YMCA starts
rehabilitation
service project
The campus YMCA has started
a new service project on campus
called RAP. RAP stands for
Rehabilitation Assistance
Program and will deal with
helping mentally retarded high
school students in the Eugene
area.
According to Jan Morss,
director of RAP, the program is
aimed not only at helping the
mentally retarded students, but
also at helping University
students majoring in special
education. “So far these students
don’t have that many places to
come in contact with mentally
retarded students,’’ said Morss.
“This will give them the op
portunity.”
Project RAP will be helping the
mentally retarded in areas such
as grooming, how to ride the bus,
and how to function in dealing
with the public, buying food, and
regular activities we take for
granted. Morss said the
University students will act as
friends and guides for retarded
students who are capable of
taking care of themselves and
have jobs in the community.
“For some reason or another,
these students are incapable or
have never experienced many of
the daily aspects one meets in
relating to the community,”
Morss said.
RAP was just formed and
needs many volunteers. Ac
cording to Morss, many of the
retarded or disabled students
involved in this project are high
school students who will be
graduating soon and who
presently hold jobs. The purpose
of the program will be to alleviate
the pressure on the counselors
Effective today
the famous Golden Arches on Villard
are officially declared gone forever.
But do not despair.
In their place stands the newest, nicest far-out
fast-food restaurant in the world (or at least
that part of it bounded by Lane County, Oregon),
with inside seating for 96 humans
and outside seating for 67 cars and 24 bikes,
no-wait service, a heavy menu
and other attractions so numerous
space does not permit a complete listing.
To verify for yourself that this represents
truth in advertising, your personal
inspection is invited on any day
(except Thanksgiving and Christmas)
between 10:30 A.M. and midnight (1 A.M. on weekends).
All-new at the “old” location
1417 Villard (off Franklin)
Also: 55 River Ave., Eugene Mohawk Blvd., Springfield
and socialworkers. Presently,
Morss said “The social workers
and counselors are having to
show the retarded students these
activities and it’s preoccupying
much of their time.”
Volunteers may contact Jan
Morss at the YMCA, located in
the basement of the EMU or by
phoning 343-5189.
Sacred Heart
threatened by
proposed bill
A proposal to prohibit hospitals
which receive federal money
from refusing to perform
abortions and sterilizations will
soon be introduced to the Oregon
legislature. The bill is being
supported by the Women’s
Political Caucus (WPC) and
Feminists United over Rights of
Reproduction (FUROR).
The caucus met with
Congressman John Dellenback
two weeks ago to ask him to
support the bill and investigate
the problem of abortion refusals
in connection with Sacred Heart
Hospital in Eugene.
Sacred Heart receives 12.5
million from the federal Hill
Burton act and state and local
money from the tax payers under
the assumption that it is a non
sectarian institution. “It
receives no money from the
Archdiocese,” stated Margie
Cundy of the WPC.
“We look at the hospital as a
public utility. It has been in
sensitive and irresponsible,” she
continued. Sacred Heart refuses
to perform abortions and
sterilizations although it receives
federal money on the grounds
that, being Catholic, it does not
have to perform those things
which are against Catholic
beliefs, she said.
The bill bong proposed to the
Oregon legislature will state, that
a “woman may have an abortion
upon her request and upon the
approval of a physician,” said
Chris Attnievie, a lobbyist
working with the Caucus. If this
bill is passed it would remove the
need for the husband’s and a
second physician’s approval.
The caucus also wants
Dellenback to support the
national abortion repeal. This
would mean Congress would take
over control of abortion laws and
overrule state laws. This is
because, “the states are
irresponsible in their laws," says
Cundy. Many of the laws are
written to prevent all abortions
except when needed to save lives,
she said. “We feel abortion is
fundamentally a personal right.
Congress has the responsibility to
uphold that right,” she continued.
Dellenback has agreed to in
vestigate Sacred Heart’s policies
and promised to call Ralph Cobb,
chairman of administration at
the hospital. The caucus hopes
this will perhaps begin to get
favorable reactions to their
demands.
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