Telemarketers
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wanted telemarketing calls after
their personal information was
published in the University’s stu
dent directory.
Under the “no-call” law, the
Oregon Attorney General’s Office
maintains a list of Oregon resi
dents who do not want to be con
tacted by telemarketers. The resi
dents pay $6.50 for the first year of
having their phone number on the
list and a $3 renewal fee each year
thereafter.
Telemarketers are required to
buy the list, which is updated
monthly. By law, they can’t con
tact people whose names are on
the list. There are, however, four
exceptions: Telemarketers can
legally call if the person asked
them to call, if the call is from a
business the person has bought a
product from, if the call is a politi
cal poll unrelated to marketing or
if it is on behalf of a public agency
or a charitable organization that
the person has expressed an inter
est in.
The list replaces the “black dot
law,” where a black dot was
placed in the phone book next to
names of people who did not want
to receive telemarketing calls.
The new law will give students
another tool to avoid unwanted
telemarketing calls, said Sally
O’Neil, an enforcement officer
with the financial fraud/con
sumer protection section of the
Oregon Department of Justice.
“If you’re named on that list,
they can’t call you,” she said.
She added that students who
ask that their name be added to the
no-call list should still be protect
ed against receiving telemarketing
calls, even if the telemarketers get
their phone number from the Uni
versity’s student directory.
“If they sign up for this no-call
list, and that’s their number at
school, then the telemarketers
aren’t supposed to call,” she said.
Some students have expressed
concern in the past that telemar
keters have called them after their
personal information was pub
lished in the University’s student
directory.
The directory offers a wealth of
information about students, in
cluding their name, phone num
ber, address and permanent ad
dress.
Under the Oregon Public
Records Law, companies can re
quest the information from the
University for a small processing
fee.
Some companies have request
ed the directory information, Uni
versity Registrar Herb Cherek said.
But if students are receiving calls
from companies who are using
campus calling lists, it’s more like
ly that they simply picked up a
free copy of the directory and
made their own lists, he said.
Students who are still con
cerned about receiving unwanted
sales calls can have their directory
information suppressed by the
University, said Pete Bauer, a sen
ior assistant to the registrar.
While that can be beneficial to
students who want to keep prying
parents from checking up on
them, for example, it can also
backfire: potential employers call
ing to confirm enrollment or de
grees earned are also turned away,
he said.
“It basically cuts off all informa
tion,” Bauer said.
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the Athletic Department to create
endowments for minority profes
sors. She said many classes aren’t
offered in minority subjects be
cause all the money needed is
funding sports programs.
The candidates also addressed
the issue of student fees, specifi
cally the Scott Southworth case
currently facing the U.S. Supreme
Court. This case will decide if stu
dents have discretion over where
their student fees are spent.
ASUO presidential candidate
Jay Breslow, with his running
mate Holly Magner, said students
should be involved in controlling
their own money, but the system
in place works well.
“We’ll fight like hell to keep our
fee system exactly the way it is,”
Breslow said.
C. J. Gabbe, another ASUO pres
idential candidate, said the South
worth case would not necessarily
affect the University, and he is
confident that the current system
will be upheld.
Gabbe’s running mate, Peter
Larson, said that if the decision
does affect the students, he hopes
to change the current fee system
as little as possible.
“We want to keep the system
the way it is because it works the
way it is,” he said.
Regarding women’s issues on
campus, the candidates addressed
child care, campus safety and pro
grams run through the ASUO
Women’s Center.
ASUO presidential candidate
Dan Atkinson, who stands for left
handed rights, said, “The majority
of left-handed people are women,
therefore this campus is anti
women.”
The ASUO primaries will be
held Wednesday and Thursday.
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