Oregon Daily
Emerald
Tuesday, June 2, 1987
Eugene. Oregon
Volume HH, Number 9fi
Photo bv Man* <4>rt«lli*
Trucks visitin/t a docking area behind Allen Hall routinely send noise and tias fumes up to a se
cond story classroom, irritating professors and students alike.
Noise, fumes disrupt classroom
By Alicia Gano
Of the fitter aid
In Allen Hall, printing
sometimes takes precedence
over education as classes are
disturbed, even canceled, by
noise and fumes from truck
deliverance to the ground floor
printing department.
Room 221, the Sc:houl of Jour
nalism's larmisl classroom
seating mum than 170 studunts.
is located above the loading
ramp for the University's prin
ting plant. The plant receives
up to eight truck, deliveries of
paper and supplies each day.
according to Wayne Merritt,
superintendent of the printing
depart ment.
Delivery trucks weave
through a maze of students and
cars, negotiating the the loading
ramp on the east side of Allen
Hall. Backing through the nar
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Tavern owner charged
in racial sign incident
Message may have prevented entry
By |ain't Paulson
(H I hr tnM»r*ld
A representative of 11»«* Bureau
of laibor and Industries hoard
testimony Monday regarding
the vase of a Noti tavern i iiarged
with violating public accom
modations laws
Mary Roberts, stale commis
sioner of lalior and industries,
filed a complaint against John
Masepohl. owner of the Pub
Tavern. 22MHi Highway I2t> in
Noti. for violating ORS to t»70
The statute in question con
cerns public accommodations
and prohibits discrimination on
the liasis of race, religion, sex.
marital status, color or national
origin.
Early in March. Register
Guard columnist Don Bishoff
received a tip that the Pub
Tavern in Noli was displaying
racist signs, according to Bever
ly Russell of the Eugene office
of the Bureau of labor and In
dustries' civil rights division
Bishoff called the Bureau's
Portland office, which im
mediately requested the tavern
be investigated.
Russell, an investigative
supervisor with the Bureau,
testified Monday that she went
to Noti to investigate the
i harges on March -I Slut found
out* sign at llut entrant «• to the
tavern <loor that n*iul, "No
shot’s, no shirt, no .service."
I land written under the sign
was the word "Niggers" with
an arrow pointing front the
W'ord "No." sti as to read "No
Niggers "
Kossell observed a second
sino reading "Viva Apartheid"
above the "No Niggers" sign
Inside the tavern, Russell
observed a third sign hanging
behind the bar Hanging from
the sign was a chain with spikes
on either end of it The chain is
a device user I in logging, com
monly referred to as a "log
dog "
On its front, the sign read
"Discrimination Webster
to use good judgement " On its
ha< k side, printed so it could tie
read while looking in the mirror
liehind the bar. tier sign road
"Authentic South African
Apartheid Niggers ‘Black’
Handcuffs," "Directions: Drive
Points Through Wrists. Bend
fiver Wrists."
Commissioner Kolterts, who
may file a complaint if she is
awure of an unlawful situation.
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Request for routine AIDS testing underscores problem
By Deborah lanes
CM Ih* Kiaarald
President Reagan's request
Sunday for certain segments of
the American population to
receive routine testing for AIDS
drew mixed reactions in the
Eugene public health
community.
While many health officials
am concerned that ‘‘routine”
could eventually become "man
datory.” they agree that
Krasin's request illustrates the
severity of the problem.
"The tests should be volun
tary and anonymous,” said
University associate director of
Public Safety. Don Brooks, who
has closely followed the issue
for three years and has attended
national conferences on AIDS
"If we make them mandatory
for immigrants, it may fat
students who receive govern
ment grants next." he said.
''People are realizing that it's
a silent, deadly disease, right
here in Eugene, and that you
don't have to t>e in the high risk
category to get it," said Dr.
lames Jackson, director of the
University health center. While
he knows of no University
students who are presently in
fected with the AIDS virus, he
expects that to change.
"In the next five years there
will be a problem with the stu
(font population." ho said
"The problem is that bells don't
go off when you get it. The in
( libation period could lie up to
seven years. During that time,
you're a walking time bomb. In
fecting other people."
Students are generally young
enough that they still consider
themselves immortal and unef
fected by the disease. both
fackson and brooks said.
"It's hard for students to
think that they lx- expo*
ed," Brooks said "But the virus
doesn't know gender. It just
happened to start here in the
gay community." He added that
the large AIDS epidemic in
Africa was started within the
prostitution community.
While testing for AIDS,
refered to as HIV (human im
munodeficiency virus), has
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New construction closes 13th
By Christ Nurred
(M thr S.mrrald
Drivers holding past the
EMU on Monday morning
found road blocks and one
way traffic, as one-half of
13th Avenue was closed.
Thirteenth Avenue will be
limited to one-way traffic
westbound in the block bet
ween University Street and
Carson Mall Dormitory while
construction on the Univer
sity's new science building
complex is underway.
University Street will be
limited to one-way traffic bet
ween Johnson lame and 13th
Avenue.
“Unless you really want to
get in that mess. I wouldn't
drive down there," said
David Kowe. University
planner.
The fence around the con
struction site will take up one
lane of 13th Avenue, directly
across the street from the
EMU. "It's a means of pro
viding enough room for the
contractor's field offices and
storage." Kowe said.
Blocking 13th Avenue
could not wait two weeks un
til school lets out. he said.
“We're already a couple of
weeks behind where we'd
predicted we would be," he
said. "This shouldn't sur
prise anybody."
The construction is the
beginning of work on the first
of four buildings that will
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Construction on the new science complex
Photo by Maria (anullh
will block parts of i3th Avenue and University Street.