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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1973)
ASUO VOTER'S GUIDE ASUO PRIMARY: Tuesday and Wednesday, 17 and 18 April, (Two ballots) (P) ASUO GENERAL: Monday and Tuesday, 23 and 24 April (Four ballots) (G) ASUO ★ PRESIDENT & VICE-PRESIDENT CLASS OFFICERS Sophomore - Junior - Senior where to vote: POLLING PLACES: 1. Erb Memorial Union 9a.m.-4p.m. P&G 2. 13th and Commonwealth 9a.m.-4p.m. P&G 3. Co-op 11 a.m.- 6 p.m. P&G A. Carson Dormitory 11 a.m.- 6 p.m. P&G 5. Hamilton Dormitory 9a.m.-4p.m. P&G 6. Greeks (3roving booths) 11 a.m. -1 p.m. P &G 7. College Inn 4p.m.-6p.m. P&G 8. Westmoreland 4p.m.-6p.m. P&G 9. Law School 11 a.m.-lp.m. P&G Roving Booths: Wednesday (18th) Monday (23rd) only. Greek Booths: 4p.m.-6 p.m. Schedules (plus 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.) how to vote: 1. UP TO2 (TWO) VOTES MAY BE CAST FOR PRESIDENTIAL TICKET (RED BALLOT): ONLY TWO VOTES ON THE BLUE BALLOT (ONE FOR CLASS PRESIDENT & VICE PRESIDENT). The student must mark his vote by punching out (with a pencil the die-cut piece of the card within the brackets to the left of the name of the candidate(s) for whom they wish to vote. Any adhering punch pieces must be picked off the back so as not to foul the computer. 2. MORE THAN TWO (RED) OR TWO (BLUE) HOLES PER BALLOT WILL IN VALIDATE THAT BALLOT. a. If the student wishes to WRITE-IN a can didate, instruct the student to use the slot at the bottom of the list, and write the name alongside. It is extremely important that the computer card is not damaged in any way! i.d. needed: All members of tha Associated Students of the University of Oregon shall be allowed to vote upon presentation of their present term validation fee card, and an ID card with their photograph on it. why vote? I wonder of the need to hold elections at all. Yet the issues are there. It’s a pity the candidates - so far - don’t seem to understand them: worse - some experienced candidates - who should know better - by their statements demonstrate a clear lack of knowledge of the nature of the jobs and a miniature concept of the nature of ‘leadership’ and the implications of managing a business worth over $1 million. Co-governance is a myth, right now. No university President in Oregon has supported more the concept of student representation in University affairs and student involvement in Administrative decisions (more) than Robert Clark. It’s unlikely that this support will ever be replicated again from his successor. For perhaps the first time we are going to lose his ‘rubber stamp’ on our Budget. And we’ll never get it back. No administration, let alone the State Board or the Legislature are going to be comfortable allowing five students disubrsing $1 million. Student government of this campus - by far the best in Oregon, the most advanced on the Pacific Coast, and one of the most sophisticated in the nation - will be reduced to what so many others are. We got rid erf that (latter) type of government when we got rid of the Senate. But it was a beginning, not an end. We must rewwrite the ASUO Con stitution to include proper checks and balances - perhaps by enlarging both the membership and the scope of the Incidental Fee Committee. Next year the ASUO Executive, the Con stitution Committee and the special co-governance Com mittee must rise above the politics of the past year, must dispense with the naive platitudes of “them versus us” administration vs. students and must realize that the con fidentiality and trust, which are part of the requirements of any worthwhile relationship, are more critical at that level. Confrontation will not realise co governance. Reason could. Sure it’ll be difficult. And there’s only a short year to do it in. And not too many students and faculty understand what’s involved - yet. But whoever is elected President and Vice-President of this campus will have a mandate for responsibility, for rationality, for compassion, so that the foun dation that has be -m started these past months, so that the effective management of student programs in next years, will be secured 37,000 students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, voted last week for a new student body president. The leading candidates got 543 votes and the opposition 232, 85, and 56 votes respectively. (Last year’s University of Wisconsin Student Government President, Tim Higgins, is now President of the National Student Association, the ‘national government’ of student governments). We’re so far ahead erf that it’s not even funny. But we would return to that level if the vision of next year’s ASUO President and Vice-President is limited to the perspectives which some of the declared candidates demonstrate. It’s not a sinecure: It’s an opportunity to grow in so many ways. It’s also an op portunity to serve all of us, students, faculty, administrators and staff, in this supposedly academic community. Two candidates will be elected. Your vote will help decide whether so-called “political commodities” or real students are given that mandate. You’re, therefore, part of the problem. You could be part of the solution. Please.Vote... Thanks. tLj I ojauC. Fred Loveys 11-4-73 "A political campaign is a de humanizing rite. Its only purpose is power, and tends to bring out the worst in men (and women) .... Instincts have to be disguised." From "Robert Kennedy: A Memoir" by Jack Newfield, 1969 ASUO "Simply stated, the basis for student government is student opinion... it is responsible only when , It reflects accurately the desires of the student... GET INVOLVED THEY WILL BE SPENDING YOUR $$$$$$$$" FREDLOVEYS VOTE • • • The ASUO President spends your $$$ 1 NUT TEAR (possible ) 1972/3 Erto Memorial linker ASUO Athletic Deportment T«tol Year's S397.lt7.35 305.022 30 135,000.00 •37.209 45 St.90 7.90 3.00 llf.it $19 N 1973/4 Incidental Fee Budget *1,221,334. Erb Memorial Union ASUO Athletic Department Total Year's Budget $511,612 1509.654 $200,000 $1.221,336. Studtnt F— Pgf.flMirtff -11.00 $11.00 $5.00 $27.00 2* per cent 67 per cent (11 percent N.P.)
