Student control of fee endorsed
The University Senate
says the incidental fee
benefits all students
Teri Meeuwsen
Oregon Daily Emerald
Student control of the inciden
tal fee was officially backed by the
University Senate without a hitch
at its meeting on Thursday.
“I was expecting some ques
tions, but the fact they didn’t have
any showed that they understand
the importance of student control
of the incidental fee,” said Jereme
Grzybowski, an ASUO Student
Senate member.
The incidental fee, which stu
dents pay to fund student activi
ties and groups, was created by the
Oregon Legislature and is man
aged with the oversight of the Ore
gon University System.
To qualify for funding, student
groups must first demonstrate to
the campus, administration and
OUS that they contribute to the
cultural or physical development
of students.
“The fact that students have ac
tivities on campus means they
should have autonomy of student
groups,” said
Greg
McLauch
lan, associate
sociology
professor.
“There’s a
University
Senate
process."
real diversity
of student
groups, and
that helps
the learning
According to the motion: “stu
dents translate academic lessons
into hands-on experience through
internship programs, leadership
positions and volunteer opportu
nities within groups they create
and support with incidental fees.
The entire campus community
benefits from the cultural events,
guest speakers and public policy
debates in which students partici
pate.”
Keeping students in control of
the fee is part of the democratic
process, McLauchlan said.
“Once you take democracy
away, those people lose faith in
the system,” he said.
In other business, the motion to
extend the add/drop deadlines to
10 academic days to add and eight
to drop was postponed until the
next University Senate meeting in
April.
Currently, students have at the
beginning of every term eight days
to add classes and six days to drop
classes. Classes dropped after the
deadline result in a “W” (with
drawal mark) on a student’s tran
script and tuition for the class is
not refunded.
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Y2K
Continued from Page 1A
ing on Jan. 1 are a couple of Facili
ties Services’ goals.
“If we can’t provide services, we
affect the whole University,” said
Greta Pressman, Facilities Ser
vices campus relations manager.
The University has been evalu
ating Y2K issues since 1996. In
August 1998, a utilities depart
ment team was formed to assess
Y2K’s potential impact on utility
services at the University. The
plan concentrates on the central
plant and systems that provide
utility services to campus build
ings.
The team is listing systems that
need to be checked out and are up
dating them if necessary. The
deadline for all of the changes is
June 30.
“It really depends on whether
the systems are smart or dumb,”
Pressman said.
"Smart” systems keep track of
the date while “dumb” systems
don’t.
“Most of the systems out there
are really dumb, like elevators that
are just run on electrical contacts,”
said Mike Hanneson, construction
supervisor.
Most of the University systems
that Facilities Services is checking
are compliant, Pressman said.
"If worse comes to worse, we’ll
all be running around with flash
lights,” she said.
University Housing also is
preparing in case the electricity
goes out, said Director Michael
Eyster. Because of the kitchen fa
cilities and storage areas, Hamil
ton Complex is the site allocated
for students to stay in the event of
a power outage, he said.
Besides keeping the University
from staying in the dark or freez
ing in the January weather, checks
on computing systems are being
made, according to the Year 2000
Readiness Disclosure on the Uni
versity Web site.
Duck Web, Duck Call and Glad
stone are reportedly Y2K ready,
according to the Web site. The
hardware and software in the
computing labs on campus are un
der investigation. Most of the soft
ware is date-insensitive. But
patches will be needed for Mi
crosoft Windows operating sys
tems, according to the site.
While the actual cost of making
the University Y2K compliant
won’t be known until June, there
have been a few major purchases
to keep the University up and run
ning. Among major expenditures
are replacing boiler controls
($40,000), updating the research
and “value engineer” generating
capacity ($200,000) and purchas
ing an energy analyzer ($12,000).
As the University checks up on
major systems, the Oregon Uni
versity System is also preparing
for Y2K. Because Y2K also signi
fies the beginning of a new term,
OUS has added the extra precau
tion of beginning winter term
2000 two days later than usual.
Winter term is now set to begin on
Wednesday, Jan. 5,2000.
“We’re not expecting anything
in particular to happen, but we
wanted to be prepared,” she said.
The system wanted to give stu
dents two extra days to get back to
the University, in case transporta
tion facilities experience Y2K
problems, Clark said.
“We thought it was a prudent
thing to do,” said Shirley Clark,
the vice chancellor for academic
affairs.
Individual departments are also
preparing for Y2K by updating
their equipment and making plans
just in case. There are links to Web
pages that can help update com
puter systems from the University
Web page and the Oregon Univer
sity System’s Web page.
“Some things might happen
here or there, but I don’t think
there will be a problem. It’s all just
a bunch of hype,” Tonrud said.
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