IFC limits use of letterhead
By Sarah Kitchen
Of Uw EiMfild
The Incidental Fee Committee
unanimously passed a motion requiring that
stationery with the IFC letterhead may be used
by members for personal use only if they state
that the opinion expressed is their own, not
the collective opinion of the IFC.
The motion was presented at the IFC'
meeting Thursday by Katie Howard. IFC vice
chairperson, because of a letter written on IFC
stationery and sent to the Constitution Court
on Wednesday by IFC member James Randall.
Howard said.
Randall sent a letter on the stationary to
request that the Constitution Court put an in
junction on the political activities of the
University chapter of the Oregon Student
Public Interest Research Group.
Randal) said the letter reflected his own
opinion and not the view of the IFC.
Howard said to Randall, “You had every
right to write to the Constitution Court, but not
as an IFC member.
“If I understood that what (Randall) did
was part of what could be considered the
powers of the 1PC. then I wouldn't have as
much of a problem with this." Howard said.
"As a student he has the right to do that,
but not as an I PC member because enforcement
of the requirements for the spending of the
money is not the duly of the IFC,” Howard
said. "I think that it can get real hazy when
people use the letterhead for what can lie con
sidered a personal purpose "
Ron Munion. I PC member, said he
believes an IFC member has the right to iden
tify himself or herself as a committee member.
Munion said IFC members represent
students and should be allowed to use the let
terhead. But "if I write something and I say
I'm a member of (the) IFC. I should stipulate
somewhere in the letter that this is my opinion
and not that of the IPC.”
He added. "As an elected official I have
the right to go out and investigate, and see
what I think is wrong."
The Constitution Court will meet today to
discuss whether or not to enforce the injunc
tion sought by Randall.
Animal research
the rabbits are injected with a
protein. ‘‘We inject them to
raise the antibodies in their
blood for a particular protein
that we want to study,” he said.
For example, Stevens said if a
particular protein goes to a cer
tain compartment within a cell,
researchers need to probe how
that protein moves from one
compartment to another
through the use of antibodies.
"One of the main questions
we are trying to answer is what
are the basic mechanisms that
allow a cell to compartmen
talize their proteins, and we
think of that as the problem of
protein targeting,” Stevens
said.
“We are interested in this
because we are basic scientists,
and we want to understand how
the cell works.” Stevens said.
"The fall-off from all of this is
going to be a lot of information
that is going to be important for
understanding many diseases,”
he added.
Stevens said the research he
is participating in will lead to
understanding diseases called
“hurler syndromes.”
“We think that what we are
learning is going to have an im
pact on understanding the basic
mechanisms of why a hurler in
dividual has the cellular
manifestations, and why the
disease exhibits clinical symp
toms the way it does.” Stevens
said.
This could be eventually
figured out at the basic cellular
level. Stevens said. It would
take doctors to put all these
cells together and apply them to
a human being.
Rabbits are used because they
are able to give a lot of serum
without being hurt, Stevens
said.
“We keep the rabbits for
years, so they live in our cages,
are fed and taken care of. and
we just continue to draw serum
from them periodically." he
said. "A given rabbit can only
be injected with one particular
type of protein."
Two of the rabbits that were
Correction
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Oregon Daily Emerald incor
rectly said the Oregon Country
Fair had netted $100,000 this
year. The fair actually netted
only $60,000. The Emerald
regrets any confusion caused by
this error.
stolen were rabbits they had had
for about a year, and enough
serum had been collected and
stored to last up to 10 or IS
years. Stevens said. Because of
that, those rabbits will probably
not be replaced.
The other two rabbits were in
the early phases and had just
been injected with the protein
against which the researchers
wanted to raise antibodies.
"We were in a very early
phase, and we had not gotten
around to drawing blood from
the rabbits, so that attempt com
pletely crashed, and we will
have to start over again by
isolating more proteins and in
jecting them in new rabbits.”
Stevens said.
Stevens estimates that this
work will start at the beginning
of next week, and as a result of
having to start all over again,
the experiments concerning
those rabbits have been put back
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