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.
In other business, the senate
voted to adopt Executive hiring
rules — with only slight amend
ments.
Finally, the senate doled out a
total of $5,981 out of the $67,925 it
had remaining in the general sur
plus. Four thousand dollars went
to the Holistic Options for Planet
Earth for its upcoming conference,
and the rest was given to the Exec
utive for Disability Awareness
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