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Court to hear elections grievances
Four complaints from the
ASUO general elections
await rulings
By Jason George
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Constitutional Court will
"most likely” rule today on all of
the pending grievances, said El
liott Dale, court justice.
All of the grievances relate to
this year’s ASUO general election.
The first case deals with simi
lar grievances concerning the
ASUO sponsoring Ralph Nader
to speak on campus the day be
fore the election. Scott Austin, an
English major, and Jason Gather
cole, a sociology major, claim
that Nader was used to garner
votes for OSPIRG, the organiza
tion he started in 1971.
Austin also filed another griev
ance because he feels that he was
mistreated in the ASUO office.
OSPIRG state chair Merriah
Fairchild filed a grievance con
cerning suggestions for the elec
tions.
“One is referring to making
the elections board actually
draw a 50-foot-line around
polling stations,” said Fairchild,
in reference to the rule that
states groups can not distribute
campaign literature within 50
feet of a station.
The other suggestion is so bal
lot measures would have some
one representing them while
they counted ballots. Fairchild
pointed out that candidates are
allowed representatives when
the results are tabulated, but
sponsors of ballot measures are
not.
The final grievance is from
Austin, regarding OSPIRG’s use
of sandwich boards, which
Austin claims are illegal. Austin
is asking for the removal of OS
PERG’s funding or for them to pay
a $25,000 fine.
Austin arrived at the number
by estimating the number of peo
ple who walked past the boards
and multiplying it by $2.50. He
claims that the fee was set at
$2.50 because OSPIRG wanted to
fine his party, the Honesty Party,
$5 for every pamphlet that was
allegedly left in the Carson resi
dence hall. “They are the ones
that started the figure,” Austin
said.
But Fairchild disagreed that
the sandwich boards influenced
votes.
“I don’t know what he is talk
ing about,” Fairchild said. “I
don’t think 1,500 students voted
because of sandwich boards, but
because they want to make a dif
ference on the issues.”
Taylor
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Leaving UO
His quiet, unassuming and
humble personality as a youth in
Tennessee transformed into re
spect and admiration from peers
at the University.
Eventually, researchers and
teachers like Taylor draw the at
tention of other universities that
offer higher salaries, more re
search opportunities and the
ability to work in the largest col
lection of African-American his
torians west of Michigan —
which is exactly what the Uni
versity of Washington offered,
and it was too much for Taylor to
turn down.
Well, that and the esteemed
Bullitt Chair of American Histo
ry, the oldest privately endowed
professorship at the University of
Washington.
“It’s nothing short of remark
able,” says Taylor, who was also
recently pursued by the Univer
sity of Colorado.
It is not without trepidation
that Taylor leaves. He bought a
house in town and had planned
to end his professional career
with the University. In fact, he
was so content that he almost did
not apply for the position in Seat
tle.
“I don’t want to get sappy
about it, but he’s a terrific guy,”
says history professor Daniel A.
Pope, who was on the search
committee that received Taylor’s
r6sum6. “I don’t know many peo
ple who have the kind of good
will toward people and find the
positive in them like Quintard.”
Called a “warm and engaging
guy” by fellow historian William
Toll, Taylor leaves behind a lega
cy of a relentless work ethic that
admittedly leaves little time for
hobbies and a decent host of din
ner parties.
“He just loves people,” says
Clarence Spigner, Taylor’s close
friend and a former University
professor. “He’ll cook up food,
then stand and give a talk about
how much he loves them.”
Research
While the University of Wash
ington gains a senior professor,
the University of Oregon loses its
department chair, a top-notch
undergraduate teacher, one of the
nation’s leading African-Ameri
can historians and one of three
African-American full professors
here, say friends, peers and ad
ministrators.
"He showed that it’s wrong to
write the history of the West
without including African-Amer
icans,” Pope says. “His loss as a
senior and very distinguished
African-American professor is a
big loss for us.”
Taylor’s latest of three books,
“In Search of the Racial Frontier:
African Americans in the Ameri
can West, 1528-1990,” challenges
a common belief that the West is
devoid of a history of color.
The book’s message is similar
to what students hear during his
rich and detailed stories in class
es covering race, ethinicity and
African-Americans in the urban
west.
“I try to teach the way he does,
and I can’t do it,” says Spigner,
who is now an associate profes
sor in Health Services at the Uni
versity of Washington. “He’s
damn good.”
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