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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1987)
New fundraising drive for UES directed at faculty By Cami Swanson Of tha Kmcrald As pari of their goal to raise money for the University of El Salvador, the UO/UES Sister University Project is sponsoring "Teach a Day for El Salvador.” a fund raising drive aimed at University faculty, GTE and administrators. Members of the project will be contacting faculty and staff today and asking instructors to donate a day's salary, or part of a salary, to help fund the reconstruction of the UES Medical School. The month long program will conclude on May 29. when all the donations collected by the Sister Universi ty Project will be wired directly to the UES. Kandy MacDonald, ASUO Student Senate chairman and member of a delegation that traveled to El Salvador in January, said the Sister Univer sity Project has a goal of raising $2.1)00 by the end of spring term. The project has raised $1,200 since March. $1,000 of which has already been sent to the IIES. Approximately 60 percent of the money raised by the project goes to support the medical school, MacDonald said. "Before 1980, the University of El Salvador had the finest medical school in Central America.” he said. On June 26. 1980. members of the Salvadoran Armed forces invaded the UES. killing 60 students and faculty while 40 others disappeared. The military occupied the Universi ty for four years, during which the school was severely damag ed. The University was official ly reopened in May, 1984 "In 1984. the University was devastated. For example, of the 500 microscopes working before, maybe 15 were of salvageable condition," Mac Donald said. The remaining 40 percent of the money raised by the Project goes to support the UES Library, which was damaged in an October. 1986, earthquake in San Salvador, the nation's capital. MacDonald said. Robyn Braverman. who ac companied one of the first delegations to El Salvador after the UES reopened in 1984. estimated that the total amount of aid given to the UES since the project was started in the fall of 1985 is "at least $10,000.” She said the main sourse of monetary aid is through bake sales. "We are the bake sale champs!" she said. Besides providing a source of funding for the UES, which receives only enough money from the government to pay the salaries of its teachers, the Pro jet:! is working to increase awareness of the situation in El Salvador. Braverman added. "That's what we re trying to promote. Autonomy in educa tion. freedom of education and democracy in El Salvador. We want to send a message to El Salvador and to the rest of the U S. that we're paying atten Strike Continued from Page 1 Eugene High School during the first Eugene teacher strike in 1979. Mirons, who has two younger sisters attending SEHS. said she photocopied and distributed 000 fliers declaring an S O S. (Support Our Students) on Thursday. Fliers went up at three high schools, she said, asking students to begin wear ing the arm bands every day. everywhere they go, until a set 11ement is reached in negotiations. Hiroru said she hopes the arm bands will draw attention to the plight of the students and away from 'teachers and replacement teachers screaming obscenities at each other and being arrested." The flier states. "The time has come to stop holding 4-J students hostage Support the students: wear a yellow arm band." According to Mirons, the arm tiands are reminiscent of those Americans wore in support of freeing U S. hostages in Iran in 1979 and 1980. This time, the hostages aw the Eugene students. Mirons said. "It is far past the time to try to assess blame. That’s not impor tant anymore," she said. "What's important now is that the students' futures are being jeopardized. No one has the right to use the students as a political tool." Mirons also chose the arm bands to symbolize a peaceful yet visible form of protest that will keep the students in line with school policy. "There's been a lot of students who have been organizing walkouts and boycotting classes, and that s only harming themselves," she said, calling her idea both positive and constructive Fliers were posted at South Eugene, Koosevelt Middle School and Spencer Butte Mid dle School, where students con structed temporary arm bands out of about 20 rolls of yellow crepe paper. university SUNNY SERVICE Foreign & Domestic Cars Specializing in Volvo and Vo'kswagen • Major & Minor Repairs • ASE Certified Technicians 1905 Agate St. • 344-0669 Jusl a few blocks from campus on the corner of Agate and 19th lion." she said. "What we are trying to do is to reach out to the entire University community and get the University involved in the Sister University Project." add ed MacDonald The Project has sponsored two delegations that have traveled It) El Salvador. ASUO President Steve Nelson and five other students went to El Salvador last summer, while MacDonald and former Record Editor Lisa Loving traveled there in January According to Braverman, each delegation that travels to El Salvador delivers approximately $300 to UES from the Project's fundrais ing activities In the latest trip to El Salvador. Garth Cheff. a GTF in the Spanish Department, recently accompanied a 38-member delegation and delivered $350 to the UES from the Sister University Project. Cheff. who once lived in El Salvador, served as a translator TAN 10 visits $25 Th* look you Ilk* tof th* look lh*n iov* SunShowcr on caimpus oum-tiii '*» by Ambm* during the trip. The delegation included two other Eugene residents. Bill Lutz and Pam Wood del I and people from eight other states. During their stuv in HI Salvador, which lasted from April 26 t») May 4. the delegates from the West Coast visited two cooperative farms and par ticipated in a May Day march in Santa Ana. May l.st is the legal labor Day of El Salvador, said Lutz, who was the coordinator of the Oregon and Washington delegates On that day. he said, demonstrations are held throughout the country. Lutz estimated that approximately 1 (MM) Salvadorans participated in the demonstration in Santa Ana and between f>0 and 70.(MM) demonstrated in San Salvador, the country’s capital. "Wo were in the march and the reason we were there was to make a statement against North American intervention,” Lutz said He stressed that North American, amt particularly the United States, presence at demonstrations was important because it offered an eyewitness account on what was happening in El Salvador and also provid ed some security for the demonstrators "(The military) can t afford to mess around" when there is a threat that Americans will also he hurt. Lutz said However, (’huff said that the National Police are not above applying •psychological pressure." "They didn’t have a search warrant, and when you looked outside of the hotel, you could see a whole row of soldiers." he said. 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