Business
grads foster unity
with senior gift
■This year’s gift of a copy
machine is part of a
program demonstrating
school confidence and pride
By Ben Romano
Oregon Daily Emerald
Seniors in the Charles H.
Lundquist College of Business are
making an effort to gather as a class
and leave behind a legacy of sup
port for those who come after them.
Students have been soliciting
donations to make a “Senior
Salute” — a gift of a copy machine
to be placed in the undergraduate
student lounge of Gilbert Hall,
said Steve Zogas, a member of the
Undergraduate Senior Class Gift
Committee.
The main objective of the gift, Zo
gas said, “was to build some class
unity.”
Shannon Dolan, a senior ac
counting major and member of the
committee, said that with the gift,
they are “trying to establish a
sense that we are the class of
2000.”
This is the first year that under
graduates have given a senior class
gift in what Michael McKelvey,
business school director of devel
opment, called “the modern era of
fund raising.”
He said that since the end of the
University’s wildly successful
Oregon Campaign, which raised
more than $250 million between
1992 and 1998, University fund
raising has changed.
“The capital campaign reset the
tone for fund raising and gave the
University a tremendous amount
of confidence,” McKelvey said.
MBA students have given gifts
to the business school for the last
(i It shows a sign of
confidence and trust and
belief in the education
they received.
Michael McKelvey
business school director
of development
three years. This year, participa
tion in the giving program is near
ing 40 percent.
The percentage of participation
is a key factor in fund raising,
McKelvey said.
“It shows a sign of confidence
and trust and belief in the educa
tion they received,” McKelvey
said. Seniors who participate in
gift-giving at the end of their un
dergraduate careers tend to con
tinue to donate to the University
during the early part of their pro
fessional careers.
'“We’re trying to build relation
ships that will last,” he said.
The students behind the Senior
Salute were approached by the
business school’s Office of Devel
opment and External Affairs, the
department in charge of fund rais
ing, Dolan said.
Many other universities, such as
Washington State University, also
have senior gift programs. WSU
has the highest participation per
centage of any public institution
in the nation — 34 percent, McK
elvey said.
There is a drive to establish that
kind of participation on this cam
pus.
The business school is currently
at about 14 percent participation,
but its goal is to increase that num
ber toward 20 percent and beyond,
McKelvey said.
“We’re growing the participa
tion level each year,” he said.
The Senior Salute program has
been met with “a broad base of re
sponses,” Zogas said. “Some were
all for it and others didn’t really
care.”
As many as 40 students out of
approximately 400 seniors have
donated to the program thus far,
Dolan said.
“Forty gifts is okay, but we were
hoping for more,” she said.
The students will be collecting
donations today and Friday at
booths in the courtyard in front of
Gilbert Hall and in the Earle A.
Chiles Business Center. Mugs, T
shirts and stickers bearing the
business school’s logo and “class
of 2000” were ordered as thank
you gifts to donors.
Next years senate takes its first step in active duty
■ The senate filled one of
the still-vacant seats
following March’s election
By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
Next year’s Student Senate
had a chance to get its feet wet
Wednesday night in a variety of
duties including two appoint
ments to the senate and two re
quests from surplus.
This year’s Student Senate
President Jessica Timpany
piesided over the quick meeting
only to help the new senators
understand procedures and did
not have voting power.
After the March election, two
seats remained open for next
r
year’s body. The senate approved
Lindsey McLean to one of those
openings. In similar fashion, she
filled an open seat in February
and served the rest of the year.
The senate placed Devin Dini
h a n i a n
into the
other seat.
Dinihan
ian, a
member of
the Hu
m a n
Rights Al
liance on
campus,
was in
volved in
the protests and work pushing
for the University to join the
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Worker Rights Consortium. He
said in his appointment presen
tation Wednesday night that he
hopes to be part of the Universi
ty senate also.
Senators approved both ap
pointees quickly and unani
mously — a change from previ
ous meetings this year when
prospective members of the
ASUO Constitution Court and
senate were questioned in depth
about their goals and visions for
the University and the student
incidental fee.
With the exception of returning
Sens. Peter Watts, Jennifer Gree
nough and C.J. stGabbe, few of the
new senate members asked ques
tions of the appointees.
But after a while, the senators
became more inquisitive of the
two groups coming up for money
requests from surplus. The Uni
versity Literary Society received
$3,244 for printing its literary
magazine, and the Native Amer
ican Student Union received
$339 to recover costs from its re
cent pow wow event.
Finally, the senate appointed
McLean and Greenough to the
chairwoman and vice chair
woman positions of the senate
during the summer. However,
Timpany said that the new rules
governing summer business
haven’t been ratified and made
ASUO law by the court yet.
The president and vice presi
dent for the year will be chosen at
the first meeting during fall term.
Wednesday's Senate
agenda
Next year’s Student Senate met
and handled various issues of
business Wednesday night:
Sen. Lindsey McLean and Devin
Dinihanian were approved to seats
on next year’s student senate.
The senate allocated $3,244 to the
University Literary Society and
$339 to the Native American
Student Union.
McLean and Sen. Jennifer
Greenough were named senate
chairwoman and vice chairwoman
for the summer.
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