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Domestic violence clinic
receives additional funding
The Oregon Attorney General’s
Office recently helped expand the
services of a Lane County domestic
violence clinic.
The County Domestic Violence
Clinic of Legal Aid, which provides
legal services to low-income victims
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torney general’s office in August.
The grant money has allowed the
clinic to hire two new attorneys
and two new advocates specifical
ly charged with bringing the clin
ic’s services to rural and Spanish
speaking victims of domestic
violence.
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Law, also offers internship opportu
nities to University law students.
Each term, up to 10 third-year law
students get to represent clients in
court — usually in cases involving
contested protective orders.
According to clinic director Mar
lene Drescher, the students, most of
whom have never tried a case before
beginning their internships, represent
about 75 people per year and win
about 85 to 90 percent of their cases.
The clinic first opened in January
1999 and currently serves about 550
clients per year. The grant will help
the clinic to serve more clients and
reach previously unserved groups
in the community, Drescher said.
“We feel that the Latino commu
nity has been underserved,” she
said, “both because of language and
culture barriers and because of a lack
of community resources in the past. ”
—Leon Tovey
Budget cuts
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results to the governor.
In October, Kitzhaber called on all
state agencies to submit budget re
duction plans to offset a projected
$290 million shortfall in state rev
enues. The plans, he said, will help
lay the groundwork for a special ses
sion to rebalance the state’s biennial
budget. The proposals were initially
due Friday, but the board was given
until Wednesday because they could
not hammer out details of the cuts.
Board members voting against
Cox’s proposal objected to spending
$7.2 million on a new campus while
being forced to consider state fund
ing cuts that could reach 10 percent.
“This is not an easy thing to say,
but somebody at some point has to
say it: We can’t afford the education
system we have,” State Board stu
dent representative Tim Young said.
“Putting another hungry mouth at
the table would do a disservice to
the programs we already have. ”
Young said he voted against the
plan because of worries over fund
ing of the Cascades campus. He
speculated that at least four of the
six “no” votes were also because of
similar funding issues with the Cas
cades campus.
However, officials at Oregon State
University expressed concerns that
Monday’s vote may signal a lack of
commitment to the campus, whose
academic programs began in Sep
tember 2001.
“This could become a self-fulfill
ing prophecy in terms of students
who are deciding to attend the uni
versity this year,” OSU Provost Tim
White said. “It is a great concern
that we do not lose enrollment over
this conversation.”
Construction on a building to
house faculty offices and class
rooms will be completed in August
2002. Also, OSU is in the process of
hiring faculty members and an “ex
ecutive officer” to run the campus.
Board member Erin Watari, who
voted for the budget proposal,
agrees that the Cascades campus
could suffer because of apparent
lack of commitment to the campus.
“I don’t think we can back out on
our commitment,” she said, point
ing out that a 20-year lease was
signed for the new building.
Watari also questioned the timing
of opposition to Bend, just days be
fore budget cutting plans are due.
The Board originally met on Fri
day to discuss proposals to cut the
state budget. However, they asked
Cox to revise some of the proposals to
protect statewide public service pro
grams, research funds and new engi
neering programs. Cox said his plan
took those concerns into account as
well as educational priorities of the
legislature and the governor.
John Liebhardt is the higher education editor
for the Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be
reached at johnliebhardt@dailyemerald.com.
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Breema
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According to Dr. John Schreiber,
director of The Breema Center,
Breema originated in remote moun
tain villages in the Middle East,
where it had been practiced for cen
turies. It was never written down,
but was passed down by an unbro
ken lineage of teachers.
But Pearlson said the history is
n’t as important as incorporating
Breema into everyday life.
“It’s important to concentrate on
what’s happening right now,” he
said. “Life only happens moment
by moment.”
Diane Huber is a student activities reporter for
the Oregon Daily Emerald. She can be reached
at dianehuber@dailyemerald.com.
Bioterrorism
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dent at the University on Thursday.
