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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.
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ESI SPEAKERS AND PRESENTATIONS
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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:
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Disorders, Fitness, Stress, Relationships, Weight Management
Health Education Program
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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