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
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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.
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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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