Senate OKs Banfield
for Constitution Court
The former ASUO vice
president has also served
in a variety of other
student organizations
By Kristina Rudinskas
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Student Senate voted last
night to approve Glen Banfield, a
first year law student and previ
ous 1996-7 ASUO vice president,
to the ASUO Constitutional
Court.
Banfield has also served as an
assistant to the dean of student
life, a repre
Isentative on
the race task
s force, co-di
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organizer
and ASUO
State Affairs Coordinator.
“Student government has been
very very good to me and a posi
tive influence on my experience
at the University of Oregon,” Ban
field told the senate. “I really care
and would like to give back to the
organization and community that
benefited me.”
Banfield knows what it is like
to be on the other side of the firing
line. During his term in the execu
tive, impeachment proceedings
were enacted against him.
“I know the system. I’ve been in
the system and I know what rela
tionship the senate has with the
executive and with the Constitu
tional Court."
Banfield said he thought it was
important for the constitutional
court to be aware of the history
and politics of student govern
ment and student groups on cam
pus.
SOLAR INFORMATION CENTER:
$4,570 for speaker fees and ex
penses for the Sustainable Busi
ness Symposium.
THE CRISIS CENTER:
$3,043 to pay for half of a salary
for a new assistant director posi
tion.
THE WOMEN’S CENTER:
$1717.09 to pay for several
1996-7 fiscal year expenses.
$900 transfer from payroll to
fund a work study position.
In other business, the senate ap
proved the Solar Information
Center’s special request for $4,570
from the surplus fund to help pay
for speaker fees and expenses for
this weekend's second annual
Sustainable Business Sympo
sium.
The Crisis Center was allocated
$3,043 to hire an assistant direc
tor to assist director Jarrett Horib
ata.
The Womens Center’s made
special requests to reimburse the
program for three late pay orders:
$336.49 for the office coordinator
salary, $82.60 to pay for a work
study stipend and $12198 for a di
rector search. The payments were
not budgeted for this fiscal year
and were supposed to come out of
last year's budget, but the funding
had already rolled into this year’s
surplus fund.
The Women's Center also trans
ferred $900 from a payroll ac
count to fund a work study posi
tion.
The senate entered into execu
tive session to discuss a censure
motion made by Senator Autumn
De Poe. The Senate decided not to
take any action on the motion.
Benchmark for 1998-99
sought by committee
EMU Board members
were encouraged to go to
their groups to describe
the budget increase
By Peter Broaden
Oregon Daily Emerald
The EMU budget committee
met Wednesday to discuss its
aims for setting the 1998-99
benchmark.
The com
mittee re
solved that
individual
board mem
bers need to
meet with EMU
their pro
grams to bet BOARD
ter under- ——
stand the
EMU’s budget increase.
“I think it would be great if we
could make a 0 percent bench
mark,” said Committee Chair
Campbell Kidd. “I want to drive
revenue and at the same time at
least keep our incidental fee bud
get from increasing.”
The benchmark is the EMU
board's annual recommendation
for a budget increase. The budget
committee must present their
benchmark to the Student Senate
by Nov. 21.
In discussion, Finance Senator
Wylie Chen stressed the impor
tance of the board’s commitment
to students and their expenses.
“One stroke of a pen by us and
[Student Senate] increases the fee
$5 each term,” Chen said, adding
that working students need their
representatives to work to keep
their fees down.
“They're not even participat
ing in the non-profit organiza
tions that they’re putting their
money into,” he said.
The committee also heard the
year’s first monthly report from
EMU food services from EMU di
rector Dusty Miller. Miller pro
jected that food service’s project
ed expenses exceed its projected
revenues by $11, 454.
“Theresa Coleman-Kaiser
[EMU food service manager] and
I are confident that we will not
lose money in food service this
year,” Miller said.
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University briefs
University study wins
research prize
The Social Investment Forum,
a national nonprofit organization
that promotes environmentally
friendly investing, has awarded
its 1998 Moskowitz Prize for out
standing research to a University
study.
The study, by University man
agement professor Michael Russo
and graduate student Michael
Fouts, examines how a group of
Fortune 500 companies were
able to increase profits by em
bracing green environmental
strategies.
Their work was published in
the Academy of Management
Journal after a rigorous peer re
view process.
Russo and Fouts examined the
economic and environmental
performance of 243 companies
over a two-year period. Their re
search found that companies
with superior environmental per
formance had higher returns on
investment compared to their
competitors, even after account
ing for sales growth and market
position.
The Moskowitz Prize, named
for financial analyst Milton
Moskowitz, is awarded annually
by a three-judge panel.
Moskowitz, along with co-author
Robert Levering, wrote the 1994
best seller “The 100 Best Compa
nies to Work For in America.”
Improvisation troupe
performs tonight
The Jewish Student Union is
hosting a night with Absolute Im
prov, a comedy troupe that in
volves audience participation,
tonight from 8 to 10 p.m. in the
Ben Linder Room.
Absolute Improv has been en
tertaining audiences throughout
Oregon for the past three years. A
collection of theater arts students
play off the audience, creating
comedy on the spot.
An open mic will also be avail
able for any students who want
to bring their poetry, songs or
prose to share with the commu
nity.
Writing professor
earns fiction award
Peter Ho Davies, author of
“The Ugliest House in the
World,” received the H.L. Davis
Award for Fiction at the 12th An
nual Oregon Book Awards in
Portland on Nov. 10.
Davies is an assistant professor
in the Creative Writing Program
at the University.
He is also one of 20 winners of
the 1998 O. Henry Short Story
Award.
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