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Inside: •Lecture on AIDS, Page 6 •'Orphans/ Page 10 •Sports rankings, Page 13 —--Oregon Daily_ _ Emerald Thursday, October 22. 1987 Eugene. Oregon Volume 89, Number 36 Alcohol, drug abuse focus of awareness week By Will Holbert Emerald Associate Editor Alcohol abuse has long been a problem at college campuses across the country and at the University. Today the ASUO sponsored "Wellness Week” focuses on alcohol and drug abuse. The nationwide Alcohol Awareness Week program has existed for a number of years and the University has spon sored such events for two years. National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week started Mon day. but the University is only focusing on the issue today as Wellness Week has encompass ed several issues dealing with health. Mary Hammond will give a speech on adult children of alcoholics at noon in Room 129 of the law school, and later in the day Michael Leeds will speak on substance abuse education in 150 Geology. Many houses in the Greek system will hold '‘Impact’’ training over the weekend (see sidebar on Page 3). ’’We don't look at it so much as Alcohol Awareness Week, but Alcohol Awareness Year,” said Neal Do row, Greek faculty advisor and an organizer of some of this week's events "The problem is pretty typical for a public institution like ours," Do row said. But the pro blem of alcohol abuse is "much more acute than 20 yean ago." he added If one thinks of an alcohol problem as a bum laying in the gutter, then University students don't have a problem. Dorow said. "If you consider it a problem where students are getting drunk and missing classes the next day. they feel bad. but do it again then there is a problem." he said. Students drink excessively for a variety of reasons, accor ding to a handbook on how to organize alcohol awareness weeks. The handbook states that boredom, stress, peer pressure, and impressing dates are all reasons for drinking Last Turn to Week, Page 3 Town hall airs future of commissions By Betsy Clayton Emerald Reporter In response to worries that the five human rights commissions in Eugene might be merged into one commission, local residents got the chance to voice their concerns at a town hall meeting on Wednesday. After representatives of each commission gave brief outlines of their programs, discussion turned to the future of human rights in Eugene through decreased funding, staff cuts and expanding commitments. The meeting, which attracted an audience of 100 to Harris Mali, was sponsored by Clergy and l^aity Concerned and KLCC. “We want to examine the situation of human rights in Eugene and have a dialogue with the community. We want to find out how government agencies can help you." said moderator Julie Aspinwall (.amberts. a member of the Eugene Downtown Commission. City Councilor Cynthia Wooten addressed the <)uestion of merging the commissions. “Recently people have been worried that the city might merge all the human rights commissions into one My opi nion is that that shouldn't hap pen." she said Speaking in behalf of City Manager Michael Gleason. Wooten said he is not going to propost! a human rights com mission budget cut. "We can't have a city that prospers economically that doesn't deal with the essential issues of human rights." she said. Currently, the five human rights commissions include commissions on aging, disabl ed. women, minorities and youth. Patty Pate, president of the W'omen's Commission, said. "These people are under re presented. and they sometimes have quieter voices than those in the mainstream." Nancy Hrawner-Jones, presi dent of the Disabled Commis sion. gave a picture of the dif ficulties disabled people en Turn to Rights, Page 4 Students experience El Salvador By Ingrid Petersen Emerald Reporter Providing support to the students and citizens of El Salvador in their struggle for justice and an end to the war was the purpose of a national delegation that went to El Salvador this summer, said Sarah (.achkar. a University Sarah Lachkar student who particpated in the delegation. I-achkarand Hryan Moore, a University graduate student who also participated in the delegation, represented the University as members of the campus' Sister University Project with the University of El Salvador, which began in l >»H , l-achkar and Moore were among 31 other students and concerned citizens from across the nation who spent |uly 21 to Aug 1 in the war torn country. Other objectives of the delegation, according to Lachkar. were to provide at least $.100 in material aid per campus delegation for the delegation's hosts — the Na tional Unitv of Salvadoran Workers and the General Association of Salavadoran University Students, to fur ther understanding of the con ditions and needs of the Salvadoran people and to ac company students from the University of El Salvador in Turn to Salvador, Page 4 (.raphu by UrraiM Kalb Council upholds wording of ballot measure summary By Andrew LaMar Emerald Reporter The Eugene City Council on Wednesday ruled that the sum mary for an initiative requiring city-wide voter approval for the siting of the Riverfront Research Park is not biased as the in itiative's creators claim. The initiative calls for voter approval of all urban renewal plans and amendments to these plans using public tax money. It was drafted by a local political action committee to prevent the siting of the Riverfront Research Park to its planned site north of campus on the Willamette River "We may have to go to court if we want any change" in the wording of the summary, said Dan Stotter. coordinator of Citizens for Responsible Urnd Use. which hacks the initiative. Stotter said the appellants may take the case to the l^ane County Circut Court or the state attorney general’s office. Citizens for Fair Tax Distribu tion submitted the initiative to the city two weeks ago. l.ast week, after the city attorney wrote the initiative's title, ex planation and question to voters, the FAC appealed to the City Council, claiming the document was biased According to city law, every prospective initiative must be summarized and titled by the ci ty attorney's office before it is circulated for signatures. The ti tle must be no more than 10 words, the question to the voters no more than 21) and the explanation no more than 100. "The city attorney's title is improper because it is tilled with value-laiden words, such as limit, prevent and prohibit, which don't add anything to the title but unnecessarily bias the title.” Stottor told the council. Stotter also said the city at torney made the summary con fusing and inaccurate. Upon reading the summary of the initiative, the voter might think the measure would "limit, prohibit or prevent" development or urlxan renewal in Kugene. said Steve An dresen, director of Citizens for Fair Tax Distribution. "Such a suggestion could Ire no farther from the truth," An dresen said. "I do not believe that our intent is unclear on this matter. Nor do I believe that a resonable person could inter pret the language set forth in Turn to Initiative, Page 5