Oregon Daily
TUESDAY. MAY 11. 1993
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 94, ISSUE 154
Coalition forms to battle OCA’s newest measure
□ Group opposes new effort
to keep homosexuals from
gaining minority status
By Daraiyn Trapp®
Oregon Ckttty fnwifc/
The announcement last week by the Ore
gon Citizens Alliance that a new statewide
anti-gay rights initiative is in the works
has prompted opponents to organize a
counter effort.
Citizens United Against Discrimination
is a recently formed coalition of gay and
lesbian rights activists that plans to spend
the next several months working to defeat
a ballot measure that will Itkelv appear
before Oregon voters next year,
(X.A members said Thursday they will
twgin collecting signatures in an effort to
put a toned-down version of lust year's Hal
lo! Measure 0 before the voters
The new initiative would prohibit homo
sexuality from being classified as a minor
ity status, would prohibit touching children
that homosexuality is the legal or sot iuI
equivalent of rue «. color. religion. gender,
age or national origin, and would prohib
it publii libraries from allowing at i ess
to children's books that deal with homo
sexuality
List year's Measure 9. defeated !>7 per
cent to -ID percent, would have amended
the state constitution to declare homo
sexuality "perverse and abnormal,’' in
addition to emu ting many other reslm
tions. such as prohibiting the state from
promoting homosexuality
Many of the members of No On n. a
statewide group with local brant hos that
worked against Inst year's measure. have
count together to form the now group
kelly Weigel. t hnirwortum of l.nno
County's Citi/ons United Against lbs
crimination, said tho now ballot measure
(ittompt may .ippc.tr loss damning on tho
surftit o. but it's not nun li different from
Measure >1
"We re looking at this as a similar situ
ation. where only the language is toned
down." Weigel said "It’s still an issue of
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Rep Peter Delano Monday moderated a community discussion about what the United States role should be In alle
viating the conflict In Bosnia. Residents were divided over whether the arms embargo against Bosnia should be lift
ed.
City Council buys Sears building
j New library site to remain vacant
until city secures stable funding
By Rebecca Merritt
Oregon Oa<V (merma
The Eugene City Council has pun hased the for
mer Sears building for a new library site, meeting
its April 23 deadline
Hut more than two years after Eugene voters over
whelmingly approved the Sears site purchase, the
delay still isn’t over for library supporters. Hie coun
cil must now decide how construction and operat
ing funds will be financed and whether city offices
will occupy space in the 70,000 square-foot build
ing. «iid City Council Coordinator Pam Barrian
"All we have done is legally exercised the option
to purchase the building." Human said. "Anything
can happen."
Nothing is certain. Harrian said, until the coun
cil agrees how to fund the building and whether
voters will he faced with a bond issue. Council
members were mainly concerned about meeting the
purchase deadline and are now focused on the city
budget, she said.
Harrian said the city is waiting for a recommen
dation from the council before taking further action.
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WEATHER
Partly doudy today with a
slight chance of afternoon show
ers. Highs near *5 degrees.
Today <n History
In 1987. doc tors in Baltimore
transplanted the heart of an
accident victim to Clinton
House, who gave up his own
heart to a second recipient
House, the nation's first heart
donor, died 14 months later.
Eugene residents
urge Bosnian aid
j Speakers differ on issue of lifting
arms embargo for Bosnian defenders
By Meg Oedolph
Miliiv Kugene residents urged support tor Bosnia <it ,i
Mnml.iv forum with K«>p Peter DeFa/io,
Musi who spoke urged .1 lifting ol I In* .inns emhargo
currently in plai t', but somn spoke against stimling aritis
into the iirt’ii nr using military fun e to intervene
"1 can't see .tu\ person who is hiunnn in their hi-.irt to
ask for more arms." said Kugene resident Driig.iiia I’etro
vii "I din shocked thiit soint! i an advocate giving more
arms to people VVb should support demm r.ito move
rnents. es[MM tally in Serbia ”
Dragoslav Petrovii . niiotlmr nri'.i resident. also spoke
against sending more arms to Bosnia Please try to avoid
using fort e," he said Arming one side and then arming
the other is bloody nonsense They have plenty of arms to
fight for 10 years
However. Ivan Tomb h . who came to l.'ugene from
Croatia 1 1 '.1 months ago. said sending arms to Bosnia
was the fairest solution
" Ameru alls should give arms so every one has a right to
defend themselves.” he said I hear people say. how i nil
you bomb innot uni people.' hut how < an you feed people
who are going to lie killed tomorrow/"
lunnifur Abdul labor, who is coordinating a lot a I relief
effort for Bosnian rape victims, also urged sending
weapons lo Bosnia ”1 want people to protei t them
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Diversity is routine
for Suite 5 residents
□ Students keep
peace despite
varied beliefs
By Beth Hege
O«*0Oi D»'t\ f nvfKItl
On the double doors
that open into Suite 5 hang
two signs: one for "Jesus
Northwest Festival," posted by
Chi Alpha Christian Fellow
ship, and the other for "Shoah
Week," the Holocaust remem
brance sponsored Inst month
by the Jewish Student Union
Past the doors ant two desks.
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ONE RISK TOO MANY
ODESSA, Wash (AP) - Folks in Lincoln County knew Bud King as a man
who took risks trying to hang onto the family's cattle ranch
But in an apparent attempt to get out from under heavy debt so he could
leave the spread to his sons. King took one risk too many.
On Monday, the 59 year-old grandfather and second-veneration rancher
began serving a five-year prison term for his role in the biggest mariiuana
growing operation to come to authorities' attention in the state's history
King's arrest during a Sept 9 raid on the King Brothers Ranch stunned
neighbors who knew him as a man with a big stride, a cowboy hat. a can of
chewing tobacco and a kerchief hanging out of the back pocket of hts jeans
"Everybody in town was really shocked and they're still talking about it.*
said Denny McDaniel, mayor in this community of about 1.000 peop
SPORTS
SPRINGFIELD. Mass |AP) - lulius Erving. still able to dunk
during lunc htime piciup games, and Bill Walton, forced to
wear sneakers with his suit because of swollen feet, were
inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame Monday
Erving. the gravity*defymg l)r | who took the game above
the rim with ins daz/lmg dunks, recalled he wasn't even good
enough to make his high sc hool team on fame Island until he
was a junior “My humble beginnings helped me keep athlet
ics in proper perspective." said Erving. tailing his induction
not the last tribute to a phenomena! career, but "the beginning
of a long road of added responsibilities."