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Thursday, November 10, 1983
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 85, Number 48
In a preliminary vote, the University Assembly decided on Wednesday not to alter the percentage of student members
on the University Senate — yet. Pres. Paul Olum called a Special Assembly meeting next Wednesday to decide the issue.
Student Senate membership retained
By Doug Nash
CM the Emerald
The University Assembly decided
Wednesday to neither increase nor
decrease the amount of student represen
tation on the more powerful University
Senate as originally proposed by a task
force on faculty governance.
In separate votes, faculty members over
whelmingly rejected two proposals con
cerning student representation, one of
which would have cut the number of
students on the Senate to two from the
eight originally planned, and the other
which would have raised that number to
14.
Both votes were only preliminary,
however. University Pres. Paul Olum call
ed for a special Assembly session next
Wednesday to decide on the entire issue.
The task force proposal gives a great
deal of legislative authority to the Senate,
which now serves only an advisory role.
Only those measures without a two-thirds
majority would be referred to the
Assembly, which would meet four or five
times a year.
The University president or 10 percent
of the faculty also could initiate measures
in the Assembly.
Under the task force proposal, faculty
representation on the reformed Senate
would be cut by four, from 36 to 32.
Students, who presently make up a third
of the Senate, would be reduced to a fifth
of the new body, from 18 students to
eight.
But in Wednesday's debate, some facul
ty members expressed a wish to cut the
student representation to two. Charles
Wright, mathematics professor, argued
that students "do not have the experience
that the faculty have" in order to effective
ly make University policy decisions.
"It takes time to develop a stake in the
academic values of this place that is
developed by maturity," Wright said. "I'm
sorry but you can't just get it in four
years."
Further, Wright argued, "The students
are no better represented by having eight,
10, 12 or 16 as they are by two."
But Mary Hotchkiss, ASUO president,
noting that one-third of the student body
is more than 25 years of age, labeled
"naive" Wright's statement that students
lack maturity. What's more, she said,
under Wright's proposal each student
would be representing about 7,500
students in the Senate.
"If it's two or if it's eight there's not go
ing to be the student representation,
there's not going to be the student input,"
she said.
Faculty members agreed with Hotchkiss
that the student number should be
greater than two, defeating Wright's pro
posal by a voice vote. They did not,
however, agree with a Student University
Affairs Board amendment that would in
crease the number to 14 from the eight
originally planned.
Arguing for the latter amendment,
SUAB chair Mike Prothe tried to allay
faculty member's fears that a SUAB pro
portion of a third on the new Senate
would cause a power struggle between
faculty and students.
"Over 90 percent of the time the stu
dent vote has been withihe majority vote
of the faculty," he said. "We believe that
this is a system of cooperation that I think
has proved very effective over the years."
However, Glen Love, English professor,
was not convinced.
"Students have behaved responsibly,
but it is within the clear memory of many
of us when they were not — when they
were occupying buildings, when they
were closing down the University," Love
said.
The SUAB motion failed, 103 to 37.
The Assembly also narrowly passed, 82
to 81, an amendment to the original gover
nance proposal that allows faculty of the
military science department to remain as
voting members of the Assembly. Under
the original task force plan, military
science faculty would not be included in
the Assembly because they constitute on
ly "courtesy" faculty appointments.
Student raises
ROTC issue at
Portland State
By Doug Nash
Of the Emerald
A Portland State University student was
on campus this week talking to student
leaders about an issue he is making visible
at his college, an issue already quite familiar
to this University community.
Doug Pyle, coordinator of PSU Students
for Lesbian and Gay Rights, says he intends
to make PSU's ROTC program either con
form to the university’s affirmative action
policy concerning sexual orientation or be
terminated. ROTC conflicts with Portland
State policy, he says, by prohibiting
homosexuals from participating in the
program.
“The ROTC program at PSU, by denying
participation in its program on the basis of
sexual orientation, is in clear violation of of
ficial University guidelines," according to
an SLGR statement.
"This discrimination, based on outdated
and oppressive attitudes, demands im
mediate response by University officials,"
the statement continues. "Any delay will
cast doubt on PSU's commitment to its own
affirmative action policies, which would be
of grave concern to many.”
Pyle says he got the idea to contest ROTC
policy as a University student last year. In
March, the University Assembly voted to
"indefinitely postpone" Philosophy Prof.
Cheyney Ryan's motion to terminate the
military science department unless it ends
its discriminatory practices. University Pres.
Paul Olum, faculty members and student
leaders are currently trying to establish a
fact-finding committee on the ROTC issue.
ROTC, is new to Portland State this fall,
but Pyle says the issues are the same as at
the University.
"The situation would be identical
because ROTC does discriminate on the
basis of sexual preference," Pyle says.
"We're probably going to go through the
same steps that we went through down
here."
Those steps include talking to faculty and
students about the issue and arguing his
position before PSU's faculty senate, he
says.
Major Morris, Portland State's affirmative
action director, says he never protested
ROTC's policies because "their being on
campus is not non-compliance."
"In my judgement, at least, not granting
commissions to homosexuals is not an
ROTC policy. It's a policy of the U.S.
government," Morris says.
Pyle was on campus to discuss the issue
with ASUO Pres. Mary Hotchkiss and
members of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance.
Increased coordination between the two
universities can only help the cause, he
says.
"It's not just a University of Oregon issue.
"It's something that affects every place that
has ROTC and their policy of
discrimination."
Revised Damns olan almost satisfies critics
By Michele Matassa
Of the Emerald
Eugene's traffic engineering staff came out this week
with a revised West University Neighborhood parking plan
that University student representatives are taking with a
grain of salt.
The revision follows three weeks of meetings between
the city, University students and employees of Sacred Heart
Hospital and the Bureau of Land Management. Hospital
employees appealed the original plan to the Eugene City
Council Oct. 10.
The plan limited parking in the area west of the Univer
sity to two hours for people without special permits. Those
permits are free to residents of the area but cost $17.50 for
non-residents.
Students and employees thought the city ignored them
while planning the program. As a result, the Council
delayed consideration of the October appeal until those
groups were included and the plan re-evaluated.
Barbara McCarthy, ASUO director of University affairs,
says the new plan addresses some student concerns but ig
nores others.
On a positive note, the plan's altered boundaries ad
dress concerns expressed by fraternities and sororities.
Under the original plan, many Greek houses between
11th Avenue and Broadway were left outside the boun
daries, but they were close enough so that much of their
available parking required permits. Spokespersons for the
Greek system asked city officials to include them within the
plan's boundaries so residents could obtain free permits.
Instead, city officials decided to exclude the area direct
ly adjacent to the houses, leaving them more free parking
spaces.
Greg Van Dyke, a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at
729 E. 11th Ave., says the adjustment benefits some, but not
all, high-density dwellings such as fraternities, sororities,
cooperatives and apartments.
"The changes have eliminated my personal problems
with the parking proposal, but I'm not sure other organiza
tions off campus have had their needs met," Van Dyke
says. He testified at the October public hearing and has
represented the Interfraternity Council in meetings with ci
ty officials.
Other changes include removing from the original plan
the area adjacent to the BLM and providing free permits for
Sacred Heart's low-income patients and their families.
McCarthy doesn't object to the changes the city made
but to the changes it did not make.
"I'm concerned that they didn't deal with price at all.
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