Health center provides birth control options
■The health center is
working to educate women
about their sexual health
By Brooke Ross
Oregon Daily Emerald
When it comes to their sexual
health, what women don’t know
can hurt them.
But University Health Center offi
cials are trying to help women im
prove their health by educating
them about birth control options
now available at the health center,
as well as the symptoms of urinary
tract infections, which are common
infections sometimes caused by
sexual intercourse.
The University Health Center has
offered Depo-Provera, an injectable
form of birth control, for some time.
But now, students have a choice.
For the past week, the health center
also has offered its female patients
Lunelle, another type of injectable
birth control.
“It will be nice for women to have
another option,” said Colleen Jones,
the health center’s women’s health
care nurse practitioner.
Jones, who has given one injec
tion of Lunelle so far, said there are
several differences between the two
types of birth control.
She said with Lunelle, it is easier
for a woman to become fertile down
the road because it offers protection
for only one month at a time, in
stead of three months at a time like
Depo-Provera.
“Lunelle is a lot like the birth con
trol pill, only in an injectable form,”
she said. “But pills can be a little
less effective, because a woman for
gets to take them.”
She said it is up to the woman to
make a choice.
“Every woman is different, and
that’s the bottom line,” she said.
Jones said the first injection of
Lunelle is given within the first five
days of the start of a woman’s peri
od, and from then on, shots must be
given every 28-30 days for a woman
to remain protected.
She said one good thing about the
health center giving women a
choice is that certain side effects
may result from using each form.
“If this happened, we can now of
fer them another choice, which is
just as effective,” she said.
Dr. Gerald Fleischli, director of
the health center, said the form used
depends on the woman because
both Lunelle and Depo-Provera
have different side effects.
He said Lunelle contains the fe
male hormone estrogen, which may
be the healthier choice for some be
cause a lack of estrogen can lead to
osteoporosis, but sometimes estro
gen can be indirectly responsible for
heart attacks and strokes.
On the flip side, he said Depo
Provera does not contain estrogen,
but it can cause depression.
“So it’s really up to the woman to
decide,” he said. “Choice is what it’s
all about.”
But Jones said she is confident
about Lunelle.
“Time will tell,” she said, “but the
numbers look good, and it seems to
be well tolerated.”
However, one thing Lunelle and
Depo-Provera cannot protect
women from is urinary tract infec
tions.
Cindy Smith, adult nurse practi
tioner at the health center, said hav
ing intercourse is one way bacteria
Programs Financing
The ASUO Programs Finance Committee has committed $2,134,274 so far for next year’s program budget. That represents
a 8.76 percent increase over last year’s funding—slightly more than the PFC’s 3 percent benchmark.
%CHANGE $ CHANGE
ORGANIZATION 2001-02 2000-01 FROM THIS YEAR FROM THIS YEAR
Programs and Assessments
$105,422
$64,933
62.35%
$40,489
Ecological Design Center
$16,837
$13,438
25.3%
$3,399
Native American Student Union
$20,151
$17,043
18.2%
$3,108
Designated Driver Shuttle
Pit Crew
$88,675
$80,000
10.8%
$8,675
$300
$300
Black Women of Achievement
$4,499
$5,107
-11.9%
-$608
Chess Club
$0
$300
-100%
-$300
Permias
$3,813
$3,065
24.4%
$748
Delta-Graduate Student Organization
$723
$903
-19.9%
-$180
Total
$240,420
$184,789
30.1%
$55,631
PFC ends first round of hearings
■The committee decreased
the Black Women of
Achievement’s budget
By Emily Gust
Oregon Daily Emerald
While wrapping up its first round
of budget hearings Tuesday, the
ASUO Programs Finance Commit
tee faced its most significant strug
gle when it cut the Black Women of
Achievement’s budget by 11.9 per
cent.
It was the first decrease of the
night, and most of the decreases
were in programming funds.
