Oregon daily emerald., May 28, 1987, Page 3A, Image 3

Student Senate convenes to nominate officers
By Carolyn I-amberxon
Of the Kmrrald
Ten student senators met on Wednes
day to nominate officers anti become
oriented with their duties of office.
Four returning senators and six newly
elected members attended the meeting
presided over by outgoing Chairman
Randy MacDonald. Returning senators
include: Pat Brown, Cory Wynne. Karen
Frymoyer and Jon Kisling. The new
senators at the meeting were Duane
Dungannon, Peter Paulson. Alicia Sloan,
Nathan Walker, F^ic Grimes and Jack
Loop.
Kisling made a motion to hold the
nominations open until the next meeting
because five senators were not present.
After discussion it was determined those
not attending would be notified by
phone of the available positions and
given the opportunity to nominiate
themselves or someone else. This motion
passed 8-1-1 with Dungannon in opposi
tion and Paulson abstaining.
Sloane was nominated for grievance
and information director and Crimes was
nominated for press secretary. Paulson
and l-oop will compete for the Commit
tee on Committees chairman position.
white Kisling and Peter Nisbitt (not at
tending) will compete for the vice
chairman position. The nominees for
senate chair are Wynne. Frymoyer and
Kisling
The senate will vote on those and any
additional nominations at its meeting
next Wednesday.
MacDonald also briefly outlined the
history of the student senate, parlimen
tary procedure and the senate's duties.
MacDonald said the major duties of
the senate Included sitting on the
University Senate, confirming ASl JO ap
pointments. serving on the Committee
on Committees and handling the infor
mation and grievance process.
Mo also covered senate bylaws and
urged senators to monitor attendance
and enforce a strict attendance |x>licy.
"I encourage the senate to convene
hearings on non-fulfillment of duty.” he
said. "If we aren't doing our task, we're
failing the people who elected us.”
MacDonald additd one of the biggest
stumbling blocks for the senate has been
a|>athy. Ity monitoring senator's atten
dance. the senate will be more effective,
be said.
'New-age psychology' techniques
can remedy racism, speaker says
By Alicia Gano
Or IW Kmrald
A workshop on racism.
"Strategies For Change.” will
b« held today from 1 to 4 p.m.
in the EMU Gumwood Room.
Peter Reiner, activities coor
dinator for the Collegiate
Association for the Research of
Principles (CARP) is sponsoring
the workshop, conducted by
Bev Gates, who refers to herself
as a therapist.
Wanting to teach participants
that there can be contact about
racism without confrontation.
Gates uses ‘‘new age
psychological methods” to
teach methods for change, she
said.
"Focusing on human poten
tial and the ability to grow
rather than on something that’s
wrong,” is how psychology
department post doctoral fellow
David Presti defined the phrase
New age psychological
methods use a combination of
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Older techniques tended to
focus on mental illness rather
than on enhancing or improv
ing the potential that already
exists, as newer techniques do.
he said.
By conducting these
seminars. Gates wants to help
create "a trauma free society,"
which she feels is lacking in our
culture. A large segment of the
population is shut out of pro
ductive society because of racial
prejudice, she said.
Besides the general com
munity. Gates targets children
and institutional groups for her
free training She firmly
believes the common person on
the street is the most important
person to train because they arti
often the victims or the
perpetrators of racially harmful
incidents.
Gates has conducted
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nine years, she said.
Trained in "new age
psychology" in California.
Washington and Oregon. Cates
has a bachelor's degree in
history from Fisk University in
Tennessee and comes from
three generations of black
freedom fighters Her fumily
background has given her the
benefit of her own fumily's
techniques for dealing with
racism, she said.
With the cancellation of this
year's Women's Symposium
due to charges of racism. Cates
said symposium planners
would be more than welcome to
attend the workshop, which is
free of charge and open to the
public.
Airport project to begin
Eugene's airport construc
tion project will begin Mon
day. June I. Kicky langford.
facilities development
manager for the city told city
councilors on Wednesday.
Wildish Construction of
Corvallis will tiegin im
provements to the site, in
cluding roads, parking and
landscaping, she said.
Wildish bid $3.300.000 to
complete the protect, which
according to lamgford is
$h(M).(MX) below the city's
estimate. The completion
dale for this phase of the pro
ject is expected to be the end
of October 1987.
Airport improvements will
total an estimated $18.3
million, lamgford said ad
ding that the existing ter
minal will Ini remodeled to
house fiv«» airlines.
The estimated completion
dale for the terminal is the
end of August or the beginn
ing of September in
liingford said she's been
meeting with five airlines:
A merican. Continental,
(I niter), I’SA and I lori/on
and representatives from all
five will be in Kugene June
10 to sign design documents
for the terminal.
Also, she said the airlines
ap|Miar to he anticipating
mom traffic than city of
ficials originally did latcause
they want to install thme
loading bridges, rather than
the one originally discussed
between the |mrties
Kugene officials will hold
a ground breaking censmony
at the airport on |une IS.
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