Oregon Daily
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1. 1993
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 95, ISSUE 64
Packwood
accusers
‘stand up’
at benefit
j Women continue
fight against Senator
By Rebecca Merritt
Oregon Daily tmerald
Women who accused Sen.
Hob Packwood of sexual mis
conduct hope the power they
gained from stepping forward
will push the senator out of
office and make sexual harass
ment issues a national priority.
"By coming forward I've
empowered myself in a way I
didn’t expect.” said Gina Hut
ton, a Eugene woman who
claims she was sexually
harassed by Packwood while
working as his Lane County
campaign chairwoman in 1980.
"The longer we can stand up
and talk the more consciousness
we can ruisa."
But first, the 29 women who
say they received unwanted sex
ual behavior from Packwood
need financial and emotional
support if they hope to lead
their fight into Senate Ethics
Committee hearings, said Kitty
Piercy, president of the Oregon
National Abortion Rights Action
League.
Piercy and members of Orego
nians for Ethical Representation,
a group formed last year to sup
port the Packwood victims,
sponsored a benefit reception to
raise mono) for those women
Tuesday at a local restaurant.
Proceeds from the event will
help pay business and travel
Turn to PACKWOOD. Page 4
New growth
Tamma Glover, left, works with her fellow lab aide. Jean Masterson
m preparing a fermenter for sterilization The fermenter is used to
promote the growth of bacteria for experiments in class
IFC could pull
funds if groups
miss deadlines
j Fee committee gets serious as it
prepares for upcoming budget
By Edward Klopfenstein
Oregon Inttfrakl
Incidental Fee Committee members and A.NUO offi
t mis ,ire gearing up behind a roily mg cry of "We Mean
Business" for this year's upcoming budget season,
telling student groups they might not Im funded if they
don't meet deadlines
"We want to get the message out litis year that we're
serious We .ire sticking to our deadlines," said From is
Neo, finance coordinator for the ASUO "I mean, why
should we !>e interested in a group that doesn't make the
effort?"
For student groups with budgets less than $10,000.
the deadline for submitting a 1094-95 budget proposal
is Dei 10, next Friday Today is the deadline for
requesting an extension.
For student groups with budgets over $10,000, the
proposal deadline is Jon lf> Budget hearings Itegin Jan
5.
The Dei 10 deadline is about a month earlier from
last year's deadline tmcauso the ASUO wants the budget
process starting faster and ending sooner than last year's
late May ending. Neo said
If the ASUO i unnot present its budget to University
President Myles Brand by May t, making i lianges by the
end of spring term would prove nearly impossible, Neo
said.
Student groups have been assigned both an ASUO
finance officer and an official from the IFC to answer
questions and help groups form their budgets. Croups
have also received a manual that guides them through
the budget process
Several student groups didn’t even receive money last
year, coming instead to the IFC for supplemental fund
ing in summer or fall.
Not meeting deadlines, Neo said, created u backlog
Turn to IFC, Page 3
Modem diet causes tooth decline
□ Increased dental
problems result of
new agriculture
By Eron Witzel
Far the Oregon Daily Emerald
Forget mashed polaloes and
turkey because your teeth might
be better off if you abandon
society and start foraging for
nuts and leaves and stalking
wild prey.
Studies by University anthro
pologist John Lukacs. indicate
that our hunter/gatherer ances
tors had fewer dental problems
than their successors, who
depended on agriculture and
were less nomadic. He has stud
ied about 600 skeletons, skulls
and other remains in his
research and has made nearly
20 trips to India and surround
ing countries to gather data.
"We definitely found
increased dental problems as
agriculture developed." Lukacs
said. He believes the problems
stemmed from a diet that
included more cooked and
ground foods.
These focxis tended to lie soft
er and required less work from
the teeth and jaws. Softer foods
can cause problems because
they do not grind away the nat
ural grooves in teeth. Food and
bacteria collect in the grooves
and (an causa cavities.
The nomadic people usually
subsisted on raw foods and hod
to use their teeth and jaws for
all grinding and softening. This
strengthened the jaw and wore
away the grooves of in the teeth.
"Modern dentists sometimes
fill those grooves in the teeth
with epoxy so food can't get
in." he said, indicating that the
problems have not vanished
with modern brushing and
flossing.
"The teeth and jaws nru
essentially food processors."
Lukacs said. With agriculture
these utensils had less work to
do and they deteriorated
accordingly, his studies say
Much of Lukacs' research
focused on Harappa. Pakistan, a
site near the area of the earliest
civilization in the Indus Valley.
There he found that females in
early agricultural societies had
more cavities and other dental
problems than the males Ho
suggested this was because of
significant differences in diet
Iietween the sexes and that divi
sion of labor could have been a
factor.
The agricultural societies
continued hunting regularly,
and this activity was probably
dominated by males. This may
have meant more protein and
raw materials in the male diet.
In addition, t.ukacs said in a
report published last year, the
Harappan society may have val
ued female offspring less than
male ones, leaving them with
less care and an inferior diet
Despite 20 years of research.
Lukacs said his conclusions
could change with new discov
eries.
Turn to TOOTH, Page 3
Judge reduces sentences
if offenders cut long hair
□ Justice gives kids new image with fines
HOUSTON (AP) — A justice of the peace has taken the law
by the scruff of the neck.
Tony Polumbo. who serves a Harris County precinct, offers
teen-age offenders a break on their sentences if they cut their long
locks.
‘•The purpose is to give those kids a different mind-set or image,
try to get them away from die subculture and into the mainstream
again." Poiumbo said. "About 80 percent accept my offer.”
In the case of a 13-year-old with a ponytail, Polumbo fined him
$430 for assaulting a youth to get into a gang. The 13-year-old
agreed to convert the fine to 80 hours of community service and
then had 15 hours lopped off when he chopped off his pony
tail.
Other teens wouldn't part with their hair.
"It looks better long this way," said a 16-year-old gang mem
ber sentenced to 144 community service hours for disorderly con
duct at school.
Polumbo left his job as a state representative alter 16 years to
become a justice of the peace three years ago. He prides himself
on being unconventional.
"When you deal with youngsters, you can't deal with normal.”
he said. "Our goal is to connect. Most kids are used to being boat
on and using their unfortunate situations to act ugly. I try some
thing different."