Tuesday. May 22. 1990 Eugene. Oregon Volume 91 Issue157
Oregon Daily
Cmerald
Briefly
What's /lupppning, Kugene's
fret' art and entertainment guide
is on it's wav to becoming more
of a general newspaper.
See story. Page ti
On Campus
Incidental Fee Committee
meets tonight at h:.U) in the KMl'
Board Room
"Rethinking Huckleberry
Finn" is the title of a lecture to
he given at 8 p in in the KMl I'ir
Room In Jonathan Arac of the
I riiversitv of Pittsburgh.
See Ft A Is. Page .t
Sports
Amber C.oheen
Senior Amber (lohecn has been
named the women s tennis team
most valuable player The senim
from battleground Wash tiad a
17 17 singles record as < Iregon s
\o ! singles player and finished
her i areer u itli ">ti singles u ins.
the fifth-most v\ ins in school Ins
tor\
See stor\ . PageH
The Portland Trailbla/ers took a
1-0 lead over the Phoenix Suns in
the best of-seven Western Confer
i'iii e championship series with a
100 OH win Monda\ night Game
2 will he in Portland Wednesday
See story, page 12
Weather
Showers, isolated afternoon
thunderstorms, with hi^hs in
lower lids Si attereil showers
Wednesday
Protest draws
student arrests
By Dan Eisler
f miv.ifd Reporter_
At least tun I 'ms rrsiU students were .imiinit those .11
rested .it .1 protest outside tho Portland hotel where I’ri's
idont Hush spoke at .1 fund raising breakfast Mond.i\
Portland polite arrested lodd Hrenneman. .M and
Krii lohnson. 27 along with -!.t other protesters during
the four ami .1 halt hour protest outside the Portland Hi!
ton hotel
Polite charged Hreuneman of KfttH V\ 11th Ave
with disorderly t oiidui t and harassment, and Johnson
ol <M \ Monroe St w ith set ond degree eriminal mis
1 hief and tlisohevmg polit i‘ at an .issemtiK
lohnson and Hreuneman are si heduled to appeal in
Multnomah Countv Distru t < oiirt on June 1 anil t. re
spec 11 v elv
About too people demonstrated at mss the street from
the Hilton, burning Amerioan Hags and newspapers and
setting off smoke bombs I hes set bonfires in the street
and throw tireiaat kers in them outside the breakfast
that raised the most monos of am politic .it fund raisei
on rci ord in (Iregou
The demonstrators appeared to be mostly ol college
age and represented mans groups including peai e a<
ti\ ists pro ebon 0 demonstrators, ens ironme nta! ists ami
gas rights advot ales
The group vsas protesting a sanets ol issues. ranging
from the t ontroverss over old grosvtfi tinibe; to abortion,
gas rights the homeless and the l S present e in t tm
trai Anterii a
A t ontingent of more than lot) polit e otfit eis kept tin
demonstration trout the hotel, where Hush spoke at the
s. 1 000 a plate bind raiser loi Republican gubernatorial
t ami idale I las e I rohnmas el
Police spokesman Dave Simpson was quoted i t an
Assoc in ted Press stors as -.ns lug no serious injuries were
rept tried
I (owes et Hie lineman received a 1 oncussiou while be
mg arrested bs polit e
I didn't do anything but point 111s linger and speak
ms mind Hreuneman said
"The cops had me In the arm. before I knew it I had
Tum to Piotest, Page !
