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campaign goals they said they
had.
Freshmen orientation
When asked about their
promise of educating freshmen
about the student conduct code
and women’s health issues, Wort
man said she never told the Emer
ald she wanted to do that.
“We’re proposing a week-long,
what-it-means-to-you seminar for
incoming students,” the Emerald
quotes Wortman in an April 14,
1998 article.
Chris Winter, director of new
student orientation, said no such
seminar existed. A women’s
health seminar was planned for
this summer’s new students, but
not from the actions of the ASUO.
“I know that somebody from
Saferide has contacted me about
doing a sex assault information
seminar for students,” she said.
Lawns
One unnecessary promise the
ASUO Executive made — and,
therefore, did not come through
on — was limiting the number of
toxic chemicals sprayed on cam
pus lawns.
Tim King, director of landscap
ing at the University Physical
Plant, said the University uses no
herbicides or toxic chemicals on
the campus lawns.
McArthur Court
Wortman and Cowling did say
they told the Emerald they wanted
concerts in McArthur Court.
There was one concert in
McArthur Court. Bob Dylan and
Van Morrison played at McArthur
Court the weekend before classes
began in September. The only oth
er visitors to McArthur Court were
the Harlem Globetrotters during
winter term, said Debbie Martin,
University Cultural Forum pro
gram advisor.
Martin said that to say the
ASUO Executive was responsible
for bringing Bob Dylan and Van
Morrison to McArthur Court was
“kind of condensing events.”
Martin said it has been a long
standing goal of the cultural forum
to get concerts in McArthur Court.
“The main problem is just one of
scheduling and how flexible the
Athletic Department can be during
the basketball season,” she said.
Martin said Wortman was very
helpful to the Cultural Forum be
cause Wortman arranged a meet
ing between the ASUO, the Cul
tural Forum and the Athletic
Department.
“The meeting restarted the dia
logue and got it going again so we
could work out the problem,”
Martin said. “It helps to have the
ASUO Executive backing up the
Cultural Forum.”
Minority students and faculty
Wortman and Cowling told the
Emerald last spring they wanted
more minority students and pro
fessors to come to the University.
Wortman and Cowling met
with University agencies and stu
dent groups to create programs to
encourage more minority students
and faculty to come to the Univer
sity. They set up a peer mentor pi
lot program to combat minority
student dropout rates.
The mentor program pairs in
coming minority students with a
multicultural senior or graduate
student.
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are up to the pairs,” Wortman said.
“They could meet to get academic
help, talk about career plans or
play basketball.”
The ASUO Executive also is
lobbying the University to have a
student representative on faculty
hiring committees.
The number of minority stu
dents on campus has increased 0.3
percent from 1993’s 11.5 percent
of students to 1998’s 11.8 percent.
The Oregon Legislature
The ASUO Executive’s goal for
a tuition freeze and increased
grants in child care have yet to be
realized.
A winter-term Emerald investi
gation of the ASUO’s 1998-99 lob
bying efforts to achieve a tuition
freeze and increase the money for
child care found lawmakers in
Salem and Washington, D.C.,
praising the diligence and compe
tence of the ASUO.
Ultimately, Salem lawmakers
have the power to make Wortman
and Cowling’s legislative wishes
come true.
Jerry Medler, a professor of po
litical science at the University,
told the Emerald on March 4,
1998, whether a tuition freeze and
increased money for child care
pass through Salem, it can be diffi
cult to assign blame or fame to a
lobbying group because of the con
fusing nature of legislation and the
unintended consequences that
can bring.
Kelly Shoemaker, the legislative
director for the Oregon Student As
sociation, said Wortman helped to
draft a bill that allocated more mon
ey for student child care.
House Bill 3256 has been as
signed to the Oregon House ways
and means committee for approval
to go to the house floor for a vote.
ASUO outreach
The number of interns at the
ASUO has almost doubled since
active recruitment of interns for
the ASUO began last year with for
mer ASUO President Bill Miner
and former Vice President Ben
Unger.
Last year, the ASUO had around
15 interns, while this year, the
ASUO has more than 30 students
interning during a given term, said
Kristin Lee, ASUO intern coordi
nator.
Wortman said the increase is a
result of the ASUO visiting classes,
residence halls and Greek dinners.
Dan Williams, vice president
for administration, gave the ASUO
money—at Wortman’s request —
to pay for Lee’s position as a grad
uate teaching fellow intern coor
dinator to handle all the interns in
the ASUO office.
“We felt having that kind of su
pervision would be beneficial,” he
said.
Brushing aside questions about
the campaign promises they claim
not to have made and the Emerald
found they have not kept, Wort
man and Cowling are confident of
their record.
“That’s why Morgan and I ran
for the exec,” Wortman said. “We
cared about the issues.”
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into the environment.
“It’s not negatively affecting
your environment, either there’s
zero impact or a positive impact
by giving back to the environ
ment,” Andrews said.
The bench is comprised of re
cycled concrete sidewalk and cob,
a water generated mixture of clay,
sand, straw and earth.
“Cob’s the epitome of the natur
al approach to building,” said
Mark Lamberth, the cob work
shop leader. “Earth is totally
abundant, recyclable, cheap and
it takes very little skill to build
with it. Instead of someone
spending 30 years and $150,000
to build a house, they can spend a
few years building and pay it off.”
A cob house can be built in a
couple summers for less than
$10,000, he said.
Lamberth said cob homes can
be extremely long-lasting. Me
dieval homes in Wales are an ex
ample, he said. People water
proofed their homes with bee’s
wax and linseed oil.
Today, people are turning to
less toxic and less expensive alter
native building materials, Lam
berth said.
The permanent seat will be pro
tected by a bamboo shelter.
About 60 pieces of Japanese Gi
ant Timber Bamboo, 9 feet long
up to 18 feet long, were donated
by Gib Cooper, vice president for
the American Bamboo Society
and secretary for the Oregon Bam
boo Association. The donation,
harvested over a span of three
days from Southern Oregon, is
worth about $15,000.
“I think it’s an amazing alterna
tive food and fiber,” Cooper said.
“Remember, bamboo is a product
of a thousand uses.”
Cooper said the conference was
a chance to work with architects
and landscape architects, people
who don’t normally work with
bamboo.
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