.—.Oregon Daily- - Emerald Wednesday. January 18. 1089 Eugene. Oregon Volume 90. Number 82 _Inside • A fight at a frat. Page 3 • Semester conversion fallout. Page 4 • No surplus funds at the !FC. Page 1! • Lopin' around in luva caves. Page 13 • Fads and fancy. Trends section DeFazio hears child-care concerns By Carolyn Lamberson Emerald News Editor Rep Peter Oe Fazio hoard from his constituency last night at Harris Hall in a town meet ing on child care issues. DeFazio (I)-Ore.) moderated a panel composed of child can? providers, users and state and local child- care administrators, who discussed options avail able to parents who need child care centers. Among the issues discussed were the affordability of child care to low-income parents and students, the need for qualified day care providers, the need for more infant care and care for sick children, and the role of government in facilitating and providing day care. Janice Filliot Watkins, the state assistant child care coor dinator. touched upon some of the things Oregon is doing in terms of child care. "Until this last year, the goal of Oregon was restricted to pri marily certification and regula tion of child-care facilities. In the last legislative session, there began to lx? some changes in that regard." she said. Looking ahead at the new session. Watkins predicted the state would take on a more fa cilitating role. She added that a tax credit incentive approved last session for employers who invested in services related to employee's child care was a start in this direction. Another example of how the rhofc. b« low M«tk« Rep. Peter DeFazio said about one-third of this nation'a day care was provided by church-related organizations. slate is becoming more in volved in the issue, is the gov ernor's Great Start program contained in his Children's Agenda. This program would allow counties to receive mon ey to examine child-care needs within the community, she said. The issues facing student parents also was discussed Watkins said the State Child Care Commission is looking at some innovative funding to subsidize child- care costs for students with children The ASIJO got its word in us well. Phil Nebergall, chairman of the ASUO Child Care Task Force, distributed material to the media and DeFazio that outlined student concerns The recommendation sug gested that federal legislators should include students when examining child-can) issues “Advisory committees .id dressing the child-care issues Turn to Children, Page 5 Bill could disclose students' records By Don Peter* Emerald Associate Editor A bill presented to the Senate for the first time Monday would allow higher education officials the right —to- M content of student ret ords under certain circumstances Senate Hill 2t>3. if passed. _Politics_ would amend Oregon state law OKS 35) 071) The law, in part, would read. "Noth ing contained in this para graph prohibits authoriza tion of the inspection of such records or the disclo sure of their content by insti tution officials or employees who have a legitimate edu cational interest in inspect ing student records, or by a representative of a state or federal government agency that is required by law to in spect student records " SH2t>3 is one of the nu merous bills drafted during the interim session, and was filed at the request of the Ex ecutive Department Dave I'iscom. assistant to the director of the Executive Department, initially said he was unaware of the bill. Af lt>r further im|iiiry. Eiscom said the Executive Depart men! filed the bill at the re quest of the chancellor's of fice of the Oregon State Svs tern of Higher Education (OSSHE). According to (Uim_Esuato_ the executive assistant to the vice chancellor, the hill is a '' housekeeping measure.'' designed to mesh Oregon law with Health Department statutes "The Health Department is required, by law. to report people with certain conta gious diseases." Esgate said "The hill came about Ik; cause we wanted to make sure that our people could comply with the Health De partment I think people misunderstand what this hill is trying to do." Esgate stressed that only state or federal governmen tal agencies required by law to inspat t student records would lie allowed to dis close information, although the Health Department was not mentioned by name. Steve Hoyt. ASUO vice president and vice chairman of the Oregon Student hobby (OSh). expressed concern over the bill Turn to Records, Page 7 Second copy of art stolen from studio By Brad Robertson Emerald Reporter A second woodblock print belonging to graduate stu dent Connie Davidson was stolen from the print studio in Lawrence Hall last Thurs day The nearly completed piece was stolen sometime Thursday morning from the unlocked room. According to Davidson, a few months ago a copy of the same print in its earlier stages was sto len . ‘‘I can't even tell you how many hours I've worked on it,” Davidson said. According to art instructor Ken Paul. there have been previous thefts from I .aw rence Hall and he hopes publicity will help to stop them."You can't stop a de termined felon but you can make a little noise.” Paul said. Davidson has been work ing on this current project for about six months and said she plans to sell the eight remaining copies of the work. While she said that the prints could bring approxi mately $100 each, tin? mone tary loss was not her pri mary concern. "I'm not looking at this as a monetary ripoff I'm look ing