Campus Politics
OSPIRG and Students for Honest Campaigning correction
David Zahn called me at some point tonight and left a voicemail message saying Charles Denson is not, in fact, involved in Students for Honest Campaigning. “That would be a conflict of interest,” he said. Not quite sure where the error or miscommunication was a long the line.
He must have called me while I was [...]
ASUO candidates
Corrections appended for some candidates, others coming in. Corrections denoted in bold italics. The story is this: I added the candidates’ names straight from a list the Elections Board sent me. Since then, those involved in the campaigns have sent in corrections to the list.
President/VP
Jairo Castaneda/Alex Esparza (Campus Change Coalition)
Cassi Gritzmacher/Lucas McAdams (Change & Leadership)
Pete [...]
ASUO considering next move on LTD
LTD didn’t end up accepting the ASUO’s request to pay for service at last year’s rate in the end. LTD spokesperson and director Andy Vobora said the transit provider came back at the ASUO with a “counterproposal”: $15.54 per student per term, halfway between last year’s rate and the rate for the coming year.
“It was [...]
Senate meeting tonight
Here’s the agenda:
Follow the meeting live at the location in this link.
1. Call to order
2. Approval of the agenda
3. Special requests
a. Club Persia (first request, second request, total: $1,536)
b. NASU ($266)
4. New Business
a. Take Back the Tap Resolution Note: this may be an old version
i. Public Testimony (15 min, 2 min per speaker)
ii. Senate Deliberation
b. [...]
Castaneda supports changed dates too.
Jairo Castaneda got back to me too late to make it into my Tuesday article, but when he did, he told me he is also in favor of pushing forward the elections to alleviate distractions for candidates and students.
Agonized by sequencing of candidates
Lest it be said the order in which I sequenced the paragraphs about candidates and their platforms for my article today, I want to tell you that it was an agonizing process. In the end, I wrote about Rousseau first, then Castaneda, then McCafferty, then Ciaramella.
I decided to write about Rousseau and Arora first because [...]
Police reports proving elusive
I spent a sizable portion of my free time Sunday and today attempting to get the University’s police reports on the swastika painted on the LGBTQA floor last weekend. Unfortunately, neither the Eugene Police Department, nor the Department of Public Safety was willing to provide them, although both were very nice and apologetic about it.
Both [...]
Next ASUO Senate agenda
Here is the ASUO Senate agenda for Wednesday. The meeting will be at 7 p.m. in the EMU Walnut Room.
You’ll notice, if you click on the Executive’s special request form, that only the first page of the special request form has been scanned. According to ASUO spokesperson Curtis Haley, the request is for the USSA’s [...]
