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ADULT STUDENT HOUSING INC. ASHLANE APTS 475 Lindale Dr. 747-5411 • Bus service to campus • Carpets & drapes • Children welcome • Recreation room • Laundry facilities • Furnished apts available 1 and 2 bedrooms available o$10250 I \J mm per monl * equal housing opportunity * includes all utilities except electricity Trial contraceptive sale set By UNDA CHAPMAN Of the Emerald Non-prescriptive contracep tives will be sold in the University Bookstore on a trial basis begin ning Sept. 1. Sales will be re viewed January 1977 to deter mine the “economic feastoility'' of stocking the items on a permanent basis, according to Bookstore manager Gerald Henson. When asked about anticipated pubic reaction to the new pro ducts, Henson said the Bookstore had problems in the past re garding the sale of “certain” magazines, but added “intelligent parents wil know that contracep tives are for their children’s own good.” Henson and assistant manager Jim Wiliams consider the Book store a “leader” as “one of the first university bookstores" to take ad vantage of a law implemented last September in Oregon al lowing non-prescriptive con traceptives to be sold in any store or business. Sale of such items was previously limited to premises with a pharmacist’s license, or under certain condMorts, in ven ding machines. Planned Parenthood Director Kaye Turner credrts Margaret Hal let, of the local Planned Parent hood, for the May 27 decision by the University Bookstore Board of Directors to add non-prescriptive contraceptives to their product line. Henson said six months of discussion preceded the recent decision and that two board mem bers are uncertain about the pol icy. According to Henson, campus community need for convenient access to contraceptives was created by the disappearance of Drawing by Tracy T»y*w Claypooi’s Pharmacy on 13ti Av enue, which went out of business last year. Neither of the two groceiy stores closest to campus have any definite plans to stock non prescriptive contraceptives in the near future. The management of the 7-11 store at 131h Avenue and Aider Street agreed contracep tives should be available in groc ery stores, but expressed no in terest in stocking the items until demand becomes evident in the form of a pubic request. As yet, according to a spokesman for the local market, no such requests have been made. Dale Turpin, manager of McKay's Market on Franklin Blvd., “couldn't say whether or not " birth control items will be sold in the future, but admitted he had “no plans" to stock them immediately. When asked why, he said, they're not in the order guide." Turner said some grocers think contraceptives are “too personal an item" for open sale, but added that she remembered when it was necessary to ask a pharmacist for a tampon. Now feminine hygiene items are stocked beside Kleenex, she observed. Turner is interested in stimulating interest in the issue, especially on campus, and en courages people to suggest that merchants stock contraceptives. Grocers “won't do it until they're demanded," she explained. Expert Racket Stringing Tennis Strings Imperial Gut, Superb Gut, Super Blue Star, Blue Star, Staytite Nylon, Servus Nylon, Leoina Sheep “66” Fast 24 Hour Service Tennis Rackets by: Head, PDP, Prince, Yonex, Davis, Dunlop, and Wilson BERGS NORDIC SPORT SHOP 11th a Mill 343-0013 Do., Eugene claims kinship Katmandu official sister-city By BRIAN HAARSTICK Of the Emerald The idea of referring to twin metropolitan areas as “sister cities” is an old practice in the Northwest. There’s Portland Vancouver, Seattle-Tacoma, Eugene-Springfield and ... Eugene-Katmandu. Katmandu? Strange as it may seem, Kat mandu, Nepal is in fact Eugene's official sister-city. Indeed the rela tionship is an odd one. Visitors be tween the two cities are hard pressed to find similarities other than the fact that Rhododendrons are local to both areas. Relations between the two cities began in 1955 when Oregon education professor Hugh Wood was invited to Katmandu by a Nepalese friend. At the time Wood was studying in India on a Ful bright scholarship. When he returned to Oregon Wood contacted the federal gov ernment for help in establishing a teachers’ college in Katmandu. Under provisions of the foreign aid program the State Department supplied educational materials such as books and lab equipment. The program was designed as a dual educational exchange. Thirty-eight Nepalese students came to Eugene and studied at the University. In return three Oregon professors traveled to Katmandu to plan the administra tive groundwork for the teachers' college. By founding the teachers' col lege, the University contingent fostered a monumental period in the history of Nepalese education. The college functioned as a core of what later developed into Tribu van University, the heart of Nepalese higher education. Scat tered campuses in remote areas were united to form a cohesive university. Tribuvan now features such departments as law and economics, and future plans call for forming science programs. Many Nepalese graduates of Oregon aspired to prominent positions upon returning to their homeland. Included are the minis ter of education, minister of com munications, the ex-foreign minis ter and the present Nepalese am bassador to France. Despite a long-standing friend ship between Katmandu and Eugene, the concept of a sister city program didn't begin until Oc tober 1975. Robert Dodge, former Oregon professor and regional representative of Sister Cities In ternational, visited Katmandu and presented the idea to Mayor JuJu Bhai Rajbhandari. A letter from Rajbhandari to Eugene Mayor Les Anderson supported Dodge's proposal. The Eugene City Coun cil unanimously approved the proposal and appointed the sister-city committee. Many of the committee mem bers are Oregon professors who have traveled to Nepal. Three Nepalese students at Oregon are also committee members. Stu dent member DeePak Nath Up raity is the son of the Nepalese ambassador to France. Oregon physics professor Francis Dart is the committee chairer. Dart was a member of the three man party which initially founded the teachers college. While University personnel have been dominant in promoting the sister-city program. Dart resides over committee affairs with a city to-city policy. “The program is more concer ned with the Eugene community and not strictly the University,’’ remarks Dart. “We re interested in the people's desire to get acquain ted with one another. This is a cul tural exchange program for the benefit of people in Eugene. We re not involved with a huge fi nancial sort of thing.” Dart is hoping for a Nepalese art exhibit to be displayed in Eugene high schools this fall. Another as pect of the program calls for an exchange of Rhododentrons bet weens Mayors Anderson and Ra jbhandari. Anderson climbed in the Nepalese Himalayas two years ago and plans to return for a climb sometime this fall. In the coming years Eugene parks will feature some interesting signs of the sister-city program. Rhododendrons from Katmandu grow to be 40 feet tall. Tiiowrifiv .Iulv 1U7A
