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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1970)
By City Council 'Woodstock' affair put off "We come to >tou because the University doesn’t have any offi cial say about it as long as it • stays in the street . . . the prop erty belongs to the city,” said * Mark Swain during yesterday’s committee-of-the-whole meeting at the Eugene Hotel. Mark Swain and David Merwin appeared before the committee to obtain permission to use 13th Avenue for the “Woodstock Northwest” festival during the - two week closure. Fred Mohr, council members from Ward 1, expressed concern about the aftermath of such an ■ event, and gave as his reason the problems related to the Sur vival Faire. “There was great dif ficulty in finding those responsi ble for putting up the Survival Faire,” he stated. Mohr said he personally had been forced to spend “several * hours” dismantling the construc tions left up at the conclusion of ■ the event . Merwin said that those present - ing the festival would “take re sponsibilities for trash collec - tions, fire lanes and the noise level.” Request to deny request “As for rock music, there would ■ be strolling musicians but they would be playing unamplified in • struments,” Merwin said. After Merwin had concluded, Steve Worts, a second-year law student at the University,, ad dressed the meeting. “I request that you deny this request,” Worts said. “Finals are coming up and we have already been disrupted enough this term.” The matter will be discussed further at the Monday (May 25) council meeting. David Smith and Bob Schmidt, both University students and asso ciated with Project Escape, ask ed the major and the council to give a “blanket endorsement” to the Project Escape sponsored “Invite-a-Student-for-Dinner” cam paign. “For our understanding then, for student understanding, and for the benefit of our common greater community, invite a uni versity student to join you and your family for dinner this next week. Let him hear what you, as an individual member of the community, think, let him discov er how you feel about the issues (regardless of the positions you take). Then listen to what he has to say. Here is the chance for real community dialogue and in teraction in a constructive sense.” The council committee gave the proposal its unanimous endorse ment. Photo by Frits Schmidt DOROTHY LEEPER, Democratic candidate for 4th District Congress man, addressed about 60 persons in the Commonwealth Hall courtyard Wednesday. She denounced U.S. involvement in the war in Southeast Asia and used adding machine paper rolls to illustrate the proportion of the federal budget used for defense. Her speech was sponsored by a College of Business Adminis tration organization, "Get Out Now," which has collected over 350 staff, student, and faculty signatures on a petition calling for the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Indochina. After 30-year wait 13th closed temporarily University students and officials have sought on and off for nearly 30 years to have 13th Avenue closed through the campus be cause of student-traffic conflict. Throughout the 30-year period city representatives resisted closure because 13th is a key east-west arterial, and because I *N0 PARKING^ PROBLEMS AT sieqmund's • Cleaning by the lb. • Alterations, Repairs • One-Day Service 821 E. 13th the University was faced with a lack of financing to help in re construction. The City of Eugene installed signals to direct traffic around the campus in 1953 after a stu dent was run over, but the sig nals have been used only during class changes. Community complaints Even this limited use brought complaints from the community and the system was to have been abandoned in 1955. O. Meredith Wilson, president of the Univer sity at that time, came out against the abandonment. City officials then suggested the University in stall pedestrian overpasses or tunnels. But Wilson said closing 13th would be “infinitely less costly.” The detour signals remained, but soon after, the State Highway Department proposed 13th be closed during the daytime on week days and 11th Avenue be widened so traffic could be di verted away from the campus area. However, cos t—$90,000— blocked implementation of the plan. The city eventually paid for widening 11th ten years later, but 13th remained open. In the early 1960's a project was presented to the city to cut a diagonal street to carry east bound traffic from 13th Avenue through the property of Sacred Heart Hospital and Northwest Christian College to 11th Street. When University students barri caded 13th, permanent closure of the street again became an issue. During the May 11 City Council Planning Commission meeting concerning the street, city plans were brought forth providing for the diversion of eastbound traffic from 13th to 11th, and extension of 18th Av enue eastward at Agate St. by use of a diagonal, merging it with 19th Avenue, which would be widened between Columbia and Villard streets. Larry Bissett, head of Plan ning and Institutional Research at the University, disagreed with these tactics, suggesting 13th Av enue traffic instead be directed into Hilyard street before reach ing the campus. Bissett’s plan al so provided for two-way traffic on 11th Avenue between Hilyard and Franklin Boulevard by widening 11th Avenue. According to A1 Williams, city traffic engineer, Bissett’s plan would be more expensive, re quiring the removal of trees. Survey The city council has decided to conduct its own survey and discharged the city traffic depart ment to erect metal barricades on 13th for a two-week period. Thirty-two automatic traffic counters, supplemented by hand counts and video-taping started recording traffic movements be fore the barricades went up on May 20 and will continue during the blockade to determine before and after traffic patterns. Also, license plate studies will be used to determine who uses 13th the most and for what purposes. The barricade is only tempo rary; permanent closure requires an official hearing under the law which won’t take place before the 29th of June. 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