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Oregon Daily WEDNESOAY, JANUARY 5. 1994 Packwood responds to conduct allegation Ethics: The senator addresses complaint of one female accuser ALBANY (AP) — St-n Boh Packwood responded directly to an allegation of sexual miscon duct for the first time Tuesday. saying one of his female accusers kissed him voluntarily many times. Gena Hutton, a former volun teer for Packwood in Kugene, complained that the Oregon Republican grabbed her. kissed her and invited her to his hotel room one evening in 1080 as he walked her to her car. Packwood told a Rotary Club audience that Hutton kissed him the next day and on a number of later <x elisions I fe said she con tinued to work as a volunteer for him in Kugene until 1!IH4 and at one point asked him to loan her money for a business venture Packwood sanl lie did not make the loan. 1 hope Gena says. 'Well, no. I didn’t go to Guos Bay. or I never went to Salem, or I didn't go to “Turn to PACKWOOD. Page6 Video game makers to label games Violence: Congress pressures manufacturers to work on rating syst em WASHINGTON (API — \ idoo game nifikcrs say they're moving quick ly to mollify parents alarmed by the sight of Junior zapping bloodsucking vampires and home idol martial arts war riors oft the TV screen M a n u fac t u re rs' representa tives. under growing pressure from Congress to voluntarily rate their games, are meeting in Las Vegas to begin work on a iatieling system The |an H meeting, which is to be under the auspices ol the Software Publishers Associa tion, follows a threat by law makers to pass legislation that would impose such a system on tile industry. During recent testimony to tile Senate, the software association promised that the industry would take action on its own. "We welcome this weekend's meeting," said Richard Brudvik l.indner of Sega of America, one of the leading makers of home video entertainment. "We can fashion a system that enables Turn to VIDEO, Page 5 One way City of Eugene Transportation Division workers Charles Lange and John Ledgerwood erect a new sign and barricade at the corner of Clark and Washington streets NATIONAL New campaign addresses use of condoms AIDS: Young Americans are target of TV ads suggesting protection, abstinence U VSIIINC.TON (AIM In one TV ad an adventure some condom in its little pm kune loops under the blankets to join a couple making love In another, a young woman told by a passionate suitor that he lor got it retorts. "Then forget it'” t hey re part of a bidder new federal campaign to persuade young Americans to protect themselves against AIDS, either by using i oiidoms every time and any wav they have sex. or by abstaining from sex altogether I lie new ails made available to the I V networks l uesdav. .ire more i lever than explii it I hey never show an actual condom or even an unmistakably gav couple; most vu tints of the lata) disease in the t int nil States are male homosexuals Hut they mark a heightened level of frankness from Reagan era health offU oils who once hinted at con dom use by showing a voting man pulling on a sot k 'I very new IIIV Infection is a needless inlet lion, said Health and Human Services Secret.ir Donna h Sh.ihila Until now. 'we have been too timid to talk Vpettly about the prevention tools at out disposal. Kristine M Cebbio th<- notional AIDS polu v cttoi dinator, said abstinent t- is the sorest way to avoid the tleadlv virus Hut. holding op several wrapped i oiidoms, (mhliie added, 'll you dot boose to lie sexually ai live, use one of these, use a latex t ondom every time you have sex 1'he ( i nters for Disease Control and Prevention (.railed spots licit would Ire act eptahle to the networks and the puhlit at large and still get their message at rnss to the target Itidiem»• young adults ages 1H to Turn to CAMPAIGN. Par 4 GOOD MORNING ^ The Incidental I ee Committer will hear budget requests lor the 1994 95 school year Tuesdays and Thursdays between 6 and 10 p m . It C members decided at their Monday night meeting The committee plans to meet with live groups each night until they work their way through all the approximately 180 programs petitioning the IFC for lundtng next year As the committee has done yearly, the IFC must draft a budget by late May to present to University President Myles Brand lor approval On Monday night, committee members scheduled the first meeting lor Thursday at 6 p m ^ INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man who agreed to HIGH 48° l O W ( 42° lamer a cnna ior a lellow teacher must pay $100,000 in child support despite the woman’s writ ten promise not to seek money trom nim, an appeals coun ruiea The elementary school teachers were dating when Francine Todd asked Edward Straub to father her child Straub agreed if Todd promised in writing she would never seek financial aid from him. The Indiana Court of Appeals said Todd had no right to sign away her daughter's right to financial support from her lather, Straub “It is apparent that our legislature has created a strong current public policy with the object of pro tecting the rights of children from the whims of their parents and the power of the slate," Judge Stanley Miller wrote in Thursday’s 2-1 ruling