Oregon Daily
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1993
EUGENE. OREGON
VOLUME 94, ISSUE 92
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Sam Hebb of Salem scans the ocean for whales Saturday off the Oregon Coast.
Tour boat sails for sight of whales
j Depoe Bay tour boat
searches for a glimpse of
Baja-bound gray whales
By Meg Dedolph
Emerald Reporter __
DEPOE BAY - The Kadaho. tie<i to
a wooden pier with blistered iron rail
ings, has watched whales tor at least
20 years, guided by owner Darrell
Hobbs
Even though it wasn't peak whale
migration season, the tt people
aboard tho Kndaho Saturday hoped
tor a glimpse of a whale I wit ween the
swells.
Hobbs was about to leave on a
morning whale-watching tour from
Depoe Bay Sport Fishing.
“We’re in between seasons now.-'
Hobbs said, “but they saw some yes
terday about :tr> fathoms out We ll go
Out and work that area for a while."
Hobbs guided the boat beneath the
arch that framed the hartxir entrance,
and, flanked by bobbing sea birds
with yellow beaks, headed away from
the coast and into deeper waters
where the whales had last been seen
In water that deep, ahout 210 feet,
and at that distance from shore,
Mohhs said the migrating whales were
"basically traveling " Whales found
( loser to shore were there to food on
the plankton trapped in the kelp beds.
loiter in the veur. after most of the
migratory whales have left, a few "lo
cal" whales remain in the kelp lieds
off Depot? Bay's coast, where they are
among the first to leave at the? begin
ning of the next migration.
Turn to WHALES, Page 4
Future roommates should look ahead
j Communication is the key to settling
recurrent conflicts, psychologist says
By Tammy Batey
Emeraio Associate Editor
Senior Alicia Ferrari's former roommate lined his toothbrush
up exactly two inches away from and perpendicular to his
shaver on the bathroom counter.
"He was very anal." she said. "He was psycho about cleanli
ness."
Sophomore Cathloon Rafferty's last roommate shelled up in
her bedroom and hung a photo on her door of her flipping the
camera off.
"Ii was like she was flipping me off,” Rafferty said.
Students like Ferrari and Rafferty said they've had their share
of roommate mismatches. Hut as in marriage, communication is
the kov to resolving differences, said psychologists and the
ASUO mediation director.
"The most important thing is to communicate honestly,
i.learlv and without delay, said Nancy Robbins, a clinical psy
chologist. "Rather than just look for land mines, they should
look at every conceivable tiling that could lie a problem."
And people should discuss potential problems before, not af
ter. they move in together. Robbins said.
A key difference between marriage partners and roommates
makes it easier for roommates to leave their problems unre
solved — by moving out. Unlike marriage, roommates are
Turn to ROOMMATE, Page 3
OCA
won’t start
initiative
j Plans are held after
Springfield meetings
with OCA members
By Katy Moeller
l morale! Contributor
SPRINGFIKLD TIim Oregon
Citizens Allumo' announced Fri
day it will not flit* a new c ity initia
tive in Springfield but will closely
monitor the city's defense of last
year's Ballot Measure 20-08 against
the American Civil Liberties Union
of Oregon.
Plans to I login a renewed initia
tive drive were put on hold alter
members of the OCA discussed the
proposed with the city attorney and
citizens of Springfield, said i-urrv
All wander, the OCA Lane Countv
director
“The c onsensus at this partu ular
point m time is that it would not
be in the lies! interest of Spring
field to pursue this course, unless
we see that the c itizens of Spring
field are not being upheld in a
proper manner." Allwander said
during a news conference outside
Springfield City Hall Friday
The AfT.tt said last month it has
filed a lawsuit t halleuging the con
stitutionality of Springfield's anti
gay rights charter amendment,
which was adopted in May 1992
under Ballot Measure 20-08
The OCA proposed to the
Springfield <Tty Council an adop
tion ol a revised amendment that
would not tie as vulnerable to a
lawsuit as the current wording
The proposal was rejec ted by the
City Council.
Allwander said the City Council
has shown little effort to provide
modifications to the amendment
nec cssary to alleviate some poten
tial legal problems.
“We are disappointed with the
City Council.” lie said “We are
disappointed with (Mayor) Bill
Morrisette that this has been
brought before them for delibera
tion and they have spent n total of
one meeting time deliberating on
it.”
A revision of lost year's Measure
9. the statewide anti-gay rights
measure, will he completed and
ready for submission to the state at
torney general in two to three
weeks, Allwander said.
WEATHER
Partly cloudy skies will bring
a slight chance of rain with
them, as the temperatures
remain in the 50s
Today in History
One hundred years ago. inven
tor Thomas A. Edison complet
ed work on the world s first
motion picture studio, his Black
Maria, in West Orange N.J.
FROM
THE
PAST
This is a photograph
of the parking lot that
resided on 13th Avenue
in the late 1960s, where
Oregon Hall stands
today.
AftNv« Pnolo
_SPORTS
The Oregon basketball programs continued their losing wavs
over the weekend, both falling to Arizona State Saturday night
The men trailed by only one point at halftime, but the Docks
eventually gave in to the Sun Devils 9984 a! McArthur Court
Arizona !>tate guard Stevin Smith hit a Pacific-10 Conference
record 10 three-pointers. Smith scored 34 points, and Oregon's
Antoine Stoudamire led his team with 21
The women trailed by 14 at halftime and scored only 19
points in the second half, losing 79-42 in Tempe No Duck
scored more than 10 points, and the team shot 28 permit from
the field.
Both Oregon teams are 0-8 in the Pac-10