ASUO helps cut through legal red tape
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Do you have a name you don’t like or
a spouse you don't want? Did you lose
your financial aid application in a tangle
of red tape?
If you are a student troubled with
these or similar problems, you can look
to the ASUO for help. The ASUO offers
students free help in solving problems
ranging from misunderstandings with
the University to the resolution of rou
tine legal matters.
ASUO Executive Coordinator JoAnn
Een can help students who are involved
in disputes with the University or who
are frustrated by its bureaucracy. Alth
ough Een also does office management
work for the ASUO, she says she
spends about 75 to 90 percent of her
time on individual student advocacy.
Een say her primary purpose is to
make students aware of the problem
solving resources available on campus.
Students who have lost their financial
aid or would like to know if they qualify
for in-state tuition can stop by Een’s
office in Suite 4 of the EMU for help in
slicing mrougn me rea tape.
Also, students who have been
charged with violations of the Student
Conduct Code can get help from one of
the four Law School students who work
part-time on Een’s staff.
Penalties for cheating, plagarism,
forgery and other violations are severe
and can drastically affect a student’s
life, Een says. And the University’s
student prosecutors usually press for
the maximum penalty, she adds.
“They go for the throat, so my
defenders do too,” Een says.
But students shouldn’t expect her to
solve all their problems. Een says she
often acts as guide for students to solve
their own problems.
“It’s not my problem. I’m still going to
sleep at night,” she says.
Nevertheless, Een welcomes
students who want to come in and talk
about any number of problems, except
for those concerning love.
"I don't take care of the problems of
the lovelorn," Een says.
Students who need help with prob
lems more serious than grade disputes
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ASUO Legal Services Office, EMU
Room 333.
Each term about $3 of a student’s
Incidental Fees fund the ASUO Legal
Services. Legal Service Attorney
Charles Spinner says the fee entitles
students to free help with a host of
routine legal matters ranging from
divorces, property transactions and
tenant-landlord disputes to consumer
problems and name changes.
Spinner stresses that Legal Services
primarily handles cases that can be
settled out of court, such as negotiated
divorces. When confronted with a case
in which a suit has already been filed,
Spinner says he refers the case to a
local attorney because such cases take
more time than the office’s budget and
staff allow
However, Spinner says he occas
sionally tries cases involving a group of
students. In one such common-prob
lem case last year, Spinner represented
Amazon Community Tenants, who
were protesting a rent increase. The
students won the case, and the Univer
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while the increase was in effect.
Spinner will also help students who
feel they’re victims of consumer ripoffs.
In spite of the wide range of problems
covered by Legal Services, Spinner
says there are some things the office
can't handle. Legal Services can’t
represent one student against another.
Nor can the service help students who
have legal difficulties in businesses
they run for profit.
Finally, Spinner says he doesn’t work
on tax problems or workmen’s com
pensation cases.
Students can make an appointment
by calling Spinner at 686-4273.
However, Spinner urges students who
are charged with criminal offenses
such as shoplifting to "come in and see
me right away."
And for students who have always
disliked their names, a trip to Legal
Service could help them acquire a new
one.
"You would not believe how many
people do name changes," Spinner
says.
Nobel winner plans
campus appearance
Sean MacBride — a co
founder of Amnesty Interna
tional, a 1974 Nobel Peace Prize
winner and chairer of the Inter
national Commission for the
Study of Communication Prob
lems — will speak in the EMU
Ballroom on Tuesday 8 p.m.
The lecture is sponsored by
the EMU Cultural Forum. Ad
mission is free.
MacBride’s lecture will focus
on the report presented at UN
ESCO’s last meeting of 1980,
the culmination of the Interna
tional Commission for the Study
of Communication Problems.
MacBride will discuss current
world communication problems
and offer what he sees as plau
sible steps for a solution.
Having distinguished hiThself
as a leader for human rights and
an advocate for peace, Mac
Bride received the Lenin Inter
national Prize for Peace in 1977,
the International Institute of
Human Rights Medal in 1978,
and the American Medal of Jus
tice in 1978.
MacBride is known both in his
native Ireland and internation
ally for his distinguished law
career. He was Irish Minister for
External Affairs from 1948-51.
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