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Oregon Daily THURSDAY. JANUARY 5. 1995 EUGENE. OREGON VOLUME 96. ISSUE 70 iiAMv ■. iHA . j Blocking a city sidewalk could be made Illegal if a proposed new ordinance aimed at aggressive panhandlers goes Into effect City considers anti-crime ordinances Crime: Proposals may keep criminals out of high-crime areas and clear sidewalks Marcelene Edwards QrWQOP CXitity f.mtWi&j The Human Rights Committee for the Eugene City Council is discussing three proposals aimed at preventing crime and panhandling in the city Later this month the city attorney and the Human Rights Committee will meet to clean up the language of the proposals before final recommenda tions are made, .Sgt Tim McCarthy of the Eugene police department said. One of the ordinate es. aimed at pan handlers. says that a person or a group of people cannot block a sidewalk They cannot "threaten a person to the point where a person believes they ire in danger," McCarthy said A common problem, he said, was that panhandlers were approaching people nicely, but then when they were denied a handout, the panhan dlers began terrorizing the citizens with profanity At various point* during the discus sions people questioned the wording of the proposals. “Once it is explained, everybody agrees that if it Is not a free speech issue. Hum go for it, McCarthy said The so< <imi proposal combines two ordinanc os Stas Out of Drug Artois (SODA) and Stay Out of Area* of Prostitution (SOAP) are designed to help keep recurring criminals out of areas of high crime The proposal sets up a process where the city manager con declare that an area is under siege by prostitu tion or drug dealers To have the SODA or SOAP lows apply, a person must have been convicted in the lust sis months ami then must have a set Turn t. PROPOSALS, Paqo 3 University AAA dean will resign in April Relocate: Jerry Finrow to take job at the University ot Washington's architecture school Amy Columbo daily (mmakf Thu dean of (tic University School of Architecture and Allied Arts vs ill resign in April to biii:onii< tiu> dean of the Uni versity of Washington's College of An.hi lecture and IJrtwin Planning. Jerry i tnrosv hits lieen dean of tlie an hi tin tore school sun e toot and part of the fill ults sou e I ‘HiH I was very attrar ted i>v ttie opportunity to work in mi urban setting," Finrow said i mi i iruversny 01 Washington is a top 10 public resmiri h university with u very strong sot of pnv groins in the envi ronmental design fields." he said "I was attriu ted to the position there hm a use of the new opportunities ” Hut he is stepping FINROW HUM RHtM W IIlls-I term for ii $1 1(1.000 • ■ % <'«ir salary ill Wash ington His salary is currently $89,500 "There is a significant salary increase, but till? cost of living in Seattle is much higher." In* said. The University of Washington archi tecture school enrolls approximately fi()0 student majors, has more than 100 full and part-time faculty members and an annual budget of more than $4 million This University's architecture school enrolls approximately 1.500 student majors, has more than 100 full- ami part time faculty members and an annual bud get of more than $6 million Student senator resigns, plans to leave University Hearing: Two officers ask for $145 stipend to be revoked Frtederich von Carp Oapcm Omfy [mmskl Student Senator John Howe announced his resignation Wednesday from the senate and the AStJO Programs Finance Committee. Howe is the second senator ASUO President l^slie Warren has replaced by appointment this year. Jamala Edwards tool the place of Josh Schafer, who was elected by the student body last spring but failed to claim the position. Howe has dropped oul of the University and plans to contin ue his education at l.ane Com munity College. “It's |usl too expensive to go to UO anymore, with all those now technology fees and ovorythmg," ho said. At tho Doc. 5 Senate meeting. Senators Sarah Koech and Joey Lyons motioned to revoke Howe s $145 November stipend. The motion, which the senate will decide during the Jan. 10 meeting, alleges that Howe last term did not fulfill his senate and finance committee duties "It was a general consensus oil the senate that he wasn't doing his job," Senator Dave Reed said, "John is a finance senator, and with the budgets coming in, people were saying, 'Where's John'"' "It was really a lot of work Turn to HOWE, Page 3 ■ GOOD MORNING CONWAY, Ark (AP) A man who used a Monopoly piece to escape from custody is heat! ed to the same place as a player who rolls sot while on Illinois Avenue Directly to jail Donald W Bissell and two other prisoners escaped Irom the Faulkner County jail on Nov 6 usmg a wheelbarrow piece from a Monopoly game to unscrew about 20 bolts on a vent cover Bissell, 24. was arrested Wednesday in Kentucky during a routine traffic stop, said Sher iff Bob Blankenship. The three inmates, one ol whom remains a fugitive, broke through two inches of concrete, climbed onto the roof, and used a rope fashioned from a cloth mattress cover to scale down the three-story building Bissell is charged in POP QUIZ 1. How young can a person be legally married? 2. In what state? Sl-Wauiej 71-Wl l sounce tses w«w *itww -_y f UftUU.0 Arkansas with being an accom pi ice to rape ► NEW YORK (AP) — When Rod Stewart left a New Year's Day concert in Rio de Janeiro in an ambulance, it wasn't because he was exhausted, his manager said Wednesday The unusual departure was arranged to protect the pop singer and maintain order in the record-setting audience of 3 5 million people on Copacabana beach, manager Arnold Stiefel said Brazilian reports of the con cert said Stewart, who turns 50 next Tuesday, had to receive oxygen for exhaustion, which he reportedly blamed on play mg soccer earlier in the day and overeating Stewart's manager denied that, "When he got into the ambu lance, they .. may have had oxygen with them, but he didn't use it," Stiefel said by tele phone from Los Angelas He said Stewart returned to Los Angeles as planned on Mon day. "He’s fine." Stiefel said. "He’s in great shape He went to soc cer practice last night."
