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Rich Wilkins says as his term draws to a close Wilkins, who effectively becomes a “lame duck" president later this month, reflected on his term of office earlier this week just before flying to a national student government conference at which he will tell fellow students how it's done in Eugene, Oregon “On a philosophical level we have gotten ourselves in most of the decision making processes that happen," Wilkins says "Most student governments are just try ing to get their voices heard.” Wilkins, whose administration has either finished or at least start ed nearly all of his administration s projects, wheeled off a list of ac complishments and scoffed at the idea that student governments can’t have an effect “One of the major accomplish ments has been the legislative program,” he says, adding that the ASUO’s efforts helped activate the Oregon Student Lobby in protest ing budget cuts to higher educa tion "We got a lot of people in volved," Wilkins says A University Student Political Action Committee, consisting of 11 students not involved with the ASUO government, was initiated from his office to be a “network to get information out," he says "As far as I can tell, it's the only student political action committee in the country," Wilkins says He says that because of the cur rent economic situation and his own interest in politics, political involvement didn’t stop with lobbying and USPAC The ASUO set voter registration as a primary goal in efforts to in volve students in the world around them and registered over 1,000 students at various events. Wilkins says The National Security Confer ence, held Feb 25-27, brought together some of the foremost ex perts on the subject and enjoyed respectable attendance by Univer sity students, he says “We put a Title IX symposium on when Reagan was cutting Title IX," Wilkins says, adding that he believes it was the only such sym posium on the West Coast during Title IX Week The president is also proud of a forum on financial aid, which he says was unique in the state Other state schools only distributed liter ature about the current situation Just last weekend, efforts by the ASUO resulted in a resolution be ing approved at the state Democratic convention calling for student control of incidental fees, Wilkins says "That’s never happened before," he says. "That's good " "We ve initiated more programs than any time in the past," Wilkins says as he points out other ac complishments, plans, and ideas of the administration Currently in the works is a plan to form a student foundation, an or ganization that would raise funds for scholarships, send “care” packages to students during finals weeks, and do other things that would be useful to students as well as good public relations for the University, he says A plan also has been written for establishing a student activities director post, to be staffed by a full-time, non-student ASUO em ployee, Wilkins says Such a staff member would help design work shops. assist all student organiza tions in functioning, advise contin uity methods, and perform other tasks, according to the plan He says that ASUO Executive Coordinator John Moore has in creased student awareness of the OSA, which saw "more students first term than all last year " Critics claim that this is due to more al leged academic dishonesty But Wilkins says that students alleged to be in violation of the student conduct code now must be told of the OSA, as a result of OSA efforts Wilkins says his administration should also be noted for the efforts of Kathy Stebner, ASUO vice pre sident for University and academic affairs, in proposing deadweek legislation, and for working more closely with the Student University Affairs Board, which sponsored it in the Faculty Senate Wilkins says he doesn’t know whether the effects of his adminis tration will still be felt five years from now, but points to new pro grams and praises his staff "I couldn’t be more happy with the work people have done around the office,’’ he says. The deciding factor for the per formance of a student government, he says, is how much influence an administration gains or loses — Wilkins believes this administration gained the University's student government such influence “There’s a lot we've done. There's always probably more than you can do,” he says 'This year was a tough year for the University I think we re sponded very well to the tough situation,” Wilkins says “When this year’s over I will be glad to move on,” he says ”1 don’t envy that person (his successor) at all” although being president is a "hell of an experience.” The biggest benefit, besides ac quiring knowledge and developing skills, of his year in office? ’’The contacts I’ve made." If he had it to do over again, Wilkins said he would organize the staff differently, be more organized, and improve commun ication, both inside and outside the office Wilkins’ vice-presidents differ with their boss’s perception of the most significant accomplishments. The most significant achievement of all student govern ment bodies this year was the number of written policies estab lished by the Incidental Fee Com mittee, says Alan Contreras, ASUO vice president of program admin istration. Otherwise, there was no single program or event that stands out above the rest, he says "If the ASUO is functioning how it should, there shouldn’t be one single thing," Contreras says. Gus Palmitessa, ASUO execu tive vice president, says the Na tional Security Conference was the administration's best achievement. The conference showed the community that the ASUO could organize a large scale conference, get important speakers, conduct it in a professional way, and even “make a few dollars," he says. In other matters, ne says that the ASUO was "handicapped by a lack of money" but “worked with pro grams as close as we could so they could meet their goals, " he says. "I was pleased with what my office accomplished,” says John Stewart, ASUO vice president for state and public affairs. "I felt that he (Wilkins) gave me a lot of room to more around, which was really beneficial." "Overall, I think a lot more could have been done.” By Dane Claussen DIM SUM Sunday 11 am - 3 pm Authentic Chinese Brunch Don’t miss it China Blue Restaurant 879 E. 13th Ave. 343-2832 ■w-Ttan II la It Sal 9 to 11 M II to 11 SaaSto 19 IT I r J1 Wood you rather be. The Way of the Shaman ACuidetD Power and Heating Michael Hamer _£JTUJ_ Distinguished Anthropologist & Practicing Shaman ITiichael Hamer will speak on ‘Castaneda. 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