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Oregon Daily TUESDAY, MARCH 30. 1993 EUGENE, OREGON VOLUME 94. ISSUE 124 Graffiti artists leave their mark on Eugene mural j Wall Brawl gives Eugene its first sighting of graffiti art By Meg Dedolph Oregon Darty I tner.iKi A pair of plastic milk c rates and a brown bool lex ker hagi arrifid spray paint i ,111s from tlir graffiti art ol San Diego. Iierkele\ and San I rani isi o to luigene March t> At the end of that weekend, a mustard yellow wall was c hanged into a splashy mural m ross the back of a building lacing some railroad tracks Sake. Neon. Quasar. U nil and Me/ had all met at the wall near Third Avenue and Monroe Street for a Wall Brawl, a contest between Me/, and another artist, Ta/ Me/ and Taz were given two to In ! / loot spaces oil the wall at the beginning ol the weekend, and at 4 p in that Sunday, their peers would judge the finished pic tures. The w inner of the Wall Brawl gets brag ging rights. Quasar said It'll be easy to tell, everybody knows what's bad and what's good." Alek (ieiiibinshc a University freshman who plans to study art. said good graffiti art has clean lines, i arefullv blended col ors, attention to detail and "flair and appeal." By Sundav afternoon, Me/ won the Wall Brawl by default Taz left a half painted mural and never returned to fin ish it. "I don't think he's gonna complete...that's real sick. Quasar said •'This is serious You’re not supposed to leave the wall Your girlfriend or home boys bring you food If you have to pee. mmi go over there, so you're not too far away." lie said, pointing at a dump of »T*a*o Dt Anwyjr»y tomv, Packed with paint and Imagination. Quasar (latt) and Saka create otherworldly Images on a wall In Eugene. bushes about 20 feet from Taz's unfin ished painting. The materials the five men used are simple — Krylon spray paint in 20 or .'to colors and a pocket full of removable noz zles for different lines and textures Masks to protis t from paint fumes and cut-off rufilxrr glove fingers to prolix t the hands are optional. Graffiti art is not taught in schools most graffiti artists begin by "tagging." quit kh and illegally spray-painting their n.itnns on frttiglil trams or v\ .111 s I'roni lh«r«. Ixr^iiming artists movn on to "throw ups." whic h nro morn olnltoraln mimes, t> 1KK*‘r and lillnct in w ith iliffumnt Turn to GRAFFITI, Pago 3 Another witness testifies in King beating trial j Officer Melanie Singer says she didn’t help to avoid heckling LOS ANC.KI.ES (AF) — A policewoman testified Mon day she declined to give medical help to a hog-tied, bleeding Rodney King after his beating because she didn't want to be heckled by a group of joking officers. Officer Melanie Singer, a defense witness whose tes timony last week was mil as damaging to the defense, fought tears as she recounted seeing King lying in the dirt moments after policemen beat him March 3, 1991. “There was blood dripping literally from his mouth, and there was a pool of blood beneath his chin," said Singer, under cross-examination from Assistant U.S. Attorney Alan Tieger. Singer said she started to reach for her gloves to give medical aid to King, but decided against it after seeing other officers nearby "joking around " "I didn't want them to heckle me." she said. Under questioning from defense attorneys, Singer acknowledged she couldn't identify the officers or whether they worked for the Los Angeles Police Depart ment or other agencies She also said she didn't know if they included any of four officers on trial in federal court on charges of vio lating King's civil rights in the videotaped heating. They are Sgt. Stacey Koon, officers Laurence Powell and Theodore Briseno and former officer Timothy Wind. Singer said the scene bothered her. "1 just couldn't understand why they were just stand Tum to BEATING, Page 6 WEATHER Mild weather is uu lap through Wednesday for Kugenr Springfield. Morning c foods should bum off today, leaving plenty of sunshine for an afternoon of study mg out doors Highs will be in the mid-60s 507 INCHES - SNOW KIDDING CRATER LAKE (AP) - The oldtimers have been telling the sto nes for years. of day-after day snowstorms burying buildings, trees and other landmarks at Crater Lake National Park, located at 6.100 feet in the southern Oregon Casi ides, hut no one truly believed the tales until now As of Saturday, a total of 507 inches of snow had fallen at Crater lake That s still below the season average of 533 inc hes. but a lot more than in recent drought years The record snowfall. B79 inches, occurred in 1932-33. SPORTS SEATTLE |AP) - McDonald s will take over the Kingdome score board sign above left field when the Marlboro Man rides out of town a! the end of the year The sign has sported a giant Marlboro cigarette ad smi e 197f> The King County Council passed an ordinance banning lobai co advertising on county property, which includes the Kingdome Philip Moms will remove the tobacco sign four years before the company's contract was to run out Mariners president Chuck Armstrong said officials wanted a spon sor "that would enhance the family values of going to the bail park McDonald's signed a four-year agreement for the advertising nghts Playboy to recruit from the University j The magazine has not covered the "Girls of the Pac-10” since 1985 By Jake Berg Oregon Ikufy Im&akJ A photographer for Playboy begins interviews today for the magazine's "Girls of the Piic-10 (Conference" pic toriul. to i»e featured in its Octoiier issue. Women students of the Pacific-10 Conference, of which the University belongs, will appear in the maga zine for the first time since Octofxir 19H5 "The last two times we traveled to Poc- It) territory we not only found many lieautiful women for our fall fea ture. we also found two women who went on to become Playmates of the Month,” wild Jeff (Cohen, Playbo/% man aging photo editor Today. Playboy photographer David (Chan will begin throe days of interviews. Interested students must be at least 1H years old and registered either full time or part-time at the University Elizabeth Norris, the magazine's public relations direc tor. said interviews consist of questions about who the interested student is. such as hobbies and what the woman's major is. "We like to know our people." Norris sail). A Polaroid is taken of the woman during the interview. Norris said, and the photos and gathered information are evaluated after all of the interviews are done. If a woman is selected, she is later contacted and invited to a photo session in l.os Angeles. (Chicago or an area near the stu dent's school. Students who appear in a fully nude photo will receive a $500 modeling fee Those who appear partially nude get $250. and those who are fully clothed get $100. Turn to PLAYBOY. Page 6