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Senate transfers funds
to create shuttle service
At its meeting Wednesday night,
the ASUO Senate dissolved
Nightride, merged the organization
into Project Saferide and changed the
name to Assault Prevention Shuttle.
The move came in response to a rul
ing from the federal Office for Civil
Rights that Saferide, a women-only
service, violated Title IX's gender
equality requirements.
The reconstituted Assault Preven
tion Shuttle will provide many of the
same services as Nightride and
Saferide, but women and men will no
longer ride separately.
The senate transferred a total of
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$32,098 from various Nightride
funds to make the move happen.
The voting was nearly unanimous,
with one different senator voting no
on a rotating basis for each of the nu
merous transfers.
Senators displayed some confusion
as to whether having one "nay" vote
would make it easier to reconsider a
motion that has already been passed,
should that become necessary.
"(It's) an urban legend," Ombuds
man Mike Sherman said.
ASUO Vice President Eddy
Morales thought the opposite.
"With one nay vote, it is easier to
recall it," Morales said.
Sherman promised to investigate
the matter and give a full report at
next week's senate meeting.
The senate also responded to
ASUO President Maddy Melton and
Vice President Eddy Morales' decision
to veto an International Student As
sociation request for funds.
When senators passed the $350 mo
tion last week, they were under the im
pression that they were funding the ISA
for the entire year instead of one term.
Melton and Morales caught the mis
take and exercised a "friendly veto," ac
cording to Senator Kevin Day.
The senate reacted by funding the
ISA with $116 for fall term.
Senators also rejected a motion to
provide a spending guideline for the
year by a six to nine vote.
The motion would have advised
senators to spend 30 percent of their
surplus funds fall term, 30 percent
winter term and 40 percent spring
term. Morales and a few senators ex
pressed concern that the motion
could tie the senate's hands.
"I'd recommend that you not set
something else up that can slap you
in the face later," Morales said.
In other business, the senate nomi
nated senators to internal committees.
External committee nominations were
postponed until next week.
The senate also briefly discussed
some goals for the year, including in
vestigating a resolution regarding stu
dent records and a possible student
bill of rights.
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FACULTY
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of 2.5 percent per year over and
above the performance of our com
parators until we achieve the 95 per
cent goal" of salary parity with other
universities.
The "White Paper," as the ongoing
project is known, estimated in March
2000 that it would take five to seven
years to accomplish this goal.
At the end of 2002-03, the Univer
sity paid assistant, associate and full
professors an average of 87.8 percent
of what comparable institutions paid.
The other universities, chosen by
the Oregon University System, in
clude the University of California
Santa Barbara, the University of Col
orado-Boulder, the University of
Indiana-Bloomington, the University
of Iowa, the University of Michigan,
the University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, the University of Virginia
and the University of Washington.
Despite the University's lower
salaries, newly hired professors said
that they weren't scared away.
"There are many factors that in
fluence the decision (to accept a
job)," Marcin Bownik, a newly
hired assistant professor of mathe
matics, said. "Oregon's medical
benefits are quite good."
Bownik also entertained offers
from Kansas State University, Okla
homa State University and Iowa State
University.
"One (salary offer) was much low
er. one was about the same and one
was a little bit higher," Bownik said.
An avid hiker and camper, Bown
ik said he was also swayed by the
Eugene area's outdoor recreation
opportunities.
Another recently hired professor
echoed sentiments that there was
more to his decision than monetary
considerations.
"The dollar amount is different,
but that doesn't mean that it's a bet
ter or worse offer," geological sci
ences assistant professor David
Schmidt said.
One University administrator
said he's been able to offer competi
tive salaries.
"We've gotten our first choices,"
School of Journalism and Communi
cation Dean Tim Gleason said.
"Salary is only one factor in any re
cruiting scenario."
Average University faculty salaries
for this school year should be avail
able the first week of November, ac
cording to Andrea Larson, senior re
search analyst and database manager
for University Resource Management.
Contact the campus/
federal politics reporter
at chuckslothower@dailyemerald.com.
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However, the news comes at a time
when higher education funding is
dropping and students are paying for
more of their education than ever be
fore.
According to the OUS Web site,
students will pay for about 64 percent
of their education out-of-pocket, with
the other 36 percent covered by state
funds during the 2003-05 biennium.
In 2001-03, students paid about 54
percent of the cost. Students and the
state split the cost of education in the
1999-01 biennium.
Wykoff said he knew the state was
in "tough times."
"That's why things like this would
happen," Wykoff said. "But the bot
tom line is that students are being
overtly asked to fund other state insti
tutions. I haven't seen something like
this before."
University Senate Budget Commit
tee Chairman Lynn Kahle said the
University must try to "bootstrap" its
way to survival through the budget
difficulties the state has suffered.
"Taking away more money will
make things more difficult for the
University," Kahle said.
Kahle, a professor of sports market
ing, said the return of up to $5 mil
lion in tuition and fee revenue from
the University back to the State was
unfair.
Kahle said it would be difficult to
plan a yearly budget without know
ing exactly how much money will be
drained by the state. With a possible
special election in February to strike
down an income tax hike that legisla
tors passed to finance state services,
the university system could face even
more cuts. Additionally, court chal
lenges to some of the pension plan
changes could result in more budget
difficulties for the state.
"It's hard to plan what to do when
you don't know how much money
you will have," Kahle said.
Kahle said the loss of a potential $5
million from the University would
"hit us harder" in the 2004-05 school
year, adding that he hopes the state
will reconsider taking away millions
of dollars from the University if state
revenue increases in the next year.
"Ultimately, we Oregonians are go
ing to need to have a discussion on
taxes," Kahle said. He said reforms
needed to be made to the state tax
system in order to keep access to
higher education from decreasing
any further.
"Everyone is concerned that a lot of
students are being priced out of an
education," Kahle said.
Contact the city/state politics reporter
at shoikeda@dailyemerald.com.
CALENDAR
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Considering the calendar is domi
nated by spirited yellow and green,
features University students and is ti
tled "Oh Girls," OTM Director Matt
Dyste gave Patterson a letter asking
him to voluntarily stop selling the
calendar because of concerns that the
product design could infringe on
University licensing and trademarks,
Patterson said.
After Patterson stopped selling the
calendars for two days, his lawyer said
OTM didn't have a right to tell him to
stop and responded with a letter telling
the office to leave his client alone. Be
cause the University will not license the
calendar, Patterson has been looking
for new locations to sell his product.
For those interested in buying a cal
endar, Patterson has been selling them
on the balcony outside of Red Rooster
Barbershop, located directly across
from the bookstore, when weather per
mits. Prospective locations are listed at
www.ohgirlscalendar.com.
Patterson said he has sold 300 cal
endars so far and needs to sell anoth
er 700 to break even.
Even without a trademark, Patter
son hopes the University Bookstore,
which values the opinions of the
OTM, will still carry "Oh Girls" and
"Oh Guys" in August 2004.
"With 'Oh Guys,' I think our female
clientele will grow," he said. "Howev
er, I have seen a large number of fe
male buyers so far this term."
Contact the business/science/
technology reporter
at caronalarab@dailyemeraid.com.
CAMPUS
BUZZ
Friday
"GetSawy" open house, 1 p.m.-3 p.m., 68 PLC.
Archaeology celebration lecture, 5:30 p.m.-6:30
p.m., 175 Knight Law Center, Tom Connolly will
give the lecture.