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. 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