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Student Senate funds environmental conference The Student Senate also filled two empty chairs and discussed spending for fundraisers By James Scripps Oregon Daily Emerald The Senate allocated $8,092 to the Coalition Against Environ mental Racism from the surplus fund to help finance a conference that will feature international speakers addressing issues of en vironmental justice. The confer ence is set to take place at the law school from Janu ary 21-23. Missy Rock, co coordinator of the CAER, hopes that the conference will bring prestige to the University. “What this conference does is bring attention to a movement that needs recognition,” she said. “It’s the biggest environmental justice i m I Student Senate conference in the Northwest.” In other business, senators were appointed to fill two of the four empty seats. New senators are: Michael Dixon, who was appoint ed to the business seat, and Jamila Singleton, who became the Athlet ic Department senator. The ap pointees replace Jeff Kershner and Taryn Tarver. One science seat and one academic seat remain open following the resignations of Sele na Brewington and Elliot Dale. The Senate approved $422 to fund the Black Heritage Fashion show, a joint Multicultural Center and Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc. event to celebrate black history month. The fashion show will feature stu dents displaying African war drobe. Admission will be $2 and a personal hygiene donation which will go toward the Looking Glass New Roads program, a local orga nization that assists the homeless. A debate ensued between sena tors about the legality of funding an event that will fund raise for an out side organization. Senate rules are unclear about whether it permits in cidental fees to go to such an event. Student Senator Tamir Kriegel argued that too many activities that recruit students to the Univer sity are being funded by student incidental fees. “Every program that would make a student want to come to school here is funded by the stu dents. We should just let the ad ministration take away our inci dental fees,” he said sarcastically. Protest Continued from Page 1 The demonstrators then walked up two flights of stairs to the lobby of Dyke’s office, where he came out to speak to the crowd. Dyke said that Brown didn’t go through the normal nomination process and her appoint ment was approved prematurely. Dyke told the crowd: "we have been commit ted to an open expression of differing view points, but that doesn’t mean that we can ap point people to committees without following procedure.”Brown disagrees with the admin istration’s response. “It simply wasn’t an issue until they found out who I was,” she said. “Even when I attended an IACUC meeting last week as a spectator, they kept asking me ‘wouldn’t you have an ideological problem with animal-testing?”’ Brown was recommended to fill the student seat on the committee by the ASUO Executive. A precedent has existed for close to 20 years on campus that the ASUO can recommend an appointment to student faculty committees. The ASUO’s recommendation to approve Brown was approved by the University presi dent’s office, and she was informed of her ac ceptance by Kathy Wagner, executive assistant to the office of President Dave Frohnmayer. Brown never received written confirmation of her approval, which would have made her ap pointment official. Shortly after attending her first meeting, Brown informed the IACUC of her affiliation with SETA. Later, she received a call from Wag ner informing her that there had been a clerical error. Wagner, who had just started her posi tion, was unfamiliar with the procedure for committee appointments. Wagner had prema turely told Brown that she had been approved. Brown was told the student that had held the seat the year before had been reappointed to the student position on IACUC. “Because the person who traditionally sent out the material for appointments retired, there has been a mix-up about which committees have ASUO-recommended appointments,” said Dave Hubin, executive assistant to the president, in a December interview. “Unfortu nately, this is one of those committees that we solicited for [ASUO student appointments] when we shouldn’t have.” ASUO President Geneva Wortman argued that Brown had been through the whole hiring process without any objection from the presi dent’s office. Wortman said on three occasions the presi dent’s office approved the list of committees for which the ASUO could recommend appoint ments. “There are records that we have done ap pointments to this position in the past,” said University Affairs Coordinator Stephanie Dai ly, who organizes committee appointments for theASUO. Organizers of the protest don't want their ef fort to be construed as a debate of animal rights, said Lucas Spiegel, a member of SETA. "It just makes sense for the ASUO to contin ue to have jurisdiction over this appointment — now it’s an issue of student representation,” Spiegel said. “It will surely take persistence, but I can’t imagine that it will be too hard to get Sarah back on the committee. ” Student Kate Skola, a psychology major, at tended the protest to show support for Brown. “I am not even a supporter of SETA, but 1 also think that students should not be discriminated against because of their beliefs,” she said. One compromise to the conflict offered by ASUO members was to add another student to the committee for the rest of the year. Dyke said administration officials “don’t want to distort the membership of the commit tee because of this misunderstanding.” Brown is committed to continuing her efforts to get a seat on the committee. “I will pursue this until it is resolved and I am able to serve on the committee,” Brown said. “It is not fair for the administration to deny students their fair representation. ” Campus Briefs UNITY conference meeting on Thursday The National Association of Black Journalists is hold ing an informational meet ing tonight at 6 p.m. in the Multicultural Center in the EMU. The meeting will pro vide information on how to get involved with this sum mer’s UNITY conference, a meeting designed to unite four professional journalism associations for people of color. Rally to encourage tree preservation The University Forest Ac tion Group is holding a rally Friday at 11:30 to encourage South Umpqua band to not cut old growth trees in the area. Interested parties should meet in EMU Suite 1. 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