Student Senate debates BSU fashion show funding
The Black Student Union
was granted its special
request funds Wednesday
Moriah Balingit
Freelance Reporter
The ASUO Student Senate approved
the ASUO Athletic Department Finance
Committee's $1.37 million budget, a
controversial special request from the
Black Student Union and a slightly less
substantial name change for a senator
in its meeting Wednesday.
The meeting started off on a lighter
note, with Sen. Colin Andries motioning
to change "Johan" to "Jonah" on the
meeting's agenda. Sen. Jonah Ijee's name
was unfortunately misspelled in the doc
ument. The motion passed with Sen.
Joe Jenkins providing the single dissent
ing vote for unknown reasons.
BSU weathered a rough debate in its
special request for $999.99 for the Black
Heritage Fashion Show, an event it co
sponsors with the historically black
sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha Inc Because
the sorority is not allowed to use its own
raised funds for events, representative
Natasha Holstine explained, its fashion
show is co-sponsored and funded
through BSU. BSU was unable to raise
the necessary funds this year, however,
because many of its traditional sponsors
were unable to donate this year.
Some senators felt uncomfortable
with transferring the requested funds
since Alpha Kappa Alpha Inc. is putting
on the fashion show and the group is
not incidental fee-funded, as groups
that receive surplus funds are supposed
to be
"It's kind of like a loophole" Sen. Re
becca Shively said.
But Lee saw the situation differently.
"But this is BSLI's request... they're
(Alpha Kappa Alpha) constituents of
the organization," he said.
The motion to transfer the funds was
passed and the Black Heritage Fashion
Show will be held Saturday in the EMU
Ballroom from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. and is
one of the many events sponsored by
BSU during Blade History Month.
The next item on the agenda was ap
proval of ADFC's budget. The $1.37
million goes toward football and bas
ketball tickets for students. The amount
is a 7 percent increase from the previ
ous year as ADFC is working to reach its
contractual agreement of paying the
athletics department 30 percent fair
market value.
Senate Ombudsman Mike Sherman
expressed reservations with increasing
ADFC's budget in light of what he de
scribed as the "real economic dire
situation" in Oregon. I Ie said he fears
incidental fees will have to be raised, or
that students here during the academic
year won't benefit from a recent raise in
summer students' incidental fees.
Other senators believed it was im
portant to keep the contract with the
athletics department.
"Maybe the ADFC isn't the place to
start looking at the way we allocate
fees, * Sen. Aryn Clark said.
The budget passed, 10-5, with ASUO
President Ben Strawn casting one of the
dissenting votes.
Moriah Balingit is a freelance reporter
for the Emerald.
Kenneth Roth pinpoints U.S.’s human rights violations
i ne advocate linked violations
with the War on Terrorism
Beau Eastes
Freelance Reporter
Kenneth Roth, executive director of
Human Rights Watch, the largest
human rights and the effects ofits
actions. He argued that the present
administration's rationale that some
human rights must be sacrificed in
the name of security is counter-pro
ductive to fighting terrorism.
"The U S. views international law
like Gulliver and the Ulliputians," Roth
said. "International law is nothing but
a restraint of U.S. power to the current
administration."
Roth, whose interest in human rights
was influenced by his father having fled
Nazi Germany in 1938, proceeded to
outline six major areas where the Bush
administration had "thrown human
rights out the window."
Roth noted that soldiers of an enemy
army, such as the Taliban, are guaran
teed Prisoner of War status under the
Geneva Convention, which among
other things guarantees that POWs
have the right to return to their home
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"This is a good time to maybe
change things over," Stamm said.
However, he said that removable
permits would force DPS to restruc
ture their permit pricing.
"If we were to change from (perma
nent parking stickers), probably the
price for the individual permit would
have to go up because you would no
longer have first and second vehicles,
you would have a single permit that
you would trade between vehicles,"
Stamm said. "Permits are vehicle-spe
cific, so it basically prevents them
from being changed around."
If DPS decides to update the permit
system, the changes could take place as
early as fall term. Stamm said DPS or
ders permits to be purchased each Au
gust in time for the law school to begin.
The department is talking to differ
ent permit vendors and organizations
that use other types of permits to get
feedback on the different kinds.
"Whatever we use will have to go
on the rear of the vehicle," Stamm
said. "Our officers... have to be able
to go by the cars parked in the lots
and be able to check them. We can't
afford the staffing it would take to
have people walking between the cars
checking for permits."
Currently, parking permits must be
placed on the left of the bumper with
the permit's adhesive, not tape. Ac
cording to the DPS Web site, failure to
obtain or correctly display a valid
parking permit carries a $20 fine.
Stamm said the reason permits are
placed on the bumper is vehicles on
campus are required to park head
first. He added that parking patrol of
ficers also have an easier time glanc
ing at bumpers for stickers than other
places on a vehicle.
Also, Stamm said that Oregon mo
tor vehicle code has a technicality that
states a driver is not supposed to put
anything in the windows.
"If it were permanently affixed to the
exterior of the window with its own ad
hesive, as a general rule, the officers will
accept that" he said. 'Technically it has
to be on the bumper."
But Stamm said if patrol officers
cannot see the sticker in the window
of a vehicle they will give out a ticket.
Specifically, Stamm said trucks and
cars with tinted windows usually have
this problem.
Some students are not happy
with using permanent adhesive
stickers on either their windows or
their bumpers.
Senior Sherry Telford has not pur
chased a parking permit at the Univer
sity because she has heard how diffi
cult they are to remove, and she
thinks the permits cost too much.
"I think they're too expensive and it
would be difficult to find parking on
campus even with a permit," Telford
said. "I also worry that I would not be
able to get the permit off my car with
out ruining the surface."
Stamm said that the permits are re
movable with patience and the right
tools. He personally uses boiling wa
ter to remove his permits.
Others have told him that vinegar
or WD-40 help to remove the sticker.
I le added that the permits are de
signed to come off in pieces to pre
vent theft or permit sharing.
Telford said that she might consider
purchasing a permit if they were stat
ic-cling or had a removable adhesive,
but only if the price didn't go up.
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human rights organization in the
United States, spoke to more than
125 people Wednesday night at the
Knight Law Center.
In his speech, "Human Rights as a
Response to Terrorism," Roth charged
the Bush administration with a con
sistent disregard for international