring within
Administrators encourage internal hiring for staff
staff, we do value the people at this institution.” Bretthauer said while the It might have just been a memo, but to Staff Affairs Chair Ali memo does not lay out any conBretthauer, it was the first step in crete policy change, it is a starting point where UI administrathe right direction. tion can work toward A university-wide developing procedures email from Human Reto further address staff sources sent out last issues, such as retention. month encouraged Executive Director University of Idaho of Human Resources supervisors to further Greg Walters sent the consider hiring interemail in late Februnal candidates for open Bretthauer ary and said it is first staff positions before action taken by the looking externally. “This is the statement of Career Ladder Committee. Ron intent,” Bretthauer said. “This Smith, vice president of Adminis the institution, and all of the istration and Finance, formed people working to make this a better place, saying we do value SEE internal, PAGE 5 Ryan Tarinelli Argonaut
News briefs ASUI Elections For those planning to run for a senate seat or the presidency in the spring ASUI election, the final date to file elections packets is March 11. Packets are available on OrgSync, on the ASUI website and in the ASUI office, and all prospective candidates must submit their packets to the ASUI office by 5 p.m. Any undergraduate student with a cumulative GPA of 2.75 or above is encouraged to run for ASUI office, regardless of major, background or experience, said ASUI Communications Board Chair Alysha Van Zante.
Prospective senatorial candidates need to have also collected 25 signatures by the same deadline, and prospective presidential candidates must have 50 signatures. “We like to see diversity in our candidates,” Van Zante said. “We’re looking for anyone who’s passionate about helping others, who care about improving the student experience here at UI and someone who is interested in getting involved and doing good.” There will be an informational all-candidates meeting 6:307:30 p.m. March 12 for those who file elections packets. SEE briefs, PAGE 5
Funding financial woes UI to ask for 3.5% increase for 2015-2016 tuition and fees Kaitlyn Krasselt Argonaut
Percent tuition/student fee increase
University of Idaho administrators will ask for the lowest tuition increase on record in recent years — just 3.5 percent for resident undergraduate tuition and fees. The increase, which will affect tuition and fees for the 2015-2016 academic year, will be used primarily to fund salary increases for university employees as mandated by the state legislature, said UI President Chuck Staben. “Competitiveness of employee compensation is a challenge,” Staben said. “Enrollment has not grown substantially, our tuition revenue has grown a little bit … But we will face some challenges in tuition revenue in future years unless we are able to increase our classes … so the additional revenue from this increase will really support that.” The official tuition request has been sent to the Idaho State Board of Education, which will take action on the proposed increases from all of the state’s universities at their meeting April 15-16. Students, faculty and staff can give feedback on the proposal prior to the SBOE meeting at a budget presentation and open forum at 3:30 p.m. April 1 in the Idaho Commons Horizon-Aurora room. Earlier this year, Staben proposed to the Joint Finance Appropriations Committee a plan to freeze resident undergraduate tuition if they agreed to fully fund a Change in Employee Compensation (CEC) increase. JFAC will officially make their recommendation to the state regarding Staben’s proposal next week, but Staben said he doesn’t have high hopes for good news. “I’m not optimistic that that’s going to happen,” Staben said. “I’m not the person that’s making that decision, but I don’t think that’s very likely and therefore, since we want to raise our employee salaries … we’re going to have to find the money elsewhere.”
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Staben said it’s important to note that if JFAC does — unexpectedly — decide the state should fully fund CEC and benefits increases, he could ask the state board for a lower increase at the April meeting, but because the official proposal is 3.5 percent, he cannot ask for more. A 3.5 percent tuition increase would generate an SEE funding, PAGE 5
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