Two resolutions were on the agenda during the Associated Students of the University of Oregon May 15 senate meeting. Both resolutions, “Protect the Powwow” and a resolution about druggings and assault on campus, were passed.

The Protect the Powwow resolution was created in light of a scheduling conflict in which ASUO scheduled its spring concert during the same weekend as the Native American Student Union’s 56th annual Mother’s Day Powwow. The concert was ultimately canceled. Authors of the resolution were NASU member Yudith Chavez-Flores, NASU Co-Directors Tiera Garrety and Marisol Peters, Sen. Charlee Evans, Sen. Frankie Bodine and Sen. Ravi Cullop. Garrety and Peters were both elected to the ASUO Senate during the spring 2024 elections.

The resolution included updating the land acknowledgement ASUO uses, stating that from this point forward no ASUO events will be permitted to be scheduled during the Mother’s Day Powwow weekend, and adding a physical binder to the ASUO office which holds the 15 NASU resolutions, testimonies and stories that contributed to the resolution passing.

The second resolution on the agenda was a letter written to Oregon Congresswoman Val Hoyle by ASUO, in which ASUO asked Representative Hoyle to “to call upon the Department of Education to take immediate action and investigate these violations.”

Over 10 known incidents of female students being drugged at a fraternity party have been documented in the past few months. The university failed to report these crimes under the Clery Act, according to Eugene Weekly reporting, which requires universities to issue “timely warnings” of crime reports to the student body, and provided misleading information about where the druggings took place.