[Uosenateexec] Fwd: Pre-election planning

[Elliot Berkman]

Hi Senate Exec,

Please see the message below from Dwaine Plaza, the Senate President at OSU, about their plans around and after the election. I’m curious to hear if you would be in favor of a senate- or senate exec-hosted speaker series or some other kind of campus-wide activity and, if so, what that might look like.

Also, please note that their message to faculty has not yet gone out, so please do not share it beyond this group.

-Ell

he/him/Ell

> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Dwaine Plaza <dwaine_plaza at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Pre-election planning
> Date: October 26, 2020 at 10:14:37 AM PDT
> To: Elliot Berkman <berkman at uoregon.edu>
> Cc: Jovanovic Goran Nadezda <goran.jovanovic at oregonstate.edu>, Heppell Selina S <selina.heppell at oregonstate.edu>, Vickie L Nunnemaker <vickie.nunnemaker at oregonstate.edu>, Mina Julia Carson <mcarson at oregonstate.edu>, Shannon Riggs <shannon.riggs at oregonstate.edu>
> Resent-From: <berkman at uoregon.edu>
> 
> Hi Elliot,
> Thanks for your email and update on the situation at the U of O. Glad you were able to get things rolling on your end with Schill and other leadership. We are a little further along in creating some guidelines for faculty and and having a post election series of talks by our Political Science Faculty. I have attached the letter that will be going out to our faculty in the next few days. 
> 
> Elliot you are welcome to use some of our ideas if you think it would help on your campus. I am going to ask our IFS Rep (Goran Jovanovic) to share our draft documents with the IFS leadership. Maybe there are other OUS campuses also writing similar statements to their faculty/students. It always helps to start off with something to work from.
> 
> I have included our leadership team on this email so they will also know we are working in tandem. 
> 
> We have Corvallis PD and the State Troopers on our campus. I am not 100% sure they have a plan either for November 4th (just in case). What I do see around Corvallis is a steady stream of pick up trucks flying the Trump flag and driving around the city. Likely trying to send a message about their presence. 
> 
> Lets continue to stay in touch and update each other. 
> 
> Cheers
> Dwaine
> 
> 
> On Friday, October 23, 2020, 4:54:31 PM PDT, Elliot Berkman <berkman at uoregon.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Dwaine,
> 
> I hope you’re hanging in there and taking care of yourself.
> 
> I’m curious to hear where you have gotten with pre-election planning. We’re sending out this letter on Monday and are coordinating with complementary messages from our Provost and President. We really want our students to know that we’re aware of how affected they are and to remind faculty to be empathic and make accommodations. 
> 
> I was alarmed to learn in our last meeting with President Schill that the admin had not yet conducted a table-top exercise about what to do if there are white supremacist gatherings on or near campus. I think that is a grim possibility regardless of the outcome of the election. A large gathering of our students in protest or celebration could easily become a target for such a group. An interesting thing Schill noted is that the UO campus is technically closed to the public because of the pandemic. So, unlike previous instances where hostile and threatening groups have come to campus, we have grounds to bar them from entering or kick them out. Of course, the question of whether UOPD or Eugene PD would be prepared to do that (assuming armed groups, etc) is unclear. I think this possibility scared Mike enough that he will run through scenarios with our disaster management team.
> 
> Have a nice weekend!
> 
> -Ell
> 
> he/him/Ell

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