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Monday
June 11,2001
Volume 102, Issue 167
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Free show
raises funds
for hungry
«■ Local band Nimbus is kicking
off the summer with a benefit
*show for Food for Lane County
By Lauren Saxton
for the Emerald
Move your feet. Shake your hips.
Feed the hungry.
Community members can dance
for social action Thursday night at the
Wild Duck Music Hall, when Nim
bus, a band comprised of three former
University students, plays a free ben
efit show to gather donations for
Food for Lane County.
Inspiration Glass, a local glass art
company, is sponsoring the show,
which begins at 9 p.m. with Raging
Family, a group of local DJs.
“We are excited to throw a free con
cert,” said Nimbus guitarist Mike
Slavin. Slavin collaborated with
bassist Scott DeWitt and drummer
Josh Damon to create the band, which
has been showing up on the local mu
sic scene since its formation eight
months ago.
Lately we locus on jam rock,”
Slavin said. “But we draw from rock
and roll, jazz, blues and funk. ”
The trio has produced their own
repertoire of songs and cover artists
such as Talking Heads, Aretha
^^Franklin and Jimi Hendrix.
Organizers say anyone interested
^should head to the Wild Duck with a
* • *. can of food and their dancing shoes.
“It’s community-based goodness
through music,” said University stu
dent David DeWitt, an environmen
tal studies major and the brother of
Nimbus’ bassist. DeWitt worked with
Inspiration Glass to coordinate the
festivities.
This “goodness” has spread to
Holy Cow Cafe and Friendly Street
Market, community establishments
that have donated door prizes for the
show, and Indigo Lighting Design
from Portland, which contributed a
lighting setup for the evening.
The event kicks off a busy summer
for Food for Lane County.
Along with its regular program
Turn to Benefit, page 8
Home sweet home
R. Ashley Smith Emerald
Jack Leavitt holds his six-year-old daughter Tina in front of their new house in Springfield Sunday afternoon.
Jack of all trades
■One man and his daughter are given
a home—and hope for the future —
through a St. Vincent De Paul program
By Lisa Toth
Oregon Daily Emerald
Gold miner, world traveler, painter and sin
gle father. Jack Leavitt is a man of many roles,
but for more than four months, Leavitt and his
six-year-old daughter lived without a home
and faced a limited availability of services for
single fathers in Eugene. And it was only after
months of waiting that Leavitt and his daugh
ter finally have a place they can temporarily
call home. As Leavitt began to explain how
frightening it was to have drained his life sav
ings in little more than a month, his daughter
Tina, a blonde-haired ball of energy, burst into
the room.
“I've got a snake,” she said, grinning as she
dragged a string of beads across the floor and
hopped onto her father’s lap.
Leavitt said Tina is the most important per
son in his life. The father-daughter team takes
care of each other day and night. They live a
simple life together — for two months they
Turn to Jack, page 4
Summer
economy
struggles
■ Even though summer brings
less business near campus,
business owners find ways
to adjust to the slowdown
By Lindsay Buchele
Oregon Daily Emerald
For many campus-area business
es, the University student popula
tion is the source of their livelihood.
Although this population is signifi
cantly smaller during the summer
months — dropping from nearly
18,000 to just more than 5,000 stu
dents —these businesses have found
ways to still be going strong when
students return in the fall.
The Glenwood Restaurant has had
18 years to adjust to summers without
students, a process that took some
time, owner Jacqui Monninger said.
“The problem was we would hire
extra people to cover the weekend of
Father’s Day and graduation, but
then we would be way overstaffed
for the rest of the summer,” Mon
ninger said.
To adjust, Monninger said they
“beg, borrow and steal old employ
ees” to cover the busy weekends, but
otherwise make do with a smaller
staff in the summer.
“It works better for the employees,”
Monninger said. “If they want to take
the summer off, it’s much easier. ”
Larger businesses, such as 7-Eleven
and Starbucks run into the same prob
lems at their campus locations.
Turn to Summer, page 8
On hiatus
Today’s Emerald Is the final issue of
the school year. Publication will be
gin again June 26, and the Emerald
will be available every Tuesday and
Thursday throughout the summer
school term. Don’t forget to check the
online edition at
www.dailyemerald.com for late
breaking news or updates.
Noted environmental activist-turned-professor to retire
■ University professor Maradel Gale plans to retire after three decades
of educating and environmental activism across the state
By Brooke Ross
Oregon Daily Emerald
Before the 1970s, environmental ac
tivism was nearly unheard of in Oregon.
Then Maradel Gale and a small group of
other activists made their voices heard
during the state’s 1971 legislative session.
Gale dedicated many years of her life
to preserving the environment, which
included lobbying for the city of Eugene,
until she realized that she loved teach
ing. Now, alter nearly three decades at
the University, the associate professor of
Planning, Public Policy and Manage
ment prepares for retirement.
“My plans are to not have plans,” she
said. “I started working on my 16th
birthday and have been working ever
since.”
Gale was well-known in the commu
nity for her environmental activism be
fore she began teaching at the University
in the mid-1970s. She helped found the
Oregon Environmental Council in 1968
and was involved in getting the “Bottle
Bill” passed in the 1971 state legislative
session. She also served on the Oregon
Coastal Conservation and Development
Commission. While she said the work of
an environmentalist is never done, she
realized she enjoyed teaching and de
cided to make it a career.
“It was a hard choice,” she said. “I
loved being an activist, and I never
thought I would teach. ”
But Gale also said she will remain vig
ilant as a environmentalist.
“As an environmentalist, we can’t go
to bed and sleep easily at night, because
there’s always someone thinking up
something even worse than what you
just battled,” she said.
One of her first major environmental
efforts was working with the Oregon En
vironmental Council, which she also
helped found. By the 1971 session, Gale
and other environmentalists were pre
pared with bills they hoped would pass
through the legislature.
Turn to Gale, page 9