Breslow looks ahead after recall efforts wane
■ ASUO president starts off
the new year with a clean slate
By Emily Gust
Oregon Daily Emerald
The effort to oust ASUO Presi
dent Jay Breslow came to a quiet
end Dec. 13,
with petitioners
failing to garner
enough signa
tures and Bres
low remaining
in office.
In Novem
ber, freshman
business major
Jarrett White
and junior so
ciology major
Chris Fosnight alleged that Bres
low neglected several of his duties
during fall term, including failing
to fill vacant Executive staff posi
tions within 30 days and showing
political bias during an Oct. 27
ASUO voter participation drive.
BRESLOW
Fosnight and White, along with a
handful of students, had one month
to get 10 percent of the student body
— about 1,700 students — to sign a
petition supporting the recall. A
vote by the entire student body to
decide if Breslow would remain in
office would have followed.
But two weeks into the effort,
Fosnight withdrew his petition,
claiming he had priorities more
important than the recall.
With Thanksgiving break, Dead
Week and finals spanning the
timeline of the recall, the effort
eventually faded away, White said.
The petitioners did not attempt to
gather signatures during Finals
Week.
“I’ll be the first to admit that it
wasn’t the most organized thing,”
he said.
In the end, the petitioners gath
ered only a couple hundred signa
tures.
Some of the failure, White said,
could be owed to the fact that
Bush cabinet choices
bring old experience
to new world order
By Calvin Woodward
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Koreas
are talking to each other. Washing
ton speaks of its “partnership” with
Belgrade less than two years after
bombing it. Cyberspace, capable of
little more than juvenile delinquen
cy a decade ago, now is feared as a
terrorist vehicle.
In many ways, it is a new world
for the old crowd of Republican for
eign policy practitioners coming
back into office.
They are taking a formal look at
that world on Monday, gathering in
Austin, Texas, with President-elect
Bush and members of Congress to
discuss his plans to strengthen the
military and promote a national
missile defense program.
The last time Donald Rumsfeld
was defense secretary, America was
muddling through the dispiriting af
termath of the Vietnam War, not to
mention Watergate, and preoccu
pied still with communist contain
ment. Now Hanoi has welcomed a
U.S. president’s visit.
Although a much newer face in
government, Condoleezza Rice,
Bush’s incoming national security
adviser, made her name as a Soviet
expert in the Soviet Union’s final
years.
Vice President-elect Cheney and
Colin Powell, nominated as secre
tary of state, were steeped in Cold
War doctrine, too. Theirs was a
world of the evil empire, an un
knowable China and Sandinistas,
capped by war against Iraq.
As commander of 75,000 U.S. sol
diers in Germany in the mid-1980s,
Powell kept a photo on his desk of
the Soviet general leading a larger
opposing force an hour's drive away
— a constant reminder of the man
he would battle if a misstep turned
the superpower struggle into a war.
“The discipline of the Cold War
era, in which you had to husband
your resources for the big one, that’s
what’s changed,” says Gideon Rose,
a national security official in the first
Clinton administration. “These are
people who grew up in a world of
severely constrained resources —
and one false step and you can blow
up the entire world.
“The chief difference some of
these people might find is that they
don’t have to look over their shoul
der as much as they once did.”
The Bush team has acknowl
edged that much is different, even if
Iraq’s Saddam Hussein is still
around.
Powell said “the old world map
as we knew it of a red side and a
blue side, that competed for some
thing called the Third World, is
gone.”
“We are in a new national securi
ty environment,” Rumsfeld said
when Bush nominated him to
reprise the Pentagon role he held
under President Ford. “We do need
to be arranged to deal with the new
threats, not the old ones.”
Although out of government for a
quarter century, Rumsfeld is very
much a man of the moment, as fax as
Bush is concerned.
Rumsfeld led national commis
sions that examined the risk of mis
sile attack on the United States and
threats to U.S. satellites. Information
warfare is also high on his list of
concerns.
His group’s 1998 report told Con
gress that North Korea and Iran
could field a missile capable of strik
ing U.S. territory within five years;
his report on military assets in space
is expected this month.
Talk of globalization was just stir
ring when Powell, Cheney and Rice
were last in government. Economic
integration, spurred in part by trade
agreements pushed by Bush’s father
and then President Clinton, has pro
ceeded apace. Now it is a given that
when markets sneeze in one part of
the world, markets elsewhere wipe
their noses, too.
The officials coming from Presi
dent Bush’s administration into his
son’s were in on the earliest months
of the Soviet Union’s disintegration.
They were out before the implica
tions were close to being fully
formed.
“With the end of the Cold War,
there was a brief period of wonder
ing what will happen next,” says
Rose, managing editor of the journal
Foreign Affairs. “Now it’s pretty
clear what has happened next —
continued U.S. hegemony for the
foreseeable future.”
Yet this is a national security team
expected to be more reluctant than
the Clinton administration to get in
volved in crises not strongly tied to
U.S. strategic interests.
more time was spent analyzing
Breslow’s transgressions than gath
ering signatures.
But Student Senate President Pe
ter Watts said petitioners could have
taken their grievance to the senate.
Had three-quarters of the senate vot
ed for impeachment, Breslow
would have been removed.
Although ASUO rules are clear
regarding presidential duties and
what happens if they are not ful
filled, Watts said it is difficult to
get 75 percent of any body to im
peach a government official.
“I think that Breslow has enough
support on the senate to get one
quarter of the vote,” he said.
Even though the petitioners
failed to reach their stated goal,
White said he thinks they got their
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“I’m glad that we did it, still, so
the ASUO didn’t think they could
just ‘wallygag’ around and do
nothing and get away with it,” he
said. “I want them to know there
are people out there ... making
sure they are doing something.”
While the prospect of being re
called didn’t change the ideology
Breslow uses to guide the ASUO,
he said it did make him and the
rest of the office more aware of de
tails.
“Even though they’ve had a lot
of internal problems, [Breslow and
ASUO Vice President Holly Magn
er] worked hard to rectify them,”
Watts said. “I’ve seen a lot of
progress in the last month.”
On the other hand, graduate Eng
lish student Scott Austin, one of the
students who helped to gather sig
natures, said he did not notice any
improvements in the ASUO office
after the recall effort began. Though
nothing has changed, Austin said he
does not have the desire to spear
head a campaign against Breslow.
He now intends to focus his efforts
on academics.
“I guess I’m just tired of student
government,” Austin said.
Breslow has taken the recall as a
sign that people are keeping tabs
on the student government, and he
said he will make an extra effort to
stay on task in the next terms.
“I thought we had an amazingly
successful fall term,” Breslow said.
“We’ll try to keep that momentum
up and build from that solid base.”
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