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Student network develops to lobby state Legislature By Scott McFetridge Of the Kmerald Many of the 3,000 bills in troduced during each session of the Oregon Legislature directly affect students, and with the formation of the Student Lobby Network, students now have an opportunity to become more in volved. says SLN director Rebecc r?'tby. Sinct . beginning of winter term, group members have ask ed students to fill out forms in dicating what areas of the Legislature they are concerned about, says Roby, who is also ASIJO state affairs coordinator. The names and specific in terests of students responding to the forms are then listed on the ASUO computer, she says. The SLN soon will be mailing a legislative update to the 200 students who have filled out the forms, she says. The updates will enable students to become better informed with bills directly affecting higher educa tion and will help coordinate student campaigns for certain legislation, she says. “It's imperative for students to understand how they can ef fect change,” Roby says. “We want a broad voice for students.” When students fill out the forms, they are asked to indicate how they would be willing to aid education legislation, Roby says. Although those registered with the network are under no obligation to contact legislators, Roby believes most of them will still do so. Because many groups besides the ASUO Executive lobby at the Legislature, the network will be valuable to many ASUO organizations, Roby says. Minority, environmental and women’s organizations are ex pected to become active because the Legislature will be consider ing a variety of issues that con cern them, she says. This will aid lobbying efforts for a wide variety of groups, agrees Scott Jones, SLN assis tant director. "The ASUO has priorities, but that doesn’t mean students can’t work for other legisla tion," Jones says. Jones is pleased with the in terest shown in the network, and he expects the number of participants to grow as the ser vice becomes better known. "This is just getting formed, and it’s going to take some per sonal contact on our part before it really catches hold," Jones says. The Incidental Fee Commit tee recently allocated $500 to the network for the 1985-1986 academic year, which will help the network continue to grow, Roby adds. Fora address U.S. budget Steve Johnson, researcher with Decision Research-Eugene and director of the Pacific Northwest Research Center on campus, will discuss the proposed $314 billion defense budget tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Room 214 EMU. Johnson's speech is the first part of “The. Reagan Budget: Guns. Butter, Education,” a presentation on the defense and education por tions of the budget President Ronald Reagan recently proposed to Congress. Thursday, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 167 EMU, Myrnie Daut, legislative assistant for the Oregon Student Lobby in Salem, will discuss the proposed federal education and financial aid budget, which includes a $2 billion cut. At the same presentation. Jim Gilmour, University assistant director of financial aid, will discuss the effects the Reagan financial aid cuts will have on University students. Workshop participants will have the op portunity to write letters to influence the budget process now going on in Congress, says Sherri Schultz, coordinator of the Student Campaign for Disarmament, one of the workshop sponsors. Students for a Progressive Agenda and SCD members say they planned the workshops to show the "striking” contrast between the defense and education budget proposals. “President Reagan makes a 25 percent cut in financial aid, but asks for a $30 billion in crease in defense, which already represents over 30 percent of the federal budget,” Schultz says. ' The workshops, sponsored by SCD, SPA and Catalyst Films, are free and open to students and the community. For more infor mation, contact SCD at 686-4248.. 1.1.0FS <^°nt'nUe^ *rom Page 1 Kerras says that the average customer has a bill of $40 per month, so discounts are com monly applied to bills. Sprint charges callers by the minute. Also, Sprint has a minimum charge of $5 a month in long distance calls, with no set-up fee or service charge beyond this. Another feature Sprint offers is a travel card, enabling customers to make calls from outside of their home without having to go through a mid dleman or an operator. Sprint customers have access to the service in 360 different cities in the United States, and Kerras says that the company soon will be extending across the globe, to the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. AT&T, which previously dominated the competition, is still in the competition, since it offers the widest range of long distance service — anywhere in the United States and in 250 other countries, says Dave Underhill, AT&T public rela tions manager for Oregon and southwestern Washington. AT&T also offers a calling card, but unlike Sprint customers, AT&T customers must go through an operator to complete their calls. Underhill says that billing does not begin until the connec tion is made, however, and then rates are app!.. d per minute. Proto-Call Corp. is the newest of the four companies operating in Eugene but is challenging the other networks, says Lois Ikeda, Proto-Call's marketing representative in Eugene. * Proto-Call charges callers by the minute. But unlike other companies, the cost of the first minute of a telephone conversa tion through Proto-Call is the same as the cost for additional minutes. 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