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--.Oregon Daily_ Emerald Wednesday. Marr.h 29. 1989 Eugene. Oregon Volume 90. Number 121 Inside. ■ Duo enters ASUO race. Page 4 ■ Library expansion plan. Page IS ■ State gun bill proposed, Page 24 ■ Docks capture NW1T, Page 27 Saferide revamps schedule By Sigrid Wright Emerald Contributor The ink of a scrawled message on an athletic trail bulletin Uiard near campus is blurred In the rain but still legible Runners Beware," the warning reads This path is the sight of sexual assaults on men. women and children On campus in the KM(! Breezeway. a weathered fiver headed in bold ink with Assault Alert" is tacked to a highly visible post "Know these facts." it states "A rape has occurred on Ibis ( ampus The same fiver is pinned to another wall, in the Project Saferide office It's the site of the only escort service in the nation known in projei I members and Office of Publii Safetv officers to he run exclusively by and for women While many universities have an in formal escort serve e sponsored by fra ternities and other student groups, over 4.000 women have ridden one of Saferide's one hour loops from 0 p m. to midnight since the spring of 1985. But this term, in the lirst route changes since the program began, the on-t ampus and off-campus Saferide \ans are rear hing a growing number of riders at new destinations, said project co-director Meg Wilson In a decision based on rider and driv er input and surveys sent to student or ganizations. Project Saferide is eliminat ing the off campus route and replacing it w ith a free "taxi service" respond ing, instead, to calls for rides as they are needed While Saferide administration has al Turn to Saferide, Page 13 Hit* photo Project Saferide hopes route changes will improve service to campus women. Proposed library location rejected By Greg Hough Emerald Reporter Eugene voters Tuesday were rejecting an advi sory measure to approve housing a new library in a private development at Eighth Avenue and Olive Street, according to returns tallied from a majority of city precincts. Meanwhile, in another of several Lane County mail-in ballot races decided Tuesday. University Director of Financial Aid Ed Vignoul held a slim lead in the race for a position on the Eugene School Board, leading laurel Hill area resident (an YVostmann by about 80 votes in a race too close to call. Votes against the library relocation proposal (Ballot Measure 20-01) led votes favoring the meas ure by nearly 15 percentage points at press time With 54 of 68 precincts reporting, the measure had 10,520 "no” votes and 7,852 "yes” votes tallied. Eugene Mayor Jeff Miller, a proponent of mov ing the library downtown, refused to concede de feat on the issue even as the results were being an nounced. Miller pointed to the fact that the mail-in race made it impossible to know which precincts were coming in at what time, and that certain precincts might yet put the measure over the top. If passed, the measure will cleared the way for the city to go ahead with its proposal to build the new library as part of Pankow Development Co.'s proposed 13-story office tower in downtown Eu gene. The financing plan, approved by the Eugene City Council, would require that the city pay the cost of building the library by drawing on existing urban renewal and parking reserve money and on Turn to Library, Page 7 Running the gauntlet University students traditionally have to make their way through the maze of handbill distributors at McArthur Court before and after they are dune with registra tion. Tuesday was no exception. Photo by James Marks Panel hears testimony on Riverfront, delays action Bv Cami Swanson Emerald Reporter The Kugene Planning ('one mission on Tuesday heard lesii mony appealing the ret nut de cision to grant a conditional use permit to the Riverfront Re search Park's Master Site Plan, lint did not rule on the appeals Pour people submitted ap peals to the city hearings ofti cial's Feb. lit decision, which will allow construe lion to be gin at the 67-acre site alongside the Willamette River However, altci listening to three hours of testimony on the proposed rescan h site the planning commission dec ided to postpone its decision until its April 2 meeting The commission < an dec ide to uphold Hearings Official |im Spickerman s dec ision, over turn his dec ision. or modify the existing conditions and conclu sions that support the permit's approval. Kven if the planning commission upholds Spic kerman's decision, the de cision can still be appealed to the I .and Use Hoard of Appeals One of the concerns voiced at Tuesday's hearing was whether the site plan corresponded with the intent of Willamette Green wav legislation to provide "natural and si rni< " re< reation areas along tile river " riii' applicant has failed to slum how tin- master plan i or responds to the (ireenwav ordi mini e 1 said \l I 'ripdiart. head of the t 'Diversity's geography department "(Ireenvvav lands must not be allowed to deteriorate in a pier emeal fashion," he said I),in Stutter, who also filed an appeal of the hearing offii iat s dei ision. said Spit kerman had mcompletelv applied the i rite ria of the (ireenway legislation Noting that too spei les of birds rely upon the riverfront for food and shelter Stutter i rit I ta/ed the lar k of consideration given to (lie area’s w ildlife "No wildlife studies have been made that I am aw.ire of." he said However ) I ill Saul speaking on behalf of the University said the environment.il aspects ot the researt h site have been analvzed ami found to repre sent "nn significant loss" to the natural habitat Addressing the issue of mov ing the rescan h park to another area. John Moseley, the Univer sity's vice president for re search. said the University does Turn to Park, Page