Oregon Daily
Emerald
Life after
a heart attack
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Wednesday, February 18, 1987
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 88, Number 102
Two Eugene men have filed a complaint against a newspaper ad paid for by the city of
Eugene. They claim the ad, a portion of which appears above, is not balanced.
Irate citizens protest airport ads,
ask for 'balanced' look at issues
By Dennis Fernandes
()f the Emerald
Two local residents have requested that the city
of Eugene withdraw informative advertisements
for the airport improvement bond, alleging that
“several issues are not given balanced
treatment.”
Richard Gold and Fergus McLean, both of
Eugene, complained about the ad in a letter to
Barbara Bellamy, the city’s director of informa
tion. The ad appeared in the Register Guard's
Feb. 15 edition and will continue every other
Sunday until the March 31 election.
Gold and McLean believe the ad should cease
running until "such balanced treatment of these
key issues is accomplished.”
The two men leveled their attack on the city’s
Turn to Airport, Page 4
Bill would cancel plans for
statewide semester system
By Chris Norred
Of the Kmrrald
The State Board of Higher
Education will not continue
with plans to adopt the semester
system at state colleges and
universities if a bill being
Legislative
issues
drafted in the Oregon House of
Representatives passes the state
Legislature.
The bill is sponsored by Rep.
Darlene Hooley, D-West Linn,
and would require state colleges
and universities to maintain the
current quarter system, rather
than changing to semesters in
1990 as the State Board decided
in )anuary.
The bill does not apply to the
Oregon Health Sciences Univer
sity or the University l.aw
School.
Hooley said she is introduc
ing the bill because of concerns
about the cost of changing to
semesters and because the State
Board did not coordinate the
change with other segments of
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Dix starts search for funds
to finance track renovation
By Randy Elliott
Of I hr Kmcrtld
State Rep. David Dix, D
Kugene. announced Tuesday in
Eugene that Wednesday even
ing will mark the beginning of
his attempts to establish financ
ing for a proposed bond
measure in the Oregon State
Legislature
The measure, if passed,
would fund the Hayward Field
renovation project.
The proposed bill, sponsored
by Dix. would allow the State
System of Higher Education to
issue $2 million worth of in
dustrial development bonds as a
moans of financing the renova
tion project, but does not
specify how the bonds would be
financed.
“Before we can issue those
bonds we have to prove to the
people who are going to buy
them that we have a way of pay
ing them off." Dix said.
Last week, Dix {imposed in
creasing ticket prices for
athletic events as one possible
means of financing the bond
measure, but some University
administrators are opposed to
that idea.
Turn to Dix, Page 4
Disorder causes victims to act in irrational manner
Counselors can treat
psychological problem
By Karen Creighton
(X Hm EawraM
Lady Macbeth, with her excessive
hand washing, may have suffered from
an anxiety disorder that still traps some
people in obsessive thoughts and com
pulsive behaviors.
Most students are familiar with occa
sional thoughts that won*t go away or
with the feeling that they need to duck
and double-check something important,
but theee aren't the kind of debilitating
obsessions and compulsions that plague
people with obsessive-compulsive
disorders.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is one
of the rarest of the behavior disorders,
occurring In about .05 percent of the
population, according to the text. "Ab
normal Psychology." by Gerald C.
Davison and John M. Neale. It is also
one of the hardest disorders to treat,
they said.
A person suffering from obsessions
experiences irrational, recurring
thoughts that feel uncontrollable and in
terfere with the person’s normal func
tioning. the text said.
Obsessions may include doubts.
Graphic by iwrtinr Rath
thoughts, impulses, fears or images, all
of them uncontrollable. One lawyer suf
fering from an obsessive impulse had a
powerful urge both to drink from an ink
pot and to strangle his apparently belov
ed son, the text said.
A compulsion is an irresistible urge to
repeat a ritual act again and again, even
though it is excessive or has no apparent
purpose. The sufferer fears dire conse
quences if the act is not performed, as in
the case of a woman who washed her
hands 500 times a day to ajleviate her
fear of germs, according to Davison and
Neale.
Compulsions also may involve
magical rituals. One woman chewed
each mouthful of food too times and
had her husband shake a teakettle and
frozen vegetables over her head, all to
remove germs.
Obsessive-compulsive disorders fre
quently strain family and social rela
tionships because of bizarre behaviors
that are hard to live with, the authors
said.
There is a distinction between com
pulsive disorders and addictions, said
Ed Lichtenstein, a University
psychology professor. Eating disorders,
drug and alcohol addictions, and smok
ing fall into the category of addictions
and excessive appetites, he said.
Self-esteem is frequently a major issue
with compulsive eating, smoking and
drinking, said Tom Boerman. a
Whitebird crisis counselor.
Boerman thinks of these as self
destructive rather than compulsive
behaviors and tries to discover why the
person is feeling self-destructive.
"It usually doesn’t take very long
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