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ASUO plans for campaigns,
upcoming special session
■ Rachel Pilliod, Ben Buzbee
and the rest of the summer staff
are hard at work making plans
for the coming months
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
In their first few weeks on the job,
ASUO President Rachel Pilliod and
Vice President Ben Buzbee are get
ting to be known as the early-rising
executives.
Most days, Pilliod is in the office
by 6 a.m. Buzbee’s usually in by 7
a.m.
With an upcoming legislature
special session, a long list of cam
paigns to plan for and just six staff
members for the summer, the stu
dent government leaders are going
to need that energy during the next
few months.
On Friday, the leaders met with
Provost John Moseley, Associate
Vice President for Student Affairs
Anne Leavitt and other administra
tors to discuss what the University
is going to ask for during the next
legislative special session, expect
ed to be called this month to re
assess the 2001-03 budget.
Pilliod said student leaders at the
meeting, including State Affairs Co
ordinator Adam Petkun, who will
be on staff this summer, listened to
administrators but decided “to hold
their cards” until they know what’s
going to be on the table.
“Because there are so many
things that are going to come into
play, we were not yet ready to speak
on behalf of students,” Pilliod said.
“Until you know what the cuts are,
you don’t know how many students
are going to be adversely affected. ”
She said University administra
tors, who “feel like their hands are
tied,” are planning to ask for a 1 per
cent tuition increase for every 1 per
cent cut from the budget. They’re
also talking about slowing growth
by raising admission standards.
As more information about the
special session comes in, ASUO lead
ers will continue to talk with admin
istrators and representatives from the
Oregon Student Association to de
cide what they will lobby for. If a spe
cial session is held, they plan to bring
groups of students to the state capital
to meet with legislators.
“Even though we’re breaking for
the summer, we still want to have a
really strong presence in Salem,”
Pilliod said.
Along with the special session,
another issue that’s taken priority
for ASUO in the past couple of
weeks is the proposed increase in
alcohol fines currently being con
sidered by the Eugene City Council.
ASUO opposes mandatory mini
mum fines and supports the use of
diversion programs. Pilliod said
ASUO staff members have organ
ized students to testify at the coun
cil meeting today about their experi
ences with diversion programs and
the court system.
ASUO staff are also planning
campaigns for the coming year, in
cluding the “red flag for safety”
campaign. Pilliod said the concept
for the campaign is that drivers of
University vehicles will keep in
touch with each other, and when an
incident reported to the Department
of Public Safety occurs, each vehi
cle will put out a red flag.
Students who see the red flag will
know that an incident has occurred
and they can check an as-yet-to-be
established source such as a phone
hotline or the DPS Web site to find
more information about the inci
dent. Pilliod said this system,
which they hope to have in place by
the fall, is intended to get informa
tion to students quickly and make
attacks well known.
“The awareness it raises will
hopefully deter crime to some ex
tent,” she said.
As a first step in the campaign,
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the ASUO Executive to the list of ad
ministrators and University depart
ments that receive e-mail bulletins
about incidents that occur, allowing
students to receive information di
rectly from the department.
ASUO staff are also planning a big
push to increase student voter
turnout in the general election with
the fall Get Out the Vote campaign.
During the summer, ASUO staff plan
to go to community events as well as
freshman orientation sessions to be
gin registering students to vote.
Although multicultural advo
cates Eduardo Morales and
Madeleine Melton won’t be on staff
for the summer, during the past few
weeks the executives have been
working with them to develop plans
for a campus diversity education
campaign.
Buzbee is finishing up contracts
between the ASUO and fee-funded
groups and is continuing to work on
plans for the new leadership devel
opment program.
With a limited budget, they only
had money to pay for six summer
staff positions. Five students they’ve
hired for next year will work this
summer. Megan Hughes, the 2001-02
Community Outreach Coordinator, is
also staying on for the summer to fin
ish work on an ASUO renter’s guide.
If contract issues with the publisher
of the guide can be settled in time,
ASUO expects to have the publica
tion out by the end of the summer.
ASUO Accounting Coordinator
Jennifer Creighton, who has seen
several student administrations
come and go, said it’s difficult to
predict what incoming leaders will
achieve, but Pilliod and Buzbee
have a talented staff and the poten
tial to succeed.
“It’s always hard to know how
things will shape up until fall hits,”
she said. “But it certainly seems like
they’re going to spend a lot of the sum
mer planning, which should help
them a lot when it comes to the fall. ”
E-mail student activities editor Kara Cogswell
atkaracogswell@dailyemerald.com.
News brief
Frohnmayerto present
Presidential Medal
University President Dave Frohn
mayer will present Bernice Ingalls
Staton with a Presidential Medal dur
ing a pre-commencement brunch
Saturday at McArthur Court.
Staton wins the high honor for
making a $10 million commitment
to helping needy students attend
the University. It’s the largest
scholarship donation in the Uni
versity’s history.
“With one stroke, she is helping
100 young people each year trans
form their lives, allowing them to
pursue and even enlarge their own
visions of what they might be able to
accomplish in their lifetimes,”
Frohnmayer said in a press release.
“Her gift and her example will enrich
the lives of the entire community. ”
Staton herself only attended col
lege for two years because of finan
cial hardship, so she said she wants
to help those who couldn’t attend
without such aid.
Staton’s donation has already
helped pay for 100 students’ ex
penses this year.
Past winners of the Presidential
Medal are Thomas Autzen, Earle M.
Chiles and Charles H. Lundquist.
The University awards the medal to
people who have demonstrated a
commitment to higher education
through extraordinary support.
— Serena Markstrom