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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1978)
CARES provides referral service By CINDY MOL Of the Emerald The appearance is anything but clin ical. A country song comes on the radio as a woman with long brown hair takes one last puff from her cigarette — the phone rings: “CARES Referral Service, may I help you?” Her expression doesn’t change as she replies, “Yeah, all right. She’s at Sacred Heart Hospital? How badly beaten was she this time? The volunteer hangs up the phone and quickly lights another cigarette. It was a typical Monday night at CARES Referral Services, a general referral service and crisis intervention system. The program offers counsel ing 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It also supplies information and referral services to anyone in Lane County. The office is always busier during the winter: it’s suicide season. “This is partially due to the weather,” says Michael Boggs, a staff member. But the holiday season normally brings in a predictable rise in depression, he adds. CARES attempts to link citizens to a variety of social and health services, according to Program Director Carol Henderson. It provides information to about 350 social service agencies and referrals to approximately 250 mental health pro viders. The program serves about 2,000 people every month, free of charge. 2,000 helped each month Reasons for people contacting CARES vary greatly. One caller may want to know how to get food stamps and the next how to start his car. For some complex problems, a client may have to be referred to other agencies. I CARES staff members are required to treat all phone calls as legitimate, unless it is an obvious prank call. Sometimes a person will call several times and hang-up until he decides that he likes the sound of a staff Emerald Graphic member’s voice and finally speaks. CARES also employs volunteers who take on many of the respon sibilities of regular staff members. Each volunteer must go through a 70-hour training program, which is four hours a week and lasts from six to eight weeks. Unlike the training programs of some social services, the CARES program is free of charge. Volunteers must be high school graduates and have six months of ex perience in social services before be coming a regular employee of CARES. Most CARES employees are over qualified for their jobs because of the high unemployment rate in Eugene, according to Boggs. Boggs said he was “scared to death” the first time he had to handle a potential suicide case. “I said to another employee, here you take this call," adds Boggs. It took a tot of growing up before he was able to handle suicide in a relaxed manner. “You have to view suicide as simply one of the options open to a person who needs a solution to a problem. The worst thing a person could do would be to panic,” says Boggs. He also says sympathy is the wrong route. “Sympathy tells a person that they have a reason to feel bad.” Anyone who wishes to contact CARES may visit the office on 170 E. 11th Ave. in Eugene, or call CARES at 687-4000, or toll-free in Lane County, 1-800-452-7041. University professor to translate ‘Beowulf By MELISSA HILTON Of the Emerald Remember reading “Beowulf’? In the future students may read a new poetic translation of that Anglo-Saxon epic by Stanley Greenfield, University English professor. He has been elected a visiting fellow at Emmanuel College of Cambridge University in England. Greenfield’s project there tor Easter Term 1979 will be to create a translation of the Old English poem, “Beowulf’. “What I want to achieve in my poetic translation is something that’s modem, and yet an accu rate reflection of the Old English poetic experience of “Beowulf, Greenfield explains. “And I want it to be a poem that can be read and appreciated by a modem audience that knows no thing of Old English, as well as by scholars in the field.” According to Greenfield, “there are a couple of good prose transla tions, but there is no good poetic translation of “Beowulf,’ or of other Old English poems. His dis satisfaction with existing poetic translations leo him to invent a new metrical scheme for the trans lation of Anglo-Saxon poetry. Last year he presented his sys tem and some translations at a symposium on Old English style held at the University of California-Los Angeles. Prof. Peter Clemoes, a scholar in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic studies at Emmanuel College, Performance.. .the ultimate Criterion!! LUXMAN R-1050 AM/FM STEREO RECEIVER - 55 watts per channel at .05% distortion At Lux the ultimate concern is the way a component sounds under dynamic musical conditions, not just the way it measures during static lab tests. Thompson’s invites you to hear a receiver with such impeccable breeding and quality that it is anything but ordinary. THOMPSON’S ELECTRONICS 11th A OAK 343-9273 Eugene's Most Respected Audio Store Since 1936 also attended the symposium. Clemoes nominated Greenfield for the honor of a visiting fellow ship at Emmanuel College. Greenfield welcomes this op portunity to combine creativity and critical scholarship. “When I was an undergraduate at Cornell," he says, “I used to write poetry which was really terri ble. I haven't written any poetry since, until now in the poetic trans lations. So in a way I’m coming back to the creative side of me which has been bottled up since I was a teenager in college." Until last year, Greenfield’s primary accomplishments were in the teaching and criticism of Old and Middle English poetry and prose. One of the country’s foremost Anglo-Saxon scholars, he has published four books and numerous articles. He has just completed a new book in collaboration with Prof Fred C. Robinson of Yale Univer sity, to be titled “A Bibliography of Writings on Old English Literature from the Beginnings through 1972.” It will be published this summer by the University of To ronto Press. Greenfield’s fellowship at Em manuel College will be his fourth honor involving study in Europe. In 1965-1966, he studied in Lon don on a Guggenheim fellowship and lectured at Senate House University College. In 1970-1971 he was awarded an NEH Senior Fellowship to work in England, and produced his book “The Interpretation of Old English Poems” (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972). In 1974-1975, he had a teaching Fullbright Scho larship at the University of Re gensburg in Germany. Teaching has also been impor tant to Greenfield, from introduc tory literature to graduate courses in Old English. In 1963, he won the Erstead Award for Excellence in Teaching. “I’m a firm believer in the fact that good scholarship and good teaching go hand in hand,” Green field insists. ‘‘It’s been a pleasant life,” Greenfield summarizes. "I enjoy teaching, I enjoy my scholarship.” Now he is looking forward to a third field of endeavor: the poetic translation of Old English poetry. DUCK DOLLAR DISCOUNTS Balia Monday, February 6
