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Senate springs for Folk Fest
■Also: The Student Senate
satisfies summer session
rule requirements rapidly
By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
With only one meeting left in the
year, the Student Senate finally
made itself legal for the summer.
In the past two meetings, the Sen
ate Rules Committee has worked to
bring a set of rules to govern the sen
ate during the summer. The ASUO
Constitution Court deemed the
original ones illegal earlier this year*
Although the rules committee
brought a set of rules it unanimous
ly approved, the senate had multi
ple amendments to add and re
move from the draft.
But once the changes were made
to resolve the legality of how many
senators make quorum, how they
should be paid and how many of
fice hours they should hold, the
new draft passed unanimously and
the senate can now function during
the summer.
The senate also approved three
special money requests, although
one created some dissent among
senate members.
The EMU Cultural Forum asked
the senate for $2,500 to pay for this
weekend’s Folk Festival and its
headlining band, Portland’s Pink
Martini. Although senators were
willing to approve the money, they
realized it would have to go into a
The new Summer Senate rules:
The ASUO Senate must meet at least
once per month during the summer
session.
Quorum during the summer session
shall be set at 3/5 of thesummer ros
ter.
The summer roster shall consist of
all senators attending at least 2/3 of
the meetings and holding one post
ed office hour a week or four per
month.
Any member of the Student Senate
may vote on any matter during the
summer session but will not be con
sidered for quorum unless on the
summer roster.
The full senate will select the sum
mer chair and vice chair.
Thesenate shall allocate no more
than $5,000 total in special requests
d uri ng the summer session.
Upon the judgment of the senate
during the summer session, any spe
cial requests for funds that could
wait until the full senate is recon
vened shall be deferred until that
time.
Any program requesting special
funds shall justify to the summer ses
sion why they are in need of imme
diate funding.
Unlessa full quorum of theASUO
senate is obtained, no changes to the
senate rules shall be made during
the summer session.
Source: ASUO Student Senate
fund raising account, a violation of
ASUO rules.
Senator Helen Stocklin-Enright
suggested the money be given to the
ASUO Executive, which could
then allocate the money to the fo
rum. But Senator Peter Watts said
he worried that procedure would
be just as bad.
“I don’t think we should launder
money through the exec, for pro
grams,” he said.
But Senate President Jessica Tim
pany called the move a simple tech
nicality and enough senators
agreed to pass the allocation by a 9
5 vote.
The senate also approved $400 to
the Survival Center for the Student
Alliance to Reform Corporations, a
national conference that selected
the University for its meeting in
June. It also gave $150 to Justice For
All for an upcoming conference.
With only one meeting left in
their terms, this year’s senators will
meet with next year’s body over the
weekend to help them transition
into their new roles.
ASUO stipends standardized
■A committee of student
leaders and senators has
structured a pay system they
hope will be more equitable
By Emily Gust
Oregon Daily Emerald
Students from ASUO president
to International Student Union di
rector are paid for their work, but
until now there hasn’t been a solid
system to determine how much
money they should receive.
Positions within ASUO-recog
nized student groups generally re
ceive monthly stipends. A new
stipend model will evaluate posi
tions based on degree of authority
and time spent working each
week. Student positions are paid
through the incidental fee.
“We really wanted to come up
with a system, even if it just con
tinued what we already had,” Stu
dent Finance Senator Helen
Stocklin-Enright said.
The Programs Finance Com
mittee currently determines
stipend amounts, but PFC doesn’t
have a fixed structure on which to
base its decisions. As a result, con
sistency in stipend pay didn’t ap
pear to exist.
“I think there was too much dis
crepancy between a lot of the peo
ple who held the same position,”
Student Senator Shantell Rice
said.
Both Rice and Stocklin-Enright
were members of this year’s PFC.
Because amounts spanned a
large range, it was difficult for the
PFC to decide how much a new
position should receive.
“There was just such a wide va
riety of pay,” ASUO Accounting
Coordinator Jennifer Creighton
Neiwert said. “It was hard to fig
ure out where to start someone.
Where do you throw them in
somewhere between $15 and
$600? It’s pretty sporadic.”
Rice, Creighton-Neiwert and
Stocklin-Enright presented three
models to a re
view commit
tee, which ap
proved a
multi-tier mod
el focusing on
hours worked
per week and
the amount of
power a posi
tion carries with it.
“We based the three models off
what the committee members
wanted, what student group rep
resentatives saw as problems in
the current model, and what we
saw the need for,” Stocklin-En
right said.
Another idea the PFC is consid
ering is tacking on an additional
$10 a month for experience. This
would apply to people who have
worked for a specific student
group for at least one year.
The model has yet to be official
ly presented to the student groups,
but the PFC intends to do so in the
fall. From that point, it will likely
embark on a three-year implemen
tation process that includes mov
ing over to the new model bit by
bit.
The new system will be tested
winter term next year.
Over the next three years, the
PFC will keep an eye on how the
process is moving along and will
change things as needed.
“I think the most difficult part
will be actually implementing the
[model],” Rice said. “The changes
won’t be too drastic, but the stu
dent groups will certainly feel it.
That’s why we’re going to gradual
ly work it into the system so it
won’t be such a shock.”
Staffers at the Multicultural
Center said they disagree with its
way of determining pay. They say
their group functions communal
ly, and there is no distinguishing
between power levels. The new’
stipend model, they said, will
force them to draw lines they
don’t want to draw.
“Power is a very strange con
cept when trying to work within a
community,” MCC staff member
Mario Cifuentez said. “It’s a hier
archical concept, and we try not to
use it.”
Ultimately, however, those who
have been working on the model
are confident in its ability to fairly
and accurately determine stipend
amounts, and they think that it
will eliminate a lot of the discrep
ancies currently in existence.
“I hope everybody’s excited,”
Rice said. “We’ve been telling
groups [about it] for the last two
years. Now we’ve finally done it.
“I think it’s pretty fair, so I hope
[the student groups will] appreci
ate that.”
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