Executive candidate takes on campaign strain
■ Eric Bailey faces an ASUO
grievance in addition to
accusations of removing a
competitor’s campaign fliers
By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
An ongoing Student Senate griev
ance and allegations of improper
campaigning have made for a tough
week for ASUO Executive candi
date Eric Bai
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But Bailey
called the
grievance a
poorly timed
political attack
in which he
has been un
fairly targeted.
BAILEY
He also denies
the claim by
fellow candidate Bret Jacobson
that the Bailey campaign has been
removing Jacobson’s posters from
campus and replacing them with
their own.
Matt Swanson, Elections Board
office manager, filed the grievance
at Wednesday night’s Student Sen
ate meeting. Before he took the job
on the elections board, Swanson
had been temporarily hired as an
administrative assistant at the be
ginning of winter term, writing
minutes for senate and Programs
Finance Committee meetings.
He applied for the job full-time
and said he was not asked the same
questions as other candidates when
he was interviewed by Bailey, who
is also senate vice president, and
fellow Sens. Mary Elizabeth Mad
den and Jennifer Greenough. The
trio comprise the senate hiring com
mittee.
Swanson said the hiring commit
tee inappropriately assumed they
knew his qualifications and didn’t
ask any questions about them like
they did to other candidates.
“I didn’t necessarily expect to get
the job, but I did expect a fair
process,” Swanson said. “Obvious
ly, I didn’t apply for it for fun. I do
need the work.”
But Senate President Peter Watts
said the grievance may move out of
the senate or disappear altogether.
He said Swanson apparently filed it
based on Executive hiring rules,
and no specific senate hiring rules
exist.
Watts sent the grievance to the
ASUO Constitution Court for guid
ance on whether to use Executive
rules and, if not, what rules the
group should follow.
Watts said he wouldn’t comment
on the particulars of the grievance
until the court gave him an answer.
Chief Justice Rob Raschio said the
court should make a decision this
week.
But Bailey said he thinks that the
timing of the election and that a
member of the impartial elections
board filed the grievance add up to a
situation fueled by personal politics.
He said that he didn’t know the griev
ance was going to be discussed at the
senate meeting or who wrote it.
“I was totally blindsided at the
meeting, [and] it’s a conflict of inter
est for [Swanson],” Bailey said. “I’m
also the only one on the committee
targeted.”
Bailey said the hiring committee
didn’t need to ask Swanson about
his qualifications because they
knew them already from working
with him.
Swanson said that with his current
job on the elections board, he doesn’t
want to get the administrative assis
tant job now. He just wants the
process to be the same for everyone.
“It’s not a political situation, just
an examination of the process,”
Swanson said. "It’s not a judgment
of the people involved. ”
Swanson said he might re-file
with the Executive because the de
cision is based specifically on Exec
utive hiring practices.
While the future of the grievance
is decided, the Bailey campaign is
also facing allegations that they
have been removing other candi
dates’ posters and replacing them
with their own.
Candidate Bret Jacobson said he
believed posters for him and his
running mate, Matt Cook, were be
ing torn down on campus and re
placed with other posters. On
Wednesday evening, they put up a
new batch and kept a detailed list of
which posters were placed where.
Jacobson said many of them had
disappeared and been replaced
Thursday morning by posters for
Bailey and his running mate, Jeff
Oliver. Although he hasn’t caught
anyone or filed a grievance with the
elections board, Jacobson said he
was hoping this year would be a
“clean election.”
“We’re just going to keep putting
our message out,” he said. “We’ll
leave the dirty politics to other cam
paigns.”
Swanson, who ran for the Execu
tive two years ago, said allegations
of poster problems happen every
election. The elections board sent
an e-mail to all candidates address
ing the issue, but Swanson said
there is little more the board can do
without a formal complaint filed.
But Bailey said that although he
can’t speak for everyone, he knows
neither he nor Oliver has pulled
signs down. He added that he
thinks some of his posters have dis
appeared in the past weeks also.
Bailey is dealing with these prob
lems as he continues to fill his role as
senate vice president, but there are a
couple of duties he has yet to fulfill,
including maintaining the senate’s
Web page with meeting minutes, sub
mitting press releases concerning
senate events and keeping a working
relationship with the Emerald. None
of the three has happened.
Bailey said he hasn’t worked on
the senate Web page because PFC
member Aaron Week volunteered
to maintain the page. But when the
position for administrative assistant
opened, it was Watts, not Bailey,
who arranged for an Emerald adver
tisement.
Bailey said he wasn’t aware of the
senate rule requiring him to maintain
a relationship with the newspaper
but he hopes to during the election.
