Oregon Daily
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1993
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 94, ISSUE 102
Holiday not
a tradition
at school
j University has taken
off Presidents Day twice
By Jake Berg
Emerald News Editor
Technically, University students
may actually get Presidents Day off
... but not today.
The Friday during November’s
Thanksgiving weekend is not a hol
iday. so in order to take the day off
University President Myles Brand
designates that Friday as a day off
in lieu of another holiday.
"You could say it was Veterans
Day. or you could say it was Presi
dents Day." said Alison Baker.
Brand's executive assistant.
Students haven't taken off the
actual Presidents Day since 1926.
when the holiday was celebrated at
the University for only the second
time, suid Keith Richard, the Uni
versity's archivist.
In 1924, the same school year that
first had a Presidents Day. the Uni
versity also had the dehut of
Armistice Day. to he renamed later
ns Veterans Day, But the Armistice
Day holiday at the University soon
met its end in 1932.
Though other schools in the state
— including Lane Community Col
lege — may not send their students
to class today, Richard said the Uni
versity, given its size, has to look
at things differently. He said other,
smaller schools often followed a
schedule similar to high schools.
“The University never felt like
being a high school." Richard said.
"When we declare a holiday, we
have 16,000 students wondering
what the hell to do."
An Oregon administrative rule
gives Brand the option of designat
ing days off for non-institution hol
idays. which include Presidents
Day. Veterans Day and Martin
Luther King Jr. Day.
Brand lias only done so with Mar
tin Luther King Jr. Day. but the same
rule says the school president may
designate the Friday after Thanks
giving as an institution holiday in
lieu of one of those three holidays.
Baker said Brand elected to make
Marlin Luther King Jr. Day an insti
tutional holiday in 1990 after com
ing from Ohio. She said Brand
believed more students would
attend activities on campus that day
if they didn't have to go to classes.
Wreck and effect
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Joe Deacon tows wreckage from a car that crashed into the Alder Street Market Sunday The Honda Prelude 's
driver, a University student, ran mto the market to avoid another car that ran a red light at East 11th Avenue and
Alder Street The driver suffered a cut to her leg, but no one else was injured in the crash
KAVE listeners gather for final broadcast
Carman Spray of Eugana fakaa part In tha
vigil to aava tha KAVE Friday night
□ Fans' fund-raiser fails to
save ailing Eugene radio
station Friday night
By Meg Dedolph
Emerald Reporter
Something is extraordinary about a ra
dio station if it brings its listeners to the
Eugene Mall on a Friday night just to lis
ten to the radio.
The people standing beneath the sta
tion’s windows gathered to hear the last
CDs spun by Steve Tannen and the other
disc jockeys during the final broadcast
hours of Eugene’s KA VE (95.:t FM), before
the two-year-old station went off the air at
midnight, a victim to poor ratings and rev
enue tosses.
The KAVE's listeners — including
grandmothers, students, teens with punk
haircuts and parents — found the station's
mixed forinut appealing.
Fans were attracted by the combination
of jazz, blues, folk and rock that is unusu
al among most radio stations, which lend
to target specific audiences
"1 think the worst aspect about radio in
this country is playing mush that appeals
to one group,” said Rooster, a KAVE D|.
"It's insulting to people's intelligence and
musical taste.”
"They ploy music on the cutting edge of
each genre," said Eugene resident Katie
McCarrun. "You can hear good heavy met
al, good jazz, good blues, good folk."
Some people who laigaii listening to the
KAVE for its blues or other specialty pro
gramming s<x>u grew to like the other kinds
of music the station broadcasted.
"It has a little of everything, even the
stuff I used to hate," said Eugene resident
John Galetzka. "The Grateful Dead used
to turn me off. but now it's different."
"The KAVK s music is popular to peo
ple who have a certain kind of intellect,
a certain kind of perspectiva about being
on this planet. It's not all sex and drugs."
said Eugene resident Shawn Fontain.
The music wasn't the station's only at
traction. Participants at the vigil praised
the station's political coverage as well.
"They've done a lot of public service not
just in music, but in the nows they
Turn to KAVE, Page 3
WEATHER
Sunny skies will continue
over Eugene after the morning
fog breaks up. Colder tempera
tures return as highs will be in
the mid 40s
FROM
THE
PAST
Knight Library under
goes its preliminary
stages ol construction
in 1936.
_SPORTS
UK ANGELES (AP) - Shon Tarver scored 29 points Sunday
ai UCLA held of! a persistent Oregon team looking (or its first
Pacific 10 Conference victory of the season. 97-90
Antoine Stoudamire led Oregon (7-16. 0-11) with 25 points,
and Orlando Williams added 19
UCLA led 45-37 at halftime and built its largest lead of the
game earlv in the second half. 63-49. But Oregon, going on a 16
4 run. pulled to within 67-65
Four straight free throws by Tyus Edney sealed the victory in
the last 44 seconds to play
The loss gave Oregon its worst conference start since 1972.
when the Ducks went 0-14 in what was then the Pac-8