History
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would include attempting to find
properties and sites that relate to
“blue collar history” and minori
ties.
Ken Guzowski, a staff member
for the Planning Commission who
works with historical preserva
tion, said previously, historical
registers had only listed the
“biggest and the best” and largely
ignored historic buildings that
were not as visibly important. He
said this was especially true in Eu
gene because the city had been
founded by the working class, and
there are few historic buildings
that represent this part of the com
munity. Guzowski used farmers as
an example of one of these groups
and said there could be a “house,
barn or chicken coops" listed as
historic landmarks to represent
them.
There are 107 historic sites in
Eugene, 87 of which are also listed
on the National Register of historic
properties. The National Register
of Historic Places is the official list
for historic buildings in the coun
try. Buildings are deemed historic
if they are associated with a his
toric figure, played a historic role,
are architecturally unique or
could yield archeological artifacts.
One building in Eugene that
does not necessarily meet these
criteria but is still historic is the
* Mims House at 330 High St.,
which was the first house in Eu
gene owned by African Americans
after laws prohibiting minorities
the right to own a house were re
pelled. Guzowski said there are
other buildings like this in the
city, and the board is working to
ensure they receive the attention
they deserve.
Shawna Adams-Jacobs, a Uni
versity student working for a mas
ters degree in historical preserva
tion and community and regional
planning, said attempting to pro
vide “inclusive preservation” is
difficult because of the varying
view points throughout history.
By deeming some sites historic for
certain reasons, Adams-Jacobs
said some stereotypes could actu
ally be reinforced. She used the
example of a building being listed
as a historic landmark because it
housed a business owned by a
woman. This building could be
viewed as historic, she said, be
cause of what the woman did or
only because it was a woman who
owned a business.
“In a sense, it could be present
ed in a way that suggested her sig
nificance is from being a woman
in the man-sphere,” she said.
Despite the difficulties in at
tempting to equally distribute
landmarks for every group,
Adams-Jacobs said it was an im
portant discussion and one that
needed to take place.
Scott Bogle, who is also pursu
ing a masters degree in both histor
ical preservation and community
management, said a trend to list
the landmarks of other groups has
been picking up momentum for
several years.
“For the past two or three
decades, there has been an in
creased focus on protecting re
sources that are important but not
as prominent,” he said.
Bogle stressed that groups need
to let their cities know what sites
are historic to them because many
native peoples have spiritual sites
that hold great meaning but don’t
have a specific building on it. And
as the State Department of Land
Conservation and Development
no longer requires cities to keep an
inventory of historic sites, Bogle
said many smaller cities don’t re
alize the historical significance of
many sites.
“Folks from different groups
need to get involved and identify
what sites are important to them,”
he said.
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shifts and can call for help in case
of an emergency.
Niles, who is resigning because
he feels the service and trans
portation in general are not a per
fect fit for an OPS-run program,
said the program accommodates
about 20 passengers on an average
school day but might be aban
doned after he leaves his position
on June 16..
He said OPS has not yet deter
mined whether it will continue
the program.
OPS director Tom Fitzpatrick
said OPS is currently working on
a plan to re-evaluate the program
over the summer.
Fitzpatrick said the service
might stop for some time during
the summer while OPS looks at
how many passengers have been
using the service and whether de
mand is sufficient to continue the
program next year.
OPS parking and transportation
manager Rand Stamm said the
service has wound down in past
summers because the campus
population diminishes. Stamm
said OPS will use some time dur
ing the summer to look at such
criteria as ridership and the value
the service has provided to cam
pus over the past couple of years
before making any decisions.
“At this point, we haven’t made
any concrete decision,” Stamm
said.
Sophomore psychology major
Chris Stein said he has never used
Tandem Taxi himself, but some
times sees tandems providing
rides to passengers at night time.
The first time Stein saw a Tandem
Taxi, he was surprised, he said.
“I was like ‘wow, a bike taxi,’”
he said.
Tandem Taxi has kept a log list
ing its passengers during the past
few months. Stamm said the log
will help evaluate ridership by
providing some concrete num
bers.
Niles said Tandem Taxi oper
ates with four bikes, three of
which are not owned by the Uni
versity but borrowed from Bike
Friday, a local bicycle manufac
turer. He said it is unclear
whether the bicycle shop will
continue to provide the three
loaned tandems after he leaves.
The program employs about 10
students who mostly work night
shifts.
“It’s really not an OPS pro
gram,” Niles said. “The fit that I
had with them was not good.”
The decision to add the Tan
dem Taxi program to OPS came
after Niles approached the Uni
versity with his idea about such a
service in 1996. Niles said after a
number of programs showed no
interest in operating the service,
the administration decided that
Tandem Taxi would become a
part of OPS.
Niles criticized the placement
of Tandem Taxi under OPS be
cause, he said, for OPS, trans
portation is not a priority but,
rather, is among many areas it is
responsible for.
Niles said that the service
might be able to advocate for alter
native modes of transportation
more effectively if it were operat
ed by a program that worked to
ward such ideas.
“I see the University to be an in
credible model for potential trans
portation,” he said.
Niles said beyond the concrete
service of getting passengers to
their destinations safely and free
of cost, the program also has a
symbolic purpose.
He said he believes that if peo
ple see such alternative modes of
transportation as bicycles and
tandems around campus and the
community, those modes of trans
portation will become more ac
ceptable.
“One thing that [the service]
does is it presents an image,
which is important,” he said.
“The Tandem Taxi was one way
of infiltrating the established im
ages that surround us on a daily
basis.”
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