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Students cmcial in
governance board
Student* should hav«* a stronger voice in dec isiuns
made at the University and have more representation
at governing meetings
Whon the University Assembly, the current dew ision
making body. makes curriculum and policy changes, the
students are the most effected. But as it exists now. the
1.212 member assembly is made tip of only 18 students.
This body makes policy, conduct and curriculum deci
sions. Students only account for 18 percent of the
assembly.
Eighteen representatives do not provide a true repre
sentation of University students
The University Senate is made up of the same 18 stu
dents that are in the assembly and 38 faculty members.
The senate can make policy and conduct decisions, but
( annot make curriculum changes The decisions of the
Senate can he appealed to the assembly
We do nnt need two bodies to govern the. t asnpus It
is time for a i hungo that will benefit the students and
streamline the University's governance system.
I he new governance system proposal would give stu
dents more power in the decision making processes a!
the University. As of Jan. 1. 11)98. a revised University
Senate will he the dec isinn making body of the t diver
sity in all matters of faculty governance if the proposal
is approved.
The new senate w ill be made up of :ttl fat ulty mem
bers. 9 student senators, 3 officers of administration and
a senate president. Each of the University's schools and
departments will be able to elect representatives for the
senate. The proposed system would give accountabili
ty to the representatives because the senators would
have a constituency they would represent.
Now, the assembly meetings are poorly attended. At
the last meeting, where the assembly was discussing
its own axistem e, fewer than 100 faculty members
showed up that's 10 pen on! of the voting population.
These small numbers, which don't make a quorum by
any standards, show that such a large governing body is
not effective, and possibly illegal
One of the reasons this system needs to bo reviewed
is that the assembly does not follow Oregon Public
Meetings l aw. which requires a quorum of 50 peri ent
ulus one.
At the lust assembly meeting, University archivist kei
th Kit hard said tho school can no longer support this
system because someone is going to take it to court duo
to it violating this law
What the University needs is a small senate that will
moot regularly and make all decisions about policy, con
duct and curriculum. The proposal would give students
adequate representation and would be legal.
The assembly should approve the proposal to reform
the governing bodies at this institution It is in the trust
interest of both faculty and students.
Orr$on Dili I \
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Confusion
Upon reading today 's article
on the affirmative action debate
{OPE. Apni 27). 1 was confused
Upon arriving at Webster s
Unabridged Dictionary, my f on
fusion was. in turn, further con
founded
Allow me to explain 1 am
unable to locate a term within
said dictionary which was com
fortably located within the arti
cle in question; reverse discrim
ination Webster's has no
holdings on the subjec t. it
would seem.
(loser inspection reveals that
this work also swims to have
misplaced another commonly
applied term reverse sexism. 1
even went so far .is to look
under the unlikely title of
"reverse rhetoric:,'* but alas these
neglec ted terms were nowhere
to 1h* found
And then I read on to find that
ken 1 ehrinan, director of the
affirmative action office,
believes that "if the female is
equally qualified, then as an
affirmative action effort we
should hire the woman" and
that "this is not preferential
treatment
1 did not bother tocher k Web
ster's for a definition of prefer
ential I’ll leave that to all ol
you readers OAA director
Prince Washington tells us that
''affirmative action plans are not
quota-leased," hut rather they are
based upon "timetables for
expanding hiring of w omen and
minorities "
I have not suffered sue h cam
fusion since Carl Sagan
informed me that. "The connec -
tion between poverty and high
population growth rates, I claim,
is not an example of post hoc
ergo propter hoc:, because we
have more data than a mere cor
relation We have the repeated
worldwide testimony of the
poorest people,"
In other words, it was more
than a correlation by virtue of
being such a well established
correlation. My dictionary is
screaming for mercy, as it did at
thai time, but then, who wants
tot ount4alla< ions arguments
My point ' It is possible that
the sundry directors quoted in
the Emrrnld may well suffer
from conflit t of interest and that
if we are to discuss the impor
tout matter of discrimination,
we must insist that the press
analyze for rhetorii versus con
tent, reporting reliably and accu
rately the latest news a con
cept which the Hmrrald has
traditionally taken to mean (let
ter late than better late than
So let's have some responsible
reporting, folks and. for God's
sake, let's stick to the dictionary ,
lest we should find ourselves in
a hopeless state of reverse
awareness.
Adam Christopher Long
English
Human tragedy
A great human tragedy dons
not ihh essarily mean (hni some
people .ire killed or heroine
homeless The real human
tragedy is when a human
being’s < on science is unaffected
by crimes
Amnesty International has
contacted Israeli authorities to
express concern that they were
arbitrarily arresting Palestinians
in the occupied territories and
that military courts were blind
ing out summary justice m vio
lation of human rights
Soldiers reportedly had been
entering homes at night and
arresting all teenagers. Amnesty
International said it was “con*
(aimed that soldiers had arrested
people who had not been
involved in the continuing
uprising.”
Israeli authorities have arrest
ud and detained at least 4,000
people, including children as
young as 12 years old, There
have been massive beatings and
many of the victims were
women and children, a great
number of whom were hospital
ized and some who even died as
a result of the beatings.
Amnesty International recom
mended several measures to
ensure detainees wore protected
from violations of their basit
rights under international law.
including giving relatives and
lawyers aci urate information
about detainees, whereabouts
and prompt, regular access to
them.
Another measure recom
mended by Al was giving the
Palestinians the right to prepare
their defense and investigating
all complaints of inhuman treat
ment impartially and effective*
!\ Israeli authorities have not
vet replied to am of the organi
zation’s concerns
Everyone is invited to come
and listen to the "true storv"
regarding the never ending con
flu t between the Palestinians
and Israelis The Muslim Stu
dent Association is sponsoring a
bn ture by Mohammad Al-Asi.
the Imam of the Islamic Center
ot Washington. D C . on Mon
day. May lr>. from 12-1 p in in
the Walnut Room in the EMU,
across from the post office
Reza Osqui
Muslim Student Association