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
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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
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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
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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