Revamping of colleges urged
SACRAMENTO (AP) — Commu
tutv • n I leges mu "it In’ morli.mli'il in
■HHHtai order lo lietter sen. e mi reasmg num
SSSHiiHiSi (mts of students ill a time when gm
eminent budgets .in- shrinking. a i ommission has
reported
Mans of the strategies proposed Wednesday h\
the Commission on Innovation, formed In the (.ah
ifornia Community Colleges Hoard of Governors,
t enter on bolstering links beiyveen the community
college system and the private sector
In general, the commission suggested a broader
array of classes, modernizing operations and
expanding the role of community colleges in is o
nomic development
Proposals aimed a! helping California's econo
my include developing centers that yvould provide
one-stop training and employment services to
workers yvho have lost their jobs, and extending
i ommunitv college services to small and medium
sliced businesses
The < hanges would require elimination of laws
that restrict i (immunity colleges in providing
courses under contract to businesses and govern
merit agencies
Other suggestions included.
• Operating community colleges year-round as
an alternative to constructing new facilities
• Delivering itistnu lion to students at home v ci
television or electronic information networks
• Devising a system of statew life colll'i live bar
gaining for community college employees
• Providing fn< unlives for colleges to be< tune
more effh lent by adopting the prim iples of quali
tv management useii by mam federal government
agent ins and businesses
There are 107 colleges in the system, the largest
higher-education institution in the world, whit h
serves nearly 1 4 million students
Forest Service denies worker’s claim
REDMOND (AI’) A union
representative has been warned
not to usu Forest Service time or
equipment to represent a former
forest worker who claims she
was sexually harassed hv a les
bian co-worker.
Annette Trythall said she
views the warning by Joe Cruz,
supervisor of the Deschutes
National Forest, as an attempt
by the Forest Service to squelch
a grievance she filed on behalf of
Karin McGuire.
"The U.S. Forest Service is
refusing to deal with this issue
and is trying to force it to go
away." Trythall said
Cruz denied that Wednesday,
saying. "It has to do with the
contract the union h.is with the
Forest Service and nothing
else.”
Fro/ said McGuire is no
longer an employee of Redmond
Air Center and does not qualify
for union representation
Trvthall is the lot al rupresen
tative for the National Federa
tion of Federal Kmployees Her
salary is paid by the Forest Ser
vice and the agency provides
her with office space.
McGuire, 31. filed her griev
ance last week with Regional
Forester John I.owe seeking rein
statement plus hack pay and
reimbursement for counseling
costs Lowe has 30 days to
,111 i'j)l or denv (he i omplaint
Mi (mire t laims .i lesbian i o
worker at Redmond Air Center
graphically described sexual
encounters and that forest offi■
i oils failed to try to stop the
alleged harassment despite
Mi (mire's pleas lor help
( >ii/ said the agent s i ondm I
ed an investigation but did not
find that anv harassment had
taken place
The state Fmplovment Divi
sion, however, ruled after
Mi ( mire quit her job in August
that she was sexually harassed
and granted her unemployment
benefits The Forest Service has
challenged the ruling
Mexican celebration
to honor the dead
SUWYSinK. Wash (AI’) Id t)ia a.' Ins Miwrtiis. the Day of the
Dead. is i elehrated tn families in Mi'vim w itli tiffin lion, dignity ami
humor, with flmvers. gray eside picnit s ami sugar skulls
l! is a wa\ of remembering. said Maria Kletlft Romero. who
unfailingly visits the cemetery Iter** on Nov 2 with her host).tml.
Mai arm.
Roman Catholics liavt> traditionally sot aside the two da\ s alter
1 lallowtsm to honor the dead In the 1 lispauu community, and par
ticularly in the Mevlean culture, that can include visits to graves,
special prayers and even the i elehration of Mass at the i emetery
Mrs Romero, ti I. of Sunny side, ret alls spending the vv hole day at
the i emetery in Monterey . Nuevo I .eon. Mexico, when she and her
husband lived there years ago
She rvmemliers food booths lining the streets outside the i emetery .
i hats with people visiting dei eased loy etl ones, and t rmvus of flow
ers grai mg the gravestones
t let eased i hi Id run receiv e spot nil ret ognition on All Saints 1 lay.
Noy t, sail! the Rev |esus Ramirez. a priest at Our l.adv of
Guadalupe Catholit Church in Granger
We consider them angehtos angels, he said
I he Nov ^ Ml Souls Hay , a date i omparahle to Memorial Day , is
a respet ted custom in the i luiri h. Ramire? said He em mirages
parishioners to partit ipate in graveside blessings
It's very strong, the respet t for our dead, Ramirez said 'll is
something that is in the souls of our people
In parts of Mexit o anti I’exas. families go to graresites and make
a day of cleaning and fixing them up They take flowers w reaths
crosses, paint and crepe paper for decorating
A picnic is often eaten at graveside In some < ountries, the dead an1
believed to revisit the earth on Ml Souls night anti partake of the
food of the living
llistorit ally. the Cat hot it c hurt h i eleb rated the day after I la I
linveen to i ounteract ami "(ihristinnize" pagan customs, Kami re/,
said ((hosts were htdieved to roam the earth and witches to gather
for devil worship on Halloween
Such helitds likely stemmed from Ihe ( eltic festival of Samhain.
lortl of death, who h markeil the start o[ the season of t old, dark
ness and decay Cells htdieved Samhain a I Unveil souls to return to
earth at tins time
I he festival is considered to lie the soon e of the present-day Hal
loween custom ol tru k or treating by costumed children
COMMUNITY UPDATE
• Texaco stations in Eugene. Portland and Vancouver, Wash., will
give away two tickets to the Morula\ Alabama concert at Portland's
Memorial Coliseum to anv person who donates two hogs of food to
the Oregon l-'ood Bank on Sunday from 11 a.in. to 4 p m People can
exchange food bags for concert tickets in Eugene at the Glenwood
Avenue Texaco station.
• Kvengelina Rodriguez I.opez, a Guatemalan refugee, will speak
about women and edut ation in refugee settlements on Wednesday in
the EMII Fir Room I.opez represents the Permanent (iommission of
the Guatemalan Refugees in Mexico and New Union, a refugee
women's group Her spoor h begins at 7 to p m and is sponsored by
the Committee in Solidarity with the Central American People
• A public forum on President Clinton's health plan is scheduled
for Thursday. Nor t, at the f irst United Methodist Church. 1.176
Olive St. The forum is hosted bv bane Fair Share. NAACP. Church
Women United. League of Women V oters. American Association of
Retired people and Concerned Faculty for Peace and Justice An
overview of the health plan will be given, and each group represent
ed will provide a brief outline of how their organization views the
plan. The two-hour forum begins at 7 p m
• What You Don 't Sav Cam 11 art You Keeping Sei rets and Your
Health" is the topic of a free educational program offered by Sat red
Heart General Hospital. The program begins Monday at 7 tl) p in in
the Eugene Hilton, fit; F 6th Ave Dr Dale Parson, an associate pro
fcssor and director of the health psychology program at Santa Clara
University, will speak about the impait of set rei v on personal
health. For more information, call hHh-7272.
• The I anted Way needs volunteers for the following positions;
ret eptionist for Willamette Wildlife Rehabilitation, six hours per
week; yard worker for I.a/Co AIDS Hospice Services, two hours per
month; craft assistant for Eugene Good Samaritan Center, two hours
a week, tour guides for Willamette Science & Technology Center, two
hours per week, telephone crisis volunteers for Sexual Assault Sup
port Services, three hours a week For more information, call 6H3
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