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University Senate approves
motions to boost its power
1 he changes will increase the Senates involvement
with projects and the Campus Planning Committee
BY MEGHANN M. CUN1FF
SENIOR NEWS REPORTER
Memories of past University plan
ning projects gone awry were in the air
at the University Senate meeting
Wednesday as two motions giving the
Senate more power in the planning
process passed unanimously with
minimal discussion.
One motion requires that the Uni
versity administration report to the
Senate on major projects “at the earli
est date that is reasonable and always
prior to seeking authorization for fund
ing of capital construction.” The other
adds a member of the Senate to the
Campus Planning Committee and re
quires the committee to submit oral
and written reports to the Senate on a
regular basis.
After the vote, University Senate
President Andrew Marcus mentioned
the “quite unpleasant vote” that oc
curred at a November 2003 Senate
meeting condemning the process the
University administration was using to
select a basketball arena site.
Marcus praised the fact that the Sen
ate is now working with the planning
office and the administration to find
“ways to avoid future situations” such
as that one and thanked those in
volved for their work in crafting the
two motions’ language.
University Senate Vice President
Peter Keyes said while presenting
the motions that past Senate discus
sions have touched on many of the
issues addressed in the motions.
Keyes said that the Campus Plan
ning Committee becomes involved
with a project “after the project is
pretty far along in terms of moving
forward,” according to the Senate.
“It was brought up here at the Sen
ate meeting that that’s pretty far along
in the process; a lot of projects may be
on the horizon or over the horizon,”
Keyes said.
Keyes said the motion asking the ad
ministration to report to the Senate
about projects as early as possible is
aimed at quelling problems with proj
ects progressing too quickly without
input from the body representing the
University’s faculty and staff.
In the past, projects have come to
the Senate, and Keyes said, “at that
point the faculty as a whole sits up and
says ‘Hey where did this idea come
from, who’s idea was this and where
is it going and why weren’t we con
sulted’ and raises a bunch of objec
tions that, frankly, things would be
much better if the administration had
involved people further much earlier
in the process.”
The second motion regarding Sen
ate membership on the Campus Plan
ning Committee and requirements for
the committee’s relationship with the
Senate is aimed at increasing commu
nication that members have expressed
is currently lacking, Keyes said.
“We’re asking that the Campus
Planning Committee be in the middle
of the discussion between the plan
ning staff, the administration and the
committee to make us aware of the
important projects going forward or
things that may be coming along,”
Keyes said.
Alter Keyes presented me tirst mo
tion, one senator asked if anyone could
identify anything wrong with it, caus
ing the members to erupt in laughter.
The resolution passed by me Senate
in November 2003 that Marcus men
tioned was in response to me adminis
tration’s disregarding University plan
ning policies by not giving the Senate
a chance to review the original pro
posed arena site, Howe Field.
University President Dave Frohn
mayer announced in February 2004
the indefinite postponement of the are
na project, citing funding problems.
Talk of the arena restarted later in the
year, and University officials say the
tentative site is now the recently ac
quired Williams’ Bakery site.
Finance instructor and Senator
Jeanne Wagenknecht said after the
meeting that the motions seemed like
necessary steps to keep the Universi
ty faculty involved in important plan
ning decisions.
Wagenknecht’s husband, Karl,
owns a medical office in close proximi
ty to the Williams’ Bakery site. Univer
sity officials have said the office needs
to move if an arena is to be construct
ed, but the Wagenknechts have ex
pressed to community members their
unwillingness to move.
Wagenknecht told the Emerald she
does not know anything more about
me situation man what has been print
ed already in me newspapers.
Also at the meeting, University Se
nior Vice President and Provost John
Moseley updated the Senate on the
search for a vice president for admin
istration and finance, which he expects
to be completed within two weeks.
meghanncuniff@ dailyemerald, com
Loyalties: Low turnout could help Walsh-Coy
Continued from page 1
miracle to win it,” he hopes to help the
campaign by rallying his supporters,
especially those in his fraternity, be
mna waisn ana Loy.
“It’s going to be very
tough. I’m not expecting
all of them to turn out,”
Daniels said. “The best I
can promise him is 200
votes from my area.”
Hudson also said he
was confident the sup
port of former execu
tive candidates will
go far for Walsh and
Coy’s campaign.
“When you have five
tickets that didn’t move
on supporting one ticket,
you know that there’s
going to be an impact,”
he said.
Rees disagreed.
“I doubt it’ll have an
impact on the cam
paign,” Rees said, point
ing out that her ticket
gains credibility through
HOW TO VOTE
ASUO general elections end
today. Students must log onto
their DuckWeb accounts to vote
at duckweb.uoregon.edu.
Students can vote for all general
and at-large candidates but will
only be able to vote for academic
senators running for the seat relat
ed to their majors. Each student
can vote only once. Students
must vote by 5 p.m. today.
Students can vote from any
computer with access to
DuckWeb. Campus locations
include:
• EMU Computer Lab
• Knight Library Information
Technolog/ Center
• McKenzie Hall Computer Lab
supporters who know the issues in
side and out,” such as current ASUO
President Adam Petkun.
Student Senator Stephanie Erickson,
also supporting Rees and Anker-Lagos,
said her support will have an effect be
cause she is involved in many student
groups. 1 nose groups
trust her and may vote
similarly, she said.
University Political
Science assistant profes
sor Joel Bloom, who has
studied voting behavior,
said that in a student
government election,
“endorsements without
organizational support
is worthless.”
“Without organiza
tional support, people
aren’t paying enough
attention to know
who endorsed who,”
Bloom said.
However, Bloom said
the voting numbers are
so low in a student elec
tion that it could make a
difference if the former
candidates help Walsh
and Coy rally support
for the ticket.
Walsh said Hudson and Daniels
have visited sororities with him to
rally support.
Hudson said both he and Daniels
are from the greek system and were
able to vouch for Walsh.
Daniels also said he sent out a
message to the approximately
700 members of his group on
Thefacebook, originally created for
his own executive bid, and asked
them to support Walsh in the
general election.
Walsh said as long as voter
turnout is reasonably high, he and
Coy have a chance of winning. But
it will hurt them if voter turnout is
considerably lower in the general
election, as it historically is, he said.
“As long as the kids that have
supported us in the primary and the
kids that supported the other plat
forms in the primary turn out again
to vote, then I think we have a very
good chance of winning,” Walsh
said. “I think it’ll be a close election.
... Whichever way it goes, I cannot
see a blowout happening.”
jaredpaben @ dailyemerald. com
Senior News Reporter Parker Howell
contributed to this report
IN BRIEF
Mascot yells profanity at
ASUO candidates' debate
Candidates for student govern
ment’s top post debated the merits
of each other’s campaigns in a
final debate in the EMU Amphithe
ater on Thursday.
During the informal debate, which
drew about 25 people, a man dressed
in the Ashley Rees-Jael Anker-Lagos
ticket’s yellow “Larry the Lightbulb”
mascot costume twice yelled “bullshit”
as ASUO Executive candidate Adam
Walsh spoke.
Walsh and running-mate Kyla
Coy said they were not upset over
the incident.
“It was a little uncalled for, I
suppose,” Walsh said. “It’s just one
of many glaring contradictions in
their campaign.”
Rees said her ticket didn’t support
the incident and she talked to
the person, adding that it won’t
happen again.
“It’s not something we had planned
on,” she said.
The debate was one part of an elec
tion event held by the ASUO Election
Board to publicize the general election,
which ends today at 5 p.m. A larger
crowd that had gathered before the de
bate to listen to local hip-hop artists
dispersed before the debate began.
— Parker Howell