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Oregon Daily Emerald
With unanimous approval from
the senators, undeclared freshman
Susan Shauger
took over the last
open spot on the
ASUO Student
Senate on Wednes
day.
“I have a lot of
friends who are un
declared,” Shauger
said. “And even
though they don’t
know what they want to do, they still
need to have a voice on how our
money is spent.”
Vice President Holly Magner
strongly supported Shauger, who
worked as a University affairs intern
in the ASUO office last term.
“She’s done wonderful, wonderful
things for our office,” Magner said.
Student Senate President Peter
Watts added that Shauger is a com
mitted and organized person.
“She clearly cares about student
government and wants to be in
volved,” he said.
The senate also confirmed senior
math major Ken Best to the ASUO
Elections Board voter education po
sition — a position that had been
filled two weeks ago but has since
been vacated.
Best, who was Elections Coordina
tor last year, is joining the board just
weeks before the primary election.
“I think I can help the process
move a little more efficiently in the
time we have,” Best said. “I’ve been
there.”
In other business, the senators
were closely divided when they vot
ed to turn down a $3,107 request
from the United States Student Asso
ciation for an upcoming legislative
conference in Washington, D.C.
Forced to abstain were the senators
who applied to go to the conference.
With a total of five abstaining, the re
quest narrowly failed by a vote of 5-6.
The funds were for travel expens
es, ASUO Federal Affairs Coordina
tor Kawezya Hutchinson explained.
Because the USSA isn’t getting the
money, it may only be able to send 5
to 8 students instead of the 12 it had
originally hoped for, she said.
And at the end of the night, an old
issue revisited the senate.
When the senate approved a re
quest from the Returning Student As
sociation two weeks ago, it allowed
the group to use one of its students’
stipends to pay two other non
stipend students positions. Through
out the hearing, Watts argued that do
ing so was against an agreement be
tween the senate and the Programs
Finance Committee not to create any
new stipend positions this year while
it implements a new stipend model.
It turned out that the RSA’s
recorder had actually been receiving
the monthly stipend meant to pay for
the two positions, and the request
didn’t go through.
As a result, the RSA will have to
come before the senate again with a
revised request that takes into ac
count the new information. At that
time, the senate decided, it will deal
with the complexities of the issue.
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