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Volume 105, Issue 156
Legal^agtes
Sen. Ron Wyden says he looks forward
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to “passing a torch” of public service
Job cuts
approved
by Higher
Ed Board
The Board of Higher Education
plans to eliminate 18 positions
in the Chancellor’s Office
By Ayisha Yahya
News Editor
The State Board of Higher Education
approved plans to reorganize the Chancel
lor's Office on Friday, which will result in a
reduction of 18 staff positions and savings
of more than $ 1 million.
The reorganization is the first step to
ward redefining the role of the office in re
lation to the Oregon University System,
and comes after a three-month review
headed by a special committee.
"This reorganization represents a new
and more efficient way for the Chancel
lor's Office to support higher education in
Oregon," Henry Lorenzen, co-chair of the
Chancellor's Office Review Committee,
said in an OHS press release.
Under reorganization, the number of
staff will drop from 39 to 21, according to
an OlIS handout. As part of the cuts, the
Industry Affairs division will now have
two staff members instead of four, while
staff in the Decision Support department
dropped from 13 to nine members. The
Academic Affairs unit, which had the
highest number of staff, saw a reduction
from 19 staff members to just seven.
"Nineteen reduced to seven is really in
line with this new vision we want to go
with for the Chancellor's Office," said
Board Vice President Geraldine Richmond,
who helped head the review committee
There are also three grant-funded posi
tions.
In addition, the Division of Academic
Affairs has been eliminated, while a new
Graduate Program Council and a Provost
Council have been created, according to
the press release. Work previously handled
by the academic affairs unit, which was re
sponsible in part for new campus pro
grams, will now be managed through the
new councils, University Vice President for
Academic Affairs Lorraine Davis said.
New areas of the organization include
Enrollment Policy & Community Colleges
Liaison; High Schools & Teacher Education
Liaison; Strategic Programs and Planning;
and Graduate and Research Policy, the re
lease states. Individual campuses will take
over responsibility for the development
and implementation of new or revised ac
ademic and grant-funded programs.
Gov. Ted Kulongoski thanked Richmond
and others who worked on formulating the
office's reorganization.
"Whenever there is reorganization, and
I've been involved in a number of those,
it's very destabilizing to the employees,"
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By Peter Sur
Freelance Reporter
bout 160 graduates of the School of
Law received their diplomas Sun
JL V. day amid pomp, circumstance and
speeches that reinforced the graduates' re
sponsibilities in the years ahead.
The class of 2004 entered the Hult Cen
ter's Silva Concert Hall in hoods and pur
ple and black robes, led by Assistant Pro
fessor Michael Moffitt, who served as
commencement marshal.
In his opening remarks, School of law
Dean laird Kirkpatrick noted the class's ac
complishments, which included helping es
tablish the Oregon Review of International
Law journal and setting new records for pro
bono hours contributed by law students.
"As of today you are joining an alumni
family of over 5,500 graduates," Kirk
patrick said, noting that previous gradu
ates have become members of leading law
firms, U.S. senators, governors, state attor
neys general and judges.
"You'll be given numerous opportunities
to serve in leadership roles, and I urge you
to accept those opportunities," he said.
Student Bar Association President Jeff
Eager noted how the class changed since
the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
"We have studied law in a historic time,"
he said. "It is cliche to say 9-11 changed
everything, but its effect on the class of
2004 in the infancy of our legal education
has been profound."
Kirkpatrick presented Moffitt with the
Orlando J. Hollis Faculty Teaching Award,
which is given to a School of Law "out
standing teacher."
University President Dave Frohnmayer
surprised Moffitt by announcing he had
won the Ersted Award for Distinguished
Teaching, presented annually to two fac
ulty members.
Kirkpatrick presented the Meritorious
Service Award to Judge Stephen Reinhardt
of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and to
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden. This award is given
to "a person or persons who have made ex
traordinary contributions to legal educa
tion and the law."
"Respect for law, respect for truth and re
spect for the individual dignity of hu
mankind are essential values if our society as
we know it is to survive," Reinhardt said.
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Erik R. Bishoff Photographer
(Right to left) Michael Callier celebrates graduating from the University's School of Law with his aunt Maryetta Callier,
cousin Patrick Milton and aunt Gloria Fay Milton on Sunday at the Hult Center. Michael Callier is a former linebacker for the
Oregon football team who says he has wanted to attend law school since he was 13.
"With respect to those values, 1 be
seech you to do a far better job than
we our elders have done in the past
and are doing today. Lead good
lives, do good deeds and always re
member that the ultimate objective
of law is justice."
Wyden said he was looking for
ward to "passing a torch" to the
new generation of public servants.
"A legal education is an extraor
dinary honor, and with it is an in
creased responsibility to our com
munity and to our state and to our
world," Wyden said. "Good luck,
congratulations, don't wait a day
to get involved because we need all
of you now more than ever."
Keynote speaker Justice Rives
Turn to LAW, page 4
Former football
player achieves
dream of law degree
Michael Callier still re
members his last game with
the Oregon football team.
Playing against Texas in the
2000 Holiday Bowl, Callier
sacked quarterback Chris
Simms and made at least sev
en tackles. On Sunday, he
tackled an even bigger oppo
nent: The University School
of Law.
Callier graduated with the
Class of 2004 in the Hult
Center, beginning the first
step of his lifelong dream of
becoming an attorney.
At 6 feet tall and 215
pounds, the former line
backer doesn't look like an
average law student.
"I've been wanting to go to
law school since l was 13," he
said. In addition, a "few sig
nificant events" when he was
a teenager further influenced
his decision.
When he was 18, Callier
attended a carnival in Port
land. While standing around
with his friends, a mounted
police officer tried to break
up the group.
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Panel studies post-Sept. 11 ethnic issues
Scholars look at the effects
of anti-terror policies on
minorities in a symposium
Saturday in the EMU
By Kera Abraham
Freelance Reporter
The tone was serious Saturday in
the EMU, where about 130 people
gathered to attend "After 9/11: The
New Militarism and the Question
of Belonging," a one-day sympo
sium sponsored by the ethnic stud
ies department in cooperation with
the Multicultural Center and other
campus groups. Keynote speakers
and panelists discussed immigrants'
rights, racism, militarism and re
pression in post-Sept. 11 America,
focusing on the incarceration and
deportation of immigrants.
The idea for the symposium
came from Nerissa Bake, a visiting
professor from University of Cali
fornia-Berkeley and a member of
the Critical Filipina and Filipino
Studies Collective.
"9-11 is a critical moment that is
being addressed by ethnic studies
and feminist studies scholars,"
Balce said. "The conference came
out of my own interest in having a
public intellectual conversation
about the human cost of the war on
terror and the invasion of Iraq."
One of Bake's primary concerns
is the loss of rights for immigrants
and people of color in post-Sept.
11 America.
"It is important for people to
know that the war affects not just
those abroad, but domestic issues
as well," Bake said. "People are
scared. This culture of surveillance
targets immigrants and people of
color. Deportations have increased.
Incarcerations have increased. 1
wanted to put before the commu
nity the work of scholars who have
analyzed this."
Speakers included University of
Califomia-Santa Barbara sociologist
Kum-Kum Bhavani, who discussed
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