News briefs
Another ASUO senator resigns
ASUO Senate president Peter
Watts announced the resignation of
Senator Devin Dinihanian at the
Wednesday night Senate meeting.
Dinihanian, who held the Archi
tecture and Allied Arts seat, said in
a letter that he resigned because of
“current circumstances.” He apolo
gized for not attending meetings.
There are now two open seats on
the Senate. Last week, Senator Ben
Lacy, who held the Arts and Letters
seat, also resigned.
The Senate approved requests by
the International Student Associa
tion, Students of the Indian Subcon
tinent and the Muslim Student Asso
ciation to transfer funds between
accounts within the groups’ budgets.
— Kara Cogswell
Churchill to host
roundtable discussion
The Wayne Morse Center for Law
and Politics will host a roundtable dis
cussion of racial issues in law enforce
ment tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. in the
Churchill High School auditorium.
Wayne Morse Chair Charles Ogle
tree Jr. will give an address of race in
the national criminal justice system,
then moderate a roundtable-style
discussion, which will address is
sues such as trends in incarceration,
treatment options, racial profiling,
reintegration for outgoing prisoners
and efforts to address racism
through education. The panel will
be made up of local legal experts,
law enforcement agents and judici
ary and community groups.
“This is an opportunity for there
to be discussion of race and class is
sues at the local level,” said Cheri
Brooks, communication coordina
tor for the Morse Center. “Basically
we’re looking at local issues that
have been concerns both locally
and on the national level.”
One of the main issues the panel
will discuss is rehabilitation versus
retribution, according to Brooks.
Churchill High School is located
at West 18th Street and Bailey Hill
Road in Eugene.
Marty Too hey
Homeless
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Holley is 22 years old, roughly the
age of a typical University senior —
and she is currently homeless.
Most of the local homeless peo
ple don’t match Holley’s profile.
Most are older.
In a recent survey, Assistant Di
rector for the Eugene Mission Lynn
Antis reported that out of 247 peo
ple at their shelter on a particular
night, there were only 13 people in
the 18- to 25-year-old age bracket.
However, Looking Glass’s An
drea Cosby said the organization
she works for, called New Roads,
reported contact with 7,800 street
youth ranging from ages 11 to 21.
There is a small contingent of for
mer University and Lane Commu
nity College students that are part
of the Looking Glass's youth home
less program, Cosby said.
“We’ve had a couple of people
who have been either at LCC or
UO,” Cosby said. “It’s a very small
minority.”
Antis said “the majority of home
less people are over 46 years old” in
the transient population. At the First
Place Family Center, Emergency Ser
vices Director Jake Dudell reported
that an estimated 10 percent of fami
lies that go through the center are
headed by parents age 25 or younger.
“I would say it's not significant,”
said Antis, about the sheer number
of college-age homeless.
But for Holley, the everyday life
of being homeless is a challenge.
Holley said she moved to Eugene
from California in September so
she could be with her husband and
baby boy. Holley was accompanied
on the trip by her two other chil
dren. She also had $1,000 in sav
ings, which was all she owned. A
friend convinced Holley to loan her
the $1,000 in exchange for a place
to live in her apartment.
“After the first month, she said ‘I
can’t pay you back.’” Holley said.
“Then she said that we had to move
out.”
So Holley and her family were
stuck. She immediately called an
apartment complex to try to secure
a place to live. Holley said the only
catch was that she had to get $654
for the one-time move-in fee. With
her $1,000 long gone, housing was
out of reach.
“Nobody has been able to help
me,” Holley said.
Neither of her parents would of
fer her financial assistance, so Hol
ley turned to organizations around
the Eugene area for help, but she
reached only dead ends.
So she turned to a place where
she knew she could be taken care of
while she gathered the funds.
“As soon as I got into these hard
times, the first place I thought to
turn to was the First Place Family
Center,” Holley said.
Financial meltdown such as Hol
ley's is just one way people can be
come homeless.
“Homelessness is a result of
many different causes,” Dudell said.
“It’s the combination of all social
vices that leave people homeless.”
