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Campus complex to house
single graduate students
■ If approved by the State
Board of Higher Education,
the apartments should be
done by fall 2001
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
With construction expected to
begin in December on a new cam
pus apartment complex, graduate
students who will benefit from
the $4.5 million project said they
are thrilled to finally have their
own quiet place to live near the
University.
Law student Russa Kittredge
said the new 70-unit complex —
created exclusively for single
graduate students — is ideal for
older students who are serious
about their studies, especially
considering they don’t have many
reasonable options close to cam
pus.
“It’s a great idea. The University
needs to do something to accom
modate graduate students,” Kit
tredge said. “I’m sure it will fill if
the price is reasonable,”
The apartments, scheduled to
be completed by fall 2001, will be
located just one block from the
Knight Law Center between Moss
and Villard streets on East 15th
Ave.
“This is really exciting,” Uni
versity Housing Director Mike
Eyster said. “We need a better va
riety of products to offer single
graduate students.”
The Campus Planning Commit
tee and University President Dave
Frohnmayer recently approved
the project, which, if approved by
the State Board of Higher Educa
tion on June 18, will be the first
campus housing project in four
decades. The final approval must
come from the Legislative Emer
gency Board, which allocates
state dollars when the full legisla
ture is not in session.
Eyster said he is confident the
project will get the go-ahead and
construction will begin on time.
Damon Martichuski, a junior
international studies and political
science major who will likely at
tend the University for graduate
studies, said an on-campus apart
ment for graduate students is a
great idea.
“It is good to create alternative
housing other than just the
dorms,” he said. “So many stu
dents look for apartments [off
campus] because they have no
other options.”
The apartments will offer one
bedroom and studio units, all
with kitchens, and have the same
high speed Internet access stu
dents in residence halls enjoy.
Additionally, the rooms will be
quieter than most apartments be
cause materials that restrict sound
transfer will be used in construc
tion, Eyster said.
If approved, the complex will
be financed with state bonds,
which would be repaid with rev
enues generated by rental fees.
Preliminary estimates put the
rental rates around $600 to $700 a
month, but that price may be a lit
tle high, Eyster said. While the ex
act rental fees have yet to be deter
mined, they will be below market
rates, he added.
Eyster also said residents
would not necessarily need a car
if they lived in the new complex
because of the location.
The addition of the new gradu
ate complex may set the stage for
several other new housing proj
ects on campus, Eyster said.
“Clearly something needs to be
done,” he said. “We need to either
replace or renovate the residence
halls because frankly, the rooms
are too small for two people.”
Council
continued from page 1A
The protest in April that called
for membership in the Worker
Rights Consortium also stirred
discussion about shared gover
nance on campus and allowing
students to have more power in
voting on issues such as the WRC.
Giving the Programs Council a
say in the ASUO is one of the first
steps toward this goal.
The Programs Council compris
es more than 90 representatives
from both recognized and regis
tered student groups on campus.
Recognized groups receive fund
ing from the incidental fee and act
as voting members within the
council; registered groups do not
receive funding and cannot vote.
At current operation — before
the changes take effect — the
council is only able to discuss is
sues and recommend things to the
ASUO Executive. It does not have
the authority to act upon any of its
recommendations.
Human Rights Alliance member
Randy Newnham said it is definite
ly a first step toward the goal of
sharing power around the campus.
“It diffuses power from a few
people to many, and I think that
the Programs Council is a good
place to start,” he said. “Most peo
ple that are really, really con
cerned about student govern
ment, and how the University is
run in general, are in programs.”
Former ASUO Programs Admin
istrator Sydney Abbate said the
council was very excited about the
prospect of more authority.
“There’s always this issue of
what is our purpose here,” she
said. “Programs Council has the
opportunity to be a very strong
governing body on this campus.”
With the three new options
open to the Programs Council,
they will be able to begin exerting
more power on campus.
Next year, the Programs Council
will be the newest method to place
measures on the ballot. Currently
there are three ways to propose ini
tiatives. The measure may go
through student senate or the exec
utive office, or someone may peti
tion by gathering student signa
tures. For the Programs Council to
authorize an initiative, they must
vote two-thirds in favor of doing so.
The second power granted to
the Programs Council is that of as
sisting the Executive in making
... it will really give
students a whole other
voice to kind of speak to
the campus.
Sydney Abbate
former ASUO programs
administrator
appointments to various Univer
sity committees. There are more
than 50 committees around cam
pus, Chen said, many needing
students to participate. Before the
job of placing those students rest
ed solely on the Executive’s back.
It was a big job that sometimes the
Executive could not complete.
“All of those student seats that
need to be filled come through the
ASUO,” Chen said. “A lot of
times, they don’t all get filled.”
Letting the Programs Council
work hand in hand with the
ASUO University Affairs coordi
nator will lessen the workload for
the Executive which will in turn
make sure more seats get filled.
“It ensures that the ASUO and
the Programs Council work to
gether to make appointments,”
Chen said.
A third power is policy change.
There are specific guidelines gov
erning the ASUO as a whole that
the Executive has jurisdiction to
change. With the revisions of the
Green Tape Notebook, the Pro
grams Council will have the op
portunity to change the same
rules as the Executive.
However, Chen said, rules are
ever rarely changed. Allowing the
Programs Council to have the
same access to changing policy as
the Executive is not a huge push
for power; rather it is more of a
symbolic action.
“It’s more of a respect given ...
to a certain council, such as that
one, in order to give them more
power,” Chen explained.
Although the Executive still has
the opportunity to veto any policy
changes, the Programs Council
may override the veto if four-fifths
of voting members vote to do so.
Ideas about changing the struc
ture of the Programs Council be
gan forming winter term, but they
were not written until spring
term. When the Green Tape Note
book comes out this summer, the
rules will be in place and thus be
effective.
“Once it actually becomes as
similated into the running of stu
dent government, I think it will be
successful because it will really
give students a whole other voice
to kind of speak to the campus”’
Abbate said.
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