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AIDS Continued from Page 1 allow health officials to better track the disease's move ment through the population, he said, Jackson sees two problems with mandatory testing: First, no test is perfect This would make questionable the results of mandatory testing for the AIDS virus, especially in a population group not at high risk of hav ing the infection, he said. Second is the cost. Jackson believes the limited amount of money available to combat the disease would be better spent in education and prevention efforts, he said. Cebbie agreed, adding that both general and targeted education efforts are what is needed. Johnson emphasized that by sponsoring the bill YVyers has no intention of discriminating against homosexuals. Wyers. in fact, supports House liill 2:125, the so called gay rights bill that would outlaw sexual preference as a consideration for employers when hir ing. (ohnson said. The $1.5 million appropriated to combat the virus should be used to educate high-risk populations. Fidanque said, defining these populations as homosex ual men. bisexual men and intravenous drug users. The ACLl) did support a minority report to the bill. Fidanque said. The minority report would have required health of fie la Is to give educational material to applicants for a marriage license and also information about whore and how to got the HIV test. That report was defeated 10-20 Ken Arpke of the Willamette AIDS Council also believes the bill is an ineffective way to combat the disease, he said. Like Cebbie. he said that testing the population group getting married will produce very few positive results because the test is lasing aimed at the wrung group. “This population is not at that high a risk. Five years from now that may be different,” ho said. Until that changes he also favors education, he added. ODE Continued from Page 1 working with her are Gary Henley and Craig Harris, both of whom have regularly free lanced for the Emerald. Lorraine Rath will remain the graphic/design editor, and Shu shing Chen was hired as the photo editor. Two new supplement editor positions were added as well. Kelly Kortekaas is the new adversiting supplement editor, and H.C. Hutto is the arts and entertainment supplement editor. The student government/stu dent activites associate editor is Carolyn Lamberson. who has covered the ASUO for the Emerald since February. |eff Morgan is the new student government reporter, and Kelvin Wee will help cover stu dent activities. Covering higher educa tion/administration is Michael Drummond, who is currently a co-editorial page editor. Will Holbert and Ingrid Peterson will work with Drummond as beat reporters. Both have free-lanced for the Kmerald. Stephen Maher, the current Spectrum editor, will cover the community beat next year. The community boat reporters are Karen Irmsher and Andrew I.amar. l^amar worked for the Kmerald last year as the highor education/Bdministration associate editor. The general assign ment/entertainment associate editor will be Aaron Knox, who covered track and field this year for the Kmergld. The reporters working with him will be t'-ami Swanson and Tim Chauran. Swanson has been a regular free-lancer, and ('.hauran is cur rently the Spectrum assistant editor. Nelson and Ikidbey both ex pressed their pleasure with next year’s staff. “A lot of them are very seasoned reporters and aren’t afraid to deal with belligerent sources." Codbey said, adding that a number of the applicants hud good ideas on how to im prove the beats. The Emerald faces another change aside from the restruc tured staff. last week, the Emerald board of directors cancelled Spectrum magazine because of financial insecurity, according to a memo released to Emerald staff and employees on Tuesday. "A lot of effort and time went into Spectrum magazine over Dogs Continued from Page 1 would have sent three or four officers to do the same job and they would have been at it for one or two hours. With only five or six officers working a shift, tying up three or four from per forming other duties for two hours would make him "real concerned," he says. In Lane County, police canines have nipped murder at tempts on police officers and have apprehended burglars, rapists, hit-and-run drivers — even a kidnapper. Carlson says Springfield dogs have been primarily responsible for four to 15 felony and three to 13 misdemeanor arrests in each of tbe last five years l-'rost says his second dog, Toro, solved 23 crimes, about half of which were felonies, in the four mon ths that he worked And police Sgt Eilwood Cushman, who heads Eugene's canine unit, says Eugene dogs respond to an average of 40 calls per month. Officers say they can ascer tain whether prowlers have left an ansa and that a dog's presence often keeps violence from erupting. The presence of a Springfield police car with its dog emblem and furry passenger has kept some calls from becoming ex plosive. Carlson says. Frost’s first dog. Ajax, stood by during a couple of arrests which, without the dog's WE BUY STEREOS sruuo WORKSHOP 1621 E 19th • 344 3212 presence, "would've become a big free-for-all. Policemen play by the rules — dogs don't always play be the rules. When the dog is standing there, they (the suspect) don't care about me," McCarthy says initial ap proval of the canine corps met with some apprehension about how the community would take to their presence. "There are some historic photos that will never go away" of police using German Shepherd dogs for crowd con trol of black demonstrators in the South." he says "The 1980s issue is that they are trackers." Another initial apprehension faced by officials was whether lawsuits would result from dog bites. The dogs will bite if a suspect tries to flee and will let go on command. No Uine County agency has ever been sued because of bite injuries, although some have paid money, as when Spr ingfield bought a pair of pants for one suspect. Harrison says the man "thought he could in timidate the dog" and lunged forward, not realizing there was another dog behind him. which promptly grabbed the seat of his pants. Carlson and Cushman agree the dogs really "pay off" when Open 24 Hours kinko's Crp.it copies Cre.it people 860 E 15tn ^44 7894 used for building *>r area searches. Forming a perimeter around an area in which a suspect sup posedly fieri usually require* two teams of three officers. Cushman says. With the Turn to Dogs, Page 5 the year, and to see it taken away was hard for us." said Maher, the magazine's editor. Maher attributes the cancella tion of the award-winning magazine to poor advertising sales. "1 still believe it could have been saved in some form." Maher said. "Almost seems these days you get penalized for quality.” Susan Thelat). the Kinerald advertising director, said the magazine was not planned thoroughly enough ahead of time to develop a market for advertising. "The market wasn't able to respond in such a way to keep it going." she said. "It's real un fortunate. If and when we feel back on our feet financially. I will do a market survey and work with the editor to bring the magazine hack in one form or another." Nelson expressed his disap pointment at the cancellation and said he expects to see "a lit tle bit of Spectrum in the Emerald" next year. An APOLOGY from the Oregon Daily Emerald Classifieds to Kasey Brooks, Karen Gaffney, and all the Students of the ASUO: For allowing the publication of an advertisement that was placed on June 2, 1987. The ad was malicious, offensive in nature and in extremely poor taste. It escaped the notice of our screening committee, and in no way reflects the attitudes, opinions, or policies of this paper. We regret hav ing exposed our readers and the ASUO Govern ment to such irreponsibility. JUO'Bookstore— EXTRA BUCKS FOR BOOKS if? 10% EXTRA CASH ^ for books needed j] for future terms. | (10% PLUS tha usual 50% buyback prica.) JUNE 5th-13th ONLY PI I IQ* 20°/o OFF Coupon I mm ■ Par Buyback Cualomar Juna 8-13lh, 1987 Turn your unwanted books into cash it's better than packing them home. 13th & Ktncciid M f 7 30 5 30 SAT 10 00 4 00 M64331