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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1976)
Senate favors direct election of members By WALLY BENSON Of the Emerald A lively discussion on filling University Senate vacancies high lighted that body’s January meet ing yesterday. The action was stimulated by a proposal by Barry Siegel of the economics department and Richard Littman of the psychology department to require that all va cancies be filled by elections among the proper constituencies. Since the faculty already follows this procedure, the requirement was aimed at the Student Univer sity Affairs Board (SUAB) mem bers of the senate. Presently, the ASUO constitu tion provides that SUAB vacan cies be filled by appointment by the ASUO president. Kirby Gar rett, ASUO vice-president, told the senate the proposal was in direct conflict with the constitution. There are two basic problems with the proposal,'' he said. First, an election costs us about $1,000. Secondly, the proposal super cedes the ASUO constitution which says: The vacancy of an elected position has to be filled by appointment by the ASUO presi dent if the vacancy occurs more than four weeks prior to the next scheduled ASUO election. The supreme question here is recognition of the student con stitution," he said The possibility of having alter nates elected at the same time as the actual SUAB representatives was suggested by Littman While both Garrett and ASUO Prr>s. Jim Bernau agree the idea was sound, they said the implementation of such a plan would require a con stitutional amendment. Bernau also commented that his appointments to fill the vacan cies are not arbitrary, candidates for the job are recommended to him by current SUAB representa tives. In response to Garrett s com ments, Littman said he was not aware of the sharpness of the constitutional issues. But, he said, We are members of the Univer sity Senate and we should vote as such. We should vote on this proposal and take it to the SUAB and let them know what we think." Edward Diller, honors college director, moved to table the pro posal until the ASUO Executive could effect the constitutional changes. He later withdrew this motion in favor of a move to post pone rather than table the issue The senate approved 32-5 a post ponement of the issue until their June 2 meeting. According to senate Chairer Jim Tattersall, if the general fac ulty ignores the recommendation to postpone, they could take ac tion on the proposal at their Wed nesday meeting. To this end, rralfraHralfraU?nUra1frn)iraU(aUin)l(^)l Siegel requested a contingency vote, so the faculty would be aware of the senate s feeling on the issue itself. The vote was 35-4 against the proposal. Siegel told the senate he was willing to accept their recommen dation to wait until the May 26 meeting. Siegal and Liftman fared better in an earlier proposal to the se nate, requesting that the Graduate Student Council's votes be published in Oregon Week, the faculty and staff newspaper. ' Many deliberations and deci sions of the council are found out by students at a critical juncture of their careers,” said Littman. “They should have previous knowledge of it." There waslittle discussion of the proposal, and it passed unanimously. The senate s curriculum com mittee later presented its annual report of proposed changes in the University curriculum, for faculty approval. According to Al Ur quhart, committee chairer, there are many changes this year. He said many of the courses changed were “hidden under open-ended course numbers for experimental, seminar and workshop classes, and are simply being brought out into the open. The committee has reviewed them all and all are acceptable. He further stated that the major ity of the courses in the report were already being taught in an open-ended classification and will continue being taught in that capacity if this rejxjrt is not ap proved. With only a few ques tions asked, the report received the senate s near-unanimous ap proval. The senate also approved the establishment of a Russian and East European Area Studies Cer tificate Program, requested by James Rice, associate professor of German and Russian. Rice said this interdisciplinary award would be in addition to a student’s de gree. "Such a certificate would be a valuable part of a graduate's dos sier," said Rice. “It would help in finding employment.” He said the certificate would be official proof that the student is qualified in both areas of his interdisciplinary studies. The senate approved re commending the program to the faculty by a wide margin. English professor John Sher wood concluded the meeting by presenting a policy statement on the “disadvantaged" student programs that he wished the sen ate to adopt. In part, the state ment read: "It is the policy of the University not to exclude ethni ADULT STUDENT HOUSING INC ASHLANE A total STUDENT COMMUNITY 47S Lindole dr • L A U N D* Y f AC I L IT) E S Springfield. 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