ASUO President Sam Dotters-Katz was born in Chapel Hill, N. C., but moved to Oregon after elementary school. He attended South Eugene High School, and he is now a University senior majoring in political science.
According to the ASUO Constitution, “The ASUO President is responsible for the administration of ASUO programs and acts as the official spokesperson for students as a whole, within and without the University.”
Dotters-Katz has no previous experience in student government and used that fact as a major part of his platform during the election in the spring. In an April interview with the Emerald, he accused the previous ASUO as being “somewhat of a culture of corruption.” He ran as a part of the Oregon Action Team on a campaign platform focused on increasing transparency within the ASUO in order to renew student interest.
Since he has taken office, Dotters-Katz has implemented a cell-phone warning system on campus – a promise he made during his campaign. He will also attempt to register 10,000 new voters on campus before the registration deadline. Dotters-Katz will do that without the help of an Oregon Student Association campus organizer – a position he chose not to appoint and a decision many have questioned.
“Essentially, we’re going to try and register 10,000 voters in 12 days. It’s going to be really intense,” Dotters-Katz said. His plan involves distributing voting cards to residence halls, drop boxes for registration packets across campus, a non-partisan youth voter registration effort, and a voter registration contest among fraternities and sororities.
Johnny Delashaw
ASUO Vice President Johnny Delashaw was born in Charlottesville, Va. He moved to West Linn, Ore., when he was seven years old. Delashaw attended the University of San Diego before transferring to the University, and he is a senior majoring in history.
According to the ASUO Constitution, “The ASUO Vice President shall assume all duties pertaining to the office of the President in the President’s absence and all other duties as delegated by the President.”
Delashaw has been friends with Dotters-Katz since well before their decision to run for ASUO as a team. Like his campaign partner, Delashaw has no previous experience with the student government, but shares Dotters-Katz’s views on transparency and rejuvenating student interest in the ASUO.
Delashaw’s interest in the ASUO was piqued when he injured himself in a snowboard accident. His trouble moving around campus while hurt brought his attention to the budget of disability services, which he felt was too small.
“I got in contact with Sam and we started talking about it and decided that the only thing we could really do to change it – you can go in there and say whatever you want to the ASUO and they’re not going to change – the only way to change it is run for the office and win,” Delashaw said in an interview with the Oregon Commentator.
Delashaw has been working on making it easier for students with mobility issues to move around campus. “It can be difficult for students with mobility issues to get around to all of the things this campus has to offer,” Delashaw told the Emerald in an interview in April.
Athan Papailiou
Athan Papailiou was born in Portland, and he attended high school in Lake Oswego, Ore. A senior majoring in biology, Papailiou was appointed the ASUO chief of staff by Dotters-Katz and Delashaw in May.
According to the ASUO Constitution, “The Chief of Staff assists the ASUO President and Vice-President in the development and management of ASUO Executive Staff by leading staff meetings, supporting staff with their events and programs, and coordinating leadership development efforts.”
During Dotters-Katz’s and Delashaw’s campaign, Papailiou served as an adviser.
“There’s a high learning curve in student government. I was able to help fill that gap with my experience as a candidate and as a student senator,” Papailiou told the Emerald in May. “I felt compelled to support candidates that would protect student control of the incidental fee, that would represent the entire student body.”
Unlike Dotters-Katz and Delashaw, Papailiou has a long history in student government and the ASUO, including a failed bid for ASUO vice president in 2007, when he ran alongside ASUO presidential hopeful Sara Hamilton on the Campaign for Change slate.
Papailiou has been a senator in the ASUO for three years and was senate president while advising Dotters-Katz and Delashaw during their campaign. Papailiou has also served as vice president of leadership development for the Interfraternity Council, chair of the ASUO Academic Senate, and was on the University Bookstore Board of Directors.
Dave Frohnmayer
Dave Frohnmayer has been the University’s president since 1994, making his presidential tenure one of the longest in the University’s history. In April, Frohnmayer announced he will retire after the 2008-09 school year.
Frohnmayer, who was born in Medford, is the first native Oregonian to become president of a large research university in the state, according to his online University biography. As president, Frohnmayer has led University efforts to create a new center for the law school and a new Student Recreation Center, as well as efforts to renovate the Knight Library, Autzen Stadium, Lillis Business Complex and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
Frohnmayer also has brought new science facilities to the University, and began Campaign Oregon, which at its launch was the largest fundraising campaign in state history. The campaign goal was to raise a minimum of $600 million in private gifts for the University, but it has raised $818 million to date. On the campaign Web site, Frohnmayer refers to Campaign Oregon as “the most important mission of my presidency.”
Before becoming president, Frohnmayer served as a law professor and legal counsel to the president of the University, and he was dean of the University law school. Frohnmayer was also a member of the Oregon House of Representatives, and he served as Oregon’s attorney general. As attorney general, Frohnmayer argued seven cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He won six of them, giving him the best case record of any state attorney general in contemporary society.
Frohnmayer finished his undergraduate work at Harvard University, studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, and received his law degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
Robin Holmes
Robin Holmes became the University’s vice president for student affairs last year, making her the leader of University efforts in supporting the academic experience and success of its students.
In 2007, Holmes was named one of the American Council on Education’s Fellows program and served a five-month fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley.
Holmes, who holds a master’s and doctoral degree from the California School of Professional Psychology, is a licensed clinical psychologist. Since joining the University in 1992, and prior to her appointment as vice president, Holmes served as the dean of students and director of the University Counseling and Testing Center.
Through her research experience, Holmes developed expertise in working with people from a wide range of backgrounds, including race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, her online biography says. Holmes has taught a number of classes and workshops including subjects of multiculturalism and identity formation and development.
As vice president, Holmes oversees the Career Center, the Counseling and Testing Center, the Office of the Dean of Students, Erb Memorial Union, the University Health Center, University Housing, the Department of Physical Education and Recreation, and the Office of Student Life. On the Student Affairs Web site, Holmes says the organization is dedicated to supporting diversity, its parnerships with academic departments, and the University’s academic mission.
Holmes received a
bachelor’s and master’s degree from California State University, Fullerton.
Jim Bean
Jim Bean is beginning his two-year term as senior vice president and provost at the University, succeeding Linda Brady. Bean was also recently appointed by Gov. Ted Kulongoski as a technical adviser to the Oregon Innovation Council.
In his role of vice president and provost, Bean is the chief academic officer at the University, and is a leader in efforts to further excellent academic performance in undergraduate and graduate education, international programs, research activity and service to Oregonians, according to the University’s Vice President and Provost Web site.
Since joining the University in 2004, Bean served as the dean of the Charles H. Lundquist College of Business. Bean worked as the Univerity of Michigan’s College of Engineering associate dean for academic affarirs, and as the professor of industrial and operations engineering.
At the University of Michigan, Bean was in charge of faculty hiring, promotion, tenure, and the budget.
Bean has won various awards for his teaching and scholarship, including Outstanding Achievement in Industrial and Operations Engineering in 2002, and Alpha Pi Mu Teacher of the Year in Industrial and Operations Engineering in 1982-1986 and 1991-1993. He is also a fellow, as well as a past president, of the Institute of Operations Research and the Management Services.
Bean, who grew up in Beaverton, Ore., completed his undergraduate studies at Harvey Mudd College, and received master’s and doctoral degrees in operations research from Stanford University.