IFC approves Office of Legal Services goals statement
By Sarah Kitchen
Or Um Emerald
The Incidental Fee Commit
tee. by a 5-1 vote, approved the
goals statement presented by
the ASLJO Office of Legal Ser
vices last week.
Legal services attorney
Karsten Rasmussen presented
six individual goals as well as a
list of four findings of fact.
The goals presented were: to
provide legal services that meet
the needs of the University stu
dent community; to support
both diversity and retention at
the University; to provide
general legal advice that will
assist student government and
ASUO programs to operate in a
professional manner; to provide
a preventative legal program to
ensure the legal health of the
student community; to provide
a law office that meets ethical
standards of the legal profes
sion; and to provide jobs for
students when feasible.
Pertaining to the third goal, to
assist the ASUO and student
government. Rasmussen said
the office is sometimes limited
by conflict-of-interest problems,
such as being asked to represent
a st u dent -aga inst -student
dispute, which the office is not
permitted to do.
However, the office is able to
represent the AStJO on matters
such as employment contracts.
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use of incidental fees and con
tracts for services.
When asked by IFC member
Ron Munion whether he would
feel obligated by his contract to
represent the ASUO in litiga
tion against a state agency,
Rasmussen gave a cautious,
“Yes.”
While Rasmussen considers
the ASIJO Executive his con
tracting party, it is unclear
whether the ASUO can have its
own lawyer.
“That is an issue that in my
mind is far from being
definitively decided,” he said.
According to Rasmussen,
there are conflicting opinions
from the attorney general alwuit
whether the ASUO has a right to
an attorney.
Rasmussen said about 75 per
cent of what he does involves
criminal misdemeanor advice,
landlord/tenant disputes and
family law matters. He said his
office keeps students, who
otherwise might drop out. in
school — especially those who
might not be able to afford pro
fessional legal help.
About 45 to 50 students visit
the legal services office a week,
Rasmussen said. He said when
students as a group have access
to full legal representation,
community landlords and
creditors learn that students are
not vulnerable to exploitation.
The IFC also approved the of
fice’s four findings of fact: The
legal services program pro
motes the cultural and physical
development of students: the of
fice is available to every fee
paying student and benefits all
students by providing for the
legal health of the student com
munity; full legal representa
tion. including representation
in court, are critical services
that serve the twin goals of
diversity and retention; and stu
dent government that is well in
formed and represented as to its
legal rights and responsibilities
assists in the cultural and
physical development of
students and is in the interest of
the students at the University.
Emerald editor receives award
Michael Drummond, co
editorial pane editor for the
Oregon Daily Kmerald. has won
eighth place in the Journalism
Awards Program sponsored hv
the William Randolph Hears!
Foundation.
Drummond received a $300
scholarship for an editorial that
appeared in the Nov. 13 issue of
the Kmerald. The School of
(ournalism received a matching
$300 grant.
"Not only am I happy for
myself for getting recognition.
I'm happy for the journalism
school because it will be
recognized as a quality place to
study journalism.” Drummond
said.
The Journalism Awards Pro
gram consists of six monthly
contests and one photojour
nalism competition. Eighty
eight accredited journalism
schools in the United Slates art;
currently participating in the
program. Last month. Emerald
Managing Editor Lucinda
Dillon won a ninth place award
for her article on witchcraft
published in the Emerald's
Spectrum magazine Oct. 30.
Michael Drummond
Budget
Continued from Page 7
Fund allocation to accom
modate 15.030 FTK students,
and required the University to
limit its enrollment at that
number.
However, the corridor policy
requires an institution to exceed
its corridor number for two con
secutive years before a new cor
ridor is established. The policy
thus assumes that enrollment
will increase by fewer than 500
FTK students in any one year.
The governor's budget sticks
to the two-year policy require
ment and does not account for
the dramatic, one-year increase
of 083 FTK students at the
University this fall, which was
credited to an extensive
recruiting campaign.
The governor’s budget calls
for the University to be funded
at a level established by an
enrollment projection of 14.440
I'TK students in 1987-88.
Hut Sunderland is optimistic
that some additional funds will
be allocated to the University.
Because the budget was written
before fall-term enrollment
figures were compiled, “who
was to know how many
students we would have fall
term?" he asked.
Davis reported that the
budget includes a total of $21
million in faculty salary in
creases, including $10 million
for merit increases and about
$11 million to provide 2 percent
raises for all state employees
each year of the biennium.
The State Hoard had re
quested $47 million for faculty
salary raises, and Davis said $37
million is needed just to main
tain Oregon’s already low rank
ing compared to faculty salaries
in other states.
“We came out with a lot of
zeros,’ Davis said of the gover
nor’s budget.
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