■ \nwrii an Hal's Here hunted l>\ sIndents protestim; outside ot
the Hilton hotel in I’ortLind on \linula i u here President Hush
Has attendant .1 fund-raiser tor He/tublii an 1tuhern.1ton.il 1 un
did,ite Dave hrohmn.n er
EWEB members at odds over minutes
By Wayne Parker
[ ugene W .«t**r .tiid Flectrii Hoard
members i ■m t seem In iijiri'i' mi histors
Fhree board members have proposed
acid it ions to the minutes of two lebru
ary meetings held tin1 two weeks before
the majority of the board voted to fire
lean Reeder from fier position as the
utility's general manager
At both meetings the minutes reflet t
((infill ts between KVYKB board members
and Reeder, as well as different es
among the commissioners themselves
regarding the utilils ‘s i ash reserves
Commissioner Rob Willis said
FVVFHs bond rating was ill danger of
being redm ed because of low reserves
Options for increasing cash flow was
the foe us of both meetings
Although every commissioner attend
ed those board planning sessions on
Feb lti and Feb 22. few of them agree
on what happened there No tape re
cordings were made of the two meet
mgs it is the word of one ( ommissioner
over another as to what took plat e
W illis said the minutes are s( hedtiled
for approval during a Mai J-t work ses
sion. hut hist week's resignations of the
hoard's president. Dennis Solin. and
vit e president Randall Ihwing. mai
tort e that date to ( hange
The Oregon I)uil\ I'.nu'rahi obtained
the minutes ol both meetings after tiling
a request under Oregon I’ublit Records
Law When the Emerald first requested
the the minutes I WI.H stall said tbe\
were not available because because the
board had not approved them
Ihev’re trying to make it so they
look good said KUKH (lummissioncr
S, it. ill Hendrit kson of l iming and U il
lis. tun ut the throe Im.iril members who
voted to tin1 Keeder I eh 2ti
Hendrickson said the additions made
In l hw mg and Willis ettei lively take
the Maine auav from the hoard lot the
utility's financial woes and make
Keeder the si upegiiat
(,'opies of the unnffir nil minutes null
l ate Keeder told the hoard at the I eh Hi
meeting that I A\ Mil's cash reserves were
low and that the utility’s hood rating
the highest possible was in danger ol
being lowered
Keeder said she wanted hoard mem
bers to del ide whether to continue with
a tradition of low rates and risk a falling
bond rating, or find wavs to build up
i ash reserves
"1 wanted to get an indication from
them which was most important."
Keeder said She said the commission
ers had indicated the bond Tilting was
paramount, and that she had agreed
Keeder said she discussed with the
commissioners the possibility ol a rate
increase, and the original transcript
from the meeting verifies that discus
sum
However in the changes proposed by
l iming, the passage is altered to read
Ms Keeder also disi ussed the upcom
ing rate proi ess .is a possible opportuni
ty to generate additional revenues
According to the original version,
Keeder had disi ussed the rate ini reuse
witli the i uinmissioners. hut the amend
ed version makes no rclereiu.es to the
commissioners' partic ipation m the dis
cussion Keeder and Hendrickson both
sav all the i oinmissioners talked about
the possibility "I .1 rate mi rease
I'tirintT < 11>111111issii>iit■ i Tim ing, who
resigned last Thursday to avoid a mi all
f I ft tion m J u fit* anti a runoff w illi Susan
Smith in Novunilii'r. i.ouldn't rut all the
e\at I i hanges In- proposed for lliti iiiui
ules, hut ho stressed lhal his i hangt's
were uiadt' for I lit' sakf of ai t unit \
"KWKH minutes are some ot the lies!
minutes I've ever seen. Timing said.
I think the hoard wants to accurately
reflet t what happened
Reeder anil Hendru k son hoth say tile
atltlitions .ire far from at t urate
Another addition proposed h\
Timing firings up a conversation he
tween Reeder and Solin that took plat e
ht'fore the meeting In that conversation,
the addition says Reeder mentioned the
possibility that the utility was in danger
of bankrupt! v
Reeder said she was trying to per
suatle Solin to drive to the morning
meeting in the snow when she men
tinned the word "bankrupt " 'It's not a
term I would ever have used in public
Reeder said
She said she used the wort! to stress
that RU TH t ould run out of rash if < or
ret live measures weren't taken
Hendrickson also doubts the useful
ness ol that part it ular addition
"You can’t work with a hoard where
win have to watch every single word
vou say every minute for fear that the
hoard will use it against you " she said
Hendrickson said she decided to
make her own additions to the minutes
after she reatl the t hailges proposed bv
Willis and Timing Her amendments
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