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Senate appoints Holcomb to elections board position ■ Senators also established new hiring rules and doled out general surplus funds By Emily Gust Oregon Daily Emerald In a confirmation that almost didn’t happen, the ASUO Student Senate approved Oona Holcomb to the Elections Board, leaving just one spot left to fill on the five-member board. Holcomb, a polit ical science major, will fill the voter education position, a spot that has had two members come and go already this year. At the beginning of Wednesday night’s meeting, Sen. Serene Khader presented ASUO Presi dent Jay Breslow’s request that the senate add Holcomb’s confirma tion to the agenda. The senators did not have Hol comb’s resume, and neither Bres low nor Holcomb were present. Worried about a confirmation on such short notice and without any information, the senators failed the motion. But just as the last senator voted “nay,” Breslow walked into the meeting, handed out resumes and asked the senate again to hear Hol comb’s confirmation. This time the motion passed, and Holcomb was confirmed, even though a few senators held on to their concern. “I just don’t think we’ve been given the opportunity to consider this,” Senate President Peter Watts said. “We’ve been sliding, and sliding and sliding down this slip pery slope of bringing people in [at the last minute].” Many senators echoed that sen timent, expressing concern that the senate was setting a bad prece dent by accepting confirmation on short notice. But Breslow said such worries had no basis in reality. “Any precedent that has been set for a week before confirmation has pretty much been shattered all year,” Breslow said, even though he admitted some of the shattering was his fault. Breslow has turned in many of his confirmation re quests at the last minute. 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