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Budget: ASUO wants to sever ties to administration ■ Continued from Pagel to make sure you’re not losing something without realizing you’re losing it.” The executive organizer would be hired through the Oregon Stu dent Association. Hunter and oth er executive coordinators were hired by the University adminis tration with the ASUO’s recom mendation. Miner decided to change that to separate the Uni versity from student government. “I’m personally afraid of the day that we have an administra tion that doesn’t respect the ASUO, or we have an executive coordinator come in who doesn't agree,” Miner said. The change would give stu dents more say in the hiring deci sion, Vice President Ben Unger explained. The ASUO will also be able to coordinate its campaigns with state-wide campaigns by having an OSA representative working for it, Miner said. The proposed budget reduces other positions that might be transferred to the ex ecutive organizer. “It's to remove the administra tion from student government with a goal to move forward and become more autonomous,” Min er said. “We need to move into that activist role, and we’re trying to have a budget that does such." The budget was due in Novem ber, but Miner didn’t begin de signing it until winter break, he said. He hoped to finish last night. Any budget the ASUO submits won’t be final until the Oregon University System board ap proves it; the ASUO can make changes until then. The problems with the ASUO staff came partly because the bud get was so late, Miner said. "I think they kind of thought we were trying to railroad it through,” he said. The staff was divided about whether the changes would work or whether they were even need ed, ASUO outreach director Wylie Chen said. Miner and Unger met with every staff member and held several special discussions to go over the budget changes. “It’s such a big change,” Chen said. "It’s kind of like, this could work, but we’ve had this for so long. Hopefully, we can come to a conclusion about where we feel comfortable." But Miner said the changes are almost definite. The ASUO needs the autonomy it would get by sev ering its links to the administra tion, he explained. It also needs the ability,and resources to pur sue student activity. “This is Ben and my watch,” he said. “We're going to do whatever we can to slam dunk it, to do what a lot of other administrations saw was needed but couldn’t do any thing about.” Council: Members agree to find facilitator for evaluation ■ Continued from Page 1 “It was exciting to me that after a na tional search [for a police chief] that Leonard Cooke has vision, for an all-inclu sive city," said Misa |oo, a Eugene resi dent, She commented further that she thought Elmer deserved a tough evalua tion. “The city deserves a visionary leader. She needs to work with what is here, and bring out the strengths in people rather than replace what you feel more comfort able with. I would be sad that (Cooke) has made the decision to leave, but I am frus trated." Council Vice President Ken Tollenaar motioned that the council decide what would be the outcome of the evaluation. He suggested that evaluation should deter mine one of three things. Tollenaar said it should reveal that Elmer is doing a good job, that she should be given some redirec tion or that Elmer is not working out should look for a new job. Although the council did agree on these three things, it was with debate. Lee said that redirection should not be an option because “the previous evaluation already said there are some problems.” Other council members reacted differ ently, saying that she has only been city manager for 11 months and that this isn’t enough time to judge her completely. As of now, the council agreed to go through the process of finding a third par ty, as a moderator or facilitator to assist in the evaluation process, which will contain at least a survey and questionnaire por tion. Tollenaar reminded the council of the importance of the matter, “The decision we will be making next month is the single most important hunk of leverage that the council has,” he said. 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The conference will take place from 8 a.m. to 4:50 p.m. on Friday and Saturday in the Wheeler Pavilion at the Lane County Fair grounds, 796 W. 13th Ave, Iraq threatens to stop U.N. arms inspections The United States and Britain are the only nations to not ride out possible military action By Nicole Winfield The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS — Iraq could stop all cooperation with U.N. weapons experts if a military strike is launched over the inspec tions impasse, Iraq’s U.N. ambas sador said Monday. Faced with Iraq’s refusal to al low inspectors into Saddam Hus sein’s presidential palaces and other sites where it is suspected of hiding biological and chemical weapons, the United States and Britain have beefed up their forces in the Persian Gulf in preparation for possible military action. Iraq is taking the threat serious ly and has mobilized forces, regis tering all its university and high school students for military train ing, the country’s ruling Baath Party said Monday. “Obviously if there will be a military action against Iraq, Iraq would have to respond,” said Iraq’s ambassador to the United Nations, Nizar Hamdoon. “I think it’s premature to say right now what Iraq intends to do," he said, but added: “One of the options is to stop cooperation with the Special Commission." The commission on Iraq is try ing to determine whether Bagh dad has complied with U.N. or ders issued at the end of the 1991 Gulf War to eliminate long-range missiles and weapons of mass de struction. That is the main condition for the council to lift crippling eco nomic sanctions imposed in 1990 after Saddam’s forces invaded Kuwait. Diplomats from several coun tries have warned there is grow ing concern that military force would backfire. It could prompt the Iraqis to kick out all U.N. in spectors and refuse any U.N. sur veillance, leaving the Iraqis free to step up efforts to rebuild their ar senals. Among the five permanent members of the Security Council, only die United States and Britain have.fefused to rule out military action. France, Russia and China have all opposed using such force. Security Council members haven’t responded formally to a report Friday by the chief U.N. weapons inspector, Richard But ler, who said there had been "grave’’ attempts by Iraq to mis lead U.N. arms experts and that there were strong indications that Iraq was determined to withhold any new information. U.S. officials were talking Mon day with other council members to come up with a united re sponse, said White House spokesman Mike McCurry. “All options are on the table,” he said. But he insisted that a possible U.S. military response to Iraq would not be affected by the scan dal over President Clinton’s al leged involvement with a former White House intern. Iraqi newspa pers suggested Monday that Clin ton would attack Iraq to deflect at tention from the controversy.
