Ad hoc committee faces uncertain future, goals
■ With WRC membership
in limbo, an advisory
committee questions its role
By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
An expanded committee of stu
dents and administrators will begin
work next term on a recommenda
tion to the University Senate regard
ing the school’s future with the
Worker Rights Consortium.
But during the ad hoc commit
tee’s preliminary meetings, which
began earlier this month, members
had to decide how much influence
their group has and whether the
group should continue meeting.
The group has until March 21 to
prepare a report to the University
Senate Executive Committee, which
will make a final recommendation to
the senate. The senate will vote, and
that recommendation will be sent to
University President Dave Frohn
mayer, who actually has the power to
decide which labor-monitoring
groups the University joins and the
length of membership contracts.
“It’s a rather cumbersome set of
processes,” said Jim Earl, University
Senate president. Earl also sits on
the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on
Trademark Licensing as an non-vot
ing adviser.
The process is similar to last year
when Frohnmayer made his origi
nal decision to join the WRC after
the Licensing Code of Conduct
Committee and the University Sen
ate recommend membership.
This year’s ad hoc committee has
a similar goal: To determine
whether labor-monitoring organiza
tions such as the WRC and the Fair
Labor Association meet the criteria
in the University’s Licensing Code
of Conduct. But Earl also asked the
committee to specifically examine
the public response from the deci
sion to join the WRC.
After the University joined the
WRC, Nike CEO Phil Knight with
drew his monetary contributions to
the University, including a $30 mil
lion donation intended to help ren
ovate Autzen Stadium. In Septem
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the otherwise healthy population,
so those people will have to wait to
receive shots.
“It’s sad we have to turn healthy
people away who are concerned
about their health, because we’re
concerned too,” he said, “but peo
ple have been very patient.”
Sharon Harbert, the nursing su
pervisor of health center Area C,
said 350 flu shots have been given
so far—185 to faculty and staff and
165 to students.
“It makes sense that faculty and
staff have received more of the doses
because they’re older and more likely
to have a chronic illness,” she said.
Patty Andrews, director of nurs
ing at the health center, said she
thinks everyone is frustrated about
the flu vaccine delay.
“I think we’re all in the same
boat,” she said. “But we’re opti
mistic that supply will catch up
with demand.”
No flu cases have been diagnosed
yet, Andrews said, and added she
hopes the flu season will start later
this year to give the center more
time to allow everyone to get flu
shots.
Students and staff can call the
health center’s flu information line
at 346-4444 for updated informa
tion on the status of the University’s
vaccine supply.
Members of the Ad Hoc Committee
on Trademark Licensing and
Monitoring:
University Senate member David Frank
Music professor Ann Tedards
Labor Education and Research Center Director Margaret
Hallock
WRC Representative Lynn Kahle
Associate Dean of the Law School James O’Faflon
Merchandising Director Matthew Dyste
Survival Center Co-coordinator Oona Holcomb
Student Senator Serene Khader
ASUO University Affairs Coordinator Chad Sullivan
Senate President James Earl
ber, Frohnmayer announced the
University’s membership in the
FLA, a group Knight supports and
that has apparel industry represen
tation on its board.
“The University’s decision to join
the WRC and Phil Knight’s public re
sponse caused a very heated debate,”
Earl wrote in the committee’s mission
statement. “Many people are obvi
ously very angry. But different peo
ple are angry about different things. ”
The committee began meeting
last spring, but was comprised of
only three administrators. The
group has now expanded to seven
administrators and four students.
ASUO University Affairs Coordi
nator Chad Sullivan is one of the
four students on the committee, and
was highly involved in April’s stu
dent protest to join the WRC. He
said the protesters who spent 10
days and nights outside Johnson
Hall last April also wanted to see
more people and groups have a
voice in campus government.
Currently, only Frohnmayer has
the power to make decisions, and
groups such as the ad hoc committee
can only make recommendations.
“It’s as best as we’re going to get
right now,” Sullivan said.
Sullivan added that, at the com
mittee’s first meeting, members dis
cussed whether the group should
even exist after Frohnmayer refused
to pay the University dues to the
WRC in October.
But he said he wanted the group
to continue so students have a fo
rum in which they can voice their
opinions about the issue.
The group’s next meeting is
scheduled for Nov. 29. All meetings
are open to the public. Honors Col
lege Director David Frank, who also
sits on the committee, said the
group will begin working on three
goals: Becoming the main forum for
licensing issues at the University,
preparing the report for the execu
tive committee and preparing a fo
rum for debate on the issue.
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through a partnership with COCC.
The curriculum of the branch cam
pus will be a mix of COCC under
graduate courses and the upper-di
vision offerings of whichever
university is selected.
Both universities have ham
mered out the final details in their
branch campus proposals, which
have not yet been released in their
entirety, but must be submitted to
the Oregon University System by
Dec. 1.
Central Oregonians involved in
the process said although OSU
had an eight-month jump over the
i
University on presenting their
plan, the race for the branch cam
pus has tightened. Bend residents
are now finding their community
divided between people with loy
alties to OSU or the University.
“There’s a lot of politicking go
ing on,” said Jim Carnahan, a
COCC board member and OSU
Central Oregon advisory board
member.
Whatever the outcome of the
OUS decision, the branch campus
will quench a Central Oregon
thirst for higher education that has
built up over the last 20 years, Car
nahan said.
What’s really at stake is the best
higher education opportunities for
Central Oregon, he said.
Several criteria — determined
by COCC and later OUS for final
approval — will determine which
proposal is accepted, said Barbara
Schenck, chairwoman of the Cen
tral Oregon Regional Advisory
Board. Criteria could include how
well the upper-divison curricu
lum meshes with the undergradu
ate curriculum offered by COCC,
and if the curriculum serves the
needs of the community.
“It’s going to be a very difficult
decision,” Schenck said.
“We’re going to have two won
derful proposals. I can’t wait to see
them,” she said. “It’s going to be
like opening a Christmas present
to see in concrete form what they
are offering here.”
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