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Beyer’s former district in the House covered most of the Springfield area along with some of the surrounding unincorporat ed areas. His new district covers almost twice as many con stituents, totaling approximately 95,000 citizens from the Gateway and downtown Eugene areas. Beyer said although he will be moving from the House to the Senate, the differences between the two are in size only. Beyer said with 30 fewer peo ple in the Senate, “the Senate tends to be less rambunctious.” However, with fewer people, he said, the amount of work a sen ator does is more overwhelming. “The workload is more frantic — too many committees and too few people,” he said. Beyer said it is typical for repre sentatives to be on one or two committees, whereas in the Sen ate almost everyone is on three or four. The issues he said he hopes to continue working with in the senate are issues of revenue and school finance. During his time as represen tative, he said, he had the op portunity to help set funding for grades K-12 and some ' on the BEYER community-college level. He also said a lot of what he was able to accomplish was de pendent on how the state’s Re publican majority dealt with the issue. “I learned to work with it in the House,” Beyer said. “With a 20-to 10 minority, it is a little rough on the Democrats.” Despite being a part of the mi nority, he said, he was still able to help pass such issues as the high er education tuition freeze at the University. He said he will continue to work hard in passing the higher education issues after being elect ed to the Senate. One such issue is the adjust ment of the higher education sys tem’s structure. For instance, Bey er said that if the University raises money from recruiting students from out-of-state, then the Univer sity should be able to keep the money without it going to smaller schools. “1 will support that,” Beyer said. “The intent is to change the system. If a school raises addition al money, they should be able to keep that adjustment.” In comparing himself to the current Senator, Bill Dwyer, Bey er said he didn't see a big change in voting records. However, he said he did find his style and ap proach different. “Bill shoots more from the hip and is outspoken,” Beyer said. “My approach is more to work with the system and in getting things done. My purpose is not to get headlines.” Beyer said he is looking for ward to the economic diversity that District 21 has to offer and is thankful for the support universi ty students have given him in the past: “Education is an issue. A lot of people go to college. I have re ceived good support from stu dents and I feel I have represent ed them well in the past.” ASUO Ballot Measures Funds would pay for elevator in EMU Students will decide whether to pay just over $22 each for the installation of an elevator in the EMU next year. Construction of the elevator, which the EMU needs to com ply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, would provide access to the International Stu dent Lounge, the Oregon Daily Emerald and the Adell McMil lan Art Gallery. These areas are currently not accessible to those with mobility impairment. “It’s a legal liability right now; someone could sue the EMU,” EMU board member Kim Gue vara said. Ballot Measure 4’s one-year cost would generate $330,000 of the $550,000 needed for the pro ject. The rest would come from EMU funds. Although the elevator is a state-mandated project, the money must come from student incidental fees because the EMU is owned by tire ASUO. It receives only $90,000 a year in University money to maintain its common spaces. The rest comes from profits and student fees. “We’re at the bottom of the list in getting incidental build ing fee money, mainly because of newer projects like the recre ation center,” Guevara said. The ASUO Executive put the funding measure on the ballot last month. Measures 8,9 would change constitution Two measures on this year’s election ballot, both initiated by Student Senator Kent Black, will make changes to the ASUO Constitution. Over the summer, Black and Andrew Oberriter reviewed campus government docu ments and tried to make things easier and more in-line with the federal gov e r n m e n t procedures, Black said. They re viewed cam pus consti tutions from all the Pac 10 schools and looked for ideas they could apply at the University. Ballot Measure 8 would change Section 14.4 of the con stitution to eliminate the EMU board’s ability to forward re quests, referendums, measures and proposals on the student ballot. Currently the board can add a measure to the ballot with a two-thirds majority approval of its members. The change concerned the Student Senate because less than half of the members on the EMU board are elected and there are several administrators on the board. “It protects you from special interests,” PFC member Selena Brewington explained. “The EMU board is considered pro gramming under the control of the Senate and ASUO Execu tive, and it doesn’t seem quite right — a constitutional loop hole.” Measure 9 would change sec tion 14.6 of the constitution to prevent future funding commit ments made with the incidental fee from exceeding two years. This change would require long-term spending commit ments to be approved every two years by the students. This would not affect previ ous commitments or those on the 1998 ballot. “It’s to get a current voice on what students want,” Black ex plained. Students are currently funding six lump-sum alloca tions each quarter for programs previously approved for long term funding. Career Center facilities and programs cost each student $5.04 per term and Career Center services cost $3 per term. Cam pus Recycling costs $2.23 per term, and additional long-term funding includes counseling fee, $4 per term; Esslinger renova tion, $7.75 per term; and the Mentor Program, $1.50 per term. — Compiled by Chris Ken ning and Kristina Rudinskas The Oregon Daily Emerald is published daily Monday through Friday during the school year and Tuesday and Thursday during the summer by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. Inc., at the University of Oregon. Eugene. Oregon. A member of the Associated Press, the Emerald op erates independently of the University with offices in Suite 300 of the Erb Memorial Union. 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