NEWS BRIEF
ASUO Senate welcomes
new members, approves
requests
The ASUO Student Senate emerged
from the EMU Board Room in im
pressive time on Wednesday night.
The senators welcomed two new
members to the senate and dis
patched with several minor requests
in less than thirty minutes.
History and art history major
Steven Lockfield gained confirmation
to Senate Seat 12 by a unanimous
vote. No one ran for that seat during
last year's elections.
The senate confirmed law student
Joseph Jenkins to Senate Seat 18 after
the elected representative for that seat,
James Jensen, quit.
"I feel lucky and grateful that this po
sition came open," Jenkins said. Jenkins
lost an election battle with Mena Ravas
sipour last year for a Student Senate seat.
When Student Senate positions
open, the ASUO Executive forms a
hiring committee.
Senate President Ben Strawn was
on the committee that hired Lockfield
and Jenkins.
"It's sort of like an application for
any other job," Strawn said.
The senate approved a $459 request
by Land Air Water, an environmental
law group, for telecommunications
costs related to that group's conference
last year. Chairman Michael Gustafson,
who represented the group at the meet
ing, said University Telecommunica
tions Services didn't bill the group un
til September. Land Air Water hosts the
largest environmental law conference
in the country, Gustafson said.
"This is money that they rolled over
into surplus, so they are, in some way,
entitled to it," Strawn said.
The senate approved a $75 transfer
request between food accounts of the
Sustainable Business Symposium and
a similar request for $400 from the
Asian Pacific American Student Union.
No one from the Native American
Student Union was in attendance to
represent that group's request.
— Chuck Slothower
BOARD
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edge right now, and it could go great."
Also elected to the board were
Ward 3 City Councilor David Kelly,
Sarah Donelson, Steve Jarvis, Ron
Lewis and Caroline O'Leary. Deborah
I lealy was elected board secretary.
O'Leary, a University senior majoring
in architecture and political science,
said she decided to get involved after
learning about the old neighborhood
association and then receiving a post
card notifying her about the newly
started meetings.
"I was kind of hoping that (the
neighborhood association) would
come back," O'Leary said. "What 1
want to do is listen to what the neigh
borhood wants and see what the asso
ciation can do about its needs."
Lewis, who has been living in the
neighborhood for 10 years, said he
wanted to make sure that important
neighborhood matters could be dis
cussed through the association.
"I want to keep this organization
alive and make sure that there is a fo
rum for issues," Lewis said.
The issues that face the neighbor
hood are numerous. The area is most
ly populated by students who usually
live there during the school year and
leave for the summer. This leaves very
few residents who have a long-term
investment in the neighborhood. The
area has been the scene of several al
cohol-fueled riots over the past six
years and is also home to several tran
sients. Residents frequently complain
about loud parties and noises to the
Eugene Police Department. Many al
leys are unpaved and dimly lit.
The neighborhood association aims
to improve conditions in the area,
which stretches east to west from Kin
caid to Willamette Street and north to
south from Franklin Boulevard to 19th
Avenue.
"We're going to have fun and make
friends," Rixman said. "Instead of
butting heads with students, we're go
ing to try to create a flexible relation
ship and make students feel wel
comed."
Contact the city/state politics reporter
at shoikeda@dailyemerald.com.
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have noticed parties growing steadily
in both size and volume.
"I don't know if it's a trend," Delf
said. "But it definitely looks like
some jumps."
Hicks said the best advice he has
for students is to accept responsi
bility for drinking on campus.
"Be responsible when it comes to
alcohol and drug use," he said. "Ac
cept the consequences if you engage
in something unlawful or against
student conduct code."
Contact the crime/
heatth/safety reporter
at alishaughnessy@dailyemerald.com.
CAMPUS
9L5p
Friday
Candidate reception, 4 p.m.-5 p.m., Heritage Hall
in the Bowerman Family Building. Campus and
community members can meet Gregory J. Vin
cent, a finalist for the new University vice provost
for institutional equity and diversity position.
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"The symposium is meant to com
memorate the 30th anniversary of the
military coup in Chile that happened
on September 11," History Professor
Carlos Aguirre said.
Aguirre said the symposium was
also an opportunity to discuss current
issues on terrorism, human rights and
democracy in Latin America.
In the present day, millions of peo
ple live in Latin America under pover
ty and are treated as second class citi
zens, Aguirre said.
'That is one the main challenges of
democracy," he said. "Even if today
most of Latin American countries have
democratically elected governments,
we still feel democracy is a project we
need to work on and realize."
He added that human rights are an
integral part of the democratic process
and that the mainstream media is not
paying enough attention to issues in
Latin America.
"We thought it was an opportunity
to bring these issues to the forefront"
Aguirre said. He said the conference
would also deal with the human rights
of immigrants in the United States.
Spanish Instructor Bryan Moore,
who helped organize the art exhibit,
said the symposium is an opportunity
to reflea on the U.S. role in Latin Amer
ica. Moore said U.S. foreign policy in
the area had often been "militaristic, in
terventionist and sometimes of great
abuse to human rights." Moore said
hundreds of people were tortured or
killed in different Latin American coun
tries for various political reasons.
"Our foreign policy was a great part
of that tragedy," he said. "We must re
flect on that."
He added that he hopes the reflec
tion on the last thirty years since Sept.
11, 1973, would help teach lessons on
how people can work for human rights.
Director Caroline Forell — the di
rector of the Wayne Morse Center for
Law and Politics, one of the event's
sponsors — said she liked the confer
ence because of its interdisciplinary
scope that uses everything from art to
poetry to comment on relevant issues.
"Ihere has been so much focus on
the Middle East and terrorism that
other things get ignored here in this
hemisphere," she said.
Contact the news editor
at ayishayahya@dailyemerald.com.
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