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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.
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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.”