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
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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
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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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