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Student Senate
Glen Banfield, a former ASUO nice
president, was appointed to the Con
stitution Court/PAGE 3
Basketball Preview
The men’s team will showcase its
talent against the Australian
Frankston Blues tonight/PAGE 7
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Volume 100, Issue 53
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
City Council examines infrastructure
West University Neighborhood
is the most populous and
crime-ridden area in Eugene
according to a recent report
By David Ryan
Oregon Daily Emerald
Delayed by the political actions of
anti-tax activist Bill Sizemore and a city
manager scandal, Eugene City Councilor
Bobby Lee plans to use a two-year old
report to bring the state of roads, crime
and substandard housing in the West
University Neighborhood to the city’s
attention.
Now that the City Council has worked
through its city manager problems and
dealt with the funding cuts caused by
the Sizemore-sponsored Ballot Measure
47, Lee said he wants to work through
the revitalization issue. He estimates
that will happen when the new city
councilors become comfortable with
their positions sometime this January.
The report, originally completed in
July 1996, catalogues the history of the
West University Neighborhood from a
sparsely populated residential neigh
borhood to its current status as the most
populous and one of the most crime-rid
den neighborhoods in Eugene.
The report also outlines strategies to
involve the city, police and businesses
along 13th Avenue to aid in its revital
ization.
The West University Neighborhood
covers an area of 67 city blocks directly
west of the University, bordered by
Willamette Street on the west and 19th
Avenue to the south.
The report estimates the neighbor
hood is occupied by 30,000 people at
any given time. Graffiti, rotting steps,
broken rain gutters and dying landscap
ing were cited in the 1996 report to be a
significant feature of the neighborhood.
The report, which was headed by Lee,
also said utility poles and telephone
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Nick Mcdley/F.merald
Improvements to the West University neighborhood would include putting telephone wires such as these on
Ferry Street underground to avoid hazards in the event of a fire.
Students
with children
spotlighted
Child Care Awareness Week
draws attention to the problems
of going to school and taking
care of a family simultaneously
By James Scripps
Oregon Daily EmeraliJ
Imagine getting up early, fixing breakfast
for three kids, shuttling them to school and
day care and then going to school yourself.
Now imagine having to pay for it all.
For Stephanie Spencer, mother of Mc
Cartney, 8, Shelby, 7, and Landon, 5, this is
away of life.
Child Care Awareness Week, sponsored
by the ASUO Child Care Campaign, is de
signed to make traditional students aware of
the limitations that student parents such as
Spencer face every day.
She is one of many non-traditional stu
dents who struggle to make ends meet while
pursuing an education.
“1 thought that if I went to a public school
for my graduate work, it wouldn’t cost that
much for my kids to have child care. I was
wrong,” said Spencer, a special education
master’s student. "If it wasn’t for the child
care subsidy, I would not be able to go to
school at all.”
The child care subsidy is a plan spon
sored by the ASUO and funded through in
cidental fees. Through the program, more
than 200 parents are given financial aid —
as much as 50 percent of their child care bill
— to help with the sometimes overwhelm
ing costs. The ASUO estimates that nearly
1,600 University students are parents.
During the week, several events are
planned to teach students about the finan
cial problems student parents face.
The ASUO hopes students will vote in
the spring for an increase in state funding
for the student child care block grant.
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Businesses and environmental groups to discuss sustainability
The
Sustainable
Business
Symposium
aims to
grapple with
issues and
provide
solutions
By Sarah Skidmore
Oregon Daily Emerald
Several businesses and environmental
groups will get together this weekend at the
Sustainable Business Symposium to dis
cuss how to create environmentally friend
ly economic growth.
“The goal is to bring all these seemingly di
verse groups together to sit down at the sym
posium and work out problems,” said Derek
Smith, one of the symposium’s co-directors
and University MBA student.
The symposium will include workshops,
panel discussions and speakers. All events
are free and open to the public. The three
day event runs Friday through Sunday at
various University sites.
“The symposium gives us a unique chance
to see how individual businesses and the
people that work for them grapple with the
tough problem of being environmentally re
sponsible in a setting that seemingly en
courages the opposite,” said Damiel
Udovic, director of the Environmental
Studies Program at the University.
The student-coordinated event is Oregon’s
largest socially responsible conference, ac
cording to the symposium group.
“This is going to put U of O on the map as
the sustainable school,” Smith said.
The keynote speaker will be Ray Ander
son, co-chair of the President’s Council on
Sustainable Development and chairman
and chief executive officer of Interface Inc.
Other speakers include Julie Lewis, founder
of Deja Shoes and Deep E. Co, and Joel
Makower, editor of the Green Business Let
ter and the Green Consumer Letter.
Panels and workshops on environmen
tal strategy and management, competitive
strategy and alternative transportation are
some of the choices at the symposium.
Workshop leaders include a wide spectrum
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Ray Anderson, co-chair ol the President’s Council on Sustainable Development,
will be the keynote speaker at the Sustainable Business Symposium