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said. “And to have the student
members of the organization say
that monitoring is a long way away
... Well, if it’s not for monitoring,
what is it? The timelines have be
come extremely important.”
The University Senate has set up
a WRC review committee which
meets twice weekly to discuss the
issues, with a more thorough annu
al review set for next April. A full
report from Thursday’s meeting
will likely not be submitted to the
committee until sometime in Octo
ber, Frohnmayer said, but the fate
of the WRC and the University’s
partnership could be in jeopardy.
“There are members of the facul
ty who, if they believe that the con
ditions that we set forward are not
being met, would be prepared to re
view it sooner,” Frohnmayer said.
ASUO President Jay Breslow ad
mitted that he also has concerns
about the WRC, but said any kind
of wavering by the University now
is a poor choice.
“We want to make sure that we’re
effective with the money that we’re
spending,” Breslow said, referring
to the University’s membership fee
of approximately $3,000. “I think
that it’s going to take more than a
year to start an organization like the
WRC, and to sign on for a year and
then get out of it because they’re not
where we want them to be, that’s
not acceptable to me. ’ ’
Breslow has no decision-making
power in regards to the WRC.
Thursday’s meeting of the WRC’s
governing board and advisory coun
cil was focused mainly on organiza
tional aspects, including the ap
proval of its articles of incorporation
and by-laws.
But Vice President for Public Af
fairs Duncan McDonald, who at
tended the meeting along with
Frohnmayer and business Profes
sor Lynn Kahle, said several uni
versity officials in attendance ex
pressed concerns about the WRC’s
governance arrangement, which
was changed at the meeting. In fact,
McDonald said that approving the
articles of incorporation and by
laws should not have been done be
fore the issue of governance was
handled satisfactorily.
The WRC’s original governing
board was six members selected by
the WRC’s advisory council, three
student representatives from Unit
ed Students Against Sweatshops
and three university representa
tives. Several votes at Thursday’s
meeting—attended by 10 of the 12
board members — ended up 8-2,
with the university representatives
casting the two losing votes.
Now it stands at a five-five-five
breakdown, a system that McDon
ald said is still unfair to universities.
“Some university representatives
felt that in effect, universities would
still not have much strength in this
new setting because there would be
voting blocs,” he said. “It seems to
be a very minor improvement, but I
don’t think it will serve the long
term interests of the universities. It
still portends 10-5 votes.”
Frohnmayer, McDonald and
Kahle attended the meeting only as
observers and had no direct input.
Rutledge Tufts, a University of
North Carolina administrator and
one of the current three university
representatives on the WRC board,
said he received a mixed sense on
the issue of governance.
“We got a bell curve, where there
were one or two people interested
in leaving it just as it was, and there
were one or two people who want
ed to get more university represen
tatives,” he said. “It was fairly clear
to us, however, that we did not have
the votes to go beyond parity.”
McDonald’s opinion that the
arrangement will lead to voting
blocs is not shared by the WRC’s
treasurer and board member, Mar
cella David.
“One of the assumptions you
make when you ask for more uni
versity representatives is that the
other members will not work to the
benefit of the universities,” said
David, a professor of law at the Uni
versity of Iowa. “I don’t think there
will be strict voting blocs.”
The WRC’s lone full-time, paid
staff person, Maria Roeper, called
the eight-hour meeting a success
and said she hoped universities are
working with the organization in
good faith. Although she admitted
that she has not been up-to-date on
Frohnmayer’s reaction to Thurs
day’s gathering, she acknowledges
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that the University is in a more visi
ble place than some of the others.
“Oregon has been the most out
spoken against the WRC, which is
understandable in light of the $30
million withdrawal of funds by
[Nike CEO and President] Phil
Knight,” she said.
Knight announced on April 24
that he was ending his personal do
nations to the University, including
a reported $30 million pledge to help
expand Autzen Stadium. Frohnmay
er admitted that in hindsight, more
should have been done to assess the
group’s stability.
“Considering how divisive it is
has been for our community ... we
owed it to ourselves to do a much
deeper investigation into many of
these questions than time permit
ted,” he said. “Some people’s sense
of idealism and passion got ahead
of where the facts were. ”
Those facts about where the or
ganization actually is in regards to
formation are also up for debate
among WRC representatives.
“Things are proceeding about
the way it was hoped from the
April meeting,” David said. “I’m
quite pleased with the progress that
has taken place.”
She pointed out that the WRC will
soon be turning in organizational
and financial documents to the New
York attorney general’s office for re
view and that a nationwide search
has begun to find an executive direc
tor, a position she hopes is filled by
the WRC’s next meeting on a to-be
determined date in October.
Tufts, the board member from
North Carolina, said progress was
made at Thursday’s meeting, but
maybe not as much as the group
originally intended.
“There’s a ‘chicken or the egg’
question here — we have a few
pieces of egg shell and a few feath
ers, but that’s more than we had be
fore,” he said.
1 he group s hnancing was an
other concern for University offi
cials. The WRC gets 1 percent of
revenue from licensed products
sold through the member universi
ties, which could generate about
$150,000. Other funding will come
from future grants and gifts.
The group’s $295,000 projected
annual budget was approved at the
meeting, and David said that ac
cording to her calculations that fig- "
ure matches the current expenses.
Frohnmayer and McDonald, how
ever, expressed doubts that the -
funds would be enough to truly
make the WRC viable.
Industry representation on the
WRC board came up as another
contentious issue and no one con
tacted for this story offered any
hope for that becoming a reality.
“To treat corporations as second
class citizens makes no sense,” Mc
Donald said. “I feel that universi
ties may end up as second-class
citizens here, too.”
Students with ties to the Human
Rights Alliance, the group that
helped lead April’s protest at John
son Hall, reacted to the news of ad
ministration’s dismay with charges
that the school is not doing enough
to help the WRC get off the ground.
“It just seems that President Frohn
mayer and Duncan McDonald are
not working with the organization to
make it run, but publicly criticizing
it,” said Chad Sullivan, who is the
student senate University affairs co
ordinator. “What good does publicly
criticizing the pace of an organization
do after its very first meeting, other
than to disrupt the process and slow
it down or destroy it?”
McDonald said that perspectives
such as Sullivan’s just aren’t true in
his opinion.
“I’m not surprised that a small
group of students with a particular
agenda would have that viewpoint,
but we spend a lot of our time trying
to be of influence and being helpful,”
he said. “You can’t tear anything
down that hasn’t been built. ”