Foreign Student Association
Constitution debate may end
Deliberations on a proposed
new Foreign Student
Organization (FSO) constitution
may be concluded tomorrow at a
meeting of the FSO executive
board.
Ranjan Ray, board chairer,
commented after Wednesday’s
board meeting that “hopefully”
the next meeting would be the
final session before the con
stitution is submitted to the FSO
for approval.
His comment came after the
board had finished discussion on
six pages of the 16-page
document. In three previous
board meetings, little or no
discussion of the constitution had
occurred, although it had been on
the agendas.
The membership of the
Executive Council drew the only
heated discussion during the
constitutional debate. A clause
stating that the council should
“include not more than one of the
elected presidents, dimeters or
representatives from each of
the foreign student organizations
and the FSOexecutive officers”
was approved by a 7 to 4 vote.
The clause was not recom
mended by the board to the FSO
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because it did not receive ap
proval from three-fourths of the
board members present. The
clause, however, will be sub
mitted to the FSO.
An alternate clause to have the
council include “one represen
tative for each 100 or fewer
students” from each
organization” with one additional
representative up to two
representatives including the
elected executive officers” of the
FSO was approved for sub
mission to the FSO.
An earlier alternate proposal to
include one representative for
each 50 members of a foreign
student organization up to three
representatives, made by Chen
Hing Tack, was supported by
United Kingdom representative
Fred Loveys. He felt it would
keep “sufficient variety” on the
council, but would also stop the
chance of dominance from any
one organization.
Australian Laurie Miller then
introduced the alternate proposal
that was submitted to the FSO.
In other business, the board
welcomed the addition of the
Australian Student Association,
and Ray appointed a represen
tative of the Chinese Student
Association, Loveys and FSO
Executive Secretary Arshad
Pirani to draft next year’s budget
and submit it at the next board
meeting.
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gives aid to
minority
businesses
“What would you do if you
walked into a room full of Black
people?”
That’s what Joe Bostic,
executive director of Media Inc.
(Metropolitan Economic
Industrial Alliance Inc.) asked of
30 University students Wed
nesday evening. The students are
members of Consumer Problems
of the Poor, a University
SEARCH class, which is planning
field work in the Blade Model
Cities area of Portland for the
spring term.
“Generally Black people in the
Model Cities area will be open
and responsive to you as Whites -
but you can expect a certain
amount of hostility,” said Bostic,
who is Black. He was referring to
the reception the University
students will meet when they
enter the Black community.
Media Inc. is a federally
funded, non-profit organization
which delivers limited financial
assistance, and management
counseling to new and existing
Portland Model Cities area.
Media Inc. receives an annual
budget of $200,000 and has a
technical staff of 14. The Media
Inc. staff prepares feasibility and
management studies of the
competition new businesses can
expect to face in the inner city.
“We (Media Inc.) are probably
the most lenient lending in
stitution for minority businesses.
Most people, even middle class
people, don’t have the capital to
start a business. That is what we
are here for,” Bostic said.
Media Inc. has a board of
directors who are members of the
established Portland business
community. “Their ideas of
success are different from those
of the minority people who are
just starting in business,” said
Bostic.
IUS passes resolution
Two resolutions dealing with
affirmative action were passed
unanimously by the Inter
Institution of Students (IUS) at
its monthly meeting held
Saturday morning at the EMU.
The resolutions will be
presented to the Legislative
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The first resolution passed
calls for the State Board of
Higher Education to promote
legislative policy in establishing
guidelines to promote af
firmative action in its hiring,
promotion, and granting of
tenure to women and minorities.
Also, the IUS wants the
guidelines written in such a
manner that they insure ob
jective evaluation not baaed on
sex, race, age or personal cir
cumstances.
The second resolution passed
deals with affirmative action
guidelines in the State Board of
Education Admission policies for
women and minorities to
professional and graduate
programs The IUS called on the
state board to promote legislation
to insure objective admissions
criteria.
Both resolutions, if passed by
the state legislature, would serve
as directives to state agencies, in
particular the State Board of
Higher Education, according to
IUS chairer Joan Eggleston
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