Oregon daily emerald., May 01, 1972, Page 7, Image 7

Six methods on ballot
Reapportionment vote slated
By TORRIE MC ALLISTER
Of the Emerald
Students will be asked to choose between six
alternative methods of structuring the ASUO Senate
in a referendum on the general election ballot this
Wednesday and Thursday.
ASUO ad hoc reapportionment committee head
Mike Marsh outlined the plans students will choose
from as follows:
—Geographical representation (45 senators).
This is the present system. Representatives are
elected from the dormitories, fraternities and
sororities, off campus and at-large areas. The plan
leaves the largest division, off-campus with over
half of the senate representatives and an extremely
vague constituency.
—Class Divisions (45 senators). In this plan the
senate would be apportioned proportionately to the
number of students in each class. Reapportioning
would be done every ter using the previous terms’
enrollment figures.
—Departmental Representation (33 senators).
Each academic department would have propor
tional representation—approximately one senator
per 500 students who are majors. The senators
would be accountable to their constituent areas,
especially when specific items concerning
academic areas come up.
—At-large (30 senators). This plan would leave
each senator with no defined constituency excepting
the entire campus. Ten senators would be elected
each term.
—Residency class, academic and ethnic
representation (45 senators). This plan, former
senator Fred Loveys’ work, defines senatorial
constituencies. It identifies particular University
groups with specific representation. Also the plan
shows an involvement in the work of academic
departments.
—Academic Council (15 senators), Community
Senate (30 senators). The academic council will
exist to establish cooperation and work with the
academic departments to initiate programs,
policies and activities. Representatives will be
elected by department. The community senate will
be charged with the budgetary matters of the ASUO
and ASUO programs.
The restructuring of the senate in order to make
it more responsive to students wishes and make
senators’ constituencys more defined has been
debated by the senate for over a year. The senate is
presently apportioned by geographic living areas.
The senate’s ad hoc reapportionment com
mittee formed two weeks ago to draw up a group of
plans after it became evident to the senate that
former Senator Fred Loveys would get the 1500
student signatures needed to place his reap
portionment plan on the general election ballot.
Loveys' plan which would apportion the senate with
academic, ethnic, residence and class represen
tation would have appeared on the ballot as a bin
ding constitutional amendment. The senate
referendum containing all six plans is an advisory,
non-binding recommendation to the senate.
Loveys told the Emerald Friday that in light of
the senate decision to make the reapportionment
vote non-binding, he has decided to gather enough
signatures to place his plan on the ballot by in
titiative petition. If his plan were passed, it would be
binding on the senate.
Loveys has 1200 signatures, and must collect
about 300 more before Tuesday evening for his plan
to be considered separately.
Senator Marsh explained that the reason for the
referendum is to provide students with alternatives
to Loveys' plan and the present system. “With a
choice just between Loveys’ plan and the present
system there is really no choice at all,” Marsh said.
“The reason I made the motion (to put alter
natives on the ballot) in the first place was because
there are senators and students who want reap
portionment but not Loveys’ plan,” Marsh ex
plained
“Some of the senators wanted to water down
Loveys’ plan so that it would become ineffective,
but this was not the purpose of our committee. The
charge of the committee was to come up with a
viable alternative to Loveys’ plan and the present
system,” March said.
“I chose to put so many plans on the ballot
because that’s how many viable plans I saw. The
committee eliminated plans we felt were un
workable, and narrowed it down to the basic areas
of apportionment,” Marsh said.
Marsh said the committee limited the number
of alternatives because they didn’t feel students
could keep up with information if more than six
plans were presented. “They wouldn’t be able to
make an intelligent vote.”
Marsh explained that there will be a discription
of each plan at the polling places, but that the
ballots will contain only the titles and the number of
senators involved in each plan.
Marsh said that after the election, the senate
will probably debate the top two plans, and work
out one of them so it can be put into effect. “If the
students pass Loveys’ plan, we would extract the
parts we liked best,” Marsh said. “We would debate
Loveys’ plan, and act on it after revising it slightly
or maybe not at all.”
There will be an open hearing on the six plans at
7 p.m. tonight in 112 EMU.
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