Oregon daily emerald., February 13, 1973, Image 1

Oregon daily ■ ■
emerald
An Independent Student Newspaper
Vol. 74, No. 1H
Tuesday, February 13, 1»73
ASUO suspends salaries
of four program heads
The salaries of four program
directors have been frozen as of
Feb. 1, according to Fred Loveys,
ASUO vice-president. Three of
the directors were terminated
because they no longer have
student status.
Loveys stated that Bill Fidler,
International Education Center,
and Mark Miller, Drug In
formation Center, resigned as an
alternative to being fired, though
Miller commented to the
By SCOTTA CALLISTER
of the Emerald
Emerald, “I am officially on
leave of absence until spring.”
Ellen Delay, director of
Senate future may
be up for vote
By TORRIE Me ALLISTER
Of the Emerald
Students may have an opportunity next week to vote for abolition
of the ASUO Senate and for a possible change in the concept of
University governance.
A group of students, which includes ASUO Senator Bob Reno, is
circulating an initiative petition to place a constitutional amendment
abolishing the student senate on the Feb. 21 and 22 general election
ballot.
The group needs 1500 signatures by next Tuesday at 5 p.m. if the
proposal is to go on the ballot.
board for a year, white a one-year interim government negotiates with
the faculty and administration to establish a system of University
government under a joint student-faculty legislative body.
David Sonnenfeld, a senior in independent study and author of the
proposal, summarized the changes the amendment would make:
' - “The ASUO Senate is abolished.
— “An Incidental Fee Committee of five elected officials will be
established to allocate the incidental fee far the 1973-74 years.
— “A special seven-member student committee would be ap
pointed by the ASUO President to begin immediate negotiations with
the faculty and administration of the University and with the State
Board of Higher Education, with the purpose of designing and im
plementing a system of University governance involving both students
and faculty in a single legislative body.
— “The new constitution self-destructs and must be replaced by
June 15, 1974.”
Petitions are available on the EMU Terrace, in front of the Co-op
bookstore and in the ASUO Executive office, 309 EMU. A hearing on
the proposed amendment is slated for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the
EMU. Open organizing meetings are scheduled at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday in rm. 630 PLC.
Proponents of the constitutional initiative fed the proposal is a
step towards legitimate government, because it replaces “student
governance with University governance,” and because it “realizes
that the ASUO Senate has no substantive power.”
According to ASUO President Bill Wyatt, a supporter of the
proposal, the “better functions of the ASUO” will not be affected.
“The programs will still exist. The only thing thte"' 'Mbes is the
existence of the senate. We won’t have a senate toy: -.meaningless
resolutions on illegal touching laws, and other business unrelated to
the University,” Wyatt said Monday.
The plan removes the incidental fee from itr position as the cen
tral focus of student government, and places the emphasis on broader
University issues, according to SonnenfeM.
“Now the senate allocates the $19 pgr fceSW students pay in in
cidental fees. But for the other $150 tuition students have zero voice as
to the kind or quality of education they receive,” Sonnenfeld said.
“As long as the ASUO Senate exists, an illusion of power exists,”
Reno explained. “Without the senate ar a crutch . . . without the
illusion of a student legislative body the burden would be on the faculty
to say to the administration: ‘Where is your student voice,’ ” Reno
said.
“Now, whenever the faculty meets, President Clark asks the
opinion of the Senate President. The Senate President explains that he
has talked to several senators on the issue — often the senate hasn’t
had time to vote — and they said such and such. This allows Clark and
the faculty to raise the student input flag,” Reno explained.
“Student input is co-optation of the student voice when you are one
of two students on a seven-member faculty committee or one of 40
senators,” Sonnenfeld said.
“We are kidding ourselves if we think we have any power over
incidental fees — because we don’t. Clark and the State Board of
Higher Education have veto power over all allocations,” according to
Wyatt.
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Student Administrative Board,
has also been terminated and the
case of Carlos Batista, director
of the Action Now program, is
under consideration.
