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Oregon Daily FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4,1994 EUGENE, OREGON VOLUME 95, ISSUE 91 Review board grants Amazon historical status Vote: Designation may not prevent housing demolition By Heatherle Himes Amazon housing resident I’at Snisi sat on (he edge of a folding chair Thursday morning, nervously watching the Kugene Historical Review Board disi uss her puli lion She knew that il the board de< hired Amazon an historical district il could profoundly affect the University s poll cies concerning the family housing pro ject. Sflist showed her neighbor Almar Mill man her left hand, the first two fingers t rossed for hit k He grinned his support Amazon Area Direr tor Frank (iaddini sal behind Saisi, fidgeting He too. wait ed anxiously I he board voted 11 to grant the peti tion Smsi gasped and began to i rv Mill man's grin Ian ante a smile (.addon s face froze, his left foot jiggling wildly in its brow n penny loafer "If was a long shot.” Saisi said Wo thought after we did the researi h that we had proved the historu al sigjiifh am e Amazon ai iiv ists hope that the hoard's de< tsion means that the University must make efforts to preserve the historii ally significant buildings and cannot demol ish the units to build new housing Sfike Kvster. dins tor of family housing said the University will still consider other alternatives for the future of Am a /on including demolition and i onstrm non The University i nn appeal the board's de< hum to the l it\ (iouncil until lob I t but bus not vet ili'i ided whether to do that "I don't like the idea of forcing .1 prop erty owner to do something the\ don't want to." said l.vnda Sekora. a review board member who voted in favor of the designation "Hut preservation was the dts iding fat lor tor me There aren't main of these properties left Turn to PETITION, Page 3 Eugene councilor driven by hot topics Hornbuckle: Councilor works to stop bureaucracy, helps working class By Stephanie Sisson Oreoon Daily E'rieraKJ Kevin Hornbuc kle doesn't believe tie is that interesting of a person. He prefers to talk about what he does over who he is. "Who 1 am is what I do. and the cause of what I do is a scientific understanding of society and economics," said Hornbuckle. Kugene City Councilman tor Ward :i. tint University area Hornbuckle is also a mental health coun selor at the Clinic for Ratio nal Behavior Change. "What 1 do isn't about iny subjective ideas about how things should be 1 i (insider tilings from a scientific stand point For instance. 1 know si lentifii ally that air pollu tion is bad for human linings, so I'm interested in helping reduce ... single-occupancy automobile transportation.'' he said. Transportation, one of the hottest topics on the City Couiu il agenda, is something Hornbuckle feels very strong ly about. Hornbuckle said people use automobiles unnecessari ly. leading to serious public Turn to COUNCILOR, Page 3 me photo Kevin Hombuckle voices one ol his many opinions with a sign he displayed at last year's Willamette Folk Festival on the University campus. GOOD MORNING p- PORTLAND (AP> — A company planning to build a natural gas-fired power plant in Eastern Oregon has agreed to donate $2 million to help the environment U S Generating Co. approved the fund Wednesday as part ol an agreement that included a promise from environmental activist Lloyd Marbet and his Don't Waste Oregon Committee not to unnecessarily delay approval of the project The fund would be created after the start of construc tion on the plant, planned for September 1994 The money would be used to limit release of atmos pheric gas associated with global warming and to improve stream flows for fish. ^ TACOMA (AP) — No longer stuck in Tacoma's tide flats by business delays, a Russian refrigerator ship and its 32-member crew have sailed to Bellingham to pick up their long-awaited frozen chickens and head for home. The 270-foot Clara Zetkm, from Vladivostok, ended its three-month stay in Tacoma on Monday. A stop that HIGH 52° l O w 23° was supposed to last two weeks in November turned into a lengthy sojourn because 130 trucks ot chicken trom Arkansas did no arrive While in Tacoma, the crew made friends and became mim-celebrities because of its plight The crew will likely set sail from Bellingham this weekend NEW YORK (AP) — David Letterman will return to his old stomping grounds for a Feb. 21 guest shot with Conan O'Brien, his successor on NBC's "Late Night," NBC said Thursday. Letterman, host of CBS' top-rated “Late Show,” is returning a favor. O'Brien appeared on Letterman’s show on May 4, shortly after he was named to succeed Letterman as "Late Night" host. UNIVERSITY Group co-director expected to resign ISA: Officer to leave organization after allegations erf financial misappropriations, will announce decision this afternoon By Edward Kloplenstein Ihe remaining i o dime lor of the Internal ion.il Students Association is expected to announce his resignation Iim1.iv .liter withstanding months of pressure hv ISA mem tiers to step down over alleged finam nil misappropna tions (,'hia- Wei Slung is expel fell to aunounc e fils decision at r p in in the ISA lounge in the LMI "I think it s little for the ISA to move on Slung said hv phone Thursday night Apparently, mv presence is cans mg some tension right there ASI () Imam e ( oorilmatnr I ram is Neo < leared Shing of any wrongdoing, saving that an infiirm.il investigation turned up no ev idem e Ihat Shing pot keled ISA money Neo i oiuiiu ted the investigation w itti Kenny lahnbulleh, program < oordinalor lot the ASI < ). and May ling l oo. international students c oordinator, also with the ASI'() Siting said he only wanted lo do what would help the organi/.ation. adding that lie held no animosity with those leveling the allegations I don't think am sort ol animosity w dl help the orga nization." Shing said. Shing hopes to i onlmue working with the organi/atiou hul has no plans lor act opting another position Shmg's resignation will follow former co-director IJouflv Voum's. who left off it e Jan 1H hoc ause lie could not assoc i.ite with an organization that lacked "integrity and ethic al standards," Youm said in a Jan i'll EiurmUi story Neo froze ISA s S^H.DOO budget pin. ~4 hei ause the group had no i lear leadership after ^ mini s resignation Since Youm was the- c.o-direc tor that vvas most know! edgeahle about the ISA budget, Neo said, the ASI () became concerned about the lac k of ac countable leader ship and froze the ac c ount Neo dismissed allegations after several “noun os con vincud him that Shing was simply pushed out for politi c.aI reasons. Neo said, adding that llm information convinced Neo not to miter a formal investigation. Neo would not name who his soon es were "Chia-Wei was a victim of a political character assassi nation." Neo said. because of Shing's loss of political support. Neo said lie advised the official to step down "so the organization could move on and find new leadership that that will gather support to fulfill the goal of ISA. adding cultural and physical diversity to the University." ISA members pressured the ASUO since October to push Shing out of office. Neo said, but student govern ment officials told the members to handle the situation themselves. Neo said the situation appeared relatively quiet until Youm resigned. After that, he said calls for Shang's res ignation resumed. Neo also said ho did not wish to say who the groups complaining were.