AOSL wins slot on state board docket
By JAMES DIETZ
Of the Emerald
A last-minute agreement be
tween representatives of the As
sociated Oregon Student Lobby
(AOSL) and the staff of the State
Board of Higher Education has
averted what ASUO Pres. Jim
Bernau describes as a “major
confrontation" between the two
groups.
The still tentative compromise,
reached last Thursday in a tele
phone conversation between
ASUO Consultant Don Chalmers
and Vice Chancellor Miles Rom
ney, will allow AOSL leaders to
propose changes in several ad
ministrative rules during the
Committee on Instruction's April
29 meetinq.
One of these proposals calls for
student participation on tenure
and promotion committees in all of
Oregon s colleges and univer
sities.
Romney had ruled earlier for
the second time lhat AOSL pro
posals could not be presented be
fore the committee until the next
bi-monthly meeting.
Bernau, author of the proposals
and spokesperson for the AOSL,
is not completely satisfied with the
agreement. He points out that the
AOSL will have only 15-20
minutes to air proposals.
“It's enough time to present our
written material and to have a
couple of key testifiers," he says.
"But it certainly is a half-way
measure. I'm not going to tell you it
isn't. I’m not gonna feel relieved
that I got patted on the head "
According to Bernau, the AOSL
had requested the proposals be
presented at the February meet
ing, but were told that the commit
tee would not have sufficient time
to consider it then. It was assumed
that the proposals would be
placed on the docket for the April
meeting.
When the AOSL received word
from Romney early this month that
time constraints had once again
bumped the student-initiated
proposals off the docket, Bernau,
in his own words, "started smok
ing."
With the next meeting not
scheduled until late June, after
school is out, Bernau outlines his
dilemma: “The AOSL wants to
bring in students from all over the
state (to testify), and how can we
do that a week after finals when
people are not in school,
graduated, or at their summer
jobs?"
After an unsuccessful attempt
by Bernau to change Romney’s
mind over the phone, AOSL rep
resentatives went to work. Last
Thursday morning they contacted
five members of the state board,
and requested the members call
Romney to suggest he adjust the
docket to allow the proposals to be
aired at the April meeting.
When Chalmers called Romney
up later that same day, the vice
chancellor, according to Chal
mers, was "bristling.” Yet, after
some discussion, Romney tenta
tively agreed that the brief presen
tation would be possible at the up
coming meeting. Chalmers stated
that final confirmation will come
early this week.
Bemau calls the agreement a
“compromise.”
“The short time we have for the
docket probably will not allow ac
tion on the proposals until the
June meeting," he explained.
Before the compromise was
reached, Bernau discussed his
frustrations with the matter. “I
once thought it was only a lack of
Veteran bonus sought
Oregon may become the 20th
state to have a bonus for Vietnam
era veterans.
Oregon veterans groups are
circulating a petition that seeks a
bonus of up to $500 for veterans of
the Korean and Vietnamese con
flicts. The bonus would be paid
from a fund financed by general
obligation bonds.
Sponsors of the petition will
have to obtain 61,646 valid signa
tures by July 2 in order to place it
on the general election ballot.
Copies of the petition are avail
able at the Veterans Office in
Room 260 Oregon Hall.
The proposal would set pay
ment of $25 a month for service in
Korea between June 27, 1950,
and Jan. 31,1955, and for service
in Vietnam between Aug. 5,1964
and March 28, 1973.
Veterans would be paid $15 per
month for other foreign service
and $10 per month for domestic
service during those periods. The
maximum payment would be
$500.
expertise in our wit and persua
sion which prevented us from de
veloping and winning arguments.
I’ve discovered that you have to
practically haul them into court.
We are doing that now,” he said.
Candidate filing to close
Only one more day remains for candidates to file for 12
Student University Affairs Board (SUAB) positions and sopho
more, junior and senior class offices. Petitions and voter’s guide
statements must be filed in EMU Suite 4 by 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Word limit on the voter’s guide statements are 150 words for
SUAB candidates, and 100 for class officers.
SUAB positions open are: Law, CSPA (No. 1); Business
Administration (No. 3); Educational Librarianship (No. 5 and 6);
Health, P.E., and Recreation (No. 7); Biology and Pre-Med (No.
8); Science and Math (No. 9); Architecture and Allied Arts (No.
10); Psychology (No. 12); Liberal Arts and Undeclared (No. 14);
Sociology, Anthropology and General Social Science (No. 16);
and Romance Languages, Religion and Philosophy (No. 18).
Candidates for all offices (including IFC and ASUO presi
dent) are requested to attend a candidates’ meeting at 3:30 p.m.
today, according to Jo Nugent, elections board member. The
location will be posted.
Nugent also said that all candidates must submit a detailed
report of campaign expenditures by 5 p.m. Monday, regardless of
whether they have spent any money. Candidates who have not
incurred any campaign costs should submit a statement to that
^ effect.
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