Oregon daily emerald., November 21, 1974, Page 8, Image 8

Photo by Greg Clark
Mark Miller [righti head of the Drug Information Center, discusses the
problems of the center, created when University organizations played
musical buildings and last year's Incidental Fee Committee cut the
center from the ASUO budget. The Drug Information Center is located
between the Eugene Fire Departments Number three station and
Columbia Street.
'stuck in the middle'
DIC moves, needs funds
When University organizations
began playing musical buildings
recently, the Drug Information
Center {DIC) seems to have
gotten lost in the shuffle. From a
tiny room in the EMU, to their
new location stuffed between the
Eugene Fire Department's
Number three station and
Columbia Street, the ac
commodations have been less
than accommodating, according
to center members.
It might take a couple of trips
around the block tor a driver to
spot the place, and when he
found it he might think he was at
an abandoned army barracks and
do a quick about face. But as
Mark Miller, director of the center
will tell you, the DIC has far more
urgent worries than the housing
shortage.
"We're stuck in the middle,"
says Miller dolefully. "We re not
quite considered an ASUO or a
state program." The DIC, Miller is
quick to add, however, is the
state's main clearing house on
drug information, and the state's
only drug analysis center, making
its middleman status a little hard
to live with. And like many social
organizations, the DIC is in dire
need of money to keep its services
operating.
The last Incidental Fee Com
mittee, said Miller, cut the DIC
funds from the ASUO, sayinc
"drug use is not rising." Miller anc
his crew say otherwise, anc
statistics showing increasec
student use of the drug in
formation program seem to back
him up.
the DIC will ask the IFC for $2,00C
to continue operations, in a
matter that will be brought before
the IFC Wednesday, Nov. 27.
The program, which Miller
contends "has the potential to be
the model for the nation" is in
volved not only with helping
persons identify drugs and their
possible dangers, but runs an
extensive program of education of
the local police agencies, the
grade and high schools.
The future of the program, now
in its third year, will depend on the
additional funds from the IFC and
a possible subsidy from the State
Alcohol and Drugs Commission,
Miller said.
Authorities recover
stolen radioactive isotope
(CPS/CUP) — A radioactive isotope stolen from the McMaster
Nuclear Research Building in Hamilton, Ontario has been recovered,
but the thief is still at large.
The still-unidentified thief recently made off with 50 milligrams of
thulium 170, a potent radioactive material used in scientific research. An
anonymous telephone call iast week alerted authorities to the
whereabouts of the material, which was recovered from a basement
locker in the McMaster University Medical Center.
Richard Tomlinson, in charge of security for radioactive materials at
the nuclear research center, speculated that the robbery was an inside
job done to prove that radioactive material could be stolen.
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