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Emerald
Inside:
•Art of storytelling, Page 4
•Med-student, eager, Page 9
•Greek council agenda, Page 12
Wednesday, February 3, 1988
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 89, Number 92
Meat with a Beat
Curt Kirkwood (right) and Derrick Bostrom. two of three wild-eyed
members of Phoenix, Ariz.-based band the Meat Puppets, brought the
sold-out crowd at the Condon School auditorium to a frenzy with their
desert renditions of country/psychedelia on Tuesday night. Opening the
show was the Tupelo Chain Sex.
Photo by Rachel Kirby
IFC grants special requests
By Jeff Morgan
Emerald Reporter
The EMU received a wish list of
$12,270 from the Incidental Fee Commit
tee at a four-and-a-half-hour meeting
Tuesday night.
Because of the size of the EMU's
special request — a total of $30,990 to
come from overrealized incidental fees
— the request was considered during
two meetings. The IFC approved
$10,870 of the request Jan. 28 but denied
a $1,850 request for the EMU Computer
Lounge.
Also, the IFC approved a total of
$75,351 in operating budgets for three
student groups, the majority of which
went to Recreation and Intramurals
(RIM). Its $70,802 budget passed
unanimously. RIM organizes the Univer
sity's intramural sports program.
In addition. The Literary Society,
which publishes the literary review
Timberline, received its budget request
of $4,281. Oregon Public Health Student
Association received its request of $268
for 1988-1989. The IF'C passed both
budgets unanimously.
One of the largest controversies at the
meeting was the ASUO Executive’s
special request to create co-directorship
positions on the ASUO Review, formerly
the ASUO Record.
The Review published once last term
as a two-page paid advertisement in the
Oregon Daily Emerald.
Baldwin said he believed the $7,000
funding for the publication was being
“grossly abused," and students were not
getting what they were paying for.
ASUO Finance Coordinator Mike
Sauerwein defended the Review, saying
“We (the Executive) are following all ex
isting budget notes established by past
IFCs."
During the EMU discussions, the most
heated debate concerned $2,800 request
for a computer, printer, modum and
back up machine to go to the EMU ac
counting department.
Committee member J.B. Leahy said it
was premature to consider that portion
of the request until after the budget hear
ing for Campus Information Exchange.
CIE is requesting about $40.000 for a
main-frame computer to link the campus
by computer. Leahy suggested the EMU
use the CIE computer.
The ASUO’s Sauerwein said that the
CIE proposal only had "limited sup
port." and that a computer for EMU ac
counting “would bring the accounting
department into the 20th century.”
Baldwin commented that the accoun
ting request was one of the few he
wholeheartedly supported. The motion
passed 5-1-1 with Leahy opposing and
committee member Jerry Rakfeldt
abstaining.
As part of the $12,270 granted to the
EMU Tuesday night, the 1FC approved
$2,250 for a computer for the EMU Main
Desk, $750 for the Outdoor Program,
$500 for the Craft Center and $5,970 for
the EMU Ballroom and technical
services.
WISTEC hurt with
drop in attendance
By Bryan Houston
Emerald Reporter
The Willamette Science and
Technology Center (VVISTEC) has fallen
into some hard financial times in recent
months, and a reorganization plan is far
ing implemented to offset the problems
and boost attendance.
David McDaniels, who has served as
president of the center’s board for about
six months, said the reorganization is
basically a shift in the level of people
employed there. Previously, the center's
staff consisted of several full-time
employees, but the new plan calls for
about six part-time positions.
WISTEC has suffered a marked drop in
attendance after a boom year in 15)87.
"The attendance last year brought In
$147,000, whereas an average year br
ings in about $15,000," McDaniels said.
The differences were the blockbuster ex
hibits like the dinosaurs exhibit last
spring.
"More people came to WISTEC last
spring to see the dinosaurs than ever
before,” he said. “But we can't live on
that, as you can see.”
The center is restructuring so the
budget for its staff and its expenses are
equal to the center's average income the
last few years, McDaniels said.
"That's the financial aspect."
McDaniels said. "We’re also changing
our program aspect to focus on in
dividual events each weekend. We want
to do that so for visitors, going to
W1STEC is a fresh thing."
McDaniels outlined the kinds of pro
grams the center will exhibit in the near
future to boost attendance. He said the
center will have two big programs in the
next six to eight months.
The first program will be called "Maps
and Mapping." That exhibit will include
some extra things the center will add to
it. and it will start soon and run about
three months, McDaniels said.
The second big program will come in
midsummer, and it will Ih; an exhibit in
Kaliedescopes.
"That exhibit will be constructed by
Turn to WISTEC, Page 6
Cultural nuances can make
trip to health center difficult
By Kim Gnau
Emerald Contributor
Foreign students attending the Univer
sity face a variety of problems and
changes, not the least of which are dif
ferences in health care.
"Health care in the U.S. is vastly dif
ferent from health care in most parts of
the world," said (Jinny Stark, foreign
student advisor from the Office of Inter
national Services.
In addition to the language barrier, ad
ministering proper health care to
students from other countries is com
plicated by differences in culture. "The
perceptions students bring from home
are hard to leave behind," _
Student Affairs (NAFSA) and the
American College Health Association
(ACHA).
“The purpose of the seminar was to br
ing together professionals dealing with
international students, along with
medical people, to discuss the con
cerns," she said.
The University was one of 13 schools
selected to become a regional represen
tative and to receive special training
about these topics. The University will
be a "conduit for transmitting informa
tion coming from NAFSA and ACHA,"
said Petit.
The result of the conference, accor
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Other factors con
tributing to a cumbersome
changeover to American
health care include
drastic changes in a stu
dent's diet. In addition,
many do not aquire pro
per preventative
medicine, and some fail to
make follow-up appoint
ments with physicians.
Combined with con
trasting attitudes about
modesty, a lot of
misconceptions about
health care can result.
"The whole experience
can be very stressful,”
Stark said.
in an attempt to solve a
few of these problems,
Stark and Bob Petit,
medical administrator at
the Student Health
Center, attended a con
ference last spring spon
sored by the National
Association for Foreign
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