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Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon co-authors of Lesbian Woman lecture April 39 Tuesday EMU Ballroom 8 pm Sponsored by ASUO Cultural Forum No Admission Legal Services ‘follows through ’ with a problem The ASUO Legal Services program provides legal assistance to University students for problems including consumer rights, landlord-tenant relationships, wage claims and copyrights, and has plans to expand—all for about 30 cents per student. “We can handle almost any problem up to the point where it involves litigation (court ap pearances requiring attorneys),” said Robert Ackerman, one of two lawyers who along with two part-time secretaries staff the program. Ackerman said that despite this limitation only about five per cent of the program’s clients must be referred to other lawyers. Most of the problems are resolved without a court appearance or are referred to small claims court where no attorney is required. “The major difference between our program and some others that call themselves legal ser OREGON TYPEWRITER 30 E 11th Downtown 342-2463 Rent to own Typewriters Apply rent to purchase price as low as gOO per month SMITH CORONA, OLYMPIA HERMES, ROYAL, IBM, OLIVETTI \STEREO ■ equipment! Advent A.R. B&O Dual J. B.L. Kenwood K. L.H. Koss McIntosh Shure Sony T.E.A.C. Thorens Ouality Repair on all Stereo Components, ypewriters. Recorders, and Business machines Oregon Typewriter and Recorder vices programs is that we follow through with the problem until it is resolved or requires litigation,” said Ackerman. “Most of our cases are in the area of landlord-tenant relationships,” noted Ackerman. “Often we find that landlords are pressing debts against students because they know the students don’t usually have the money to retain an attorney. Normally, all it takes in cases like these is a phone call and an identification of myself as an attorney,” said Ackerman. Other common problems on the wide-ranging list include wage claims and immigration problems. At the time the program was established in 1971, it was one of only three such programs in the country. Since then, more than 30 inquiries have come from in IT’S EASIER TO TALK ABOUT CHALLENGE! THAN TO MEET THEM. Times may change. The world. The Church. But one thing never changes. Our need for each other. The sick, the poor, the despond ent are with us still but the Do minican Sisters of the Sick Poor try to help... in their own way with their own gifts. Their mission is to nurse the needy in their own homes. Young and old without regard to race or religion. To care for the children left adrift when illness comes To keep families together. To bring comfort to the sick. Peace to the aged. And to bring Christ’s love to all. It isn’t easy to be a Dominican Sister of the Sick Poor but the rewards are far greater than a patient's smile. For now, this is reward enough. If you feel the need of a change, and you can accept a challenge, why not find out more about the wont we do? The Dominican Sisters of the Sick Poor offer a unique opportunity to work in the field before assum ing any obligations. For informa tion about the Associate Program write to: Sister Marguerite Mitchell, Vocation Director Room 107 Mariundale, Ossining, New York 10562 mmmkjwsbihbof HCSKKK0R.HH m stitutions considering establishing similar programs. Though the program is ex pected to bear a heavier case load next year, Ackerman said he did not plan to seek an increase in the present $19,000 that the program receives from the ASUO. Instead, he indicated that he would try to get two more work-study secretarial-legal assistant positions. “The addition of these positions would allow us to provide an increased level of service to our clients," said Ackerman. He said such service could include name changes and adoptions as well as more complete legal research on problems that could reduce the cost to students who must be referred to outside lawyers. Ackerman said only students would be hired, and the ad ditional jobs would pay at the maximum allowable rate. Aside from the expanded services, Ackerman said the main ad vantage of the added positions would be to give the women who would occupy them an op portunity to become legal assistants. McCall . . . (Continued from Page 1) He compared the State Board of Higher Education to county government, saying “This is the governance of whole cities of students in effect.” And he said that many of the major policies made by the Board “are still out of their (students’) reach.” McCall said placing students on the Board would not change the traditional citizen make-up of the Board. “Who is the most im portant citizen in higher education?” he asked. The governor also indicated he does not foresee a storm of demands for faculty and staff representation on the Board if a student is appointed. He observed that those groups have a different relation to the Board “which is involved in setting their compensations ” McCall said, however, “It is perfectly proper for a student to join in that procedure.” Though the governor has said he would prefer to appoint only one student to the Board, while student lobbyists have urged the appointment of three students, he said he is “not locked into con crete over the number.” But McCall suggested that this is one area where gradualism might be the best policy. "Let’s start out with one,” McCall said. “Maybe then we can say let’s try two or three. "I detect quite a bit of hostility among my own Board members to the idea of one student,” McCall said, “We have an honest difference of opinion and I don’t want to rub their faces in the dirt on this thing. “If three was in the bill, i aon i know what I would do,” McCall continued. "Two would be an easier number.” The governor indicated that he fully supports the idea of student government making recom mendations for the appointment. McCall indicated that he was unsure of the status of much of I he student legislation “because I have been engrossed with the tax plan.” But he said he would begin to track it down this week.
