Senate passes two resolutions in its final meeting
A list offive main goals
concerning diversity at
the UO were revised
By Jason George
Oregon Daily Emerald
The last senate meeting before the
summer senate session takes over fo
cused mostly on two resolution,
both of which passed. One being on
diversity on campus, the other con
cerning a corporate code of conduct.
The first resolution, which was
a revision of one passed two
weeks prior, was presented by
Senator Spencer Hamlin but was
modified by several other sena
tors. The details of Hamlin’s reso
lution were first questioned by
Senator Jereme Grzybowski. “I
don’t know if it is in our job to go
into specifics,”
Grzybowski said
in reference to the
many points in the
resolution.
Senator Hamlin
amended the reso
lution by removing JCfiatC
the last three pages
of specifics and modifying the sec
ond page by using a newer “List of
Goals.” The five revised main goals
are a “Pledge of Respect,” a “Zero
Tolerance Policy,” reinstating and
creating new positions, “Creation of
a Research Institute for Diversity at
the U of O” and a “Diversity train
ing program on campus.”
The other resolution, presented
by Senator Grzybowski, calls for
products that bear the Universi
ty’s mark, or insignia, to “be pro
duced in accord with responsible
workplace standards,” according
to the resolution. It also calls for
the creation of an advisory body
that would work with the admin
istration on a code of conduct.
In non-resolution business, Stu
dents for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals were granted a line-item
transfer for $45 from its advertising
account to its printing account.
Students desire a corporate code of conduct committee
The University hopes to
have the code finished
by the year’s end
By Felicity Ayles
Oregon Daily Emerald
Students and administrators
are working together to develop
the University’s corporate code of
conduct before the year is out.
University officials met with stu
dents Tuesday morning to discuss
the code of conduct and establish
a committee to address the issue.
“We feel as a University we
should be supporting a more so
cially respectable system than the
one that exists in terms of the Uni
versity logo being used to make
products in sweatshops,” said
Philippa Anderson, Survival Cen
I
ter co-coordinator.
Anderson said the fight against
sweatshop conditions is no longer
a choice and said she feels the
University should be held ac
countable for products made un
der its name.
The idea for a committee was
first developed in March when
then-ASUO President Geneva
Wortman brought a group of eight
students together to discuss the is
sue, said Sarah Jacobson, Human
Rights Alliance member.
“It wasn’t really a committee,
just a group of interested stu
dents,” she said.
This group met about a month ago
with Duncan McDonald, vice presi
dent for public affairs and develop
ment, and voiced four requests.
The group wanted to institute a
standing committee with eight
students — four faculty and four
administrators — as well as work
ing on a code of conduct for trade
mark licenses, Jacobson said.
“Those licenses come up for re
newal every year,” she said.
The committee would like to
amend them now to develop a
code of conduct for next year.
Another stipulation was that the
University send one student and
one faculty member to a sympo
sium in the fall dealing with so
cially responsible work standards,
called the “Wisconsin Living
Wage Symposium.” This sympo
sium was developed as one of the
conditions of Wisconsin’s own
code of conduct, Jacobson said.
The last request from the group
was that the University not sign
on to the Fair Labor Association
code of conduct, an association
that imposes corporate conduct
codes for a number of companies,
including Nike.
“We can see the flaws of the FLA,
and we didn’t want to see the Uni
versity join,” Jacobson said.
On Tuesday, these concerned
students met again with McDon
ald to address the progress of
these requests. The newly pro
posed contract language is close
to what the original group of stu
dents requested, Jacobson said.
“Hopefully by the end of this
year we’ll have formed a long
standing committee with four fac
ulty members and eight stu
dents,” she said.
Also, Jacobson said it is likely that
the University will send one student
and one faculty member to the living
wage symposium in Wisconsin.
In addition, Jacobson said Uni
versity officials have resolved not
to join the FLA. The FLA is asking
Universities to join the associa
tion by June 22 in order to have a
seat at the bargaining table.
“I would like to see the Univer
sity find a stronger solution than
the FLA,” she said. “I think Dun
can’s decision is a good one be
cause the FLA is so weak.”
Anderson said she thinks the
meeting went well, and the ad
ministrators tried to address the
students’ concerns.
“All in all it was very produc
tive, and we made some signifi
cant steps,” she said. “I felt like
they [the administration] were re
ally trying to work with us.”
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