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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1995)
ASUO: THE BREAKDOWN All University students pay $123.50 a term m incidental tees to the Associated Students of the University of Oregon. And yet, how rnany students understand how the student government j works? In our week-tong ASUO senes, we will highlight each of the subsections of the ASUO. i ASPAC; The Associated Students Presidential Advisory Council it an 11-member body of student representatives who jmeet monthly with the president about student concerns ■ ASUO Executive: ASUO president, vice president and staff are responsible lor the administration of ASUO programs They act as student advocates to represent the University ■ ASUO Programs: More than 80 student groups. wn»ch receive incidental fee funding, provide a group or organization lor a variety of University students' interests ■ Constitution Court: The five-member court approves the constitutionality of ballot measures and any questions surround ing the ASUO Constitution. ■ EMU Board: A 15-member committee consisting ol students (acuity and EMU staff. The board is responsible for decisions regarding the development of the EMU ■ Student Health Advisory Committee: Nine student, are appointed by the ASUO president to sit on the committee, which recommends policy and a budget for the Student Health Center ■ Student Senate: A 15-member committee consisting of nine finance senators, nine academic senators and the vice president of the ASUO. The Senate works on the allocation ot incidental fees and special requests • MAI V ASUO: Williamson and Kelton holding open houses for students ■ Continued from Page 1A The ASUO Kxecutive works with the administration, the student senate, student pro grams. legislators and the com munity to provide u student voice. "Campus policies are tradi tionally run hy faculty and administration, so the ASUO provides a perspective that is not traditionally heard," s ml Zachary kulton, ASUO vice president kelton said one of the biggest obstacles the ASUO executive faces is students who think col lege student government is on the same level as high school student government. For example, he said the ASUO doesn’t plan dances, hut lobbies against ( tits to students federal financial aid Williamson and Kelton said ' they want students to access tiie ASUO to ask questions and share their concerns They will he holding Open Houses start mg this Friday from 10 to 11 a.in. in the ASl'O Office in Suite -4 of the KMl "We are using the Open Houses as a way to get students into the ASUO and get them aware of issues that are impact ing them,” Kelton said. He also wants to use the weekly meet ing as a mechanism for getting student input. Kelton arid Williamson will share the duties of running the ASUO office, functioning as co presidents rather than vice president and president Kelton will focus on internal affairs and Williamson will focus on external affairs throughout the year. The pair said the reason for this is Kellon's experience with University administration and Williamson's experience with lobbying Kelton worked as the ASUO University affairs coor dinator last year and Williamson was the federal affairs coordinator Unfilled ASUO positions still available for students By Jennifer Carter l!'s not too Into to got involved in the ASUO. Students can apply for eight vac ant positions in the ASUO office until Friday. The open positions are: inter national student affairs coordi nator. recruitment and retention coordinator, assistant fund-rais ing coordinator, assistant com munications coordinator, comptroller (who handles finan cial affairs), two computer sup port persons and a director of the student future fund. Students can also apply for a position on a studeni/faculty committee There are more than tJO student seats open on these committees, which work on spe cific policy issues Once on a committee, students become representatives of the campus body, said Zachary Kelton, ASUO vice president. "This is really where the work is done, on those committees," he said. Interested students can also lie ASUO interns. With approval through ASUO student coordi nators. interns work with the members of the executive staff Credit is available to student interns. Consumer concern surrounds possible health hazards involving cellular phones (API Debhra Wright, n real estate manager (or a cellular phone company in Phoenix, An/ , used to live by her port able telephone and now has a brain tumor She con tends the hand held models she used daily for six years are responsible Susan Reynard of St Peters burg, Fla died from brain t an i er A judge dismissed a suit blaming the makers of her put kolphone, citing a liu k of st lent I fit evidence Hut her husband is not t onvim *xi He notes that his wife's tumor formed on the side where she had held the phone Yet despite health concerns raised by at least eight lawsuits ■ untie ,>f w hi, h bay e made it to trial scientists still can t assure consumers their phones are safe. "Do you know what it s like lo hove your health go uw.n • ’ asks Wright. 42. who has undergone multiple surg enos for her hentgn tumor "It's been very hard to have pain 24 hours a day." Unlike car phones with antennae mounted outside the vehicle, hand-held cellular* like those in the Reynard and Wright s ase< have antennae that sit flush with the head, exposing i alters to an electro magnetic field whose long-term effects remain a mystery to s» i enlists ' We don't Itave enough infor mation to say the phones are harmful At the same tune, xxe really don't know enough to say they're not harmful,” says Khz ais'th |.n obson, deputy dins tur for si lent e at the FDA's ('enter tor Devn es and Radiological Health. "I think il there is a risk, it's probabh small Allhough (hero is no proof the phones art* ha sard-free, industry representatives flatly maintain that si lentifti studios to dote show no health risk "The KOA and the Kl’A and the other agencies that are look ing at this i an t he very i on run led alxitil what they've seen so lar if they 're not jumping into and funding researi h." vi\s Ron Nesseii, vice president for public affairs and column mentions at the Cellular Tele phono Industry Association Most prey ions studies have boon i undiluted at 2.450 mega hertz, a freipieiu y used hy mil rovvave ovens, not at the H 17 megahertz frequency of l J S cellular phonos Meanwhile, tfie MM has some simple advii e for mini mizing exposure to radio fre queiu y energy Limit your i elllilar t alls The UO School of Music Vanguard Series presents Karol Bennett, soprano John McDonald, piano rformlng js by Heitor Villa-Lobos Henry Purcell, J: hn Harbison Claude Debussy, Huge Wolf Charles Ives. Robert Kyr. Anthony Brandt John McDonald Monday, Oct. 2 8 p.m., Beall Concert Hall $7 Gen Admission, $4 Students & Seniors available at the door Sponsored m part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the UO Committee for Musi, al Arts Back'tO'School Futon Specials % m Great Stylin' for less! Ventura 1F tsr S309 Heavy Metal Frame & F $212 Studio h r : f Twin: SI 29-Full SI 59 ROCK SOFT FUTON MM I Avante Ad Ash Hand-rubbed Finish Fu#St/e Frame & 7 Premium I >amCo?r fu!cn S389 1231 Alder • 686-5069 In SE Portland 3200 SE Hawthorne 216 0921 NW Portland — New Location I 602NW2ifd 274 4217
