ASUO Elections
Wednesday, April 15th
Thursday, April 16th
ASUO
President
Donovan Guy
DEAR STUDENT VOTER:
For too long now the general student
body has been passed up in being
represented by the ASUO while the sel
fish interest of a few quasi-groups are
addressed. I worked as chairperson for
the Resident Housing Committee last
year and I can bring the ASUO closer to
the students whose concerns and prob
lems that I’m aware of are being over
looked by the present administration,
including Rich Wilkens.
I intend to correct the problems that
Wilkens has entirely overlooked, such as
the real need for better food for Dorm
Residents, better security (three women
have been raped within the dorms this
year already), and lower tuition.
As President, my administration will
focus more on student concerns and
lowering tuition while increasing funding
for our library system which currently
uses 1950 books and bounded
magazines. I would also like to open the
ASUO to all students. Under the present
school, one cannot get a position there
unless one has a friend inside; as a
consequence the student-body is locked
out and women and minorities are den
ied equal representation. HOW LONG
WILL THESE SHORTCOMINGS GO ON?
IN CLOSING, I FEEL THAT WE DO
NOT NEED MORE STUDENT DOLLARS
- WHAT WE DO NEED IS NEW AND
BETTER LEADERSHIP!!!
Bruce Mills
The ASUO needs to be a stronger,
more effective voice in the planning and
policy development that affects our
education and the University community.
This effectiveness must come from
integration of the mainstream University
population into ASUO programs.
AT THE LEGISLATIVE LEVEL
Students must be brought into the
legislative process for our priorities to be
realized. Legislative issues which need
attention include:
• Tuition Cost Controls
• Student Jurisdiction Over Incidental
Fees
• Continued Access to Higher Educa
tion
AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL
The ASUO President must promote
both the visibity and accessibility of the
ASUO. When students know what the
ASUO does, they will have motivation to
become involved in the planning
process. Administrative goals include:
• A Cooperative Atmosphere Among
Student Officers
• Increased Student Participation in
Program Planning
• Continuous Evaluation of ASUO Pro
grams
EFFECTIVE ADMINISTRATION
Experience as a Congressional Intern
has given me a firm background for
understanding the public budgeting
process, for staff supervision and coor
dination, and for effective promotion of
student interests.
To accomplish our goals, the ASUO
must be conducted in an open manner.
Innovative solutions to University prob
lems will result from Increased participa
tion.
Help set a new direction for the ASUO.
Please vote in the ASUO elections.
Rich Wilkins
With the rising costs of education,
tuition hikes are inevitable. As the cur
rent ASUO Vice-President for State and
University Affairs, myself and my running
mate, Gus Palmitessa, the current ASUO
Administrative Assistant for administra
tion and finance, feel we have exper
ience and the ability to deal with the
problems students are facing. We want
to:
—Insure that maximum student influence
is used in reaching decisions on
tuition levels.
—Insure that rising tuition costs are re
flected by quality education.
—Initiate a grass roots lobbying effort to
guarantee that academic as well as
nonacademic needs are met.
—Insure that students’ needs are acted
on by the State Board of Higher
Education, State Scholarship
Commission, University Adminis
tration, and the State Legislature.
—Insure that the Foreign Student Fee
Remissions are restored.
—Insure financial aid receives the up
most support that it needs in Salem
so that with the rising costs of
education we can maintain the
adequate levels of aid for students.
As we face more and more financial
problems we must be sure that we have
the professionalism and experience that
is needed to meet this increasing bur
den. With your support we can continue
our efforts in battling the fiscal situation
that we have been placed in. Thank you.
Tom Brannon
During the year to come our university
will be facing a difficult set of issues. To
face these issues it is critical that the next
ASUO president enter office with a clear
set of objectives. To have such a clear
set of objectives, the next president
should serve the student body without
any unnecessary pressure due to past or
present affiliation with special interest
groups. Having met the above condi
tions, I will try to pursue the following
platform:
★ Support for open teacher evaluations
to the public record.
★Attempt to form the student body into
an effective lobbying force, to keep
tuition cost as low as possible, and
to receive more funds from the
State Board of Higher Education.
★Support the first recommendation of
the Intercollegiate Athletic Com
mittee’s March 18th report to seek
other alternatives to budgeting
problems and cut gymnastics and
swimming only as a last resort.
★ Maintain Campus Security, not im
plementing Campus Police.
★ Maintain an open-door policy with the
administration, faculty and student
body.
★ All student organizations should
demonstrate their value to the en
tire university before receiving IFC
funding.
These are some of the important is
sues facing us. Please consider this
platform while voting.
Incidental
Fee
Committee
(7 positions open)
Ken Packman
An eye for an eye
A tooth for a tooth
Vote for me
I'll set you free
Rap on brother, rap on
-Temptations, "Ball of Confusion''
Now that we've dispensed with poli
tical cynicism...
Primarily, I would like to see the IFC
take responsibility for not only support
ing the organizations representative of
U/O students, but also aggressively
supporting student organizations which
are in the forefront of the struggles in the
social change arena, recognizing the
value of an assertive student movement
whose strength lies in its breadth, its
level of activity, and its visibility.
