THURSDAY, JANUARY 9.1992
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 93. ISSUE 75
Motor Voter
increasing
registration
jNew law allows voters to
register when they renew
their driver's license
By Hope Nea son
There s i new wav !i .'••gist. s *t:: uTe
in Ktigone, and the program hu\ almost
tripled the number of registered \ute;s
in Lane (bounty
The program is called Mi ;■ r \ liter
Under this three-month-oid law pnten
tifll voters can fill out .md leave the ir
registration i arils a! tiny of the seven !)>
partment . ! Motor Vehicles in Kugehe
The plan is designed to make voter
registration easy by allowing Oregon
residents to register, or re register to
vote while applying for or renewing
driver hi ■ rises and stale identification
curds
So tar the results have l»rn positive
The Lane County iderii al supervisor
in elei tions. Cheryl Betsohart, said the
number of voter registration curds re
njvt;<i twt h day has jumped from 'h
. mis a day to 2 Ih * ards
Betschurt said '•in' thinks tfn- i ur.tf
nuimi' ol tin' Motor Voter program
caused tin’ Increase
Whim people arc changing their
drivers licenses the question is right
liii'ii' d they want to re register non a
for the first time, sin* said
it encourages people to register when
before they had to mail in their rogistra
tion, Betsi hart said
Delore the lavs passed, voter n gistr.i
tion i ards , mild he pic ked up at (lu
pus! office and mailed m Hut die new
iii ,,w g M -. the DMV authorization '
j.l the cards and forward them to
' la state i'.iei tlOHS i livisiotl
Turn to VOTER ^aqe '2
Raising family between classes tough
j Student parents get crea
tive, often juggling school,
jobs and children to make it
through college
By Karen "Frige s
( heryl Zev enhergen . is ;11 : i h•
'home stretch" Mir pi.ins to gradual'
in ,: Ilf ,Uii! '.V . ' ' :
ami t ircumslani r of the • •reiootites ' • :
anything \eiih< : a '■ :
daughter Aim l hr.Mm. wii.. wi" also
See related story, page 3
Zevenliergi'n .1 senior 111 psyohoii >.'v
is ono of mam stud' : ' ;> iH'iiis who ■
ten go unrer ugniziii 'a • >; i ■ 1 r I'mvcmn
classmates
People 0K1 surprised when they bud
out I have .1 r> veur-olti, /.I'lcr.lifiivrt
said, adding that she : mtimes
older than fu r 2 1 years
I'm determined to finish 1 don !
want to tie one of tie. ■*? tattsti, ■■
typical teen age mom I have to finish
for tins child. /.evenhergen .aid s
luring toward Aim. . tilue eyed bundle
of chatter busy coloring trowing
/.eventiergim is far ee 1 Hnu.d
teen age mom She is 1 ompletlng tiei
hat helor s degree in lour years and has
managed to minor m geology and at t u
mulale a 1 H4 Uf’A irt the process She
doesn't take all the t redd, however
I don't think 1 could have done tins
so easily or so fast without mv mom
Zevenliergen said
Her mother. Linda, has run a tlav ate
center m Springlield suite Zeventeige;;
was ill seventh grade nlil Aim began
kindergarten this ! d! -d.e stayed vs ;tf.
her grandmother while her mom attend'
ed 1 lasses
For the first few years of tdege.
mom was at a-' to Lave a day it!
