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..
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