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Volume 100, Issue 135
University of Oregon
www.dailyemerald.com
Chen and Anoushiravani fife appeal
It is debated whether the ASUO
Elections Board handled
matters fairly and lawfully
By Sarah Skidmore
Oregon Daily Emerald
• A storm is brewing following the ASUO
Elections Board’s decision to have a run-off
in the regular elections for the ASUO Exec
utive seats. An appeal and a court motion
have been filed following the board’s deci
sion in favor of a grievance filed by Jessica
Timpany questioning the legality of Wylie
Chen and Mitra Anoushiravani’s cam
paigning techniques.
Chen and Anoushiravani, winners of the
primary elections, filed an appeal on Sun
day afternoon. Additionally, Scott Austin,
student political activist, filed a motion
with the Constitution Court that questions
not only the legality of the decision of the
ASUO Elections Board but also the legality
of the ASUO Constitution.
The appeal filed by Chen and Anoushi
ravani requests a dismissal of the injunc
tion filed by ASUO Executive candidates
Dan Reid and Matt Swanson. Anoushira
vani said the team did
not address the injunc
tion that removed them
as the winners of the
ASUO Executive posi
tions because they
have not received a
copy. The premises of
the injunction and the
grievance are the same,
and she plans to ad
dress the grievance in the same manner
once she sees it. Anoushiravani and Chen
proposed that the decision of the ASUO
Elections Board and the injunction itself
are faulty.
“The petitioners have rested their claims
on faulty premises, thereby making fraud
ulent claim of elections rules violations,”
according to the appeal. "They have also
hypocritically misapplied these supposed
‘violations,’ throwing out accusations that,
if the reasoning were held to be true, they
would be equally guilty of.”
The injunction filed by Reid and Swan
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A bench made of natural
materials is permanent and
eco-friendly structure
By Tricia Schwennesen
Oregon Daily Emerald
A hundred hands mixed and molded
the golden-red mud into a dragon-like
bench.
It’s more than a giant mud pie for
grown-ups, it’s construction with a con
science.
Students and other environmentally
aware architects and designers from
across the United States built the Univer
sity’s first ever permanent, eco-friendly,
all-natural structure as part of the Eco
Design Arts Conference April 15 to 18.
About 400 participants examined
methods for “defining and achieving so
cial and ecological equity.” Sponsored
by H.O.P.E.S, Holistic Options for Plan
et Earth Sustainability, the conference is
the only one of its kind.
Sustainability was at the heart of dis
cussions, workshops and even the
hands-on creation of the usable struc
ture. Each year conference participants
build a sustainable structure, but this is
the first permanent construction to be
added to the University landscape. All
materials for the project were donated by
companies based in Eugene, such as the
Oregon Bamboo Association and Ideal
Steele.
“It was H.O.P.E.S that said, ‘We want
this, and we want to design it, and we
want to build it,”’ said Vahram Massehi
an, H.O.P.E.S communication co-chair
man.
The program coordinated the efforts of
students from the University’s architec
ture, landscape architecture, interior ar
chitecture, environmental studies and
fine arts departments. The project had to
be researched, designed and document
ed for approval by University Planning
and then later by die city of Eugene.
Architecture graduate student Jessica
Andrews said sustainability is using few
er resources in a process, such as farming
or building, than the process puts back
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Nick Medtey/Emeruld
Landscape architecture student Stacey Isaac drills intensely into a piece of bamboo during the construction of
the University’s first permanent, eco-friendly, all-natural structure.
ASUO exec’s
results vary
Current ASUO leaders followed
through with many, but not all,
of their campaign promises
By David Ryan
Oregon Daily Emerald
The ASUO Executive has worked to keep
its spring 1998 campaign promises with
mixed, sometimes unidentifiable and some
times yet-to-be-identified results.
Last spring, then ASUO presidential can
didate Geneva Wortman and running mate
Moigan Cowling promised the student body
they would fight for a tuition freeze, get con
certs in McArthur Court, educate freshmen
about the student conduct code and
women’s health issues, curb the spraying of
toxic chemicals on University lawns and get
more minority students and faculty on cam
pus.
“We want activism, not bureaucracy, and
we’ve chosen the issues we have because
they are both important and attainable,”
Wortman told the Emerald on April 14,
1998.
Since they took the office of the ASUO
Executive in May 1998, Wortman and Cowl
ing have worked to make their campaign
promises a reality — all except the promises
they say they did not make.
They claim there are discrepancies be
tween what they told the Emerald were
their campaign goals last spring and what
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Rilph Nader ta speak
Ralph Nader, longtime activist for
environmental causes and consumer
rights, will speak today in the EMU
Amphitheater at 10:35 a.m. He is
speaking as part of the University’s
Earth Week celebration. Nader will ad
dress the current state of affairs in the
public interest movement, student ac
tivism and what communities can do
to get involved. Founding the campus
level OSPIRG is among his accom
plishments. Nationally, he helped
found several consumer and environ
mental organizations. He also ran for
president. He is currently a public in
terest attorney with Public Citizen, a
Washington, D.C., based public inter
est group.