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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 6, 1998)
‘Down on the corner’ LAURA GOSS/Emerald Canadian band Shillelagh plays a unique blend of Celtic and bluegrass music on the comer of 13th Avenue and Kincaid Street Wednesday. The band, which was on its way doim to Los A nge les, includes Bryan Skinner, Justin Love, Josh Neelands, Jasper deGroot, and Nathan Gage. Library: Adding hours not an option * Continued from Page 1 able making the changes,” John ston said. “Most people surveyed did want the weekend hours, but many also wanted the weekday hours.” Ideally, the library would not have eliminated any morning hours, Carver said, but adding hours was not an option. “We’re looking at a 3 percent reduction in our budget next year, and we’re already strapped in terms of meeting our student pay roll,” she said. “We couldn’t af ford to add more hours on our schedule.” The library stressed that the change is temporary, and that it is willing to listen to student Spring library hours The new schedule eliminates Friday and Saturday night hours and Saturday and Sunday morn ing hours. • MONDAY-THURSDAY: 8 am. to midnight ■ FRIDAY: 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. §8 SATURDAY: 11 a.m.to7p.m. • SUNDAY: 11 a m. to midnight concerns. “We’ll look at what the use pat terns are like and we’ll also listen to complaints from students.” Carver said. “I’d be surprised if we got those complaints, because we provide less than 1 percent of our services during those times.” Johnston said the survey results made her feel comfortable with the hour changes, but she’s open to suggestions. "I hope that if people are upset about this that they make their opinions known,” she said. Research libraries commonly stay open until midnight and close earlier on Fridays and Satur days, Carver said. “I think the students expressed a need, and we tried to be as re sponsive as we could given our current budget situation.” OPS director Stan Reeves could not be reached for comment. ASUO: Miner, Unger to return for hearing ■ Continued from Page 1 strongest representatives to the conference and lobby day, Unger said. “Oregon has this tradition of being the rock stars of this confer ence,” he said. “Everyone looks up to us. We’ll make an impact r nationwide when we get there.” The conference ends Tuesday night, and the ASUO members should get back to campus in time for impeachment hearings for the president and vice president Wednesday. The D.C. trip and those hear ings won’t leave the ASUO much time for activism toward the end of the term, Unger said. It had hoped to wrap up winter term “with a bang,” he said. "It kind of sucks away our ener gy,” he said. “It’s going to be tough to go out with a pop.” News Briefs McCullough, Smith plead not guilty Oregon quarterback Akili Smith and former Oregon rum ning back Saladin McCullough pleaded not guilty Thursday in Springfield Municipal Court to charges filed in connection with a Feb. 1 assault on a bouncer at the Mill Camp Saloon. Neither Smith nor McCul lough appeared in court Thurs day; both filed a not guilty plea in a letter from their attorney, Ken Morrow. Both men are facing fourth-de gree assault, second-degree tres passing and harassment charges. Smith, 22, also pleaded not guilty in Eugene Municipal Court last Friday to a drunken driving charge and is still sus pended from working out with the Oregon football team. Oregon head coach Mike Bel lotti has said Smith’s suspension will be re-evaluated at the end of winter term. Man sentenced for prostitution activities A 29-year-old Eugene man found guilty of 38 separate counts related to a prostitution enterprise in December was sen tenced at a hearing Wednesday to 49 years in prison. Police said Michael Don Kel ly must serve 40 years of the sentence before he becomes eli gible for release. He was convict ed on multiple charges of pro moting prostitution, compelling prostitution, first-degree kidnap, coercion, first-degree forgery and first-degree theft. An additional1,079months are to be served by Kelly concurrent with the sentence for his convic tion on similar charges in the case. Kelly is oneof several individu als under investigation by local po lice agencies for promoting prosti tution. Police have identified 17 suspects allegedly involved in crimes related to prostitution. The investigation is continuing and will result in another arrest in the near future, police said. A related case of promoting prostitution in Eugene resulted in an arrest earlier this year. In January 1998, Terrence Ja son Schehen, 20, of Eugene, was indicted on 25 felony counts and five misdemeanors related to • prostitution activities. Schehen was accused of engag ing in the act of promoting pros titution and victimizing a juve nile for several months. Police said Schehen was one of 18 people under investigation on suspicion of being pimps in the central Lane County area over the past year. —Ryan Frank and Jesse Sotva We ship your stuff home! 1 to 1000 pounds Packing • Shipping Boxes 2705 Willamette Street 344-3106 Rideehare Traveling soon? Need a ride? Offering a ride? Ride Share brings together people needing and offering rides anywhere in Oregon or throughout the country. 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