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Oregon Daily FRIDAY. APRIL 22.1994 EUGENE. OREGON VOLUME 95. ISSUE 137 Smokin’ Jett Dean (right) avoids a punch thrown by Joe Smith during Dean's Victory at the Smoker boxing tournament at Mac Arthur Court Thursday. The annual event helped raise money tor the Children s Miracle Network UNIVERSITY IFC approves Women’s Center revised budget Budget: Women's Center granted a 100 percent increase at second budget hearing By Amy Columbo In its set utiil hearing fieforo tin- Incidental Fire Com nntti'f the ASIJO Women* Ci>nti>r was allot ated $U~,742, ‘i KM)') | hi remit mi rvaso in it s budget fur the 1994 95 year ")ust fun ing this budget [mssed fools like* .1 huge weight has boon lifted off my shoulders. Women's ~ „ , , ~~T “ t ( enter Restru. turmg Se« Re!ated S,0fV' ^ 4 ( onimittee represonla tin) Ciura Rodgers said "It's in timllv going to happen.'' Rodgers said in referent e to the plans fur the new Women s Center in she original budget having the lit I member* delib erated lor more than two hours tint were unable to pass a motion to fund the Women s Center As a result the hearing was resi huduted for a special hearing on Wednesday April 20. The Women's Center Restructuring ('onimittee then submitted a reviser! budget to the IFC requesting less money. W ion the Women’s t '.enter budget was heard the ms Olid tune, the IFC members allocated the full amount of the resubmitted request with little opposition "To tell you the truth, I was very surprised," Restruc turing Committee representative Ruin Sussinan said about the finoiu nil support tlnit the IFC provided. "We were ready for a long hard battle." she said Rodgers said that the Restrut luring Committee met after the original meeting to review and implement some Turn to CENTER Paao •» Candidate wants more public input Campaign: Council needs lo maintain balance with city manager, says Wotton, council candidate By Rebecca Merritt (Xiify Brrmnvtf The Rugene City Council nm»ds to maintain its balance with the city manager while improving (it i/on involvement in the government process, said council candidate Peter Wotton Wotton said Kugene has a ‘'weuk-mayor gov ernment'* because council members and the may or art! short-term posts while the city manager can remain in the job for a number of years. This strut lure lessens the impact of City Council dt-< isions. he said. "The mayor and councilors together reully are not .1 strong match for Mike Gleason," Wotton stud. "1 would consider the possibility that the city audi tor and city counsel l>e appointed by the council rather than the city manager." Wotton is running against Laurie Swanson-Grib skm for tlui Word -4 council scat, which represents Eugene arras east of Ay,ate Street and Coburg Road He has Iwett endorsed by the current Ward 4 coun cilor. Paul Nicholson, as well as by council mem bers Barbara Keller and Shawn Holes, County Commissioner )err\ Rust and State Senator Peter Sorenson "I've been thinking about running for a long time. Wot ton said "It's about time we hail an elderly statesman ' Wotton said he would bring balance, stability and productiveness to the count il He identified public involvement, public: safety, transportation and livability us the key issues for Kugenn. I want to look very closely at the citizen input to government." he said. Wotton said people have a growing distrust of elected officials The council's past efforts to involve citizens through Eugene Decisions was ineffective because the citizens were not ade quately informed of the government process. Turn to WOTTON, Page 4 Cancer takes psychology professor’s life Courage: Professor Gerald D Kranzler will be remembered fondly By Suzanne Marta fix OreQon D&tty &t%urate) Gerald D. Kranzler, professor of counseling psychology, died Monday of < ancer after having been on sick leave since the 1903 spring term Kranzler was til "His colleagues and student will remember his quiet leader ship, his unquenchable sense of humor, and his unfailing courage through a long illness He was truly a class act," said Jan Morrison, at ting coordina tor of counseling psychology Kranzler, who was bom Sept It, 1992, in lehr, N D , married Carolyn Sheets on Sept. 7, 19T>H The couple moved to Oregon in 1967 from Bloom ington. Ind., where Kranzler was an assistant professor of education at Indiana Universi ty. Kranzler worked in counsel ing psychology at the Universi ty as a professor and department coordinator for the past 27 years. Kranzler was a member of the Oregon Counseling Associ ation and received the associa tion's 1992 Leona Tyler Award, lie was honored as Professor of Ty- ' KRANZLER f’.i.;-• ‘ GOOD MORNING ► The rest of the election results were not available at press time but will be in the Emerald tomorrow ► PUG ENT (AP) When 5 year-old Christopher Cobbs straps into the electric wheel chair, his mother doesn't worry that he'll get dirty plowing through the mud or hud in an accident. With his small hand gripping the joystick and his eyes locked on tiny TV screens inside a headset. Christopher zooms through a computer -generated world ot vidual reality, learning to pitot a wheelchair the same way an astronaut learns to land the space shuttle, "Put me on speed!” said Christopher, whose cerebral pal sy keeps him Irom walking, but not from playing Nintendo. "I want to be running through the mud1” Christopher's mother. Nora Cobbs, drivers him 135 miles from Grants Pass to practice on the vidual reality rig He's one ot a dozen kids in this pilot program at the Oregon Research Insti tute. which is financed by a $600,000 grant from the U.S. Depadment of Education "On his real one, if he crash es, he'll get hud," Cobbs said "They should have thought of this a long time ago. It’s going to help a lot ot kids ” HIGH 60° 40° ► SALEM (AP) — Parents who have a baby because of a doc tor's alleged failure to perform a sterilization are entitled to seek damages for child rearing expenses, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled today Ruling in a Lane County case, the court did not award dam ages, but it did decide for the first time that such damages can be claimed in negligence law suits involving unwanted prog nancies. Brian and Jonm Zehr allege in their lawsuit that Dr Richard Haugen of Eugene failed to per form a rtjquested tubal ligation when Jonm gave birth to her second child at Sacred Heart General Hospital in December 1988 The couple sued the doctor and hospital after the birth of their third child Among the dam ages they ask are $250,000 for future costs of raising the child and $75,000 for college expens es The Supreme Court said the couple have a right to go ahead with their claims that they should be compensated on grounds of negligence and breach of con tract.
