Oregon Daily
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1992
Proposed
hospice
has critics
□ Proposed Acorn House
will offer foster care for
AIDS patients
By Tim Neff
Emerald Associate Editor
In most respects, the Friendly Neigh
borhood, which sprawls through south
west Eugone. is just like any other mid
dlo class, American suburb.
Quiet streets wind around unassuming
houses with backyards just largo enough
to accommodate the occasional barbe
cue.
It is a place that would fit most fami
lies like a well-worn glove But the wel
come wagon has been conspicuously ab
sent for the newest neighbor.
. Acorn House, an adult foster home for
people with AIDS, is set to open its
doors to clients after nearly throe years of
planning, hoping and wailing But some
people living noarby are concerned
about the facility, which will provide
AIDS patients with treatment and a com
fortable place to die.
Tho foster care homo is run by Lane
(lounly AIDS Hospice Services, a non
profit organization that provides a range
of support services for people with AIDS
When it is finally up and running — pos
sibly by the beginning of November —
Acorn House will provide tare for up to
fivo AIDS patients at a time.
Hospice services executive director
James K. Phelps said Acorn House will
"provide care to rnuny people who are too
well for prolonged hospital caire but too
sick to go back home.
• " There are individuals who are in the
hospital and they're to a point where
they've become better but they are un
able to go homo,” Phelps said. “They
may have substandard housing or have
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In the limelight
Pftdo by SNrx5»*r
Eric Ostlmd works on his lines for the play Blue Window outside
Viiiard Hall The play opens Oct 28 m the Arena Theater
OPS seeks
babyfaced’
perpetrator
□ Suspect is being sought in
connection with several pet
ty thefts on campus Monday
A white main desert b 11 d a s
"babyfaced" is suspected in u number of
putty theft* that took place on the Uni
versity campus Monday, according to the
Office of Public Sufuty
Don Lee, OPS associate director, said
the suspect was Involved in six thefts,
beginning in the Carson Hall cafeteria
about noon Monday.
The suspect was able to get one back
pack and two wallets from the kitchen
employees' lockers before being con
fronted and leaving, Lee said
The suspect was later confronted
while In the Bonn Catering Kitchen but
then made his way to the Knight Library,
where he obtained Iwo purses and one
backpack from the staff breakroom there.
Loo said
Leo described the suspect us 23 lo 25
years old. 5-foot-fi and very thin.
He said the suspect was "babyfaced,"
had no facial hair, and had short, straight
light brown lo blond hair
He was wearing a brown jacket and
blue jeans, Lee said
Lee urged students and faculty to se
cure their property
"Don't leave your personal belongings
anywhere alone,” Loo said "Before the
day is out, I'm sure we'll get more tails
Lee said anyone with information
about the suspect should cull OPS al
346-5444
EPD agent will join OPS fight to solve campus crime
jThe addition of new agent will allow
investigations of smaller complaints
By Matt Bender
Emerald Report*_
Campus law enforcement officials say the addition of
agent William Brooks to the Eugene police depart
ment’s University boat will allow the police to investi
gate and solvo more campus crimos.
Brooks, a 21-yoar votoran of Ei’D, was assigned to the
campus when the University decided to give up a pa
trol officer and got an agent to help investigate campus
crimes. An agent ranks above a patrol officer and IhiIow
a sergeant.
Sgt. Dennis Baker, who heads fcil'D's campus detail,
said the addition of Brooks will allow the police to
havo an officer totally devoted to investigative work.
"Agent Brooks Will be the superior on campus in my
absence and will be the load Investigator in campus in
cidents," Baker said.
Baker said having a lead Investigator will allow the
police to look Into smaller cases that might not huvo
been investigated in the past.
"In the past, the smaller cases may not havo boon in
vestigated at all.” Baker said. "Just because tho officers
on campus didn't have thci time."
Tho luck of investigations was a major complaint of
the students, said Carey Drayton, director of the Uni
versity's Offico of Public Safety.
"We added tho agent to meet tho needs of the stu
dents." Drayton said. "I heard complaints from the stu
dents that we weren't meeting their demands."
Drayton said tho addition of Brooks will reduce the
amount of "student-on-student" crimes with no added
expense to the University He said tho money used to
pay the higher salary of an agent came from existing ro
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WEATHER
We will have abundant sun
shine today with highs of 70-75.
Lows around 40
Today in History
The |ewtsh Day of Atonement.
Yom Kippur. begins at sunset
In 1973. Egypt and Syria
attacked Israel in the start of the
Yom Kippur War.
AUTOPSY PROOF
CHICAGO (AP) - A pathologist who participated in the autopsy on John
F Kennedy says he aerees with two others who recently said tne president
was killed bv two bullets fired from behind
‘We gut it right in 1963 and it still stands in 1992," Find said in aim
menu published in the 0.1 7 issue of the lournal of the American Medical
Association
Finck's acaiunt. submitted in written form to a JAMA reporter during an
Aug. 19 interv iew in Switzerland, was consistent with interviews pub
lished by IAMA m May of the two other pathologists at the autopsy
These firsthand accounts on the autopsy and tne scientific forensic evi
dence are indisputable.* said Dr George D Lundberg
_SPORTS
LAKE FOREST. Ill (AP) - Chicago Bears coach Mike Duka
has no regrets ab.sU his tirade over an errant pass thrown by
|im Horbaugh He still thinb his quarterback made a serious
mistake
’I've nothing to regret. I'm a man of few regrets.' Ditka said
Monday, still incensed over Harbaugh's decision to call an
audible that resulted in a 3Vyard touchdown return by Todd
Scott and triggered the Minnesota Vikings comeback from a
Mi-0 lie fiat that led to a 21 -30 Bears loss
Duka had called for a long pass and Harbaugh changed it to
a hitch pass to Neal Anderson Anders.in did not hear the
change and Scott intercepted.