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Student Life Events
Tuesday, Oct. 16
Meeting: College Democrats host a
weekly meeting. 5:30 p.m. Century
Room E, EMU. Free.
For more information, e-mail
collegect@glaclstone.uoregon.edu.
Equipment swap: The Outdoor
Program hosts its Fall 2001 Equipment
Swap. Bring used equipment to trade.
7:30 p.m. EMU Ballroom, free. For
moreInformation, call 346-4365.
Friday, Oct. 19
Conference: A coalition of campus and
community groups sponsors a
conference Oct. 19-21 titled “Peace,
Justice and Globalization: Community
Responses to 9/11.”
The event will include many
workshops, films, music, theater and
art, including the lecture, “Human
Rights and Arms Control: The Missing
Elements in U.S. Mideast Policy” at
7:30 p.m. Friday and the panel
discussion, “How to Build the U.S.
Peace Movement" at 1 p.m. Sunday.
Free.
For more information, call 484*9167 or
e-mail chouse@efn.org.
An expanded listing is available online
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event information to
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Special fall vote takes shape
■ASUO leaders will hold
a special fall election this year
to discuss possible changes
to the Clark Document
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
Members of the ASUO are put
ting the final touches on three bal
lot measures that will go before stu
dents in a special election to be
held Nov. 12-14.
Ordinarily, the ASUO holds elec
tions only in the spring, when stu
dents vote for student senators cind
executive officers.
But ASUO leaders have organ
ized a fall election this year to pro
pose changes to the Clark Docu
ment, the part of the. ASUO
Constitution which governs the use
of student fees.
In an informational session about
the special elections Oct. 1, ASUO
President Nilda Brooklyn said stu
dent government leaders have been
told by University General Counsel
Melinda Grier and University Pres
ident Dave Frohnmayer that the
Clark Document must be changed
to avoid legal implications for the
University.
During the meeting, attended by
both administrators and University
program coordinators, Brooklyn
said she understood their concerns
about the changes proposed on the
special election ballot, but it was an
administrative decision to put them
on the ballot.
“I understand the frustration and
the questions,” she said. “I don’t
see this as a solution. This is some
thing I’m being charged to do.” '
In past years, students have vot
ed on whether to use incidental
fees to fund campus organizations
such as OSPIRG.
But a Supreme Court case
brought by former law student
Scott Southworth against the Uni
versity of Wisconsin has put the le
gality of this process into question.
Southworth and several other
students argued that the mandato
ry fee system at the University of
Wisconsin - violated their First
Amendment rights because it
forced them to support groups
whose ideologies they disagreed
with.
The Supreme Court ruled in
March of 2000 that schools could
use student fees to fund programs
only if funding was approved
through a “viewpoint neutral”
process — a process which doesn’t
accept or deny a program based on
its ideological views. The ruling
suggested that ballot measure fund
ing was not viewpoint neutral be
cause it allowed funding to be de
cided by majority opinion.
Two other ballot measures to be
voted on in the special election also
propose changes to the Clark Docu
ment.
One would allow programs to
shift their budgets between the Pro
gram Finance Committee, the EMU
and the Athletic Department. Sen
ator Mary Elizabeth Madden, who
is a member of the work group writ
ing the ballot measure, said the
measure would establish a process
for groups to obtain approval for
that realignment.
Program realignment was a topic
of debate last year, she said, be
cause there is nothing in the Clark
Document which addresses that is
sue. Some programs clearly belong
in only one budget, she said.
For example, she said, the EMU
building maintenance program
should be in the EMU budget. But
other programs, such as the Cultur
al Forum and the Student Activi
ties Resource Office, fall into a gray
area, she said. Some people have
argued those programs should be
moved to the PFC budget, which
includes student unions such as
the International Student Associa
tion.
The third ballot measure relates
to the EMU building reserves fund,
which is used to pay for EMU
emergency expenses or other ex
penses that come up during the
year.
State law mandates that the fund
be kept at a certain level. But be
cause of funding shortages, the
fund has been below that level in
the past.
The ballot measure proposes
making up the shortfall with ASUO
overrealized funds, she said. Over
realized funds include extra stu
dent fee money that accumulates
when enrollment is higher than ex
pected. If the measure passes, the
ASUO Senate would approve EMU
Board expenses after the board
spends a certain percentage of the
reserve money.
If any student has a ballot measure
for the special election, it must be
submitted to the Constitution Court
by 5 p.m. today. The Constitution
Court will decide within five days of
submission whether to approve the
wording of the ballot measure. Once
the Constitution Court gives its ap
proval, sponsors can begin petition
ing for the measure.
Any individual or group can put
a measure on the ballot by petition,
ASUO elections coordinator Court
ney Hight said.
Only ballot measures which
would change the ASUO Constitu
tion can be voted on in the special
election. Ballot measure sponsors
must collect the signatures of 10
percent of the student body to place
a ballot in the special election.
Kara Cogswell is a student activities reporter
for the Oregon Daily Emerald. She can be
reached at karacogswell@dailyemerald.com.
New club promotes peace, chanting
■ Buddhists for Peace is
open to everyone on campus,
not just Buddhists, and its aim
is to make people happy
By Anna Seeley
Oregon Daily Emerald
For students interested in learn
ing about Buddhism and promot
ing world peace, there is now a
club on campus to explore these
ideas.
Buddhists for Peace members
held their first official meeting on
Sunday to introduce themselves to
campus. The group is a University
club for Soka Gakkai International,
a Buddhist association that pro
motes peace, culture and educa
tion and also enhances the under
standing of Nichiren Daishonin’s
Buddhism.
SGI, an international group, is
headed by president Daisaku Ike
da in Japan. The group’s member
ship has grown from only 3,000
households to include 177 coun
tries with 12 million people who
practice this form of Buddhism
today, according to Buddhists for
Peace creator and president Mari
Kugoh.
One goal of Buddhists for Peace
is to “help start a dialog of peace
activity and philosophy,” SGI
member Kate Bennett said.
Another mission of Buddhists
for Peace is to introduce the
teachings of Nichiren Daishonin,
a Japanese priest from more than
700 years ago who advocated
chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo
in 1253, Kugoh said. Daishonin
originated the claim that Lotus
Sutra is the highest teaching of
Shakamuni — also known as
Buddha.
“Under Lotus Sutra, anyone can
be enlightened, regardless of eth
nicity, sex or educational back
ground, and that is why Lotus Su
tra is the highest teaching of
Shakamuni,” Kugoh said.
The chant is a significant part of
practicing Lotus Sutra. The pur
pose of chanting is to reach a state
of enlightenment or “Buddha
hood,” Buddhists for Peace mem
ber Tomomi Kato .said. It is some
thing ahybfi6 cbfi’do ht anytime
they want, she added.
“By chanting, you raise your life
conditions to the highest level and
become stronger and are not affect
ed by your environment,” Kato
said.
Kugoh defined “Buddhahood”
as “when you are happy no matter
what happens.” By chanting ‘Nam
myoho-renge-kyo,’ you can reach a
state where you are happy all the
time, she said.
Freshman Samantha Bates said
she has been interested in Bud
dhism for a while and thought at
tending the club’s meeting would
be a good way to learn more about
the religion.
“I saw their fliers, and I saw the
Dalai Lama in Portland last year,”
she said. “I became interested, and
I wanted to find out more.”
The group plans to meet once a
month, and everyone is welcome
to their meetings, Kugoh said.
Their next meeting will be held
Nov. 11 from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in
the Alsea Room of the EMU.
Anna Seeley is a student activities reporter for
the Oregon Daily Emerald. She can be reached
at annaseeley@daiiyemerald.com.