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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1982)
‘Mindy’ brings sun into Eugene with support for solar energy Pam Dawber, better known as Mork's wife and sidekick, Mindy, arrived in Eugene Friday But she wasn't playing "straight man” to Robin Williams. Instead, Dawber repre sented the National Solar Lobby, of which she is a board member, at an Elec tric Station luncheon. Dawber criticized the Reagan administration's energy policy, blasted the Bonneville Power Adminis tration as a "tsar" and campaigned fo. 4th District U S Congressman Jim Weaver. She said under Pres Ronald Reagan's 1983 bud Photo by Dave Kao Pam Dawber urges support for solar energy and Rep. Jim Weaver station's massive budget cuts" in solar research, pointing out $6 4 billion in fiscal year 1983 will be spent on oil drilling She said the great bounds" made for energy under the Carter adminis tration have all been un done Dawber, a registered In dependent "thinking about changing to Democrat,” praised Weaver for his dedication to solar and other environmental energy means Dawber began support ing both Weaver and California Gov Jerry Brown because of their positions get proposal, a/ percent ot energy funding would go to nuclear power and conservation would be "slashed" by 83 percent. Reagan's idea of conservation, she said, is too hot in the summer, too cold in the winter " Dawber also denounced the current admini on tne saiesi. cneapesi. mosi renaoie way 10 meet energy needs — solar energy She urged onlookers to vote for Weaver saying. With your help, we can let the sun shine in the halls of Congress Many apartment-dwellers choose to steal dorm furniture for their homes. Furniture theft troubles dorm officials By Debbie Howlett Of the Emerald The charging of three Univer sity students with the theft of a sofa Tuesday from Dunn Residence Hall in the Hamilton Complex illustrates a much larger problem — the increasing incidence of furniture theft in University housing facilities, says Sgt Rick Allison of the Eugene Police department. The students — Scott Calvin, Steve Paquin and David Dudley — were taken into custody Tuesday after a dorm resident reported seeing three people loading a sofa into a pick-up truck at the dorm around 12:30 a m Tuesday The student wrote down the license plate number of the truck which led police department officials to the three men. The students live off-campus in the University area HALLOWEEN DANCE SATURDAY, OCT. 30 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. $2.50 CARSON CAFETERIA Wear Costumes! Oreaon Daily Emerald "It's always been a prob lem students try to furnish their apartments with dorm fur niture,' Allison says "The only thing we could do is bolt the furniture down and that's not practical," Allison says Of all the dorm complexes, Walton lost more furniture than the rest, says Allison And the beginning of a term, especially fall term, is the time the thefts are most likely to occur. “More of the activity is at the beginning of the quarter, people are trying to furnish their apart ments, " says Dan Williams, di rector of University housing. The University loses “not less than $20-25,000 annually” in furniture that “just walks off,” says Williams. “I don't want to minimize it; in the context of the whole opera tion its not a significant amount, but if is a problem.” Williams says vacuum cleaners and fire extinguishers are the most popular items among furniipre thieves. “I don't know what anybody wants with fire extinguishers,” he adds The thefts, especially of the fire safety equipment, only harm the students, Williams says. "If I had to choose, I'd rather lose the furniture than the fire safety equipment," he says. Most of the stolen furniture is never recovered, Williams says. "When we’re sure it is not in a (resident’s) room, we replace it," Williams says. "Con sequently students bear the cost of that. Students essential ly underwrite the cost." "I guess it's the morality of the whole thing that troubles me,” Williams says. 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