Senate sends signal;
keep students' share
By Doug Nash
Of the Emerald
In a special session that ended nearly five hours of debate on the
issue, the University Senate approved the entire amended faculty gover
nance rules to keep student representation at one-third of the reshaped
Senate.
As a result of the 32-0 vote Wednesday afternoon, the University
Assembly will receive a Senate recommendation to support the amend
ment, which raises the student proportion in the new body to 14 from
the eight originally planned.
However, Assembly members will first have to consider the original
motion that was suggested by a task force on faculty governance. The
Assembly meets next Wednesday.
The amendment could only be included in the original seven-part
motion if it were adopted as part of the motion by the task force. Task
force member Sanford Tepfer, a biology professor, said that is highly
unlikely.
"The task force has already decided that they're not going to change
the size of the Senate," he said. "We think that it would endanger the
chances of its passing in the Assembly."
The original motion was also voted on, and defeated, by a 19-14
margin Wednesday. However, 17 of those voting were SUAB members,
who oppose the original proposal.
The new governance rules would give a great deal of legislative
authority to the Senate. Only those measures without a two-thirds
Senate majority would be referred to the 900-plus University Assembly,
which would meet only four or five times per year.
The University president or 10 percent of the faculty could also in
itiate measures in the Assembly.
Senate members tentatively approved the increased student
representation amendment Oct. 26. Wednesday's vote also incor
porated a second major amendment that would allow faculty to vote
across the board on faculty Senate members, half of whom would come
from the College of Arts and Sciences and half from the professional
schools.
Under the original proposal, each professional school would be
represented by a specific candidate from that school, while the College
of Arts and Sciences would elect its own block of representatives.
Senate members argued that the original plan would create too
much "parochialism" in the Senate, with professional school represen
tatives too involved in their own special interests.
Have Weedeater for sale?
Contact the school district
Since going "cold turkey" on
pesticides last winter, Eugene
School District 4) has been
fighting a one-sided war against
weeds, says Jim Holst, safety
coordinator.
Armed now with only conven
tional gardening tools, the school
district is seeking outside help to
sophisticate their new non
chemical brand of warfare.
That help could come in the
form of a grant for a consultant to
help plan and implement a pro
gram of non-chemical weed
control.
The school district stopped us
ing pesticides altogether — having
terminated the use of 2,4-D about
two years ago — after en
vironmental groups and parents
continued to voice concern over
the safety hazards of the
chemicals, Holst says.
In October 1982, the school
board formed a four-month ad
visory committee, composed of
community people, staff persons
and parents, to study the question
of the continued use of pesticides
besides 2,4-D.
Because little testing had been
done for pesticides on low level
and juvenile toxicity, the commit
tee concluded there was a major
question as to the safety of
pesticide use. Fueling this conclu
sion was scientific testimony
which indicated that children's
enzymes are more poison
absorbent than adults' enzymes.
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Francis of Assisi loved animals.
But his real business was PEOPLE!
Eight hundred years later we Capuchins —
followers of Francis — are still in the
“People Business.” As a community of
priests and brothers we spread the Gospel
message of peace and justice to our age.
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