Group holds lecture about sustainable business
The Sustainable Business
Group will host a lecture
by Jeffrey Hollender today
By Athanasios Fkiaras
Freelance Reporter
The Sustainable Business Group at
the Charles H. Lundquist College of
Business is working to increase aware
ness about alternatives to environ
mentally unfriendly manufacturing
practices and work toward a more en
vironmentally conscious future.
"Really, our responsibility is edu
cation," SBG Vice President Ben
jamin Gordon said. "We're here to
educate the community."
The student group, founded two
years ago, hosts guest speakers from
local businesses with the intent of
showing students how businesses
have been both successful and envi
ronmentally responsible. Many of the
speakers have emphasized using alter
natives to products such as plastics
and finding ways to reuse their re
sources in order to work toward
"long-term survival" rather than
"short-term profits," according to Pro
grams Director Alexander Friedman.
"Green business works when you
add environmental and social costs
on to your balance sheet," Fried
man said.
SBG was inspired by the annual
Sustainable Business Symposium,
which also hosts guest speakers at the
Lundquist College of Business, along
with trade expos, panels and work
shops. The purpose of the symposium
is similar to that of SBG, although the
symposium has been co-hosted by
other disciplines. When the first sym
posium was held in 1997, the Envi
ronmental Studies Program, the law
school and the Department of Plan
ning, Public Policy and Management
also participated, according to co-ad
viser Vera Kewene.
Aside from educating fellow stu
dents about sustainability, several
SBG members said they have grown
personally from working within the
group of eight student members.
"It's opened a wealth of opportu
nity in my eyes," Gordon said. "It's a
great way to educate oneself on how
others have been successful in mak
ing a living while being a socially
conscious member of society."
SBG is also working on a waste-re
duction project around the Univer
sity, and is hoping to increase aware
ness about reducing waste.
"I think it's really important that
business students consider the envi
ronment," Director of Development
Saki Amemiya said. "Recycling can
help (businesses) get more benefits.
I really want people to think
'sustainability.'"
SBG is hosting a presentation to
day by Jeffrey Hollender, CEO of
Vermont-based company Seventh
Generation, at 8 p.m. in 182 Lillis.
Hollender's company uses recycled
materials to make environmentally
friendly household products such
as laundry detergents and toilet pa
per. According to the company's
Web site, the name Seventh Genera
tion comes from the Great Law of
the Iroquois Confederacy, .which
states: "In our every deliberation we
must consider the impact of our de
cisions on the next seven
generations."
Athanasios Fkiaras is a freelance
reporter for the Emerald.
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budget of the University Counseling
and Testing Center. The service will
not be funded by PFC next year; it will
be assessed as a health fee that stu
dents pay.
PFC member Colin Andries said the
Senate was being "asinine" by criticiz
ing the committee even though PFC
spent less money than provided for by
the benchmark. He said senators
should have expressed their concerns
about the benchmark in November
rather than after PFC finished its work.
Senate Ombudsman Mike Sherman
said he had a responsibility to students
to fix what may have been a mistake —
the benchmark that Senate set in No
vember — even if it was late in the allo
cation process.
"I realize it may seem like we're go
ing back on our word," Sherman said.
"Any good leader will recognize his
mistakes, admit his mistakes, then try
to fix them. I think that's just being a
good leader."
The Emerald's budget proved the
most controversial of PFC's allocations.
The ASUO Executive issued a memo
urging senators to "send the PFC back
to committee for further considera
tion." The Emerald's budget was the
only one referenced in the memo.
ASUO Vice President Eddy Morales
said the newspaper should receive
binding based on its internal reader
ship survey, which would provide a
"more concrete formula."
Oregon Commentator Editor in
ChiefTim Dreier, an economics major,
said the readership survey would not be
an appropriate funding model for the
Emerald.
"You can't take a survey that's done
for one specific purpose and use it for
another specific purpose," Dreier said.
Morales also expressed concern that
students pay for the newspaper to be
distributed off campus.
"We don't think it's a bad thing that
non-students read the Emerald,"
Morales said. "(But) we don't think that
we should be paying for it"
Emerald Editor in Chief Brad
Schmidt said Morales' position was
inconsistent because he had not
challenged other groups, including
campus radio station KWVA and OS
PIRG, which also benefit off-campus
users. Schmidt added that the Emer
ald was the only group out of more
than 120 student groups to have its
budget vetoed and later brought to
the Senate's attention.
Schmidt said the ASIIO Executive
has twice attempted to block the
Emerald's budget without notifying
the newspaper, and he asked the Sen
ate to consider if Morales had a con
flict of interest with the newspaper's
budget. The Emerald has reported ex
tensively on Morales' alleged assault
of a University student.
The Emerald's budget was approved
along with the other incidental fee
funded groups.
The Senate, in the three-and-a-half
hour meeting, also confirmed ASUO
President Maddy Melton's nomina
tions to the ASUO Constitution Court.
Randy Derrick, Andrea Hall and Stefan
Myers will take their seats on the court,
despite rumblings that the appoint
ments leave the court with only two law
students — the minimum mandated
by the ASUO Constitution — who will
graduate in June.
KWVA's controversial request for
$31,794 to finish its remodel was re-ap
proved by the Senate. The funds, which
the Senate allocated last week from sur
plus only to encounter a veto by the
ASUO Executive, will come from the
overrealized fund instead of surplus.
Adam Amato Senior Photographer
The EMU Boardroom was packed for Wednesday’s Student Senate meeting.
The Senate also approved a
$3,327 request made by the Univer
sity Dance Team to send the group
to national dance championships in
Daytona Beach, Fla. The Senate ex
pressed dismay that EMU Director
Dusty Miller declined to release
funds to pay for the trip.
The Criminal Law Association
also received a $50 food account
transfer to pay for pizza when the
group hosts guest speakers, and the
Community Internship Program re
ceived $1,936 to bring fifth-grade
children to campus for a visit.
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The 9th Annual Women of Color Conference
Feminism Through an
International Perspective
March 2-4, 2004
University of Oregon
Gather in celebration of diversity and
an international community. Enjoy
theatrical performances, lectures,
films and workshops in an attempt
to inspire activism. Keynote
address by Dr. Andy Smith,
co-founder of Incite! Women
of Color Against Violence,
a national activist organization
of radical feminists advancing a
i movement to end violence
J against women of color and
their communities through
i direct action, critical dialogue
and grassroots organizing.
W For schedule and information, contact Silvia
at the ASUO Women's Center at 346-4095 or
by e-mail at sherman2@gladstone.uoregon.edu.
http://www.uoregon.edu/~women/conference.htm