Oregon women return from Nicaragua
group of nearly zu uregon
women returned Sunday from an
11-day visit to Nicaragua. The
women, guests of the Nicaraguan
government and AMNLAE, a
Nicaraguan women's organiza
tion, toured cooperative farms
and hospitals, and met with
government, labor and women's
groups.
The bipartisan group of educa
tional, legislative, business and
professional leaders included
joan Acker, a professor of
sociology at the University; Col
ette Craig, a University linguistics
professor; ASUO Pres. Mary Hot
chkiss; Oregon Daily Emerald
Editor Debbie Howlett; Eugene
realtor Bonnie Baker and Exten
sion Service Representative Carol
Culler of Oregon State Universi
ty
Highlights of the delegation's
trip included a meeting with the
Nicaraguan Minister of the In
terior, Tomas Borge, a tour of La
Prensa, the newspaper opposed
LTD passes,
tokens slated
for increase
A plan to make handicap service
a little more accessible and an im
pending increase for some fares
have kept Lane Transit District
administrators busy this sum
er.
On Oct. 1, prices for tokens will
increase from 45 cents to 50 cents,
a monthly "Fast Pass" will rise
from $18 to $20 a pass, and the
"UO Term Pass," originally $40
per quarter, will increase to
$44.
Regular fares of 55 cents and 25
cents for senior citizens and
children, will remain unchanged.
The rising cost of operating the
bus system was blamed for the
price increase, said Ed Bergeron,
LTD's marketing director.
The "UO Term Pass" price in
creased while the Lane Communi
ty College pass stayed nearly the
same partly because LCC's stu
dent government subsidizes the
passes.
The LCC pass is more popular
than the University pass, out
selling it 800 to 250 spring term,
the first term the plan was tried at
the University.
"LCC is sort of out in the boon
docks, there's no student housing
real close," Bergeron explained.
The other major change plann
ed in the LTD system is to provide
handicapped riders with more
"accessible" routes. The plan will
be implemented during the next
six months and will make 75 per
cent of LTD's routes accessible.
"We're undergoing an evolu
tion, increasing fixed route ac
cessibility," Bergeron said. "It's
much more convenient."
Dial-A-Bus will meld with two
other services, forming a "consor
tium" that will be managed by the
Lane Council of Governments,
Bergeron said. That service will
carry stricter guidelines for users,
said fudy Irwin, a public relations
intern with LTD.
"It's an ideal solution, a much
better solution than what we've
had before," Irwin said.
The plan, which is more cost ef
fective, will provide "better" ser
vice to handicapped riders, Irwin
said. The handicapped communi
ty, she added, has been involved
from the beginning of the plan
ning as well as during the design
stages.
Other projects in the works at
LTD include finding a solution to
the problem of traffic congestion
at the 13th Avenue and Kincaid
Street bus shelter.
One of the suggestions was
moving the shelter one block to
14th Avenue. That proposal was
rejected at an LTD board meeting
last August.
to the Sandinista government, and
official participation in
Nicaragua’s official independence
day ceremonies on Sept. 15th
The trip was the brainstorm of
two representatives of the
Nicaraguan Woman's Association,
who posed the idea while meeting
with Hendriksen and McFarland
this June.
The purpose of the trip, said
project coordinator Pat Wasp of
the Eugene Council for Human
Rights in Latin America, was to
provide educational-cultural ex
change despite — and because of
— the tense and volatile political
situation currently existing bet
ween Nicaragua and the United
States.
Specifically, the trip was intend
ed to give Oregon women a
firsthand perspective on the
Nicaraguan situation and ex
perience in foreign policy matters.
The Nicaraguan government,
ECHRLA and the individual
delegates aM contributed towards
financing costs for the Oregon
delegation, which is believed to
have been the first all-woman
group to be sent to Nicaragua
from the United States since
the Sandinista revolution in
1979.
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