Business: Parking is easier to find
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Bagel Sphere co-owner Karen
Babcock said that even though
there is a decrease in students, her
business still does fine.
“It’s something that happens,”
Babcock said. “Businesses on
13th [Avenue] rely on college stu
dents.”
Babcock said that since many
students are gone, people who
found parking a problem have a
chance to come to the campus
area and enjoy the businesses.
“Summer is a slower time,”
Babcock said. “ The pace isn’t as
hectic.”
This gives her restaurant a
chance to try new products, ideas
and serve others in the communi
ty
“Even though business goes
down a little, we still serve a good
clientele,” Lee said.
Rennie’s Landing bar manager
Dan Geyer said that they definite
ly feel the absence of the students.
“We miss the busy Wednesday,
Saturday and Sunday nights,”
Geyer said. “There’s no line at the
door during the summer.”
Geyer said that although Ren
nie’s experiences a loss in busi
ness, it gains a larger lunch
crowd, and the staff is able to fo
cus more on full service.
“This doesn't make up for the
loss, but it definitely helps out,”
Geyer said. “It gives us a little
more exposure.”
People who may not have come
in during the year have the oppor
tunity to enjoy the restaurant and
bar without the overwhelming
amount of students, he said.
Since the World Cup soccer
games have been on television,
Geyer said Rennie’s has been ex
periencing big lunch crowds,
which has boosted summer sales
compared with previous years.
Not all businesses on the 13th
Avenue drag are experiencing
substantial loss this summer.
Rainbow Optics owner Richard
Greene said that his business has
n’t experienced change at all.
“Our business is not based on
students,” Greene said. “A mix
ture of people from the communi
ty are apt to come down [in the
summer] — easy parking, not as
busy.”
Loans: Smith supports amendment
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den for students is good,” ASUO Vice President
Morgan Cowling said.
Along with PIRGs, the Harkin Amendment is sup
ported by the United States Student Association, the
National Association of Graduate and Professional
Students and the Education Trust.
“This is a good first step in the process of com
pletely eliminating this unfair and arbitrary ‘tax’ on
students,” the USSA claimed in a recent statement.
“It’s one thing to pay a fee but it’s another to have
that fee accruing interest while they’re in school,”
said Melissa Watson, a USSA board member from
the University.
Cowling said that students are encouraged to stop
by the ASUO office for more information. She also
urges students to contact their senator.
“I’m going to call (Sen. Smith) as one of his con
stituents,” she said.
Other USPIRG issues include increasing the avail
ability of grants instead of loans, and student access
to campus crime information.
Forest chief says it was ‘change or die’
The Associated Press
LAKEVIEW — Former U.S. For
est Service Chief Jack Ward
Thomas told a gathering intended
to heal the wounds of the spotted
owl wars that people should ac
cept that the environmentalists
won, and move on.
But the chief architect of the
Forest Service strategy for saving
the Northern spotted owl and Pa
cific salmon from extinction
warned environmentalists that it
could all come apart if they push
too hard.
“The environmentalists, and
the American people, I think have
won the wrestling match,”
Thomas said Tuesday night in his
keynote address to the Lake Coun
ty Forest Sustainability Initiative.
Environmentalists “should
want to help, because if they push
it too much farther, it will snap,”
leading to a shift of public opinion
and environmental laws favoring
them, he added.
Organizers said the four-day ses
sion was intended to open com
munications with environmental
groups to assure better forest man
agement and the future economic
health of rural communities that
depend on natural resources.
“It’s not a political gathering.
We're not here to preach but to
learn,” said Paul Harlan, vice presi
dent of Collins Lumber, which op
erates Lake County’s only remain
ing sawmill. “This can be a model
for what’s right, not what’s wrong.”
Thomas said “I had rather eaten
a worm” than become the head of
the panel of scientists who forged
the plan for cutting timber har
vests by 80 percent to assure habi
tat for spotted owls and other fish
and wildlife.
Thomas said he woke up night
ly in a cold sweat with concerns
about the thoroughness and the
impact of studies indicating spot
ted owls needed vast areas of old
growth forest to nest and hunt.
Preserving habitat for the owls
meant sharply reducing logging,
putting thousands of people out of
work.
Thomas told of talking back to a
critical congressman by saying,
“Don't you ever ask ‘did we have
concern for people’. We did. But a
law is a law. Science is science.”
Clinton holds third
roundtable on race
The president said
Native A merican
Indians got ‘the
worst of both worlds'
The Associated Press
ARLINGTON, Va. — Amer
icans need to “fess up to the
fact” that the nation has mis
treated Native American Indi
ans and act to ameliorate the
isolation and neglect that they
feel, President Clinton said
Wednesday.
During a roundtable discus
sion on race, Clinton admitted
he did not know much about
Native American Indians until
he ran for president in 1992.
After visiting reservations and
meeting Indian leaders, he
said, he concluded that this
country has given them a raw
deal.
“They literally got the worst
of both worlds,” Clinton said.
“They weren’t getting enough
help, and they certainly didn’t
have enough responsibility
and power, in my view, to
build a future.”
Clinton spoke after his race
advisory board reminded him
that he should develop a strat
egy to address Native Ameri
can Indian concerns. That
suggestion grew out of a meet
ing in Denver last March,
where protesters complained
about Clinton’s failure to ap
point an Indian to his adviso
ry board.
The president’s remarks
pleased Sherman Alexie, an
author-filmmaker who direct
ed a film on Indian life. He
said his people are tired of be
ing ignored in discussions of
race, when so many of their
problems are based on race.
“A poor Native American
faces more hurdles than a
poor anybody,” Alexie said. “I
didn’t have running water un
til I was 7 years old. I still re
member when the toilet came.
“Nobody talks about Indi
ans,” Alexie said. “Usually
what they’ll do to me is come
up and tell me they’re Chero
kee.”
That drew laughter from the
president — who had said his
grandmother was a quarter
Cherokee.
Clinton’s session with eight
panelists was taped to air
Thursday on PBS’ “The News
Hour with Jim Lehrer.” The
White House billed it as Clin
ton’s third town hall meeting
on race, but there was no au
dience or live broadcast, as
there were in the previous
two.
The session was held as
Clinton's advisory board is
preparing a report for him to
use in writing his own assess
ment of race, due at the end of
the year. The White House has
said Clinton will keep the dis
cussion itself alive in some
form through the rest of his
term.
Wednesday’s panel, com
prised of authors, columnists
and pundits, urged Clinton to
use his high office to remind
Americans that integration is
still an admirable goal. Clin
ton called for “a vocabulary
that embraces America’s fu
ture” while acknowledging
the country’s past errors on
race — starting with the first
ones against Native American
Indians.
“We need to know when
we are making distinctions,”
Clinton said. “And then we
need to fess up to the fact that
at least, when it comes to Na
tive Americans, that if we
don’t do something fairly dra
matic, the future is going to be
like the past for too many peo
ple.”
The panel noted that the
country has become so di
verse so fast that old, lingering
stereotypes are now overlap
ping in odd ways.
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