Senate swaps funds for groups, trains new senators
Student groups asked for
and were granted
account transfers
By Sarah Skidmore
Oregon Daily Emerald
Student Senators worked like
jugglers Wednesday night, mov
ing funds quickly between groups
and training new senators to take
their seats next year.
The Asian Pacific American
Student Union, the Jewish Stu
dent Union, KWVA Campus Ra
dio and the International Law
Students Association all request
ed fund transfers to be approved
by the senate.
APASU requested a transfer to
cover costs of Heritage Month.
JSU requested a transfer of $450
from one account with a surplus
to another account to help with
the cost of a recent Palestinian-Is
raeli relations conference.
ILSA requested a transfer of $30
to help JSU with the cost of the
conference.
KWVA needed to transfer $700
from their long-distance fund to
cover unbudgeted local phone
bills.
All the groups’ requests were
approved.
Dennis Redmond of the Gradu
ate Teaching Fellows Federation
spoke to the senate about support
ing an effort to get health-care
benefits for GTFs. Although no of
ficial decisions were made, the
majority of the senators spoke in
favor of the group’s effort. The is
sue will be discussed at next
week’s meeting.
A discussion took place be
tween senators and KWVA offi
cials about dissolving the KWVA
board of directors. KWVA sought
the senate’s support to dissolve
the board although senate ap
proval is not necessary.
Student Senator Autumn De
Poe, as senate representative of
KWVA, told the group of the in
effectiveness of the board. De
Poe cited a contentious board
member as a hurdle for the
board. Hiring, general manager
reviews and other station busi
ness has been halted because of
the board’s inability to function,
station General Manager Emily
Walter said.
Following the conduct of busi
ness, newly elected student sena
tors met in small groups with cur
rent senators to prepare for next
year. A more in-depth transition
session will take place at a later
date.
At the close of the meeting,
the senate went into executive
session to discuss a personnel
issue.
U.S. ambassador to China ventures forth from embassy
By Renee School
The Associated Press
BEIJING — China’s leaders
cried with the family members of
victims of NATO’s attack on the
Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia.
Students shouted anti-American
slogans. And an apologetic
American ambassador ventured
out of his embassy after four days
of angry protests.
Amid the anger and sorrow
gripping China on Wednesday,
no one seemed ready to talk
about reconciliation.
“I think we need to give our
Chinese friends a day of grief,”
U.S. Ambassador James Sasser
said. “It was indeed a terrible,
terrible, tragic mistake.”
Offices closed temporarily and
Beijing residents turned out by
the hundreds to watch a motor
cade bring the remains of three
journalists killed in Friday’s
bombing from the airport. The
convoy of ambulances, buses and
cars also carried the more than 20
embassy staff members wounded
in the strike.
President Jiang Zemin, Pre
mier Zhu Rongji and legislative
chairman Li Peng were shown
on national television fighting
back tears at memorial services
as they expressed condolences
to family members of the three
journalists.
Wearing black bands on the
left sleeves of their dark suits and
white flowers of mourning in
their lapels, each bowed three
times before a display of large
photographs of the reporters and
their cremated remains in boxes
covered with folded red Chinese
flags.
NATO’s bombing killed Shao
Yunhuan, 48, of the official
Xinhua News Agency, and Xu
Xinghu, 31, and his wife, Zhu
Ying, 27, both of the Guang
ming Daily, a national newspa
per.
State television news showed
students holding vigils on cam
puses and shouting slogans
against what is referred to
throughout China as “U.S.-led
NATO” and its bombing cam
paign against Yugoslavia.
The U.S. and British embassies
were empty of demonstrators
Wednesday, as police had
blocked streets leading to the
protest route that snaked past the
embassy district. Paramilitary po
lice remained in the area in case
of trouble.
Demonstrations occurred in 19
other cities, making the protests
the largest and most widespread
since the crushing of the Tianan
men Square democracy move
ment 10 years ago. In Chengdu,
in western China, the U.S. con
sul’s residence was set on fire last
weekend, but there were no in
juries.
Chinese state-run news media
have fanned the anger by gloss
ing over the attacks by Yugoslav
forces in Kosovo that prompted
NATO’s military action. Also,
state media waited until Tuesday
to report expressions of regret by
President Clinton, NATO and
other U.S. officials, some of them
made days earlier.
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