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Student Senate approves two proposals ■ The proposals covering respect and the WRC will be enacted if passed by Dave Frohnmayer By Jeremy Lang Oregon Daily Emerald In the first meeting of spring term, the Student Senate sent two strong messages to University President Dave Frohnmayer re garding a policy of respect and the Workers’ Rights Consortium. The senate approved the pro posed public policy statement on respect, which comes out of the pledge of respect proposed by the Summer Diversity Interns. It in cludes a statement about the Uni versity and its dedication to free dom of speech, academic freedom and a culture of respect that hon ors individuals’ rights, safety, dig nity and worth. A list of six commitments fol lows the statement, including pro moting a culture of respect, reject ing bigotry and discrimination and promoting a diversity of opin ions on campus. However, their approval does not instantly enact the document. It only urges Frohnmayer, who has the power to make University public policy, to do so. ASUO Vice President Mitra Anoushiravani said the policy only establishes the University’s stance on diversity and does not force individual students to meet any requirements. “We can’t make every body sign a pledge,” she said. While a 13-3 majori - ty support StUdent edthedocu C ment, Sen. senate Emily Sedg ■■■■■■■■■ wick said she dis agreed with some of the wording in the document, such as the pledge of academic freedom. “What is academic freedom? I can’t graduate without complet ing my multicultural require ments and ones, twos and threes,” she said. 1 Sedgwick also raised opposi tion for First Amendment reasons last term when the senate briefly discussed a pledge of respect. At Wednesday’s meeting, speech concerns were raised again that rejecting bigotry and promoting a diversity of opinions may conflict, but it was not enough to sway the vote. In the second rule passed, the senate announced its support of the WRC to Frohnmayer. The doc ument is very similar to the ballot passed in this year’s student elec tion, pledging support for the group, which monitors the labor standards for the production of University licensed apparel. The rule passed with almost unanimous support and senators voiced their strong opinions that the University needs to be a part of the WRC. “[In regards to other schools,] we’re kind of behind on this stuff,” Anoushiravani said. In the second part of the meet ing, the senate approved a special request for $5,186 from the ASUO Multicultural Center for its up coming speaker series, wnicn runs April 4-8. While the senate usually re quires a week to look at special re quests more than $1,000, senators voted to hear the request because of time lost last term to dead week, finals week and spring break. Usually, the senate sees re quests in the hundreds , but many senators said they thought the ex tra money was justified because of the heavy fund raising the MCC had done and the importance of the conference. “This is not just a one-day con ference, it’s five days,” Sen. C.J. Gabbe said. “It’s a representation of a collaboration of many student groups.” At the end of the meeting, Sen. Michael Dixon announced his res ignation from the senate for aca demic reasons. The Student Senate is the leg islative branch of the ASUO and handles financial issues regarding student programs. The Senate ^ meets at 7 p.m. every Wednesday in the EMU Board Room, third floor. All students can attend these meetings. Justices makes it easy to ban nude dancing By Laurie Asseo The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court made it easier for local governments to ban nude dancing, the entertainment in about 3,000 adult clubs nation wide, ruling Wednesday that a performer’s freedom of expres sion can be restricted by forcing her to wear pasties and a G-string. Nude dancing can be banned in an effort to combat crime and other harms that adult entertain ment clubs often attract, the jus tices said in a splintered decision reinstating a public-nudity ordi nance in Erie, Pa. Such dancing is “expressive conduct” but it falls “only within the outer ambit” of the Constitu tion’s First Amendment free speech protection, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote in the court’s main opinion. The ban promotes Erie’s “inter est in combating the negative sec ondary effects associated with adult entertainment establish ments,” such as crime, and was not aimed at a dancer’s erotic message, O’Connor said. Although the court’s rationale was divided, the decision is sure to have widespread impact. Nude entertainment is featured in about 3,000 adult clubs nation wide, the justices were told when the case was argued in November. “We’re delighted,” said Valerie Sprenkle, Erie’s assistant city so licitor. “We dfdn’t ban any ex pression.... What’s being regulat ed is the means of expression.” Sprenkle said dancers at a nude dancing club in the city “will be required to cover up to the extent required by the ordi nance.” The ruling bolsters the effect of a 1991 Supreme Court ruling that let Indiana ban all barroom-style nude dancing under a state law general ly prohibiting public nudity. That decision was badly splin tered, however, and when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down Erie’s ordinance, it said the 1991 ruling offered little guidance. Wednesday’s ruling was divided too. The court voted 7-2 to allow bans on nude dancing but voted 6 3 to reinstate the Erie ordinance. O’Connor said that even if the ordinance “has some minimal ef fect on the erotic message by mut ing that portion of the expression that occurs when the last stitch is dropped, the dancers... are free to perform wearing pasties and G strings.” She compared the nude-danc ing ban to a prohibition on burm ing draft cards, which the Supreme Court upheld in 1968. In that case, the government “sought to prevent the means of the ex pression and not the expression of antiwar sentiment itself,” she said. Most of O’Connor’s opinion was joined by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Jus tices Anthony M. Kennedy and Stephen G. Breyer. Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, in a separate opinion by Scalia, voted to go fur ther. They cited “the traditional power of government to foster good morals.” Justice David H. Souter wrote separately that he agreed with O’Connor’s rationale, but that the city needed to provide more evi dence that its ordinance was de signed to deal with “real harms.” Justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented. Stevens wrote for the two that the court had decided for the first time that, an effort to combat sec ondary effects such as crime “may justify the total suppression of protected speech.” While Souter was among the 7 2 majority in supporting a ban on nude dancing, he voted with the minority, along with Stevens and Ginsburg, against the 6-3 decision to reinstate Erie’s specific ordi nance. The ordinance was “aimed di rectly at the dancers in establish ments such as Kandyland” and should be held “patently in valid,” Stevens said. Erie’s 1994 ordinance was chal lenged by Nick Panos, who used to own the Kandyland nude dancing club. He later sold the club to a new owner, Joseph Cun ningham, who closed it and opened a similar club, Kandy’s Dinner Theater, at a new location with a sign out front that pro claims: “First Amendment Rights Headquarters.”
