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.