Oregon daily emerald., November 07, 1995, Page 3, Image 3

Willamette Street plans polished
■ DESIGN: A rtcd-ve
pavement design and a
small water fountain may
be part of new plaza
By Melissa Lebahn
A creative pavement design and
a small water fountain went some
of the options proposed during the
final meeting Inst Thursday by the
Broadway Willamette I’la/a
Design C ommittee for the new
design of the plaza being built
lust ween the two major cn issmads
The design will be taken to the
City (.mined on Wednesday for
approval.
Some of the design principles
that the committee proposed
in< hide keeping the design open,
simple and flexible, giving paving
materials priority, providing a
single, wide pedestrian crossing
over Willamette Street, t reating
markers at the crossing, allowing
sufficient open space for tempo
rary pnrfomiani e stages in as
many locations as possible and
providing adequate and well
located utilities such as power,
telephone, fiber optic, lighting
and water sourt es
"By keeping lilt* design open,
simple and flexible, it will not
overflow with elements,'’ said
Carl Sherwood, a design consul
tant of Robertson/Sherwood
Architects
On the southeast comer there
is a place to set up tables ami
chairs, to put pushi arts and to
put food vendors, which will
function on a daily liasis A spoc e
to set a temporary stage is also
provided.
Permanent elements will not
bo placed in the wav of activities
that might occur, Sherwood said.
The public wanted to know
what would he placed on the
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The most obvious difference between the proposed design for the
Plaza and the current design Is the missing water fountain
south wall ami whether there
would Int the possibility to hove
a small business plat ed there
Sue Prichard, a committee
member, said that the committee
made the dot ision not to place
anything on the south wall
hot a use they wanted to have
some flexibility in its future use
Others wanted to know why a
large portion of the budget was
going to 1h> spent on paving
Committee Chairman Douglas
Beauchamp said that the open
ing of Willamette Street will be
happening only once and that
three-fourths of the plaza space
will 1m' affei led so thev have to
make the U-st of what thev ve got
This means that they intend to
use i reative patterns, which
encourage interaction, such as
embedded footprints, dunce
steps, textures and maps
"Paving has to go in with the
intention of lasting a long time. '
Sherwood said.
The community was also i on
corned about security measures
<iiid why lho committee was, going
to produce muni seating iinsn that
would bring in mom transient*.
Prichard said that the seating
problem wa*. a very complex
issue She said that business
owners were also com erned that
if seating was located outside
their stores, then customers might
not t ome in. When Willamette
Street opens, the Polit e Depart -
ment will I*' able to come into the
< enter of the pla/a and patrol
more frequently
The puhlit w as also cotit enied
about building a water fountain.
" There is not enough money in
the budget to have a water foun
tain." John Rose, a committee
member said "We don't want a
large water feature in the pla/a
The public asked that the com
mittee consider having a small
water fountain in the pla/a
I would rather see a 5'>0.000
water fountain than $50,000 of
brick work." said Hess Nobel, a
i ommunity member
Money: Speakers say tuition will go up
■ Continued trom Page 1
State funds that would hav a
been used for higher odui ation
will instead be used to |m\ fur
more prison space, said Bobby
Lee, a former ASUO president
who is running for a position on
the Ktigem; City Council. Voters
passed ballot measures nine and
It in 1904. which will impose
longer sentences on prisoners
and '•'ill i reate more jail spat a
he said.
Tltis limits the amount of state
money that can Is* used for higher
edui ation, Lee said As a result,
tuition lias gone up and will con
tinue to go up in order to make up
for the difference, he said
To help make up for the loss
of state funds, the University is
turning to out-of-state students
whose tuition is three times as
high ns the tuition of in-state
residents, snid Kd Dennis of the
Oregon Student Lobby While
in state tuition has itit reused b>
fit) percent since 1990, out-of
state tuition has risen b\ almost
90 percent. Lee said.
While a bill passed through
the Senate two weeks ago does
not change financial aid as
much its initially proposed, it
does cap direct lending of stu
dent loans at 20 percent Diret t
lending allows students to bor
row money from the govern
ment by going through the
University.
In the past, students were
required to get their loans
through bank*, The process is
costly and time consuming, said
Kd Vognel. director of the Uni
versity's ollii e of financial aid.
If this is signed into law. hanks
would ns eive money that other
wise would have been used for
student loans, Vognel said
Vtgnel expects direct lending
to lx* cut Inn k even further when
the Senate meets with the House
of Representatives to iron out
the differences between their
hills The House recently passed
a bill that drastiially reduces
and changes financial aid pro
grams. Vignttl said
Students should contact their
representatives and urge them to
fight the proposed changes,
Vignel said
International: Grijalva
pushes better health j
care for Guatemalans
■ Continued from 1
B C., Idaho. Montana.
Washington and Oregon,
Grtgdva organises edu
cation workshops and
encourages workers to
pursue tne basic rights
they deserve.
She said she believes
that with help from peo
ple of other countries,
tier hope of a funda
mental change in society
will tie achieved.
Grijalva said she does
not consider ho r so If a
super woman, hut a
woman who wants to
seo justice. She said
thousands of other
women share her story,
and she speaks as a rep
resentative.
"Hooks are always
written about heroes of
war, but you don’t see
many about heroines.
Any woman who has
suffered in Guatemala is
a heroine." she said
Vigil: Community
members honor
late Israeli leader
■ Continued from Page 1
ized bv tht> Israeli leader's words "All people
could do is listen," she said
Rabin's favorite poem and the final song
sung at the rally where he was killed were
ret ittni before Rabin Hunan Sills of Hillel
tame on to speak and lead the crowd in verse
All who gathered joined the rabbi as he sang
" The world is just a narrow bridge And above
all. he is not to fear ol all."
After the singing of the Israeli national
anthem, each mourner plat ed his or her uut
dle near a picture of Rabin set up in the
square before each slowly filed away
As the crowd grew smaller and smaller,
the candles remained lit, impervious to the
falling rain.
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