OREGON DAILY Emerald DAILYEMERALD . COM THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SINCE 1900 VOL. 112, ISSUE 55 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2010 WHY STUDENT CONDUCT TOUGH TEST GLOBAL PRIVACY CODE MATTERS Volleyball prepares to face No. 10 UCLA Taken too far? Google Inc.’s NEWS | PAGE 3 and No. 6 USC, strives for NCAA berth investigation raises questions EXTREME ROOMMATES SPORTS | PAGE 5 NEWS | PAGE 3 OPINION | PAGE 2 STATE Understanding the ‘New Partnership’ President Lariviere believes an form, proposes a shift away from the “You can see that there is a individualized governing board centralized governance of the State Board tremendous and growing burden on mid- of Higher Education by creating a more dle-class families who send their students will keep tuition costs at bay localized governing board, as well as the to us for education,” Lariviere said in the STEFAN VERBANO creation of a new $1.6 billion endowment article. “It threatens to put higher educa- NEWS REPORTER composed of state and private funds. tion beyond the reach of an expanding In a fall 2010 Oregon Quarterly article, segment of worthy students, and that is a A culture of boom-and-bust funding University President Richard Lariviere frightening prospect for all of us.” for Oregon’s higher education system left said the new plan was catalyzed by past As a result, Lariviere’s argument the University considering drastic, untest- years of fiscal uncertainty, which often for the change in funding holds that ed changes to its systems of governance, left the school scrambling to manage its middle-class Oregonians are accountability and funding. $700 million annual operating budget being bereft of the experience of higher In May of this year, the University’s with the less than 10 percent that the education, compromising the state’s Office of the President penned an state affords it each year. Because of such competitiveness and value of its authoritative report, known as a white uncertain financial straits, the University human capital. paper, called “Preserving Our Public struggled to keep tuition costs consistent, WHITE PAPERS OFFICE OF RICHARD LARIVIERE Mission Through a New Partnership with though students have come to expect PARTNERSHIP “Preserving our public mission through a new partnership with the State.” The document, still in draft steady 7 percent annual jumps in costs. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 the University of Oregon.” IN BRIEF STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASUO APPROVES OSPIRG FUNDING, HALTS GROWTH OF LTD, ATHLETICS DEPT. Saying bye to Blanchard On Wednesday night, ASUO Senate approved the The graduating senior reflects on his time spent working as an ASUO senator Athletics and Contracts Finance Committee to grow by approximately $161,428 or 4.31 percent. FRANKLIN BAINS immediately after being elected. This allows for the Oregon Student Public Interest NEWS REPORTER During fall term 2009, he started Research Group to be fully funded at $117,000 and Before being elected, ASUO to create the Climate Justice no growth beyond current service level adjustments Sen. Jeremy Blanchard prepared League as an offshoot of the work he did with ASUO Senate for the Lane Transit District contract or the Athletics to present a special request to Chair Zachary Stark-MacMil- Department contract. send students from the Survival Center to the Power Shift 2009 lan and OSPIRG Board Chair The benchmark is the amount that a committee conference. It was his first time Charles Denson on Power Shift thinks it will need to grow for the year, so that commit- watching the Senate process. West, a conference for University tee members can work out smaller things and Senate “It was still in the EMU Board students and others in eight is not overwhelmed when the budget is decided. Room, where it was really intimi- Western states. ACFC almost took LTD bus service off its bench- dating,” Blanchard said. “It took “I’ve always kind of had mark and proposed having the University administra- like an hour and a half to pass school, Senate and Climate Jus- tion negotiate the contract. Because LTD is the second that request ... we got the full re- tice League for the past almost two years now,” Blanchard said. biggest ACFC contract, just behind Athletics, it’s often quest, but I walked out of there Also during fall term 2009, difficult for students to negotiate themselves. feeling defeated.” Blanchard, who is resigning at Blanchard started noting cases LTD discussion took up a majority of the bench- the end of term because of gradu- where Senate encountered in- mark hearing as ASUO senators went back and forth ation, said he walked out upset efficiencies