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Groups search for environmental help
By DAVID LUDWIG
Of the Emerald
The first day of finals is upon us. Campus en
vironmental groups, however, are pushing aside that
ugly thought, planning projects, events and classes
for next term. But they need bodies and minds willing
to pitch in and roll up their sleeves, to get involved
and to help the world environmentally.
Listed below is a little of what is happening next
term among the Survival Center, the Environmental
Studies Center (ESC) and the Oregon Student Pub
lic Interest Research Group (OSPIRG).
The Environmental Studies Center. A group
of students, working out of this center, have received
a grant to develop an administrative model and cur
riculum guide for environmental education. They
need people to do research in the following areas:
need assessment, undergraduate curricula, public
service outreach, environmental programs on other
campuses and non-degree and research programs.
Credit is available in exchange for work in one of
these areas. For more information and job descrip
tions. Call Peter Thurston at 686-5006. Applications
are accepted up to and during the week of registra
tion.
In addition, the group is holding an informational
meeting at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the center in Room
11, PLC. They will also be scheduling and holding
interviews during the first week of classes.
The ESC itself needs individuals interested in
the areas of environmental education and employ
ment. Interviews will be between 9:30 a.m. and 5:30
p.m. at the ESC every day of the first week of spring
term. Credit is also available.
These jobs, open to more than one person, in
volve working at the center and working with the
University community.
The Survival Center. This organization is also
in need of interested students willing to volunteer
their time.
The center Is expanding their positions-by-credit
program. Specifically, they need an Environmental
Impact Statement coordinator experienced in en
vironmental analysis and review and an air and water
quality specialist.
The Survival Center needs interested individu
als to work on specific environmental issues and
legislative bills. These include monitoring the Wil
lamette National Forest land-use plan and its timber
sales, the Land Conservation and Development
Commission and wildlife and whale issues. They
now need people to go to a public hearing in Salem to
support HB-2764, a bill confining the use of off-road
vehicles on public lands after July 1,1977, to desig
nated public areas. They are forming a car pool, so
anyone wanting to go should call the center at
686-4356 or stop by Suite 1, EMU. The hearing is at
8:30 p.m Tuesday.
They also need volunteers to monitor the
Oregon Department of Transportation’s new Trans
portation System Plan, to develop a new ride stop
map and five people to work as a team contacting
local environmental agencies to see what issues
they are working on and are involved in.
Last but certainly not least, the center is spon
soring two classes through the School of Community
Service and Public Affairs (CSPA)—a wildlands
class and an Oregon’s environmental issues class.
And they always need volunteers. Feel free to
stop by the center anytime.
OSPIRG. One of OSPIRG’s largest projects next
term is the selection of the summer interns. If in
terested, fill out the application as soon as possible
because the deadline will probably Jdo around the
second week of April.
The topics include mobile homes, building in
spections, nuclear power issues, air quality, inves
tigation of Oregon's Public Utilities Commission, the
effect of sewage permit grants on land use, forest
practices, investigation of river pollution, examina
tion of Oregon's Department of Economic Develop
ment, the effect of scenic waterway classification on
riverside property values and civil rights.
Interns, working under the direction of
OSPIRG’s professional staff, will earn $1,000.
All students either presently enrolled or who will
be enrolled in Oregon colleges and universities are
eligible to apply.
Applications should be mailed to the Intern
Committee at the state office in Portland and are
available from the state office or at the local OSPIRG
office in Suite 3, EMU.
Next term OSPIRG needs three people, with
three hours of credit available through CSPA, to do a
study of hearing aids. Contact Ron at 726-7284 if
interested. They also need volunteers to help with a
health center survey and a short weighing study
Is America
ready for
‘Show Me’
sex book?
vertisement or display in
bookshop windows. The ef
fort failed and book sales,
which had been sluggish,
increased dramatically in
the glare of publicity.
