Join us for the 2001
ruhl Lecture
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School of journalism and Communication
"Spies, Wars, and Massacres: The Ethical
Dilemmas of a Foreign Correspondent"
Nick Kristof
Associate Managing editor,
The New York Times
Pulitzer Prize Winner
MONDAY, MAY 7
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Labor in a Global Economy
A conference exploring the history, politics, and local impact
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Thursday, May 10
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Fir Room, Erb Memorial Union, University of Oregon
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Featuring:
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David Gutierrez, prominent Chicano historian
Roy Adams, Canadian worker-rights expert
Other noted professionals and scholars
Presentation by anthropology students:
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Globalization and Immigrant Communities in the Postwar Era
Immigrant Communities Today
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tices have either been exceptionally
good or exceptionally bad about ful
filling their office hours, the court is
unsure whether its office space is
completely its own, and the only
things the court has dealt with all year
have been election-time grievances.
“Student government is this big,
big experiment,” Raschio said. “It’s
the first time most young people get
a chance to touch power. ”
But this year, the ASUO student
government has not been running as
it should, he said. Having student
government set up in three branch
es is a good idea because, just like a
real democracy, it provides for
checks and balances, Raschio said.
But the problem is that this year
those checks and balances have not
been happening, he said.
“I don’t think the Exec paid any at
tention to [the court] this year,” Ras
chio said. “It just kind of feels like
we’re all down our own separate
tracks. We don’t check each other. ”
ASUO State Affairs Coordinator
Brian Tanner, however, said the inter
action between the different branch
es of the government is what one
makes of it. Tanner said the court’s
duty is to rule on grievances and to
make sure that programs and groups
are behaving in accordance with the
Green Tape Notebook, which con
tains the rules governing the ASUO.
“I understand there was some bad
communication between the court
and the ASUO Executive,” Tanner
said. But Raschio has “got that op
portunity to step in with [ASUO
President Jay Breslow] and say ‘you
need to do this and this.’”
While there have not been any
significant violations this year, Ras
chio said, certain provisions of the
Green Tape Notebook were ignored
— especially things such as time
lines. Breslow has had trouble ap
pointing students to open student
government spots in time, which
led two students to attempt a recall
of the ASUO president late fall term.
Raschio blamed much of the
complications on late starts. But he
added there are other problems in
volved with the running of this
year’s student government.
“It just seems like there’s this gen
eral lack of commitment to the idea
of student government,” Raschio
said. “There’s a lot of committed
people in student government, but
... it seems like everybody’s running
on their own agendas without con
cern for the institution.”
Tanner, however, said that was
not an accurate description.
“We worked together as a team all
year. It would have been nice if Rob
[Raschio] had spent some time in the
office,” he said. “I didn’t see any court
justices at all until the elections.”
The problems were not always
among branches of government,
Raschio said. Toward the end of last
term, the court began to face prob
lems of its own.
Internal conflicts developed on
the court, Raschio said, in the form
of two factions professing different
ideologies. Eventually that turmoil
led former justice Richard Jameson
to resign late in winter term after
writing a letter in which he called
the court a “kangaroo court.”
Raschio also said there were huge
personality conflicts on the court,
contending that “people came in with
a very specific agenda” — and point
ing directly at Justice Alan Tauber.
Tauber stopped the ballot meas
ure election after the first day of vot
ing when five senators filed a griev
ance against the Multicultural
Center’s measure. Raschio said such
“behavior was unacceptable. ”
Tauber could not be reached for
comment before press time.
Raschio, however, maintained
that meddling with the referendum
system, which was what he said
Tauber was trying to do, was not
something the court should do.
Soon the court divided in two,
with Tauber and Jameson against
Raschio and future Chief Justice
Sara Pirk, Raschio said. Justice Ah
san Awan remained in the middle,
he said, acting as mediator.
Awan said while he considered
himself a swing vote on many issues,
he was unwilling to comment on the
presence of factions within the court.
“There are obviously differing
viewpoints,” Awan said.
With Jameson gone, Raschio’s res
ignation and Awan’s graduation mak
ing his resignation “highly expected,”
Tauber and Pirk may soon be the only
two justices still around, Awan said.
Tanner said it is Breslow’s duty to
appoint new justices within the
next few weeks he has remaining in
office. If he does not, Tanner said,
incoming executive leaders Nilda
Brooklyn and Joy Nair will have 30
days to do so.
Awan said he hopes confirmations
to the two open justice positions will
come during the next ASUO Student
Senate meeting. He added there is al
ready one candidate who has im
pressed both Breslow and senate
President Peter Watts.
Although no one could say for
sure, Tauber may also be facing po
tential removal from the court be
cause he has not enrolled in a suffi
cient amount of credits this term.
Pirk will be the perfect starting
point to kick the court’s momentum
back into gear, Raschio said.
“She’s a good person to build the
court around,” Raschio said. “She’s
far smarter than lam.”
Tanner said he hoped Brooklyn
and Nair learn to improve commu
nication between next year’s court
and the Executive office. Awan said
he was confident the two can start
off on the right foot.
“I think the next court will do a
better job of keeping it together,”
Awan said. “And I think the next
student government will do a better
job of bringing people [to the court]
that can work together. ”
Professor Alley, a professor in
the Robert D. Clark Honors
College, is a recipient of the
University of Oregon Faculty
Achievement Award for
Distinguished Teaching. Dr.
Alley is a noted scholar of
George Elliot and an author of
several novels and short
stories. In the years since tlge
award and promotion to full
professor, Dr, Alley has
continued to earn strong
reviews from his students.
There are distinct patterns in ••
their narrative comments,
including praise for his rigor,
insight, and dedication. His
students commend his
tutorials, in which he meets
with each student in
his 100-level sequence to help
provide individual instruction
in composition.
This course'is open to all
University students, you do not
need to be an Honors College
student to enroll.
American Fiction Since 1960
■ Fulfills Honors College Arts and Letters requirement
■ Fulfills Modern British and American Literature
requirement for English majors
You do not have to be in the Honors College to take
this class. It is open to all students with sophomore
standing or above.
We will be studying representative authors from each of the
four decades, 1960s, 70s, '80s, and '90s: Ken Kesey (1960s),
Alice Walker (1970s, 1980s), Raymond Carver (1980s), Toni
Morrison (1990.)
The course will define recent literary trends in our country,
some of them as they are happening now. There will be
discussion, some lecture, along with assigned paper.
We will also see a few video segments and listen to some
tapes. We will spend some time talking about the evolution
of popular as well as literary culture.
HC 311 ■ Arts and Letters ■ CRN 42960 « 4 Credits
Meets June 25-July 20
Monday and Thursday 2:30-3:20
307 Chapman
Professor Henry Alley
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