Women’s caucus
picks candidates
The Oregon Women’s Political
Caucus endorsed 1978 primary
candidates Bob Straub, Jim
Weaver and Tom McCall Wed
nesday during a morning press
conference.
The organization, representing
10,000 people around the state,
based their endorsements on the
candidates viewpoints of
women's issues and what their of
fice record has been in supporting
women’s issues.
Specific issues in which candi
dates were judged included the
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA),
the boycott of other states who
have not ratified the ERA, abortion
and tax-exempt statuses for or
ganizations that prohibit female
membership.
Straub was chosen for his ap
pointment of nearly 300 women to
state boards and commissions
and his stand on state-funded
abortions. McCall was picked be
cause he favored individual
choice for abortion.
In some races, no candidates
met up to the group’s standards,
resulting in no endorsements for
that race.
Other choices were Nellie Fox,
political director of the AFL-CIO,
for State Labor Commissioner
and Ruth McFarland for state
school superintendent.
Watching the
River Flow
By Steve Dodge
Abigail Van Buren, “Dear
Abby’’ to most people, isn’t known
for her informal attitude towards
sex. In fact, in a pamphlet being
sent out to teenagers (and par
ents) who request it, Abby has
some rather explicit dating advise:
“Boys: help your date with her
coat, always! When walking, you
are always on the outside.
“Girls, don’t let a fellow hug and
kiss you in public. It’s in poor taste
and it tends to disgust onlookers.
Not to mention how it cheapens
your reputation.
“Don't clown, shout or wrestle.
It’s unladylike.
“Girls, don’t use vulgar lan
guage or tell risque stories. You
may get a big laugh from the
crowd but deep down they are si
lently marking you down.”
And to both: “Prolonged kissing
whets the appetite and warms up
the engine. Once that engine’s
warmed up, its rugged to turn it
off.”
“A wet kiss, boys, may prove
repulsive to your date. Leave her
high and dry. Please.
“Girls: don’t be in the house
a'one with your date when no one
is home. Always try to double date
or be in a crowd.”
The pamphlet, entitled “What
Teenagers Want to Know” carries
a 1967 copyright.
In other sex news, Screw
magazine has been ordered to
stop depicting the Pillsbury
"Doughboy” and "Doughgirl” en
gaged in sexual acts.
U.S. District Judge William C.
O’Kelly issued the temporary in
junction following a complaint by
Pillsbury that the mock ad carried
in Screw is “uncompromisingly
obscene in its totality, and is the
antithesis of wholesomeness and
decency” the company attempts
to project.
The complaint said Pillsbury
has spent "at least” $70 million to
develop the wholesome image of
the doughboy and girl and was
loath to see them “joining in vari
ous sexual activities including an
act which is a crime against na
ture.”
The doughpeople were re
ported heading towards Las
Vegas (as they are under age)
and were unavailable for com
ment.
A survey conducted at
Oregon State University recently
revealed some interesting opin
ions on what today's college stu
dents are looking for in a mate,
according to a recent OSU
Barometer story.
The survey of 165 OSU stu
dents listed mutual attraction as
the leading personal quality
looked for, followed by intelli
gence, emotional stability, ambi
tion and health.
The results were then paired
against a similar study done in
1939 which listed as its top five:
dependability, emotional stability,
nice disposition, mutual attraction
and health.
Political similarity was ranked
18th or dead last in both surveys.
New diet program stresses
group support, counseling
There are very few fat and
jolly people walking the streets
of Eugene, says Tony Cubito of
the Eugene Counseling and
Education Services.
Most overweight people in
the city aren’t happy with
themselves; that’s why they’re
overweight, Cubito says. That
may change.
Cubito, who heads the
Counseling and Education
Services program, explains the
only way to help overweight
people is to make them more
aware of their feelings for
themselves and to help them
understand that overeating
won’t solve their situation.
Most overweight people
tend to dislike themselves, he
says, and that dislike could
lead many of them to turn to
something outside of them
selves that gives them pleas
ure. Most of the time that
‘ something’’ is food, Cubito
says
“A great deal of overweight
people are quite self-critical,”
he says. “They don’t like some
thing about themselves so they
run to something that will make
them feel better. Like food.”
The food, Cubito says,
doesn’t make them feel better
about themselves, but it does
provide pleasure.
Through a new diet program
Cubito has developed that de
pends mainly on counseling
and group support for over
weight people, Cubito hopes to
make those people feel better
about themselves.
The program, which will hold
its first introductory meeting
Monday in the Wesley Center
at 10 a.m., is designed to give
overweight people who have
tried and failed with diets to un
derstand why they overeat,
Cubito says.
“We try to help the over
weight people to understand
that if you tend to be self-critical
you create bad feelings inside
your body,” he says. Those
bad feelings cause people to
overeat and can be eased
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through counseling.
“If a person learns to stop
criticizing him or herself they’ll
more than likely stop overeat
ing,” Cubito says.
The counseling, Cubito
says, will be held in a group
session two times a week and
include a lecture and mental
exercise format.
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