Many of those who have
seen advanced copies of
the English version, includ
ing some publishers who
declined the opportunity to
issue the book, believe a
similar outcry will accom
pany its release in this coun
try. The book is intended as
a guide for children and
their parents. Its unsettling
effect stems from its use of
children, rather than adults,
By ROBERT JONES
(C) 1975, The Los Angeles Times
NEW YORK — The book begins in
nocently enough, two young moppets,
naked but hastily covered by their hands
and feet, turn devilish eyes at one another
and say, “Ah, come on, show me!’
And show they do. As the pages of the
forthcoming sex commentary unfurl before
the reader, the children, beautifully photo
graphed, progress from mutual fondling to
a wide range of love-making techniques
"Boy, am I glad,” one youngster says, “I
finally understand.”
Is America ready for a childrens sex
education book as explicit as “The Joy of
Sex?” Some child psychologists and even
the publishers are not sure, but ready or not
America is going to get it this spring when
the original German version, translated into
English, will become available in this
country. Due for release in May, the book
will be published here by St. Martin s Press
at $12.95.
Titled “Show Me!” the original version
has already created an uproar in Germany,
where the government’s Minister of Com
munications demanded it be treated as
pornography and banned from public ad
as models for the demonstration of techni
que.
“Children who have grown up in a free
and unconstrained family atmosphere react
positively to the photographs,’’ argues the
book’s author, Helga Fleischhauer-Hardt,
in an explanatory text. “In no way can look
ing at the pictures damage a child, even if
he or she does not yet understand them.”
Nonetheless, some depictions are bound
to be startling to many adults. Accompanied
by commentary taken from the children
themselves, the photographs blink at no
thing. The manual jumps from masturbation
to several versions of intercourse, to a hint
of homosexuality, and finally to childbirth.'
“Show Me!” grew out out of a collabora
tion between Fleischhauer-Hardt, a child
psycholoqist in Germany, and Will McBride,
a well-known American photographer,
much of whose work ap
peared in Look Magazine
before its demise.
Using delicate tones and
capturina his subjects in
moments of grace and
charm, McBride has en
couraged a spirit of inno
cence to pervade the
photographs in spite of the
subject matter.
Editors at St. Martin s
Press are hopeful the eleg
ant photographs and sup
porting essay by
Fleischhauer-Hardt will
overcome any consumer
resistance, and they are talking of increas
ing the initial press run from 25,000 to
100,000 copies.
Nonetheless, the Dook has already pro
voked some criticism by child psychologists
in this country. "A lot of people are very
uptight about it,” says Paul DeAngelis, the
book’s editor.
Derek Burleson, director of education for
the Sex Information and Education Council
of the United States (SIECUS), refused to
endorse the book after an advance copy
was sent to him by the publishers.
“It's simply too much in one shot, too
diverse. It says let it all hang out, but how
does a child then deal with this society,
which is more restrictive?” Burleson asked.
Other psychologists have questioned
whether the very young models will suggest
to children that they should immediately
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‘A book like that could get
your store burned down’
engage in exotic love-making.
In her text, Fleischhauer-Hardt answers
that parents who hesitate to show the book
to young children "do so almost certainly
because they fear they might impart to their
children anxieties about their own sexual
feelings or behavior patterns.”
The author, who is also the president of a
children’s clinic in Switzerland, argues that
young children, with or without the approval
of parents, engage in sexual conduct that
often includes oral-genital contact and at
tempted copulation with a sex partner.
If they are forbidden to do so, she writes,
they continue anyway but "experience feel
ings of anxiety and guilt.”
St. Martin’s advance salesmen repor
tedly are having little difficulty placing
"Show Me!” in metropolitan bookstores. A
purchasing agent for Brentano s one of the
largest book sellers in New York, said,
"We re taking the book seriously and we
believe the public will support it.”
Joni Miller, a buyer for the Dalton
Pickwick Book Stores, said she had agreed
to purchase “Show Me!” for the chain's out
lets on the East and West coasts. As for
outlets in the South and Midwest, Miller said
the book would be held back until reaction
could be tested.
"You never know," she said, "There are
some places, a book like that could get your
store burned down.”