Analysis
Advocacy role confronts ASUO issues
By CAROLYN BEAVER
Of the Emerald
Perhaps ASUO Pres. Gary Feldman
has not initiated a slew of issues to deal
with this year, but his office has not been
idle by any means.
During the last year’s campaign,
Feldman said his number one goal
would be to advocate for students. He
says he's done this by speaking out on
several issues.
Feldman says he thinks the most sig
nificant issue in relation to the majority of
students has been the “housing office
problem.”
Through action taken by his office and
Amazon and dormitory tenants, ‘“What
we've seen is a real shake-up in the
Housing Office.” He also looks for a
reorganization of the office, "basically,
from the pressure we’ve applied.”
Feldn lan’s office, along with the Office
of Student Advocacy, has put quite a bit
of time into this issue. However, should
reorganization of the Housing Office
occur it isn’t accurate to say it was be
cause of ASUO pressure.
Many Amazon tenants wrote letters to
Jim Weaver, Fourth District congress
man, requesting a Housing Office audit.
Weaver asked Secretary of State Norma
Paulus for the audit, and several other
Oregon officials, including University
Pres. William Boyd, jumped on the
bandwagon.
Another issue Feldman spoke out on
was the divestment of the state board’s
South African Stock. But that’s all he did
— speak out. Feldman responds, how
ever, that that's all he could do.
“It was a glaring example of when big
issues are at stake, student government
is very powerless.”
Feldman complains that South Africa
“got to be a fringe group issue,” referring
to the Revolutionary Communist Youth
Brigade and the South African Libera
tion Support Committee, and says be
cause of that it may have lost some
wide-base student support.
Yet, Feldman has not kept the issue
alive in his office. He responds that his
office has been acting as an information
clearing house for responses from other
schools asking for stock divestment ac
ross the country.
The matter is now in Attorney General
Jim Redden’s hands. For the last five
months, Redden has been saying “10
more days” before his office issues an
opinion.
An .issue that got somewhat quicker
response was the minimum wage battle
between student workers and the Uni
versity.
“It happened real quick and we got
results and all we did was scream a little
bit,” says Feldman.
Undoubtedly, pressure applied by
student workers and the ASUO did re
sult in the minimum wage being
awarded from January to April. Even
after a 5 percent wage increase April 11,
some student employees are not paid
the minimum rate, although they are
paid “pretty dose” to the $2.65 figure.
Feldman mentioned the “Candidates
Forum” as another goal he hoped to
achieve. The ASUO brought in Bob
Wood, Fourth District congressional
hopeful, and Incumbent Jim Weaver to
speak, but the only other scheduled
forum is next week’s debate between
Republican gubernatorial candidates.
Feldman says more forums would be
scheduled, “but the problem is that most
people are running unopposed in the
primaries.” This is an overgeneraliza
tion.
Next year is a legislative year, and
along with the lobbying efforts of the
Oregon Student Lobby, the ASUO does
its own legislative research and lobby
ing.
One of the administration s functions
in a non-legislative year is to prepare
issues for next year’s session. A legisla
tive coordinator has been fired and re
search is underway, although there is no
formalized lobbying package drawn up.
Something Feldman says hasn’t
worked as well as he'd expected is the
“University Cabinet” he devised that in
cludes certain members of both John
son Hall and ASUO administrations.
Feldman called the group together to
discuss issues relevant to both sides.
They only met once and the discussion
meandered more than anything.
An idea of Feldman’s that has worked
out, he says, is the “drop-in” hours at
Boyd’s office.
“Apparently it’s working well beyond
everyone’s expectations, except mine,”
he says.
Much of what Feldman has done this
year is to make statements about events
that occured. Most of the time, some
action has been taken after those
events, although it may or may not be
attributed to the ASUO’s intervention.
All my children
By Glen Ozonewood
Spring is supposed to be a time
of growth, when a young person’s
fancy turns to expensive drugs
and how to finance that trip to
Europe. In Pine Valley, it’s been
the season of replays. Old charac
ters and crises have dominated
the screen.
The weirdest thing is the return
of Mrs. Lum, Line’s ersatz
mother-in-law. To place her in
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Pine Valley, it’s necessary to re
turn to last year.
Picture a successful lawyer,
from the town’s leading family.
With money and a name, Line’s
possibilities were wide open.
That’s why it really rankled
Phoebe’s ass when Line started
running around with former dance
instructor Kitty Shea. A nice per
son (when the show began, she
was friends with Erica, though),
Kitty just didn’t have the breeding
to be a Tyler.
Breeding be damned (Who
needs it anyway? A good book
and a Starsky and Hutch re-run
and I’m set,) though, and despite
Phoebe’s efforts, it looks like Line
and Kitty had found each other.
This forced Phoebe to take drastic
steps: she went to Minneapolis
and hired a woman to imperson
ate Kitty's mother, a woman Kitty
never met.
It took awhile, but Phoebe fi
nally got hers. Things can only
remain hidden for so long and the
gnomes that smell out secrets in
Pine Valley went to work. The plot
didn’t work. Instead of causing
Kitty to move out of Pine Valley ,
Mrs. Lum (Myrtle to those of us
who know her) moved there. Kitty
eventually contracted a dread
disease, bought the farm, and
Myrtle married a guy from home,
moved to L.A., and it looked like
that chapter was over. Nope.
EMU Cultural Forum presents
The Annual
Undergraduate Art
Show
April 24 - 28
12-4 pm 167 EMU
The Following Guidelines Should Be Followed When
Submitting A Work:
1. Each artist may submit a total of two
works. They may be drawings, photographs,
paintings or self-standing sculpture. All
pieces must be properly mounted, and
2-dimensional works no larger than 4’ x 4’.
2. Each entry must have an entry card
and jury card filled out; the entry card must
be returned to the Forum by April 21 (Fri
day). Jury cards should be attached to the
works. Cards are available in Suite 2, EMU.
3. Pieces must be brought to Room 167
EMU between 3 and 4 pm Saturday, April
22. The works will be juried and rejected
works should be picked up between 5 & 6 pm
Sunday.
4. The pieces may be picked up after the
show on Friday evening, April 28, between
6:30 & 7:30 pm.
Last week, Line and Dr. Tyler
. both got calls from Mrs. Lum
swearing she'd seen Kitty in a
local dive. Line’s out with her right
now. Kitty’s supposed to be dead,
but the stars combine their ener
gies in strange ways in Pine Valley
and anything can happen.
But Minnesota didn’t provide
the only action this week. There
was a little up at the Tyler place.
Phoebe decided that with Ray
Gardner in the slammer it wasn’t
necessary to have Benny stay in
the main house anymore. Back to
the pool house (which pissed him
off) but Danny and Brooke were
already there having a little fun in
the afternoon.
While Brooke reminds me of a
woman I used to hang out with (a
good reason to subscribe to Club
magazine and learn to like hair on
your palms)Danny didn’t deserve
to be interrupted before he’d even
caught his breath. He's given
Devon her walking papers, but
he’ll realize the mistake he’s made
with Brooke. A relationship
based on sex can’t last for long.
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