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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1978)
Red tape plagues school administrators By JOHN LUDWIG Of the Emerald Federal and state rules and policies are the number one cause of stress for Oregon school administrators, according to a re cent study. The study, entitled “Stress at the Desk and How to Cope,” was published in the December edition of the Oregon School Study Bulletin by Walt Gmelch and Boyd Swent. Gmelch is the assistant director of the Field Training and Service Bureau at the University, while Swent is the assistant superintendent of the Washington Inter mediate School District in Portland. Fifty per cent of all Oregon school ad ministrators, representing 1,156 members Stress areas outlined in study of the Confederation of Oregon School Ad ministrators, were surveyed by Swent and Gmelch for the study. Administrators were asked to rank on a scale of one to five the amount of stress that several job-related situations create. From results of the study, the researchers com piled a list of the 10 situations that create the most stress. Ranked second was the feeling that “meetings take up too much time," followed by the task of completing reports and other paperwork on time, gaining public approval of financial support for school programs, resolving parent-school conflicts, evaluat ing staff performance, making decisions that affect the lives of colleagues and stu dents, feelings overburdened by daily work, imposing excessively high self expectations and being frequently inter rupted by telephone calls. A pattern of "poor health related to "high occupational stress was also noted in the study. In another phase of the survey, adminis trators were asked to submit ideas on how to cope with stress. “Half the problem," Gmelch said, “is rec ognizing how to reduce stress ' Some activities to curb stress are jog ging, meditating, sharing problems with fel low workers and establishing realistic goals, he listed. There is no single answer to the problem of reducing stress, due to individual differ ences, but the best approach to the prob lem includes a combination of cognitive and physiological activities. “The results of the study," Gmelch said are applicable to administrators in other non-educational fields such as public ser vice bureaucracies and businesses that must also comply with federal rules and regulations. "In a nation-wide survey conducted by the U S. National Clearing House for Men tal Health Information, a $17 billion de crease in the productive capacity of work ers resulted from stress." Gmelch added. Eugene-Springfield group eyes changes in transportation plan Lane Coonty citizens may find their work day ending sooner if changes approved Saturday by the Eugene-Springfield Commun ity Meet are placed into the area's 2,000 Transportation Plan (T-2000). The 30-member group ap proved the goal of reducing the number of employes who leave their jobs at 5 p.m. by 20 per cent to decrease traffic congestion. The group also adopted a policy calling for the transportation plan to stay within revenue projections. Currently the T-2000 plan lacks revenue to implement the entire plan. But Eugene City Council member Scott Lieuallen voiced protest over adoption of this pol icy. “We should design transporta tion p'ans that we can’t pay for right now," Lieuallen, said. Lieuallen said the policy should be modified because a rumored funding of non-gasoline transpor tation systems by the federal gov ernment could make additional money available. Other approvals encouraged more retail, residential, commer cial and governmental uses in areas around transit transfer sys tems; the placement of benches, lighting, water fountains and pub lic restroom facilities along major pedestrian routes; and locating park and ride facilities, as well as major points of entry into the met area. ropolitan Music Steering Committee presents: FOOTNOTE Multi-Media Musical Group Dance-Satire-Original Music January 13 8 pm Beall Concert Hall Tickets $ 1 UO Students $2 General For more info (alt 686-5678 A series of deletions in the orig inal plan were also approved, em phasizing the use of highway funds to be used for other modes of transportation besides auto oriented ones. Additions to the T-2000 plan were also approved stressing the need for all-weather systems in Eugene's rainy climate, including covered bike-racks and bike transit stations. Specific highway and street proposals, which include deletion of the proposed 6th-7th Ave. Freeway, the 30-30 connector, and a proposed highway connect ing Springfield with the McVay Highway were not voted on. Recommendations and change finalized at the meeting will be presented at a joint planning commission hearing on the T-2000 plan, Jan. 19. The T-2000 plan, prepared by the Transportation Planning Committee of the Lane Council of Governments, presents policies and specific plans addressing transportation needs in the next 23 years. To gain federal funding the plan must be adopted by June 30. Be fore adoption the plan will be dis cussed in a series of public meet ings. Artwork shows positive outlook By SUSAN SCHLANGEN Of the Emerald The drawings and poems of children who lived in the Terezin Concentration Camp and were kil led by the Nazis are being dis played through Jan. 20 in an ex hibit titled “I Never Saw Another Butterfly" at the Campus Christian Ministry, 1414 Kincaid St. The Campus Christian Ministry and the Jewish Student Union are sponsoring the exhibit. Terezin was a small Czechos lovakian town until the Nazis transformed it into a model con centration camp. It was a show case for international dignitaries, humanitarians and the Red Cross, but it was also a holding tank for people who would die in the gas chambers of larger concentration camps. The exhibit is on loan from the Baltimore Jewish Council and is part of more than 4,000 drawings and poems held in the archives of the State Jewish Museum in Prague. The original works were given to the museum in 1952 by the wife of a man who taught the children of Terezin. Huneke described the exhibit as a ‘source of healing." He says, “People who view the exhibit can realize the children have left a message behind. The Nazis achieved a dark, desperate extreme, but the children left us with a creative, life-affirming ex treme." Huneke, who teaches holo caust literature in the Honors College, says he's disappointed in the "historical revisionism" of Nazi genocide. Knowledgeable people still refuse to believe what the Nazis did, he says, and they prop agate myths even though there is evidence to the contrary. "I want to extend a more loving and sympathetic attitude to the Jews and what they've been through,' says Dave Simpkins, also of the ministry. The purpose of the exhibit is to remind people what happened so it will never happen again, he says. The exhibit is free and can be viewed Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Group showings and discussions can be arranged by calling 484-1707. 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