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Thursday, November 17, 1983
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 85, Number 53
Prepare to pay up, commuters
Council passes disputed parking plan
By Harry Esteve
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A plan to charge commuters for parking west of
the University finally was approved Wednesday by
the Eugene City Council, ending weeks of delays,
public hearings and revisions to the original
proposal.
Beginning Jan. 15, 1984, it will be illegal to park
longer than two hours in certain areas west of cam
pus without a special permit. Those permits are of
fered free to residents of the affected areas, but cost
non-residents either $17.50 a month or $1.50 a day.
The Council was unanimous in its approval
despite continued opposition to the parking plan by
students and by employees of Sacred Heart General
Hospital and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
"Personally, I don't feel obligated to provide
unlimited free parking" to West University area
employees or to student commuters, said Council
member John Ball before voting with the rest of the
Council to approve the controversial plan.
"We've been taking a lot of heat on this," Ball
said. "Sacred Heart Hospital and the University of
Oregon administration and the BLM have been ig
noring the parking requirements of their employees
and students tor some years."
The affected areas are located in a 28-square
block rectangle bound by 11th and 18th Avenues and
High and Hilyard Streets.
About half the area will be posted as a "residen
tial preferential parking zone." Curbs bordering
high-density housing and adjacent to the BLM offices
will not be subject to parking restrictions.
ASUO representative Barbara McCarthy said
after the meeting she still has concerns that the
$17.50 permit price tag might cause problems for
some student commuters.
"I've asked them to make concessions for low
income students," McCarthy said. "I want to see the
plan succeed.”
McCarthy said she generally was pleased with
the way the city took student concerns into account
in its final draft of the federally financed parking
program.
After hearing complaints from fraternity and
sorority representatives, the city traffic staff removed
from the plan several blocks north of 11th Avenue
where there is a heavy concentration of Greek
houses.
Traffic planner Jim Hanks stressed that the pur
pose of the parking charges was to alleviate parking
problems in the West University Neighborhood, not
to generate money for the city through sales of the
permits. Hanks estimated an average of 50 permits
would be sold each month.
The $17.50 price tag is meant to discourage com
muters from parking in residential neighborhoods,
Hanks said.
"There is adequate parking on the campus for all
the commuters that come to the University," Hanks
said. As many as 300 parking spaces are vacant each
day in the student parking lot across from Bean dor
mitory, he said. Permits to park in the Bean lot cost
students $18 per academic year.
However, University planners have admitted the
Bean lot is in poor physical condition and is inconve
nient for many students because of its distance from
the southwest end of campus.
"When you step out of your car, you're waist
deep in grass or mud," McCarthy said. "To ask
students to park there is ridiculous."
Those most pleased by the Council's action were
members of the West University Neighborhood
Association, who asked, the city to develop a more
restrictive parking program as part of their
neighborhood refinement plan.
The city will receive $293,000 in matching funds
from the U.S. government to implement the plan.
Assembly vote backs 'town hall'
By Doug Nash
Of the Emerald
The University Assembly on
Wednesday narrowly defeated a
proposal that would have given a
great deal of power to the Univer
sity Senate.
The motion needed a two-thirds
majority to pass. An initial vote for
the new faculty governance rules
barely succeeded, with 90 in favor
of the proposal and 45 opposed.
However, upon a recount called
for by University Pres. Paul Olum,
the official tally became 91-50,
lacking a clear two-thirds majority.
The proposal, which had been
designed through the year-long
efforts of a special task force,
would have given much legislative
authority to the Senate, now serv
ing only an advisory role. Only
those measures without a two
thirds majority woulu have been
referred to the Assembly, which
would have met four times a year
under the new plan.
The University president or 10
percent of the faculty could also
have initiated measures in the
Assembly, according to the
proposal.
But in debate Wednesday, it was
apparent that many faculty
members still are satisfied with
the University's unique "town
hall" concept, which allows all 970
faculty members to take part in
the Assembly's monthly meetings.
Task force member Sandy
Tepfer, biology professor, said he
was disappointed with the
outcome.
"I'm sad but I think that the vote
is close enough that I'm going to
bring it up again next year without
rewriting it,” Tepfer said.
Student University Affairs Board
member Mike Prothe, who heads
the 18-member student con
tingent on the Senate and the
Assembly, said he was "really
torn” at the final outcome.
"I was very frustated at the way
they rejected the students' in
terest in the Senate," he said.
The task force proposal called
for eight students, or a one-fifth
proportion to serve on the Senate.
The Assembly had rejected SUAB
efforts to raise that number to 14
with full voting capacity or to 18
with each student entitled to half
a vote.
The University Senate approved
the entire governance package
last month.
Smile, say 'cheese'
Despite tain, cold weather, inadequate parking
facilities and fewer students than expected, volunteers and
organizers of a cheese and butter giveaway on campus
Wednesday are pleased with the results.
"There were a lot of happy students," says loan Bard,
who was in charge of the distribution.
Bill Snyder, ASUO coordinator of student events, also
is happy.
Distribution will continue on a monthly basis if some
problems are worked out, says Lydia Donohoe, chair of the
Lane County food bank board.
Snyder instigated the giveaway on campus by contac
ting the food bank, and he acted as go-between for the ad
ministration and the bank as the details of the distribution
were worked out.
The dairy products allocated for the University,
Weighing 24,000 pounds, had to be unloaded from trucks
onto carts at the edge of the courtyard. The trucks usually
are driven up to the distributing tables, Donohoe says.
Photo by Dean Guernsey
Student named co-plaintiff in Solomon lawsuit
By Doug Nash
Of the Emerald
Melissa Barker, the 26 year-old University
student who was denied financial aid foi
refusing to sign a selective service form, has
been named as co-plaintiff in a federal
lawsuit attacking the enforcement pro
cedures of the Solomon Amendment.
A Washington, D.C.-based lawyer, J. E.
McNeil, has agreed to represent Barker in
her opposition to the amendment, which
requires all students receiving federal
financial aid to certify they have registered
with the Selective Service or are exempt
from having to register.
All males at least 18 years of age and born
after 1959 must register for the draft. As a
woman born prior to 1959, Barker says she
was unfairly targeted by the Department of
Education's enforcement rules and should
have never been required to sign the selec
tive service form.
"These rules violate the intent of Con
gress," Barker says. "The federal Depart
ment of Education was out of line for enfor
cing procedures and rules that go beyond
what Congress intended when it developed
that legislation.''
Barker says her action could not be
declared moot under another anti-Solomon
case pending before the U.S. Supreme
Court. That case directly attacks the amend
ment on constitutional grounds, while her
suit questions only the government’s en
forcement procedures.
"The other federal case is looking at the
Solomon Amendment — whether or not it
itself is unconstitutional," she says. "We're
suggesting that the administrative rules are
unconstitutional."
Joining her in the case are a George
Washington University student and a Seat
tle University student, both of whom are
women born prior to 1959, Barker says.
The suit, which will be filed in federal
district court in Washington, D.C. Friday or
Monday, seeks an immediate court order to
stop enforcement of the Solomon Amend
ment regulations. Barker says. McNeil
hopes to recover basic attorney fees, from
the court, she adds.
Barker says she learned of McNeil
through contacts with Dave Fidanque, head
of Eugene's American Civil Liberties Union
chapter. Earlier this month, the ACLU an
nounced it would not be able to provide
legal services for Barker. She had wanted to
fight the amendment on state grounds, us
ing an Oregon constitutional provision that
prevents laws from interfering with rights
of conscience.
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University student Melissa Barker will
attack the Solomon Amendment on a
federal level.