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Free Low Fat Cooking Workshop * Learn to cook with less fat on a student s budget Hints on grocery shopping * How to read food labels * Tips on low-fat cooking * Hands-on cooking Meets four consecutive Tuesdays (Oct. 18-Nov. 8 ) 4:30-6:00 p.m. in the Student Health Center. To register, or for more information, call X 346-44jUL (or come by the Peer Health Advisers’ office) I'O SiuiU-ni Health Center Health Education Pntgram CENTER Continued from Page 1 tor* and receptionists. Tin* cen ter will be staffed throughout the day. "We've changed the environ ment,” Welch said "It's a com fortable place. We've already heard from people that you tan i orne in and have coffee and sii down.” A priority of the restructuring committee was to make an ojm'o environment for women on campus In the past, the center has been criticized for not moet ing these objectives Welch said her first priority is to get the center up and running The center was dormant during the summer "Thu mission of the Women's Center is to provide the lx>st working and educational envi ronment for women," she said Welch said women can look to the Women's ( enter for sever nl reasons: support groups, an entry way to return to school, a place to start if you are suffering \ from sexual harassment and a ' place to go when you are feeling too stressed out by i lasses She said the center will provide ref erence and referral for women Office Manager Mamie y Thompson said the center is working to Ixx omo familiar with resources and services available lor women in the community Thompson said they hope to I have contat ts. so they ran dins t r women to talk to the right peo ple “Wo tried to set it up so it's comfortable for thorn so they don't fool like thoy're cold call ing." sho said. Welc h said sho also serves as mi advoc ate; for women. Sho has already helped women deal with the financial aid offlc a. "This is a real foundation year, as we find out what works and what doesn't work.' Welch IRAQ Continued from Page 1 Sniitii Arabia and five smaller oil nations — Oman, Bahrain. Uni tod Arab Krnirates, Qatar and Kuwait itself agreed to deploy part of their 19,000-man "Peninsula Shield" in Kuwait along with additional troops from each of the six nations The total was not announced A senior military official said at the Pentagon that a majority of the Iraqi forces that had been massed near the Kuwaiti border were moving away, "Portions of all but one brigade have moved." the official said, though he cautioned that it was not known where the troops might bo going It will lie several days before that can be learned with cer tainty, so no hold is tieing placed on the flow of U S. troops into the region, he and other officials stud. The Pentagon said Iraq, in recent days, had increased the number of tanks in the vicinity of the Kuwaiti border from 650 to 1,090 Iraq's foreign minister, Mohammed Saeed al Sahhaf, said his country had indeed withdrawn its forces "All troops whose deployment had caused such an uproar in the United States have complet ALARMS Continued from Page 1 The emergency call is pul through to the city fire depart ment and they respond. According to Mary Ellen Holly of Eugene fire depart ment's public education pro gram, Station Three on the comer of Agate Street and 17th Avenue is the first to respond to all campus calls. However, "our officers usual ly get there first because they are closer." Coots said. While the city has the author ity to fino the University for Saferide purchasing new van this winter Amy Columbo Oepon ri**y f "watrt Project Saferide is ordering a new van to replace the brown van that has been a familiar sight on the University campus for the last nine years The student-run shuttle service was created ns an alternative for women walking alone in the evenings, relying on others for rides or waiting in potentially dangerous places Saferide is n free service that only University women can ride. .Saferide co-director Kristi Miller said they hope to obtain the van in November and begin using it by the start of the year. Be< a use Saferide is ordering a state vehicle, it must wait until the next i ontraclual [>erio<l. which is the earliest date that the state (Jin process the purchase. "We’re getting jumbled information," she said. “It seems as though we can't order a new car until the contracts come out.” Saferide received $29,260 in student fees through a ballot measure last spring to purchase the new van and him a sec ond dispatcher to work in the evenings, honking rides and direct ing drivers. The Increase was 67 rants per student. Saferide co-director Marlinda Darmali estimates that Saferide is providing an average of 50 to 60 rides to women per evening this fall She said it is run by approximately 200 student vol unteers who drive, dispatch and manage the office. Credit is available through Women's Studies for students who make a weekly commitment This week. Saferide lost riders because of a communication problem with its radio which had an old battery. The dispatchers were unable to tie in touch with the drivers and had to use an emergency radio provided by the Office of Public Safety to con tinue operation The battery has since been replaced. Saferide runs from 6 p m until midnight, Sunday through Thursday On Friday and Saturday. Saferide runs until 2 a m. Women can book rides through Saferide before 6 p in. by leav ing a message Saferide's loop around campus takes about 10 minutes The program has two off-campus vehicles and the one on-campus van. said. "We'll tie refining the cen ter's programs for the years to come." Welch said she wants to revive programs that the Women's Center has sponsored in the past including Java and the Muse, a place to gather and shows ase women's talents. Thompson said that eventual ly she would like to see the Women's Center services extended to women in the com munity. "1 think we would like to break down a perception in the community that University of Oregon resources are only for college students between the ages of 1H to 22." ed their retreat to rear positions this evening," he said in a statement carried by the state-run Iraqi News Agency. President Clinton and other U S. leaders have discounted such statements in recent days as they wait for physical confirmation. In Baghdad, Saddam met privately with Russian envoys while military attaches from Moscow and Beijing headed south to see if Iraq had withdrawn its forces from the Kuwaiti border. Christopher, in a pep talk to thousands of Amer ican soldiers, some of whom arrived Tuesday night from Pt. Stewart. Ga., said that if Saddam plunged the region into war again he would face the full fury of the finest military organization in the world." Thoir presence, Christopher told the troops at the Doha I vise was designed "to stop Saddam Hus sein in his tracks." There are nearly 20,000 U.S. soldiers and marines in Kuwait, an additional 44,500 deployed or on the way to the area and 156,000 on alert. Tanks, trucks and other military equipment have been positioned at Doha since early in the year in the event Iraq tried to repeat its 1990 thrust into Kuwait, a wealthy oil country. fulse alarms, Coots said they haven't. "1 don't think we've ever received one because we contin ue to work on ways to find out why it happens." she said. In the event of a fire in non residentiol buildings on campus, it is up to the building man agers. professors and individual students to act responsibly and calmly to get out of the building. Regular drills are held in August, but on a voluntary basis. The building manager of each hall is responsible for the organization of the drills For three days in August, campus 1— and city safety officials simulat ed a fire on the seventh floor of Prince Lucien Campbell Hall There are four drills and four tests each year in the residence halls. Coots said. Fire drills in the residence halls are usually held during the first two weeks of school. A test is when OPS officials test every pull station and horn to make sure it is working properly. Additionally, there is a deputy fire marshal from the city who conducts campus-wide inspections Inspections are cur rently underway of all residence halls. Coots said.
