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Business school lacking
environmental emphasis
■ A survey finds too few
environmentally oriented
courses within the school
By Serena Markstrom
Oregon Daily Emerald
Across the nation, colleges and
universities are adapting their
business management curricula
to keep up with environmental
concerns — the University is not
one of them.
According to a recent survey,
“Beyond Gray Pin Stripes,” con
ducted by the World Resource In
stitute, the University’s business
school does not rank among the
top schools in incorporating busi
ness environment themes into its
program.
Though the Charles H.
Lundquist College of Business of
fers courses that touch on envi
ronmental themes, there is not yet
a strong emphasis on the environ
ment in undergraduate or master’s
programs in the college. The busi
ness school received just one of a
possible five stars in student
course work, according to the sur
vey.
Mike Russo, a University busi
ness professor who will teach
business social responsibility this
spring, said there are a number of
ways students and faculty get in
volved with learning and teaching
the practices of sustainable devel
opment, but he says he would like
to see more.
“There’s always room to do
more,” Russo said.
A ^summary submitted to the
WRI by the business school said
that by fall 2000 new minors will
be added in environmental stud
ies and business, The minor in en
vironmental studies is designed
for business majors, and the one
in business is designed for envi
ronmental studies majors. The
University earned all five stars in
institutional support of environ
mental activities, which includes
some extra-curricular business
school programs and courses of
fered in other departments.
Environmental themes should
be taught in business classes, Rus
so said, but it is not a widely held
belief among students that they
should be.
Russo said he would like to see
students come out of their under
graduate educations with some
concept of why it is important to
learn about how business affects
the environment and what they
can do about it.
“I would like to see students
who get a business degree, at any
level, to gain an appreciation of
environmental stewardship and
its absolute importance for the
management of an organization,”
Russo said.
Jereme Grzybowski, a senior
majoring in political science and
minoring in business, believes
that though incorporating envi
ronmental themes into business
curricula would help, the real
damage to the environment is
done by large corporations. Grzy
bowski, who is involved with OS
PIRG, said small businesses can
make a difference, but special in
terests drive the economy.
“The environment is something
all students should keep in
mind,” Grzybowski said, though
he says he doesn’t believe such
classes should be mandatory.
The small number of classes
available in the business curricu
lum with an environmental focus
is offset by student activity. Ali
son Wise is a master’s student in
business administration who co
chaired the committee that organ
ized the third annual Sustainable
Business Symposium this fall
along with Damien Francaviglia.
Wise is optimistic that busi
nesses will adopt sustainable
practices because, she said, “it’s
not only good for the environ
ment, it’s good for* the bottom
line.”
The shift from blindly extract
ing natural resources to a more
service-based economy is immi
nent, Wise believes. She said
what is happening now is analo
gous to the industrial revolution
of the late eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries in that it will
change how business is done.
Because the next industrial rev
olution is so tied to the environ
ment, Wise thinks the University
is in an ideal location to be more
visibly supportive of new ways of
doing business.
“I think it would be great if the
UO business school could pio
neer this next revolution,” Wise
said. Wise has found it is difficult
to convey why environmental
conservation is important right
now. “The one thing you can’t ar
gue with is that we are limited by
our resources,” Wise said.
Wise is also involved with a
student group called “Plant the
Seed,” which has distributed 75
copies of the book “The Ecology
of Commerce — a declaration of
sustainability,” by Paul Hawken,
to businesses. The book details
ways in which businesses can fea
sibly change their ways and be
more environmentally conscious.
Senate debate
continued from page 1A
ideas for change.
Only eight of the 28 students
running for a position appeared,
with one showing up toward the
end of the meeting.
In a debate moderated by ASUO
Vice President Mitra Anoushira
vani, the candidates were asked
questions developed by current stu
dent senators as well as inquiries
from the audience. The concerns
expressed by the candidates ap
peared straight across the board,
with the most common including
knowledge of the incidental fee and
Student Senate visibility.
Freshman Jesse Harding, a soci
ology and journalism major, saw
a lot of apathy from students di
rected at the student government
and pledged to make the senate a
more integral part of the Univer
sity community.
“I think that it’s just shameless
that our campus can’t take that
need and desire to act and apply it
to Student Senate.”
Continuing this idea, Jeff Oliv
er, a sophomore journalism and
political science major running
for one of the finance chairs, said
he believes the student govern
ment is participating in a lot of
good actions but they are often
overshadowed by negative press.
“The ASUO, the things they’re
doing ... [are] not being seen. The
negative stuff is seen.”
Jennifer Greenough, a sophomore
political science major, suggested
her way of getting around the elu
sive perception of the senate by get
ting out and talking to students.
“Instead of having the [Student
Senate] table in the EMU, [we
should] move it out to the resi
dence halls, maybe once a week.”
Ted Ehlert, a freshman biology
major, saw the need to educate
students on what the senate was
doing, but he also expressed a de
sire to see the senate implement
advocacy programs to find out
what students want.
Other candidates responded to
what they saw as discord within
the senate. Ray Suit, an unde
clared freshman running for an ac
ademic seat, wished to see the sen
ate make a strong committment
and stick to it.
“I’d like to see the senate team
come together ... [and] that people
who are elected stay the whole year. ”
Speaking about possible im
provements in the academic
realm, Sean VanGordon, a sopho
more political science and eco
nomics major, proposed that the
University should make profes
sors more accountable for what
they teach in class.
“If half of the students fail,
there’s something wrong,” he said.
“Right now there’s no way for stu
dents to come up and say ‘we did
n’t learn this or this. ’ ”
Jeffrey Read, a freshman political
science major running for one of the
academic seats, advocated for the
needs of social science students who
need more adequate facilities, aside
from Willamette and Deschutes
Halls, to complete their studies.
“I feel that the social science
majors are being left behind. ”
Following along with student
concerns, Eric Bailey, an unde
clared freshman, explained his
ideas to help students, from
choosing majors to understanding
the incidental fee.
“Another way of getting at [the
incidental fees] would be a Web
site, similar to the ASUO’s.”