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County's 1987-88 budget expands health services By Alicia Gano Ot a» fin inH Funding for a new county epidemiologist was tentatively gained Tuesday night when the Lane County Budget Com mittee approved the county's 15(87-88 budget. The budget now moves to the laine County Board of Commissioners The county has requested an epidemiologist for the last several years to coordinate a communicable disease program, but could not get the funding, said |eanette Bobst. program manager for Public Health, a division of the county's Health and Human Services department Bobst attributed this to poor economic conditions within the county and said other health department staff have bi*en haphazardly handling problems in the area of communicable disease for the last several years Hepatitis outbreaks in lane County have soared in the last two years, and the problem of AIDS is now becoming a grave concern. Bobst said The epidemiologist would "problem solve and develop control measures" for all com municable diseases within the county including tuber culosis. venereal diseases and giardia. she added Hit! epidemiologist would assist county neaun ad ministrators with other non-communicable diseases, in cluding toxic shock syndrome, luctardous waste problems and pesticides, when they pose health hazards, she said With approximately one million dollars more in county funds available this year. Bobst thinks its hopeful the board of commissioners will approve their request for the epidemiologist atid staff support The additional funds result from federal timber revenues the county will receive this year, called O N C funds, accor ding to ken Champion, administrative services officer for the Department of Health and Human Resounds. The transfer of O & C funds to counties originated with a railroad that ran between Oregon and California on lands pro vided from federal grants Eventually the railroad went under and the government took back the land, consolidated it and gave it to the Bureau of land Management to manage for timber. Champion said. As the timiter was harvested and sold. 50 percent of the proceeds went Ink k to the surrounding counties to offset pro perty taxes they lost after the land was no lunger privately owned. Champion said. Over the last year more timber has been harvested by contractors who bought the timber al lower bid prices and were able to sell it at a profit. Champion said lame County’s budget typically contains anywhere from $H to $10 million in () A C funds. Champion said But this year, because of I letter economic conditions, the county has an extra $1 million to spend on needed services Qr—k GYROS Sandwich $2.25 —_ ho) put btmd. . mil STIirr IT MTUt • 1211 AMm 40* VofcM TAN 10 visits $25 air conditioned Harassment policies are topic of forum By Michael Rivers (>f Mm> KmerftM The University Committee on the Status of Women is asking for public input on proposed changes in University policies on sexual harassment at an open forum today. The committee plans to pre sent what it sees as problems in current policies and proposed solutions to those problems. The forum is the result of a re quest made by President Paul Olum in December asking the committee to pinpoint problems with, and to propose changes to, the University’s sexual harassment policies. "The purpose of the forum is for us (the committee) to bring in front of interested persons at the University our proposals and to get input from them on the ideas we have." said assis tant geography Professor Pat McDowell, who chairs the committee After receiving Olum's re quest. the committee began its task by dividing into three sub committees dealing with rules, policies and procedures, and education and public awareness. McDowell said. The subcommittees, each of which have met at least three to six times in the last three months, researched the issue by talking to people on campus, looking for previous documents or studies on sexual harassment and talking to people at other colleges and universities, she said. “It turns out there’s a lot of literature on sexual harass ment." McDowell said, adding that the literature dealt with sexual harassment in almost every conceivable environment, whether it was on campuses or in the workplace. McDowell hopes public input at the forum will serve to point out any areas the committee may have overlooked in its research or what the proposed solutions may lack, she said. The committee plans to incor porate input from the forum in to-a “real rough draft" of ideas it has come up with so far. McDowell said. When the com mittee continues its work in the fall, it will try to formulate those ideas into a new set of rules and procedures and write it up into final form, she said. When completed in a “fairly final form." a draft of proposed changes will be circulated around campus for more input, and then a final draft will be presented to Oluin with a recommendation that a new set of administrative rules be adopted. McDowell said. If Olum accepts the committee's recommendation, the final draft will enter the legal process for adoption of those rules, she said. Students to receive free athletic tickets By Carolyn I.amberson IN IH» ► mrratri The imulrni.il Fee Commit tee on Wednesday unanimously approved the contract between the ASt'O and the Athletic Department The contract outlines the in cidental fee subsidy the Athletic Department received in the re cent ASUO elections. The sub sidy equals $1.155.000 and will go toward non-revenue produc ing sports. In exchange, there will he an unlimited number of free student tickets to the non revenue events, tt.000 free tickets for footliall and .'1,583 for men's basketball. The contract guarantees stu dent sections in Autzen Stadium and McArthur Court. Any student seats available seven working days before a game can be sold to the general public. Tickets will not lie required for events other than footliall and men's tiaskeihall However, students wishing to attend the women's game of a men's and women's doubleheader will need a ticked. For fall events, student tickets can be picked up with a spring and summer fee card or letter of admission and photo l.l). (Cor responding fee cards will be re quired for winter and spring events. Students must show a ticket and photy l.l). to attend football and men's basketball. Football tickets will be distributed game by game, while men's basketball tickets will be distributed in pairs. The clause that prevented the contract from being approved last week dealt with tickets for spouses or spousal <M|uivalenls. As approved, spouses and spousal equivalents can receive fn*e student tickets and attend events free of charge if their status is approved by the ASUO Kxecutive. The Executive cer tification must be shown at en try as well. 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