Oregon daily emerald., February 23, 1973, Page 4, Image 4

Photo Dy Phil Watdstein
Sally Anderson begins attaching bindings to her skis in the ski
preparation room of the Outdoor Program’s new crafts center. Hie
center also has rooms for sewing, photography, audio-visual display
and storage.
Opportunity to create
outdoor crafts offered
Have you wanted to sew your own pack or sleeping bag but not
been able to since you don’t have the machine, patterns or know-how?
Have you wanted to repair your bike, skis or back-pack but not
had the workshop?
Have you tried to get into wilderness photography but been
stopped by lack of resources?
If this is the case, the Outdoor Program’s new Crafts Center may
offer the solution to your problems. The center, located in Sherry Ross
at the southeast comer of Straub Hall, offers a potential fra* the
motivated student interested in developing his own approach to the
outdoors.
The sewing room, in Sherry Ross room 4, has a sewing machine
and pattern file for people interested in manufacturing their own
outdoor equipment, said Deborah Tollefson who coordinates the
sewing activities. While more patterns are needed, there are patterns
for day packs, backpacks, sleeping bags, mittens and parkas, she
said. Many of the materials needed to make equipment are available
in the Outdoor Resource Center.
The room is ready for anyone who wishes to use it. The key can be
obtained from either the Outdoor Resource Center or through
Tollefson at the Program.
The fee for using the machine varies depending on what is bong
made, with at 25c charge for a daypack and up to $1 charge far making
a sleeping bag. Assistance on construction is available through the
Outdoor Program. A SEARCH course is being organized to teach
methods of outdoor equipment construction
For the cross country skier, there is a ski preparation workshop in
Sherry Ross room 3. All materials for waxing, pine-tarring and bin
ding application are available to anyone who wishes to make use of
them. People who would need instruction in any of these techniques
can check the Outdoor Program’s activity board for the periodic
waxing sessions.
Activities in room 3 will vary with the seasons. There is space and
tools for bicycle, backpack and boat repairs as well.
An audio-visual center and a darkroom are available for people
working on outdoor photography projects. The AV room, in Sherry
Ross room 5, has slide sorters, projectors and a screen so the
wilderness photographer can assemble a slide show.
The darkroom, in Sherry Ro6s room 1, operates through the
Outdoor Program’s Photo Program.
•‘This program is designed to assist wilderness photographers and
will be used to create a resource file of slides and photos to be used in
displays, publications and slide shows,” said Peter Fromm of the
Photo Program. Outdoor trips will be planned with photographic
emphasis, he said.
More experienced photographers will be willing to share their
knowledge with those who wish to learn how to take better outdoor
pictures.
Program reviews presented
to fiscal affairs committee
The University Feminists, MECHA, and the
Black Student Union (BSU) presented program
reviews at the Tuesday night meeting of the ASUO
Senate’s Fiscal Affairs Committee in preparation
for the budget hearings to be held before that group
during the spring term.
The program reviews serve an informative
function in preparing the committee to make its
budget recommendations to the senate,
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By STEVEN VAJDA
Of the Emerald
University Feminists representative Mary
Pauli said her organiation is now in the prosess of
formulating non-discriminatory guidelines fra- such
University activities as admission and degree
requirements. Prior activities, she said included
the establishment of a Women’s Right Defense
Center to hear women’s complaints about sexism
and women’s rap groups to discuss concerns of
women. She also said her group had disseminated
feminist literature and had spoken at various
dormitories and sororities.
MECHA spokesperson Jose Fonseca then
outlined how his group had helped Chicano students
Que Paza Raza. a conference on the role of
Chicanos in higher education, and a Chicano
Cultural Center in Fenton Hall were two of the
activities MECHA organized that were of benefit to
Chicanos. he said.
Future plans include the Cinco De Mayo, a
festival for cultural and social purposes, the con
tinued publication of a weekly newsletter and
speaking engagements at the University and in the
community. He said MECHA intended to make
Chicanos aware of political events at the University
and in the community.
BSU President LeFrancis Arnold then ex
plained how the BSU aimed at fostering Black and
white peoples' understanding of the Black con
dition. He said that white persons could not avoid
dealing with Black persons and vice versa and that
both should learn to deal with one another.
BSU has sponsored poetry contests every term.
has sponsored entertainment, plans to publish a
Newsletter for parents of University blacks, and is
planning speaking engagements at local high
schools, he said.
