Oregon Daily
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7,1994
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Chapman Hall's eponym Is among Eugene's notables burled In
The Masonic Cemetery at 25th Avenue and University Street.
Vandals, years obscure history
Monument: Eugene’s first cemetery
struggles to weather tests of time
By Mog Dedolph
OrQQon Q&tly l 'm&akf
If you had been bom in IH50. the year Kugene's
Masonic Cemetery began selling plots, you
would have been able to take i lasses at the newly
opened Iniversity of Oregon by the time you
reached ollege age
Your j irents probably came west on the Ore
gon Trail in the 1840s and celebrated Oregon s
statehood in 1850
Thr Nph York Tinu's best seller list, had it
existed, might have included Charles Dickons'
A Tain oj Two Citirs. and Charles Darw in's On
giri of Sprcips, both published in 1850.
Today. Dickens and Darwin are familiar
friends to must high school students, and the
Oregon Trail is encapsulated in « roadside inter
pretive i enter near Maker City
Met the Mnsonii Cemetery, founded by
Eugene's early Musonit Lodge, is neither familiar
nor blessed with .in interpretive < enter to remind
people of its place m history.
A short walk through the town's first cemetery,
located on a lull at 25th Avenue and University
Street, reads like a street map of Eugene and the
University.
Mlair. Spencer. Chandlers. Hendricks, Collier,
Condon, Friendly, Johnson. Kim aid - here these
names occupy not only street signs and building
lintels, hut granite ami sandstone memorials
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LOCAL
City Council
amends ballot’s
proposed title
Bridge: Language changed to reflect
true nature of Ferry Street Bridge proposal
By Jim Davis
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\ proposed ballot title for the Ferr> Street Bruise plan
was amended by the kugene City Council last week in
an effort to make the title more easily understood
The measure, if passed, will change the kngene ( liar
ter to allow lor the expansion of the Ferry Street Bridge
to six lanes for motorized vehicles and to Ivvu lanes for
pedestrians and bicycles
The ballot title will he given to the voters in the Nov
H general election.
After several votes concerning the spei ifii language of
the ballot title, the City Council voted tel to accept the
revised version. The title originally was drafted by the
city attorney's office
the body of the ballot title of any measure to fie ini
tiated or referred is limited to a concise and impartial
statement of not more than H5 words summarizing the
measure and its major effect
Opponents of the title said the amendment offered a
slight improvement hut cited wordiness and a general
lack of information as flaws to tin- previons and amend
ed ballot titles
"I feel better because 1 requested the changes, said
David Sweet, one of three people who appealed the orig
inal amendment
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Fan dance
Ju-LIng Shlh performs as pari of China Night, which look place In the EMU Ballroom on Sunday.
Proqram in Chile open to students
Study:Three-week
immersion trip offers new
type of foreign exchange
By Amy Columbo
l iv Oregon Daily t menud
A husband-and-wife team is
providing a three-week immer
sion program in Santiago, Chile,
for college students who want to
get a taste of the culture and not
miss any school. Dr. Fred Smith
and Consuelo Miranda-Alboni«.a
are offering a new type of for
eign exchange program.
Smith is a resource economics
professor at Oregon State Uni
versity. and Miranda-Albonica,
a native of Chile, owns the com
pany Anglatin. which organizes
and implements programs
designed to bridge the culture
between Chilean and American
people.
The Chilean Immersion pro
gram began in fall 1U9.1 it is
open to students at the Univer
sity. Oregon State University
and Lane Community College
"It's not just a Spanish class,
Smith said. "We emphasize
really on the social sciences,
you'll have workshops and sem
inars about the history of Chile,
the culture of Chile, and the
economy of Chile, and then
some on literature and women's
role in i-alin America.
"The other thing that is
unique is that we are not tied to
any specifii university, so
you're not living in a dormitory
or with home-stays," he said
"You're living in apartments."
" The other study abroad pro
grams are usually administered
through an academic depart
ment. this is an experiment, it's
a new approach," Smith said
"With Ballot Measure 5 and the
cuts, the departments just aren't
able to administer these things
Vanessa McDonald, a Univer
sity student who parti< ipated
last fall, said the program was
excellent.
"It gave me a lot of confidence
in the language," she said.
Turn to CHILE P.i-i"
GOOD MORNING
p MEDFORD (AP) — Gov
Barbara Roberts said Saturday if
she had more time to cope with
the death of her husband, former
state Sen Frank Roberts, she
might be seeking re-election
"If I had six months more of
mending time to adjust to
Frank's death, and if I had not
had other family difficulties, I
don't think there's any question
that I would have been back,"
she told Medford’s The Mwl-Tri
bune
“But I think there is a point at
which you have to focus on what
really is necessary in your life
when you're dealing with a big
personal loss. That’s what I've
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Roberts, the first woman to be
elected governor of Oregon,
decided last month that she
would not run for re-election.
Roberts had announced more
than a year ago she would run
again But since then, her hus
band of 19 years died of prostate
cancer, and her only sister has
developed lung cancer