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Oregon Daily Emerald She celebrated Mother’s Day by being arrested at protest See Pages 6 and 7 Wednesday. May 13, 1987 Eugene. Oregon Volume 88. Number 122 •ilwm r L fa - - .— I'Kulo bv IJrrrrl Ilvwill Teammates of lesse Nash, who drowned in the Willamette River on Sunday, gather to remember him at a service Tuesday night. Friends mourn Jesse Nash at Mac Court memorial By Dennis Fernandes CM the Kmarald "There are two tasks for us human-types — the first is to learn how to say hello, the se cond is to learn how to say good bye." Such were the sentiments of Tom lieger, of Campus interfaith Ministry, in an emotional and touching memorial to Jesse Nash on Tuesday night at McArthur Court. Nash, a University basketball player and junior psychology major, drowned in the Willamette River near the Autzen Kootbridgu on Sunday. "Remember the new student during new student week who didn't know how to say hello. Remember parents unloading U-Hauls full of memories, not knowing how to say goodbye.” Heger continued. “Jesse Nash knew how to say hullo, and he knew how to say goodbye. “Tonight. wt> gut to figure out how to say goodbye." Nash. 21. will be buried in his hometown of Wilmington, Del. Me is survived by his mother. Vernoise Nash. At the same place where Nash took Oregon basketball fans to heart by successfully guarding players sometimes three or four in ches taller at the small forward position: where Nash probably joked with teammates during shoot arounds before practice; where Nash probably got his first taste of a rigorous Mac Court registration he was mourned and Turn to Nash, Page » Commissions discuss plans to revamp Downtown Mall By Will Holbert I H the I met jfil The question of when to begin Eugene’s downtown rciifiv.il dominated *t joint meeting IhiIween the Kugene I’lanning Commission and the K ii go no Downtown Commission on Tuesday night The two commissions met to dot ide what recommendations they should make to the Kugene City Council regarding renewal plans. The renewal plan centers around increased access to the Downtown Mall hv opening parts of it to traffic. The com missions have made tentative recommendations to rein troduce traffic to Willamette Street between Eighth and loth avenues, and to Broadway liet ween Oak and Willamette streets. The city hopes these changes and others will stimulate business development on the mall. At Tuesday night's hearing, the commissioners deliated over starting the design process now and planning for construction early next year, or waiting until next year, thereby allowing more time to work out details. “I don’t think this is the time politically or economically to move ahead very fast on this.” said |ulie Aspinwall-Landierts. a member of the Kugene Downtown Com mission Aspinwall-Lamberts fears the community would react un favorably if the city moved for ward with plan*,now because the public hasn’t had the time to examine the issue carefully. "We’re letting our desire to get on with it interfere with clear thinking,” said James Kllison. <i member til Ihi' pi.imi mg commission. HuI other < ommission members argued against delay, claiming the current stale of the mall is driving businesses and people away. A random poll ot ton people in the Kugene area showed "a significant number" of people found the mall either inai c.essable or s< ary. act ording to blame Stewart of the downtown i ommixsinu Another member ol the downtown commission who supports moving on with the proposed changes. Michael Schwartz, used the fountain in the center ol the mall as an ex a m pie of I h e mall's unaltrai tiveuess "Without the water, it's look ing uglier and uglier if that w a s the c e liter o I m y downtown. I'd lie embarrass ed," Schwartz said. Some buildings in the mall have been vacant for three years, he said. The plan calls for redevelop ing the fountain plaza at Broad - way and Willamette streets. The commissioners also discussed two other aspects of the downtown renewal plan: maintaining a pedestrian orien tation in the renewal area while reopening Broadway and Willamette streets to traffic. In keeping with a list of goals listed in a memorandum con cerned with the plan, "the pedestrian mall is to lie con sidered as being more business oriented than parklike." Thus. Willamette Street between Turn to Mall, Page 4 Users, critics comment on the ups and downs of 'Ecstasy' Ky Scott Maben Of the fcmerald It is not an aphrodisiac, a prevalent hallucinogenic, a po tent stimulant, a fad or legal It is slightly costly, usually ingested orally and therapeutically as well as recreattonally popular. In research tabs where doses are administered to rats for research purposes, it’s referred to as ' ‘3 , 4-methy lenedioxymethamphetamine." Federal and civic drug enforcement agencies cal) it MDMA, and on the streets it’s known as "Ecstasy." "It's definitely catching on. Everyone's doing it. It's not hard to get,” said "Troy.” a 22-year old University student who asked that his real name not be used. Ecstasy’s effect is "just as it's name connotates: total sensory high.” he said. "It gives you an intense feel ing of well-being and con fidence.” according to Troy, who both uses and sells the drug. Hut according to local law en forcement officials, Ecstasy, even if it is gaining in populari ty, pales in comparison to the more serious problem of methamphetamino labs. "We haven't run into it at all," Oregon State Police Detec tive Hill Gourly said. "It's not a significant enough problem to draw our attention to it.” Gourly. who works in drug enforcement, said busting math labs takes up the majority of the Drug Enforcement Administra tion's time. "There’s so much speed around, we don’t get to that stuff." Dourly said, adding if the meth labs weren't a pro blem. agency officials probably would concentrate first on co caine use on campus. Gourly said local police have made no arrests, nor have they discovered any labs relating to MDMA, but he suspects it does circulate in Eugene. "It's around, You hear of it down around San Francisco and places like that, so you know it’s around here," he said. "Down in the Hay Area, and from the literature I've read alxtut it, it's pretty much the yuppie type of drug There’s a short high to it, so people can take it over their lunch hour and go hack to work, giving the ap pearance they're fairly func tional." Courly said. One reason MDMA users may fit the upwardly mobile profile has been linked to its therapeutic advocacy among physicians and therapists. l,ast November, the DKA of ficially placed MDMA on Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act after the drug had been temporarily on the schedule for more than a year. Of the five schedules under the act. Schedule I includes those drugs the DKA decides possess no recognized medical use and allegedly have a high potential for abuse. Concealed production or sale of MDMA is punishable by up to 15 years in prison and a S125.not) fine Turn to Ecstasy, Page 4 FHulo iliuwliailion bv Mirla C-orvallm
