Oregon daily emerald., May 18, 1982, Page 8, Image 8

Three battle for benches
Few contest court posts
By Ron Hunt
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Of nine court positions up for grabs in the
primary election, only three are contested.
Oregon Supreme Court position 4 sees
former state senator Vern Cook challenging in
cumbent judge J.R. (Bob) Campbell.
Cook, a Portland attorney, earned a LL.B.
degree from the University in 1952. He served as a
judge for the City of Gresham from 1952 to 1953,
as a state representative from 1957 to 1961, and
as a state senator from 1961 to 1981. Cook also
chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1979.
“The people should continue to elect their
judges who should be free of political influence,"
he says. “The governor should not have the
power to choose the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court."
Campbell, on the Supreme Court since Dec.
1980, served as a circuit judge of the 11 th Judicial
District from 1965 to 1979 and as an appeals court
judge from 1979 to 1980.
When Gov. Vic Atiyeh appointed Campbell to
fill a vacancy on the bench, the Pendleton East
Oregonian editorialized, “Lawyers in a position to
know say that Campbell was a solid trial judge in
Eastern Oregon and that his opinions as an
appellate judge have been clear and sensible. "
Jonathan Newman and Stephen Walker will
square off in the Oregon Court of Appeals posi
tion 5 race.
Newman, a Portland attorney, has served as a
circuit judge pro tern, as a member of the Portland
School Board from 1968 to 1979, and as a
member of the of the Oregon State Bar Associa
tion’s judicial administration committee.
"The private practicing attorney has much to
offer an appellate court,” Newman says. “His
experience has been in dealing directly with the
varied human, personal and occupational prob
lems of clients."
Walker, a district court judge since 1978, was
a Portland lawyer from 1963 to 1978. He was
appointed to the district court by Gov. Bob Straub
in 1978 and then elected in the same year. Walker
serves on the state bar's alcohol and drug abuse
committee.-’'
"Judge Walker's private practice and judicial
experience have been concentrated in precisely
these areas of law most prominently involved in
the work of the Court of Appeals," his campaign
committee writes.
For the one-judge Oregon Tax Court, which
reviews decisions of the Oregon revenue depart
ment. Cart Byers faces Sam Stewart.
Byers, a Salem attorney, was an assistant
attorney general in the state justice department’s
tax division from 1964 to 1969 and a regular judge
pro tern of the Oregon Tax Court from 1972 to
1980. He holds degrees from Brigham Young
University and University of California's Boalt Hall
School of Law
Stewart, a Portland attorney, has served as
an assistant attorney general and counsel to the
Oregon State Tax Commission and as a senior
staff member of the Brookings Institution's Tax
Advisory Group to the Republic of Korea. He is a
former state tax commissioner and a graduate of
Lewis and Clark College and the Willamette
University College of Law.
Berkeley (Bud) Lent, Betty Roberts, Thomas
Young, John Warden, William Richardson and
Kurt Rossman — candidates for the Oregon Su
preme Court or Court of Appeals — are all unop
posed
Fee change hearing scheduled
Special fines, fees, penalties
and service charges for the
1982-83 academic year are the
subject of a public hearing to be
held Wednesday at the Univer
sity
The hearing will be held at 3
p.m. in Room 105 Johnson Hall.
The fee book includes fees
charged by about 40 adminis
trative and academic offices for
services to students, faculty,
staff and the public. The listing
includes some 850 individual
charges, ranging from $3.50 for
lost volleyball socks to a $5.48
minimum charge for use of
four-wheel drive vehicles
The proposed list includes
531 unchanged fees, 213 in
creased fees, 91 new fees, and
seven decreased fees
Among the increases are
proposals to add a 50 cent per
month surcharge to student
parking permits, raising the
yearly rate from $18 to $24 and a
one-year surcharge of $1 per
month to the faculty-staff park
ing permit, raising the yearly
rate from $36 to $48
The surcharge is expected to
bring in about $33,000, which
will be used to improve lighting
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in University parking lots, ac
cording to Ray Hawk, vice pre
sident for administration and
finance University employees
requested the improved lighting
during a convocation with
University Pres Paul Olum ear
lier this year, Hawk says
The exact amount of the in
creases will be determined after
the public hearing. Consultation
with faculty and staff advisory
groups on the campus has
revealed no strong oppostition
to the proposed increases, says
Hawk, adding that parking fees
have not been raised in eight
years
Copies of the proposed list of
fees and charges is available at
the University President's Of
fice, Johnson Hall Room 110;
the ASUO Office, EMU Suite 4;
the Housing Office, Walton Hall;
and the University Library’s
reference desk
Individuals may present their
views orally or in writing at the
hearing, or may submit material
in writing on or before May 19 to
Muriel Jackson, assistant for
administration, Johnson Hall
Room 110.
T
City police hunt
suspected rapist
The Eugene Police Department has released a compo
site drawing of a suspect in an attempted rape on campus
Thursday, May 6. The suspect is described in police reports
as 5-feet 10-inches tall, in his early 20s, with dark brown
collar-length hair and a short beard He reportedly carried a
green backpack and wore a dark blue jacket, a T-shirt with
dark trim, jeans and brown cotton gloves
The victim, a 17-year-old Eugene high school student,
was walking to the University Library at about 10:30 p m
when she was pursued and forced to the ground, where the
suspect attempted to rape her She got away by kicking the
man in the groin.
Any information about the incident or the suspect can be
called into the police department at 687-5185
Reagan wears dress,
resigns in mock senate
Pres. Ronald Reagan re
signed while Vice Pres George
wore a dress on Capitol Hill over
the weekend
Actually, Gerlinger Hall was
Capitol Hill and the two execu
tives were part of a political
science department mock U S
Senate
And yes, Pres Reagan re
signed, it seems she (yes, she)
was also in charge of organizing
the event and after one day of
two full-time jobs — the pres
idency could wait. Vice Pres
Bush, a.k.a Lisa Nuss, headed
the Senate from a podium at the
head of the room, in a dress and
James Watt, d b.a Tom Bran
non, wore a nametag reading
"tree killer "
The weekend event was or
ganized to "give (students)
practical experience with cur
rent issues and politics,” says
Richard Mathisen, president of
the Political Science Student
Union
The class, taught by the
students, received the “over
whelming” approval of the poli
tical science department, he
adds
A lot of time and effort went
into the two term's worth of
preperation, but Mathisen says
he would like to see the course
extended to a year-long
sequence "That way people
could get into it more, research
their senator and the bills
longer," he says
This mock Senate was not the
first in the University's history,
Mathisen says, explaining that it
was a pretty popular class about
eight years ago
Although a few "bugs" need
to be worked out, he says the
mock senate was a good learn
ing experience — even with Al
Haig and Donald Regan talking
about putting the MX Missle
system in Disneyland
Susan Sowards
For Eugene City Council
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of Oregon as our largest employer, a major
provider of consumers for local businesses, a
quality educational institution and an
investment in tomorrow."
- Susan Sowards
"Do you live in the dorms or east of campus?
We urge you to vote for Susan Sowards"
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