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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1987)
Legal services attorney adjusting to new job By Carolyn Lamberson Of th# fiMtald Things have been busy for II lona Koleszar. the new legal ser vices attorney. Since she began her job last week. Koleszar inherited 50 files from the previous attorney, Karsten Rasmussen, and has been a lot busier than most ex pected her to be, she said. So far, most of her cases have centered around landlord/te nant disputes and a small number of criminial cases, she explained. Koleszar attended the Univer sity's law school from 1080 to 1083 and enjoys being back in the University atmosphere, she said. “The University is a safe community," she said. "I can understand why some people come back and stay for a long time," she added, although she admitted that as a law student, she didn't see too much of the campus. “When you go to law school, you don’t leave that building,” she continued. “1 had not been in the EMU very much,” which is where her office is now located. “One thing about being back on a college campus is I've jok ed with several people about making plans for spring break." she added. Koleszar received her undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University in business adminstration and finance. When she came to the law school, it was the first time she had ever been in Oregon, she said. "What drew me here was I received a pamphlet from the law school in the mail." she said. "Here's this place I heard of being lush and green . . and the pamplet was in black and white. I knew they were hiding something." koleszar practiced law privately in Springfield for four years Indore taking the legal ser vices position. While she will In; handling many of the same kinds of cases as legal services director she did as a private at torney. dealing with students will In; a different experience, she said. "Students are more willing to help themselves,” she explain ed. "Healing with educated people — and I'm not being derogatory to my former clients — 1 won’t find someone who can't understand something I've given them to read and sign I did deal with some peo ple who were functionally illiterate." koleszar said she had no qualms about taking this job. "It fits me like a glove," she said, and added when she saw the ap plication materials, the position and timing felt right. One thing she would like to do during her tenure as legal services attorney is expand students' awareness; not iust of the services her office offers, but the law in general, she said. "karsten did a good job advertising this office to students but I'm not sure Summer conference shows computer benefits By M.A. Drummond Of th* t.merald A large, inflatable Zenith computer terminal dra|>ed from the EMU signaled the University’s Sixth Annual Summer Conference. "Ex tending the Human Mind: Computers in Education" held Thursday through Sunday. The conference featured guest speakers, workshops and hands-on computer displays, which all highlighted the function’s theme — computers and their role in education. Academic credit also was availalbe for $28 per unit, and some exhibits were open to the public. According to Sandy Usavitt. a University con tinuation center instructor and conference manager, nearly 350 people applied for the conference sessions, which ran Aug. fi and 7. Dave Moursund. chief ex ecutive officer for the Inter national Council for Com puters in Education, has helped organize the con ferences for six years and said the flavor of the con ferences hasn’t changed. ’’We take in frontier developments, state-of-the art type of stuff, from the computer field and translate those to practical uses in schools." Moursund said. Moursund explained the format of the conferences also has remained the same. "We have two or three big names come and speak and draw the rest (of the workshop presenters) from locally available talent." Moursund said. One of the "big names" was keynote speaker l)r Christopher Dede. Dede is author of "Educational Futures: Source Book 1" and "The Far Side of the Future." Dede also is a professor at the University of Houston/Clear Lake. Dede addressed the developments of artificial in telligence and their impact on deepening human in telligence. Dedes speech, titled "Empowering En vironments. Idea Processors and Microworlds.” focused on the computer's potential to change the nature of work and education. David Marquart. another of the conference's speakers and a high school business and computer teacher in Boise. Idaho, is one of the ten finalists for NASA's Teacher in Space Program. Marquart discussed the Teacher in Space Program and NASA's use of computers. The University's continua tion center and the Center for Advanced Technology in Education sponsored the conference. The four-day event was centered at the EMU and post-conference workshops were held around the Eugene area. t'hntii hv Mm Stumm I Kfii New legal services attorney lllona Kolesxar. stays busy with SO new files acquired by the previous attorney. Karsten Rasmussen. She began the iob last week. students always know