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Student leaders seek improved diversity ■ Every Pac-10 student government addresses the need for improvement in minority recruitment and retention By Jeremy Lang Oregon Daily Emerald Members of the ASUO and student diversity leaders took another step toward improved re cruitment and retention of minorities at a press conference Wednesday morning. Student leaders from every Pacific-10 Confer ence school held similar press conferences to ad dress diversity issues and how to hold their ad ministrations accountable to improve minority student and faculty numbers on campus. Two weeks ago, the Pac-10 student presidents had an annual conference, and ASUO President Wylie Chen said diversity was the most promi nent issue at every campus. They passed a resolution stating that there is considerable room for improvement at all uni versities to encourage minority admissions and all levels should take immediate action to do so. At Wednesday’s press conference, Chen, ASUO Recruitment and Retention Coordinator Jason Mak and Coordinating Diversity Intern Jay Breslow outlined what the University specifical ly needs to accomplish to improve diversity. “All schools are declining in recruitment and re tention of students of color,” Chen said. “But each campus is facing different issues. ” Mak said one of the important steps is the working draft of the University Diversity Plan, which is being developed by both students and administration. Although it is not in its final stage, it will eventually set out what needs to be done and who will be held accountable for it. Bresiow said the University is also working on a bias response team that will be equipped to handle allegations of discrimination or hate crimes. “It will train people how to deal with it_It will train people to be trainers,” Bresiow said. He also added that he and other student leaders will continue to work on creating a diversity in stitute on campus. The institute would combine community and University members to help im prove minority recruitment and retention. Overall, Chen said the various diversity pro grams at the University are part of an ongoing at tempt not to lose the momentum created at last May’s protest in Johnson Hall. The protesters demanded the University meet a number of di versity objectives, including extensive sensitiv ity training for faculty and giving student groups at least $1 million to help meet their di Catharine Kendall Emerald Jason Mak speaks about diversity issues during a press conference in front of the ASUO. versity goals. At the sit-in, Eugene police arrest ed 31 protesters. “A lot of the people involved in the summer [diversity internship] program have left the University,” Chen said. Breslow added that, to be successful, student leaders need to take charge of the issue and keep programs like these going. “The foundation is not quite complete. We have the ear of the ad ministration .. *but nothing is concrete or insti tutionalized,” he said. Senate once again rejects EMU Board budget ■ The budget includes a controversial new position in the EMU’s Student Activities Resource Office By Jeremy Lang Oregon Daily Emerald For the second week in a row the ASUO Student Senate reject ed the EMU’s proposed 2000-2001 budget and sent it back to the EMU Board for revision, this time by a 10-8 vote against. Last week, senators opposed a part of the budget that moved stu dent salary money into a new staff position for the EMU Student Ac tivities Resource Office. Many sen ators said at that meeting they would pass the budget if the money was returned to fund student work. Instead, the EMU returned a budget Wednesday night with the staff position at half time instead of full time. While some senators approved of the compromise, many quickly opposed the partial cut, either be cause they thought students should have power over the mon ey or the position was not neces sary to the EMU. Sen. Peter Watts said putting on programs is the responsibility of the students, not a staff member. “If they have a staff member, they’re not putting in the time [or] the effort,” he said. ASUO Vice President Mitra Anoushiravani, who also sits on the EMU Board, reacted in strong opposition to those senators. She said she was disappointed in the low number of senators who had researched the budget, spoken to EMU administrators or attended EMU budget hearings. “There was very little home work done by many of the sena tors. Very few people talked to board members. There was a half assed showing at the budget hear ings,” Anoushiravani said. The EMU will return next week with another revised budg et, but EMU Board member Dan Reid told the senate to possibly expect the exact same budget they saw this week. The EMU budget has to be sent to University’s President Dave Frohnmayer’s office for approval no later than March 7. The senate also changed OS PIRG’s budget slightly Wednesday night, although the group did not lose or gain any money. According to the Clark Document, which reg ulates how the incidental fee is spent, ASUO groups that receive funding through ballot measures, like OSPIRG, can only do so for one year. Last year students voted to fund OSPIRG for two years. To correct the problem, sena tors moved next year’s OSPIRG budget into the Programs Finance Committee budget. 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