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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1976)
So parents can be on committee IFC votes child care fund for members By TOM ROSSI Of the Emerald The Incidental Fee Committee (IFC) in a precedent setting action voted unanimously Monday to provide child care funding for its members while attending regularly scheduled and emergency meetings. Jamie Bums, IFC chairer, said the action was taken ‘‘so as not to disenfranchise elected IFC members." Burns added that the funding would insure that “parents would not be prevented from running for committee posi tions.” The child care funding would apply to any meetings held between 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 a.m. on weekdays and all hours on weekends at a rate of $1 an hour per person for regularly scheduled meetings and a maximum of 80 cents per child per person for emergency meetings. In discussing the proposal, the committee expressed concern that members with children are forced to spend much of their IFC stipend of $95 per month on child care. Jan Oliver and Tamanika Ivie, the two parents on the IFC, explained that evening child care was both expensive and difficult to find. The decision will provide funding for child care through November, 1976. In other action taken Monday, requests for additional funding were approved for several student groups. The Native American Student Union was awarded $200 to bolster its legal defense in its fight against Educa tional Opportunity Service cutbacks. The Graduate Student Council was given $500 to cover miscellaneous advertising and printing costs and the Women s Referral Center was awarded $850 to buy films and to promote their festival of films created by and about women. In addition, a $3,000 loan was approved for the Inter national Education Center to hire a full-time employe to expand travel agency services. Used book exchange established Every term there are people who want to unload textbooks they’ll never open again. Others wish they could avoid forking half a C-note over to the bookstore for books that cost more per pound than truffles. The Used Book Exchange was created to get these people to gether. The exchange is much more organized than the bulletin boards in the Bookstore or anywhere else," says Paul Stevens of the exchange, “Rather than placing notices all around campus, the seller buys space in the book ex change file." The Used Book Exchange works like this: Book sellers sign up at the ex change for free at the end of the term and during course registra tion. The sellers print their name, address, phone number and book title on an index card. After the designated free sign up days, the book exchange charoes a seller 10 cents per book or a $1 fee for more than 10 books. People who want to be referred to a seller of a particular book or those who want to register a title, may contact Stephens at 344-3864. If the title is on file, Stephens will give the name and phone number of the dealer to the caller. The Used Book Exchange is not new. It started winter term, 1974, and was located in the basement of the University Bookstore. “Suddenly, we were a victim of bureaucracy and space at the University. Spring term our first year we were moved to a table outside the bookstore in snowy weather," says Stephens. “De spite the cold we referred many buyers to sellers of books.” This term the Used Book Ex change set up a table in the EMU lobby. “People don’t think about books in the EMU,” Stephens says. They have filed a request for space in the bookstore, but so far there has been no response. “The exchange needs permanent office space where people know they can come and get service,” he savs. Photo *v- Greq Olark While less dedicated students celebrated the abnormal January sunshine by throwing fris bees and picking crocuses, Brad Wiedmaier decided that the rays could make even studying more pleasant. Doctor changes opinion on pill safety (CPS) — For more than ten years, manufacturers of the birth control pill have used the state ments of an assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School to discredit the worries of others about the medical safety of synth etic estrogens. But recently, the physician, Robert Kistner, has withdrawn his blessing, admitting that his earlier Page 8 Section A statements “cannot be substan tiated." Kistner said in an inter view with the Washington Post that the first studies had indeed shown a "statistically significant" relationship between use of the pill and abnormal blood clotting, but not a cause-effect relation ship. Meanwhile, Kistner's state ments that the drug had been ‘completely exonerated'' of caus ing blood clots were used in promotional materials by the makers of birth control pills. Kistner told the Post that he would retract his earlier state ments concerning the effect of the pill on cancer of the uterus as well. Kistner had originally claimed that in his experience, women using the pill had a “lower incidence” of endometrial cancer “than one might expect on the basis of chance alone." Kistner said he had cooperated with pill manufacturers because of his beliefs, not for any financial consideration. But now Kistner does not want to be associated with any pharmaceutical houses. “I don’t want to be an authority anymore,” Kistner said. Judge ousts press from Hearst trial SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Act ing at the request of both sides, a federal judge abruptly closed jury selection in the Patricia Hearst bank robbery trial to the press and most of the public Wednesday U S. Atty James Browning said during a lunch recess that the mo tion for exclusion was offered by the defense and joined by the government He said the defense objected to questioning of poten tial jurors about media influence before the jury was sequestered It wouldn't make much sense to question them in private if you were going to tell them what they weren't supposed to hear, Bailey told reporters. ASUO asks course info for booklet A booklet with course informa tion, faculty evaluations and “hopefully' book prices is now being compiled by the ASUO, ac cording to Peter Spratt, ASUO administrative assistant Spratt also said that Vern Earl been chosen to work on the pro ject and another co-director will be selected from applicants some time next week "I’m pleading with faculty mem bers to release the information to the ASUO . . . I won t publish any thing they don't want published, Spratt said The ASUO is also developing faculty and course evaluation forms which Spratt claims will be cheaper and better suited for University-wide use than the pre sent ones. The new forms will be available for use by departments that lack their own. Because of legislation last fall which requires faculty to provide course information to students, Spratt is optimistic about the suc cess of fhc spring term booklet Spratt emphasized that taculfy members should make sure that the information is about spring term classes, not winter. The date for return of the questionnaires is Feb. 20. Spratt said that students are needed to help work on the pro ject. The booklet, which will be free to students and financed by advertising, tentatively goes to the publisher on March 1. It will be available to students March 10-14. Thursday, January 29, 1976
