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April 30,2001
Volume 102, Issue 1B8
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Allan Amundson was one of many Ducks to stand
out at Oregon’s annual Spring Game: PAGE 9
Garden variety
In the battle against hunger,; OSPIRG volunteers get
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Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
R. Ashley Smith Emerald
Designed to highlight the changing seasons, student models dressed in a broad range of outfits for the annual APASU fashion show Saturday.
Common
Threads
The Asian/Pacific American Student Union
showed off their heritage with a fashion show
of both modern and traditional offerings
By Arlene Juan
for the Emerald
The Buzz Coffeehouse filled with pulsating music and a
lively audience Saturday night as the Asian/Pacific Ameri
can Student Union (APASU) kicked off Asian Heritage
Month with its second annual fashion show.
With an overflow of audience members standing outside,
student volunteers donned sequined dresses, classic busi
ness suits and traditional Asian garments. And after the
fashion show, audience members tried to outbid each other
for dates with some of the models.
The event was free, but APASU encouraged students to
bring three cans of food, which will go to Food for Lane
County, as will the profits made from the auction.
“I thought the show was successful,” said Sugie Hong,
APASU programs coordinator. “The energy was incredi
ble and there was more diversity within the crowd this
year.”
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Moss Street:
conspiracy or
conservation?
■Community members met in protest of the Moss
Street demolition project Saturday
By Zach Mull
for the Emerald
In an attempt to prevent University
Housing from transplanting homes on
Moss Street near 15th Avenue, local
residents organized a protest Saturday
to show their disdain for the project.
One protester was arrested following
the demonstration.
Zach Vishanoff, who calls himself
the “Moss Street Defender,” organized
the meeting at 1649 Moss St., a house
being prepared to be moved to another
location in Eugene for restoration.
Katherine Wilson, owner of the com
pany moving the house, attended the
meeting. She said her company, House
Set Design, intends to restore the home
to its original condition.
Wilson said she paid the University a
$1 demolition bid for the right to remove
the house, but will spend approximate
ly $150,000 moving and restoring it.
“I’m not doing it out of self-inter
est,” she said. “I’m doing it to save
pieces of Eugene. I love this town. I
love these houses.”
Wilson said the University sold her
the demolition rights to the house at
1649 Moss St. and several other prop
erties in the neighborhood because it
could not afford to restore the houses.
“To make this livable is outside the
budget,” she said.
The Department of Public Safety and
the Eugene Police Department both
stationed officers at the meeting this
weekend.
Vishanoff said he was concerned
about a lack of communication be
tween residents of the neighborhood
and University Housing.
“It’s a sinister plan to remove the
whole neighborhood,” he said. “I’m call
ing it conspiracy. If anyone had a chance
to get their two cents in, I believe these
houses, the classics, would stick
around.”
Toby Grant, who lives across Villard
Street from the boundary of University
property, said he was concerned about
the effects that a future University Hous
ing project could have on the neighbor
hood.
Grant said the area between Moss
and Villard Streets act as “a buffer zone
between the University and homeown
ers on the other side of Villard. I want
to keep this as a buffer.”
University Housing Director
Michael Eyster said the University has
no plans for future housing develop
ments in the Moss Street area.
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44 a
sinister plan
to remove
the whole
neighbor
hood. I’m
calling it
conspiracy.
If anyone
had a
chance to
get their
two cents
in,1 believe
these
houses; the
classics,
would stick
around'
Zach
Vishanoff
Moss St.
resident