Aim Fins year she has lasses every
• * v< O f | *4 1
Student parent Cheryl /ovonbergen. ?t and daughter. Amy Christine. 5, will cele
brate graduation together in Juno
diiv Init is home tn 1 111
i'i'vi nbergen in! the tinniest irrin
w.r- her tir-.t ’.V till adjustments In i ul
lage imt ls\n vs t • s 1 illness She siidll
v. ! ;nii: :hi swing, hut ! •stilt g> I i 1111!• •
nervous before mu ti term. she s.iiit
Atm pi s-. u|) on tier mnltie: s slrv . s
pei :itlIv luring finuls. Zevenborgen
sunt
Z- . e: l ■ -gen • student piirenl path to
I college degree begun sooner thill! most
:! he: i v ef• ’ ■. p.Itl ill peers When
she h,ul Aim between her sophomore
unit junior ve.irs ,it Springtluhi High
Si huol. '.hi' Sil lli stir m vi t fioubtl'li sin1
would linisli hitr ill in .il uni S|n held
trut’ l<> hi.T M'lf -promise
Nut uiilv did she graduate on nihrd
dr. but shi was i lass salutatorian with
i I'Mit.l’A ami uiademu scholarships
.sliii h h.iu- I it-1 j >* i i sustain her through
nilrgi- is lip with tinulK lit I alii ami a
part-time jol.’ at Fubrtcland
Slat i.11;.■ • ■ to lontinue her niui atloti
i -iemenlatv ■ ■ iu• aluai blit lor now Is
t ’ i ■ l /. ; ! 1. :a' ' I junking lot
in • parents ;* rj. t
OBSESSED
Eating disorders
still prevail among
college-age
women.
See DISORDER, page 4
HOOTS OF PROTEST
An administrative law judge let the EPA
drop out of the 'God Squad' hearings
over the northern spotted owl Wednes
day.
See ENVIRONMENT, page 10
OPENER
Pac-10 hoops
debut tonight when
Oregon men face
Cal at Mac Court
See SPORTS, page 7
Speech to give better look at Soviet issues
jGeography Professor Ron Wixman
will explain how they've been affected
by the rapid-fire changes in the region
By Came Dennett
Associate Editor
Almost nivjhtK . the new \ show's ; ; ' >\ i
t hanging Soviet Union, but often U111? to e\-» i.n
i.wW till' i 1 V t ■ ..| Soviet ( lti/r! s l'i ,.1 .
Tonight Iroin •’ UO tu *J no, (nograp.’iv i'roles sor Ron
W.xman vvi!i provide i ■ ipi r .. nm-rst.i;.,! mg ■ • : un
hanging Soviet scene m "Kestrui t..: mg .•>! tin SSK
Wliv and How .1 public lei tori .uni ide show '.’..it
will be hi hi :a 100 Willamette
He's been going to tin; Soviet l.'nmn and hasten) hu
rope sintr ho was 17. anti over tin- ursi- it his _'J
trips there, ho has developed a stim '.ieri-st in tile re
gion's manv ethno-1 ultural different i s
\\ ' h t W . t . t 1 . t i. Si 1 v ,r '
j ’>• n strut lured Soviet 1 nu.n
tVuniiin aid he is giving In*, talk because of tlm
Milllln't it tepuests he has tel elVet] [o talk, to different
groups alxni! the restructuring
fine topic ip will address is niedta coverage o! the
'• arm tunng
t.e Amt-ru an media is covering mi ideiits. not e.
sues, tie said
Wcvn.an snt(i tile media's lelldencv to show tin So
■.iet people standing in line tor food or noting is no
note ail ai i irate depletion of li.eir lives than m rules ot
homii ides and homelessness are (it Ament all life
rile media is no! treating the issues ol vvhV tile (.or
but hev reforms faileil, and why it is iietng restructured
the wav :t Is. ' he said
WiMiian 'and most t sprits on th.e Soviet Union
spend their tune ill Mom ivv institutes t.liking with ai
, lemii tans He went i ut to villages. I.u toru s and rurtd
areas throughout the Soviet Union
All id Ids i nr,(acts are the Soviet people "That is
, ; am aide to have . finger in what the Soviet ; id
. : I.lv wants ‘ he said
As a geographer. what lias interested me s the pod
, ai territorial isfiects ot change, not the iiat.ge ui
:. art v ;e i.t a hr siiij
In the United Slate- he said, most polita a! seten
' sts Stud', changes M - w p ' • l.alnn
geographical and cultural I badges .t. till rest i.t the Sc
v iet Union
WIXMAN