whal they’re getting Into." she said She would like to see students more knowledgeable about things that could sneak up from behind and "hit students in the back." she said. She is thinking about printing some kind of fact sheet keyed to helping students stay out of trouble by giving advice on "how to avoid landlord tenant problems; how to avoid getting caught in a criminal episode.” for instance, she said. The only disadvantage koles/.ar can see in the legal ser vices position is the volume of clients. "It's like getting 17,500 new clients," she seal. "There's not much time for the handholding I've felt the need for." she said. because there is generally someone waiting outside "I'm going to try my host to make sure they have (students) what they needed from me." she said. "That's the sort of thing that takes a lot of time to get used to." However, the change from a half-time to full-time legal ser vices attorney will allow Roleszar to see more people. She hopes to establish a time of day where she just deals with clients and the opposite time will In* spent on follow up. case work and other paper work knlesar has a year to year con tract with the ASUO that is renewable for three years. After that, the position is put out to hid Kolesar plans to stay for the entire three years, she said, the administrative aspect of the job will enable her to move upward. Iran-Contra Continued from Pjge 1 Another purpose of the research was to find out how much people learn from the media. In the first set of inter views. the respondents ware asked to identify federal govern men I officials. Of those who made the con nection between the official's name and involvement in the Iran-Contra affair, about HO per cent identified l.t Col. Oliver North, while over half iden tified Kear Adm. |ohn Poindex ter About half could identify Robert McFarlane. while :itl per cent knew who Fawn Hall was. About 10 percent or less knew who late Hamilton and Daniel hum v» worw. "More people would he able to name many more of the key figures in the Iran-Contra affair now the hearings are over." l-emert said "My guess is that people who have watched live hearings also watch the newscasts in the evening, and the more attention they pay, the higher the recognition." Leinert added latmert and Bernstein also are hulking into how much the media can change people's at titudes In the first findings. tiS percent were unfavorable toward North, while 18 percent thought favorably about him Right after North's testimony the country seemed to have been struck with Oilietnania. I .amort said "My greatest regret is that we did not get into the field just after North had testified, as that would have been the l>est op portunity to find an attitude change regarding North It might be erased or restored by now. Hut if there is an attitude change, it would lie positive," he said. I.emert and Hernstein began the second set of Interviews July 2!t. and they plan to have com pleted the project by early October. Lawsuit Continued from Page 1 peeled to begin in early September, said )ini Middaugh. DeFazio press secretary. "The ball is pretty much in the administration's court." Middaugh said. However. Secretary of State George Shultz, told a Senate Ap propriations Subcommittee Fri day that the United States doesn't intend to become em broiled in a war with Iran and that the Keagan administration has no attention of invoking the War Powers Act because it doesn't apply to the Persian Gulf situation. "You can't go into that statute over something like this," the Associated Press quoted Shultz as saying. The current lawsuit is not the first time Keagan has been sued under the War Powers Act. In l‘»82, Kep. George Crockett, D Mich.. filed suit when the Reagan administration stmt 55 military advisors to El Salvador. The court threw the case out, saying it wasn't in position to determine whether U.S. forces had entered an area hostile or imminently hostile. The situation is more dearcut this time around. Middaugh said. “The fact is we have already had a U.S. ship attacked and had a U.S. flag ship hit by a mine." he said. Meanwhile, an American operated supertanker, the Tex aco Caribtiean. hit a floating mine Monday just outside the Strait of Hormuz, the AP quoted shipping sources as saying. The supertanker had taken on a full load of oil at an Iranian terminal in the Persian Gulf and was steaming through the Gulf of Oman when a mine hit the ship alnml h yard l>elow the water line. Some oil was leak ing. but no injuries were reported. The Gulf of Oman is used by the ITS. Navy as au assembly point for U.S. warships and reflagged Kuwaiti tankers. The explosion occurred about :<()() miles {rum where three U.S. warships and three Kuwaiti tankers were anchored after an overnight stay off Saudi Arabia on their way up the Persian Gulf. The ll.S. convoy began its surprise journey Saturday. According to the AP. Pen tagon sources in Washington said the convoy was "taking it slow and easy” Monday as they traveled north to Kuwait. Hut a British television network reported the flotilla had not moved by dusk and that U.S. warships were blacked out.
