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Monday, November 5,2001
Since 1 900
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 103,Issue 50
Marking the new academic year
■ I ne university s convocation included speeches
by President Dave Frohnmayerand Senate President
Nathan Tublitz, but few students turned out
By Marty Toohey
for the Emerald
Pomp and circumstance were everywhere in the EMU Ball
room on Friday afternoon; music reminiscent of the pop
ular depiction of college graduation echoed through the
halls. Faculty and staff in academic robes and caps filed in
procession and took a seat, and then a series of speakers, including
University President Dave Frohnmayer, talked about how far the
University has come in the 125 years since its founding.
It was Convocation, the University’s annual ceremony to
mark the beginning of the academic school year, and it was a
chance for faculty and staff to reflect on the University during
its 125th anniversary.
Frohnmayer talked of the historical con
text in which the University was founded:
Ulysses S. Grant was finishing his presi
dency, George Armstrong Custer had re
cently had his “last stand” and only one
fourth of 1 percent of Oregonians had
college degrees. Since 1876, the world’s
population has seen space travel, pogroms
- and the introduction of television.
“It was a different world,” Frohnmayer said, “but it was in
many ways the same world. ”
Frohnmayer said “this new age we are living in” will be
named by future generations, and the University and other ac
ademic institutions will play an important role in this.
“I would hope that it is not labeled the age of despair, the age
of hopelessness or the age of destruction,” Frohnmayer said.
“Instead, we will continue to think anew. ... This is how we
will name our age. ”
University Senate President Nathan Tublitz said when the
school was founded, it offered three majors: classical studies,
science studies and normal studies.
“The normal studies program was abolished in 1885,”
Tublitz said. “Maybe that’s why our academic brethren slight
ly to the north consider us somewhat eccentric.”
- As the Convocation ceremony ended and its participants
filed out of the ballroom, people talked of the importance of
University traditions.
Anthropology professor Madonna Moss said it was unfor
tunate more of the University’s community did not attend.
“I think it’s important for us as a culture to think about the
past,” Moss said.
v Turn to Convocation, page 3A
University
of Oregon
125th
ANNIVERSARY
A celebration of
University history
Jonathan House Emerald
This year’s University Marshal, Stephen Durrant, prepares to lead the academic procession with
the University Mace at the Convocation, held Friday in the EMU Ballroom.
Student
claims he
was fired
unjustly
■ A former ASUO controller wants
two executive officers impeached for
‘unprofessional’ conduct
By Beata Mostafavi
Oregon Daily Emerald
With accusations of management in
competence and gender discrimination, a
student is preparing to file a grievance ask
ing that ASUO executives Nilda Brooklyn
and Joy Nair be forced out of office.
Senior Justin Sibley — a former ASUO
controller—says Brooklyn and Nair fired
him a few weeks ago because of personal
reasons having nothing to do with his job
performance. Their “unprofessional”
manner, he said, shows that they may not
have enough experience to do their jobs.
“I think it’s warranted,” he said about
his request to impeach the leaders.
Brooklyn, who is ASUO president,
and Nair, ASUO vice president, de
clined to comment.
As a controller, Sibley was responsi
ble for reporting on certain groups’
budgets and making sure expenses were
accounted for every month.
According to Sibley, another con
troller suspected a student group —
whose budget he personally did not
oversee — of misusing the student inci
dental fee. The group had dealt with
similar issues last year, he said.
He helped an Oregon Commentator
staff member locate the group’s public
records and believes this is why he was
Turn to ASUO, page 3A
Fair Labor Association adds
two new university members
■The nonprofit labor monitoring
group’s university representation
will increase to three people
By Allyson Taylor
for the Emerald
The Fair Labor Association voted unani
mously Tuesday, Oct. 23, to expand its
board of directors to include two more aca
demic members. The board, which previ
ously had only one academic representa
tive, will now have three.
Following the vote, the nonprofit labor
monitoring group revised its Charter Docu
ment to say the board of directors shall con
sist of six industry representatives, six non
governmental organization representatives
and three university representatives.
But University senior Randy Newnham,
a co-chair of the Survival Center, doesn’t
think the FLA’s addition of more academic
members will significantly change the
group’s monitoring policies.
“Those who are affected by the policies
are not represented on the (FLA) board. I do
not think the problem will be solved until
workers are represented,” Newnham said.
In an Oct. 24 press release, the board’s
chairman, Daniel R. Glickman of Akin,
Gump, Strauss, said the actions of the FLA
to include more “university representation,
increased company participation, two new
ly accredited monitors, and the expansion
of the FLA monitoring program to include
products other than apparel and footwear
... reflect the deep commitment of all of our
stakeholders to improve working condi
tions globally. The FLA can make a great
contribution to ensuring that our trading
system is both open and fair.”
Turn to FLA, page 4A
Sales of union-made T-shirts
remain low at UO Bookstore
■The Campus Coalition for Fair Labor
continues to promote union-made
apparel, such as shirts, to discourage
sweatshop labor conditions
By Diane Huber
Oregon Daily Emerald
The tag on each of the three styles of
union-made shirts offered by the University
Bookstore reads: “100 percent guaranteed to
be made by workers who have living wages,
health benefits, the right to organize, and a
safe and healthy work environment. ”
Since the shirts were first available in
June, 114 shirts have been sold, bookstore
merchandise manager Arlyn Schaufler said.
The shirts were made available after a
group of 29 students from Professor
Michael Dreiling’s spring term class titled
“Workers, Consumers, and the Global
Economy” formed the Campus Coalition
for Fair Labor. The CCFL’s goal was to make
union-made T-shirts available to buyers.
The union label reassures students that the
shirts were produced under humane con
ditions, according to the CCFL.
“We want students to have the choice to
buy University apparel that isn’t made by
workers who are paid low wages and work
in hazardous conditions,” Becky Clausen
told the Emerald in May. Clausen was a
CCFL member and graduate student in the
environmental studies program.
Although sales have slowed since the ini
tial boom when the shirts were first offered,
bookstore manager Jim Williams is optimistic
about the shirts and has ordered three more
styles of sweatshirts. He said shirts have sold
surprisingly well considering that they
Turn to T-shirts, page 4A