When you are talking about low
income and family housing you
arc stretching out to the Eugene
community. There needs to be
increased dialogue between city
council members, city planners
and the University of Oregon
students. We will not only have
to be receptive to their needs but
they must be receptive to ours.
There is a need for increased
housing in Eugene, but who is
going to build it? Where are
you going to put it? And if
you have this housing where
are you going to park the
cars? All of these questions
come to mind. It is very
much a land use problem and
available resources. Right
now the way has to be
cleared for dialogue between
the university community
and the city of Eugene.
There is simply no place on
campus that housing can go
because it would be at the
expense of parking. More
housing [on campus] would
create a bigger parking prob
lem.
What do you think of the idea
if building a new parking
structure on campus?
Clark: That is definitely an
idea that can be entertained.
This brings us to the campus
parking problem. Is that a _
way to solve it?
Clark: I can’t really say. It is
certainly choice that we have. I
would like to know what the
environmental impact a parking
structure would be. What the
impact of the physical plant at
the university would be. As long
as I have been here and the
administrations I have seen from
Steve Nelson and Caitlin
Cameron and up to myself, the
parking structure has been de
bated. The feasibility and the
efficiency still needs to be investi
gated. I would like to know why
it never went through before.
Why didn’t it happen? And why
aren’t more students aware why
it didn’t happen? And what are
our other alternatives—I would
like that information.
From left to right; Scott Wyckoft and
_ Andy Clark
You have already talked a little
bit about child care. IIow effec
tively do you think theASUO can
support it next year?
Clark: Well, with the subsidy
program, the one time $20,000
subsidy for child care and the
ballot measures that brought
child care subsidies up around
$350,000, there obviously needs
to be a greater extent of funding
for child care, $350,000 will not
cover the subsidies and the main
tenance of the facilities. How do
I see our role? Well, the house
bills are going through and
Susan[Sowards| has done incred
ible work with senate bills, testi
fying and hearings. That will
continue. We will not let child
care fall by the wayside. Scott
and 1 will both take an active role
in child care. My number on
concern in the child care
issue will be support of the
house bills. Above that it is
getting a needs assessment
because with out that we do
not know where to start. It is
almost like a loose cannon.
We know that there is a need
but we need to help the uni
versity recognize that there
is a need. Maybe they will be
more responsive to it, more
so than they have been in the
past. I see the short term
goal as a needs assessment
for student parents.
What do you see as the role of
the ASUO in the transition
for Dr. Olum to Dr. Brand?
Clark: Student government
101. Miles Brand seems to
be an easy going person. I
had the opportunity to be
one of three students who
I interviewed Brand and the
_) other presidential candi
dates. It is going to be and
introduction to student govern
ment. It is new for all of us Brand
and myself. I see the ASUO’s role
as identifying some of the trends
of student government in the past
and what is affecting us now as
students at the university. Mtyor
problems like housing, increases
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