Oregon Daily
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 2. 1993
Charges against three UW athletes reduced
□ Attempted rape charges
reduced for two students,
dropped against third
By Steve Mims
Oregon Daily tmeraXI
Charges against three University of
Washington student-athletes who were
arrested in Eugene Sunday were reduced
in Lane County District Court Monday
Jason Shelley and Prentiss Perkins were
charged with first-degree burglary and
third-degree sex abuse, and Dougins
Barnes was charged with first-degree bur
glary. All three were originally charged
with first-degree burglary and first-degree
attempted rape when the three were
arrested Sunday.
Tim Birr, the Eugene Public Safety information direc
tor, said the maximum sentence for first-degree burglary,
a Class A felony, is 20 years in jail and the maximum
fine is $100,000. The maximum sentence for third
degree sex abuse, a Class A misdemeanor, is one year in
jail and the maximum fine is $2,500.
As of Monday afternoon, all three alleged suspects
Perkins
Shelley
Barnes
were in custody at the Lane County )nil. Bail was set at
$38,5(H) for Shelley and Perkins, and 535,000 for Barnes.
The rase will be presented before a grand jury luter this
week. If it returns charges, an arraignment will be nest
week.
Shelley. 10. and Barnes, 20, are members of the Wash
ington football team, though Shelley was suspended at
the time of his arrest Perkins, 21. was the starting point
guard on tht* Husky basketball (worn last
year, but ho was also on suspension.
According to police, the incident began
about 2 p in Sunday when the three sus
pi>( is entered a room belonging to two 18
year-old female University students at the
University Inn. 1000 Patterson St. The
alleged vit tuns asked the men to leave
because they did not know them, hut the
men refused and began looking through
items m the room
One of the women in the room was
apparently called out of the room by a
male neighbor of hers who is an Oregon
student-athlete, said Birr, who added that
the police are investigating whether the
Oregon student-athlete is a friend or rela
tive of any of the three alleged suspet ts
When the first woman loft, one of the
alleged suspects closed and locked the door and dosed
the curtains. The men then exposed their genitals and
made threats to the women before leaving to get nar
cotics. the police report said.
The men apparently returned to the University Inn a
while later, but fled when they saw a police officer inter
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Six-year-old Courtley South squeezed through the competition Monday
night to be named the best-dressed Duck at "Late Night with Jerry
Green " Monday was the first official practice for the Oregon men 's bas
ketball team, and the Ducks 'first home game is Nov 23
EMU budget should remain
in group’s control, IFC says
□ Student groups oppose
administration's proposals
By Edward Klopfensteln
Owyuri twaid
The Inc identul Foe Committee and
ASIJO Executive Hoard strongly rejec ted
an amendment by the University to divert
the $2 2 million EMU Board of Directors
budget directly awav from IFC control,
representatives of the student groups said
at u meeting Monday.
The emergency meeting was called Fri
day after student officials received the
final draft of a proposed amendment that
would change the IFC's operating docu
ment, called the Clark Document, by
diverting control of nearly half of the
IFC's budget.
Officials said Friday at 2 p m was the
first time they saw the amendment after
initial disi ussion of impending i flanges
were made public last May
Disagreement by the student groups
i entered on the amendment and the lack
of discussion Indore the Monday deadline
for any amendments
Moth student groups said they will take
the issue to the Oregon State Hoard of
Higher Education if they cannot reach no
agreement with the administration
li«rard Moseley, vi< u provost for acad
emic support and student services and
who represented the administration, said
at the meeting the administration would
lie willing to extend deflate past the Nov
1 deadline tint not on the EMU board
budget issue. He said there are other
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Amazon tenants petition to save
community as historic landmark
□ Residents say buildings
are last structures of a
World War II city
By Arik Hesseldahl
Oregon Daily trnerml
Residents of the Amazon family hous
ing facility announced Monday that they
have filed for the preservation of I heir
community os a historic landmark, n
move they hope will prevent the Univer
sity from moving ahead with plans to tear
down the facility this summer
David Zupan of Eugene Uiti/uns for
I.oa ( ost Housing, a loi al non-profit
group, said the Amazon Tenants Council
has petitioned both the city of Eugene
and the state of Oregon to save the Ama
zon buildings because they are the last
remaining structures of Vanport, Ore., u
World War 11-era housing community
that ut its height in 1945 was the second
largest city in the state.
Zupan said research by Amazon ten
ants found that Vanport was built by the
federal government to house shipbuilding
workers during the war, and that the
Amazon buildings are the last remaining
structures of a 10,000-unit community
that had its own schools, libraries and. in
1045, was home to roughly 45,000 peo
ple.
It may also have been the largest gov
ernment housing projei t in the country at
the time, Zupnn said.
In 1047. the University bought 40 of the
Vnnport buildings and moved them to
Kugene to house soldiers who were
returning from overseas to the campus.
The units were transported from Vanport.
which was north of Portland on the
Columbia River, by barge up the
Willamette River
Only months after the buildings were
moved to Kugene. a flood destroyed the
rest of Vanport City, and nothing remains
of it except the Amazon buildings, which
are located at 24th Avenue and Patterson
Street.
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