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ASUO Executive to appear on KEZI
ASUO President Emma Kallaway was interviewed today by KEZI 9 about the $400,000 hole in ASUO reserves that resulted from last year’s incidental fee buydown. Kallaway told the Emerald a TV reporter who covered the buydown last fall was following up on the story. It will be interesting to see what perspective the piece [...]
Kassa will oversee Con Court appointments
ASUO Vice President Getachew Kassa will oversee the hiring of Constitution Court justices who will decide the pending grievance against President Emma Kallaway, according to a release from the executive.
Kassa “will try to schedule” the interviews in late September, when Kallaway and Chief of Staff Ella Barrett are out of town at the Holden Leadership [...]
2009-2010 Student Senate to meet in EMU Walnut Room
Summer Senate committee voted Wednesday to hold regular Senate meetings all next year in the EMU Walnut Room.
Dean of Students Paul Shang told senators his office had arranged to have the room booked on all but four dates the Senate would need and was looking into whether those dates were placeholders that could be moved. [...]
We have bus passes next year?
According to ASUO President Emma Kallaway’s grievance response, the ASUO has signed its contract with Lane Transit District for the coming year. That means student ID cards will continue to serve as bus passes. It’s not like anyone expected that wouldn’t be the case, but Kallaway received some bad press for not answering e-mails [...]
From the archives: Maddy Melton and Eddy Morales
Since Maddie Melton was president before most current students — including Emma Kallaway — attended the University, let’s take a look back at her case.
Kallaway does not deny meeting Axelrod
There are many points worth examining in the grievance response ASUO President Emma Kallaway released last night. We’ll be looking at them here over the next couple of days. But the first thing that pops out in the wide-ranging rebuttal is that Kallaway does not deny the alleged hotel strategy session with former ASUO President [...]
Commentator squats at ASUO IntroDUCKtion table
Oregon Commentator Editor-in-Chief Drew Cattermole and publisher Dane Carbaugh moments ago were removed from the ASUO’s IntroDUCTion table in the EMU lobby.
Cattermole and Carbaugh said no one from the ASUO was there to provide information to incoming freshmen and their parents. They had two stacks of the Hate Issue on the [...]
Sen. Kristine Jensen casts deciding vote for USSA request
Sen. Kristine Jensen provided the deciding vote this evening in favor of the ASUO Executive’s $2,000 request to send two extra students to the United States Student Association’s 62nd National Student Congress.
The request passed 3 votes to 2. (Sens. Ryan Lassi and Nick Schultz were not present. Sen. Jessica Jones [...]
