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Emerald
Inside:
•Short Spins, Page 8
•Meat Puppets, Pages 10 & 11
•Oregon Connection, Pages 13 & 17
Thursday, January 28, 1988
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 89, Number 88
Sticking with it
Roosevelt Middle School student Hubert
Schwartz, 13, spent several hours in the lobby of the
EMU's University post office station Wednesday after
noon placing postage and air mail stamps on a stack of
business mail. Schwartz's father, who works with an
Eugene computer security and software company,
hired him at $6 an hour to stamp company mailers to be
sent all over the world.
Photo by Scott Maben
University Senate hears
semester conversion ideas
By Paula Green
Emerald Reporter
Members of the University
Senate debated two of four pro
posals recommended for the up
coming semester conversion by
the General Education subcom
mittee at its meeting
Wednesday.
The subcommittee has con
sidered changing the Univer
sity's writing requirements, as
well as deleting the current
B.A. and B.S. field re
quirements and health require
ment. The subcommittee is a
faction of the Special Semester
Curriculum Committee.
University Chairwoman and
history professor Mavis Mate
asked the Senate to repeal the
current English composition re
quirement of Writing 121, to be
followed by either 122 or 123,
and replace it with six semester
credits of English composition
and three semester credits of an
upper division course contain
ing a significant writing
component.
Mate said that committee
members also believe writing
should continue beyond the
basic courses, and it should be
refined in "upper-division
writing-intensive courses."
Mate argued the University,
as “the flagship institution in
the state.” should join the
growing trend in education for
implementing stronger writing
programs.
The proposal, which passed
the Senate with a 26-2 vote,
with four abstentions, soon will
include a section of exemptions
for students with either excep
tional test scores, or who wish
to challenge the required
courses.
Mate's second proposal, that
of abolishing the University's
health requirement, met heated
opposition by Senate members
who argued a liberal education
includes knowledge of the
human person and develop
ment and performance.
While the subcommittee
Turn to Senate, Page 6
State Board to determine future
of proposed mandatory student fee
By Ingrid Petersen
Emerald Reporter
Students may be paying an
additional $10 in tuition a term
next September if the State
Board of Higher Education ap
proves the implementation of a
mandatory computer resource
fee.
The issue of requiring
students to pay computing fees
goes back many years, "mainly
because we have never been
provided any funding through
the legislature for computing,”
said Dave Quenzer, associate
vice chancellor for budget and
fiscal policy.
The board will formally bear
the proposal March 18.
During the last four years the
state's eight colleges and
universities have been forced to
"reallocate resources internal
ly... to finance instructional
computing." Quenzer said.
The resource fee. however,
would only generate about
$500,000 for the University,
which doesn't meet the Univer
sity's $1 million need, said
Ijirry Fincher, vice provost for
academic admissions.
Currently the University ob
tains its funding for instruc
tional computing from "patch
work" sources such as indirect
cost recovery revenues, which
the University receives because
of research it performs for the
federal government. Fincher
said.
"We have to fix those things
first to have a stable infrastruc
ture." Fincher said, referring to
the need to establish a specific:
budget for instructional
computing.
Although the tuition increase
would be used to finance in
structional computing, "There
has been no decision in the ad
ministration on how the money
would be budgeted," he sa'id.
In the past the state board has
rejected the idea of charging
special course fees to generate
revenue for instructional com
puting. Quenzer said.
A course fee "becomes a hid
den tuition that the board does
not allow in its fee policy.” he
said. "It would have been an
additional fee to just a few
students."
This is the first time that the
board is looking at a computing
resource fee. Quenzer said.
Turn to Increase, Page 5
Home healthcare offers alternative
By Angela Muniz
Emerald Associate Editor
With hospital costs on the
rise, many are looking for an
alternative to hospital care.
Although little is known about
it. home health care is becom
ing a popular option, according
to healthcare experts.
The benefits of being in one's
own surroundings and the
lower costs make it a practical
alternative to hospital care, said
Barbura Suter, a Sacred Heart
Home Health Services nurse.
With a home attendant. “You're
a guest in (the patient's) home.”
Suter said. “They feel more
comfortable because they are in
charge of the wellness."
Home health care services are
similar to hospice programs for
the terminally ill. They provide
nurses and attendants to care for
patients in the comfort of their
homes. "When you’re in a
hospital, you’re at the mercy of
everything doctors and
nurses." Suter said. "You're
not in control."
Suter explained this is
especially beneficial to elderly
people who sometimes get con
fused und scared in a hospital.
With home health care, "they
are on their own turf," she said.
Options Community Care
manager Rebecca Lambert
agreed. "Their independence is
maintained for a longer time,”
she said. "It offers them more
stability."
The University's Center for
Gerontology Director Jeanne
Bader noted one reason for in
creased popularity In home
health cure is because families
of patients prefer the home at
mosphero. Seventy percent of
the elderly are cared for by the
family, she said. “If you con
sider the other 30 percent are
what we're talking about, it's
pretty profound," she added.
Hut home health cure is not
limited to the cure of the elder
ly. Both Suter and Lambert
cited examples of working
parents hiring a nurse to care for
their sick children.
Several of these organizations
operate in the Eugene area, but
the level and type of care varies
at each one. Sacred Heart Home
Health Services, for example, i ■
Turn to Healthcare, Page 6
Bils under psychiatric care
By Carolyn Lamberson
and wire reports
A University law student
found guilty but insane in
connection to three criminal
charges last year was placed
under Oregon Psychiatric
Review Board supervision last
week.
Willy Bernard Bils, 32, was
found guilty of two counts of
criminal simulation, one
count of trespassing and one
count of tampering with a
witness on Dec. 9, 1987.
However, it was determined
that Bils suffered from bipolar
manic-depression and he was
"granted conditional release
subject to review by the
psychiatric review board,"
according to Lane County
Asst. District Attorney Daryl
Larson.
Bils was then placed under
(he temporary supervision of
his psychiatrist, pending final
disposition. Last week. Lane
County Circuit Court Judge
Maurice Merten signed an
order placing Bils under the
official supervision of Carmel,
Calif., psychiatrist Dr. Robert
Doyle. Bils' care will still be
supervised by the review
board.
Bils, who is on medical
leave from the University
School of Law, now resides in
Monterey, Calif. The condi
tions of Bils' release include
his continuing to take lithium
carbonate and be treated for
manic depression syndrome,
Larson added. Bils wilt be
under review board supervi
sion for up to 6 years and 30
days — a length of time
equivalent to the maximum
prison time Bils could have
Willy Bils
been sentenced to if not found
guilty but insane.
The simulation charges
stemmed from allegations that
Bits hired Eugene freelance
legal writer Janice Skillings
Goff to write a paper for him.
Turn to Bits, Page 5