The BWA didn’t spend a lot of its
funds last year, and it transferred
much of its money out of one of its
event accounts. No one, however,
could explain where that money
went and what it was for.
BWA co-director Etopi Fanta
asked the PFC to reconsider the cut,
explaining that the group was try
ing to get back on its feet. Fanta
promised that the new staff would
be more careful with spending
habits, but it would need money to
achieve its goals.
“How can we take the next step un
less we’re given some kind of lee
way?” she said. “We know we’re ca
pable [of it], but unless we have the
means to do it, there’s no way we
can.”
PFC Vice Chair Randy Newnham
argued that considering the BWA’s
rollovers and mysterious transfers,
the PFC’s cut was a fair decision.
“Based upon that, this really isn’t
a cut,” he said.
On the other end of the scale, Pro
grams and Assessments, which as
sists ASUO programs with equip
ment costs and budgetary
procedures, received a sizable in
crease— 62 percent. Much of the in
crease will cover payroll expenses,
such as a 30 percent pay increase for
the ASUO accounting coordinator,
who will be paid $7,555 because of
extra responsibilities associated
with the position.
Disorderly conduct plagues hall
■The University Housingstaff
is dealing with persistent
conduct troubles in one of the
residence halls
By Rebecca Newell
Oregon Daily Emerald
Continuing crime
at Robbins Hall
A trend of disorderly conduct con
tinued early Saturday morning at
Robbins Hall, when two males were
reported throwing bottles out a
fourth-floor window at a person
walking through the breezeway.
Although no one was injured, the
incident is drawing more attention to
the recent incidents in the hall.
“These are definitely the types of
things that raise a red flag with the
staff,” said Michael Eyster, director of
housing, “If I. was aware of who threw,
a bottle out the window at a resident, I
would evict them immediately.”
Further research into the Depart
ment of Safety’s crime log showed
that disorderly conduct and ques
tionable activity in and around Rob
bins Hall are not new. In late January,
several reports were filed, ranging
from charges of residents possessing
marijuana to noise complaints.
“This has pretty much been hap
pening all year,” said Kristin Brown,
a freshman resident of Robbins Hall.
“At the beginning of the year, there
were people that wanted to cause
trouble.”
Vandalism and graffiti have been
common, Brown said, adding that
many residents have been scratching
their names into the lounge walls or
using felt markers to draw on the
walls.
University Housing staff members
are reviewing the events and are deal
ing with the situation, Eyster said.
“There are at least two people who
lived there that don’t anymore,
which was a recent event,” Eyster
said.
However, the problems haven’t
disappeared yet, despite hall meet
ings, e-mails and the removal of two
problem students, Brown said.
“There were some people re
moved, but it wasn’t only them,”
Brown said. “It’s a hall thing.”
Bullet hole proves
to be a slight exaggeration
The Department of Public Safety
reported that a bullet hole was dis
covered in a Walton Complex win
dow on Monday, Jan. 29, at 2:52 p.m.
“We didn’t have information about
the bullet hole,” Eyster said. “When
we called DPS, they said it was
caused by a BB gun or a rock thrown
at the window.”
can enter the bladder and cause
such infections. She said there were
81 visits during fall term because of
urinary tract infections, although
many women do not realize it when
they have one.
She said the symptoms include
constantly feeling the urge to uri
nate, but not being able to, and burn
ing and itching sensations. It is im
portant that women are aware of
these symptoms so they know when
to seek treatment, she said.
“If someone’s never had an infec
tion before, they should come in
and have an evaluation because
sometimes it turns out to be other
things,” Smith said.
Kidney infection is one serious
problem that is sometimes mistak
en for a urinary tract infection,
which is why it is important to be
checked out, she said.
“Without the awareness, you risk
much worse complications,” she
said.
Smith said ways to prevent uri
nary tract infections are to drink
more fluids and avoid alcohol and
caffeine, which can irritate the blad
der.
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