Funding request stirs debate in Senate
■And the EMU will not
appeal its Senate budget
allocation
By Emily Gust
Oregon Daily Emerald
A $750 special request from the
Black Women
of Achievement
stirred a bit of
discussion dur
ing Wednesday
night’s ASUO
Student Senate
meeting, as Sen.
Jennifer Gree
nough ques
tioned why the
group would
not use $350 it had in its accounts left
over from past events.
The BWA asked the senate to help
out with the costs of the Black Her
itage Fashion Show. But Greenough
pointed out the leftover funds and
spoke against granting the request as
presented.
“Right now, I’d prefer for us to off
set the costs with the funds [it has al
ready],” she said.
But many senators noted the
group’s substantial fundraising effort
and supported the request.
“They’ve clearly invested a lot of
time in this,” Senate President Peter
Watts said. “And I think we should
invest the little bit of time to give
them this money.”
During another special request,
ASUO President Jay Breslow intro
duced a new Executive campaign
Wednesday that will ask students
how the ASUO should spend
$100,000 it has sitting in one of its ac
counts.
“We have all this crazy fundage in
the over-realized account,” Breslow
said.
Breslow said a committee would
pick the best student proposal for
how to use the money.
Termed the 100,000 Bucks for
Ducks campaign, it will be a three
way partnership between the Execu
tive, the senate and the University ad
ministration.
But rather than discuss the $999
the Executive was requesting for a
“public relations blitz” to let students
know about the campaign, most dis
cussion revolved around the point of
the campaign.
“The student body would start to
understand their legitimate power
and the way they can affect this cam
pus,” Sen. Andy Elliott said.
The senate also passed a $2,100
special request to partially fund a job
search for a new MCC director.
Current director Erica Fuller is fill
ing an interim position that opens up
again at the end of this year.
In other business, the EMU board
announced that it would not appeal
its budget. The board considered
such an action after the senate ap
proved a budget .42 percent less than
what it requested, but Sen. Skye Ten
ney said the EMU would keep the
numbers as they are.
Election
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thority of the Programs Finance Com
mittee, the senate and a law created
by the U.S. Supreme Court less than
one year ago.
Madden, also PFC chairwoman,
said she first had problems with the
MCC measure when she voted Mon
day. She said the budget figures in the
ballot measure don’t match what PFC
was going to give the group.
She added that ASUO rules give
the senate — not the MCC — power
to dole out money to campus groups.
“If approved, members of the MCC
would allocate incidental fee monies
as they deemed fit,” the grievance
said.
Finally, the grievance charges the
MCC measure breaks last year’s
Southworth Supreme Court ruling
that fee allocation must be on a
“viewpoint neutral” basis.
Madden said the MCC would
break that ruling if it gave money only
to groups hosting diversity events.
But Breslow, who worked in the
MCC last year, said the MCC needed
to list what it currently receives in
student funds, which appears in the
measure.
“According to the rules, that part is
right,” he said.
As Wednesday night turned into
Thursday morning, Breslow and oth
er members of the Executive staff
raced office chairs and listened to
Kenny Rogers, waiting to hear from
Chief Justice Rob Raschio. But when
Raschio called to say the election
would not restart, the atmosphere
quickly changed from jovial anticipa
tion to an air of heated debate.
Justice Ashan Awan told Breslow
he ruled for the injunction because he
hadn’t read the grievance and didn’t
want to make a decision without all
the information.
“It’s really a mockery,” Breslow
said of the current state of the elec
tion. “It’s really a shame that it’s go
ing down like this. We’re at the point
where we’re going to make students
vote five times. ’’The court will have a
busy schedule March 16 when it de
cides on the funding matter and an
earlier appeal by disqualified Execu
tive candidates Bret Jacobson and
Matt Cook, which first put the brakes
on the process earlier this week.
The ASUO Elections Board, ruling
on a grievance filed by Executive op
ponent Jeff Oliver, removed Jacobson
and Cook on the night of the primary
election after the pair distributed
campaign fliers in the residence halls.
But Wednesday’s decision left the
senators and members of OSPIRG
confused. The court ruled Monday
that ballot measure voting could con
tinue because University President
Dave Frohnmayer must receive fee
totals by April 1 to be approved by the
Oregon University System.
ASUO rules govern that elections
cannot be held during Dead Week or
Finals Week. This means the injunc
tion will ensure the ballot measure re
sult won’t be available by April 1.
Frohnmayer is out of the state and
Executive Assistant President Dave
Hubin, who could also answer ques
tions regarding the fund ing deadline,
could not be reached for comment.
Tauber said he could not comment
on the injunction.
“We’ve made no determination on
the merits of the grievance,” Tauber
said.
But OSPIRG spokeswoman Melis
sa Unger said the court’s decision is
not in the best interest of student vot
ers, and OSPIRG will continue to
campaign.
“We won’t stop getting our mes
sage out to students,” she said. “We
never will.”
Check the Emerald Web page for
election updates.
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Education and Professional
Experience:
Katz received his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies
from Princeton in 1990 and his A.B. in Near
Eastern Languages and Civilizations from
Harvard in 1975. In addition to study at
Ferdowsi University in Iran, Katz has also
taken part in language programs in Israel and
Tunisia and has received grants for research in
France and Morocco. In 1990-91 Katz was
awarded the Mellon Fellowship in Islamic
History at Cornell University. Prior to his
arrival at Oregon State University in 1993, Katz
taught at the University of Northern Colorado.
Research:
With a broad interest in social and religious
movements in the Middle East and the Islamic
world, Katz routinely teaches Islamic
Civilization I and II and Politics and Religion in
the Modern East and Civilization survey.
As a graduate student Katz s primary fields of
training included Iranian history and literature,
Sufism (Islamic mysticism) and Islamic
political theory. He has since gone on to
investigate the role of visions and dreams in
Islamic society. His current research concerns
French Colonialism in North Africa. In 2000 he
was a Fulbright Research Fellow in Morocco
working on his current book, A Murder in
Marrakech: The Mauchamp Affair and the
French Civilizing Mission.
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March 8,2001
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