Forum addresses
Lane child abuse
By Jacqueline Woge
Emerald Reporter
Community loaders met in relotivo quiet and anonymity Monday
night to discuss tho equally understated issue of child abuse in
Lane County.
Youth Development Commission organizers hope that the Invita
tion-only forum will help kick off renewed efforts und greater coor
dination in dealing with child abuse issue*.
The fact that four of Oregon’s 16 child-abuse deaths In the last
nine months took place In Lane County prompted the discussion.
The statistic looks oven worse when considering that Lane County
has only 10 percent of the state's population.
Participants agreed thut child abuso in Lane County must
change.
The forty-something group of about 50 community movers
worked with professional precision through their agenda at the
meeting in the Downtown Athlotlc Club's third-floor conference
room.
The agenda Included a koy note address by Lane County Com
missioner Jack Roberts, a personal story by recovered child-abuser
Judy Bergstrom, writing personal pledges, and more than an hour
of serious discussion
Bergstrom's sketch of her alcoholic nightmare moved partici
pants to glowering contemplation hut not enough to make them
think beyond their own work when making their pledges. The ma
jority vowed to continuo curront efforts in their government agency
or nonprofit and to try to notwork more for child abuse prevention
Some promised to pay more attention to their own children
Bergstrom's addressed the issue of self consciousness or lack
thereof.
"I didn't know I had a drinking problem," Bergstrom said "I
didn't know what love was."
She aslo sold she didn't know why she folt the way she felt
Although the spoeches and pledges offered only a quick, broad
sweep over the Issue, the forum offered a positive start for future
efforts. Good humor prevailed throughout the ovening. nover giv
ing way to methodological spats. People got to know each other a
little better. Participants agreed on the significance of child abuse
in later adult behavior.
Each also agreed with the quote Roberts pulled from Russian
writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, that children need to have a future be
yond that of an "infinitely gentle and infinitely suffering thing ”
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An agent makes about 10 per
cent more than a patrol officer,
said Ll Jan Clement* of b'PD.
This Is not the first time
Brooks has worked the Univer
sity. Ho served us the campus
agent 10 years ago Shortly after
Brooks left the post tho Univer
sity eliminated the position.
"In tho past it was a matter of
money,' Clements said "The
University didn't have the ad
ditional money to keep the
agent."
Brooks said ho is excited
about returning to campus and
believes his presence will help
to reduce campus crime for two
reasons.
"Tho simple fact that more
crimes will bo investigated Is
one reason," he said "The oth
er is that patrolmen on campus
will no longer ire burdened
with us much investigative
work, which will allow them to
get out of the office and patrol
the campus."
Brooks said one of the rea
sons he applied for the position
is because he enjoys tho small
community feeling the Univer
sity has
One of the main goals Brooks
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Eugene polk:e department agent William Brooke said ha likes the
small community feeling" at the University.
said ho would like to accom
plish on rumpus Is to repair tho
rift between the students and
the police. He wild the student*
shouldn’t see their relationship
with the police us "us against
them."
”1 will work to define some
problems on campus." Brooks
said, "and try to work with stu
dent organizations to help tho
police and the students better
understand each othor."
In the recent yours, the only
contact the students bud with
the police was confrontational,
he Mid.
"It's my preference to have a
more personal contact with the
public," Brooks suld. "So the
studunts understand that wo
are poopln too "
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scheduling and traffic monitoring the board
would work out solutions to any problems.
Opponents spoke about fours: falling property
values, outsiders who might care nothing aliout
the neighborhood, and possible violence by ex
tremist groups.
Neighbors expressed a lack cf confidence In a
board they said they bolloved should have con
sulted residents In the beginning
Sortduck said tho Idea never occurred to tho
board because AIDS patient earn "has become
routine" and has not "encountered stark, negative
reaction for some time."
Ono of the neighbors suggested there lie a fol
low-up meeting In tiO to 90 days and board mem
bers agreed that would tie possible.
When Osborne signulod that the allotted time
was up, tho chairs were still In a circle, but divi
sion was still apparent. Asked if they fell assured,
one group of neighlKirs angrily replied in unison,
"No ”
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