In later business. Club Sports spokesperson
Gary Bartlett requested $229 to send the women's
crew team to three competitive events. He said the
team had “really gotten off the ground this year”
with “20 women turning out regularly.” He con
trasted this with last year, when only one woman
turned out.
A team member, in commenting on now sne leu
about the team, said, "the feeling is just great. It
(the team) offers so much.”
After committee chairer Peggy O’farrell
commented that it was “good to have a women's
team in the club program.'' the women's crew team
received the *229 budget recommendation.
The second club sport request came from the
Rodeo club which requested *258 for transportation
costs fo five rodeos. When asked if interest in the
Rodeo club had increased, Bartlett said it was
stable Membership, he said, had increased from
four to six.
After some discussion, committee member Rita
Wood recommended the Rodeo club not be funded.
Ex-chairer Mike Marsh agreed and said “we gave
them a year to prove themselves, but Interest didn’t
grow." The committee then decided not to
recommend funding.
The last matter of business was YWCA’s
request for *250 to send seven representatives to the
YWCA’s National Conference on Institutional
Racism and Plurality at San Diego. Represen
tatives Anne Ganley and Marty Sessions said the
YWCA was fighting against racism and other social
injustices such as sexism and discrimination
against youths.
After much discussion over the need for seven
people to attend the conference and its benefit to the
University, Chairer Peggy O’farrell broke a tie vote
and voted in favor of the recommendation, and the
YWCA received a budget recommendation of *250.
O’farrell. however, stipulated that the YWCA
inform the ASUO as to what happened at the con
ference so that the University might receive some
benefit from it.
\ancy Hayward on the economy
County outlook ‘disasterville’
By TODD MERRIMAN
Of the Emerald
Nancy Hayward’s prognosis for Lane County,
economically, is not very optimistic.
This is the picture she painted Wednesday night
at a dinner meeting of the Family Counseling
Services of Lane County:
The county’s slice of the federal revenue
sharing pie will make up only about 75 per cent of
the categorical grants lost if President Nixon’s
propsed budget is approved by Congress. And that
figure does not include an additional $1 million
needed, because of spiraling costs, to maintain the
present level of county service.
“From our point of view, it looks like
disasterville.” Hayward, a Lane County Com
missioner, said. She estimated the county expects
to lose $870,000 in federal grants this year, while
receiving $665,000 in revenue-sharing monies.
Perhaps hardest hit by the loss of grant money
will be the community action program, she said.
Hayward said it appears certain that a $220,000
federal Office of Economic Opportunity grant “will
no longer be available for support of what we
believe is a very fine county-operated community
action program.”
Another victim of the cut-back will be the
Presidential Emergency Employment Program,
according to Hayward The program has funded
over 50 positions on local agencies during the past
two years and its demise will have a “tremendous
impact on Lane County,” she said.
Grants for family planning, dental health, solid
waste disposal, rodent control, venereal
control, accident prevention and maternal and child
care programs will also be cut, she said.
Hayward laid the responsibility for reduced
federal aid on what she termed a “lame duck”
President. “Here we are ... with a President who
is not up for election and he can do some things he
wants to do, and he doesn’t have to thing about
whether he’s going to be elected again.”
Hayward said she sees Nixon acting to
decentralize the delivery of services while “pilling
together functions at the cabinet level so that there
will be four Vice Presidents'’ administering the
areas of human resources, natural resources,
economic development and community develop
ment.
Hie federal reorganization will have an
"unknown impact on local government,” she said.
Uncertainty exists, Hayward noted, because it is
not known to what degree special revenue sharing
funds will be made available to local governments.
She expressed hope that the county would
receive some additional aid in the form of con
solidated grants through the federal Allied Services
Act.
As to how revenue sharing funds will be utilized
in the proposed S31 million county budget, Hayward
suggested three possibilities:
— Revenue sharing monies could go to federally
funded programs which lost their grants.
— Revenue sharing monies could go to local
social service organizations which currently depend
upon private support
— Revenue sharing monies could go toward
maintaining county services at its present level.
Hayward added, however, that it would be
"premature” to discuss specific allocations of the
funds at this time.
“We're seeing a whole new system in this
country,” she said. “It will be fascinating to see
what kind of responsibility we at the local level have
about this.”
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