ODE: Stealing Three Year Old Ideas
This piece in today’s ODE looks an awful lot like the story on Page 12 of OC Vol XX Issue V.
It’s comforting to know that the incidental fee allocated to the top 16 spenders has gone up substantially since 2003. By comforting I mean not at all comforting, of course.
The table below shows a few of the programs from the analysis I did in 2003 and the numbers from the article linked above. My original article contained information for the Counseling Center, which was at that time funded via incidental fee through the PFC. That, if I recall correctly, has been changed and thusly the Counseling Center is not included here. Also, USSA has been added to the ASUO Executive total in the 2006 column, because in 2003 it was one of their line-items along with the OSA.
Look at those growth rates, and note that the rate of inflation between 2003 and 2005, according to the BLS, was 6%. Only two three groups grew less than that, and most grew at many times the rate of inflation. Wonderful. Government in action, don’t you love it?
|
Group
|
2003
|
2006
|
Percent Growth
|
|
Student Recreation Center |
$ 537,428 |
$ 904,086 |
68.22% |
|
Lane Transit District |
$ 457,158 |
$ 639,700 |
39.93% |
|
Co-Op Family Center |
$ 253,303 |
$ 280,135 |
10.59% |
|
ASUO Executive* |
$ 234,497 |
$ 298,842 |
27.44% |
|
Child Care Subsidy |
$ 220,801 |
$ 233,656 |
5.82% |
|
Career Center |
$ 184,788 |
$ 317,759 |
71.96% |
|
Programs and Assesments |
$ 142,649 |
$ 188,369 |
32.05% |
|
Legal Services |
$ 137,349 |
$ 206,490 |
50.34% |
|
Recreation and Intermurals |
$ 125,727 |
$ 154,091 |
22.56% |
|
Women’s Center |
$ 125,190 |
$ 146,759 |
17.23% |
|
OSPIRG |
$ 120,819 |
$ 120,074 |
-0.62% |
|
Oregon Daily Emerald |
$ 120,000 |
$ 125,000 |
4.17% |
|
Campus Recycling |
$ 113,126 |
$ 166,091 |
46.82% |
|
Office of Student Advocacy |
$ 107,478 |
$ 145,647 |
35.51% |
|
TOTAL:
|
$ 2,880,313
|
$ 3,926,699
|
36.33% |
|
* Includes USSA |
