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Friday
• Labor History Conference entitled "Reform,
Revolution and Reaction: Workers and the
Quest for Social Change in the Pacific North
west," today-Monday, Knight Law Center, 7
p.m, opening.
• “Brain, Learning and Curriculum Sympo
sium," today-Saturday, University campus.
• Willamette Valley Folk Festival, today-Sun
day, EMU East Lawn, 4-10 p.m. today, noon
10 p.m. Saturday, and noon-6 p.m. Sunday.
• "The Borders of Human Security: Geopoli
tics Comes Home” conference, Room
175, Knight Law Center, 8:30 a.m.-7 p.m.
• Communication goals workshop entitled "A
Peak Experience," Room 182, Lillis Hall,
9:30-10:30 a.m.
• Humanities Work-in-Progress Talk by Randall
McGowen entitled "‘Death for a Bit of Paper:’
Forgery and Capital Punishment in England,
1700-1840," Room 159, Prince Lucien Camp
bell Hall, noon-1 p.m. Brown-bag lunches
welcome.
• Oregon Ballroom Dance, Room 220, Ger
linger Hall, 7:30-11:30 p.m.
• Russian Theater, Auditorium, Agate Hall,
7:30 p.m. "Our Charming Dr. Seuss and Our
Hanning Dr. Kharms” is a joint production by
University Russian Department and theater
students.
• Oregon Wind Ensemble and UO Symphonic
Band, Beall Concert Hall, 8 p.m.
• Community Internship Programs Fundraiser
Run, EMU Room 48 (CIP office), 10 a.m.
• Outdoor Museum Day, Glenn Starlin Court
yard, Museum of Natural History, 1-4 p.m.
• University alumna Ana Maria Spagna docu
ments her many years spent doing seasonal
maintenance on remote hiking trails in the Pa
cific Northwest in her book, "Now Go Home:
Wilderness, Belonging and the Crosscut Saw,”
UO Bookstore, 2 p.m.
• A performance by Steven Mead, euphoni
um, and Patrick Sheridan, tuba, Beall Concert
Hall, 7:30 p.m.
• Dance concert entitled “Dance Gallery,”
Third Floor, Gerlinger Annex, 8 p.m.
Sunday
• Russian Theater performance entitled “Is
toriia s metranpazhom (A Story of Metran
page)," Auditorium, Agate Hall, 1:30 p.m.
• University Symphony performance, Beall
Concert Hall, 3 p.m.
GOALS
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were promises that we felt we could
accomplish in our year," Morales
said in the interview.
Melton said her administration
worked unceasingly to ensure that
the student perspective was better
represented in the decision-making
process of the University. One way
they strove to accomplish this, she
said, was by doing massive amounts
of data collection to determine
which University committees were
most in need of student input.
According to the University Com
mittee Information Web site, there
are 27 different University commit
tees granted with the power to affect
everything from policies on academ
ic requirements to selecting scholar
ship winners to reviewing student
academic records and deciding who
needs to be put on probation.
Melton said choosing quality stu
dent representatives to fill almost
100 committee positions was an im
portant but daunting task.
"You have all these committees,
so many committees, but you never
really know which ones have real
power," Melton said.
University Executive Assistant
President Dave Hubin praised
Melton and Morales for their dedi
cation to increasing student involve
ment in University decisions.
"They were very attentive to the
agenda of shared governance," Hu
bin said. "They were effective at rep
resenting the student voice."
Melton said her administration
tried to ensure that all major deci
sions affecting students' lives were
not made during periods when stu
dents didn't have the opportunity to
comment. For example, this past
summer the ASUO lobbied the Ore
gon State Board of Higher Education
to delay the implementation of tu
ition plateau changes until January
2004 in order to give students and
families additional time to plan for
the potential changes.
"Because their whole process on
that was so messed up, we were able
to say, 'Look this is a problem. Stu
dents aren't being included in these
dialogues,'" Melton said.
She also pointed to international
student advocacy as being a success
ful part of her administration.
The Executive created a new posi
tion to specifically advocate for in
ternational students' needs, hiring
senior psychology major Takenori
Momiyama to fill the position.
Melton said she decided to make
international student advocacy a pri
ority for her administration because
international students pay the same
amount of money to go to the Uni
versity as out-of-state students, yet
they don't have access to the same
resources that non-residents do.
"We market ourselves as an inter
national university, but I don't feel
we provide enough resources to re
tain that population," Melton said.