In the area of fiscal responsibility, I'd
like to see:
-No increase in the incidental fees
-Investigation of the actions to make
the EMU more self-supportive in its
building and maintenance needs
-Increased pressure on the Athletic
Department for accountability of its
use of incidential fees
-Exploration of possible uses of the
Surplus Account to generate in
come
In IFC dealings with ASUO programs:
-Refine the budget process to increase
committee members’ awareness of each
program’s goals and needs
-Stress the need for a cooperative, not
adversarial, relationship between
the IFC and the programs
-Help establish links between ASUO
organizations, and between the
general student body and ASUO
organizations.
Alan Contreras
I have served for 14 months on the IFC,
and served as IFC chairer from June
October 1980. If re-elected, I will:
*Vote for no increases in fees for ASUO
Programs.
*Work for the creation of a formal board,
including elected or ASUO-ap
pointed students, to govern the
Athletic Department, much as the
EMU Board now governs the EMU.
*Vote for greater support for KWAX and
the Recreational & Intramurals
program.
*Work to better publicize IFC hearings
on controversial expenditures.
*Work to eliminate unnecessary goal
hearings for programs with non
controversial goals, saving the IFC
and the students time and money.
Unlike some candidates in this race, I
have not prostituted my principles in
order to appease certain greedy pro
grams. I have not sold my votes in ad
vance to maintain a fiscally incestuous
relationship with the ASUO Executive
office, as some of my opponents have.
There is no conceivable justification for
raising allocations to ASUO Programs
during the current tuition hikes and cut
backs in University services, except in
extreme cases due to loss of other
revenue. There is no such thing as
“needed program expansion" during a
time when the library can’t adequately
serve the students. ASUO programs, for
the most part, need a lesson in perspec
tive.
Steve Baldwin
A calm voice of reason is needed to
soothe the fever of fiscal restraint. Steve
Baldwin will be that voice on the IFC. I am
committed to holding the line on in
cidental fees Those fees have now
reached $92. They should not go higher.
If possible the fees should be decreased.
I will not support the indiscriminate
slashing of budgets merely because the
magical words “fiscal restraint” are spo
ken. Cuts must be made, but they must
be made responsibility.
Good reasons must be given for bud
get cuts. While fiscal restraint is one
good reason to cut, it can be outweighed
by significant student interests.
The IFC supports many important
student activities. Those that make a
significant contribution to the U of O and
those that provide substantial student
services deserve support. Those that do
not deserve the axe.
Students pay incidental fees and
students must control how their money is
spent. I will vote to spend and invest that
money in ways most beneficial to the
students. Nothing less will do.
Vote this voice onto the IFC.
Support Steve Baldwin.
David Gibson
Every term, each student pays $50 in
incidental fees. This money, both yours
and mine, is then allocated by the seven
member Incidental Fee Committee
(I.F.C.) to the EMU, Athletic Department,
and some 75 A.S.U.O. programs.
I feel that the present fee is excessive
and that a higher amount would be a
ridiculous joke. We can avoid an in
crease by close, in depth examination of
each programs budget during the “tag”
stage. Thus rather than make snap jud
gements later, all possibilities will have
been worked out for a responsible dis
cussion. This makes for efficient use of
your fees and more benefit for the dollar.
A program, to exist, must be able to
prove its benefit to you and I and also
justify its budget. In some cases “pay
back" or alternative funding may be an
answer to a swollen budget. This can be
discovered however through logical yet
sensitive reasoning. Sensitive to all
aspects of a situation.
Funding for all programs and depart
ments will have to be carefully weighed
with the benefit the program provides to
the university population. If you feel that
decisions regarding over $2 million must
be made effectively, efficiently, and re
sponsibly, then you feel as I would do.
Xavier E.
Romano
It has come to the attention of a great
many individuals that past Incidental Fee
Committee’s have not done thorough
jobs. The reasons for this are many but
two which stand out are; (1) the lack of
time devoted to Incidental Fee Commit
tee related work and, (2) the lack of
Incidental Fee Committee members un
derstanding of the various university
programs.
My past experiences with A.S.U.O.
programs has given me a thorough un
derstanding for what an Incidental Fee
Committee member should and should
not do. As an I.F.C. member I will take the
time needed to work with the various
university programs hand-in-hand so
that no arbitrary decisions will be made
There must be a desire to negotiate with
the various programs and as such I will
pay strict attention to the merits of the
program (how it effects the University
community as a whole), not its political
aspects.
I urge all of you to make the effort to
vote. Only through student participation
can we have a better University of
Oregon.
Karsten
Rasmussen
A vote for KARSTEN RASMUSSEN is a
vote for:
*STUDENT CONTROL OF THEIR
OWN MONEY
no give-away to the Athletic Dept.
'HOLDING THE LINE ON SPENDING
no fee increase
'EXPERIENCE
one year’s experience in student
gov’t at the UO — EMU Board of
Directors
'FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY
a rational approach to program
funding
The IFC spends 2.4 million dollars in
student money every year. Vote for
someone who has the experience and
who is responsible enough to do the job
well. VOTE FOR KARSTEN RASMUS
SEN FOR IFC.