IFC approves funding to hire lobbyist
By JIM ALLEN
Of the Emerald
The Incidental Fee Committee
voted unanimously Thursday to
help fund a full-time lobbyist who
will work on the problem of student
access to course evaluations at
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An hour-long meeting between
U. S. Reps A! Ullman, Bob Dun
can and Jim Weaver resulted in a
recommendation by those three
and Rep. Les Aucoin that Attorney
General Jim Redden and Bend at
torney Owen Palmer be appointed
to the federal bench.
Weaver had strongly supported
Frye and now says he has an “ab
solute commitment” to include the
woman judge's name and list nf
candidates to replace U.S. District
qourt Judge Otto Skopil. Skopil is
under consideration for the Ninth
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Weaver says including Frye’s
name on the list is tantamount to
appointment, should Skopil vac
ate.
The decision on the Ninth U. S.
Circuit Court appointment, how
ever, will be made by an indepen
dent judicial panel, selected by the
U. S. Department of Justice,
rather than by Oregon’s four con
gressmen.
Frye declined to speculate
about Skopil’s seat, but is pushing
hard for one of the two vacancies
she knows is available and con
siders herself a viable candidate
despite the congressmen’s re
commendations.
Indeed, Governor Bob Straub
wrote Carter two weeks ago en
dorsing Redden and Frye, but not
Panner. Frye says Straub’s letter
came as a surprise to her. Oregon
women’s groups are strongly
pushing for Frye, reminding Car
ter of his campaign promise to ap
point qualified women to federal
positions.
Frye says she would take a mix
of liberal and conservative view
points with her to the federal
bench and would show that con
servatism most as a trial judge.
“First of all, for trial judges, it is
not proper to be making law. The
reason our democracy is success
ful is it’s the Legislature that
makes law.”
Frye says judges do not hear
the debate that legislative bodies
get. She describes the situation of
a lone trial judge making law as
“tyrannical.”
"I know that some of the great
social issues of our time have
been decided by the courts,” Frye
says, citing the U. S. Supreme
Court’s abortion decision.
Frye says this is because the
Legislature and Congress put the
courts in a difficult position.
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The committee set aside
$1,000 from its unallocated re
serve fund for the lobbyist and ap
proved line item transfers of
$1542 and $1600 from the respec
tive budgets of the ASUO and the
Student University Affairs Board.
The lobbyist’s budget thus totals
$4142 for five months.
“We’re tired of waiting around,"
said IFC chairperson Janet Eq
gleston. “Ite time to put our
money where our mouth is, and try
to win this fight in the legislature."
“I’m very pleaskl," said ASUO
vice president Jeff Warren, who is
now in charge of hiring the new
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lobbyist. “The IFC has taken
some constructive action here.”
“Unfortunately,” added War
ren, ‘some people will assume
that the action by the faculty on
Wednesday (in the University As
sembly) in passing the Holbo
Greenfield amendment will create
a legislative conflict between stu
dents and faculty on money is
sues. Hopefully, this won’t be the
case.”
“This flippant action by Holbo
and Greenfield and the faculty has
created unnecessary tension. We
will do all that we can to insure that
this conflict does not damage the
U of O’s budget request in the
legislature.”
The IFC, however, faced with
an ever-shrinking unallocated re
serve fund, had some decisions to
make even before any money was
even allocated. Committee
member Dusty Rhodes moved
that the ASUO’s request for a lob
byist be placed first on the
agenda, ahead of several other
programs.
"It comes down to a matter of
having a limited amount of
money," said Rhodes. However,
the rest of the committee decided
to stay with the predetermined
agenda and Rhodes’ motion failed
5-1.
In other actions, the Committee
turned down the Chinese Student
Association’s request for $460 to
fund a group trip to British Colum
bia for the Pacific Northwest
Chinese University Students’
Conference later this month.
uenter plans runa-raising
The Amazon Child Care Center will hold a fund raising sale this
Saturday at the Edison Elementary School. The sale features new and
used toys, plants, art work, games, clothes and Christmas cakes and
cookies.
The sale is from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Proceeds will buy equipment and
pay for general expenses. The center depends on fund raising projects
and parent co-oping to keep the child-care tuition at a minimum.
Parents interested in low-cost, high-quality care for their fwo-and
one-half to six-year old children should contact the center at 2227 #1
Patterson or call 343-2432 or 343-3616.
embarrassed to sentence people
for marijuana possession.
“Thousands and thousands of
reputable people are using mari
juana. What are we supposed to
do?” she asks.
She calls on the Legislature to
either legalize and regulate mari
juana or make the penalties so
stiff that people will not use it.
Frye calls sentencing people
one of the hardest functions of a
judge. She disputes those who
say the penitentiary has no re
habilitative qualities.
“Forty percent of them change
their lives. They come out and
don’t go back,” she says. For the
others, the penitentiary at least
protects society, she says.
However, Frye thinks the courts
should be lenient to young offen
ders. “As a mother, I think of youth
as a baby robin flying out of the
nest. They don’t always do it
gracefully.” That is why the
judiciary system is generally le
nient with youth, she says.
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