Oregon Daily
FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1993
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 94, ISSUE 142
Bowen/Collins Puente
grab Executive posts
j Fisher’s write-in campaign
sends IFC races to run-off
By Tammy Batey
Oregon Daily Emerak.1
Erin Bo wan and Diana Collins Puente
will be the 1093-94 ASUO president and
vice president, the student government
Elections Board announced Tuesday night.
The pair beat out Leslie Warren and
Mark Johnson Bowen and Collins Puente
received 9.3(> votes Warren and Johnson
received 885.
Election Board members were forced to
hand count the ballots because of a large
number of write-in candidates They post
poned releasing the election results
Wednesday night because they hadn’t
ret eived results from students at the Ore
gon institute of Marine Biology in
Charleston.
"I'm very very happy and very relieved
it’s all over." Bowen said. "It was an
extremely stressful period going to the
recount and with theOIMB students
Sherce Watson of OIMB Thursday faxed
the ballot results Tract Dennis, ASUOelet •
lions coordinator. A large number of w rite
in candidates also slowed the ballot-cuunt
inn procress.
Martin Fisher, Oregon Daily Emerald
editorial editor, was written-in as a can
didate for every position on the ballot
except fora few Stu
dent Senate seats.
Dennis said In an
Emerald column on
April 19, Fisher
wrote: "Any position.
Fverv position. Write
me in wherever you
want."
Dennis said Fish
er's write-in votes
were a significant fat
tor.
"Martin suueeded
Martin Fishar
in disrupting tint electoral pres i'ss in that
we had tu hand i.uunt morn ballots than
over because of his write-in c ampaign."
Dennis said.
Fisher also forced the two-year Inci
dental Fee Committee i andidates into the
general tiled ions l*s ause no uindidate was
able to win the necessary majority. The
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Court sets May 7 deadline
for IFC budget completion
j Justices choose not to rule
on other issues in ASUO
president’s complaint
By Chester Allen
QrtXjC*' lia«\ l mtstM
The ASUO Constitution Oiurt I hursday
placed a May 7 deadline for the Inciden
tal Ken Committee to deliver a finished
budget to the ASUO.
If the committee doesn't finish the bud
get by the court's deadline, the IKC's
authority to allocate $4.0 million of stu
dent fees will automatically lie transferred
to the ASUO.
The court cited section 5.4 of the ASUO
constitution, which requires the court to
sot u budget completion deadline if ASUO
president and the committee can't agree
on a completion date The sect ion also
authorizes the court to give the AStJO the
power to complete the budget if the > om
linttee fails to meet its court—appointed
deadline.
The court ruled in response to an April
If) complaint filed by ASUO President
Hobby Lee asking the court to set condi
tions for the committee's operation for the
rest of the term.
The ASUO complaint stated the com
mittee hud missed several scheduled bud
get hearings and failed to complete
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A little bubbly?
by fWHty
Poindexter the Clown and Emily Dobkowski blow bubbles together
Thursday during Earth Day activities in the EMU courtyard
University of Virginia debates ban on student-faculty sex
□ Faculty group votes for compromise
on strict prohibition on relationships
CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va. (AP) — University of Vir
ginia faculty members on Thursday endorsed a compro
mise proposal that bans sexual relations between
instructors and the students they teach.
The Faculty Senate voted 31-4 for the ban instead of
a strict prohibition against all sex between students and
faculty that a Women's Concerns Committee had advo
cated.
Supporters said the strict policy would curb sexual
intimidation of students, but opponents decry it os an
unconstitutional limit on love.
Women's committee memfmrs said thev were satisfied
with the compromise.
"We just weren't going to win," said third-year student
Angela Kline. "We wanted something to protect the stu
dents.'’
I ho (acuity voto will lx) Kent to univursity ('resident
John T. Casleen III. who will make a recommendation
to tho hoard of visitors. The board sets |»oltc:y at the 18.000
student school Thomas Jefferson founded in 18l‘»
"We've gone to a lot of trouble and I'm certain that he'll
pay a great deal of heed to our advit o." said Robert II.
Kretsinger. president of the 08-member Senate, which
represents the school's 2.000 faculty members It wasn't
immediately clear why only 35 Faculty Senate mem
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WEATHER
Get ready for a wet weekend
as showers are expelled to con
tinue through Sunday. Partly
cloudy today with a 40 percent
chance of rain. Highs about 60
degrees
Today in History
In 1065. Coca-Cola Go.
announced it was changing the
sec ret flavor formula for Coke
MONEY FOR HIGHER ED
The Senate Ways and Means Education Subcommittee approved SIO mil
lion beyond the governor's mandated budge! for higher eduiation Thursday
If the Senate and House approve the S )0 million, S1H 4 million will be used
to increase access to students With the money. 1.200 students will be denied
access, and without it. 4.000 students would be denied access.
The governor s proposal would lower nest year's tuition increase to 7 per
cent. a reduction from the 15 percent increase proposed by the Oregon Stale
System of Higher education.
SPORTS
LEXINGTON. Kv (AP) - A University of Kentuc ky football
p layer was in c ritical condition after shooting himself in the
head Thursday while playing a form of Russian roulette
Ted Presley," 22, a junior from Hopkinsville, was shot shortly
before 12 SO a m Thursday in the dormitory, school
spokesman Ralph Demi kson said
Kentucky football players gathered at the hospitals emer
gency room Thursday morning to pray for their teammate
"We are all stunned.' Kentucky football coach Bill Curry said
‘Our entire football family has been grieving about this situa
tion since the first instant.*