Student Senate appoints new elections coordinator
■The body also approves
funds for student groups,
including University Theatre
By Emily Gust
Oregon Daily Emerald
Senate
Unanimously
and quickly, the
ASUO Student
Senate confirmed
Shantell Rice as
the next ASUO
elections coordi
nator Wednesday
night.
Rice, a journalism major, is a for
mer student senator who also served
as the ASUO Programs Finance
Committee chairwoman last year.
“I have a lot of experience in the
ASUO, so I know a lot about student
government,” Rice said. “And this
is the job I want.”
The elections coordinator posi
tion was left unfilled for some time
last term, which is one of the duties
freshman business major Jarrett
White and junior sociology major
Chris Fosnight accused ASUO
President Jay Breslow of neglecting
to complete.
But as of Wednesday, the upcom
ing elections are in new hands.
“She’s a very diligent worker ...
and a stickler for rules,” Student
Senate President Peter Watts said,
adding that although Rice will be
facing a “steep learning curve” tak
ing the position now, he is sure she
can do it.
In special requests, the senate
granted $7,500 out of the general
surplus to the University Theatre
for an upcoming conference.
Almost a dozen students attend
ed the senate meeting to ask for the
funds, which will help send several
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of them to the American College
Theatre Festival and Northwest
Drama Conference in Anchorage,
Alaska, later this year.
Nine out of 10 years, the confer
ence is held in a nearby city, the
group said. In those years, the cost
to travel isn’t too high.
But this year it will be.
“Our fine arts programs are so un
der-funded here at the University,”
Watts said, voicing his support of
the request.
Another large request was grant
ed to Land, Air, Water Wednesday
night: $2,800 to fly a keynote speak
er from Madagascar for its annual
environmental conference.
LAW approached the senate last
term and asked if it would consider
giving the group $7,000, the original
estimate for a plane ticket. Howev
er, LAW members found an even
better deal that would be held for
them only for 48 hours.
Sen. C.J. Gabbe said that because
of the importance of the conference,
the request was something the sen
ate should support.
“I don’t think every organization
has a conference that is the largest
of its kind here at the University,”
he said.
Sen. Jennifer Greenough, howev
er, spoke against the request, saying
she felt uncomfortable with giving
LAW money when a lot of its funds
Surplus allocation
Requests from surplus granted dur
ing first meeting of the term:
University Theatre: $7,500
Land, Air, Water: $2,800
Leaves in surplus for winter term:
$29,700
were being transferred to another
group, the Friends of LAW.
Watts explained that the Friends
of LAW help LAW put on the con
ference each year. The money trans
fers were simply LAW’S paying the
group back.
In other business, Breslow asked
the senate to allow a transfer be
tween the ASUO Executive’s ac
counts to help pay for the increased
costs of an officer of administration,
a position that is now filled by one
of the ASUO’s current staff mem
bers.
The Executive needed to move
$13, 523 from one Executive ac
count and $2,338 from another —
for a total of $15,861 — into an ac
count that would pay for the staff
member’s additional responsibili
ties.
Other transfers included $250 for
the Asian Pacific American Student
Union and $10 for the Future
Lawyer Association.
Mexico shuts army base,
awaiting rebel response
By John Rice
The Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — President Vi
cente Fox’s new government
closed another army base in con
vulsed Chiapas state on Wednes
day, vowing further steps to con
vince Zapatista rebels to resume
peace talks.
“What is important is for the
government to have proven in
deeds and not in words its good
faith ... its willingness to address
the demands of the Zapatistas,”
Foreign Secretary Jorge Castaneda
said in a telephone interview from
New York.
Roughly 150 troops marched out
of a rapidly dismantled army base
in Cuzula, leaving behind a clear
ing and a pile of wood where bar
racks had stood for five years on
the edge of a pro-Zapatista village.
Fox has moved rapidly to ease
tensions with the Zapatista Nation
al Liberation Army since taking of
fice on Dec. 1. The Zapatistas
staged a brief rebellion in 1994
seeking expanded rights for Mexi
can Indians. The situation in the
state has been tense since then.
Fox earlier closed two other
bases, shut down 53 military
checkpoints, eased limits on pro
rebel foreigners, freed nearly 20
Zapatista prisoners and presented
a rebel-backed Indian rights meas
ure to Congress.
He hopes to resume peace talks
that broke down in late 1995 when
the rebels accused the former gov
ernment of breaking a promise to
enact the Indian rights pact.
While the rebels have welcomed
Fox’s moves, rebel leader Subco
mandante Marcos has demanded
the closure of four other military
bases and the release of more than
100 alleged political prisoners.
Castaneda’s statement appeared
to be the strongest government
statement yet that it may not be
able to meet the letter of the rebel
demands, while arguing that it is
complying with their spirit.
“I do not think that Marcos
could be so naive or unskillful as
to think that only total and full
100-percent compliance with each
and every one of the demands he
comes up with is really the issue,”
Castaneda said.
That seemed to conflict with the
impression of Zapatistas who
turned up to watch the army pull
out of Cuzula on Wednesday.
A spokesman, wearing a rebel
ski mask under a swoosh-embla
zoned baseball cap, used a loud
speaker to repeat the rebel de
mands.
‘‘When you comply with all we
have asked, then we will be happy,
and yes, we will sit down to talk,
but before that, no,” said the man,
who would not give a name.
In a meeting with reporters at
his official residence Tuesday, Fox
suggested the time was nearing for
the Zapatistas to respond, saying
that they had rebelled under differ
ent circumstances against a differ
ent government.
“It is up to the other side to ex
press its will to enter talks and re
solve the matter,” Fox said.
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