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An independent newspaper
Volume 100, Issue 138
University of Oregon
www.dailyemerald.com
Students vote to reinstate OSPIRG
All of the measures on
the spring ballot passed
by generous margins
By Sarah Skidmore
Oregon Daily Emerald
Students showed their ap
proval in the regular elections by
passing all six ballot measures.
Almost 15 percent of the student
body turned out for this year’s
spring elections with 2,483 stu
dents casting their votes.
Students in support of using in
cidental fees to fund OSPIRG out
number the naysayers by 471 votes.
“The students of the University
have spoken,” said OSPIRG repre
sentative Merriah Fairchild.
“They are concerned about the
state of the world, and I am proud
to be a student at the University of
Oregon.”
The OSPIRG ballot measure
grants $128,000 per year for two
years to the Public Interest Re
search Group.
“I’m thrilled,” said OSPIRG
supporter and ASUO President
Geneva Wortman. “Tonight is a
victory for students in the entire
state of Oregon.”
The Designated Driver Shuttle
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Junior journalism major Taylor Sturges, the Elections Coordinator, takes ballots out of the ballot box and feeds thembrto fterouST^
GENERAL ELECTIONS
RESULTS
REPRESENTATIVE SEATS
*PFC at Large-2 year
Emily Sedgwick 560
Robin Miller 368
M Senate #15, Social Science
Andrew Schneider 470
Scott Reed 389
BALLOT MEASURES
M#1-DDS
yes- 1665
no- 407
M#2~Gardenburger
yes- 1339
no- 885
■#3-0SP!RG
yes- 1437
no- 885
■#5-Elections Dates
yes- 925
no- 561
M#5-DDS Funding
yes- 1441
no- 597
■16-LTD
yes- 1719
no- 396
* Budget model begins
journey to Senate
Some
committee
members
would still
like to see
more money
given to the
budget to
fund higher
education
By Teri Meeuwsen
Oregon Daily Emerald
SALEM — Students can keep their tu
ition freeze and the Oregon University
System can keep its new budget model —
for now.
The higher education budget passed
through the Education Subcommittee in
Salem on'Thursday and is headed to the
Ways and Means Committee with $99 mil
lion tacked onto it.
That means as soon as Tuesday the bud
get can head to the House of Representa
tives for another look over and then off to
the Senate. From there, the budget can be
passed or vetoed by Gov. John Kitzhaber.
“I came to Oregon in 1987 because I
thought this is where the future is,” Chan
cellor Joseph Cox said. “Today’s action
showed me that I made the right deci
sion.”
The proposed budget is about $13.8 mil
lion more than Kitzhaber’s original pro
posal, about $17 million less than OUS’s
original pitch and $1 million less than the
Senate’s proposed budget.
The money would fund the new budget
model that would promote quality, acces
sibility and accountability at universities
and in the higher education system. The
money would also continue to fund the tu
ition freeze.
Ed Dennis, Oregon Student Association
spokesman, said the passage of the budget
reminded him of last year’s fight for the tu
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Convention to discuss anti-gay bias
Northwest Regional
Queer Conference*
■ Today,2to5p.m.
Kate Bomstein and Barbara Canei
las: “Adventures in Gender and Sex:
Beyond Mars and Venus,” Alsea, Co
quille, Metolius and Owyhee Roonjs
of the EMU
Lani Ka’ahumanu: "Is Y/Our Para
digm Shift Showing,” Ben Linder
Forum
Keith Boykin: “One More River to
Cross: Black and Gay in America,”
Rogue Room of the EMU
1 Saturday
Continental Breakfast and Keynote
Address with Donna Red Wing, the
National Reid Director of the Hu
man Rights Campaign: 8:30 to 10
a.m. Room 180 PLC
mSunday
Luncheon and Keynote Address
with Kevin Jennings, executive
director of the Gay, Lesbian,
Straight Education Network: 10
a.m to Noon, Agate Auditorium,
Agate Hall
For a complete listing of the con
ference activities, contact the Les
bian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender
Alliance at http://giadstone.uore
gon.edu/ ~igba/ or call Peter Larson
at 346-3360.
Speakers kick off the
Northwest Regional Queer
Conference today
By Erin Snelgrove
Oregon Daily Emerald
To pave the way for a coalition of
gay and lesbian groups, the Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Al
liance will be hosting the third an
nual Northwest Regional Queer
Conference at the University this
weekend.
The convention, titled “We are
Family: A Celebration of Our Queer
Community,” will begin today with
a series of workshops and will con
tinue with a dance, speakers and a
luncheon. The purpose of the con
ference is to help educate people
about lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender issues.
“I hope the conference will make
people aware of heterosexism and
homophobia,” said Peter Larson,
LGBTA member and a co-director
of the convention. “These are very
pervasive issues and they need to
be addressed.”
Larson had attended a similar
conference in San Francisco last
year, which gave him ideas for cre
ating this convention. A conference
of this magnitude is a task that had
yet to be achieved in Oregon.
“I learned so many things about
activism, organizing and educa
tion,” Larson said. “We thought it
would be really cool if something
like that existed here in Oregon or
the Northwest.”
Stephanie Carnahan, the director
of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
Transgender Education and Sup
port Services for the Office of Stu
dent Life, worked closely with the
planning of the convention.
“I’m excited about the increase in
visibility for LGBT issues on this
campus,” Carnahan said. “I’m also
excited about providing a forum
where lesbian and gay students can
have an interactive opportunity to
learn from each other.”
Pre-conference workshops will
begin today in the EMU. They will
feature the presentations of Keith
Boykin, an African American ho
mosexual and author; Kate Bom
stein, a transgender activist; and
Lani Ka’ahumanu, a bisexual rights
advocate and safe sex educator. All
speakers will discuss how their sex
ual identities have impacted their
lives.
“These presenters are some of the
most active and dynamic leaders in
the gay rights movement,” Larson
said. “We chose speakers who
would address racism in the gay
rights movement and bi and trans
phobia. These issues are apart of the
movement but they are either ig
nored or not paid attention to.”
Saturday, the conference will
continue with more than 25 work
shops addressing the areas of poli
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