Oregon daily emerald., January 14, 1972, Page 3, Image 3

Senate debates appointments
The Senate spent an hour and a
half debating Senate President
Stephanie Larsen’s controversial
appointments to the Fiscal
Committee at the ASUO Senate
meeting Thursday.
Senate members were upset
over the appointment of Peggy
O’Farrell who is not a senator to
a voting position on the com
mittee, and the removal of John
Stewart from the committee.
Stewart had served as a voting
member for two terms.
Ms. Larsen said her criteria for
appointments to the Fiscal
Committee where: a con
ceptualization of the budgetary
process, ability to work with
other people, and integrity.
Ms. Larsen said Ms. O’Farrell
was a capable person with
several years of experience on
the Fiscal Committee, and her
recommendation to the com
mittee was based on this ex
perience. TTiere is no provision in
Senate constitution or by-laws
which states senate committee
members must be senators.
Ms. Larsen did not elaborate on
the specific areas in which she
felt Stewart did not meet her
criteria for a committee mem
ber. She said that she had
discussed her decision with the
committee chairmen, and would
hold firmly to her appointments.
The appointments went down to
defeat 20 to 12 after long debate.
Stewart then asked for the
floor He thanked those who had
Fadeley knocks cig-tax foes
By NEAL ROSEN
Of the Emerald
“I have never seen an election
filled with so much one-sided
inaccurate propaganda," State
Senator Ed Fadeley said
Thursday, referring to Tuesday’s
cigarette tax election.
Fadeley, speaking to the
Graduate leader urges
affirmative vote
A request for all registered University graduate students to vote
for the cigarette tax January 18 was issued by Carl Mills, president of
the Graduate Student Council at a meeting Thursday afternoon.
Mills said at present GSC is facing a budget cut, however if the
proposed cigarette tax does not pass they expect more severe budget
cuts.
“Yes,” Mills added, “it is a discriminatory tax, but so is the
gasoline tax. The cigarette tax is a band-aid approach to prop up a
dying structure.”
Also discussed was the ASUO Incidental Fees Budget for 1972-73.
The GSC, as a financial ASUO agency, presently receives 50 cents
from each graduate student’s incidental fees. Mills proposed a GSC
investigation into the possibility of asking the ASUO for a guaranteed 3
to 10 per cent of the graduate student incidental fees. An alternate
proposal was GSC secession from the ASUO ending any fee payment to
the ASUO.
A major point of conflict between GSC and ASUO is where budget
controls by ASUO can be exercised. The two organizations hope to
work out a written “peace-treaty” involving future budgetary con
trols.
Mills summed upGSC’s position by saying “the relationship of the
GSC to the senate has always been ambiguous. On one hand ... we are
politically autonomous . . . yet on the other hand ... we depend
financially on appropriations by the senate. In theory this shouldn't
cause us too much trouble, but it does.”
Stephanie Larson, ASUO Senate president, said she “couldn’t
defend past procedures” however, she would “promise to do better
this term” in respect to the GSC budget appropriations from the in
cidental fees.
tsuageis trom an as>uu agencies are due reoruary 4 and nscal
hearings will be held during the third or fourth week of February. The
ASUO budget for the next fiscal year beginning July 1 is due on March
22. according to Ms. Larson
Committees are being formed to investigate a computerized
student information system, said DeNorvalTate, a graduate student in
Accounting and Quantitative Methods. The system might include a
student’s admission, health and grade records all stored in the com
puter Also being considered is a system of pre-registration where
class schedules are formed or based on student demand for the class.
The three committees include a policy group made up of ad
ministrators and students, a group to develop programs and a
scheduling group to determine priorities in the information system.
The last two are to be student committees and will work on developing
the system rather than working on administrative, Tate said.
Graduates as well as undergraduates may volunteer to work on
the committees. Applications are available at the ASUO office on third
floor EMU for the university-wide project. Tate said
Leandra Fox. a graduate student from the Library School,
reported that since Fall Term twelve work-study employes have quit
and that at this time there is no way to replace them Many unem
ployed work-study students don't want to work at the library because
of the low wages, remarked Ms. Fox. She said that the library was
looking for replacements more reliable than work-study students here
on campus and the possibility of using 17 certified work-study students
from LCC may be considered
Nominations are open until the Jan. 27 GSCmeetingtn fill the vice
president vacancy. The position is open to all graduate students and
pays $60 a month The term will er.d on April 30, 1972, when new of
ficers w ill be elected
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University chapter of the Oregon
State Employees Association on
Wednesday voiced strong support
for the tax and attacked the
“propaganda methods” used by
opponents to the tax. He labeled
most of their statements in the
voters pamphlets as ‘‘direct
inaccuracys”.
Fadeley said defeat of the tax
measure would have a
detrimental effect on top of what
is already a crisis. “The state is
counting on about $1 million a
month more revenue from
monies raised by the tax,” he
said. “If the tax is defeated cuts
will have to be made in such
areas as property tax relief,
education and all other areas of
the general fund.
The Eugene attorney said one
beneficial program would be
greatly endangered if the tax was
defeated. “We now have a
program where a low-income
property owner pays a
graduated property tax, based on
ability to pay. The porperty
owner pays part and the state
pays part This program could
very well be lost if the measure
fails.
Fadeley also noted that the
defeat of the measure would have
a great impact on higher
education. “There would no
doubt be a tuition increase and
undoubtedly many programs
would be cut drastically
He also chastised some of his
fellow legislators, saying than
many of them who oppose the
tax, voted to spend the money. “I
voted for the tax, because I
though the expenditures were
needed.”
supported Kim. and forgave those
who had supported Ms. Larsen’s
appointments.
He said this defeat demon
strated the poor judgement that
had been used in the ap
pointments to the committee, and
he hoped Ms. Larsen would
reconsider her position and
produce a Fiscal Committee that
could function.
He then moved that the Senate
reconsider Ms. Larsen’s Fiscal
Committee appointments. The
motion passed The Fiscal
Committee appointments passed
25-9 leaving the purpose of the
Senate's first hour and a half
debate questionable.
the rest ot the senate Com
mittee Appointments were ap
proved. along with the ap
pointment of Shonna Husbands.
Bob Ruby, and Marsha Johnson
to the Hearing Panel on
University Priorities (HPUP).
Inner-Institutional Union of
Students (IUS) member Rod
Chandler met with frustration
when he discussed ratification of
the IUS constitutional am
mendments with the Senate. The
ratification had been given a do
pass recommendation the
Governing Committee but the
Senate voted not to consider the
ammendments until each
Senator received a copy of the
proposed changes.
Chandler said that the changes
were designed to make I US more
credible and functional. He
briefly outlined them as being a
name change from IUSOSSHE
(Inner Institutional Union of
Students of the State System of
Higher Education) to IUS, a
tighter process for collecting
dues, and a censure procedure to
prevent individual members
from misrepresenting the group.
The Senate voted not to accept
the do pass judgement of the
Governing Committee, and
ratification was postponed.
The Senate set a precedent for
taking a stand on national issues
by voting to send a letter to the
National Forest Supervisor
expressing agreement with the
proposed U.S. Forest Service
purchase of private lands north of
Lincoln City.
They also voted to draft to the
Department of Agriculture
supporting the classification of
Mid-Santiam, Quartzville, and
Cone Peak-Browder Ridge areas
as Wilderness areas.
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