Jewish Student Union sponsors monthly CoffeeTalk
The informal forums
offer students a chance
to get to know professors
By Rachel Rosner
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Jewish Student Union
kicked off the first of their month
ly “Coffee Talk" open forums
with visiting Professor Avi Soifer,
former Dean of the Boston Col
lege School of Law.
Soifer led a discussion about
professional and legal ethics from
Jewish perspectives and gave stu
dents a chance to ask him person
al and professional questions in
an open discussion format.
The forum started with intro
ductions around a closed-circle
seating arrangement and a warm
invitation by Soifer to ask him any
sort of question. After a brief mo
ment of silence from the students,
Soifer began to talk openly about
himself and his Jewish heritage.
He shared how his grandmother
had a huge anti-war influence on
him and how she impacted his life
toward social activism.
Soifer inspired students with
his advice to do every action with
the future in mind and to always
have morality and ethics as your
driving force. He strongly advo
cated the importance of doing
what you really care about and to
follow whatever passion your
“head and heart” agree on.
Soifer discussed the struggle be
tween personal ethics and profes
sional life and his life is one exam
ple of how to find unity between
the two.
Angela Favero, co-director of
the JSU, hopes the monthly Cof
fee Talk will provide a way for
students to get involved with the
JSU activities. She invites people
of all backgrounds and interests to
get involved in the open discus
sions.
“I’m excited to invite profes
sors into the Multicultural Cen
ter and into dialogue on exciting
and fun topics” Favero said.
Coffee Talk is aimed at encour
aging professors on campus to
talk about things they are unable
to teach in class. JSU encourages
professors to use this time as a
personal outlet and a way to get
to know students.
The next Coffee Talk will be
on Tuesday, November 17th in
the MCC at 4 p.m., and will fea
ture University English Profes
sor Richard Stein.
Stein, an English professor ac
tive in the Jewish community,
will discuss his heritage and in
terests.
Coffee Talk is open to every
one and is a great way to learn
about Jewish issues, meet college
professors, get involved and grub
on yummy Jewish goodies pro
vided by Barry’s Cafe, a local Eu
gene kosher joint, Favero said.
Panel will discuss student drinking
ASUO Legal Services
hopes to inform students
about laws regarding
alcohol and minors
By Peter Breaden
Oregon Daily Emerald
Autumn leaves aren’t the only
thing coming down around cam
pus this fall as police issue piles
of underage drinking citations.
ASUO Legal Services is warning
underage students that they’re
vulnerable to trouble when they
drink.
"They’re literally sitting ducks
for the police,” said Legal Services
director Ilona Koleszar. “This
year, it’s been more than normal.”
Legal Services will present a
panel discussion entitled “Alco
hol, Minors and the Law,” tonight
at 7 in the Ben Linder Forum. The
four-person panel will address
many alcohol-related criminal of
fenses and students’ legal rights.
“I actually was agitated into do
ing this by the number of tickets
in the municipal court,” Koleszar
said.
Last weekend in the campus
area, 135 citations were written;
88 were minor in possession cita
tions, said Sgt. Rick Gilliam of the
Eugene police.
At the current pace of citations.
University students are expected
to pay more than $350,000 in al
cohol-related fines this year,
Koleszar said.
“If things continue, it could be
well over a third of a million dol
lars,” she said. “That’s ridicu
lous.”
Koleszar will sit on the panel
with Elaine Green, associate dean
of student life; Eugene police offi
cer Julie Boyd; and MaryLou
Boelke, who is on the legal ser
vices staff.
The panel will answer ques
tions and address myths about
students' real rights concerning
alcohol violations, Koleszar said.
Several myths about student
drinking include: that minors can
furnish alcohol to other minors;
police are required to give one
warning to everyone: distributing
keg cups is not furnishing alcohol.
Students who register kegs to dif
ferent addresses aren’t immune
either, Koleszar said.
"False-swearing is a step below
perjury,” she said. “Cops don't fall
for it, and neither do the judges.”
This issue seems to come up
every year, ASUO President
Geneva Wortman said.
“I think it’s just a fall trend,”
Wortman said. "Every fall police
crack down to send the message
that drinking won't be tolerated.”
The panel is open to all, said
Linda Miller, assistant director of
Legal Services.
“This is a preventative event,
not just for people who have had
problems,” Miller said. “I encour
age all students to show up.”
News brief
Car and cyclist
collide on Agate
A station wagon and
a bicycle rider collid
ed at the Agate Street
crosswalk between
15th Avenue and 13th
Avenue at 1:20 p.m.
Monday.
An ambulance and
took the biker away
because of what police
said were memory and
vision problems. At
the time, police were
unsure whether the bi
cycle struck the car or
vice versa.
Police said the biker
was not a student at
the University. Police
said they were investi
gating the details of
the collision.
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