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and receive stock from research they
help develop, I know there will be an
impulse for the school to turn away
from pure research and go after prof
its,” said Mclntire, president of the Tax
payer Association of Oregon. “Also, I
don’t like government in business. ”
But Don Krahmer, co-chairman for
the political action committee sup
porting the measure, argued that the
measure is narrowly written to pre
vent excessive government interven
tion in business and that so-called
pure research won’t suffer. Nearly
half the nation’s universities own
stock in companies using scholarly
research, and noncommercial re
search has not declined, he said.
Though not directly, the Univer
sity has for years owned stock in
companies using its research.
The University Foundation, an in
dependent corporation that raises
funds for the University, receives,
manages and controls the stock in a
“blind trust” relationship with the
school, said Don Gerhart, director of
the University’s technology transfer
office, which brokers agreements be
tween researchers and businesses.
The foundation has complete
control over the stock, and the Uni
versity administration is unable to
make recommendations.
Though this arrangement allows
the University to profit from the suc
cess of businesses using its research,
Measure 10 would help universities
attract more businesses and “would
make it much more straight forward
for us,” Gerhart said.
“Because we can’t take equity
payments directly, at some point we
have to negotiate transfer of equity
to a third party,” he said. “Under
standably, that confuses things.”
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atdarrenfreeman@dailyemerald.com.
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Fate of candidates
to be determined
A Lane County Circuit Court
judge is expected to decide today
the fate of Eugene’s ballot for City
Council candidates.
Candidates Jim Hale and Kurt
Thelen filed a lawsuit Monday chal
lenging the candidacy of three
prospective councilors who, ac
cording to the plaintiffs, filed elec
tion documents with the city in an
improper order. Hale is running for
the Council’s Ward 5 seat, and The
len is running for Ward 6.
Defendants are Ward 5 candidate
Gary Pape, Ward 6 candidates Jen
nifer Solomon and Frank Wiley, city
recorder Kathleen Fieland and An
nette Newingham, a Lane County
elections official.
Hale and Thelen say Pape,
Solomon and Wiley turned in the 25
signatures of registered voters, re
quired of all candidates, before gain
ing city approval of their signature
forms. City rules require the forms to
be approved before they are signed.
Stating that the candidates re
ceived bad advice from Fieland
about when to turn in the signa
tures, Newingham placed them on
the May 21 primary election ballot.
Plaintiffs will argue that the can
didates should be removed from the
ballot because they broke rules that
other candidates followed.
“We believe that people have
been treated inequitably—the rules
were applied unevenly,” Hale said.
Though not named in the suit, in
cumbent Ward 3 Councilor David
Kelly, who represents the University
area, could potentially be affected by
the judge’s decision. Kelly, like the
candidates being sued, turned in his
signatures before gaining approval of
his signature form, but Hale and The
len did not challenge his candidacy
because the plaintiffs are not compet
ing with Kelly in the election.
In Friday’s hearing, the city will
likely counter that no law was bro
ken, that candidates should not be re
moved from the ballot for following
bad advice from a city official and
that the plaintiffs were not injured by
Newingham’s decision to place the
three contested candidates on the bal
lot, said Jerry Lidz, the city attorney
representing the defendants.
“We expect a decision promptly,
because obviously there are tight
deadlines for election officials to get
ballots out to voters,” Lidz said.
“But it’s up to the judge.”
The county is scheduled to mail
ballots to voters May 3.
— Darren Freeman
Lecture to focus on
Mideast women’s rights
The University and the Justice not
War Coalition will co-sponsor a dis
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women living in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The goal of the event is to dis
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East, and specifically the efforts of
the Revolutionary Association of
the Women of Afghanistan, a
women’s rights group formed in
Afghanistan in 1977.
The lecture includes seasoned
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Larry Everest, as well as Neesha
Mirchandani and James Ingalls,
both members of the Afghan
Women’s Mission board of direc
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100 Willamette Hall.
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