Married housing site
picked by committee
By STEVE ANDRESEN
Of the Emerald
Married students may live in mobile homes along the Willamette
River in the near future.
A feasability study of such a project will be recommended to the
Campus Planning Committee by the building use and site selection
subcommittee. In a Friday meeting, the subcommittee concluded the
western part of the former Eugene Sand and Gravel Company
property was the best site for the University to build low cost married
student housing. Other sites considered were the former Foster Silva
property, also on the riverfront, the southeast corner of the campus at
18th Ave. and Moss St., and other sites further from the campus.
Their recommendation states that the subcommittee considers
the University-owned Sand and Gravel site as the best property for the
purpose of low cost mobile home type housing and additional student
parking facilities. It advises the committee to hire an architect to
draw up some tentative plans and make preliminary studies and cost
estimates.
Decision not final
To dispel any arguments about the finality of the subcommittee’s
decision, Director of Fiscal Affairs, J.O. Lindstrom stated, “If after
the study we find the land not as good as possible, we will reconsider
the other alternatives. “We don’t want to force people to live under
adverse conditions if they don’t have to.”
Important areas to be researched by the architect will be possible
flooding in the area, sewer construction costs, and proposed access
routes through Franklin Blvd. and the Southern Pacific Railroad
tracks. In working out the layouts of the parking lots and living unit
areas the architect will be advised by the committee to consider
possible future expansion of the mobile unit area or even the erection
of an academic building over the site in 20-30 years.
Duplexes considered
The subcommittee has planned the 16 acres to accommodate 160
units, or 10 per acre. The parking areas are intended to replace
parking facilities which will be eliminated by academic buildings. If
Eugene’s city ordinances permit a special allotment, of space with
duplex mobile dwellings possibly twice as many units could be con
structed.
Alvin Urquhart, chairman of the subcommittee, said of the
financial backing for the housing, “The State Board of Higher
Education is ambivalent to the question of married student housing.
Sometimes they approve budgets for it: other times they say they
should leave it up to private enterprise. The planning committee
should proceed as though the board will grant the funds after our plans
are completed."
The only objections foreseen so far by the planning committee are
the railroad tracks and a proposed highway construction on the south
side of the river.
Marshall Wattles said the ideal situation would probably be an
overpass or underpass of the railroad tracks and Franklin Blvd. “Our
purpose should be to make the area accessible to lead us into a better
use of the land.”
“The planning committee should take a stand against a freeway
on the south side of the river,” Lindstrom said.
Second Adair march held
CORVALLIS—Despite a
persistent downpour and security
guards maintaining that Adair
Air Force Base was off limits,
approximately 40 members of the
Council of the Poor and their
supporters marched through the
base again Saturday afternoon.
The same thing happened two
weeks ago, and will probably
continue, according to
spokesmen for the council, for an
indefinite number of Saturdays to
come.
The marchers included
members of the Oregon Human
Rights Commission, the Valley
Migrant League, and students
from the University, Oregon
State and Portland State. Each
faced a $50 fine for trespassing on
private property owned by
United States International
University, but no one was
arrested.
USIU has been awarded 204
acres of the abandoned air base
free under a federal law which
says that private educational
institutions may receive federal
land as a “public benefit
allowance.” The university,
based in San Diego but with
campuses in other states and
other countries, has acquired
land through similar means in
the past.
Members of the Council of the
Poor spent most of the afternoon
Saturday asking the base’s
security guards, and a
representative from USIU, for
permission to tour the base. After
a final “no” answer had come
from these officials, the
demonstrators marched in. Led
by Rafael Pablo Ciddio Abeyta,
an organizer of the poor people’s
conference, they toured only
those parts of the base awarded
to USIU, including barracks, a
chepel, a recreation hall, and a
number of officers’ headquar
ters.
As they marched back out, two
Benton County sheriffs drove into
the base, and asked them to
leave. They did so, chanting
“Adair belongs to the people.”
