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Oregon Daily Emerald USSA delegates depart for Madison, Wis. See Page 4 Thursday. August 6, 1987 Eugene, Oregon Volume 89. Number 14 Photo b% Shu Shinn C hen Officer Mike l.arione (left) and fire department offical Gary Treadawav investigate the automobile that struck and killed three ptnlestrians in a Sunday accident to determine if automotive failure it ns a factor. Police continue investigation of fatal Sunday car accident By Mike Drummond (M ihr Kmunld Police an? continuing their inv*;stijta tion of th«* car accident that killed three pedestrians on Franklin Boulevard on Sunday, but authorities are reluctant to divulge new information regarding the case. Killed were Simon and Beatrice |ulfe ul West Balm Beach, Fla., and their niece, Ronnie Lynn Selikson, of Sent tie. Police initially misidentified Selikson as the )affes' granddaughter Tim Birr. Kugene Police public infer Turn to Accident, Page 3 Accused sexual offender extradited back to Oregon By SlRphen Maher Of lk« tmrrtflil A former University child care worker <111 used of sexually abusing three young girls is awaiting extradition I Mick to Oregon after being caught attempting to flee the United States Brian Sydney Smith, :i.1, remains lodg ed in the King County (ail in Seattle after a Lane County sheriff's deputy escorted him back to the United States from lam don. Kngland on Sunday. Smith was charged with violating his Lane County fail release agreement hy leaving the country in an attempt to avoid trial, said Jim Hunt, an assistant Lane County district attorney. Smith is a former employee of the University Child Care and Development Center Me also is the former dins tor of a children's program at a local elementary school and a former employee of Kugerie laitch hey Inc., an after-school program. According to I lunt. none of the alleged sexual abuses occurred at places of employment Smith was stopped at London's Heathrow Airport on July 27 after customs agents found I-ano County documents and a letter from Smith's Turn to Extradition, Page 5 Sowards keeps ASUO post By Carolyn l.amherson (M I hr l The AStJO Executive announced Wednesday Executive Coordinator Susan Howards will retain her position for another year. ASUO President kasey Brooks said Sowards’ experience in student govern ment “can't Ik? rninirni/ed." and her ex perience was a large determinant in Sowards' rehiring. “She can go track through four years of student government, and a lot of the same issues crop up each year.” Hrooks said. Sowards said she was happy to Ik* rehired. and sees the executive cuor dinator position ns lining a positive fort u in student government. "The continuity, .of this position is good for student government." slit! said, and added site is looking forward to an active and involved year The Brooks administration will l>e the fifth ASIIO administration she has work ed with since she began as executive coordinator When Brooks' Concerned Students for Responsive Leadership coalition look control of the ASUO Kx ecutive from Students for a Progressive Adgenda. some observers wondered whether Sewards would find it difficult working with a CSRl. administration Turn to ASUO, Page 3 Library makes way for shelving By Charles Korns Of I hr t-mrrftld Nearly 150 study seats in the University Main Library have l>een displaced by tin? need of more shelf space. According to University Librarian George Shipman, the change is necessary to ade quately centralize the present ( ol lection and to provide space for new acquisitions, which amount to at least 40.000 volumes every year. The change will create almost HIM) new ser lions of shelving. The University Administra tion last spring allocated funds to purchase the $75.0(H) worth of gray, steel shelving The library chose not to add shelving in the last 12 years, and the consequence was a vast number of unshelved books comparable in mass to "one large three-story bowl of jelly," Shipman said. Many of those volumes w'ere stored in inap propriate places such as dor mitory basements. "This library is grossly inade quate.” Shipman said "The American Library Association recommends that 25 percent of a student body can be seated at any one time in a university's library facilities." The new loss of about 140 study seats reduces the seating capacity of all University libraries from 11 to 0 percent. "A negative sol of cir cumstances led to tin* change, but it’s far better than decen tralization," Shipman said The reduction of study areas will lie hard on students, "but you can't wish away 40.01)0 or 50.000 new volumes," lie add ed "There's going to lie more crowding at four- and six-place tables." Library employees this sum mer are bus\ setting up 506 shelving units and shifting books. Most of the changes are taking place on the second floor, where only 42 study seats remain und all of the graduate study carrels are gone. Some of the carrels were mov ed to the third floor, but at least t>0 were removed entirely. The remaining LIH are assigned to graduate students on a priority basis. When the transition is com pleted, each shelf will have a growing space of 10 inches, which will allow for new ac quisitions until tool. when an overflow is expec ted to occur, iiy that time a major addition to the building should be well under way, Shipman said. A long-term proposal calls for an expansion of 150,000 square feet. The Oregon Legislature recently approved $780,000 for planning and progress toward that goal. Shipman said only one stu drill has complained In him. not aboul the rrduclinn of seals, hut about the distraction caused by all the book shifting and shelf building In late August and September the second floor may tie closed to the public, but reference materials can still be obtained with staff assistance. (tidy Andrews, a government documents reference librarian on the second floor, said she's only heard occasional mutter ing from students but expects a much greater reaction next term. ‘‘There'll be a lot of surprised people fall term," Andrews said. "I do not like to see the seating go but until we get a new facility, that's what we're going to have to do." Mary Ann Harman, a Ph.D. candidate in counseling psychology, opposes the changes and says there must have lieen a (letter alternative available. "There's no place for students in that library and I think that's absurd." Harman said. "There's no place for you to look at a Ixiok; you have to stand up. carrying all your materials with you. "The first priority of a univer sity library is to serve the students, not to store books." she said "They’ve made a deci Turn to Library, Page 3 PHulu bv Sh#r>lv*» M*i»rk*rrn Library workers Rob Rulf and Cynthia Peterson place books on newly installed shelves in the University Main Library.
