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Emerald
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Wednesday, December 10. 1986
Eugene. Oregon
Volume 88. Number 70
Lettin ’ off some steam
University basketball coach Don Monson expresses dissatisfaction with a referee's
call during the first half of Tuesday night's game against iMinar University. The Ducks
beat the Cardinals 58-47 before a home crowd of 5,803. bringing their ret:ord to 3-2. See
related story, Page 12.
Photo by Michael Wilhelm
Budget Committee reviews
capital improvement plan
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The draft version of Eugene's
Capital Improvement I Tog ram
was opened to public comment
at a Budget Committee meeting
Tuesday night. The 143-page
document propose i m -
provements to be made during
fiscal years t‘187-92.
"The City has a dramatic
need to provide adequate fun
ding to preserve its existing in
frastructure: streets need
overlays, buildings need roofs
and IIVAC replacement, parks
need repairs to the sprinkler
system, deteriorated sewers
need to be replaced," said City
Manager Michael Gleason.
f ailure to maintain such pro
jects through adequate funding
is ultimately more expensive,
he said.
"If adequate preservation and
maintenance funding is not in
place, then the relatively inex
pensive preservation option
becomes a four to five times
more expensive reconstruction
problem," he said. "That is to
say. a street that isn't
periodically overlayed will
need to Ih> reconstructed, or a
roof that isn’t replaced will
develop leaks and structural
damage.”
"There are approximately
$m l million worth of projects in
the draft,” said kirk McKinley,
a planning staff member. "Ap
proximatelv $IH million of that
consists of proposed bonds and
levies."
Projects that were discussed
included the expansion of the
Kugene airport, the relocation
or expansion of the library and
the Fin* Redeployment Plan,
which would include the
relocation of several emergency
stations.
Tuesday's hearing marked
the Budget Committee's first
public hearing ever on the CIP"
McKinley noted. "In previous
years, the Planning Commis
sion and the City (’.ouncil held
public hearings, and the coun
cil forwarded the first year of
the CIP to the Budget Commit
tee as the proposed capital
budget
Three members of the public
were on hand to comment on
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Attacks women’s issues from feminist perspective
Feminists' ideas differ on direction of movement
By Shawn Wirtz
Of the Emerald
From the strong but singular voice of the
National Organization for Women, the
feminist movement has launched into a
sometimes disharmonious chorus. Rather than
focusing on feminism itself, the movement is
attacking women's issues from a feminist
perspective.
“At first the thrust was that women be
given the same opportunities as men." said
Mimi Johnson, director of the University
Center for the Study of Women in Society.
Now feminists "are concerned with
poverty and single mothers, lesbian rights and
perhaps more oriented to issues of women out
side the corporate structure," she said.
There are a lot of different ways to pro
ceed. said Betsy Brown, a Journalist with the
Feminist Press in Eugene "The more things
we hit the patriarchy with the more likely it is
to crumble.” she said.
"Some people want to work within the
system, and other people want to do local
radical changes that have to do with basic
societal attitudes." said Barb Ryan, volunteer
coordinator at Rape Crisis Network.
Ryan believes coalitions of domestic and
sexual violence victims are "on the front
lines” of feminism, in contrast to NOW'S
legislative emphasis, she said.
"Women are being co-opted by the
masculine style of type-A personality that
leads to heart attacks," said Jean Rubel. presi
dent of Anorexia Nervosa and Related Hating
Disorders.
In rebellion, women are saying, "Could
we not look at feminine contributions and
strengths, could we look at more synthesis and
less analysis, and could we do it in a network
ing rather than hierarchical way." Rubel said
In a sense, the women's movement has
spread its roots underground. "It's a lot of per
sonal contacts." said Barbara Pope, director of
the University Women’s Studies Program.
The mass media rarely deal with the
whole range of feminist issues, so many
feminists rely on a network of feminist
newspapers and bookstores, Brown said.
’’Who controls the newspapers, the
publishing houses, the magazines? Whose
editorial judgment decides who is going to get
published? It's not women, and it's most par
ticularly not feminist women." Brown said
"The media don't do very much in-depth
about anything."
Because it’s easy, journalists contact NOW
as the official feminist voice, giving legitimacy
to the organization and perpetuating other
journalists’ reliance on NOW as a source, she
said.
"People depend for their power on peuple
not looking too deeply into what’s going on.”
Brown said.
Feminists also are relying on networking
in the academic arena. In Washington, D C.,
the American Council on Education's Office of
Women in Higher Education recommends
women for the more than 300 presidential
searches conducted yearly, according to a Dec.
3 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Bernice Sandler of the Association of
American Colleges "fields thousands of re
quests a year from women seeking help on pro
blems ranging from sexual harassment to hir
ing disputes." the article states.
"It’s the new girls’ — 1 should say new
women’s — network," Sandler said. "Because
we look at the whole picture, we're in a posi
tion where we can pul women in touch with
other women."
W'hile many feminists admit gains have
been made, they believe new approaches will
further feminist goals that have made little
progress.
"We need the optimism of ‘Yes, things are
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