He said the response by University
administrators and emergency re
sponse teams demonstrated the ef
fectiveness of protocols implement
ed locally since the threat of
bioterrorism began in late September.
“We’re the beneficiary of recent ex
perience on the East Coast,” Torrey
said. “One of the topics at (Thursday’s)
meeting was the fact that the nation is
involved in a war on two fronts. Our
emergency crews need to be as well
equipped as our troops in
Afghanistan. Fortunately, we are
blessed with a well-trained, state-of
the-art fire department HazMat team. ’ ’
But while emergency response
teams may be well prepared, area
medical centers could not handle a
full-scale outbreak of the type expe
rienced in New Jersey, according to
Lane County Health Department
program manager Karen Gillette.
“We have a system in place,” she
said. “But we don’t have enough
people.”
If the substance at the University
had not tested negative for anthrax—
as the Lane County Public Health de
partment reported Saturday—an un
derstaffed county health system
could have been overwhelmed by
large numbers of people asking for
testing and treatment, Gillette said.
However, she agreed with Torrey that
the response to the incident was
timely and effective, and she urged
people who might still be concerned
to “trust the experience” of local au
thorities who say the risk is minimal.
And according to Dr. Gerald
Fleischli, director of the University
Health Center, the risk is indeed
minimal — even to those students
and professors who were in
Willamette Hall on Thursday.
The Health Center already had
100 doses of Cipro on hand, and af
ter Thursday’s incident they or
dered 100 more. Fleischli said that
would have been enough to treat
everyone who came into direct con
tact with the substance found on
Thursday, had it been anthrax. The
University is reasonably well pre
pared, he said, but some things
could have gone better.
Fleischli said the Health Center
was not aware of the events unfold
ing in Willamette Hall until a stu
dent came in after reading an e-mail
sent out by Dietrich Belitz, head of
the physics department.
Why the Health Center was not
informed of the incident will be one
of the subjects of the post-incident
“debriefing” that will take place af
ter things have calmed down, Fleis
chli said.
And while Fleischli is relieved ‘
that the incident turned out to not
be a real case of bioterrorism, he is
concerned that incidents like this
will hurt preparedness for a legiti
mate emergency.
“Repeated occurrences will hone
our ability to respond correctly,” he
said of emergency procedures. “But
they can also cause a sense of com
placency. ”
Leon Tovey is a higher education reporter for
the Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached
at leontovey@dailyemerald.com.
Energy fee
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gents approves fees, he said. But in
Oregon, the state board of higher ed
ucation — Oregon’s equivalent to
the board of regents — determines
tuition and fees, he said.
The ruling does call into question
charging a fee that pays for some
thing previously included in tuition,
such as energy costs, he said. But, he
said, he couldn’t speculate on the
likelihood of a similar outcome in
Oregon because he had not seen a
copy of the Washington ruling.
“Whether that’s legal in Oregon
based on the decision in Washing
ton, I don’t know,” he said.
OSA plans to study the Washing
ton ruling, but has no plans to file a
similar lawsuit at this time, he said.
Kevin Neely, a spokesman for Ore
gon Attorney General Hardy Myers,
said no lawsuits to eliminate the en
» ergy fee are pending in Oregon.
The Washington ruling won’t af
fect the energy fee charged by the
University, Moseley said. But, he
added, University students may see
their energy fees drop by next term.
“What we are doing right now is
analyzing our energy costs ... and
looking at the possibility of lower
ing (the fee) for winter and spring
terms,” he said.
Administrators initially estimat
ed the fee would be about $30 per
student each term. A decision on
whether to lower the fee is likely to
be reached within the next two
weeks, Moseley said.
Next week, ASUO will kick off
the conservation campaign with a
dance in the EMU Ballroom, and
will step up publicity to let students
know what they can do to save ener
gy, Nair said.
Kara Cogswell is a student activities reporter
for the Oregon Daily Emerald. She can be
reached at karacogswell@dailyemerald.com.