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ASUO and Piercy to lobby for < ■ since Kep, Kitty nercy became a legislator and a mother, she has committed to putting children first By Brian Goodell Oregon Daily Emerald Flanked by a basket of Valen tine’s Day cards in the EMU Child Care Center, Rep. Kitty Piercy, D Eugene, and the ASUO announced plans Monday to lobby the state legislature for a S3.9 million stu dent child care grant. ASUO State Affairs Coordinator Arlie Adkins has lobbied with the Oregon Student Association and Piercy to send the hill (HB 3256) to < the house floor for a third time. currently, me state oi uregon :ontributes nothing to child care 'or student parents,” Adkins said. ‘Students are calling on Gov. <itzhaber and the state legislators :o make state funding for child care i priority.” Piercy and the ASUO fought for md received confirmation that <itzhaber has agreed to make this an ssue and will put it on his agenda. “We’re going to win this battle his time,” Piercy said. “This is a worthy fight for the good of student earents and their children. We leed to develop appropriate, af hrdable child care.” Piercy, who worked as an early :hildhood educator before turning o politics, said this bill is a chil ciren s rignts ana women s rights issue. A mother of two adopted children, Piercv said she has been involved in working for children at many levels. “When I became a legislator. I went with the commitment to put children first,” Piercy said. “Chil dren need to be at the front of our legislative agenda." Jan Eliot, the creator of the na tionally syndicated comic strip “Stone Soup," was also on hand to support the day’s events. Eliot graduated from the University’s Honors College in 1977 and was a working mother while she attend ed school. When Eliot was in school, students could receive child care subsidies. But funding Condom continued from page 1 condoms and answered questions from curious students. Students took a condom quiz, received free condoms, examined the display of unsafe condoms and participated in a condom popping contest to demonstrate the level of stress the average con dom can be put under. The free condoms proved to be popular. Peer health educators es timated that they’d handed out al most 300 condoms by 1:30 p.m. The main message was to en courage students to have safe sex, Weinsoft said. “It’s OK to have fun, but if you’re going to do it, be.responsi ble,” she said. “I kept hearing about people who got pregnant or got STIs, and they’re not that hard to prevent. I want people to know how to use condoms, that they’re here, they’re available and not to _ feel stupid about asking for them.” The biggest barriers to getting most people to use condoms are probably that people are embar rassed to buy them or they think they’re too expensive, said Jen nifer Olson, a peer health educa tor. Olson said that while some stu dents refused the free condoms the health educators were hand ing out, she was encouraged that others took them to pass on to friends. “I think that people are a little embarrassed, and maybe don’t Kristina Riccio (left) and Anna seeiey stand in hall won a decorating contest in honor of Valentine’s Day and National Condom Day. want to be seen taking condoms,” she said. “But everyone should be responsible for their own sexual health, because you can’t assume the other person’s going to do it.” The most effective part of the awareness campaign was having one of the peer health educators dress up in an attention-getting gi ant condom costume and distrib ute free condoms around campus. The awareness campaign also carried over to the University res idence halls. In Walton Complex, residents were urged to decorate their hall for National Condom Day and Valentine’s Day, to pro mote safe sex in general. The halls were judged on their creativity and how closely they followed the safe-sex theme, said Sharon Loschiavo, Walton Complex resi dent director. The display in the winning hall, Hawthorne, had safe-sex pamphlets, valentines and demonstrations of both bro ken and whole condoms. “It was very tastefully done, and very educational at the same time,” Loschiavo said. Virtual Off ice Systems Inc. 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Ibices subject to change Go Pucks.1 hild care like what she received is no longer available to students. “Without child care subsidies. I could have never gone to school and become a syndicated cartoon ist.” Eliot said. Kathleen Workman, a student mother and ASUO Non-traditional Student -Advocate, has worked with Piercy and the OSA to im prove child care for students. Although the funding is not avail able to student parents now, stu dents like Workman manage to go to school and raise a child at the same time. But Workman said the current lack of funding for student child care limits access to higher educa tion for a large number of people. 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