Kessi, Patterson to
James Kessi squeezes by Flood
to claim vice president position
By TROY ZABOUKOS _
Assistant News Editor
ASUP presidential candidates
junior Kelly Kissi and senior Bruce
Patterson will be running against
each other for a second time as
Kessi and Patterson elliminated
senior Vitus Sotto and senior Mike
McDougall from the race. Vote
totals were not released, however,
due to the run-off election.
Students may vote at the fol¬
'This was probably the cleanest and well organized election
since I've been at UP.'
— Jim Kane
Asst. Dean of Students
neither was able to capture a major¬
ity of the votes cast in Tuesday’s
election.
The special run-off election is
called when none of the candidates
running for executive positions
collect a majority (50 percent plus
one) of the vote.
As the top two vote getters.
lowing locations: 9 a.m.-l 1 a.m. in
BC Foyer, 11:10 a.m.-lp.m. in the
Pilot House, 1:10-2:40 p.m. in BC
Foyer, and 5:15-7:15 p.m. in the
Commons.
Tuesday’s election had a turn¬
out of 597 voters, over one third of
the full-time undergraduates en¬
rolled at UP.
run-off for president today
Jim Kane assistant dean of stu¬
dents, said “I think the turnout was
pretty good. If you compare it with
the national election then it’s not
very good, but my experience at
other schools is that those statistics
are impressive.”
He added in respect to recent
elections, "This was probably the
cleanest and well organized elec¬
tion since I’ve been at UP.
In the vice presidential elec¬
tion, junior James Kessi collected
291 votes, only four over the ma¬
jority to defeat sophomore Dana
Flood (185) and junior Steve Sch-
nurbusch (94).
Meanwhile, Kelly Fox was
elected secretary with 516 votes
and Shannon Ransom was elected
treasurer with 527 votes.
Winning seats in the Senate
were: Engineering, Gilbert Ball
Pase turn to ELECTION
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Kelly Kessi
”1 am running as the can¬
didate that will represent the
student body and university
in the best possible manner.
I will strive to represent the
students' current opinions
and views to the administra¬
tion, enabling them to be
taken seriously. I feel the
students deserve the right
to this consideration."
Bruce Patterson
"The president of ASUP
must, at all times, remem¬
ber that he represents the
student body and their
ideas. He must furthermore
work with all facets of the
university to guarantee the
students' needs are met. I
have the abilites to do ex¬
actly that - to produce the
results you deserve!"
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Senate elects Palmquist as
СРВ
Director
By DAVID HILL _
Editor in chief
Junior Marta Palmquist was
voted as director of Campus Pro¬
gram Board
(СРВ)
by senate dur¬
ing Monday’s meeting.
Palmquist received 14 votes,
while opponent freshman Karen
Wray received 13 votesand one
senator abstained. Palmquist took
over the position immediately,
replacing this year’s director sen¬
ior Karen Wilhelms.
Following the selection of
СРВ
Director, the senate unanimously
passed an amendment to the
constitution which will change the
date of spring elections.
Currendy, elections are held
during the third week of fall semes¬
ter and between the first and third
weeks of March during spring se¬
mester. Under the amendment, fall
semester elections would remain
the same, but elections in the spring
would be held between the third
and fifth weeks of the semester.
The constitutional amendment
will now be put on the fall 1989
ballot and voted on by the student
body. If passed the amendment
would go into effect immediately.
The idea to hold the spring elec¬
tion earlier in the semester was
developed by the ASUP Executive
Board in January. Will Kessi,
ASUP vice president, said that the
board felt newly elected officers
are currendy not given enough
time to prepare adequately for their
positions.
“Right now the officers get
elected in March and go right into
office,” said Kessi. “We give them
all our knowledge in a day (during
a weekend retreat) and the follow¬
ing Monday they’re in office.”
The Executive Board brought
the proposal before senate in mid-
February and a special committee
was then formed to evaluate the
suggested amendment. Kessi said
that such a committee is required
any time an amendment to the
constitution is proposed.
After agreeing that the pro¬
posed change would be beneficial,
the committee wrote the amend¬
ment and presented it to senate on
Monday.
If the amendment is passed by
the student body, elections would
be held at the end of January or in
early February. The newly elected
officers would then observe the
current officers and become better
acquainted with the position he or
she would assume. The newly
elected officer would still be sworn
induring March as is done cur¬
rently.
“They’d geta good feel of what
the job really entailed. Then they’d
be able to jump right in when they
were swom in,” said Kessi. “It’s
essential that people elected have a
working knowledge of what’s
going on. And the best way to do
that is to spend time with the people
who were before you.”
In other senate business:
•An inquiry was made concern¬
ing the opening of the information
booth in the Pilot House. Marilyn
Dukes, student activities coordina¬
tor, said the booth is scheduled to
open next week.
•Wilhelms said questions con¬
cerning decorations on caps and
gowns should be directed to Bill
Reed in the alumni office.
•It was suggested by a senator
that in the future the
СРВ
Director
be voted on by the general student
body as is the rest of the executive
board instead of being selected by
senate. It was decided that an
amendment to the constitution be
drawn up for further discussion.
Applications down 22 percent
Nursing program trys to evade shortage
By TROY ZABOUKOS
Assistant News Editor
Despite efforts in recruiting
and the formalizing of curricu¬
lum, the UP nursing program is
feeling the effects of a nation¬
wide shortage of nurses that is ex¬
pected to intensify throughout the
next decade.
According to Upbeat, the
University’s faculty/staff news¬
letter, as of February 15, applica¬
tions for admissions into the
school of nursing had fallen 22
percent compared to this time in
1988.
In comparison, the number of
applications to the University as a
whole has risen 12 percent to 989
applicants, the greatest number
ever at this point in the year.
But UP is not alone in the
shortage. A federal Department
of Health and Human Services
report estimated a need for
1 37,000 more nurses nation-wide
for hospitals and nursing homes
than are currendy available to fill
the positions.
In addition, Oregon Health
and Sciences University officials
speculated in an Oregonian article
that the demand within the next
four years for nurses in Oregon will
raise 10 percent.
“There’s no reason not to be¬
lieve the statistics,” said Sharon
Firsich, a nursing instructor at UP,
“but these numbers are predicted
on the assumption that nothing will
be done.”
“There’s no need to panic. It’s
not a crisis yet and it doesn’t have
to be,” she added. “Things are
being done.”
The nursing school, like many
other programs has increased its
marketing and outreach to the
community in hopes of recruiting
additional students.
Also, the University has im¬
proved the bridge from community
colleges, giving registered nurses
with an associate degree the oppor¬
tunity to earn a bachelors and even
a masters degree with advanced
placement
But the nursing profession
faces some large barriers to over¬
come before the shortage is de¬
creased. First of all, itmustelimi-
nate the stereotype that nursing is
a women’s profession, according
to Firsich.
And although starting salaries
have recentiy improved to com¬
pare with other professions, the
amount of increase in salary
stages throughout a nursing ca¬
reer is not wide enough to attract
enough people, according to Fir¬
sich.
“In other professions you may
increase your salary 100 to 500
percent throughout your career.
In nursing the probable advance¬
ment during a lifetime will be 25-
30 percent.”
One more cause of the short¬
age is the open field of job oppor¬
tunities now available to women
that didn’t exist a decade ago. “A
woman can be anything she
wants now, before there were
only a few jobs women could
do,” said Firsich.
Finally, recent nation-wide
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