Oregon Daily
MONDAY. OCTOBER 4. 1993
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The only problem with throwing more than 31,000 rubber ducks with sunglasses into the Willamette
River IS that you have to catch them all The Eugene Rotary Club sponsored the Great Rotary Duck
Race Saturday to raise money for child abuse prevention
Amazon rebuilding
project stopped
□ Students attend
meeting, questioning
demolition of family
housing
By Martina Jofte
for mi> Oregon Da V Emeiatd
University officials met with
about HO students Thursday to
discuss the planned tearing
down and rebuilding of the
Amazon Family Housing com
plex.
University Housing Director
Michael Eyster told students the
project had been temporarily
stopped but the demolition
would still go forward.
"We are not happy. We recog
nize that we want to do some
thing about the rent structures,"
Eyster said, referring to the Uni
versity’s contractual agreement
with architect Christopher
Alexander, whose design olans
originally indicated building
costs of $39 per square foot.
Currently, building costs are
.$(>') per square foot for the 18th
Avenue and Agate Street hous
ing project and are proposed to
be $79 per square foot for Ama
zon. Total costs for the Agate
project may be at least SHX) per
square foot.
Eyster told the students and
members of the local media.
"We are convinced that Amazon
does need to be replaced
The meeting dissolved into an
argument as students frequent
ly interrupted administrators,
demanding answers to questions
and making statements.
Michelle Parks, an Amazon
tenant and mother of two. said
she has not heard convincing
reasoning for the demolition.
“Structurally, what is wrong
with Amazon?” Parks asked. “I
haven't heard the answer to that
yet. What is wrong with Ama
zon?”
Frank Gaddini, Amazon area
director, said one million dol
lars has been put into Amazon
in the past 10 years.
"Those were major renova
tions." yelled a group of stu
dents. many from the
architecture department.
Following the meeting, stu
dent organizers met for a strate
gy session. Phase one
demolition of Amazon is
planned for late March.
Hiring recruits
faculty of color
j Administrators also increase num
ber of female professors
By Julio Swenson
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Progress has been made toward goals of hiring more
faculty of color and women in tenure related tern long
positions at the University, administrators s,i\
Thirteen new faculty of color an- at the ('Diversity this
s ear, including five Asum-Amerh ins four Hispnnii s
two African-Americans and two Native Americans l ive
more women from under-represented fields also were
hired for University positions, said Lorraine Davis, vice
provost for academe personnel
Half of the NO offers for tenure-related teaching jobs
supported affirmative action goals in hiring Twenty ol
those jobs were offered to minority candidates, and five
to the women in under-represented fields, Davis said
The recruitment process was aided by Targets of (fppor
(unity, a program established in July IthiJ that uses l in
versify funds to help recruit outstanding minority or
female candidates, said Ken l.ehrman, director of the
Office of Affirmativ e Action and Lqual Opportunitv The
funds have helped to bring i arulidates to campus who
wouldn’t otherwise Imi attracted hy the t iniversity’s nor
mal storting salary, he said.
"It's becoming increasingly helpful in a competitive
market." he said. "Given financial constraints, (the pro
gram) can be a very helpful device."
Seven of the newly hired faculty of color were recruit
ed with help of Targets of Opportunity, as well as two of
the women in under-represented fields, Davis said
The number of minority and female facult y tit the Uni
versity received attention in Decemltur W92, when fed
eral auditors released a report detailing eight ureas in
which the University needed to improve to lie in full com
pliance with federal affirmative action regulations
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Groups will transform tracks into trail
AMTHOW FORNEY/EmOTM
Th» old Ongoa Pacific and EMMm railroad tracka will aoon ba
raplacad by a multlpla-uaa trail beginning naar Cottaga Orova.
□ Conversion will
improve access to
recreation areas,
small communities
By Mag Dedolph
D*y tnwmkl
Willamette Industries and
the U.S. Bureau of Land
Management are planning a
13.5-mile multiple-use trail
beginning near Cottage
Grove and ending ut the
Umpqua National Forest.
The trail will replace the
Oregon Pacific and Eastern
railroad tracks originally
built to carry timber prod
ucts from the now-defunct
Culp Creek Mill to Cottage
Grove.
The railroad, originally
owned by Bohemia Co.,
became the property of
Willamette Industries when
it acquired Bohemia Co., in
the early 1990s.
Joe Williams. Outdoor
Recreation Manager for the
Eugene area Bureau of Land
Management, said the BLM
and other groups had want
ed to convert the tracks into
a trail for nearly a year.
"The track has gradually
deteriorated over the past
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