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even if there is a settlement bet
ween now and tomorrow
morning.”
Contract negotiations bet
ween the Eugene School
District and the Eugene Educa
tion Association continued late
into the night in an effort to stop
today’s scheduled teachers’
walkout.
State mediator John Vale met
briefly with media represen
tatives around 9:15 p m., stating
that bargaining teams were at
dinner and negotiations were at
a “standstill.”
“There's been a lot of discus
sion. but no settlement and cer
tainly no issues settled at this
point...The major issues are
still out there, and we're
discussing those and trying to
find solutions to them, but we
have no solutions at this point.”
he said.
The main issues to be resolv
ed concern insurance, early
retirement and assignments and
transfers. Salary is not the main
issue at this point, he said.
The two bargaining teams ex
changed proposals earlier in the
day. but very little progress had
been made since a 6 p.m. state
ment by Vale.
Teachers will return to work
today, however, if the two
teams are able to reach a settle
ment by H a.m. If a settlement is
reached, students will return to
school on Thursday. School
will bo canceled until further
notice if no agreement is
reached.
In the meantime, substitute
teachers in the area face the dif
ficuIt decision of whether they
will cross picket lines. Every
substitute is bound by contract
with the school district to teach
in the event of a strike.
One substitute teacher, who
asked not to be identified
because of the potential impact
on future employability, ex
plained that substitutes an?
caught in the middle of the
strike.
"If we honor the contract, we
offend the faculty. If we honor
the strike, wo could jeopardize
our position with the school
district in the future." the
substitute explained. "Hut as
teachers, our sympathy natural
ly lies with the teachers."
According to Campbell,
substitute teachers in the area
were sent letters reiterating
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March 5, however, the commit
tee granted that group $780 for
the Newsgreek publication.
At Tuesday’s hearing.
Panhellenic requested an addi
tional $330 to make up for the
difference between its original
allocation and that of the 1C.
The IFC granted the request in a
6-0 vote.
In addition, the Survival
Center received funding for an
additional stipend position and
received a $200 increase for of
fice supplies in another appeals
hearing. During the original
budget hearing, questions were
raised about the groups
“political” nature, and the
committee did not feel comfor
table allocating funds for nine
stipend positions. Five stipend
positions were approved, and in
a 5-0-2 vote, the committee
allowed for one more. Munion
and Armando Morales had the
abstaining votes.
The IFC also granted a special
request for phone service to the
Sister University Project and ap
proved an appeal for $500 in the
phone budget line item in next
year's budget.
The committee also dealt
with an Executive veto of three
line items in the Masters of
Business Administration
Assocation's budget. The IFC
originally had failed to overturn
the veto last Thursday, but
because of some procedural dif
ficulties had to reconsider the
veto. Needing a two-thirds ma
jority vote to override, the mo
tion failed 4-2-0. Jeff Wheeler
and Hob Baldwin dissented.
Chairwoman Jodie Mooney
then moved to allocate $333 to
cover postage, printing and
duplication and advertising.
This motion passed 4-0-2 with
Muni o n a n d M o rales
abstaining.
In final IFC business, the
committee allocated $530 to
Women in Communication and
$030 to the Elections Board.
Insurance
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The main issue that tripped
up the bill was an amendment
to create a comparative
negligence law, he said. This is
the same provision Kerans refer
red to as a “pure comparative
standard.”
“There’s not going to be
anything come out of this ses
sion and signed by
the governor that is anywhere
near what this coalition
(C1ELS). . .wants. It's not fair to
the people of Oregon, and it's
just not going to happen." Frye
said of the lobbying effort by
C1ELS.
The bill is scheduled for
reconsideration in the Senate
today, but Frye does not expect
the vote to change.
The Senate has several op
tions when reconsidering the
hill, according to Dan Field, a
press aide to Senate President
John Kitzhaber, D-Roseburg.
The Senate most likely will
send the bill to a different com
mittee, he said. “We won't let it
(SB 323) die."
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was paying him $1,000 for (he
research, she said.
•Skill ings-Goff allegedly
delivered a hand-written copy
of the paper to Nils at Rennie’s
Landing, a tavern and
restaurant at 1214 Kincaid St.,
on Nov. 28, at which time he
paid her $500. Hi Is purportedly
had a friend type the paper
before it was due on Dec. 5.
•Skillings-Goff told Tilby the
first time she was aware Bils
might have used her research
for school was when she
delivered a typed version of the
paper to Holland after he con
tacted her about it on Feb. r>.
Skillings-Goff told an Oregon
Daily Emerald reporter Tuesday
hat her copy of the paper and
he version Holland showed her
-vere tin; same paper except for
/arious "small” changes.
Mils did not mention to her
anything concerning launder
ing money offshore, "only that
his friend was having tax pro
blems. ” Skillings-Goff said.
Holland said as far as he
knows the University has not
taken any action against Bils.
who remains enrolled in the law
school.
A University investigation in
to the case ‘‘depends on what
happens with the criminal
case,” based on ‘‘when a con
clusion is reached and then
what that conclusion is.” he
said.
Hils could not be reached for
comment by deadline Tuesday.
Hils made headlines in the
Emerald last term when he
threatened to sue the ASUO Ex
e c u t i v e o v e r a 11 e g e d
mismanagement of the student
health insurance program. He is
also the founder of a campus
group called UO Students for
Equity in Insurance.
their obligation to work during
the strike. If substitutes are nail
ed. they are expected to work,
she said.
Under normal circumstances,
if a substitute refuses to work or
is unavailable to work three or
more times in a month, the
substitute's name is moved to
the bottom of the substitute list
or may be removed from the list
for up to two years, she said.
Shari Forbes Thomas, the
public: relations director for the
Oregon Education Association,
said the district expects
substitutes to lx? on call, "or
else."
"The EE A has told its
members not to do more than
they are normally
obligated. . they should not be
expected to do more,” she said.
Substitute teachers under
contract with the school district
are paid $77 a day. The school
district has been advertising for
replacement teachers in The
Register-Guard at a pay rate of
$148 a day.
The $148 figure represents
the average daily wage a teacher
would normally make without
benefits. Campbell said. It is the
normal procedure in a strike
situation, she said.
Members of the Eugene
Association of Substitute
I eachers met Tuesday after
noon to discuss the strike.
Substitute teachers leaving the
meeting said the message to
EAST members was. “Do what
your conscience tells you."
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