Cosby said she noticed a few
common denominators in the
homelessness of the youth she has
encountered. Cosby said family is
sues are a large contributor —
whether the families have unre
solved issues or are themselves
homeless.
“The youth we consider home
less are totally distanced from their
family of origin,” Cosby said.
Other factors include drug and al
cohol abuse as well as physical abuse.
“These are all ingredients of a
soup — and that soup is called
homelessness,” Dudell said.
“Everybody has their own prob
lems, whether that's problems at
home, bad relationships, drugs or
whatever,” Holley said.
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Holley said she doesn’t tend to
learn about the backgrounds of the
people she meets at the First Place
Family Center. But while at the cen
ter, she has free access to laundry,
“as many clothes as you can carry
on your back,” telephones, and she
is able to receive mail. Holley said
the shelter is a good resource for
getting jobs and providing potential
employers with a legitimate ad
dress and phone number.
At night, the center partners with
local churches and synagogues.
These worship buildings offer
space to homeless families for up to
two weeks at a time. Every week or
so, the sleeping arrangements
change, but just keeping the family
together is enough, Holley said.
The experience of being homeless
is entirely new to Holley’s kids, she
said. Katie, the oldest of Holley’s
children at age five, has become un
ruly from the experience of being
away from familiar settings. Holley
said her two younger children,
three-year-old Alyssa and seven
month-old Timothy Matthew, love
the experience provided by the
center and also enjoy the atmos
pheres of the various churches
where they sleep.
“The good thing about sleeping
in the churches is that we stay in
classrooms,” Holley said.
She said her kids enjoy using the
classrooms’ art supplies to keep
busy. Holley said she sees her own
future as bright.
“Soon I actually see myself get
ting a good paying job,” Holley said.
Holley, a professional reception
ist by trade, said she sees a future
job getting her a place, a dog or a
cat, and everything her kids need.
With Christmas coming up, Holley
encourages people to adopt a
homeless family at the First Place
Family Center for Christmas. Not so
kids can get a CD player or some
toy, she said, but so they can get
something “more along the lines of
socks and a good warm jacket.”
Holley said the center is always
looking for donations — whether
that's money or supplies. There’s al
ways the need for “feminine
things,” she said.
Under the circumstances, Holley
said, it's hard to have those things.
“We (at the First Place Family
Center) are always looking for
things like perfume. If we had our
own houses, we'd be women all the
time,” she said.
For those interested in donating
to these causes, call the First Place
Family Center at 342-7728, the
Looking Glass New Roads office at
689-3111, the Eugene Mission at
344-3251 or Catholic Community
Services at 345-3628.
Marcus Hathcock is a features reporter for the
Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached at
marcushathcock@dailyemerald.com.
Saferide
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Only women are allowed to drive
or ride in Saferide vans.
The complaint was filed under
Title IX of the Education Amend
ments of 1972, which prohibits
sex discrimination in programs
and activities receiving federal
funds from the U.S. Department
of Education.
According to the agreement,
“the University agrees to modify,
as necessary, the eligibility crite
ria for using transportation serv
ices and for participating as a vol
unteer driver of such services to
ensure such criteria do not in
clude gender.”
University General Counsel
Melinda Grier said although she
was disappointed with OCR’s
conclusions, she would work
with Saferide coordinators and
members of the ASUO to make
the changes needed to comply
with Title IX.
When asked whether the agree
ment would mean Saferide
would be open to both genders,
or if an alternative service offer
ing rides to men would be start
ed, Grier said she did not want to
speculate on any possible out
come before discussing it with
students.
“I was hoping that when the
OCR looked at it, they would be
satisfied with the program (as it
is),” she said. “We’ll just work to
get something that keeps both the
spirit of the program and what
students want, but is consistent
with Title IX.”
Saferide coordinators and
ASUO Executives Nilda Brooklyn
and Joy Nair said they were
aware of the agreement but de
clined to comment.
Kara Cogswell is a student activities reporter
for the Oregon Daily Emerald. She can be
reached at karacogswell@dailyemerald.com.
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