in the bylaws. At with the ASUO Executive on student oversight in the with the way the meeting ran and the time, he wrote down the of- contract negotiation. how senators nitpicked details. fending rules and how they kept ASUO President Amelie Rousseau said student Later that month, when slates Senate from being efficient. control of contract negotiations is crucial because were allowed to start forming in This year, he, along with students pay for the service, but some senators were the ASUO elections, the True Blue Stark-MacMillan and ASUO Sen. Chris Bocchicchio, worked to de- unsure why this was necessary. slate’s ASUO vice presidential velop these rule changes summer Rousseau and others argued that when the candidate, Lidiana Soto, reached AARON MARINEAU PHOTOGRAPHER out to Blanchard to run for Senate term 2010. administration deals with the contract, students may Graduating ASUO Senator Jeremy Blanchard plans on pursuing his because of his work with the Sur- During fall term 2010, they passion for computer sciences and the environment. Blanchard is deciding have no oversight in the way LTD and the University vival Center and Power Shift. He promoted a number of bylaw how best to continue cultivating his programming work and help work together. ran to change some of the things changes that Senate approved, communities create sustainable solutions to environmental problems. Throughout ACFC’s section, which lasted from 8:39 including a process of creating he thought were wrong with the Bocchicchio said he enjoyed his Senate faced winter term 2010, p.m. to 12:06 a.m., these three contracts were each resolutions he worked on with Senate process. Blanchard said students who Stark-MacMillan. time with the resigning senator. removed and replaced in various amendments made “So there have been multiple were opposed to the forum’s “We just solved so many “I hope I’ve been able to help by senators. times over the time I’ve been in place on campus attended and efficiency things and so many him grow as much as he’s helped Senators voted on the final benchmark of 4.31 per- Senate where ... I’ve asked ev- jeered when senators tried to things where we just bump up me grow,” Bocchicchio said. cent total growth for ACFC around midnight and was eryone to step back, and I’ve find middle ground, which forced against the rules all the time,” In order to fill his seat more helped shift the tone back to re- Blanchard to reconsider the approved with 11 senators affirming, four voting against Blanchard said. “It’s just a quickly, Blanchard began dis- alizing that these are students meaning of his constituency. and five senators abstaining from voting altogether. waste of time. No one even cussing his intent to resign with and human beings in front of us, “I had to dive way deeper Though the final result does not grant OSPIRG any knew why the rules were there Stark-MacMillan and ASUO Chief not people here to be badgered,” into what it meant to be a sena- money yet, approval on the benchmark is the closest in the first place, what they of Staff Ben Eckstein last week. Blanchard said. tor, what it meant to be elected they have been to funding since the ACFC voted to were accomplishing.” Blanchard is graduating “Jeremy would like to and who I was really needed to Bocchicchio worked with defund them in spring term 2009. at the end of the term with a minimize the lapse in between be represented,” Blanchard said. Blanchard since his own appoint- As budget decisions are made in winter term, degree in environmental stud- his resignation and new appli- “Part of it is, I was elected to be ment during last year’s Senate. senators will go through each budget more closely and ies and a minor in computer cant caused by his resignation,” me ... they elected me because funding decisions will happen at that point. science. Blanchard started at- Although Bocchicchio said Eckstein said. they saw my values.” tending as a senator during he and Blanchard occasionally During the controversial CAMPUS & FEDERAL POLITICS — franklin bains summer session 2009, almost butted heads on Senate issues, Pacifica Forum issue the ASUO [email protected] VISIT US ONLINE READ OUR BLOGS FOLLOW US ON TWITTER FORECAST Log onto dailyemerald.com to get Visit blogs.dailyemerald.com @DAILYEMERALD TODAY TOMORROW news updates, watch multimedia for extended coverage of @ODESPORTS High: 44 Low: 35 High: 42 Low: 33 and listen to weekly podcasts campus and community news @ODEPHOTO Showers Showers TALK TO US OPINION Editor Limit submissions to 850 words. Submissions should include Tyree Harris name, phone number and address. The Emerald reserves the right [email protected] to edit all submissions. 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