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
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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
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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
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Robert Berdaht, dean of the arts and science* coWege.
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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