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Todd Barnhart criticized for emotional leadership style
Todd Barnhart
By Edward Kloptenstein
As the oldest candidate in the rat e
(or AM ’() president. Todd Bamliart.
37, calls himself the candidate for stu
dont families and non traditional stu
dents
Yet. many doubt that Barnhart's
emotional leadership style will sit
well in student government's high
est offu e
In a November l‘ifl.3. Westmore
land Tenants'Council meeting, Barn
hart stormed out when Amazon and
Westmoreland representatives want
ed to form a joint task, fort e on the
Amazon Housing issue
Pat Saisi. an Amazon resident who
wrote a letter to the editor against the
candidate, said Barnhart, "stomped
Ins ftsit, sprang from his seat, threw
Ins IxMlks. sill ked his teeth, mumbled
to himself, stormed out of the room
and slammed the door” at the meet
ing. off« lively hint king n vote for the
lai k of a quorum
A WTC officer. who did not want
to lie identified. said Barnhart is a
very passional** student representa
tive who defends his cause to the
point of oslrar i/mg other students
Barnhart's passionate side was
again seen last Wednesday when he
nearly cried after being asked why he
didn't attend the Asst* iated Students
Presidential Advisory Council meet
ings that fie was voted to. savins that
the mooting time conflicted with the
time he has for his children.
My [Mission overcame me," Barn
hart said about the Inst November
meeting "I know how to go to pao
ple and apologize "
Barnhart said he made a mistake at
that meeting and wasn’t trying to
block a vote, but instead try mg voir e
Ins dissent
Barnhart, who said he can take (Tit
le ism on such issues, was also i riti
ciznd by currant AM JO President Kric
Bowen
Barnhart a< > used Bowen of with
holding his application to the Uni
versity's Child Care and Development
(‘.enter committee, which Barnhart
said is illegal, instead of forwarding
it to the appropriate Student Senate
selection committee
Bowen said he held the applica
tion and would do it again
"Todd is. well. Todd." Bowen said
"I don't think. Todd is representative
of students on this campus
Bowen said it's not his responsi
bility to get an application to the
appropriate committee
With all this criticism. Barnhart
said he still has a large group of stu
dents who support him and believe
he would make a good student gov
ernment representative
Barnhart's platform c enters around
fighting the effect* of ItBkO's Ballot
Measure 5.
If ele< ted. Barnhart wants to join
fortes with schools statewide —
including public schools — in lob
bying Salem for revising their fund
ing priorities
Concerning issues of diversity.
Barnhart said that as a white male,
he can't represent minorities, women
or lesbian, gay and bisexual students
His role on tins issue would be to
allow those groups freedom to rep
resent themselves, be said
Barnhart also said that bet ause
the role of ASUO vice president has
changed by having that offit er chair
the Student Seriate, he didn’t
believe choosing a running mate
was important now Me said he
would change the way a vice presi
dent is chosen in student govern
ment. if elected.
Barnhart also said that if elet ted.
he would advocate for the Family
Housing Board to become a deci
sion-making body instead of the
advisory role it now holds.
Lecturer at art museum
describes medieval texts
By Gayte Forman
I o/ lf» Oregon Oaiy I mmttkl
It is sometimes difficult to
do< ido whet her the Hooks of
Honrs are prayer or picture*
books.
Hie Hooks of Hours, though
used for private) worship, were
modeled after the church's
practices, Father Hugh Feiss
said at a lei Hire at the Uni
versity Art Museum Sunday
Feiss. n native Oregonian,
has been the Mount Angel
Abbey library director for the
past seven ytsirs and first went
to Mount Angel in SOSIl
His lecture at t ompaniod an
exhibit titled "Margins and
the Medieval Imagination."
which has been running at the
art museum.
The liooks of Hours, named
after the eight rlnily prayers
prosenhed in the Bible, are a
collection of psalms, savings,
prayers and pic tures Feiss
describes them as "a way of
sanctify mg the hours of the
day by interspersing them
with prayer.”
These books have the typi
cal! Latin calligraphy found in
hooks of medieval times, but
around the margins of these
text are illustrations in colors
so bright, the ink seems ns
though it is still wet.
The writing is an intricate
calligraphy, and certain
words, such as the names of
holidays, are highlighted in
different colors In the mar
gins around the texts are
s< ones from the Bible, sue h as
Mary and her newborn child
surrounded by the three is ise
jnen with flow ers and angels
and dueling knights abound.
The Hooks of Hours rvpre
sent (i change in the commer
cial use of books in medieval
Europe. Feiss said The first
books were made for and
used bv monks and the
clergy. The Hooks of Hours
however, were intended for
private devotion.
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Todd Hamilton no laughing matter
By Edward Klopfenstem
(Vegoe IXtily Frrvtax 1
Some students say Greg Hamilton is a joke, and
others might believe it if they saw him Inst Wednes
day campaigning under his Nixon mask and parad
ing his Hunter S Thompson, pro-beer platform
Hut this ASUO presidential candidate is seri
ous about his run and serious aliout generating inter -
esi into a political process buried by student a pa
thv
“Students are paying $111 with every (tuition)
cht*ck and many don't even think about where that
money goes." Hamilton said in a Sunday interview
"Hey, that's groceries.”
A true outsider to politics, he compares his race
to that of famed “gonzo" journalist Hunter S
Thompson who tried to run lor sheriff of Aspen,
Colo . in the mid-1970s
Hamilton, unlike Thompson, doesn't support
most aline use and is shying away from shaving his
head and wearing the American flag in publii
Beer is this man's motto, and a vote for Hamilton
is a vote for a mtt robrvwerv in the IMG, he said
"Beer is something to a campus that students have
a past-lime with. Hamilton said and a micro
brewery would put the University on the map lust
think, we could have classes in brewery science It
would be a pat ked bouse every term
Hamilton's political resume is short, filled with
just one high si hoot race w here he lost miserably,
he said
I'he journalism major, who transferred from
Mount Hood Community College last year, said
joining this year’s political rat e started its a joke
when a friend wrote a mock news release on Hamil
ton for a journalism ( lass.
Then the idea of a get-out-the-vote platform
gained steam, and now he's put his beer bottle down
long enough to talk issues.
On incidental fee increases: "Wo should keep
fees as low as possible I think there's enough mon
ey at hand," Hamilton said.
On the new multicultural curriculum: “I don't
think tins solves the problem of racism on campus,”
he said, adding that classes on multicultural issues
should be taken voluntarily. "This docs more to
bring up a multicultural agenda than solve racial
i onflict."
On keeping student power with students: "1
would let students know about the goings on on
campus," be said, "to make people aware of those
trying to take the power out of student hands."
Hamilton ulso sees the student government posi
tion as tieing a watchdog against government waste,
noting the United Stales Student Asscx iation's illic
it phone expenditures last fall term.
Whether he will win or not. Hamilton still sees
his run as having purpose bv getting the Univer
sity's unpolitical student population to think about
politics
Hamilton said many students compare college
elections to those hi high school and then carry that
political attitude through their post-college life.
"If that (my campaign) promotes them to vote,
whether for me or for somebody ulso. then I've done
my job." Hamilton said "That's what is satisfy
ing for me "
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