Florida blacks believe their votes were unfairlv rejected
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A
majority of Florida’s black voters be
lieve their ballots were unfairly re
jected in November at a higher rate
than those cast by voters of other
races, and an even larger number
think the election’s loser is now
president, according to a poll.
Ninety-one percent of the respon
dents said they believe Al Gore won
the election over George W. Bush,
according to the poll conducted for
The St. Petersburg Times.
Regardless of education or gen
der, “if you are an African-Ameri
can you believe Al Gore is the legiti
mate victor in Florida and the
legitimate president of the United
States,” said pollster Rob Schroth.
The telephone survey of 600
black registered voters, conducted
by Washington-based Schroth & As
sociates on Feb. 3-5, has a margin of
error of plus or minus 4 percentage
points.
Eighty-four percent of those polled
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now pays people like Jung to keep the
art alive.
There are currently 200,000 peo
ple in Korea who are being trained
in Taek Gyeon by Jung and his pred
ecessors.
Unlike most martial arts, Taek
Gyeon uses more than two dis
tances for combat.
“There are three or more distances
used in Taek Gyeon: punching dis
tance, kicking distance, grabbing dis
tance and throwing distance,” Hyong
said. “Most martial arts just use
punching and kicking.”
Jung added that Taek Gyeon can
be practiced by everyone because of
the emphasis on the art form as well
as mental development.
“There is less gender, age and so
cial status requirements,” Jung said.
“Anyone can practice for health or
other reasons.”
Jung said he has found fulfillment
in practicing Taek Gyeon.
“I am rewarded by the pride and
respect I get from people,” Jung
said. “By mastering the art, I have
been able to develop a respect for
others and consider their lives and
how I can help them. My cultivation
can be extended to others.”
Greathouse, who trained in Tae
Kwon Do under Hyong’s instruc
tion, said Hyong made contact with
Jung because of his Korean heritage
and that of his own teachers. They
formed the American Taek Gyeon
Association, which guarantees that
Jung will come to America each
year to train martial artists.
Greathouse took 16 of his stu
dents to Korea last summer to train
with Jung. Greathouse’s students
expressed excitement over Jung’s
visit and his abilities.
Martial arts clinics
Grand Master Kyung-Hwa Jung will
conduct martial arts clinics at the
Eugene HMD Academy, located at
the corner of West Second Avenue
and Lawrence Street. The clinics will
be held Monday through Thursday
from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
The clinics will be open to the pub
lic, and costs are:
• $25 for any one day
• $40 for any two days
• $50 for any three days
• $60 forall four days
For more information, call the Eu
gene HMD Academy at 345-4132.
“It’s funny because so many peo
ple have come to see him perform,
and we actually trained with him,”
said Shanti Rios, one of
Greathouse’s students. “It was such
a huge honor.”
Another student, Scott McNulty,
said the dedication of Koreans to
Taek Gyeon is amazing.
“Korean kids start training when
they’re 4 years old,” McNulty said.
“By the time they’re high school
age, they’re black belts. ”
Jung said it takes time for one to
get to the level to teach but the learn
ing process itself is continual.
“It takes three years to get the ba
sics, 10,000 days to become a master
or teacher, but beyond that, the
learning is endless,” Jung said.
Jung will at least be able to teach
some basics to Eugene residents
during his stay, which will extend
through Sunday. His last days will
be spent as a tourist in a city he de
scribes as “comfortable.”
“I feel people in Eugene have a
close relationship with one anoth
er,” Jung said. “It’s very family-like.”
said they believe a greater proportion
of ballots cast by blacks were reject
ed or not counted than those cast by
voters of other races, the Times re
ported in Sunday’s editions.
And 40 percent said they believe
that’s because of a “coordinated ef
fort by state government to make it
more difficult for African-Ameri
cans to vote.”
Gov. Jeb Bush, the new presi
dent’s brother, denied that claim.
“The reality is that state govern
ment doesn’t run elections,” Bush
told the Times. “The perception is
one thing and the reality is some
thing else.”
George W. Bush won Florida, and
thus the election, when the U.S.
Supreme Court stopped the state’s
recounts five weeks after the elec
tion. He carried Florida by 537 votes
out of 6 million cast.
Thirty-six percent of those polled
said they believed the governor was
the most important factor in his
brother’s victory.
Also, nearly three-fourths of the
state’s black voters describe the cur
rent state of race relations in Florida
as “not so good” or “not good at all,”
and a quarter think race relations
are worse now than they were be
fore Jeb Bush was elected governor.
Thirteen percent of the black vot
ers polled gave a favorable personal
approval rating of the Florida gov
ernor, compared to 60 percent of the
overall population.
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