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■ Eugene's future ice rink. Page 3
■ McMorran's repairs, Page 6
■ China students protest, Page 9
■ Softball wins regional. Page 11
Monday. May 22. Iftflft
Kugene. Oregon
Volume ftO, Number 15ft
Marijuana petition garners
support at University rally
Photo b) Nhrli N Irn
Randy Prince (left/ and Pal Phillips mad a petition in favor
of legalizing marijuana in Omgon. Students for the Oregon
Marijuana Initiative gathered signatures in front of Chap
man Hall and later held a rally in support of legalizing
marijuana.
Bv f rule de C.u/man
Emerald Assoi iute Editor
The heat of i onga drums
lift turned more than 100 i u
rious onlookers, and tie
dved shirts dotted the i|iiad
rankle area in front of Chap
man Hall Friday preceding a
rally to legalize marijuana
For .in hour-and a half.
Students for the Oregon
Marijuana Initiative gntli
ered signatures for a petition
to plac e the Drug Abuse Fro
gram Funding Ait on the
t<)•(() state ballot
The DAPFA initiative.
OMI s response to the pas
sage of House Hill is
“a way of stopping the pros
ei ution of people oho grow
marijuana." said Robert
Cummings. OMI regional
coordinator
Under the current Oregon
law. the penalty for growing
one marijuana plant is 20
years in prison and a
$250,000 fine, he said
DAPFA. however, would
not only legalize personal
use of marijuana, but it
would also "make the ills
ti net ion whii h is constantlv
getting blurred in the war
Turn to Marijuana, Page 7
State board ponders
increasing housing
By Denise ( litton
Emerald Reporter
I'he Oregon State Hoard of
Higher Kdut alion ilet ided in its
Oort land meeting I'ridiiv tli.it
the University might rereive
more student housing within
the next two years it a local
study determines that mi reused
housing is nei essary
l lie stale Ixiarrl voted to mi
mediately rer|tiesl ii|i to $10
million in standby bonding an
thorils lor University housing
trom the Oregon Stiile I egisla
I tire
llie imntling authority will
lie used only it Kugene. Spring
field, lame (aiuntv and Univer
sity offi( nils del ide that more
housing is needed after the
University's projected enroll
merit cults
According to Oregon Stale
System of Higher Kducation
Communications Director )im
Sellers, the standby trending
authority is a "housekeeping
measure to prevent delay." lie
cause the state Ixiard i anno!
sell bonds for higher education
funds without the legislature's
permission
"The legislature must an
Ihorize the state iioard to sell
bonds, hut we don’t know now
if new housing will be needed
at llie t fniversitv." Sellers said
Him anse the legislature
doesn't meet again until I'l'll
the I mart I has In gel llns
straightened out now
University V it e President Ini
\dminis!rat ion Dan Williams
said d nrw housing is noces
sar\ tlit- slain board and tlm
legislative I anergent y Hoard
anthnritv will vnln again on I hr
bond issue
"I think it s pretty ' lear that
something in the wav of hous
mg will he needed Williams
sail! "In a (ouple nt months
we'll have a good idea ill what
that will he esaetly. and how
mm h of the hooding authority
will have to Ire used.
t he hoard also tentatively ap
proved a I nmputer si ieiM e
master s degree program for
Portland Slate University I'lie
program would serve Portland
"plaeebound" students who
i nnnot travel to the University
or Oregon State t'niversilv In
i omplete their master s de
grees
Sellers said the master's pro
gram would not altei I the i|ual
its of the same programs at the
I Inivorsilv or ()Sl
In addition, the hoard tenta
tively approved .in lnterdisi i
plinary Uentei for Killies in
Health ( .ue at Oregon Health
Si inures University and a husi
ness oriented North P.ii ilu Ap
plied Keseart h I ienler al I'M
Neither program is espei led
to re<|Uire eslr.i slain holding
Sellers said
Student hunt for storage begins
Local space
hard to find
By Denise Clifton
Emerald Reporter
As the end of spring term ap
proaches, and students prepare
to leave Eugene for the sum
mer. many University students
are searching frantically for
storage facilities to hold their
extra belongings while they are
out of town
Oral least if they aren't, they
should be.
If students wait until the last
minute to rent storage units for
the summer, they may discover
that no vacant spaces are avail
able at i ordiug to (id) Hot kett.
manager of Budget Storage lo
i aleil on Franklin Boulevard
Usually students ought to
go looking about .1 month
ahead lor storage.'' he said,
adding that •< 11 llis -t feet b\ 10
leet storage units, the si/e most
students request because it
holds ' about a pit kup-full.'
are o< < upied already .
()l course, you don't ever
know when they (the occu
pants) are going to move out."
l lot kell said. "You t.an call me
today. and I won't have any va
cancies. but if you call me to
marrow . I might have 10 spin es
open.
"But you should never de
pend on people to move out,”
he added. "You should just
line up your space ahead of
time," Mockett said
Hockett said Budget Stor
age's 4-by-10 units cost $2.1 per
month plus an additional $10
processing fee. Because renters
are allowed 24 hour access to
their storage units only mini
mum security is offered, he
said
"I'm the only one here, so at
night there is no security.”
Hockett said
However, other Kugene stor
age fat ililies, such as North 0*1
Mini-storage located on High
way *t*l near Mahlon Sweet Air
port, offer around the clot k se
curity
According to Manager David
(look. North 00 Mini storage
has four resident managers and
security guards as well as
watchdogs that are releasetl al
ter the gates are closed at tt
pm
We are open Irotti H to tl six
days a week." Hook said
"That seems like a reasonable
time period for people to have
access, and plus we t an insure
the best security on the units
that way.
"We've got a very service
oriented altitude, anti were
more personal than other slor
age places " he said "We real
!\ care about caring lor peo
ple’s things, anil we get a lot ot
rental referrals her ause of
that."
Out of the total 77H storage
units available at North ‘><1
Mini-storage approximately
100 are still vacant. Cook said
"Hut students need to hurry if
they want to rent because we re
averaging 10 (rentals) a day
now." he said "So the ones
that are left w ill he gone by the
end of a month
(look said "> by 10 units rust
Sl!H per month and 10 In 10
units cost $45 per month "We
also refund the unused rent it
you move out in the middle ot
the month, and we don't re
rpure a to day notice like most
storage places do." he said
In addition, (look said he
supplies a moving trailer lor
the renters at no extra charge
"We try to r aler to people's
needs and keep everything on a
personal, comfortable level."
he said
The mini storage business is
very profitable in Kugene be
r ause of the University student
consumers, according to Tony
Smith, manager of Say N-I.or k
located on West 11th Avenue
"We probably get at least HI)
Turn to Storage, Page
Folk fun
Sunshine. live musii and a />;tiness\ hurrito
\vh,it more could ,i kill ask lor? Saislia Costello
Ilouiiliten. Jl months, it-.is one ol sever,il hundred peo
ple attending the Willamette Valle,\ Folk Festival spon
sored In the FMI' cultural forum.
I'holo by Janies Marks