ASUO
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intramural ultimate team. Mantel is
also not involved with any groups
on campus, but said he also plans
on joining the ultimate team.
Q: What are your campus
initiatives?
Spence: I have a lot of friends
who work with SafeRide and DDS
and stuff, and one idea that they
had, which I liked, was maybe in
creasing the lighting around cam
pus, trying to make it more secure.
Another idea was trying to get
more security guards, but I don’t
know if that would be a good idea.
Q: How will you interact with the
community?
Mantel: I like community serv
ice. You can always — I think the
best way to attract people to know
who you are is to try to help them
out. And so if you make efforts to
help people out like — I don’t really
know how, just going out and
cleaning up streets or something —
but if you’re helping somebody out,
people notice, and (when) you are
noticeable,
people think
you’re a nice
guy or whatev
er, and then
you become
more ap
proachable
that way, too.
Q: How
would you
make the
ASUO relevant
to students?
Spence: Maybe like advertising
more when we’re having meetings
that they can attend, putting up
posters saying, ‘Hey, there’s a sen
ate meeting going on.’ Just trying
to increase awareness in general;
hopefully, somebody will be inter
ested in it.
Mantel: I think the concerns are
already relevant, it’s just people
don’t know about them. Obviously
everything that ASUO does affects
the students, so it’s just getting the
students to know what it’s all
about. I mean, that’s why the
ASUO is here, is for the students.
J a r r e t t
White, a jun
ior business
major, is run
ning for presi
dent with
Greg McNeill,
a junior politi
cal science
major. White
is the chair
man of the
College Re
publicans, although White said his
leadership in the College Republi
cans will not affect his ASUO
campaign. McNeill, who ran for
the Oregon House of Representa
tives in the 2002 election, is a
member of Delta Upsilon.
Q: So what are your campus
initiatives?
White: We have two things that
we’re mainly running on. One is
ASUO accountability with re
gards to the incidental fee, and
making campus groups and inci
dental fee-funded groups ac
countable with their money, es
pecially OSPIRG. That is one of
Mantel
our big cam
paigns, mak
ing OSPIRG
be account
able to the
students,
which we feel
they’re not by
taking money
off of campus
and just wast
ing our mon
ey, we believe.
And we also want to bring to the
administration a ‘Students Bill of
Rights’ to give students. (It) gives
the students specific rights in the
classroom and at the University.
Q: How will you interact with the
community?
White: We’ll be open for discus
sion with people around the com
munity (and) students if they
want to give us ideas and con
cerns that they have. I think Greg
and I will really do our best to
have an open ear to all student
concerns, whatever they may be
because I understand how they
feel. I’ve been a student for three
years now,
and I’ve felt
just manhan
dled pretty
much by the
ASUO. But
we’ll really
work on hav
ing an open
* ear and listen
ing to stu
dents and peo
ple around the
campus on their ideas.
Q: How would you make the
ASUO relevant to students?
White: I think the number one
thing that we can do is help stu
dents try and save money and not
let the incidental fee just skyrock
et, as we had the special referen
dum this year. I’ll tell you one thing
that has made me the most upset
about this current administration,
is they just let that referendum just
slide through. We’re not going to let
that happen to students.
Contact the news editor
atjanmontry@dailyemerald.com.
Spence
Caleb Fung for the Emerald
Students for Peace had a rally March 15 and will stage a walkout Thursday.
Protest
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Gonzalez said people are nervous
about speaking out against the war
with troops stationed in the Mid
dle East, but it is possible to sup
port troops without supporting the
government.
“I believe that a majority of stu
dents oppose the war,” he said.
University College Republicans
Chairman Jarrett White agreed
with Gonzalez that a majority of
University students oppose the
war, but the proportion is not
fiercely one-way.
“They try to make it out to be more
significant. It’s more like 50-50,” he
said. “Students have a lot of opportu
nities to express their views.”
White added that while some peo
ple make jokes about President
George W. Bush, it is stupid and
wrong for a student group to include
extremely critical comments as part
of an official statement.
“These people — all they are—are
anti-American,” White said. “Equat
ing Bush with Nazis is pathetic.”
The Students for Peace state
ment also said the U.S. govern
ment is guilty of not abiding with
United Nations’ resolutions that
prohibit certain aggressive actions
by countries.
“The Bush administration has vi
olated international law and consti
tutional law,” Gonzalez said.
White said he does not think it is
necessary for the United States to
follow all U.N. resolutions if Iraq
does not do the same.
“What’s the point of having reso
lutions if Iraq is not going to uphold
them,” he said.
According to the protest news
release, Students for Peace is spon
soring the event in conjunction
with protests around the world to
oppose the Bush administration’s
“brutal policies.”
Contact the reporter
atromangokhman@dailyemerald.com.
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