The Action Now program is
concerned with the construction
of home-made housing. Batista
received a grant to do research
on methods to improve his
program. Hie stipulations of the
grant prevented him from
retaining his status as a student
and Loveys feel that this is
reason for special consideration.
Dick Reynolds, EMU director,
periodically reviews the student
status of appointed or elected
officers to determine who is
eligible for office.
The by-laws of the Constitution
state that officers must carry a
minimum of 12 credit hours for
three terms per year. Loveys
claimed that the by-laws are
vague concerning the require
ments for program directors.
He plans to work with assistant
directors to establish procedures
for choosing new program
directors. Since the directors are
chosen each year in the spring,
Loveys thinks it might be a good
idea to retain the assistants as
interim directors until the usual
time for appointments.
Batista, Delay andFidler were
not available for comment to the
Emerald Monday Afternoon.
Roof takes shape
over EMU court
Photo by Phil Wafdstein
Work is continuing on the translucent plexiglass covering going up
over the outdoor courtyard in the middle of the EMU. The structure is
being erected to stop water from leaking into the EMU basement
through the floor of the courtyard.
On last day
Bill introduced to stop servicemen
from serving in undeclared wars
By NAN HENDERSON
Of the Emerald
SALEM (Special) —
Legislators and lobbyists Mon
day scurried throughout the
Capitol in last-minute efforts to
find sponsors for legislation.
The deadline for introducing
bills without special approval
from a committee fell at 5 p.m.
Measures introduced Monday
before the deadline included
legislation:
— Prohibiting Oregon ser
vicemen from serving in un
declared wars.
— Establishing a uniform
anirmauve acuon program tor
state institutions of higher
education.
— Calling for student par
ticipation in teacher evaluation
and the granting of tenure.
— Requiring public hospitals to
admit patients for sterilization
and-or abortion.
Members of a Eugene peace
group, Clergy and Laity Con
cerned, are continuing to push for
legislation prohibiting “any
inhabitant of the state" from
being required to serve “outside
the territorial limits of the United
States in the conduct of armed
hostilities not authorized ... by
Congressional declaration of
war, according to the Con
stitutionally established
procedure,” though the Vietnam
war has officially ended.
The bill, known as the “Un
declared Wars” bill, was in
troduced on Monday by Rep. A1
Densmore (D-Medford) and it
carried signatures of 13 other
sponsors obtained by members of
the peace organization.
Much controversy surrounded
an identical bill introduced last
session which passed the Senate
but was bottled up in a House
committee.
mis session, the group hopes
the end of the Vietnam war will
expediate passage of the bill in
both houses “since it will no
longer be such a political issue,”
Dr. Minur Katid, a represen
tative of the organization, told the
Emerald in a recent interview.
“Hie purpose of the bill is to
guarantee that no more Vietnams
occur,” the Springfield physician
said.
He said that Massachusetts
passed a similar bill two years
ago, but that a Massachusetts
court ruled that the Congress had
inadvertantly declared war by
continuing to appropriate funds
for the Vietnam conflict.
The UJ>. Supreme Court, in
effect, upheld the lower court’s
decision by refusing to hear the
case, Katul said. The high Court
called the case “a political
issue,” he added.
The bill currently before the
Oregon Legislature directs the
state attorney general “to protect
the constitutional rights of
Oregon servicemen by
prosecuting one lawsuit to its
final conclusion” if a situation
similar to Vietnam arises again,
Katul reported.
Student lobbyists from the
Interinstitutional Union of
Students and House Republican
leaders are responsible for
legislation introduced Monday
directing the State Board of
Higher Education to “establish
guidelines to promote af
firmative action in its hiring,
promotion and granting of tenure
to women and minorities” and
“in its admissions of women and
minorities, to professional and
graduate programs in the in
stitutions under its control.”
IUS state chairer Joan
Eggleston drafted the ideas for
the legislation and the House
Republicans’ legal staff drafted
the final legislation, which is
being sponsored by Rep. Mary
Roberts (D-Portland) and Rep.
Steve Kafoury (D-Portland).
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