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Senate approves $8,000 for student festivities The money is approved fora 1,600-person event, and the Senate fails to agree on an ISA request By Chuck Slothower News Reporter The Student Senate approved an $8,000 party, giving the nod to a re quest at its Wednesday night meeting for students to throw a 1,600-person event featuring live music, food and presentations by student groups. The students, supported by the ASUO Executive, plan to hold a Ian. 10 Spotlight event, open to all stu dents, featuring local band Rhetoric Tuesday and — though he has yet to confirm — hip-hop artist Talib Kweli. "Our main objective for this is to get the whole campus together," sen ior Brittany Davidson said. "We're just trying to get the funding to make the event free for all U of O students. We wanted to get a big-name artist to bring people in." The event, which organizers hope will be alcohol- and drug-free, will be held off-campus at the new Morse Event Center, which holds about 1,600 people, senior Mim Schneider said. The students plan to distribute tickets through the LIO Ticket Office. "We couldn't get Mac Court because of basketball season," Davidson said. Several senators expressed support for the event. "It's exactly what the incidental fee is for," Sen. Bethany Larson said. "This has the potential to be a really big event," Sen. Rodrigo Moreno added. Sen. Kevin Day, who voted against the motion, expressed concern that the ASUO Executive hadn't done an adequate job of protecting itself against a possible deficit if the stu dents fail to raise adequate funds for the event. Ehe Senate also spent an hour de bating a request by the International Student Association but could not come to any agreement. The Senate first tried to postpone the matter. Af ter that motion failed by a vote of four to eight, with one abstention, the Senate did not pass the group's re quest. The request sought to create an events coordinator and an assistant director position, which would re place a co-director position. The Senate eventually decided to simply postpone discussion of the is sue, with Ombudsman Mike Sher man promising to help ISA bring the matter back to senate in January. Some senators expressed concern that ISA had not followed its constitu tion, which Sherman said requires an amendment and a vote by all ISA members to make changes. "Groups sometimes have to bite the bullet, unfortunately," Sen. Kevin Day said. "I just feel its going to create problems down the line.” A Dec. 10 deadline for securing back pay for the group's officers also became an issue of contention. ISA co-Director Matt Yeow, who present ed the request, said that pay was a big issue for ISA officers. "They've been hired, they're in place, they're running and they're get ting the job done," Yeow said. Some of the senators sympathized. "I want these people to get paid," Moreno said. "It's hard enough for in ternational students with the lan guage (barrier), we can't expert them to know the bureaucratic process." Tim Bobosky Photographer Seniors Mim Schneider (center) and Brittany Davidson (right) lobby the Student Senate on Wednesday. Junior Taylour Johnson (left) is helping with the planning of the event. Yeow said he was elected co-direc tor with minimal education about ISA's constitution. "We were shooting arrows in the dark trying to get this done," Yeow said. Senate President Ben Strawn was not impressed by the Senate's per formance regarding ISA's request. "I was struck by the lack of input during the ISA request." Strawn said. "It might have left a bad taste in their mouth. It made it fairly difficult to move forward." Contact the campus /federal politics reporter at chuckslothower@dailyemerald.com. POLICY continued from page 1 Grier said investigators have had the ability to do so since 1994, when changes were made to the Family Edu cational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, which governs release of student records. Grier added that the University generally notifies a student if he or she is the subject of a subpoena, except when specifically prevented from doing so, to give the student an opportunity to "quash the subpoena." "The USA PATRIOT Act did not ac tually change FERPA," Grier said. "The U.S. Attorney General was given greater authority to issue subpoenas in a wider variety of circumstances." Pope said he hoped the University would not punish a University facul ty or staff member for acting in "civil disobedience" by refusing to comply with or by notifying a student about a subpoena related to the Patriot Act. University Director of Policy & Legal Affairs Randy Geller, University Regis trar I lerb Chereck and Grier have di rected changes to the University's Stu dent Records Policy that sought to clarify the proper response to a sub poena. They want University faculty and staff to forward any subpoenas that seek secrecy to Grier's office, which will determine if the subpoena is valid. "If a subpoena comes, we don't take that lightly," Grier said. "We don't want to be releasing records. That's not our desire." Grier said that she is obligated by law to comply with valid subpoenas. She estimated that the University re ceives 40 to 50 subpoenas per year, about one-fourth of which are not valid. She said many of the subpoenas come from lawyers, often from Califor nia, who seek information for personal injury, divorce and other civil cases. Grier added that subpoenas related to financial aid fraud "are common to colleges and universities." President Dave Frohnmayer at Wednesday's meeting delivered a State of the University address, praising Gov. Ted Kulongoski's "decisive and highly public" appointment of former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt to the State Board of Higher Education as "enormously heartening." He also declined to revisit the administration's selection process in selecting I lowe Field as the site for the new basketball arena. Contact the campus /federal politics reporter atchuckslothower@dailyemerald.com. CHEATING continued from page 1 it a step further by reminding students of the policy when they turn in their first assignment. He also informs the entire class whenever one of their peers is caught cheating and tells them what the circumstances were and what the punishment was. "The best I can do is bring it to light when it occurs," Daley said. The final tool universities can use to shepherd students toward the path of academic integrity is an honor code — an actual statement of affirmation that the work someone turns in is their own, which students must sign and turn in. "Campuses that have that kind of thing in place have shown a signifi cant drop in cheating violations," Loschiavo said. The University doesn't have a cam pus-wide honor code, but individual professors have been experimenting with it in their classes. Economics Professor Bill Harbaugh has instituted a class honor code sev eral times in the past. He had noticed a lot of academic hanky-panky in his classes, which prompted him to rein force the importance of integrity in students' minds. He decided to re quire that students write and sign a pledge on the top of their exams that said, "On my honor, 1 have neither given nor received aid." "They all looked at me like I was nuts and were very quiet," Harbaugh said, but he added that the students seemed to take the honor code seri ously. Although stopping cheaters is not the main focus for professors or stu dents, Loschiavo said if they want to preserve a culture of academic in tegrity at the University, it's essential that people report cheating when they see it. "When you detect it you need to re port it," Loschiavo said. "Otherwise we're sending a message we don't want to send." Contact the news editor at jenniferbear@dailyemerald.com. CAMPUS wm w m mm m Friday Balkan folk dancing, 8 p.m., EMU Fir Room. The UO East European Folk Music Ensemble, directed by Mark Levy, and the Eugene band Balladina pro vide music for a participatory Balkan folk dance event. Traditional Slavic and Roma (Gypsy) music and line dances from Bulgaria, Macedonia and Serbia are featured. Free dance instruction will be provided, and beginners are welcome. STUDENT GROUPS Advertise itt the Emerald. Call 346-3712 to speak with a rep. We have great University rates. TT".1 .-rT". i , / AVOID continued from page 1 his or her expectations are, particularly concerning collaboration and citation. • Do not look in the direction of other students’ papers during exams. • If extraordinary circumstances cause anxiety over taking an exam or getting an assignment in on time, talk to the instructor in advance. It is better to request special arrangements rather than resort to dishonesty. • Refuse to assist students who cheat. • Use a recognized handbook for instruction on citing source materials in papers. Consult with instructors, academic departments or Academic Learning Services when in doubt. SOURCE: The University Policy on Academic Dishonesty in Pri (pi n a I $ tearryp Roche Associate Sponsors Clifton Gunderson LLP - Indiana Health Industry Forum - Baker & Daniels Aventor - Bio Crossroads Central Indiana Life Science Network i 1 V t ' ( 1 it
