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Oregon Daily
Emerald
Tuesday, December 9. 1986
Eugene. Oregon
Volume 88, Number 69
Council adopts report on library
By Jolayne Houtz
CM the Kmerald
Members of the Eugene City
Council's library committee
will start considering a new
location for the Eugene Public
Library after the council
unanimously adopted a
preliminary report on the
library’s future Monday.
The report calls for the expan
sion of the library to a two- to
four-story building with 90,000
to 120,000 square feet, about tri
ple the size of the existing
building.
Council members initially
disagreed over whether to adopt
the report or to just accept it.
Two councilors expressed con
cern that adopting the plan
could commit the council to too
much too soon.
Councilor freeman llolmer
said adopting the plan would be
going too far by forcing the
council to act on the report's
specific recommendations,
such as establishing branch
libraries within five years of
building a new central library
and tripling the size of the new
facility.
"There's lots of unknowns
that we want to work on.” said
councilor Dick Hansen, who
also initially opposed adoption
of the report.
But councilor Emily Schue
said the report would be a basis
for the second phase of the com
mittee's work, not a final
recommendation.
Councilor Cynthia Wooten
said adopting the report would
be an incentive to the
13-member committee to con
tinue its analysis. By just accep
ting the report. Wooten said,
the council would be sending
mixed signals to the committee
and to the public about whether
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Richard Gold, left, and Nan Cohen were pari of a group who
picketed Monday in front of the library. The group supports
the new report, but opposes reduced library funding that has
forced the library to cut hours.
council members actually in
tended to support the project.
A survey sent to 800 people
regarding the report netted 189
responses. Of those. 155 mostly
agreed with the report. 22
somewhat agreed, five
somewhat disagreed and seven
mostly disagreed.
The current library, built in
1959, is inadequate to serve the
needs of Eugene's population,
which has more than doubled
since the library opened, said
Jim Saul, vice chairman of the
Future of Our Library commit
tee. The building is the second
most heavily used public facili
ty in Eugene aside from Mahlon
Sweet Airport, he added.
While some consideration has
been given to remodeling the
existing building, staff
members discovered this fall
that asbestos was used as a fire
retardant in all the library
ceilings.
The Future of Our Library
committee now will come up
with a final recommendation,
possibly as early as next fall, in
cluding a specific site proposal
and a cost estimate.
Feminists say new ERA drive
wrong direction for NOW
By Shawn Wirtz
Of the Kmvraid
Editor's note: This is the first
of two articles on feminism. To
day’s article looks into the
feminist reaction to the ERA.
Tomorrow's article will explore
the direction the women's
movement is taking.
The National Organization for
Women celebrated its 20th an
niversary last week and vowed
to renew the drive to ratify the
Equal Rights Amendment in
January, but some claim the fire
has died out of feminism and
women will have to broaden
their base of support to pull off a
victory.
Congress passed the ERA in
1972, but the amendment failed
when only 35 of the required 38
states had ratified the ERA by
the deadline of June 30. 1982.
Some feminists, while they
support the ERA. believe
another effort would be unsuc
cessful and may hurt the
feminist movement.
"It’s a tactical mistake. We
made no progress on the KRA
from 1976 to 1982,” said fane
Mansbridge, an associate pro
fessor of political science and
sociology at Northwestern
University. Her book. "Why We
Lost the ERA" was recently
released by the University of
Chicago Press.
Mansbridge believes there is
less support now for the ERA
than before. "In the unratified
states, the ERA seemed actually
to decline. In the ratified states,
several legislatures tried to res
cind.” she said.
While there are more women
in state legislatures, women
"will never again have that
honeymoon period (they) had in
1972 when 20 states ratified,”
Mansbridge said
“In that early flurry, often
legislatures didn't even hold
hearings. When they did often
only the proponents testified.
That’s never going to happen
again," she said.
While the first ERA struggle
turned NOW into the strongest
non-governmental women's
organization, it will face an
even better-organized opposing
coalition of conservatives and
religious groups this time
around. Mansbridge said.
The only chance at success is
if the drive were to generate an
official report from one of the
houses of Congress,
enumerating a point-by-point
interpretation of the ERA “to
reassure conservatives and the
mainstream legislators that the
sponsors of the ERA did not in
tend to mandate funding for
abortion, drafting women into
combat, etcetera,” Mansbridge
said.
"The grass roots supporters
accepted a radical interpreta
tion." Mansbridge added.
As a result, supporters did
not dispute opponents' claims
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Caretaker leaves toolshed
after letter controversy
calls attention to dwelling
By Ted Fuller
Of Ihr fmtrald
Victor Anchor moved
out of the Eugene Pioneer
Cemetery toolshed Mon
day after it was determin
ed that the building could
not meet Eugene building
code requirements for a
dwelling unit.
Anchor, an employee of
the Pioneer Cemetery Plot
Owner’s Association,
took up residence in the
toolshed last summer in
an effort to prevent van
dalism in the historic
cemetery on the
southwest side of campus.
Hugene police officer.
The incident occurred
when Anchor, a Vietnam
vet. was unexpectedly
awakened in the middle
of the night by a Fugene
police officer. After the of
ficer ordered him to leave
the premises. Anchor
threatened to douse the
officer with gasoline and
bum him. Anchor realiz
ed later that he had over
reacted and apologized to
the officer.
Anchor had another en
counter with police on
Thanksgiving Day. He
told an Oregon Daily
‘It is a shame he has to leave. It
was working out for everybody,
Victor and us. He wasn’t hurting
anybody, but somebody always has
to make waves. ’
— Ruth Holmes
He is caught in the middle
of a controversy that
erupted after a female stu -
dent wrote a letter to the
editor (ODE 11686)
describing how she felt
uneasy when Anchor wat
ched her walk by. The let
ter also warned students
to avoid the area.
The student wrote the
letter after discussing the
incident with campus
security personnel and
finding out about a run-in
Anchor had wit h a
Km i! raid photographer
that he was rousted out of
bed at two in the morning
by officers responding to a
report of a woman scream
ing. He also said the
police officers accused
him of having the woman
in the toolshed.
Kugene police officers
did make contact with the
caretaker concerning the
report, said Sgt. Chuck
Tilby of the Eugene Police
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