UNIVERSITY
Dorms begin recycling food
By David C. Zartman
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Students dumped biscuits,
salads and moat unto the floor
of the Carson Mall cafeteria
Wednesday as part of Food
Waste Awareness Day.
This was part of a University
food services effort to get stu
dents to "think before you
take" food, said Glenn White,
food services supervisor at Car
son.
Insteod of dumping their
food into a conventional food
disposal system, students de
posited more than 250 pounds
of lunch leftovers into a pile to
illustrate how much food is be
ing wasted.
In response to the wasting of
food, and more specifically, un
served dorm food, the Universi
ty has implemented a new food
recycling program.
The new program has been
initiated at the Carson, Univer
sity Inn and Hamilton Complex
cafeterias to give unserved,
cooked food to the needy of
Lane County.
"Wo were already heavily in
volved in recycling our pack
aging waste." While said. "We
wanted to go all the way and
recycle our food if we could."
Jim Desmond of Food Rescue
Express set up a program with
the University to get unserved
food to the needy.
"I have area restaurants
working with the program, and
I wanted to expand it if I
could." Desmond said. "The
University seemed like a great
opportunity."
Desmond asked White to par
ticipate in the program, which
picks up donated food and dis
tributes it.
“We were held back in the
Cst by stale law. which for
de giving away food due to
liability concerns." White said.
"The lows have now been
changed to allow institutions to
donate their unused food."
And the food is needed.
More than BO.OOO Lane Coun
ty residents, including families,
live substantially below the
poverty line, and more than
32.000 Lane County children
experience hunger on a daily
basis, according to Food Rescue
Express.
Food Rescue Express works
by giving the University special
containers to hold cooked, un
served food
At the and of each day, a re
frigerated truck picks up the
containers and transports them
to a facility in Eugene, where
the food is quick-frozen and
saved until it is distributed.
All food goods are handled,
processed and stored in accord
ance with strict food prepara
tion. health and safety stan
dards.
Most of the food is given to
the elderly, infants and chil
dren. as well as homeless soup
kitchens.
The program is funded
through grants from Food for
Lane County. United Way. and
various corporate sponsors.
"We hope the program will
lie permanent." White said.
There are at least BO such
programs throughout the Unit
ed States, mostly in large cities
such as New York and Los An
E“ s. This is the first of its
in the Lane County area.
The coordinators of the pro
gram said they expect to save
and distribute moro than
200.000 pounds of food this
year at the University alone,
and more than two million
pounds are expected from all
participating institutions
Food Rescue Express estimat
ed that more than 300.000
pounds of food are wasted by
area institutions every year
School seeks economic expert
The University's economics deportment has
opened the search for a nationally recognized
scholar to Till the Hamacher Chair in Economics,
a position mode possible by a $1 million endow
ment front a University alumnus.
The department is looking for an espert in
microeconomics, international economics and/or
macroeconomics, said Economics Department
Mead Jo Anna Gray. The new chair will help the
economics department become nationally recog
nized in one of these areas. Gray said.
Hut the department is looking for mom than a
big name, sbe said. Thu search committee wants a
top-notch instructor undergraduate students
could benefit directly from and someone interest
ed in developing the economics faculty to its full
est potential.
The Uamacher ('hair will attract other excellent
students and faculty. Gray said.
"The trickle-down effect is very substantial,"
she said. "High-quality faculty and GTF’l mean
high-quality undergraduate education."
Interest from the endowment will pav for the
costs of the new position. The chair will tie paid
$70-90,000 a year. Gray estimated. In addition,
the endowment will furnish insurance benefits,
travel and research expenses and other related
costs.
Panel: Sexual assault
prevention needs focus
By Mandy Baucum
Emerald Reporter
Several students and administrators who spoke Wednesday
night at a panel on issues relating to rape, sexual harassment
and assault said the University is one of the leading schools
in rape prevention education, although improvements are
still needed.
Following a film about the subtle relationship between the
portrayal of women on MTV and violence against women, a
panel of seven representatives from Sexual Assault and Sup
port Services, Saferide. Men Against Rape. Greeks Against
Rape, the University Counseling Center, the Dean of Students
and Womenspace discussed issues relating to unwanted sex
ual behaviors.
The panel first responded to the current environment of
rape around the country and at the University.
Robin Holmes, a psychologist at the University's counsel
ing center said people who come in for counseling are asked
to check a box that asks if they have ever experienced any
unwanted sexual acts. Holmes said one out of three women
check that box, with most citing date rape.
Kate Barkley, community educator for Womenspace, a
shelter for battered women, said the shelter is "always filled
to capacity." She noted that in 36 states "it’s legal for a man
to rape his wife because she is considered his property."
Men Against Rape director, Sean Foxley said, on a more
positive note, that the University has the only education pro
gram that deals with rape.
"We are pretty much a forefront in the nation as far as rape
education on college campuses." he said.
Saferide volunteer coordinator Shoshanah Oppenheim said
she was sadly surprised when she learned that very few cam
puses around the nation have services similar to Saferide or
task forces against sexual crimes like the Unwanted Sexual
Rehavior Task Force.
After discussing the current state of unwanted sexual be
havior on campus and in the nation, the panel discussed
what could be done to address unwanted sexual behavior.
Cindy Veldhuis, SASS volunteer, said legal problems are
responsible for some of the difficulties women must face
when they come out and say they’ve been raped
"Our legal system is screwed and it needs to be changed."
Veldhuis said.
Veldhuis said that women are subjected to the traumatic
experience of telling every detail of the rape experience and
are often not believed. She added that women are put
through a dehumanizing physical examination after they
have been raped.
"It’s a victimizing and horrendous process," she said.
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