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5 Ways
to Explore the Arts
1
Singing Circles and Composing Songs
MUS 199, 3 credits, presents the many functions of songs, from
facilitating work and expressing emotions to providing
entertainment and communicating social and political ideas.
Students compose and sing and learn the contextual
backgrounds of songs from Motown, Broadway, Beatles,
hymns, blues, gospel, and spirituals. CRN 15747
2
Our Movement, Our World, Our Video!
DAN 199, 4 credits, explores scientific, historical, and creative
inquiry in dance. Students look at dance as fundamental
behavior, as culture, and as expressive art. CRN 15756
_ 3
Liberating the Page: Self-Publishing Editions
ART 199, 3 credits, provides techniques of integrating typo
graphy, design history, and the visual arts with the publication
of materials through computer technology. CRN 15754
4
Wounded Century: Theater, Pain, and Possibility
TA 199, 4 credits, engages students in some of the central
experiences of the twentieth century as expressed by the
theater artists. CRN 15757
5
Village!
ART 199, 3 credits, looks at notions of home, place, and
community — first through insect and animal structures, then
through earth architecture, and finally through student-built
miniature and full-scale villages. CRN 16088
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sues at the University, I say
that because people at the
Emerald thought that we
were too much out-of-state,
in Washington and not on
campus,” she said, “Our
mission statement is two
fold: making higher educa
tion less expensive and
making lives easier.”
For this voting year,
ASUO begins its cam
paigns with a legislative
outlook.
“Students aren’t voting
as much as they should
be,” Wortman said, "And
legislators say ‘Why should
I care?’”
ASUO plans include a
visit from Democratic Sen.
Ron Wyden and tentative
mailings of voting cards
with a letter from Wort
man, Cowling, and Univer
sity President Dave Frohn
mayer. The ASUO voter
registration campaign is
trying to get students to re
alize their importance in
the state, Gabbe said.
“If you’re not a state resi
dent, you can register. The
only reason you can’t is if
you receive state financial
aid or if you’re an Alaskan
native. That’s not a huge
percentage,” he said.
In regards to the last
year and the Miner-Unger
campaign, Wortman ex
pressed some worry over
finances.
“They definitely didn’t
leave us enough money for
the student positions we
wanted,” she said, listing
the uncompensated posi
tions of student advocate,
outreach coordinator, greek
life coordinator, and state
affairs associate. "We have
to do a little creative bud
geting.”
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Aug. 10, giving the group a total
budget of $50,000, not $76,212.
Wortman said $26,212 of the
ballot measure money will re
main frozen for the rest of the
year. However, she said she is
working to earmark that money
for DDS’ budget next year. Wort
man said she wanted to make
sure the funds students approved
for DDS eventually go to the pro
gram instead of slipping into a
general surplus fund.
Because of the way the DDS
funds were released, the pro
gram’s budget was essentially
forced into an itemized form,
Smith said. Historically, ballot
measure funds have been allocat
ed as a lump sum, allowing pro
grams more spending flexibility.
Moving to an itemized budget,
though, opened details of
planned spending to scrutiny by
the senate. The major issue of de
bate during senate meetings was
the planned payroll of DDS.
Smith said he intended to pay
all DDS employees an hourly
rate, including the supervisory
staff, who had previously been
on stipend pay. The senate, how
ever, felt uncomfortable with the
large pay raises that would result
for Smith and three other em
ployees and voted to approve a
DDS payroll with stipends rang
ing from $100 to $175 per month
for the top four positions.
Smith said he feels the senate
and ASUO have effectively given
those employees a pay cut by keep
ing them at a stipend rate at a time
when they are saddled with 40
percent more work because of op
erating seven days per week in
stead of four.
Wortman said she thinks the
senate-approved pay rate should
n’t cause any problems. “The two
new staff positions they have
added will alleviate a lot of the
work,” she said.
The debate about stipends
prompted Smith to investigate
their basic legality, he said. His
findings have produced enough
concern that he said he plans to
file a wage claim against the
ASUO through the Oregon Bu
reau of Labor and Industry.
Wortman acknowledged that
stipend rates vary widely within
student groups because there is
no central campus agency that
regulates it. “It's going to be a hot
issue this year,” she said.
“There’s no standards right
now.”
Currently, DDS is running its
shuttle service on Friday and Sat
urday nights, using the 8-year-old
van.
Smith said the entire steering
column on the 12-year-old van
needs to be replaced. “It takes all
your energy just to keep it mov
ing in a straight line and not
weaving around,” he said. "It’s
funny when drunks ask, ‘Should
I be driving?’”
When the school year starts,
though, DDS will be operating 7
days p6r wedk in ordtuJo comply
with last spring’s ballot measure.
“The first week is going to be
very difficult. We’ll only have a
dozen employees and 26 shifts to
cover,” Smith said. “If everyone
takes two shifts we should be
OK. We’ll try our best.”
Smith said he feels that the
budget freeze has impacted DDS’
ability to operate. “I was afraid of
entering into employment agree
ments with individuals because I
didn’t know how they were go
ing to be paid two weeks down
the road,” he said.
“We know what we need to do
to get this program running and
we’re going to do it. If someone
comes after me and says that's
misappropriation of funds, oh
well,” Smith said. He also said he
felt that people who had never
worked at DDS were not qualified
to dictate what the program’s best
course of action should be. “I’d
like to see them try to be director
for a week and then tell me I’m
not making the right decisions for
the program.”
Wortman said that through the
situation, she has worked with
two main goals in mind. “We
wanted DDS to be up and running
as soon as possible, and we didn’t
want to spend student fees that
don’t need to be spent,” she said.
“My hope is that DDS would
be thinking of the best interests of
the students, since that’s what
the ASUO is working under,”
Wortman said.
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