Momiyama said one of his biggest
projects for the year has been trying
to create a scholarship for interna
tional students to help them
through the times of increasing tu
ition and lack of resources. He
added that the ASUO has managed
to raise nearly $3,000 for the schol
arship, and he's in the process of fi
nalizing the selection process and
filing the paperwork with the Office
of International Programs. He said
the new scholarship should be avail
able fall term.
But Melton said Momiyama has
done a lot more to help internation
al students than just orchestrate and
implement big projects like the cre
ation of a new scholarship.
"He's always at special requests for
international groups, the (ASUO Pro
grams Finance Committee) hearings
and all the little things," Melton said.
"He's always just there to help out."
Although Melton and Morales ful
filled their first two campaign
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promises, they decided to abandon
their third goal — changing the Uni
versity Housing contract — because
they got involved in an initiative to es
tablish city housing standards instead.
"The housing standards is an issue
that the ASUO has been working on
for 10 years and could never push it
through," Melton said. "But on May
25 we have a work session, and I
think we have the votes to have the
city council direct their staff to draft
the language for a program and a
code at the local level. That's pretty
much a win."
She added that she and Morales
originally campaigned on changing
the University Housing contract be
cause it seemed more attainable;
they didn't think they would be able
to establish a Eugene housing code.
"At the time it seemed like the is
sue had just exhausted itself,"
Melton said. "1 didn't want to prom
ise something that I wasn't going to
"It's been a really exciting
year.... 1 feel like when
push came to shove this
year, with the support
of my staff, we really
accomplished so much."
Maddy Melton
ASUO president
do, because it had been promised
two years in a row and had gotten
nowhere. Interestingly enough, the
one year that you decide to say
you're not going to do it is the year
it happens."
Despite the ASUO's success in a
battle the student government has
been fighting for years, Melton and
Morales' administration did fall
short of accomplishing its final goal
— increased advocacy for graduate
students and law students.
The Executive engaged in a moderate
amount of outreach on behalf of the
graduate student community. Melton
attended a few bargaining sessions to
support the Graduate Teaching Fellows
Federation and its efforts to renew its
contract with the University.
In addition, the ASUO nontradi
tional student advocate, Kimberly
Archer, organized baby-sitting nights
for student parents during midterms
and finals.
"The student parents were so
thankful for two or three hours of
free time to study for their finals,"
Melton said. "That was a really cool
component to the nontraditional
student advocacy this year."
But critics say the Executive s ad
vocacy on behalf of law students was
sorely lacking.
"This is probably the hardest one,
and it seems like it might be the eas
iest," Melton said. "But when you
get down to working with law stu
dents, they have different schedules,
and that kind of throws things off."
ASUO Student Senator and law
student Colin Andries was extremely
critical of Melton and Morales for
failing to give law students the sup
port they had promised in their
campaign. Even though law students
were more active in student govern
ment this year, Andries said it was
only the law students who tried to
address the concerns of law students
— not the Executive.
"I don't think (Melton and Morales)
did as much as they could have," An
dries said. "The only advocacy that
went on was by myself, Joe Jenkins and
Adrian Gilmore, and we had to fight
uphill battles left and right."
He added that law students' two
main concerns — changing the
schedule of the University Health
Center and the Student Recreation
Center so that they're open during
the first two weeks of the law school
academic calendar — fell through
the cracks.
"Maddy and Eddy did assign
somebody to look into it, and they
talked to me once, maybe twice, and
then forgot about it," Andries said.
Melton said she's proud of the
work her administration accom
plished, however.
"It's been a really exciting year,"
Melton said. "You go through differ
ent times where sometimes you feel
like you're really, really accomplishing
your goals, and then you're like, 'Oh
gosh I can hardly move this thing an
inch,'" Melton said. "But I feel like
when push came to shove this year,
with the support of my staff, we really
accomplished so much."
Contact the news editor
at jenniferbear@dailyemerald.com.
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Basketball players reclaim
overflow parking lot
Basketball players have regained con
trol of the courts in the parking lot next
to the University Museum of Natural
and Cultural History, but many stu
dents and faculty members will lose
their overflow parking as a result.
Department of Public Safety Lt.
Herb Homer said the east basketball
courts that face Bean Complex had
been turned into extra parking spaces
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over the last couple of years.
However, he said University Con
ferences Services must reclaim the
courts for the various basketball
camps held over the summer.
Beginning today, permit holders
will not be allowed to park in the bas
ketball court area. Horner said any
cars found parked there will be towed.
Homer said he does not know if
the courts will revert to additional
parking spaces in the future, adding
that it depends on the need for spaces.
— Lisa Catto
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