uodsp: FW: Clarification re: IMPORTANT and URGENT AASU request: Please read

[Heidi von Ravensberg]

-----Original Message-----
From: Nocona L Pewewardy [mailto:noconap at uoregon.edu] 
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 2:19 PM
To: Hilary Gerdes; Heidi von Ravensberg; Elizabeth Wheeler; Justine Carpenter; Jené Conrad; SMHA; uoregonmcc at gmail.com; Audrey Medina; Max Jensen; Kyra Ioppolo; Vanessa Teck
Subject: Clarification re: IMPORTANT and URGENT AASU request: Please read

p.s., what precipitated this is that I was completely overwhelmed with 
the demands to meet with the ASUO tag and to attend a mandatory 
contracting meeting re: submitting student union contracts to the 
Controllers. I met with our ASUO Tag and our Controller Tag, and 
explained about educational accommodations I get through the ADA and 
that the ASUO and Student Senate should provided equivalent types of 
recommendations.

I was able to get an extension for submitting our 2016-17 Budget from 
11/6 to 11/11.  I, however, explained that the problems AASU has faced 
at UO are because the processes are not accommodating.  I also explained 
that a one-time exception helps and is deeply appreciated, but it 
doesn't help with the ongoing structural barriers.  That is when I got a 
commitment from our ASUO Tag, who is also the Vice-President of Student 
Senate, to bring a resolution in front of the Student Senate in order to 
make ADA accommodations structural for student unions whose members are 
comprised of students protected by the ADA.

These accommodations will include things like flexibility in the budget 
deadline and working with a consistent TAG.  Hopefully, too, the ASUO 
Accessibility Advocate will provide more active support to the AASU.

  I hope this contextual information helps make the purpose of what I 
discussed in the email I sent below more clear.


On 2015/11/06 09:26, Nocona L Pewewardy wrote:
> Dear AASU Members (Alumni and Current), Allies, Mentors, and Friends:
> 
> AASU is organizing with our ASUO Tag to incorporate Universal Design
> in ALL ASUO (Associated Students of University of Oregon) and Student
> Senate Processes.  We need your help!!!!!!!  To get this through the
> Senate this academic year, we have to act fast.
> 
> Here is what AASU needs from you:
> 
> 1.	 Come to our meeting on 11/16 from 3-4.  Let’s fill the room so
> ASUO knows AASU has support from members, allies, mentors, and
> friends.  All of us can speak to how universal design in ASUO
> processes serves the University of Oregon Community.  The single most
> important thing you can do to support this effort right now is come
> too our meeting with Quinn on Monday, 11/16, at 3:00.
> 
> •	Our ASUO Tag, Quinn Haaga will be at our meeting on 11/16.  We we
> will present a letter with our request for Universal Design in ASUO
> processes.  Quinn will sponsor the action in the UO Student Senate in
> the Winter Term.
> 
> PLEASE RSVP BY 11/11 IF YOU CAN COME TO OUR 11/16 MEETING.  Please
> share this news with everybody you know and let's pack the room.
> 
> •	The meeting will be in EMU South Dining East (113A) starting at 3:00
> on 11/16.  EMU South Dining East is a difficult room to find.  It is
> right across from the temporary location of the copy center in the
> EMU.  Email me at noconap at uoregon.edu by 11:00 a.m., on 11/16, if you
> want to meet you at Starbucks in the EMU at 2:50 p.m. so we can go to
> the room together.
> 
> 
> 2.	At the AASU meeting on Monday, 11/9 from 3-5, we are drafting the
> letter we will present to Quinn on Monday, 11/16.  Please come of the
> 11/9 meeting also if you can.  But the 11/16 meeting is the most
> important.
> 
> •	We will send the letter we draft on 11/9 to all of you for your
> input by 11/13.
> 
> After our meeting with Quinn on 11/16, we will continue to work with
> Quinn and our other allies is the ASUO and on Senate to develop an
> action to present to the Student Senate in the winter term.  Quinn
> will present a resolution to Student Senate in the Winter 2017 term to
> formalize universal design into ASUO/Student Senate process and make
> these changes a permanent part of ASUO/Senate structures.
> 
> Expect AASU’s email 11/9 with a request for your feedback by 11/13
> regarding the letter we will give Quinn on 11/16.
> 
> Please email me if you have any questions, thoughts, comments.
> 
> Nocona on behalf of the AASU!