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University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon FRIDAY. OCTOBER 13,1995 INDEX Editorial 2 Stranger Than Fiction 3 News 4 Rhythm & Reviews 7 Sports 11 Classified 14 TODAY BaxehaW i American anti Sationai laigut ('hampionxhip Strie* continue <il 5p m INSIDE The men s and nomen's X country teams are ready lor home meet on Saturday Voiles hall comes hi >me for h e eke ml man lies with Washington and Washington State WEATHER Vi iif rater utter morning fog with a high neat GO Snow Club plows into debt, forcing group to dissolve ■ SKIING: Founder Brett Mitcne say:, .k - ' leadership caused Snow Club to plummet By Jennifer Carter '■'iKf&ni Activities Reporter About 150 students went skiing last year with the Snow Club .to reliurtde and Sun Rivar rhia year, the Snow Club isn't taking students anywhere. The recreational program is no longer on i nmpus bec ause of its failure to pay more than $1,400 in bills from last year's ski season The debts were covered by the Snow Club’s founder, itrett Mitchell, although he left the University full term and was not affiliated with the group when the debts were made. Mitchell said he paid the debts out ot a sense of per sonal responsibility. "I took personal responsibility for starting the group, so 1 took personal responsibi litv for ending it." Mitchell said. "I just wanted to make sure it ended on a semi happv positive note." He said he believes the group s financial misconduct was probably related to leadership problems. Usually the Snow Club elected a new board of direr tors at the end of the ski season, but after he left and the ski season ended, the group disbanded, Mitchell said. He said no one was accountable for the group "After i left, everything just fell apart." Mitchell said. "It was a case of everybody wanting to go out and party, but no one wanted to work for it." Mitchell said he was not aware of the unpaid bills until August when he was contacted bv Matthew Scotten. ASUO summer programs i oordinator. The ASUO became aware of the group's finam ial wrong-doings in June when it received one of the Snow Club's unpaid hills Scotten said the ASUO believed it was responsible for the Snow Club's debts and paid the first bill of $381 The money came from the ASUO surplus account, which is money student groups never spent during the year. "This was really a precedent-setting event and through it. we had the idea that maybe we are responsi ble for the financial debts of registered programs," Scotten said. But when other unpaid Snow Club bids arrived, the ASUO decided to change its polity on pay ing program Turn to SKIING, Page 6 Reading and rays NAfAlit UOMIOUM ttv-1 ■•‘ax': Mane Uhtofl a sophmore Biology major enjoys the sunny weather and stud .e« outside ot Gertmger The nee weather is expected to continue through tomorrow, with highs in the 60's Speaker addresses civil rights, ignorance ■ MORALES: 1 he* M« • h American blames corruption, language barriers for his prison stay By Jennifer Carter Santiago Ventura Morelos Inis boon leading disc us* ions about indigenous people's rights since be wat let out of prison for n ■ rime lie did not t otiitnit A founding member of the Indigenous OaAupiena Hi national I rout. Morales dis i ussed bis experiences and the problems indigenous peoples have had Irving to assert their right*. Thursday at the National Indigenous People's Day 1 elo brntion When Morales was convic ted in Oregon of murder in tUHti, he did not speak English. He said language harriers and the cor ruption of the justice system kept him in prison for more than four years before a lobby front the Mexican-American cnrnniu nity brought a pardon from then Gov Neil Goldschmidt in 1901. “It s not easy to share |mv experience! like this because four and a half years of ruy life were taken away for the simple reason I lint tin- system didn't understand my language and I didn't understand the [system's language!." he said Morales is from the Mexic an stale of Oaxaca (Wahaca) His state is home to 17 different eth nic. groups and 56 different lan guages. including Mixtec Morales native language Although fie now speaks bug Turn to MORALES, Page 6 Eugene residents concerned about low-income housing plan ■ HOUSING: C ' zens air concerns about Planning Committee's revisions By Karl Hastings Copy f ctror It's an age-old question. How do the wealthy, the poor and all the classes in between coexist pem elully in the same city? The Eugene Planning Com* mission trim! to answer this ques tion Tuesday night at a public hearing to discuss revisions to the Housing Dispersal Policy Plan. The commission's recommon elation will be sent to tho Eugene City Council for final approval at a later date The plan, drafted in 1074. reg ulates where publicly assisted bousing can Ik- built and encour ages dispersal throughout the city. The existing plan needs to he revised because it's based on 1980 census data. It is the proposed revisions that are causing controversy among Eugene residents. As the housing polio stands now, housing projects may con tain no more than 80 units, they must be built within a half mile of social services and cannot be built where more than iiO percent of the current housing units are low-income. If tin* Planning Commission s revisions pass, there will las two major changes concerning hous ing dispersal Location criteria involved with low-income housing will be elim inated. making it possible for housing projects to be built in all areas of Eugene, regardless of how close they are to the transit system or schools. Also under the proposed revi sions, these projects could be built in areas where no housing currently exists This is not pos sible now (»•< .Hist1,1 low-income housing proj**ct would constitute more than the ^dt> percent limit. About 40 citizens attended the hearing Tuesday, bringing a num ber of disapproving ns well as supportive statements to the floor. Eugene resident Rudy Herr said lie is astounded that low* income housing might he built on the outskirts of Eugene, away from ail social services "If you were living in a house in these areas," he said, “you would not want projtu ts next door Richie Weinman, I lousing and (Community Development Sim lion manager, responded to this concern, saying it is almost impossible to find largo lots to build projot ts on unless people go to tin; city limits David Cohen of Kugene. asked. "When you ask o neighborhood to accept o large housing project that will change the whole atmosphere of the area, how can you expect anyone to Turn to HOUSING Page 6
