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Student Senate elects 2002 officers Student representatives also heard requests from campus groups at Wednesday^ meeting Jan Montry Campus/Federal Politics Reporter The ASUO Student Senate met Wednesday for its weekly meeting, hearing special requests and voting for senate officers. Jackie Lynn Ray, Seat 13, was elected senate president over Eric Bailey, Seat 12. Ray hopes to work with the ASUO Executive on a close basis, as well as make students more aware of the programs and services available to them. Kate Kranzush, Seat 7, ran unop posed and was elected vice presi dent. Kranzush hopes to work with Ray to implement goals set at a fi nance retreat. Andrew Elliott, Seat 18, was elect ed ombudsman, beating Tex Arnold, Seat 16, and Levi Strom, Seat 14. El liott said he will work to have an effi ciently-run senate and read a poem to express his platform. Michael Linman, Seat 17, ran unop posed and was elected treasurer. Lin man said he will use his finance knowl edge to efficiently run the position. The Black Student Union made two special requests for their fall re ception Oct. 17 — an event open to ail students to meet and get to know one another. The first request was to release 8200 from the group’s food holding account to pay for food at the event. The second request was to transfer the remaining 850 from food to pay for a trip to Skateworld after the event. Both requests passed 14-1, with one absent senator. During the food transfers, the sen ate debated whether a PFG request last year to refrain from moving funds from food accounts to other accounts should be taken into consideration. Freedom of Expression. Sign up for AT&T Long Distance and get up to 4 hours of calling on us! Choose AT&T for Long Distance when you sign up for local phone service. Then call 1 877-COLLEGE to add the AT&T One Rate 7< Plus Plan and get up to 4 hours of FREE calling. 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The group is sponsoring a se f ries of talks, speakers and workshops 2 with the theme “language endanger , ment and language revitalization. ” Due to discrepancies on the spe cial request, the senate tabled it until t next week, where GLOSS will submit s an amended request, s The Executive requested $24,418 to create two new receptionist positions: 1 one student and one nonstudent. According to the Executive, the two new positions are needed because of extra duties that ASUO office staff must undertake, as well as the enroll ment increase, which means more people are visiting the ASUO office. Both requests passed 14-1. The senate also voted 14-1 to move $3,195 from the surplus to the Kultura Pilipinas. The senate voted in favor of the request last week, but because it included money for food, had to recall the request. Contact the senior reporter atjanmontry@dailyemerald.com. GPA continued from page 1 that the school is serious in its ef forts to deter grade inflation. “This is not a request,” Meeske said. “This is a ‘You do it or else.”’ But for James Terborg, who fre quently teaches MGMT 321 — a re quirement for all business majors — the grading guidelines are recom mendations and nothing else. “This is the case where it is a guideline and not a requirement,” said Terborg, who has been at the University since 1980. “That’s my interpretation.” The guidelines, which have not previously been made public to stu demic commitment, Dean Tim Glea son said officials work to monitor grade inflation on a quarterly basis, but haven’t implemented any writ ten policy to prevent its existence. Gleason wouldn’t comment di rectly on the business school’s guidelines, but did say that as an in structor, he believes evaluation should reflect the quality of work. “I think it’s important that there be distinctions,” he said. The business school’s dean, two assistant deans and five department heads — known as the Executive Council — voted this summer to im plement the new standards. Previ ously, there was no such written pol icy on grading, although King said _ individual de ui uiv. L/uomvoo school, were imple mented to preempt potential problems. While King said grade inflation hasn’t been a significant problem in the college, it is some thing that has been monitored. Citing a rise in GPAs at some of the nation’s most "This action was to prevent some of the problems that occur at other schools " Ray King business school associate dean partments with in the college had guidelines. The council first notified fac ulty and gradu ate teaching fel lows about the guidelines Sept. 3 via a letter dis tributed within -1 T„ prestigious institutions, King said the new standards should create a sense of authenticity to academic merits given from the University’s business school. “This action was to prevent some of the problems that occur at other schools,” he said. Unsure if the decision to imple ment such standards is a pioneering achievement at the University, King did say he wouldn’t be surprised if it was a University first. At the School of Journalism and Communication, the University’s most similar college in size and aca Senate continued from page 1 — that is, the trend of privatiza tion,” he said. The meeting, which is usually a forum for members to debate poli cies and vote on issues, was largely an opportunity for speakers such as McLauchlan, Vice President for Academic Affairs Lorraine Davis and Professor Lowell Bowditch to share ideas and issues to consider during the year. Presentations varied from a discussion of a higher education reform act currently being con sidered by the Oregon University System to ways to advertise for academic departments during Duck football games. Bowditch, reporting on the results of the senate’s annual leadership caucus, encouraged faculty to consider all possible ways to raise funds for depart ments on campus. “We shouldn’t let assumptions of what donors might or might not give shape our goals,” said Bowditch, adding that perhaps donors would be just as happy giving money to the sociology department as the music .school. . the letter, the council recognized that variation in student abilities does exist, but noted the guidelines should be broad enough to accom modate objective grading. “One of the most important roles students and society expect of teach ers and educational institutions is the evaluation of student learning and achievement,” the letter said. “If we fail to make these useful and im portant distinctions, our contribu tion and value will be debased.” Contact the senior news reporter at bradschmidt@dailyemerald.com. She added that a senate com mittee was considering recom mending a possible “donor tax” so money to the Athletic Department or football program would be taxed and a part of it used for academic programs. As the meeting wound to a close, campus gadfly Bruce Miller walked in and asked if he could speak during the meeting. McLauchlan, with the advice of former senate President and cur rent Parliamentarian Paul Simonds, determined that Miller could speak if it was an announce ment and if he made it brief. “Because of a horrible lobby ing effort, this University has lost $20 to $25 million in funding in the last nine to 12 months,” said Miller, blaming all the University’s current budget woes on political inaction in Salem. McLauchlan told Miller the meet ing wasn’t a forum to make accusa tions against the University, and eventually convinced the commu nity crusader to stop speaking, and the meeting came to a close sever al minutes later. 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