News brief
ASUO receives last-minute
influx of 'Bucks for Ducks'
proposals
By the end of the day Friday, the
ASUO Executive had in its hands
nearly 40 suggestions of how to
spend $100,000. And now it’s only
a matter of time before the student
body knows which proposals will
win out in the ASUO’s “Bucks for
Ducks” campaign.
“We got so many more applica
tions than we expected,” said
ASUO Publicity Director Jamie
Gerlitz. “On Friday, there was a
steady stream.”
The campaign sought student
ideas on how to spend $100,000
from the overrealized account,
which contains leftover student in
cidental fee money that comes
when enrollment is higher than ex
pected. After a month of cam
paigning, only about 10 proposals
had been turned in to the office by
Thursday afternoon.
But a final-day burst brought in
the remaining proposals.
“Friday was a madhouse,” said
ASUO President Jay Breslow. “It
was a lot of fun.”
Gerlitz said the ASUO has not
released details about the submit
ted proposals. But she did say
some of the proposals deal with
environmental issues and the arts,
while others suggest architectural
improvements around campus.
There were also “a bunch” of ap
plications relating to alcohol-free
activities students could partici
pate in.
The Bucks for Ducks committee
will make a decision by May 16,
which is the same day it will have
to go before the ASUO Student
Senate for approval. That same
day, the University mascot will
present the winner(s) with a check.
Because not many applications
suggested using the entire
$100,000, there is a possibility
the four-member committee in
charge will decide to choose
more than one proposal, Gerlitz
said.
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spend to restore the houses, it
made more sense financially to sell
the houses to her, housing depart
ment officials said.
“As good business people we
have to make decisions,” said
Frank Gaddini, area director for
University Family Housing. “We
operate on very small margins of
surplus each year.”
The house at 1649 Moss St.,
which Gaddini said was built
around 1910, has asbestos cover
ing the exterior, roof and interior
floor. Gaddini estimated that the
asbestos bill alone would have cost
more than $50,000.
The house is also without a
foundation, and its plumbing fix
tures are sinking into the ground.
Gaddini estimated that fixing the
foundation would cost between
$30,000 and $40,000.
Wilson said Saturday that she
will spend approximately
$150,000 restoring and moving the
house.
On Saturday, protesters gath
ered outside the houses on Moss
Street to express their dismay at
the houses being moved. Gaddini
defended Wilson’s decision to
move the houses after she bought
them.
“If you buy a used car, you’re go
ing to take it out of the driveway,”
Gaddini said.
The houses were moved farther
east, to the side of Augusta Street,
until a permanent place for them
can be found.
University Housing’s vintage
houses are located on the east end
of campus. The houses occupy Co
lumbia, Moss and Villard streets
between 15th and 19th avenues.
Of the 112 houses University
Housing owns, Gaddini estimated
that 102 of them are in great condi
tion. He attributed some of the
problems with the vintage houses
to the fact that some of the houses
were built before building codes
were enforced.
The Moss Street houses’ switch
from University to private owner
ship is disconcerting to Gaddini.
“It really gets to be a sad feeling
because I know these houses like
I know my own children,” he
said.
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and raccoons,” and that he believes
the University allows houses to fall
into poor physical condition to jus
tify their removal.
But Eyster counters that Univer
sity Housing leaves homes empty
only in transition between tenants.
“Our first intention is always to
keep houses rented,” he said,
adding that his department current
ly has one empty home in the Moss
Street area. “It’s not rentable and the
cost to renovate it would be too
much,” he said.
One option that the University
could take advantage of to finance the
renovation and upkeep of the houses
is through the University’s historic
preservation program and the work
study program, Vishanoff said.
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Vishanoff held a meeting Satur
day in the front yard of one of the
houses slated to be transplanted to
discuss University Housing’s ac
tions in the neighborhood. During
that meeting, he patrolled the side
walk with a sign that read, “Save af
fordable family housing.”
Ron “Misha” Seymour, an area
resident who attended the meet
ing, said his concerns are “to have
affordable family housing and to
have things that look beautiful, to
protect the history we have here.”
Concerned about what he thinks
is a lack of communication and dia
logue between University Housing
and neighborhood homeowners,
Vishanoff expressed displeasure
with the public input process.
“They’ve been excluded from the
process,” he said. “The housing de
partment hasn’t been consulting
with them for the last three years.”
But Laura Marriott, president of
the Fairmount Neighbors, a neigh
borhood association that includes
the Moss Street area,said the Uni
versity does inform the neighbor
hood in advance of developments.
Toby Grant, who lives across Vil
lard Street from the University and
leases several properties in the area,
said he wants to open a dialogue be
tween neighborhood residents and
University Housing.
Grant has lived in the area for 14
years and said he is also concerned
with the installation of parking reg
ulation signs, as well as what he be
lieves is the dilapidation of Univer
sity-owned properties in the area.
Both Grant and Vishanoff said
they are concerned about the possi
bility of future development proj
ects in the area.
Grant also expressed concern
about the presence of the University
Department of Public Safety in the
neighborhood.
“They are an expression of the en
croachment of the University on the
eastern side of Villard [Street],” he
said.
Grant was arrested on a disor
derly conduct charge at his house
at 1914 E. 17th Ave. after the meet
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drove past several times before
calling the Eugene Police Depart
ment.
“What gives them the right to ex
tend their jurisdiction beyond the
University?” he asked. He said he
believed the DPS officer disturbed
his right to “lawful assembly.”
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