Mall may get more carts
The apparent success of
push-cart vendors in Eugene's
downtown mall may backfire on
the mobile entrepeneurs.
A two-year experiment with
two such vendors — Lulu's
Smoothies and the Pizza Cart —
will end in December, and
Downtown Association Director
Ray Mclver says the mall is
considering allowing 10 or 20 of
the push carts next year.
But current vendors question
the success 10 or 20 push-cart
businesses would have com
peting on the mall.
Tom and Mary-Lu Wilson,
owners of Luiu’s Smoothies,
and Dan Dreier, owner of the
Pizza Cart, say their operations
are small and that adding eight
or 12 carts would decrease or
virtually eliminate the profits of
all the vendors.
Dreier, who made just under
$2,000 before expenses in Sep
tember, says he doubts he
would net more than $10 or $15
a day.
"We're all for the free enter
prise system, but adding three
or four push carts would be
more practical,” Wilson says.
"There's not enough space for
20. Even 10 would be tight.”
But promoting free enterprise
is one reason for the additional
push carts, Mclver says.
"Push carts are a way for
somebody who has a product to
sell to test it, to see if it has a
market.”
Mclver says he frequently
receives calls from people
wanting to open one of the bu
sinesses on the mall, but the
association won't accept any
proposals until a plan can be
developed to handle additional
carts.
The mall will begin accepting
additional push-cart proposals
early next year, he adds.
But push carts won’t be ad
ded just to increase the amount
of competition, Mclver says.
“What we’re looking for are
people with unique and enlight
ening products to sell, not just
another hamburger or bagel
cart.”
While Dreier isn’t sure 20
push carts could succeed in the
mall's limited space, he says the
variety in products would add
color and life to the mall.But
additional push carts won't
necessarily bring more people
to the downtown mall, he adds.
Mclver says the mall also is
considering adding some
"short-term” push carts for the
Christmas season that would
sell items special to the
holidays.
SUAB charts new course
By PAUL TELLES
Of torn Emwatd
Although it hasn't set specific
legislative goals, the Student
University Affairs Board will play
a more active role in campus
politics this year,, says new
SUAB chairer Julie St. Clair.
“We don’t want to become 18
students who sit in the Universi
ty Assembly and are token
votes,” says St. Clair, who was
elected chairer Oct. 8.
To avoid this, SUAB will form
sub-committees to research the
various issues that come before
the Assembly, St. Clair says,
adding that the board will try to
become a more respectable
part of University government.
Although the board won't set
its objectives until the four open
SUAB seats are filled in this
month's ASUO elections, St.
Clair says proposed changes in
the grading system and cur
riculum are likely to be among
its first tests in the Assembly.
The board also will revive the
issue of student access to
course evaluations, but St. Clair
says she doesn't expect this to
be the highest priority.
SUAB will concentrate largely
on student grievances and sug
gestions, she says, adding that
past boards have not addressed
this area adequately.
All board members will work
each week in the SUAB Infor
mation and Grievance Booth in
the EMU Main Lobby, and a
full-time staff person also may
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SUAB also will launch a
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In addition, St. Clair proposed
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