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An independent newspaper
Volume 100, Issue 108
University of Oregon
www.dailyemerald.com
ASUO special election will continue
Schedule
■WHAT: Special
election
■WHBIE: In front
of the ASUO office
in the EMU Breeze
way
■WHEN: Wednes
day and Thursday
r
Students will vote this week on
measures involving Gardenburger
and University Housing
By James Scripps
Oregon Daily Emerald
The special election is back on — but with
strings attached.
The ASUO Constitution Court ruled last
Friday that it will allow the special election
to continue but without measures that re
quest student funding.
If passed, the two remaining measures
would amend the elections grievance
process and show student support for a Gar
denburger boycott in University Housing.
Students can vote on the two measures
this Wednesday and Thursday in front of the
ASUO office in the EMU Breezeway, which
will be the only polling booth.
The special election was originally sched
uled for Feb. 17-18, but the Constitution
Court postponed the election after student
Scott Austin filed two injunctions against
ASUO President Geneva Wortman and i
ASUO Elections Coordinator Taylor Sturges.
Wortman and ASUO Vice President Mor
gan Cowling called the special election to
streamline the elections grievance process,
but controversy arose when the ASUO Ex
ecutive allowed other measures to be placed
on the ballot.
At a public Constitution Court hearing last
Wednesday, Austin argued that the presi
dent’s decision to allow funding measures on
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vete
SPECIAL
ELECTION
Scott Bamett/Emeraki
For more than 25 years Janitor Bob Foster has been cleaning Klamath Hall. Bob
Begins his shift at 11:00 pm and works until 7:00 am.
With most people
sleeping, two University
janitors pass the
graveyard shift dreaming
as they clean
haitor s note: G. Jaros shadowed two jani
tors from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. for this story.
ByG. Jaros
Oregon Daily Emerald
J'anitor Bob is never late for work, al
though work is always late for Janitor
Bob.
Bob Foster got his nickname from
the occasional notes he has leaves for
faculty and students. The nickname stuck
and he said it makes him feel special.
It is 11 p.m., the graveyard shift. Bob’s first
stop is the janitor’s key room. He picks up
his work keys and identification badge and
then walks into a closet in Klamath Hall.
This has been Bob’s routine for 26 years and
four months.
Closet number 308 is Janitor Bob’s office.
He has one on each of the three floors he
cleans. All are 10 feet by eight feet with con
crete walls, but 308 has the three soap dis
pensers and small concrete sink necessary
to fill mop, sink and toilet buckets.
All the usual janitorial supplies can be
found in 308. Shelves with neat rows of recy
cled toilet paper, paper towels and garbage
bags, mingle with boxes of chalk and a buck
et full of erasers. But there is something else.
“I am a dreamer,” Bob said. It shows on
the walls of his office.
There are 80 photographs of nature and
wildlife taped up in neat symmetric pat
terns. Snowcapped peaks and glacial lakes
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Scott liameti/Kmerald
Janitor Frannie Mays details a common area in Hendricks Hall.
City agrees to purchase land for Prefontaine park
Disputed
land near
the site of his
death will
become a
city park
ay Michael Hines
Oregon Daily Emerald
Eugene’s track and field commu
nity is now breathing a collective
sigh of relief.
The city of Eugene made it offi
cial in a downtown ceremony Fri
day that it will purchase the 1.5
acre plot of disputed land in the
west hills where famed distance
runner Steve Prefontaine died May
30,1975.
Prefontaine, who participated in
the 1972 Munich Olympic Games,
is synonymous around the world
with Track Town, U.S. A.
The site where he died in a car
crash, near the intersection of Birch
Lane and Skyline Boulevard, be
came a makeshift memorial.
Now that the city is on the verge
of buying the land from the Oregon
Department of Transportation, it
plans to install parking, trails,
benches and sculptures.
Eugene Mayor Jim Torrey de
scribed Prefontaine, nicknamed
“Pre,” as an important part of the
community.
The Oregon Track Club and the
city have been trying to purchase
the land from ODOT for years to
prevent its development, but could
never gather enough money.
But Wednesday, the city an
nounced that Cliff and Sherry
Shirley, Portland business owners
and friends of the Prefontaine fami
ly, had donated $120,000 to close
the deal.
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Scott Hamett/EmeraUi
Race numbers and prize ribbons cover the site of the
car accident that killed track legend Steve Prefontaine.