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Mayor Jim Torrey burns the Hult Center mortgage Wednesday night as City Manager Jim Johnson applauds.
Hult
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Neufeld said she was intro
duced to the Hult Center through
the free Thursday evening concert
series.
“The Hult Center was instru
mental in helping me network as
a writer and a singer,” Neufeld
said. “It was food for me-spiritu
ally and emotionally.”
Each year the Hult Center hosts
nationally and internationally ac
claimed artists who draw audi
ence members from all over the
Pacific Northwest.
“The center really has a region
al significance,” Hoffman said.
Performances like last year’s
Riverdance and Les Miserables
put the Hult Center on the map.
“People come all the way from
northern California to southern
Washington, from the coast to
past Bend,” Hoffman said.
Eugene resident, Michael
Harbour, said he came to the
bond burning festivities to sam
ple the different groups that
performed.
About 50 members of Universi
ty Gospel Choir performed as well
as resident companies like the
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com m i mity facility.
When this facility first
went on-line, I don't
think anyone knew what
that would mean for the
community. ”
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Mayor of Eugene
Oregon Mozart Players and the
Eugene Ballet Company, the Eu
gene Symphony Orchestra and
Dance Theater of Oregon.
“One of the major reasons the
Hult Center was built was to cele
brate our resident companies,”
said City Manager Jim Johnson.
“We should also look to the fu
ture.”
“It took 20 years to pay it off,”
Neufeld said. “Now it’s debt free
and I’m sure the community will
be able to do more things.”
“The future is in the hands of
the community,” Hoffman said.
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City of Eugene “would never
want this college community to
believe that we don’t respect
them.”
“No one from the city believes
that this is reflective of the stu
dent body of this school,” he
said.
Only five of 12 people involved
were affiliated with the Universi
ty, he said. And Torrey said he
was very happy with the effort the
University put into developing al
ternative forms of entertainment.
These programs helped to reduce
the level of activity Saturday, he
said.
Frohnmayer said that riots are a
national problem and not restrict
ed solely to the University.
When you have a lot of people
in a relatively small area and you
add alcohol to the equation, it in
creases the possibility of violent
* behavior, he said.
Frohnmayer said the Universi
ty has to work to create a solution
to the national riot problem by
“creating a positive Oregonian
and Eugenean solution.”
“We all have to work together
to solve this problem,” he said.
“We simply have to be even more
creative and work even harder.”
Frohnmayer said some possible
solutions to the ongoing riot prob
lem would be to hold some alco
hol-free events in a place larger
than the EMU. These events
would last longer into the night
and hold more people, he said.
But Frohnmayer said he feels
the University has made progress
in the last year. There were fewer
people involved this year and
fewer people arrested, he said.
Torrey seconded Frohnmayer’s
comment. “This is happening all
over the country,” he said. “It
could have been a lot worse.”
Frohnmayer and Torrey also
used the meeting as an opportuni
ty to discuss the recent incident
regarding a student who was ar
rested at Hamilton Complex Mon
day night. However, Frohnmayer
said the two incidents were com
pletely unrelated.
There was no indication of al
cohol related to this incident,
and a vast number of the stu
dents present supported the po
lice, Frohnmayer said. The tenor
of the students was very differ
ent, he said.
Both Frohnmayer and Torrey
said the problems that caused this
year’s riot are not solely restricted
to the people involved.
Torrey said there was a high
level of expectation of something
of this nature taking place on Hal
loween because of the media cov
erage of the one-year anniversary
of the riots.
“My understanding is that TV
cameras were out at 5 or 6 in the
evening in expectation of events
happening,” Torrey said.
It seemed that if there wasn’t a
riot, there would have been a feel
ing of frustration among members
of the media, he said.
There should be a close self-ex
amination by the media of the ap
propriateness of their actions,
Torrey said.
Frohnmayer said that he agreed
with Torrey in that the media
played a large part in the riots this
year. He added that the students
he had spoken with felt the same
way.
The students were genuinely
angered that the media acted this
way, especially through internal
on-campus media, Frohnmayer
said.
Torrey said the complete cost of
the riot to the city is thus far un
determined, but the preliminary
cost was $9,000 for the police of
ficers’ overtime.
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