Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:14:06 -0800
 From: Peter B Gilkey <gilkey@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
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 Dear Fellow members of the IFS

Two items of business. First. I have just learned there is a special
meeting of the State Board tomorrow (Tuesday) via teleconference. I
will be there and I'll report back on what (if anything) developed.

 Second. Bob, Mina, and I met with Bill Linden (AOF) and Rick Troxell
(AOF) via teleconference this morning. AOF is in the process of going
ahead with a lawsuit against OUS over ORP. They are in the process of
finding plaintiffs for a class action suit and trying to raise money
for the suit. We hope to have one of the lawyers dealing with the
lawsuit at the IFS meeting Saturday February 7 to give us an update.
AOF is in the process of arranging to make available people to address
the WOU, OSU, and UO Senates at their next meetings, should the
respective senates so desire.

AOF feels OUS is pining all its hopes on "decoupling" PERS and ORP.
There are real questions that were raised today concerning the wisdom
of that line of endeavor. We will discuss it further at the IFS
meeting in February.

 Peter B Gilkey
 President IFS