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_Editorial— Child care funding needs more clarity Many funding changes have taken place in Ihe EMU Child Care Program during the last month The program received a $ 100.000 grant from the Oregon State Scholarship Commission, a $42,-40fi student funding increase to pay for state mandated wage in creases and a $t>0.000 decrease in the Incidental Fee Committee's original budget allocation for next year All these c hanges can be confusing, espec ially to students without children who pay fees to help sup port the program rhe program and the Child Care Task l*orc»? have been working for the past lew years to find alternate? means of funding for the child care program After much student lobby ing in Salem and V\ ashington !).<. . the EMU Child Care Program received a pilot grant of $100,000 for 10*10-0 l subsidy's l ast week the Chibi Care Program went before the1 II C to return $-40,000 of its original $222,740 alloc a tion The ASUO backed the figure with its own recoin inundation For some reason the II C decided to reduce tin* allocation by $00,000 instead. It is reasonable for the Child Care Program to re turn some of its original alloc ation, but $00,000 might have been too mui h lor the 1KC to take bac k The: subsidy program is trying to line! ways to ex pand its funding capabilities. Currently, subsidy's only cover half of the cost of half-time care (20-25 hours a week). Next year the program will expand to cover halt of the cost of full-time care (-40-50 hours a week), re ducing parents’ out of poc kel child c are costs With an extra $20,000 removed, the subsidy program may not be able to alloc ate funding to all the parents who need it Herein lies the ie.il problem Then- are no real lig ures ,is to how main parents actually need child care and or a subsidy lor child i are. No needs assessment has been done The ASLJO, the Child Care Task Fort e, parents and probably students who help pa\ lor the child < are program tire frustrated. The University needs to work with the child care program, the ASUO, student parents and the Child Care Task Force to lind an accurate assessment of child care needs on campus. Student parents need child care subsidy's to attend si bool. College is expensive. Imagine the extra costs for a single parent? Many potential students who are parents are shut out of an education on a purely finan cial basis. That should not be the case Concerned organizations on this campus should work together to find a way, either through registration or in tin1 University application process, to find out how many student parents there are at the University. Once this is accomplished, the IFC and outside fund ing sources will know what their needs are. and can base decisions on factual information not just assump tions. Oregon l)uil» _ _ Emerald I’ •) Kn\ '1^1 ► u|frn< (>t rjc<*« V*40 \ Tf . 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IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES! / I THINK I'M GOING TO E£ SICK -iAl .rt-1 ; Letters Cozy ideology \r.ulv everyone would agree with I ru Smith |( >D1 April I| th.it h.irth i )av is .ilmiit "taking responsibility tor vour .11 lions 1 Hut to assert in iiioi.il terms th.it the "blame tor en vironmental problems in tlie world t.ills equally on even one's shoulders' is grossly re dm live Does this mean .i family which destroys the Hra/dian rain forest tin suhsisteni e l.irm ing is equalls guilK as the World Hank financiers who in stigated the e< unomii troubles? Is an alien grape pn kei con taminated with malathion equally to blame as the l IKO ot 1 )u Hunt ? ()h "freedom and equality . how these ideals are used to mask the tai t that we are equal neither in our freedom to make environmentally sound i hoii es nor in our ability to implement i hanges Smith dfplnrrs svmbolh »u:ts of violence burning the flag, the dollar and tin1 president's effigy m an ac I ot free espies sion U hal about real <k ts ol \ tolt'm a doin' to our bodies e\ en da\ bv to\u contamina lion' Would In' deplore the burning ol an i'llig\ ol a l.ove ( anal newborn, or a grandpa! i-lit in i lieniotheiap\ ' Mow we should be align Time tin "joining hands" is p.ist now change will come about by the working hands, both creating and destroying This is no debate ol free w ill or even moral responsibility It is a question ol ernpt\ stomai hs and insatiable greed A ques lion of tone and necessity, things so immediate to many people's lives, but easih lor gotten by Smith in Ins cozy ideologii al shelters Matthew Weeks Knglish Revolution In response to Debra O'tlara s quote (Ol)i'.. April 24) that "capitalism must end it we |ga\s) are to survive.” 1 dis agree (iapitalism is what made this country great It has allowed people to pursut' Iht'ir dreams and ambitions and be regarded tor it (and at the same time not get shot) (liven time people here will learn to understand and deal with their homophobia Yes I know vou don't have time Don’t vou just hate when that happens? Your (ailing for a revolution gin's against peai etui and item oi rata i hange th.it has made this eountrv the envy of the rest ol the world I do not hate ga\s 1 wo ot mv best friends are ga\ I am. though, disgusted ti\ it. but they ait normal (normal to me) around me so 1 treat them as sin h Anyway. m\ point is that if given a i hou e between i apital ism and gays, then \ou would all be dead After all. capitalist counties are the onlv countries that tolerate homosexual activ ism Others just imprison or lust plain shoot you. Fins is a great t ounlry and it will change for the better for vou Hut don’t try to create a "revolution" because most people 1 know love this system. So given a i hotee between i up Italian) and homosexuality, they 'd |ust rather see you dead So force yourself, be patient, don't worry be happy lerrii k ludiette t lliemistry (»TF High ground II (ill Kreidberg. co-director nl Students for the Kthical Treatment of Animals is para phrased correctly |l always have to wonder in the Emer ald), I am offended by her in sensitivity She is paraphrased in the artii le on SKTA's rally (DDE. April 25): "Society causes itsell to have diseases bei ause people are not educat ed.” Is this true of my grandfa ther. a non-smoker who died of cancer' My uncle, who died of complications of diabetes' My younger brother, who at the age ol three contracted meningitis and permanently lost his hear ing' According to Freidberg's statement, had they been more educated they would be healthv todav Step down off your moral high ground. Freidberg. and think ahout what you arc sav mg and what it might mean to the people you are trying to < onviin e I'm no tan of vivisec tion, Iml when groups like SHI A show themselves to have no real i oik option of the com plicated issues involved in the animal resean h debate, and continue to hide behind "moral truth' like such rhetoric Hing ing rear tionaries us the anti choice people in the abortion argument, then I have to put more weight on the rational at guinents of groups sui h as the rendition for Animals and Am mal Roseau h I believe animals have rights, perhaps more than are current K recognized 1 will remain open to your arguments. Freidberg. but be careful not to preach onlv to those who at ready accept anti-vivisection as gospel. lack Maynard Student The truth Some of thi‘ most significant words ever expressed on this campus were spoken Monday night. April Jt. by Tons Avirgan of (lost a Kii a Only a few were there to hear him. which reflects the long standing unwillingness of many to a< knowledge painful froths One truth, as Avirgan stated it, is that agents of the U S government killed Ben hinder and Linda Frazier, both Port landers. in ai ts of Contra terror ism in Nicaragua When our agents do it. we do it Those weren't isolated ac tions They reflect an ongoing sense of immunity the US government feels it has to do as it pleases — even murder. It is an obscene behavior pat tern that will persist as long as the good. God-fearing citizens of this nation refuse to hear the truth. George Beres Kugene