Attorney general hopefuls debate
Photo by Tim Fisher
By WILLIAM KOGUT
Of the Emerald
Five of the eight attorney general primary candidates
I debated in the Law School Tuesday night. Republican
Robert Wright, the one candidate present who isn’t a
, licensed attorney, unabashedly attacked the four other
candidates — Republican David Frohnmayer and
^ Democrats Harl Haas, John Leahy and Henry Richmond.
In the debate, sponsored by the Oregon Women’s
Political Caucus, Wright contended that the state attor
ney general is not obligated to be a licensed lawyer or
member of the state bar association.
‘‘By having licensed lawyers serve as attorney
general, there’s been a conflict of interest,” Wright said.
“The reason more politicians and judges haven’t been
prosecuted by the attorney general is not that Oregon
politicians are approaching sainthood. The reason is that
most of those politicians, like the attorney general, belong
to the bar like the attorney general.”
The other candidates concentrated on answering a
series of women’s issue questions.
Henry Richmond, founder of 1000 Friends of
Oregon, a pro-land planning legal group, proposed
setting up a stricter system of enforcing state child-sup
port legislation.
Harl Haas, Multnomah County district attorney, said
there aren't enough women attorneys in the attorney
general's office and, if elected, he'll actively seek out
qualified women attorneys.
Multnomah County Counsel John Leahy said it’s not
all that hard to find qualified women attorneys, but it is
difficult to find qualified "minorities.”
David Frohnmayer, University law professor and
retiring District 40 Representative, said that in his three
legislative terms he had a 95 to 100 percent favorable
voting record on women’s issues.
Dollar shortage squeezes library
Editor's note: Funding is the focus of the
second in a four-part series examining the
University library. Parts three and four will look at
renovations and staffing.
By NANCYANNLOFGREN
Of the Emerald
The University is underfunded by $11 million,
says Robert Albrecht, vice provost for academic
affairs. One of the clearest examples of a funding
shortage is the library.
“The number of volumes in the library has taken
a downward trend in recent years," says a University
Facilities report prepared by a president’s ad hoc
committee last June. The report ranked the Univer
sity library 25th of 58 research libraries in 1964-65
for volumes added and 54th in 1976-77.
In operating cost appropriations, the library
ranked 40th in 1962-6? and 57th in 1975-76.
“The University of Oregon library is heavily
utilized but in danger of falling seriously behind the
nation’s other research institutions in basic library
resources," the report says.
The library’s budget for 1979-80 was $3.5
million, but funds for book purchases were depleted
three months earlier than usual this year, forcing the
library to suspend departmental purchase orders.
The University library's ailing budget is shared
by all research libraries in the United States, says
George Shipman, the newly appointed University
librarian. This is largely a fault of accelerated inflation
for periodicals — 25 to 30 percent, according to
Shipman’s estimates.
The library has slumped financially because the
University was fighting to maintain course offerings
in a time of dropping enrollment, Albrecht says. It
couldn’t simultaneously maintain the library’s hold
ings.
But the library was exempt from the University’s
belt-tightening this year, when every University
school was taxed 1 percent of its salaries, Albrecht
says.
The University’s top priority in recent years has
been to replace its computers, but since this project
has been funded, the library is now the University’s
first priority.
The library is also first in the University's pro
gram improvements budget and second in the
capital construction budget.
“Every time the University has really put
something at the top of the (priority) list, it has gotten
what it wants," Albrecht says.
The University is requesting $2.5 million from
the Legislature to double the acquisitions budget,
Albrecht says.
The University is also asking for funds to build
an addition to the library and renovate the main
library, says Albrecht.
The request is part of the University's
$6.5-million capital improvements request, says
Jack Hunderup, vice chancellor for facilities plan
ning in Oregon's State System of Higher Education.
Although Hunderup says it is ‘ 'very unlikely’' the
University will get that amount, he says "we haven't
put together the total package (for the entire state
system) yet." Hunderup’s office takes capital con
struction requests from the seven state system
colleges and prepares a budget request for the State
Board of Higher Education. The state board then
makes a request to the Legislature.
The chancellor’s office requested $64.5 million
for the current biennium. It received $3 1 million, plus
$6 million in gifts and grants, Hunderup says.
Because the library is at the top of both priority
lists, it may get back on its feet in the next biennium.
But the new biennium doesn't start until July,
1981.
The “earliest the library can get relief from
space problems and its acquisitions budget would
be after July 1981," says acting University Librarian
Donald Smith.
Next year the library will be trying to "hold the
line without falling behind next fiscal year," he says.
The University has pitched in $13,689 for the
student assistant budget to help the library hold that
line, Smith says. The money will help the library stay
out of the red in student salaries — essential for
library staffing — this year, and it will help the library
keep longer hours next year, he adds.
But the state isn’t the only source of funding,
Shipman says, adding that he plans to take an
“active role in fund-raising rather than signing letters
saying Thank you.’ ”
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