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Lnw Conference, which draws an internalional
field of lawyers and scholars to Eugnno to discuss
environmental laws and issues
These activities make the program and the
school highly visible — troth to Its supporters und
detractors
Axline argues the si hrxil Is only representing
citizens and groups who want environmental
laws unforced
The environmental law clinic is the only one of
four clinics the law school offers that is run on
campus with professors The other three are
“downtown clinics "
l or example, in the criminal prosecution class,
students assist felony trial luwycrs with circuit
court raises The school also offers a criminal de
fense clinic and a civil practice clinic Those
classes are considered less expensive than "in
house" clinics like environmental law because
students aren't working under direct faculty su
pervision
"Clinical education is an Important component
to many legal and academic programs." Axline
said "The quality of the (environmental low) pro
gram has attracted students and supporters na
tionally and Internationally."
He said (Hxiple on the losing side of the clinic's
suc c essful cases art: bitter that students are learn
ing by pruc.tic ing law
This unhappiness in industry und stale govern
ment makes the clinic: vulnerable to cuts in at
least two ways. The legislature could cut the law
school, or administrators could cut the clinic to
save political energy for other rights
Though legislative efforts to c lose the school
have failed in the past. Johnson speculated that
tl«: clinic 's record of taking on anti-business cases
will |oopurdiy.c the school s (uniting when Ino
legislature spends Us monuy.
Johnson argues Ihnl I lie; stole doesn't need nn*
other l.iw sr hool pumping out lawyers, but the is
sue of the clink s reputation also figures in his
thinking
"I wdi not deny I am opposed to the way the
dinii has operated. " he said "I think It's a mis
use ol public funds, and that flavors my desire to
sis; it stopited."
He thinks he cun get the votes to dose the
school because the financial crunch is greater this
year However, others believe a straightforward
legislative victory for opponents o! the clinic isn't
likely Hep. Car) Hoslicku (D-Lugene), who is also
a University professor, doesn't think opponents
can muster the voles; oven if they could. Gover
nor Barbara Koborts would prabubly veto such a
bill.
Given lhat, Hosilcka sees no reason to give in to
the clinic's enemies The important vole for high
er education isn't necessarily the appropriations
hill hut the lax hill al the end of the session where
the legislature tries lo come up with the money,
he said
Invoking what he culled the "hypocrisy factor."
7 will not deny I am opposed
to the way the clinic has
operated. I think It’s a misuse
of public funds, and that
flavors my desire to see It
stopped
— Rep Rod Johnson
Hostlcka mi id legislators can vote yes on giving
money to higher education, then vole no on the
tax bill that makes the appropriation possible. He
said those who voted against the appropriation
bill last year always vote against the tax bill.
"Why should we give away something impor
tant that wo believe in order to appease those peo
ple who never support us when it counts any
way." ho sold "Why throw the clinic overboard
to make people happy?"
liven if a legislative victory Is improbable, the
debate itself could damugu the clinic’s chances of
surviving the cuts
"(Johnson) can exert pressure and make peo
ple's life miserable by talking about it all the
time, generally making people uncomfortablo to
the point where the University or somebody
could say,’ OK. we ll cut the environmental law
clinic just to got this guy off our back’,” Hosticka
said.
Signs of a political struggle within the school
emerge on the issue of the clinic's cost.
University president Myles Brand gavo deans
and department heads the option of cutting sub
programs from their budgets to meet u required
20-pereent cut.
"Every program is potentially subject to a 20
perconl cut," Frohnmoyer said. "It's safe to say
that we're undertaking a fundamental examina
tion of all of our clinical ofTorings.
"The environmental law program is our most
expensive clinical program by orders of magni
tude," ho said.
Mark Thomas, president of the Student Bar As
sociation. thinks the doun is not accurately calcu
lating the clinic's costs. The controversy has to do
with figuring out student-lo-teacher ratios. Mer
vyn Loyu. the school’s assistant dean who works
closely with the budget, wouldn't say how much
is spent on the environmental law clinic.
Ream! graduate John Sample, who heads LAW,
said he first heard about the high cost of the clin
ic lust month when the school learned it would
have to make a 20-percent cut.
"It camu to my attention first through faculty
saying that (the school administration) targeted
the environmental clinic as being the source for
the 20-|>orcont cut." he said.
It's impossible to say whether the clinic will
take a partial cut, a total cut. or omerge unscathed
from the budget battles The clinic's opponents
may win their rase outside the courtroom, how
ever.
Rio Earth Summit opens with silence
RIO Dli JA
NEIRO. Drazil
— (AP) Diplo
mats und world
I e u d e r s from
1 HO countrUss opened un Earth
Sum mil on Wednesday by
bowing their beads ft>r Iwo
minutes in silence for a sick
und (rugile planet.
The liarlh Summit culmi
nates l years of often rancor
ous negotiations between in
dustrialized and developing na
tions, much of it focused on
who will fool tho cleanup bill,
which could lop S12S billion a
ytmr.
Blame for fouling the envi
ronment is expected lu bo fo
cused on iho United Stales,
which has so far acted as spoil
er, lobbying to dilute a treaty to
curb glnlial warming and refus
ing to sign another to protect
biological diversity.
"Wo have txwn tho most suc
cessful species ever," said Mau
rice Strong of Canada, the sum
mit coordinator, in his forceful
opening speech. "Wo are now a
species out of control. Our very
success is loading to a dangor
ous future."
“The wasteful and destruc
tive lifestyles of the rich cannot
be maintained at the cost of the
lives and the livelihoods of the
poor and of nature," he added
”We are either going to save the
whole world or nono of it,"
The summit will be the larg
est ever gathering of heads of
slate.
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