Oregon Daily
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12,1993
This Is but one section of the Oregon Trail mural, which measures 120 by 35 feet and Is part of a permanent exhibit at Sprlngfleld s Art Alley.
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Artist’s mural celebrates life on Oregon Trail
□ Piece is newest addition to
Art Alley
By ftophanle Sisson
Oregon Daily Emerald
When Ann Woodruff Murray of Junction
City stops painting long enough to look at
her latest art project, she has to take a step
back.
If she wants a really good look, she takes
about SO steps back.
Her latest painting is Springfield's Art
Alley's nowest mural, portraying life along
the Oregon Trail 150 years ago. ft measures
120 by 35 feet and has taken Murray since
July to get it more than three-fourths com
pleted.
Murray plan# to have the mural finished
by Dec. 3. when the mural, which was com
missioned to be painted to honor the area's
pioneers, is scheduled to be dedicated.
"Ann's mural celebrates the ordinary
people who built the state and local area,"
said Kathy Jensen. Art Alley's project
administrator. “It's difficult to describe the
mural in words — it's a beautiful piece of
ait that needs to be seen to be appreciated."
Murray won the bid for the project in a
contest against seven other artists. She said
that coming up with an unusual concept
was the hardest part of the project.
"I knew the typical approach was one
long wagon train.” Murray said. "I couldn't
swi myself doing that.”
Instead, the mural, using the textures of a
quilt, stretched buffalo hide and Indian bas
ket work and heads, shows a series of set
tings that depict the movement westward
by early pioneers.
Parts of the mural show scenes such as
riverhoals delivering emigrants to the West
and interactions between Native Americans
and emigrants and are interspersed with
motifs of yoked oxen, shotguns and rifles,
fish and boats.
In March. Murray began working on a
design for the contest, but she said her orig
inal plan didn’t include much detail.
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Student charged
with raping woman
□ Victim alleged assault took
place at Westmoreland
A 31-year-old University student was
charged with first-degree rape Sunday at the
Westmoreland family housing complex
Young-Tak Chough, a graduate student
and research assistant in physics, allegedly
raped a 21-year-old acquaintance Saturday
morning.
According to police reports, Chough
a I legerity contacted the victim Saturday
morning, stating he was having marital prob
lems and wished to discuss them with her
He picked her up at her residence and drove
around Eugene before taking her to his resi
dence at 2141 W. 18th Ave. at the West
moreland complex.
Police reports say the victim called
Chough to get hirn to confess to tfie alleged
rape. During the conversation. Chough
allegedly said. "I thought about it. It was a
mistake. 1 was drunk.”
1 Amazon extends child care to infants
□ Expanded facilities will
meet the needs of more
parents at the University
By Edward Klopfenstein
Oregon Datfy Eme/akl
The Amazon Co-op Family Center
will open its operation to infants and
toddlers its scheduled this January
thanks to funding approved at
Wednesday night’s Inc idental Fee
Committee meeting
The 1FC approved $2,488 for tint co
op to buy used infant c are equipment,
such as i hanging tables.
That, along with mate hing funds ol
more than $2,600 from University
I lousing, will allow the center to offer
six more spots to children classified as
infants, or between 12 and 15 months
old. Six more toddler slots will also
open as a result of funding.
"This is kind of a down payment.'
said Suzy Blanchard, director of the
Amazon co-op. "This could actually
save subsidy money in the future."
Currently, the need for infant care at
the University is quite high. According
to family housing figures provided by
Hlanchard. there are 140 children
under two years old living in West
moreland. Amazon or Hast Campus.
Yet. University-based day care has
only 24 spots open for toddlers and no
care available for children under 15
months, making Amazon the first to
offer infant care.
There are extra slots available at the
Young Children Center, hut the major
ity of those spots are taken by Univer
sity employees, said Dennis Reynolds,
chihl-i.are coordinator for the EMU, on
Thursday, as intended by the Univer
sity.
The needs of more parents will be
met by the expanded Amazon facility,
hut more needs to he done. Reynolds
said.
The official said the EMU child-care
program is in the "real preliminary"
stage of designing more services to
parents of younger children.
Some of the ideas being considered
are similar to what Amazon is doing,
he said, including a younger minimum
age for day care and restructuring the
age groups of children offered care.
Day care for children under two
fmd-a-half years old is difficult to oper
ate because of the cost, lie said.
The state mandates that there bo no
more than four kids to every one adult
supervisor of young children. For chil
dren over two-and-a-half years,
though, the state allows day-care pro
grams to have a one-adult-to- 10-chil
dren ratio, making operations for
preschool children much cheaper.
I)av« are programs for younger c hil
dren often operate at a loss, Reynolds
said, depending on the programs for
older children to keep open
At University based programs, tod
dler day care relies on work-study. IFC
funding and parent tuition, he said
The University only pays for the facil
ities and some or ail utilities
Concerning the expanded servii es at
Amazon, several IFC members ut
Wednesday's meeting asked why Uni
versity Housing was funding a renova
tion project for the day care when
Amazon will eventually be tom down.
"No one knows how soon Amazon
will fie tom down,” Reynolds said.