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Make it Happen! Free Services Vl?ORKSHOPS The following workshops are offered most terms and are designed to help you make positive health changes. Call 346-4456 for more information. Smoking Cessation Weight Management Vegetarian Cooking Sports Nutrition Take the test: Free HIV testing Free HIV testing is available to University of Oregon students at the University Health Center for a limited time beginning Spring term 2000. Free testing will continue while funding is available. Coupons available at the Peer Education Office at the Health Center. Call us at 346-2770 to schedule your appointment. OU ARE WHAT YOU EAT...GET A FREE NUTRITIONAL ANALYSIS! Too many calories? Not enough calcium or iron? Let us help you find the answers. If you are concerned and/or curious about the nutrient breakdown of your diet then NAP is for you. The Health Education Program now offers a FREE Nutrition Analysis Program to all registered students. Simply pick up an application at the Health Education room. /ToTAL CHOLESTEROL SCREENING Eveiy Tuesday from 9:30-11:30 a.m. you can get free total cholesterol screening. Simply check in at the Health Education room on the first floor of the Health Center. Xending library Excellent books are available for loan to U of 0 students from the Health Education room in the Health Center. There you will also find health related newsletters, articles, and pamphlets. Just stop by. 007171 ESI SPEAKERS AND PRESENTATIONS Peer Health Educators and Health Center Staff are available to speak to your organization on any of the listed health issues as well as others. Call us for details. Health education at the STUDENT RECREATION CENTER Come visit our cart for updated health and wellness information on topics such as: alcohol and the effects on “workouts,” training and fitness; food supplements and replacement fluids; effects of tobacco on physical fitness; eating disorders and much more! Topics Addressed: HIV/AIDS, Nutrition, Alcohol, Sexuality, Smoking, Cholesterol, Eating Disorders, Fitness, Stress, Relationships, Weight Management Health Education Program at the Health Center 346-4456 Visit us at our web site: http//healthecl.uoregon.edu Azle Malinao-Alvarez Emerald ASUO President Jay Breslow expects an active year ahead as he and his staff micro-focus on campus and the issues facing its population in the 21st century. ASUO administration gears up for 2000-01 ■ Jay Breslow aims his sights on student fees and tuition, as well as the WRC and increased student involvement By Kristina Johnson Oregon Daily Emerald Last March, University students chose Jay Breslow, a senior psychol ogy and Spanish major from Hills boro, to serve them as ASUO Presi dent. Before running for ASUO, Breslow worked with the Universi ty Diversity Program and the Multi cultural Center, and was an advo cate for Multiethnic Student Programming. Here, the Emerald talks with Breslow about his vision for the coming school year. Q: What is the role of the ASUO Executive? A: We’re the representative body of the students. As the ASUO Presi dent, I’m the spokesperson for the student body. We have a lot of jobs. On one hand, we’re going to fight for student rights at the state and federal level. We’re going to lobby the gov ernment to increase financial aid, to increase the Oregon Need Grant, the Pell Grant, all of those things. We’re going to fight to make education more affordable and accessible. I’m an activist, not a politician, and I never made any bones about that during the campaign. We’re go ing to get involved in movements and campaigns that are progressive. The Worker Rights Consortium is sue is a hot issue, so one of the things we’re going to be focusing on is sweatshop labor. We’re going to do fun stuff; we’re going to run creative campaigns, get people involved, get students that don’t really care about the student government. The student body is pret ty disconnected from the ASUO as a representative body, so we need to find a way to facilitate some sort of re lationship between the two. Q: What is your top priority for the school year? A: I have a staff of really excellent human beings. I know the issues that we campaigned on, but now we have 26 other people involved in the process, so we’re going to have to take those goals and tweak them, adjust them and find things that an entire staff of people can get behind. Our slogan was ‘students have the power, let’s use it.’ Obviously we don’t have money to spend. Our power lies in our numbers, but if the ASUO is disconnected, then we have no power. If when we go to lobby at the state and federal level, if we still have the same 30 to 50 student government nerds up there, then we won’t be effective. If we have 200 people that know the issue — 200 or 2,000, however many peo ple we can get — then we’re going to be a lot more effective. So I want to focus on campus, what’s going on this campus that we can make better, as opposed to in past administrations. Last year they did a good job at that, at focusing on campus. 1 want to continue some of that work. They laid a good ground work, but more needs to be done. And if we can coordinate the pro grams of all the ethnic student unions and all the other student programs, then we’ll be a really strong and diverse team. Q: What role will the ASUO play once the state Legislature convenes in January? A: One of the things we’re look ing at is increasing the Oregon Need Grant. Right now 12 percent of peo ple that qualify for the need grant don’t get it. So what we’re fighting for this year in the Legislature is to get those 12 percent a chance to get the Need Grant. Then if we win that, we’re going to look at increas ing the Need Grant. Other stuff we’re working on is increasing child care for student parents. Right now the state doesrf’t give any money to student parents. The federal government gives some money. But right now only about 250 student parents qualify. There’s a waiting list of about 900 students. We want the state to chip in a whole bunch of money so that we can at least cut that waiting list in half. We’re looking at increasing fund ing for community colleges. We have Lane Community College, which, I’m not sure of the percent age, but a lot of LCC graduates come #■ Tu rn to Breslow page 11A
