Legal services attorney adjusting to new job
By Carolyn Lamberson
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.