Oregon Daily
TUESDAY. MARCH 28. 1995
EUGENE. OREGON
VOLUME 96. ISSUE 119
Amazon demolition screeches to a halt
Reaction: University
officials outraged after
Amazon advocates
receive stay of demolition
Lori Bettmeski
O«pon ( ve'y FmorjHd
fust when it looked like the
threatened Amazon Family
Mousing complex was going to
l>e bulldozed to extinction, pro
tection was granted Monday
that now slops, all demolition on
the site until further nothe
The Save Amazon Coalition
re< eived an unexpected stay In
ihi* slat** Land Use Hoard of
Appeals (l.UBA) late Mondas
afternoon, which requires Uni
varsity officials to immediately
stop all work at the low-income
housing site until the hoard can
rule on the coalition's appeal to
the demolition permit
A time for this ruling has nut
vet been announced. hut will
likely take pirn it Into this week
or early next week
"This borders. if not crosses,
the line of tbutivn pro* es»,"
s.iui Mike Evster. director of
University Housing "We still
have plenty of time though, amt
it won’t hurt tint University's
plans any Even if we did miss
the construction season, the
demolition of Amazon would
still occur It will be replaced
After the stay was granted
Monday. Kvster immediately
contacted the demolition con
tractors to prevent any irrejmni
bio damage from taking place
before I.UHA s final dm ision is
rem hot!
“Our demolition contractor
has been pulled off and I told
our contractors Monday to halt
all at lion immediately.'' Kyster
said “They won ’ la# bat k until
a final decision is reached
Daniol Stottor, an Kugomt
attorney reprosunting the Save
Amn/on Coalition, said that
despite r»* ant d«* isions against
the i oaiition. Monday \ stay is
a positive stop in the direc tion
of saving the complex front
demolition
"It's thn first victory we've
had in this struggle and my
chants ara mi hod." Stottor said
Torn to AMAZON Pa t
Women file
suit against
civil rights
organization
Accusations: NAACP is
accused of giving women
lower salaries and fewer perks
than their male counterparts
"WASHINGTON (AP)’ A $2 million
sox discrimination lawsuit has been
filed against the NAACP, accusing the
civil rights group of giving women
employees lower pay and fewer porks
than men who do the same work
The lawsuit, filed Friday in U S Dis
trict Court in Washington, was brought
on behalf of about 40 women who held
professional or management positions
in the NAACI* from l‘M)I through tins
year.
The lawsuit names as defendants the
NAACP, former hoard Chairman
William Giltson. Acting Executive Dim -
tor Earl Shinhoster. Acting Deputy
Director Fred Knsheed. General Coun
sel Dennis Courtland Hayes, former
l ««litiv'e Dms tor Benjamin Chavis and
former DepuH Dirts tor lewis Myers
The defendants "failed and refused,
in nearly all instances, to properly inves
tigate or redress economic grievances or
qiMstioni of the women,'-' the lawsuit
savs.
Messages left for Shinhosler. Kashewi,
Hayes and Chavis were not immediate
ly returned. Gibson was unavailable for
comment No forwarding telephone
nunilier could lm fount! for Myers, who
Turn to NAACP - i
Buyin’ the books
haiaix uOHJChOHtfrr/iiwm
The first day of classes brings a rush of students to the Bookstore
Lines extended to the back of the store. A quick trip to the bookstore
to buy just a few books could end up being an houre-long ordeal
Financial aid
fraud explored
by Congress
Findings: Ineligible sc hoo! . continued
receiving federal aid because federal laws
were difficult to enforce
WASHINGTON (AP) At toot hearings on student
financial aid fraud, wnalurs wondered why the l- du
ration Department had failed to creek down on moli
gthle trhoolit that continued to receive millions of
federal dollars
Part of the answer was right under their noses
Interviews and government documents show that
members of Congress themselves often make it hard for
the department to enforce the rules on home state
schools Losses to defaulted loans and wasted grants
run into the billions of dollars ear h year
A stark example hart» onto just a few months Indore
the hearings w hen Rep Jerrold Nadler. D N.Y , t ailed
department officials to a meeting on (arpitol Hill
Hie purpose w as to lobby the department to uncon
ditionally approve Merr y College's proposed takeover
of the bankrupt Center for Media Arts in New York
lie- college wanted to use CMA ils a satellite (anil
pus, but wished to avoid having to repay $000,000 in
federal tintt«m refunds due I MA s stodeiils lie
department was insisting the students and the tax
payers in- protected as a condition of the takeover
In the wood-paneled Kaybum Room, just a few stops
from the House floor, Nodler, Rep Hen Gilman, K N Y ,
ami six aides toother New York lawmakers lectured
the bureaucrats for nearly four hours, nut letting them
go until H; IS p m , according lo a w ritten summary of
the meeting
" I tie amount of political pressure exerted against
the department was truly extraordinary in tins raise,"
department official Diane Modicum wrote in a memo
a few days after the April 2H, t'tud, meeting She ( ailed
Turn to SCHOOLS, Pago 3
■ GOOD MORNING
► Eugene voters must turn their
vote-by-mail ballots in to the elec
lions office by 8 p m.
The election contains only one
measure, a video poker tax ref
erendum, and numerous school
board, park district, pod commis
sion and fire and water district
races Voters who have not
already mailed their ballots
should deliver them in person to
the elections office at 115 E 6th
Avenue,
The Eugene measure seeks to
repeal a 10 percent tax on busi
ness' video poker commissions
that was approved last fall by the
city council It was put on the
ballot by a referendum petition
campaign financed by the Ore
gon Restaurant Association
The Otegon Restaurant Asso
ciatron « also urging the 1995
legislature to ban video poker
taxes
The council approved (he tan
to help pay lor the community
policing program II it had been
in eftect last year, the tax would
have raised about $450,000
According to Betty Burgess, a
senior clerk at the Lane County
elections office, an approximate
count will be compiled shortly
after 8 p m.
Final results will be posted
within a few days ol the election.
Burgess said
► SAN DIEGO (AP) — A parade
ol Republican presidential hope
fuls courted California's most con
servative political activists this
weekend while Gov Pete Wilson
took his budding presidential
campaign to Washington
Sen. Phil Gfamm of Texas,
commentator Pat Buchanan.
California Rep. Bob Dor nan and
talk show host Alan Keyes com
peted tor the most conservative
anti tax. anti-crime, anti welfare,
anti-abortion message In
appearances before 300 leaders
ol the California Republican
Assembly
There was no formal winner
before the CRA. a coalition of
more than 100 local political
clubs that will not endorse a can
didate until a September con
vention. but Gramm appeared to
have an edge
THE ENVELOPE, PLEASE...
A selection of winners from Monday night's
Academy Awards ceremony:
Best Picture: Forrest Gump
Best Actor. Tom Hanks
Best Actress: Jessica !.<mg«
Best Supporting Actor Martin landau
Best Supporting Actress: Diane Wiimt
Best Director Robert Zemeckis
Best Original Screenplay: Pulp Fiction
Best Adapted Screenplay: Forrest Gump
Best Foreign Picture: Burnt By The Sun
Best Cinematography: Isgends of the Fall
Best Score: The Lion king
Best Song: Can You Fed the hne Tonight
Best Sound Effects: Speed
Best Costume: I d Wood