The ASUO Student Senate confirmed Ben Strawn as senate president, Kevin Day as senate vice president, Mike Sherman as ombudsman and Kevin Curtin as treasurer in its meeting on Wednesday night.
The confirmations of Strawn and Curtin sailed through, while Day and Sherman survived tough questions to gain confirmation.

Day received some harsh criticism from Eugene resident Bruce Miller.
“You consistently were the most quiet, uninvolved, ineffective senator last year,” Miller said.
None of Day’s fellow senators expressed reservations about his confirmation as senate vice president.
Sherman faced questions about his active involvement in College Republicans, but gained confirmation after assuring the senate that his political viewpoints wouldn’t interfere with the job of ombudsman.
“Clearly, there’s no place for partisan politics in the student government,” Sherman said. “I don’t think that anybody would claim that I’ve acted on partisan politics as a PFC senator.”
The senate also approved requests from the International Student Association and Ecological Design Center. The senate denied a request from KWVA campus radio.
The International Student Association persuaded the senate to shift $350 from the group’s Friday social fund to its food fund to pay for the group’s Friday night coffees. The weekly event brings international students together to mingle.
The senate also approved a request from the Ecological Design Center, a green-friendly student architecture group, to transfer $225 of the group’s funds to a different account to add two new positions.
EDC will add a curriculum coordinator and a professional developer. The change will cost no additional money because the co-directors, graduate architecture students Fumiko Docker and Jay Martin, agreed to cut their own salaries to pay for the additional positions.
EDC’s main task is holding an annual ecological design conference.
Procedural concerns about stepping on the ASUO Programs Finance Committee’s toes resulted in six nay votes, but the request still passed 8-6.
The senate rejected a request from KWVA for $775 to pay for an engineer. The engineer helped the radio station broadcast live from the ASUO Street Faire.
Senators voiced concern that KWVA had essentially already spent money that it didn’t have.
The motion failed by an 8-6 vote.
The senate has $93,284 in surplus funds remaining.