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IN BRIEF
Library requests incidental
fees for extended hours
Student Senators informally debat
ed the merits of helping fund extend
ed hours of operation during Dead
Week and Finals Week at the Knight
Library after a request by a library of
ficial on Wednesday.
University Librarian Deborah Carv
er asked for $4,000 to help pay for
three security guards needed to se
cure the library when it is open 24
hours from Wednesday of Dead Week
until the end of Finals Week, Senator
Sarah Wells said.
Senators raised several concerns
about the validity of using incidental
fees to pay for library services, even
tually deciding to form a committee
to address the issue.
Also at the meeting, Senate Om
budsman Stephanie Erickson said a
student had filed a grievance
Wednesday over content from the
Oregon Commentator’s last issue. In
a controversial decision, the Pro
grams Finance Committee denied the
Commentator’s mission and goals at
a hearing in December. Erickson said
she will work with Senate President
James George, the Commentator and
the unidentified student who filed the
grievance to resolve the matter.
— Parker Howell
New neighborhood board
members learn ropes
The West University Neighbors
will meet tonight at 7 p.m. at
Central Presbyterian Church at
the corner of 15th Avenue and Patter
son Street to discuss, among other
things, the removal of trees in
the neighborhood, the need to re
open the neighborhood park and
the recent passing of enforceable
housing standards by the Eugene
City Council.
Newly elected board members
Adam Walsh, Kellyn Gross and
Don Goldman met with chairman
Drix Rixmann, board secretary Deb
orah Healy and Eugene Neighbor
hood Liaison Steve Norris Wednes
day night to verse themselves
in the association’s rules and
proceedings and set the agenda for
tonight’s meeting.
Board members Steve Jarvis, Chris
Parsons, Craig Laupheimer and Ayal
Alves could not attend.
“You’re now making a change
from ‘you and I’ to a ‘them,’” Rix
mann told the new board members.
“You’re a ‘them’ now.”
Norris told the board members
that neighborhood associations have
the ability to be powerful forces in
city politics.
“Neighborhood associations are
not just a place to air grievances,”
Norris said. “You can really get a lot
accomplished.”
Walsh said it is crucial to the
association’s success that students
get involved.
If more students get involved, “we
can have one of the more powerful
associations in the city,” Walsh said.
— Meghann M. Cuniff
ASUO: Self-punishment
process nearing its end
Continued from page 1
Strauss said the ASUO doesn’t have
an official history with University
Day, noting that ASUO members’
participation in the event “would be
above and beyond.”
Officials plan to create a commit
tee to provide guidance for future re
treats, an idea discussed among dif
ferent branches of student
government in winter and spring
2004 but never enacted.
The “dos and don’ts” video will be
for all student groups who will go on
future retreats as well. Loschiavo said
the committee and video will benefit
all students by preventing future
problems at retreats.
Strauss said the group will proba
bly still require additional office
hours for student leaders who attend
ed the retreat. He said the extra hours
are designed to prove to students that
ASUO officials are serious about re
solving retreat issues and are serious
about their positions.
Strauss said student leaders will
meet today to create a concrete plan
for carrying out the punishments.
Loschiavo said he will oversee the
group as it completes its punishment,
which he hopes will be completed by
the end of the academic year.
Student leaders committed the vi
olations almost three months ago,
but Loschiavo said the ASUO took
“more or less” the typical amount
of time for a group to create its
punishment, noting that some
groups have more experience with
the disciplinary process than others.
He said the ASUO has never been
punished in this way, so group
members did not know what to ex
pect. Loschiavo added that many
branches of the student government
were involved, so members had to
coordinate with one another.
Loschiavo said he tried not to
propose punishments for the ASUO
leaders and instead allowed them to *
create ideas to help them learn from
their mistakes.
“It’s never easy to come up with a
punishment for yourself,” he said.
Loschiavo commended the group
for initially coming forward and admit
ting its wrongdoings.
“Overall, I was very happy with the
approach the ASUO took in addressing
this matter,” he said. “I think we’ll
look back and say this is how self-gov
ernment is supposed to work. ”
George said he’s looking forward to
progressing with the ASUO’s plan as
the new term starts.
“Thus far, I’m glad we’ve come to a
point where we have some direct
goals,” George said.
Strauss said the punishment process
is nearing its end.
“I basically feel like we are on the
verge of getting this closed,” he said.
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