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Thursday
April 19,2001
Volume 102, Issue 131
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Never-ending story ends; Brooklyn is elected
........ _ .. , . Tom Patterson Emerald
ASUO Vice President-elect joy Nair and President-elect Nilda Brooklyn receive news of their victory Wednesday evening.
■ OSPIRGand MCC succeed,
while Nilda Brooklyn and Joy
Nair are named ASUO Executive
By Beata Mostafavi
Oregon Daily Emerald
Nilda Brooklyn and Joy Nair
snagged the office of ASUO Executive
president and vice president Wednes
day, bringing the 2001 election saga to
an end.
“I’m glad everything is over,” Nair
said. “But we’re ready for the next
step.” The election results brought vic
tory to more than just the winning can
didates. Both measures on the ballot —
OSPIRG’s request for renewed student
incidental fee funding and the Multi
cultural Center’s request for an $18,555
cultural programming fund — also
passed, making members of both
groups happy.
Voter turnout was close to the same
as in the primary election — 9 percent
— with only about 1,500 votes coming
from a student population of nearly
17,000. The low turnout seemed to be
mirrored in the quiet that surrounded
the executive office, as only a few peo
ple waited for results outside the
ASUO doors.
Stephanie Chaney, the ASUO Elec
tions Board public relations manager,
said that although the board tried to ad
vertise the election, it was difficult to
get out the vote.
“I personally don’t understand why
the students as a whole don’t take an
active interest in the elections,” she
said. “Getting students’ attention is a
hard thing to do.”
Brooklyn and Nair waited for the re
sults at the home of their campaign
manager Felisa Hagins, along with
about 10 other supporters. Close to 6
p.m., nearly an hour after the voting
deadline had passed, they received a
phone call with the news that they had
won.
“We were like ‘Oh my god, we final
ly did it,’” Nair said.
With 844 votes, the pair beat oppo
nents Bret Jacobson and Matt Cook by
Turn to Election, page 8
OSU not ‘Bend-ing’ toward
cooperative branch effort
■University Provost Moseley says he
is opti m istic that the two col leges will
wo rk th i ngs out to create the best
Central Oregon curriculum possible
By Andrew Adams
Oregon Daily Emerald
When the State Board of Higher Education
decided Feb. 16 to award Oregon State Univer
sity the privilege of managing the branch cam
pus in Bend, it also told the OSU administra
tion to work with the University of Oregon in a
collaborative effort to give Central Oregon the'
best higher education institution possible.
Following the board’s February meeting,
both universities’ provosts pledged to work
with each other in that joint effort. But now,
two months later, University Provost John
Moseley says there could have been more effort
from OSU to ensure the University was on the
same page throughout the planning process.
The board will meet Friday at Western Ore
gon University in Monmouth to discuss plans
for the Bend campus, and Moseley said he did
n’t want “to create problems” by being too crit
ical. He said most of the questions the Univer
sity has with OSU’s plans could be just
semantics. He added he was optimistic the
concerns will be resolved either at the board’s
meeting or before it.
But when asked if the collaborative spirit
mandated by the board had been present
throughout the development of the plans for
the Bend branch campus, Moseley said it had
not.
“That has not happened at this point,” he
said.
Moseley said the two schools are now “try
ing to deal with things that should have been
dealt with earlier” because of the low amount
of cooperation.
Yet Moseley said he remains optimistic the
kinks will be ironed out between the Universi
ty and OSU and the two will be able to offer
Turn to Bend, page 5
‘Zero’ tolerance leads
to mock awards by MCC
■ 11 “Zero Awa rds” a re awa rded
to University departments for their
lack of tenured minority faculty
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
If diversity can be measured in numbers,
then many University departments may need
to re-evaluate their hiring policies.
The Multicultural Center presented 11 Uni
versity departments with a “Zero Award”
Wednesday for having no tenure or tenure
tracked faculty members of color. The awards
were announced and posted from 11 a.m. to
3 p.m. in the EMU Amphitheater as part of
this week’s Dr. Edwin Coleman Conference
events.
Multicultural Center resource director
Abby Lovett said she hoped the third annual
event would “encourage departments to hire
outside the majority.”
Departments receiving Zero Awards in
eluded political science, economics, theatre
arts, and geography. Zero Awards were also
given to the departments of planning, public
policy and management, arts and administra
tion, landscape architecture, and Germanic
languages and literature. The School of
Dance, the School of Music, and the Honors
College were other recipients.
Sophomore Nilda Brooklyn, who is con
sidering a major in planning, public policy
and management, said she was disappointed
to see that department included in the
awards.
“It makes me stop and think if it’s a depart
ment that will prepare me for the things I
want to do after college,” Brooklyn said.
For some departments, the lack of a diverse
faculty is a result of unavoidable factors. Hon
ors College Director David Frank said because
his department is small, its ability to hire new
professors is limited. The last time the depart
ment hired a new faculty member was 15
Turn to Awards, page 5
New social club open to gay community in Eugene
The Eugene
Lesbian/Gay/
Bisexual
20s/30s
Social Club
provides
laid-back
social events
beyond
the bar scene
By Lindsay Buchele
Oregon Daily Emerald
Steve Jarvis said he was tired of
the almost nonexistent gay, lesbian
and bisexual social scene in Eu
gene, so he took it upon himself to
begin a social club that stretches be
yond the bar scene. His new ven
ture will allow gay, lesbian and bi
sexuals in their 20s and 30s the
opportunity to plan social events
exclusively for them.
“I got tired of waiting for some
one else to do this,” Jarvis said. “I
wanted to connect and go out with
a group with people like me.”
Jarvis said since gays, lesbians
and bisexuals have become more
socially accepted in the past 10
years, there has been a growing
need for a more diverse social
scene.
“Fifteen years ago, bars were the
big thing for homosexuals,” Jarvis
said. “The bar scene is just not the
thing anymore.”
The group, called The Eugene
Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual 20s/30s So
cial Club, is mostly being run
through a Web site. The site features
a calendar listing upcoming events
and contact information, including
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an e-mail list that allows people to
plan social events and have them
posted.
The only restrictions of the club
are that those who plan events must
be between the ages of 20 and 39
and must identify as'a gay, lesbian
or bisexual.
“I liked the concept of the age
group and creating an environment
of people who can identify with
each other,” Jarvis said.
The group had its first social
event April 10 at a local pizza
restaurant, with a turnout of 13 peo
ple, Jarvjs said.
Mick Westerick, the director of
technology at the Charles H.
Lundquist College of Business, at
tended the first meeting and is try
ing to plan a regular Sunday break
fast for the group.
“It was nice to be with a group
that includes both men and
women,” Westerick said. “Often
times these groups will be restrict
ed to just gays or just lesbians.”
Westerick believes the group also
provides a unique opportunity for
gays, lesbians and bisexuals in Eu
gene.
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