OSPIRG petitions slated
By HARRIET FOTIS
Of the Emerald
Petitioning will begin
on all seven of the Oregon
State System of Higher
Education campuses by mem
bers of the Oregon Student Public
Interest Research Group
(OSPIRG). The petition seeks
student support of OSPIRG.
In a Eugene meeting Sunday
afternoon, about 50 represen
tatives from campuses
throughout Oregon met to discuss
canvassing problems. The major
point brought out at the meeting
was the need for a redirection of
emphasis. Instead of explaining
the structure of the organization,
several representatives present
said that they should start talking
about what the organization is
going to do.
It was also brought out in the
meeting that OSPIRG has the
workable machinery to operate
but it now needs to justify its
existence by defining itself.
‘Why is OSPIRG in existence?”
Don Ross, an associate of
consumer advocate Ralph Nader,
who has been working with
OSPIRG all week, told the
meeting the group is going to
have to sell the substance not the
structure of OSPIRG while
canvassing. Otherwise it’s going
to be an “issueless organization.”
He re-emphasized the need for
canvassers to know what they are
selling before they try to sell it.
Ross told the group not to rely
on Nader to bring students in,
“It’s not Nader’s organi
zation...it’s your organization.”
He said that Nader is for the most
part “unreachable.”
Each individual local board
will decide on which problems in
their area needed to be attacked
while another local board would
be working on something else in
their own area, according to
Sunday’s meeting.
It was noted that community
support will be needed to get it,
OSPIRG, past the State Board
but the group should still remain
a democratic student organ
funded entirely by student
monies.
A question and answer sheet
and a list of the prominent
problems the group hopes to
tackle was distributed at the
meeting to help educate the
canvassers before they begin
their circulation of petitions
sometime this week.
OSPIRG plans to submit the
petitions to the State Board of
Higher Education during winter
term and if all goes well OSPIRG
can he put into effect during
spring term.
Ross, says that the project in
Oregon is going so well because
there isn’t a single large school in
Oregon and all the schools are so
close together.
Oregon, according to Ross,
wasn’t the first state the program
was initiated in but the student
response in Oregon was the most
overwhelming, “the students
really got behind it.”
If Oregon is successful, it is
hoped that this success will have
a snowball effect on the rest of
the country. “If it’s a failure,”
said Ross,” we’ll stop it in
stantly.” At the present time
Oregon’s organization is serving
as a model for other states.
HEXED
(ws. doy 9hop(>&.
77 Willamette J
Rafael Abeyta told the
Emerald that the facilities of the
air base awarded to USIU could
be used by the Council of the Poor
for housing, vocational training,
and headquarters for the council.
“Everything on this land that a
university can use, we can use
too,” he said.
CHEESEBURGER
coupon coupon
1C SALE
Reg. 2St Now 2 for 26<
Good Only at the Campus Bob's
with this coupon, Mon. & Tues.,
Nov. 9 & 10
13th & PATTERSON
coupon
AN ACME BIJOU CLASSIC
-
A
NOUS
LA
LIBERTE
(1932)
Rene' Clair
180 PLC, 8:00 pm
■sevenths annual
EUROPE
Charter Flights
I
I
I
Dec. 13 to Jan. 2
January 3
January 22
March 30 to Apr. 26
June 15 to Sept. 15
June 18 to Aug. 23
June 29 to July 21
July 7 to July 29
July 9
July 16 to Aug. 15
July 30 to Sept. 20
Aug. 27 to Sept. 23
October 9
21 Days
One Way
One Way
4 Wks.
14 Wks.
10 Wks.
3 Wks.
3Wks.
One Way
4'/i Wks.
V/7 Wks.
4 Wks.
One Way
London
To London
To London
London
London
London
London
London
To London
London
London
London
To London
(249'
$160
r
$145
$239
$260
$279
$239
$239
$160
$259
$269
$249
$125
THIS IS THE ONLY CHARTER FLIGHT PROGRAM AT
THE UNIVERSITY WITH A PROVEN RECORD OF
DEPENDABILITY!
Additional dates on request. Please call!
MR. WALTER KONING 344 7629
1511 High Street / Eugene. Oregon
Name ___
Address___
City_St_Zip_Phone_