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. Senate Presi
dent Jessica Timpany said the
move is not a real fee increase be
cause OSPIRG’s budget about will
remain the exact same amount
that students voted on last year
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