Oregon Daily
TUESDAY, APRIL 20. 1993
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 94, ISSUE 139
Officials say dorm fire due to arson
j Little damage was done by fires Sunday at
the University Inn on Patterson Street
Police nntl (ire officials are investigating a pair ol small (ires
set at the University Inn Sunday night
Firefighters responded to an automatic fire alarm at the ini),
1001) Patterson St., about 11 p m ami found fires burning in a
third-floor trash i an and in a dumpster outside of the building
Fire investigators said the fires were deliberate!) set and are
looking fur suspec ts in the uu idem, said I tin Uirr. F.ugene lire
department spokesman
"Whether it was a prank or not." Hirr said, "we take any fire
in a high-rise building very seriously
Ihrr said very little damage vs .is dune by either of the fires I be
third floor fire vv.is started in .1 trash 1 in lot ated in an elevator
lobby and was easily extinguished I ho dumpster br<« yvas start
ed when some burning material was sent down a garbage shoot
A sprinkler in the garbage shoot ysas set off on the set ond floor
■is the horning material made its yvay down to the dumpster,
whir h is hx ated outside of the building Ihri said ysater from the
sprinkler 1 wised minimal damage and was 1 leaned up by fire
fighters
Hirr said the 1000 blot k ot I’allerson Street yyas 1 losed from t 1
p m to midnight while the building was evai lulled Ile said five
firefighting vehii.les were dlspattlled to the si one
Stumped
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Al Moms sets up $ foundation for a petrified stump and slabs of granite outside The Museum of Natural His
tory Monday afternoon Morns, who volunteered for the /ob said. It's not that hard if you ve got a strong back
The work should be completed by the end of April
ASUO leader hopefuls have second debate
j Opponents agree they will
continue to work on causes
By Tammy Batey
Two ASt'O Executive candidates
ended a University Housing sponsored
debate Monday night bv commenting on
their shared com urns But their running
mains spent much of the debate juxtapos
ing themselves with each other.
In their closing remarks, Diana Collins
Puente. ASUO vice presidential candi
date, and Leslie Warren, ASUO presiden
tial candidate, said regardless of the
election results, they'll continue to work
together to fort e political change.
However. early in the debate Mark
Johnson. Warren's running mult-, set u|> .1
con trust between the lobbying offer live
ness his ticket could .it hieve .1 ml thot
achieved bv Collins I'uente and hru
Howen. ASUO presidential candidate
Howell described bis exponent e .is .111
intern at the state House of Represonta
Turn to DEBATE. Page 4
Waco cult
comes to
fiery end
j Group allegedly sets
its ranch on fire after FBI
begins tear gas assault
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i nil I vail" r David horesh s apoca
lypHi vision ■ ami' trui' Mniulav
vvlivn lire believed si'l In Ins fol
lowvrs ilvsirovvil llirir |irairiv i iiiii
pound as fvdvral agents Invd In
drive Ilium out w ith tear gas atlvr a
a t il.n siniulnll
As m.on as ttti invnilivrs of lliv
llralli h Davidian religious svit.
tin lulling Korvsli anil ..'4 i hililrvn,
wvrv thought to haw divd as thv
flames rat ini through thv wooilvn
huihlings in It) inmuti's (luUtiiut'
were known to haw surviwil
I In- bla/e lanni'il In still wimls.
erupted about 1?. It a p in . |iist m\
hours after PHI agents hvgan using
arinori'd vvluc his to pound holes in
the i omplex ol huihlings anil s|»ra\
them with tear gas
Attorney Ceneral Janet Keuusaid
she personally approved the assault
in hopes of fori mg a peat eful end
ing to the standoff She said she
never t ousidered the ''chain ex
were great lor mass sun ole.
despite Koresh’s warning in a letter
gist last week that am agents trying
to harm him would lie "devoured
In lire ”
federal authorities said they
would not know the prei ise death
loll until thin i mild sean h an
underground nia/e of passageways
■four ol the surv ivors were hospi
lali/ed with horns and broken
holies, the live others were ill i us
todv in the Mi l.enuan County lad
()ne Survivor told authorities that
people inside the t (impound had
set the blaze, said Justice Depart
ment spokesman Carl Stern. I lie
mail said that as lie left one ol the
buildings, lie could hear above
him people say mg. I he fire s (men
lit, the fire's been lit."" Stern said
The end of the standoff plainly
stunned the HU bemuse Koresh
had repeatedly promised there
would he no mass suit ide
"I i ail t tell v oil the shot k and
the horror that all ol us foil when
we saw those flames coming out.''
I B! spokesman Hob Hu ks said ill a
solemn afternoon news i onlerelli e
Turn to WACO. Page 4
\WEATHER
Mostly i. loudv today with a fit)
pen enl chance of rain. Highs
m ar M5 degrees More rain
Wednesday with highs 55 to 65
degrees
In 1889 Adolph Hitler was
bom in Braunau. Austria.
NUDITY APPEALS
WASHINGTON (APj - The Supreme Court Monday me a •.;<!;< wl i old
shoulder to arguments asserting a constitutional right to sunbathe in the nude
The justices, without comment, left intact a Los Angeles ordinance that bans
nudits at public beaches
The ordinance s 'chitting effect" had been attacked hv advocates of the men
tal. spiritual and physical benefits of public nuditv, nude sunbathing and
nude swimming
The appeal acted on today said bis Angeles officials should be forced to
allow nude sunbathing on some ponions of Venice Beac h.
The evil is in the mind of the beholder,' the appeal said The undesued
impact upon individuals and families may be controlled successfully bv seg
regated beaches
SPORTS
Churchill standout Barhie Hit kson, considered one of I hr
lop high school pitchers in the country, has signed a national
letter ol intent with the Oregon snfthiiil tram. Coach T.itm
Brown announced Monday
"We n* rr.sl cut ted to liave Barbie sign with us and !»■< time .1
part o( our program She s one of the top-two pits hers m tlte
nation, and she II plus a tnaior role for us the nest four seats.'
Brown said
Hit Icson help'd the Unrers w in 4A stair titles the past two
sears She was undefeated last sear and had a 0 00 ERA