Oregon daily emerald., February 24, 1987, Page 3, Image 3

Office studies parking, transportation problems
By B.J. Thomsen
Of Ik* Emerald
The University Office of Planning is
conducting a comprehensive study of
the problem of parking and transporta
tion on campus at the request of the
Oregon State Board of Higher Education.
A recommendation on how to best
solve the problem is due out at the end of
spring term, said Gabe Onyeador, a
University planning assistant.
“We’re trying to get some general
view of where additional parking will be
most useful,” said University Planner
David Rowe.
Onyeador began looking at the pro
blem in November, he said, and is trying
to determine the nature and degree of the
problem.
“The problem is bad all over campus.
If you drive to campus, you know what
it's like," he said.
Traffic counts have been completed by
the city at intersections around the
University, and Onyeador will be hiring
University students to conduct traffic
and parking surveys for four days from
7:45 a.m. to 6:45 p.m.
Counts of pedestrian traffic and
numbers of passengers per vehicle on
campus also will be gathered.
Questionnaires will be mailed out ear
ly next term to a computer-selected ran
dom sample of 10 percent of the student
body, faculty and staff of the University,
Onyeador said.
The questionnaire is designed to deter
mine where commuters park when they
arrive on campus, what their destination
is, what time they arrive and leave and
how many times they leave campus each
day, among other things.
“We are trying to determine how
much turnover there is,” Rowe said.
The study will try to draw a relation
ship between the supply and location of
parking spaces and the demand for those
spaces.
“Right now we are down about 60
parking spaces campuswide (from the
beginning of the academic year).” Rowe
said. This is mainly due to the work be
ing done at Hayward Field to widen the
track, and to work being done on the
University’s new Museum of Natural
History in the Bean parking lot. accor
ding to Rowe.
“When work on the new science com
plex starts, there will be some more
loss.” Rowe said, but he noted that 150
additional spaces will be available when
work is completed on a new parking lot
in the Silva Orchard located across
Franklin Boulevard near the millrace.
Photo by Maria (orvalliw
Parking and transportation have become such a problem on campus that
the University Office of Planning is conducting a survey to recommend a
possible solution.
Symposium raises question about symptoms of hunger
Photo by Maria Corvallii
Kristy Murray deposits money in the Food for Lane County
tar at the EMU Fishbowl as Betsy Lane looks on.
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By Sarah Kitchen
Of the Emerald
Fighting hunger on a global
level, instead of just concen
trating on local issues, was one
of the points discussed Monday
night at a panel discussion
about hunger in Lane County.
The discussion was presented
by OSPIRG, the Oregon Student
Public Interest Research Croup.
One major position on hunger
looks at the world as one
system, a world system, and
tries to ask why things happen
as they do. What are the nature
of processes that result in
hunger, malnutrition, high
rates of population growth and
ecological destruction, asked
Jack Rollwagen, professor of
anthropology.
"Problem solving begins with
the whole system and moves
down to the local system, and
not vice versa, so rather than
working from Eugene out to the
universe, I'm going to try to
start from the world and work
down, which to me makes more
sense,” Rollwagen said.
In order to understand why
there is hunger in Eugene, one
must relate to a set of ideas that
are not only related to hunger
and poverty, but also to
ecological destruction.
Many people do not want to
see the hunger and malnutrition
that exists in the United States
as being a result of a system, but
rather something that has not
been taken care of yet,
Rollwagen said.
In order to deal with the
hunger problem, people must
concentrate on the symptoms
and not the causes. One way to
deal with the symptoms is to
revise the political agenda on
hunger, said John Hall, Lane
County Commissioner.
It is difficult to deal with the
political issue of hunger
because it is not something peo
ple want to talk about as a
political issue, he said.
“There are a whole gamut of
issues that go into poverty and
hunger and you cannot extricate
them and say we are going to
give these people food and that
is going to cure the poverty."
Hall said.
‘‘Arming ourselves with the
information to make the argu
ment to our fellow citizens that
hunger and such issues need to
have a higher priority has to
continue; making it an issue
and trying to devise solutions
does not mean you are going to
solve the problem. It is a long
term commitment and essential
ly it is all of us resolving that.”
Ball said.
There are approximately l‘>
million people in the United
States getting food stamps, and
33 million people who are eligi
ble to receive food stamps, said
Bob Warren, a speaker from
Rep. Peter Defazio’s office.
These statistics are a part of
the recent food assistance cuts
carried out by the Reagan ad
ministration.
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