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Parking-place scramble
gets worse with closure
■ OUR OPINION: The
University needs more
parking alternatives
Did the University Street
closure make it harder than
usual to find a place to (Mirk
this morning?
late to class because of it?
iSpring break is definitely
over Welcome back.
Student and faculty dri
vers may have gripped the
steering wheel a little harder
and experienced a differ
touch of the white-knuckle
syndrome this morning
because, thanks to a five
month SI.7 million roof-job
for McArthur Court, the 120
parking space* along Uni
versity Street are dosed.
The loss of all these
spac e's — despite the open
ing of a handful of replace
ments near Agate* Mall — is
merely a new twist in what
has bee time an ongoing tor
ture for dudents and faculty
who drive or |>ark their cars
on and around campus
It is no secret that the
Office of Public Safety sells
[larking permits for more
spaces than actually exist in
campus lots This high
demand and low supply of
(larking place* turns the per
mit slicker into more of a
license to hunt for a place to
park than anything else.
The result is that, for
many cars and their drivers,
it is always open-season on
any allowable spare
between two yellow lines,
with late arrivals having to
scramble for those wonder
ful city meter* on the Uni
versity’s curbs, or frantically
searc h for one of those*
incredibly Inconvenient and
unrealistic two-hour curb
•pace* (again, city enforced)
surrounding the campus.
To help make (tetter use; of
the limited number of park
in# places available, the
University and OPS might
want to consider any num
ber or combination of the
following ideas:
• Open up the faculty
only {Mrking lots to stu
dents.
• Charge an overnight fee
to {MMipIn who park in Uni
versity lots overnight,
encouraging dorm residents
to leave underutilized cars
at home with Mom and Dad
• Coma up with practical
guideline* and rules that
will persuade or force stu
dents who live on or near
campus to leave their cars at
their plate of resident*
• Persuade students (with
free cookies and milk, or
other attractive benefits) to
actually use that cut* little
LTD slicker that enables
them to ride city buses for
free.
• Work with OSP1KG to
have University parking
spots protected as art endan
gered species.
These are only a few of
the many solutions that
could begin to solve some of
the University's parking
problems.
The University had no
choic e but to close off Uni
versity Street and the 120
parking spaces that run
along the street in front of
McArthur Court, for the
safety of the campus com
munity and for easier access
during the roofing project
Tire roof ap|Mrentlv was
n't in danger of collapsing,
but University officials
decided for the future and
went ahead with the plan
Unfortunately the Uni
versity** parking system also
needs a major overhaul.
While the school is keenly
aware of commuter night
mares over parking avail
ability. solutions other than
just raising parking permit
prices need to be found.
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Communication helps combat STDs
Unprotected sex without consequence*
ha* never been pari of the human
expert***”*
In addition to unwanted pregnancy,
the "traditional" sexually transmitted diseases
such a* syphilis and gonorrhea have long poaed
threat* to health and well being But in recent
decades the STD epidemic has become more
complex HtV/AIDS has emerged as a devastat
ing STD for who h there is no cure We have
learned muc h about two other lifelong infec
tions, genital herpes and human papillomavirus
(HPV). now considered to he the most widely
prevalent STD* And chlamydia, an often
"silent” or symplomless infection, has become
the mmt rapidly spreading STD. with especially
MOMr ! on sequent ** lot women and their repro
dm live health We now know that STDs are a
map* cause of infertility
Perhaps the m<ot compelling aafwc t of the
STD epidemic is it* >mjMat on young people Of
the 12 million new STD Infections in the United
S!«*» h Neat. tv*., third* » . or in f««>p!r
umfer 25 and on* fourth occur in teenagers
Many young people ar* acquiring STl>* - often
without symptoms, and thus undetected — that
will ha** an imjwci on the rest of their lives
Despite the pervasiveness of these infections,
it is difficult for people — especially young peer
plo — to accept that they are at risk. Every day.
the American Social Health Association
receives thousands of calls to its three national
hotlines from people of all ages and back
grounds who share a disbelief that their bebav
ior places them at risk for STDs Our hotline
counselors explain that anyone who has unpro
tected sex can get an STD. since even a trusted
sex partner can have an STD from a previous
relationship without luring aware of the infer
tion.
Most importantly, we encourage partners to
discuss their concerns about sexual health and
to practice safe sex as an expression of mutual
respect and caring
It is vitally important that people talk about
the risk of STDs with those who are important
to their sexual health — partners, family mem
tiers and health care providers. Only by break
mg down the harrier* to ojam communication
about STD# can we stop these infections and
tlrnir harmful consequences to Individuals, fain*
die* and communities
f'»W Clarke is president of the American Social
Health Association
Disgusting mess *
The University should be
ashamed of denying attendee*
of the land. Atr and Water Con
ferenc* the right to expert clean
restroom* on campus
The LAW International Con
ference convened here in
March again, and as in years
before, the problem of restroom
cleanup has not been solved.
The conference is a busy
weekend for the University's
taw school building, with hun
dreds of visitors using the facil
ity Many of those visitors went
to use the few restroom* only to
find inexcusable mosses
Why Is there no advance
planning done?
The University can't be to
broke that it can't have some
cleanup done ft'* disgusting!
What must the visitors think?
Hikie K. Cherry
Eugene
'90s propaganda
I was thoroughly disturbed
after I mad Alexandra Berwick’s
letter to the editor (ODE. Marc h
18). The Multicultural Center
office coordinator was attempt
ing to sell the “March on San
Francisco” that the MO: is spon
stM-ing One paragraph in partic
ular disturbed me: "This march
will address the continued social
Injustice shown by the RICHT
WING MOVEMENT in America
— « movement that preserves
the WHITE-MALE dominated
INSTITUTION of power and
keep* the MASSES OF
OPPRESSED down ”
Our beloved MCC. which
receive* a surprisingly huge sum
of money from the Progressive
Pwt) Bed AMO is now
spreading some of the worst pro
paganda I have seen in this
decade Apparently, according
to the MIX, there is a W'hite
Male Institution whose sole pur
pose of existence is to oppress
those who are not members
And, of course. it's all the fault
of the Right-Wing Republican*
I don't know- about the nun
es of oppressed University stu
dents, but I happen to believe in
equality and the human race I
don't fudge people on what they
are or when* they come from, but
rather on what they do with their
life. The MQC would have us
believe our ancestors' origin*
should determine how we
should be treated As long as
your ancestors didn't come bum
Europe, you should be revered
Otherwise, you are an evil
oppressor of humauity whose
only purpose in life Is to make
the world a miserable place for
all those who do not share that
common bond.
Perhaps this article would
have been appropriate two
decades ago. but for those of us
who live in the uOs. it was whol
ly inaccurate.
Trent M. Done)son
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