IN BRIEF
Senate appropriates
funds for student groups
In its third meeting of the year,
the Student Senate allocated $480
to student programs and nominat
ed or self-nominated members for
several committees.
Black Student Union co-Direc
tors Tremaine Thompson and
LaTina Lewis requested $450 for
fettuccine Alfredo at their fall re
ception tonight at 7 p.m. in the
Fir Room.
Senate also heard from Vice
President Sara Hamilton, who re
quested $30 to buy snacks for a
Senate gathering at 3:30 p.m. Fri
day in the Ben Linder Forum.
Senators plan to meet 30 min
utes before the Programs Coun
cil meeting to mingle amongst
themselves and with programs
leaders. Both requests passed
unanimously.
In another effort to bond, Sena
tor Rachel Lee continued her
quest for RSVPs to her potluck
scheduled for Oct. 23. Lee made
an official announcement that be
cause Senators will be working to
gether all year, she wants all Sena
tors to meet at her house for food,
fun and the chance to get to know
each other.
ASUO Vice President Kyla Coy
announced that the Executive is
holding a concert in the EMU Ball
room Oct. 21 to raise money for
Hurricane Katrina damage relief.
As part of his duties as om
budsman, Senator Jared Axelrod
sent a list around the boardroom
table and asked Senators to list
all ASUO organizations they par
ticipate in that may cause a
conflict of interest. This list
should be open to the public as
early as today.
— Nicholas Wilbur
RRC: Committee to decide worthiness of student groups
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administrators spent a lot of time
last year “fleshing out the guide
lines” on how to hold groups ac
countable without going through
the PFC process and simply defund
ing them, Petkun said.
One program leader said she is
skeptical about the committee be
cause it was created quickly and is
far from complete.
“I feel that if they’re going to
bring up this idea to streamline or
consolidate groups, they should
have had the process a little bit
more concrete and nailed down,”
Student Bar Association Vice Presi
dent Marisa Balderas said. “I wasn’t
given a clear answer on anything.”
According to the Green Tape
Notebook’s Clark Document, which
governs how to distributes inciden
tal fees: “A proposed decrease in the
level of fee support for any Major
Program shall not exceed 10 percent
of the preceding year’s allocation
unless the program voluntarily re
quests such a reduction.”
But because the RRC only decides
which groups will be recognized
and not funding levels, it won’t be
breaking this rule, Goward said.
“If their mission and goals state
ments don’t align with the Green
Tape Notebook, they will not be
able to go in front of the PFC for
their budget hearing,” Goward said.
Previously, one ASUO Executive
branch employee reviewed mission
and goals statements about every
three years.
Goward said the five-member
committee will have “a heck of a
lot more balance of opinion as
there was in the old way of approv
ing groups.”
Student groups expressed con
cern over the lack of an appeals
process, prompting ASUO to include
the ASUO Constitution Court as a
formal appeals option for students
filing grievances against the RRC.
“Number one, our top priority is
getting that oversight and that griev
ance policy in place,” Goward said.
Students filing a grievance
against any member of agency in
the ASUO can also appeal directly to
the ASUO president, who will then
create a committee to investigate,
according to the Green Tape Note
book. Following that decision,
students may appeal to the
Constitution Court.
Goward said that because each
Executive administration may de
cide whether to continue the RRC,
there will be no permanent change
to the Green Tape Notebook.
The RRC is still in the process of
determining specific functions and
procedures, but an updated memo
will be provided at Friday’s Pro
grams Council meeting from 4 p.m.
to 6 p.m. in the Ben Linder Forum,
Goward said.
Contact the campus
and federal politics reporter at
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Council: New link for business school and state research
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collaboration that coordinates scientif
ic research efforts at Oregon universi
ties, private companies and govern
ment labs.
“My vision for Oregon is to be the
Innovation State, and the bills I’m sign
ing today mark a new commitment
and strengthened partnership between
the state and private partners to move
us forward in achieving that goal,”
Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski said in a
Sept. 26 statement.
Some of the private companies rep
resented on the council are Pixel
works, YoCream International, LSI
Logic and OVP Venture Partners.
Linton said students benefit from
arrangements like the council and ON
AMI because they get to use enhanced
research facilities and equipment and
are eligible for internships.
“It’s hard to think of legitimate con
cerns,” Linton said. “I don’t see it as
competing with or replacing any of our
traditional missions.”
Linton explained that money com
ing into signature research centers is
not taken out of pre-existing University
funds but is granted separately, creat
ing new funding opportunities.
“Any time there’s a connection be
yond just a pure academic role, some
faculty would think that’s less attrac
tive, but I think in this society, we need
to find ways to support the basic re
search of the University,” Linton said.
“If we’re going to sustain any support
for the University from the state, I
think that’s part of the equation we
need to satisfy.”
Linton said the partnerships and col
laborations strengthen the state by re
ducing the duplication of services.
The Oregon Innovation Council
continues the mission of the Oregon
Council for Knowledge and Economic
Development, which the Oregon State
Legislature established in 2001.
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but because it had been successful, it
was refocused and restructured to exist
in a new form.
OCKED established ONAMI as its
first — and, so far, only — signature re
search center, building on Oregon’s in
dustrial and university research
strengths in nanotechnology and mi
crotechnology, Linton said.
The council might establish more
signature research centers in the fu
ture, possibly in subjects such as sus
tainability, digital medicine, neuro
science and behavioral science. Linton
said it is not clear at the moment what
the next priority or strategy will be.
ONAMI and the council share many
Dersonnel; Dave Chen of OVP Venture
Partners is chairman of both groups.
The Lundquist College of Business
is already involved with ONAMI
through the Lundquist Center for En
trepreneurship and the Technology En
trepreneurship Program, which gives
Masters of Business Administration
students and law students experience
marketing technology from the Univer
sity and from ONAMI partner Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory.
Bean added that the business
schools at Oregon State and Portland
State universities are also involved
with ONAMI, and he expressed hope
that the new council will increase the
business schools’ level of involvement.
Bean said OCKED discussions,
which will be continued in the new
council, also helped coordinate the
Oregon Business Institute, a collabora
tion between business schools at the
University, OSU and PSU. The insti
tute, which offers M.B.A. degrees to
working executives, is scheduled to get
new headquarters in downtown Port
land in January.
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