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
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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. Before that
time, questions such as where
the traffic will be rerouted, how
much it will cost, and who will
bay for it will have to be an
swered.
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