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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1981)
Drug Information Center cut back By DANE CLAUSSEN Of Hw EmaraM Despite funding cuts, the University’s Drug Information Center, at 1763 Moss St., set a record for the number of client contacts and services provided in a year, Director Mark Miller says The center's report for the 1980-81 fiscal year, says it served more than 19.000 clients and distributed more than 32,000 copies of publications in 31 counties Founded in 1972, the center serves agencies and individuals around the state and University students as an information, education, and referral center Despite the numbers served, Miller says the center is — like almost all organizations on campus — feeling the pinch Calling the budget cuts "gross,' Miller says his staff has been slashed from 11 to 4 full time and one half-time staff members by two cuts the past year To compensate, staff members are taking work home at night But, being overworked has increased the need for vacation time to prevent "brain drain,” Miller says The center has had to stop research projects, limit its pub lishing, and stop production of its ‘ OPEN'' newsletter and educational videotapes In ad dition, the center can no longer photo-copy materials, analyze drugs, nor speak to groups free of charge Miller says the number of drugs being analyzed is now less than 50 per year as com pared to "several hundred" when the service was free It used to be the way we could show students how they were being ripped off.” Miller says of drug analysis ~emu Cultural Forum Presents Weekly Jazz Gig 6 Spaghetti Feed *1.50* buys a plate of Spaghetti, garlic bread, tossed green salad and beverage. 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Mirr j: LIFT Film Sale Sale ends 10 31 81 day film developing service !**>« l ~ i « 4 * 1 . i 1 <i i p t - * * Sale $1.97 Reg $2.59 UO Bookstore 13th & Kincaid Mon-Fri 8:15-5:30 Sat 10:00-5:30 Textbooks *44-3520 • Geneial Books MM-3510 • Supplies M4-4331 BOOKSTORE Students, who remain anon ymous, are given details over the phone by the center on how to send drugs they want an alyzed to Farm Chemical Labs in Miller says Oregon is better than most states with respect to its drug laws, but adds the state is less liberal than many think. California The drugs are never on the DIC's premises, Miller says The center does not counsel and does not encourage drug use. Miller adds He explains workers are prevented by the center's charter from doing either and provide only well documented facts lC^> & . A ^ * J Although it began as an ASUO agency, it grew and soon was ottered funding from sever al counties and the state Cur rent sources of funding are the ASUO. Lane County, the state mental health division, and the University Miller stresses that the staff does not have time to actively solicit funds from institutions such as Oregon State University that utilize the center's services Despite responsibility to all of its funding sources, the graduate school's Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects, and the University's Grants and Research Office, Miller says the center has more autonomy than most ASUO programs He explains this is because its work is with "infor mation. not advocacy " Miller criticizes the state for being "willing to spend millions on treatment but not on educa tion and prevention " He says Oregon is better than most states with respect to its equitable drug laws, but adds that the state is less liberal than many citizens think He says that a recent poll of Oregonians concluded that fol lowing tax relief, dealing with drug abuse is their next priority The future looks brighter for funding though. Miller says He explains that legislators have realized they made a mistake by cutting funds for drug educa tion and abuse prevention pro grams and that "the center will begin to recoup some of its losses " When it can afford to, the center will probably resume production of information sheets and pamphlets although block grant proposals will be written to most closely match guidelines, Miller says "No one knows where the next cuts are coming from," Miller says o* Reagan's plans tc lessen the federal budget further, explaining that today's prospects for the future may not come true College alters curriculums »yOEMMC HOWLETT Robert Berdaht, dean of the arts and science* coWege. ta»o racu»ty memodfS tnar n» wws a cm we Hicn croons auftfig niifiifw# oecauaeot recem tHiaviet cuts JpK3 nmimmk to< even further reduction* Addressing 75 faculty members at a ’ state of the college' address Tuesday. Berdahi said "the college is bleeding, but alive and wed.*' Among the meeting s activities, the faculty passed a motion favoring changes tn the Economics and Humanities Departments subtracting nine credit hours in economics and adding nine credit hours in humanities. The changes add more open-ended courses to the curriculum* white diminish ing some more specific courses The re-arrangement of classes prompted a lot of discus sion from the audience concerning the viability" of some humanities offerings Jim Boren an associate professor of English, said the validity of a proposed class, an offering entitled Medieval History as Drama had been questioned Department head, Steve Lowenstam said similar courses had been offered and he saw no problems with the current proposal Boren said the class, which deals with varied topics should be ottered at the 200 level rather than the 300 level Boren says students in such an open-ended class don t have sufficient Knowledge of the medieval period to warrant credit at that level Robert Grudin, an associate professor of English, said the verbal volley was an inter-departmental squabble that should be resolved within the department The meeting also brought suggestions from DicK Hearsh associate dean of the college of education, to raise money from the private sector for graduate and undergraduate grants
