Friday, February 12, 1982
Eugene, Oregon
Oregon daily
Volume 83
, Number 101
emerald
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Gifts, Vale
■' M lr^' ^Horlovers
lentine’s day are for 10
Gone are the days when
your sweetheart's love could
be captured with just a smile
Modern Juliets expect their
beaus to prove their undying
love with more than a gift of the
heart And with equal rights,
Romeos expect the same
thing
Today's Valentino can
choose from an array of com
mercial cards, mugs, boxes
and stuffed animals profes
sing one-of-a-kind love for that
special someone Yet. how
special is a mass-produced
cup with hearts on the handle?
And does your Valentine really
need another cutsie Teddy
Bear with the words "I wuv
you" emblazoned across its
chest7
For Cupid's sake, don't let
your Valentine be just another
heart in the crowd
A kiss may still be a kiss but
will it win your true love's
heart? Perhaps a pair of kiss
ing fish would catch her fancy
Sweets are still for the
sweet, though who can afford
$50 for that five pound box of
chocolates? The answer may
lie at The Candy and Corn
Shop in the City Center Mall
For about $2. you can present
your sugar with a heart of car
amel corn And if you want the
token of your love to last a wee
bit longer, how about a heart
shaped all-day sucker?
A dozen long-stemmed
roses may stand for eternal
love, but the price may break
you until your next paycheck
How about a bouquet of bal
loons instead? At Balloon Ex
press, they'll deliver a bunch
of red, pink and white helium
balloons to the one who makes
your spirits soar Prices begin
at $10 50
For other passionate folk
willing to invest more for in
dividuality, Blooms, 1167 Wil
lamette St., offers a single
heart balloon in a box for $12
Or is your Valentine an old
fashioned sort, who likes to be
wooed? How about a singing
telegram, complete with a sin
gle long-stemmed rose? For
$12, Blooms will send a
yodeler in tophat and tails to
serenade your sweet baboo
with an old-time love song of
your choice
Bloom's has something for
lovesick bar flies — a floral
arrangement in any beer bottle
with a dangling heart that
reads "Beer Mine”.
By Brenda Thornton
Photo by Eric Mason
IFC balks at IM’s funding
By Debbie Howlett
Ot ttf Emerald
The University's intramurals program may be
hitting the same shower that physical education
activities courses did when they were scrubbed a
few months ago
At least as tar as Mike Ellis, head of the
University Physical Education department, is
concerned
Ellis is upset that there might not be enough
money in the budget to cover the cost of in
tramurals next year In the past the P E depart
ment has assumed financial responsibility, at
least in part, for intramurals.
The problem of funding mtramurals goes
back as far as the regular state legislative session
which mandated that the University drop funding
for P E activities classes The University Assem
bly voted last November to expel the activities
requirement In order to maintain some activities,
the P E department developed the SHAPE pro
gram, which requires a "user' fee from the
participants
That solved the activity course problem but it
generated the intramural funding ruckus because
part of the money from activities classes, before
SHAPE, went to funding intramurals
"Intramural funding came straight out of the
P.E budget," says Ellis
In order to fund intramurals during 1982-83,
Ellis went to the Incidental Fee Committee
requesting about $57,000, which would have
provided almost half of the $116,000 needed to
fund the intramural program
"I'm mad as hell." says Ellis, pointing out that
the IFC is giving the athletic department $540,000
this year
While Ellis sings the budget blues, Karsten
Rasmussen, chairer of the IFC, agrees with Ellis,
at least philosophically.
Rasmussen says that he would rather see
money currently allocated to the athletic depart
ment re-routed to the recreation/intramurals
program
"If this committee had their way, so much
money would not go that way (to the athletic
department),' says Rasmussen.
But. Rasmussen adds, "They want us to bail
them out I don't necessarily feel that's cor
rect ”
For two years, we've been suggesting to the
administration that we re more than willing to
pick-up intramurals if the money came from the
athletic department funds," says Alan Contreras,
acting vice president of program administration
I would say that $30,000 would not be at all
out of line," adds Contreras
One of the possibilities towards reapportion
ing the money, says Rasmussen, may be to let the
students decide
"It's possible that we could explore the pos
sibility of increasing recreation/intramurals by X
amount of dollars if we decrease the athletic
department by X amount of dollars and submitting
that by itself to the student body for a vote "
Campus crime rate
declines 3 percent
The University's overall crime
rate surprised campus security
officials by decreasing 3 per
cent during the past six months,
at a time when crime rates at
large colleges nationwide in
creased 55 percent
“I’m pleased," says Sgt Rick
Allison of the Eugene Police
Department
"People are helping one an
other and working together to
try to decrease crime." But Alli
son adds that he's not letting
down his guard
The 3-percent decrease does
not include burglaries, which
occur when the victim and sus
pect never meet, such as when
the thief enters a dorm room
when the resident is not home
Burglaries at the University
increased 32 percent during the
past six months, but much of
that increase may be due to a
wave of burglaries this fall, Alli
son says Eugene police arrest
ed one suspect in those burg
laries, and campus security is
not having as many burglary
problems this term, he says
Allison says the University’s
crime decrease may be attribut
able partly to a 5-percent
decrease in Eugene's crime
wave, which is “totally out
of sync with the rest of the
world,”
One of the problem spots for
thefts on campus, the dormitor
ies, seem to be improving, Alli
son says Students are more
aware of the need for security
after an intensive fall campaign
to educate students about crime
problems, he says
Tight financial situations also
are making students more cau
tious with their property, Allison
says
Vandalized cars in parking
lots continue to be a problem,
especially in the large 15th
Avenue and Moss Street lot, he
says Vandals are not only
stealing from locked and un
locked cars, but also are
spray-painting cars and letting
air out of tires, Allison says,
adding that campus security is
trying to increase patrols in the
area