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2. State of the University
2.1 Remarks by Interim President Robert Berdahl
2.2 Questions and Comments with Response

3. New Business
3.1 Election of Senate President 2012 – 2013; John Bonine, Chair; Senate Nominating Committee
3.2 Two Research Policies for Consideration and Vote; Beth Stormshak, Associate VP for Research
3.2.1 Classified Research Policy
3.2.2 Proprietary Research Policy
3.3 IAC Motion Regarding Student Membership
3.3.1 History and Summary of the Motion; Glen Waddell, IAC
3.3.2 Comments from Interim President Robert Berdahl
3.3.3 Report from the Committee on Committees; Robert Kyr, Senate President
3.3.4 Discussion
3.3.5 Senate Action
3.4 Student Conduct Code; Shabd Khalsa, Student Conduct and Community Standards Committee (chair designee)
3.5 Motion US11/12-09 Acknowledging the Constitution; Frank Stahl, Biology Emeritus

4. Open Discussion
4.1 Update on Unionization; Peter Keyes, Member of the University of Oregon Faculty Union Coordinating Committee

5. Reports
5.1 ASUO Report; Ben Eckstein, ASUO President
5.2 Update on a Change in Practice regarding Public Records; Bill Harbaugh; Chair, Senate Transparency Committee
5.3 Update on Remaining Policies for May 23 Senate Meeting (Kyr)
5.4 Update regarding the Tenth Year Review – Committee on Committees (Kyr)

6. Announcements and Communications from the Floor
6.1 Notice of Motion: Consideration of Voting Rights for Retired and Emeritus Faculty Members; Marie Vitulli (Professor Emerita, Mathematics) and Sarah Douglas (Professor Emerita, Computer Science)
6.2 Notice of Motion: No Coal Resolution; Emma Newman, Student Justice League

7. Adjournment

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Repertoire for Concert 2:
Quartet in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5
Quartet in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1

Bacevich will discuss the U.S.’s over-reliance on military power to achieve its foreign policy aims in his 2011-12 Kritikos Lecture, “A Decade of War,” on Tuesday, May 15th at 7:30 p.m. in the EMU Ballroom. In his talk, Bacevich will address several urgently important questions: “More than a decade into the ‘Global War on Terror,’ where has that conflict taken us? What has it achieved? What has it cost? Although,” Bacevich notes, “the inclination to turn away from these questions may be strong, Americans should resist that temptation.”

Andrew Bacevich was a persistent and vocal critic of the U.S. occupation of Iraq from the outset, describing George W. Bush’s endorsement of such “preventive wars” as “immoral, illicit, and imprudent.” His son, Andrew Bacevich Jr., also an Army officer, was killed in action in Iraq in 2007 at the age of 27. In 2010, Bacevich accused President Obama of “want[ing] us to forget about the lessons of Iraq.”

A graduate of West Point (1969), Bacevich holds a Ph.D. in American Diplomatic History from Princeton. He taught at West Point and Johns Hopkins prior to joining the faculty at Boston University in 1998. Bacevich is the author of several books, including Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War (2010); The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (2008); and The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War (2005). He is also the editor of a book of essays titled The Short American Century: A Postmortem (March 2012).

The lecture is free and open to the public, and will be repeated in Portland on Wednesday, May 16th at 7 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Ave. The Eugene lecture will be followed by a book sale and signing.

Dr. Ayers is the founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society, and has taught courses in interpretive and qualitative research, urban school change, and teaching and the modern predicament. A graduate of the University of Michigan, the Bank Street College of Education, Bennington College, and Teachers College, Columbia University, Ayers has written extensively about social justice, democracy and education, the cultural contexts of schooling, and teaching as an essentially intellectual, ethical, and political enterprise. He is currently the vice-president of the curriculum studies division of the American Educational Research Association. He lives in Chicago, IL with his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, and is the father of three grown boys.

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“Textualities in the Digital Age” focuses on concrete examples of digital projects and then moves to broader considerations of tools and approaches to help the audience consider how digital methodologies might expand the horizons of their own research. The symposium participants present a range of approaches to digital texts, from digital critical editions to computer-assisted historical inquiry.

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The Cervantes Project and Computer Science
Richard Furuta, Computer Science, Texas A&M University

“Textualities in the Digital Age” focuses on concrete examples of digital projects and then moves to broader considerations of tools and approaches to help the audience consider how digital methodologies might expand the horizons of their own research. The symposium participants present a range of approaches to digital texts, from digital critical editions to computer-assisted historical inquiry.

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Carolingian Canon Law Project
Abigail Firey, History, University of Kentucky

“Textualities in the Digital Age” focuses on concrete examples of digital projects and then moves to broader considerations of tools and approaches to help the audience consider how digital methodologies might expand the horizons of their own research. The symposium participants present a range of approaches to digital texts, from digital critical editions to computer-assisted historical inquiry.

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