commits suicide
A senior history major died
Friday, May 12 of a self-in
flicted gun shot. Joshua
O’Brien, 22, was from Spring
field and had played football
at UNLV before transferring
to the University. His brother
said O’Brien was pursuing
writing and had just submit
ted a novel to publishers.
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Writer reads
at award ceremony
National Book Award-win
ner Barry Lopez, a local fic
tion writer, will read passages
from his newest book at the
Nancy and Walter Kidd read
ing tonight at Gerlinger
Lounge. Lopez judged the fic
tion writing work. PAGE GA
Campus celebrates
University Day
The 11th annual campus
clean-up and beautification
by University students, facul
ty and staff includes paint
ing, litter pick-up, bark
spreading and flower plant
ing on campus. One hour of
work earns participants a
free T-shirt and refresh
ments. The event lasts from
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sign in
near the Pioneer Father stat
ue on East 13th between Con
don and Chapman halls.
Bi
ll
Take Back the Night
with a march tonight
The 22nd- Annual Take
Back the Night March begins
with a rally and speakers at 8
p.m. this evening in the EMU
Amphitheater. A march will
follow through the streets of
Eugene and end at Eighth Av
enue and Oak Street. A Speak
Out by victims of sexual as
sault will take place, and re
turn transportation from the
Speak Out to the University
will be provided.
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Make more noise, pay more fines
An ordinance
proposes that
residents pay
police costs for
returning to
the same house
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By Darren Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
It’s almost assumed that
weekend plans for many Uni
versity students entail alcohol
and loud music.
When parties become too
loud, however, and neighbors
complain to the police, the Eu
gene Police Department has to
respond, often with several offi
cers at taxpayers’ expense.
Attempting to deter unruly
parties, the EPD has drafted a
city ordinance that would hold
tenants financially responsible
Turn to Citations, page 8A
Shhhh...
The ordinance would require tenants to repay the city the
cost of police response to disorderly parties if:
at the address at the
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By Serena Markstrom
Oregon Daily Emerald
Usually, books and bricks are not
associated items. When a book’s
binding needs repair, however,
nothing beats using a colorfully
wrapped brick to hold the pages together
as the glue dries.
When old, fragile books die, they are of
ten difficult to replace, but there’s a de
partment on campus dedicated to pre
venting the untimely death of books,
saving the University money and ensur
ing historical books are preserved for fu
ture generations to view.
This month you don’t have to take a tour
of the Knight Library’s Beach Lab to dis
cover the tools and techniques library em
ployees use to keep books in circulation.
On display now in the display cases
near the reference center, in honor of Na
tional Preservation Month, are the differ
ent tasks the preservation department is
responsible for. The display also details
various things users do that damage
books.
Ten years ago there was no such thing
as a preservation department at the Uni
versity library. Today the Knight Library
preservation department is the leading re
source for libraries all over the state to
learn how to keep their collections alive.
Normandy Helmer, head of the preser
vation and binding department, said the
University Library has many unique col
lections.
With these collections — such as all
Oregon newspaper microfilm since 1953,
and the rare books and manuscripts
Turn to Book binding, page 8A
Tattered books, such as these in the Knight Library, receive royal treatment from
preservationists. It is often cheaper to repair books than to seek replacements.
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EWEB; city officials’ salary appear to win
Two
progressive
candidates are
elected to the
city council,
and two very
close ballot
measures seem
headed for
victory
By Josh Ryneal
Oregon Daily Emerald
The election of Bonnie
Bettman and Betty Taylor to
City Council might not make
Mayor Jim Torrey happy, but
both newly-elected councilors
pledged to change the council’s
attitude toward transportation
and environmental issues.
The neck-and-neck city
councilor races in Wards 2 and
3 were finally resolved
Wednesday, with Bettman
pulling away from Tracy Olsen
and receiving 56.3 percent of
the vote and Betty Taylor de
feating her closest challenger
with 60.3 of the vote.
Torrey, interviewed recently
in The Register-Guard, had stat
ed that he believed the election
of Bettman and Taylor would
result in a divisive city council,
because the two progressives
didn’t represent the voters in
their wards, but only spoke for
a “vocal minority.”
Bettman said that her success
depended on the support from
voters in her area.
“People in Ward 3 like what
I’m doing,” she said.
Bettman also credited her
win to her grassroots campaign,
and said that “I wrote all of my
own literature and had a lot of
support from volunteers, in
cluding many students and
mothers.”
Taylor said that she was look
ing forward to working with
Bettman to make the city coun
cil more progressive.
“There won’t be a solid vot
ing bloc now, but I am very hap
py that Bonnie is on the coun
cil,” she said.
Taylor said that she hopes to
Turn to Election, page 5A
U-[I]
had a lot of
support
from volun
teers, includ
ing many
students...”
Bonnie
Bettman
city councilor