Community
Nose piercing becoming popular in local community
Ethnicity and individuality attract wearers
By Emily Reed
Emerald Contributor
Stac v Hierma pierces an average of
one nose a day As the owner ol Harle
quin Heads and Jewelry. 10U1 Olive
Street, she watches the popularity of
noserings grow in Eugene
Hut nose piercing is not new Dr
Hhavani Manheim, a visiting anthropol
ogy professor and a native of south In
dia. said the nosering is i ommon in her
country
In India a married woman is consul
ered beautiful, and the nosering is a
symbol of this idea. It is not religious
lint is a very strong tradition in the
southern part of the country. Manheim
said.
Elsewhere in India, it is simply a
style, although the modern women in
the bigger cities resist the style, t ailing
it old-fashioned, she said
University sophomore Erin Dueling
and a friend went to Harlequin to pierc e
their noses "It was spur of the moment
and it just seemed i re/.y and fun. she
said.
Dooling insists lh.it a pierced nose is
out of character for her. as she dresses
very conservatively Hut she said she
likes it because it's something different
and it can be removed
Anastaisa C'.oodstein pierced her nose
"to mark a personal transformation"
that seemed to lit with her move to the
University and tier new independence
as a freshman She thinks that the popu
laritv comes from our "borrowing from
other cultures
Hierma agreed She finds lfi.it popu
laritv is related to the new age move
men! and the urge to "< ross boundaries
and discover old tribal roots She also
rei ognizes it as "one step further in the
quest for something new
I probahh didn't have it done w hile
I was in Portland be< ause nobody had it
done up there." said freshman Alison
Kby. "but down here I was subjected to
it. so I w as more used to it
Kby had her nose piert ed her ause she
thought it was prettv Her parents dis
agreed
"They were really upset." Kby said
I heir initial rear lion was to threaten to
remove tileir finam ial support Hut she
said they got over the slitx k eventually
Pooling also faced parental disap
proval "Had didn't want me to double
pierce my ears, she said "I can 1 quote
what he said w hen I pierced my nose
Her mother was also upset but real
ized that it was "one of those college
things
When (fooling visits her hometown ot
Hillsboro, she receives "tons ot crazy
looks,” as well as whispers behind her
bai k
Hierma also remembered that when
you first gel it done, you feel like every
one's staring at you
Hut Kby feels that people in Kugene
don't treat her differently
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Debra Curtis, a Kugttmt resident said she had her nose /den ed three years au»
bemuse she thinks it s individual, tits her ethnii bat k^round and Imiks i(nod.
Library finance discussed
By Pat Malach
Emerald Reporter
The Kugene (ills < toum il is
i onsidering renovating the tor
mcr Scars and Roebtic k build
ing downtown as tbc least e\
pensive of three options to e\
panel tin- ( its's library facili
t it*s
The i oum il hopes to have a
proposal on the November bal
lot that svould ask voters to ap
prove the Council's selection
for a ness library site
Kvpansion ot the < urrent li
tirary at Kith Avenue and Olive
Street, renovation of the Sears
building at 10th Avenue and
Charnclton Street or construct
ing a new building are the op
lions that the ( oum il is consid
ering
We will recommend in our
judgment svhich svould be the
best site and we will put that
on the ballot for a straight up
and down vote/' said couni dor
Freeman Holtner
bast Mars h Kugene voters
turned down a proposal to con
struct a new library in the
I’ankoss Development Co ot
file tower at bighth Avenue
and Willamette Street
Counc ilor Debra Khrman said
she is intrigued by the Sears
building idea because it svould
be the least expensive
It allows us to cut the cost
dramatically because s\e can
eliminate the need to build any
parking structures." she- said
both building a new struc
lure and expanding the existing
one would require construc tion
of parking structures
"(The Sears building) is in
the parking exempt zone and
there are four surface lots svith
in walking distance. Khrman
said
The council is waiting for an
engineering report on the cost
of reinforcing the structure of
the Sears building so th.it it
could support the weight ol
bookshelves
11 the building requires little
slrui tural support the projei I
would cost in the range ol
$10.7 million and could be as
low as $8 :t million Estimates
tor a new building are $1*1.2
million Renovation ol the cur
rent librarv would i ost $18 a
million
lloliner does not agree that
[rarking tor the Sears option
would not need to he consul
ered He also said other mi
nomii considerations involved
with the Sears building need to
he looked at including the
long term cost of operating a
three story budding
Councilor Shawn Holes said
he would favor the Sears build
ing option providing the strut:
tural renovation estimates are
favorable and the space can be
designed to favor a library set
ling
He said he liked the idea be
cause it put to use property that
was not currently in use and it
was in a downtown public,
area It is also two thirds to
one halt as expensive as the
other options. Holes said
The library expansion projei t
has been on the council's agen
da for five years The expan
sion was part of former mayor
Hrian Ohio's Eugene Agenda
A study commissioned two
years ago recommended that
the librarv needed to be ex
[landed from its current size ol
88.000 square feet to a mini
mum of 75,000 square feet
Patronage figures for the city
library are the highest per i up
lta lit the nation. Holes said
Erhman said the council
hoped to have a dec ision on
which option they favor by the
end of the summer
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