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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1983)
SAIF overhaul looks likely SALEM (AP) — A Salem news paper said Thursday that the secretary of state will recom mend that legislators begin a study of whether the state workers' compensation system should be overhauled The Statesman-Journal also said Secretary of State Norma Paulus will tell a legislative task force Thursday that the State Accident Insurance Fund Corp has significant problems Some of the problems cited involve internal audits, computer security and automobile costs Paulus’ report is based large ly on her staff's audit of SAIF She declined to comment on her recommendations, saying they are still in draft form Students raise telefund money Student volunteers raised over $45,000 from alumni pledges in the telefund con ducted for the University Foun dation. Some 368 volunteers from student organizations on cam pus called about 15,000 alumni and gained 2,374 alumni pledges ‘ The number of pledges shows that even in a poor economy people are willing to support the University," says Joe Farmer, annual fund direc tor. "The success of the program depends a great deal on volun teers and I think the turnout we had indicates a strong willing ness on the part of not only students but faculty alumni and parents to get into this program to help the University," says Farmer Farmer says it works well to have students calling students because they already have the University in common Library gets $20,000 gift UrWvvrttty News Bunau Jean Twohig. who died at age 87 this month in Eugene, has left bequests to the University to support the Library and scholarships In her will she left an addi tional $5,000 to $8,000 for the scholarship fund Clifton Cole, director of planned giving for the University Foundation, says Twohig established a scholarship fund worth $14,000 in 1973 to assist students in the Wallace School of Community Service and Pub lic Affairs The first scholarship was awarded in 1976 Although the CSPA program has been eliminated as a separ ate school, its academic pro grams have been transferred to several other University schools and colleges Students major ing in the fields formerly includ ed under CSPA are expected to remain eligible for the scholar ships. In 1980, Twohig established a $20,000 gift annuity for Univer sity Library acquisitions. The gift will be added to the library’s small but growing en dowment, says University Li brarian George Shipman “We are very much con cerned about building an en dowment for library acqui sitions," he says If an en dowment had been started ear lier, the library would have made it through the last several years in better shape, he added. However, the newspaper said that after meeting with Paulus Wednesday SAIF leaders revealed that she is concerned about problems affecting the quasi-public workers compen sation insurance company The story said new SAIF gen eral manager Ralph Faulkner and top board members ex pressed interest in dealing with Paulus and her staff to correct deficiencies uncovered by the audit begun last fall They said Paulus expressed concern about: Suppression of audits by SAIF personnel that revealed underpayments to the company by politically powerful cus tomers. Lax control over employee access to sensitive client infor mation in SAIF's computer files Rapid increases in SAIF s ex penses for automobiles, main tenance and fuel since the company left the state Motor Pool three years ago SAIF leaders said Paulus questioned the need to examine not only SAIF but the entire sys tem of laws and agencies that is supposed to help Oregonians injured on the job Paulus will make her recom mendations at the last scheduled meeting of the task force The body, made up of 13 state senators and representa tives, has been looking at SAIF off and on for the last three months It is expected to make recommendations to the 1983 Legislature, which convenes next week ☆ TUNE-UPS ☆ BRAKES ☆ FUEL INJECTION nine certified general mechanic PHONE 485-8226 1917 FRANKLIN CLOSE TO CAMPUS Got resume on the mind?? For quality typesetting contact Oregon Daily Emerald Production, EMU Room 300 HIGH TECHNOLOGY AT LOW PRICES SALE ENDS JAN. 15, 1983 OPEN TIL 8 P.M. 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