Photo by Erich Boekatiokto
Black Arts Week
portrays culture
The University’s Sixth Annual Black Arts Festival continues today
with the opening of "Black Odessey,” a historical art exhibit by cultural
art specialist George Norman, in Room 167 EMU. The Black Student
Union and the Council for Minority Education are sponsoring the week
long festival, which began Friday. Both groups invite the public to help
them celebrate the cultural contributions of blacks in music, dance and
poetry and to promote the understanding of blacks in Atnerica. Alex
Poinsett, senior editor of Ebony magazine, will speak Wednesday at 7
p.m. in the EMU. Additional events this week include a beauty cftnic,
talent show and disco dance.
Stove-makers, inspector in legal showdown
By KEVIN HARDEN
Of the Emerald
Legal action may be taken
against seven area wood stove
manufacturers who claim a city
mechanical inspector subjected
them to "unreasonable and ca
pricious action” through his inspec
tions.
According to James Jagger, at
torney for Lyle Lamont, a mechan
ical inspector with the city’s Public
Works Department, some form of
legal action may be considered
against the stove manufacturers
who claimed Lamont was negli
gent in his duties.
Although no decision has been
made by either Lamont or Jagger
about what, if any, legal action will
be taken, a press conference has
been set for Tuesday to announce
their intentions.
Lamont has been under inves
tigation by the city manager’s of
fice and the Eugene Police De
partment since April 12 when five
wood stove manufacturers pre
sented their claims to the city
council and asked that unreason
able action by Lamont be investi
gated.
Those manufacturers, Mike
Duval of J & J Enterprises, Ken
Hussey and Doug Johnson of
Mannan Building Supplies,
Thomas Lichty of the Oregon
Woodstove Company, John Or
lando of Oregon Steel Fabricat
ing, Fred Wingham, Radke Stove
distributor and G.M. McCormack
of McCormack Consulting En
Integrating disabled
due to legislation
By GREG WASSON
Of the Emerald
Historically, persons with disabilities were separated from a society
which did little to help minimize the restrictions resulting from wheel
chairs, hearing difficulties or blindness. Slowly, that’s changing.
Chris Casady, a member of the governor’s Steering Committee for
the Handicapped, says a great deal of the increasing awareness can be
traced to federal legislation.
“A lot of businesses that were unfamiliar with any type of individual
with a disability have been forced to become aware. If they contract with
the federal government, they have to address program access as well
as affirmative action when hiring," Casady says.
Friday, about 50 people gathered in the city council chambers for
an update on laws dealing with the handicapped. The conference was
one of five sessions scheduled around the state.
According to Jerry Remple of the vocational rehabilitation office,
the sessions are designed to let those who participated in planning
sessions a year ago know what’s being done.
According to Remple, there's a lot of misconception about pro
grams designed to help the disabled.
"The primary misconception is the difference between barrier-free
construction and program accessability,” he said. “Program access
means the individual has to be able to get the program and it has to be in
an integrated sense. They can’t pull 'em apart and stick ’em in another
building or off in a closet by themselves. But every single barrier doesn’t
have to be removed. If it’s a two-story building, classes can be moved
downstairs.”
But sometimes, removing barriers is the only way to insure access.
“Where the schools are running into problems is when laboratories
are upstairs, and there's no way to move them. Eventually an elevator
has to be put in and that’s costly.”
Casady says the main thing left to be done through state law is
providing money.
“The federal government told the states you will comply, but there
was no financial help offered. So right now we’re between a rock and a
hardspot. The feds say we have to do it; we want to do it, but how do we
do it financially?”
Casady says the bucks are necessary to plan for program accesi
bility and to update government forms and regulations, which are no
longer practical.
gineers, claim Lamont has been
attempting to “force local
businessmen out of business by
threats and malicious state
ments.”
The group also claims two other
wood stove manufacturers,
Schrader stoves, Inc. and Fisher
Stoves Distributors, both of
Springfield, paid Lamont to ap
prove the stoves manufactured
and sold by those firms.
In a letter sent to the city council
last month, the group said Lamont
subjected their stoves to "un
reasonable” inspections and
made misleading statements that
discouraged potential wood stove
buyers from purchasing one of
their stoves.
"Misleading statements have
been made by the mechanical in
spector that installations of certain
stoves will result in cancellation of
homeowner’s insurance," the let
ter said. “Such statements are false
and have been pointed out to the
inspector in the past.”
Lamont, who had just returned
from a two-week vaction, declined
to comment on the accusations
Thursday.
Jagger, who took Lamont’s
case early last week, said Friday
that although no firm decision has
been made on what recourse his
client will take, legal action against
the stove manufacturers is a pos
sibility.
Bookstore Board Election Days
Inch Sale
A huge selection of old edition books will be sold by the inch. Stack up the
books you want, one on top of the other, measure the height and pay:
200 per inch.
Come in to the Bookstore on election days — Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday and rummage around in thousands of inches of new, used,
hardcover and paper old editions.
Don’t miss voting—
Don’t miss the sale.
Monday-Wednesday, May 8-10
in the Basement Sales area
13th & Kincaid 686-4331
Open: Mon-Fri 8:15-5:30 Sat 10:00-2:00