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
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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
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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
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