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 Turn fo Noise, Page 3 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 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 Turn to AIDS, Page 3 ) 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 Turn to Construction, Page 3 I ' ......— Construction on the new science complex Photo by Maria (anullh will block parts of i3th Avenue and University Street.