Community
Group continues to teed unfortunate
By Sheri SU't/ler
I mer.ild ( ontributor
With I h.inksgivnu: unlit .inmml tin t*>ui,,i
most people think ot turkey stuffing iim lied po
1,iloes .inti pumpkin pie thanksgiving is .1 lime
to be vyilli l.imilv .uni l»' lli.uiklul loi Inn inn hind
.Old ,1 yy .11 III pi.11 e to sleep
Not everyone is so lortiin.ile In I .me t outtly
.11 1 oldmg to I ..me ( !oulitv Housing 20 pen 111 ol
the popill.lllon lives .11 01 lielou the poverty level
Many ol these poor people .ire homeless .11 uI
gather iicor the I'mversitv i.impus e.u h night A
oroup ol friends who 1 .ill themselves .1 hilllilv
have l.iketl it upon themselves to 111.ike sure th.it
these people net .1 1 lei fill ttie.il every d.tv
I .is) week hmvevei the family was evicted
from their house 011 August.! Street Hut even
though they .ire now homeless themselves, they
,iie determined to keep the me.ils going
kashmir Hishop. tH is one ot the family
members Originally I. Montana sin-has been
III i.ugeue tin several months anil is pnltmg all
hei efforts into leedilig the homeless
People think we're trying to bring problems
In doing this Bishop said I he (homeless)
people .lie already here Were pisl feeding
them
The family has been living out ot a van sim e
it was evti ted from the house last I oesd.n Bish
op ami other family members have Keen try inn to
keep piiivitling hot meals loi the other homeless
although they don't have regulai ail ess III a
kill hell
"We've been living out ol the van and
Ihhiiii mg trom kill lien to kill hen said < hrtsto
filter Hoffman and also a l.imih member
Huffman saiii that some of ill'' coop houses
around campt!1- have lieen letting the family use
their kill hens lu ' onk hut meals
We real I V need a' ' ess to .1 kit' lien thal is*
i aii use and store tilings in Huffman said
l lie family yets their food from lu< al 1 flari
lies and a fei\ local stores All meals are vegetaii
an
If ue serve vegetarian meals, everybody s
happy Hoffman said II we seived meat dish
es the vegetarians 1 mi Id n't eat
I he family is 1 urrently looking lor .1 house
I tollman said thal lien need some monel and
someone who wouldu I mind having us
\110ther homeless frerson who identified
himself only as Kainsong said. I veil a garage
Mould do W> have ptopane stoves
11< il I Ilia 11 estimates the family has been feed
mg I > lo .'ll people every night siuee they started
a hunt three months ago lire group gathers every
night outside ( ondoii Hall where they have a
love 1 irr le to give thanks before the meal is
set V ed
Wed like cooperation from I lie University
lo keep holding il Bishop said "< ampus seen
lily sometimes gives us problems
Die house 011 Augusta Street was 1 ondemned
fiy the Hitv of l.ugeiie S Department of Develop
men! I tlgelle I lie Marsllill Kugei l.lelaitd aid il
was tiis a use of efet I r u a I tia/ai ds
Bishop said she thinks the eviction was a
< nnspirar y between the neighbors the house s le
gal ow ner and the polii e
"The mother didn t like the idea of 0111 love
family Bishop said
IMiiilu In Xmlri1 Kjiih-m
\ lot ill group keeps fet'd ini’ the homeless near campus even
alter being rt it ted Irnm their own home.
Forum discusses solutions to Eugene's homeless problem
B\ Shawn (.rassman
I nu-rald ( ontrihutor
I lie ( i!\ III I UHi'lle s Solut lull
lu its staKKni'iiiK homeless pnili
11*111 lienuis Ii\ di'iiliwith <ln
ine.slii viiili'iu i' iiiui tin' lumii'
Ifss i n i it 111-is with i liililri'ii ill.it
result Hi Marsha Kil/ilnrl Inlil
i group veslerdax in .i Worn
ell's ilrow nliag I iii 111n in llie
I lull I .'enter leliliv
Kil/iluil .in .issni iale proles
sin in the I ’1 .i 11111 n K I’ulilii
I’ulii \ .uni \l.i11.iv;e11u'ill (it'p,ul
llietlt .it tile l!illV 1'1‘sil V . Iiiised
llel iiii-si-iit.it inn mi ,i sluii\ she
i o-aulhorud with I .mil Rucker
dealing "ilh homeless mothers
w ilh i hildmn in I,.iiw• ('ounlv
Kit/.(ii)11 i I.unis lli.i! Mislead ill
dealing with lilt! obvious |imli
lem nf pulling .1 mill uvei the
Inimeless i iimiiiunils and i ivu
leaders should deal with the
i 11111 j 11 e \ issues that lead In the
Inimeless problem
We realK need lu stop plav
my; (Janies with these leni|K)
i arv mandates designed for
lempoiarv solullons she said
I hese findings are a poignant
representation ol the failure ol
our soi nil planning polii it's m
dealing with the homeless
there are a lot ot serious proh
loins looming .uni the single
most predominant tailor is do
lilt's! it V loletll e
Kil/ilort's si in i \ slitini'ti t!
percent 'if I hi* surveyed home
Ifss mothers It'll llit'ii home
due in abuse to them or their
t hildren
"These women .ire leaving
iheir homes bet tmse t>1 e\
Iremels lous\ relationships
within their own household
she s.utl Most ot them were
being h.illeretl and simplv not
llit'ii t hiltiit'ii and le!l lo save
Iheii lives
rhe Ituuni sponsored bv tile
Kugene (Commission on the
Rights ol Women, is the second
111 .1 senes til disillusions de
signed to address the various
mu i.iI problems t,i< ini’ the i it\
the Women's Commission is
one ol five i iti/en i ommissions
in the City ot hugene's Hum.in
Rights I’rogram Commission
membeis .ire .ippomteii In . .mil
.11 t hi .in .ulvisnrv i a|i«h it\ to
the i ity i oiini il
Creg Kikhoff hum,in rights
analyst tor the i it\ anil coordi
iitttor ol the forums believes
programs like Ibis are long
m erdue
We iibviousl v have a \ arietv
of problems f.u mg our soi ie
tv he said "What we want to
do loi ally is build up public it\
and simplv let people know
how grave some of these prob
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or 1 1 .99 ea. orig. 16.00
Perennial lavonles at a great puce and m an excit
mg array Of I’4 fashion colors Necks with shape re
taining lyi ra tor a prelect fit Sees S M l XL
Inns an* Instead of people
turning their heads. sve would
I ike to son soino community at
livism
Ritzdorf'x studs consisted ot
random sample questionnaires
i ondut ted between April and
June l‘i8H She and Rut kei in
lerviessed -4• > homeless moth
eis; a figure she estimates to lie
less than halt of the ai tual
amount ol homeless mothers in
Lane (lounts on any given das
Her findings both paralleled
anti contradicted several na
lional trends of the homeless is
sue and helped shatter some
existing myths
()l the respondents to the '* 1
question inquiry 7H pert enl
were Caucasian and t> > percent
were vounger than it) sears
old (lontrars to the transient
myth" that the homeless move
around and evontualls le.ise
Kit/.dorf found that In pen cut
of the women had lived in the
Kugene Sprmgtield .irea for at
least I is e s ears
The studs also disproved the
notion that homeless mothers
are unetlut ated and unable to
get |ohs Hi pert ent of the re
sptindents tinishetl high
si hool and almost halt ol those
ssho graduated spent at least
one s ear 111 i nllege
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