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Southwestern Company: Opportunity or misfortune? See Spectrum Magazine Oregon Daily Emerald Thursday. May 21, 1987 Eugene. Oregon Volume 88. Number 128 Beauty Cum Laude I)arsi Mall at lha Delta /.ala sorority (left) was crowned Miss Creek in the second-annual Miss Creek University of Oregon Scholarship Pageant before a crowd of more than 700 people in McArthur Court on Wednesday. Also present are Kadona Howard of the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority (center) and Erin Hogan of the kappa Alpha Iheta sorority (right). Photo by Shu-Shing Chen Student Activities Bill clears House; faces governor next By PHw Meier IH I Hr Students of Oregon's public univer sities and colleges may ultimately pay lower foes as a result of a bill overwhelm ingly passed by the Oregon Mouse of Representatives on Tuesday. known its the Student Activities Bill. Senate Bill 400 mav provide tile lblivet sitv with an extra $40,000 a year lor stu dent activities The measure is spon sored bv Iho Oregon Student l.obby ami was passed by the House 52-6 SB40O grunts students the interest from student incidental fees they must pay eat h term Iti support athletii -> ami university servit es and programs I his interest is currently deposited into the State General Fund. Rep Ron Fat Im*. D-Kugene. said the bill w ill provide students ol the Oregon Slate Sy stein an extra $440,000 a vear tor I Be support ot activities This should help reduce tees for students. Fat tins said. ''This should prolwhls tend lc> redo* <• tees .is morn monos ssill In- available hi students.'’ Hop Carl llosliiku, 1) Kugooo. said Both Hostteka and Eachus said they believe that Gov. Noil Goldschmidt will not have any problems with the hill Legislative issues However. Sherry Oeser, director of tin* Oregon Student . said slit'does not shunt Ih.it confidence, having httard minors that Goldschmidt has difficulties with the hill Oeser will meet the gover nor's staff members to discuss the issue on Thursday. Turn to Bill, Page I Research Park forum canceled as planning falls behind schedule By Andrew LaMar Of I Hr ICiMOTrtld Planning of the Riverfront Research Park has fallen ta-lund schedule and has yet to answer vital questions alatut (lit terenl phases of development. said (lathy Hriner of the Eugene Development Department on Wednesday. Planning also fails to show how the different phases will work together, liriner said Hriner made her comments at the Riverfront Research Park (loinmission s monthly meeting As a result, the third public forum that was to la; held tonight has been cancel ed. The forum will la; delayed until lulv .it tin- earliest Hrim-r said The third forum will be hold so (Iniversity studunts and faculty member! could Rive the commission fond back on the master site plan that will define what the park will look like. Hrinor said. The master site plan cannot tie completed un til the development department decides where the different phases of develop ment will he located, she said. The commission discussed possible dates for the third forum. Commission members expressed concern about whether a summer forum would tie fair to students interested in the pro|ect who Turn to Researc h, PdRe 3 Task force reveals plan to upgrade workers compensation By Will Holbert Uf I hr Mnvrald Three members of a task force formed by Gov. Neil Goldschmidt to study Oregon's worker compensation system revealed their plans to overhaul tin? system at a public hearing Wednesday night. Oregon Secretary of State Bar bara Roberts, Stanton Long, director of the state's Commerce department, and Ted Kulongoski. commissioner of the state's Insurance Division, outlined seven recommenda tions they will make to Goldschmidt for improving workers' compensation in the state. "It is a system in terrible need of repair," Roberts said. Goldschmidt formed the task force two weeks after his elec tion to the Governor’s office last November. The task force recommended the following changes: • More emphasis would be put into preventing injury on the job. According to a sum mary of the recommendations. Oregon ranks in the top 10 states for the number of ac cidents for its papulation. The Accident Prevention Division of the Workers’ Compensation Department would be revitaliz ed. and given authority to im pose larger fines upon employers who violate safety codes. • The vocational rehabilita tion programs that attempt to help injured workers return to the job market will lie upgrad ed, and incentives will lie of fered to employers who hire in jured workers. According to Roberts, 67 percent of injured workers nevor return to the job market. A Preferred Employ ment Fund would reward those who hire injured workers by paying for the workers' in surance for two years. • Increased auditing would cut down on medical costs. Roberts blamed much of the problem on health care practi tioners who profit from prescribing unnecessary treatments Thu statu would punish professionals who abuse the system by taking away their right to work on patients under the system for two or three years. • Several measures would go into effect that limit ad ministrative cost and streamline the process by doing away with certain litigation procedures. Sannions would be imposed upon attorneys who bring up "frivolous" appeals in compen sation cases. Also, claims would be closed within five years, instead of staying open indefinitely. • (Compensation for mental stress claims would be limited Claims of this nature are "threatening to overburden the entire system." Roberts said • Private insurance carriers would come under increased regulation from the Insurance Division. Roberts, the chairperson of the task force, said she hopes the recommendations will be incorporated into a bill and WwHu by |imn Marks Ted Kulongoaki (left) and Stanton l ong (right) listen to Oregon Secretary of State Barbara Roberts outline plana to improve Oregon's workers' compensation system. passed during the present legislative session. There is a current bill In the legislature dealing with workers' compen sation, but Roberts doesn’t believe that it goes far enough in alleviating the system’s problems
