Working on the night moves
Anything can happen when you work in
Eugene past midnight and up late. Page 5
Our heritage, our future
Burgers, brews and clothes of hemp
mark the 4th Hemp Festival. Page 5
Only in Eugene
A man throws himself out a bedroom
window Tuesday morning. Page 3
Thursday, July 19,2001
Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 103, Issue 8
Jessie Swimeley Emerald
Next year, students in the greek system will read to children such as Micheala Starr Sakell and Dami Kim at the EMU Child Care Center thanks to an $8,100 grant from Starbucks.
Starbucks grants UO funds to promote literacy
The EMU Child
Care and
Development
Centers will use
the money to
buy books and
begin a program
in which student
volunteers will
read to children
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
Starbucks is already well-known for
its coffee, but in light of a grant the cor
poration has given the University, it
may soon be known on campus for
helping children learn to read.
The Starbucks Foundation recently
awarded the EMU Child Care and De
velopment Centers(CCDC) with an
$8,100 grant to fund a children’s litera
cy program, which will begin fall term.
The Starbucks Storyteller Program,
which is a collaboration between the
18th Street Starbucks store, the Greek
Life office and the CCDC, will involve
student volunteers from the greek sys
tem who will read to children on a
regular basis.
EMU grantwriter Mary Farrington,
who secured the grant, said she started
looking into obtaining the grant several
months ago because she thought it
would be “a nice opportunity for the
child-care center to promote literacy.”
Grant money will be used to buy 400
new books and will pay for book repair
and other supplies. A part-time pro
gram coordinator will also be hired.
As of January 2001, the Starbucks
Foundation, which began in 1997, has
donated more than $1 million to 200 or
ganizations to promote children’s litera
cy. One way this money is distributed is
through opportunity grants, in the
amount of up to $10,000, that are given to
organizations that serve low-income or
under-served youth and children.
Many of the children who attend the
seven child care sites run through the
CCDC do come from low-income fami- j
lies because often they are the children
of student parents, said Cheryl Jordan,
Turn to Starbucks, page 4
OUS Chancellor Joe Cox says he will resign in 2002
■ The leader of the OUS for
seven years, Cox would like to
remain involved with higher
education after leaving his post
By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
Oregon University System Chan
cellor Joe Cox announced Tuesday
he will step down as the leader of
Oregon’s seven universities in
spring 2002.
“Enough fun is enough,” Cox
said. “There’s never a perfect time,
but this is a good time.”
He added that since November
he has believed the OUS staff is
strong enough for him to depart,
and the decision comes as little
surprise to OUS university presi
dents. He said
he made the
announce
ment early so
his successor
has time to
gear up for the
2003 legisla
tive session.
Although he
is not sure
what specifi
cally he will do after he leaves of
fice, Cox, 64, said he wants to re
main in higher education and in
the Eugene area with his wife.
“It’s liberally funky enough to
suit us,” he said. “Maybe now I’ll
have time to check out the Coun
try Fair.”
Cox said he would like to be a
consultant somewhere in higher
education and work on a book he
has been slowly writing about the
rise of philanthropy in the 19th
century.
In Cox’s seven years at the helm,
he has guided the state’s seven in
stitutions of higher education
through a number of budget battles
at the state Capitol and overhauled
the organization’s budget to re
Turn to Cox, page 4
The Oregon University System
Board will meet with
representatives from each
state university to approve
their total budget costs—and
tuition increases—at its
meeting on Friday in Portland.
The Legislature placed a cap on
tuition increases at 4 percent
this year and 3 percent next
year, but the number could rise
if schools propose increases to
fees also.
The meeting is open to the
public. For more information,
call (503) 725-5700.
Council
retains
smoking
reprieves
■After reviewing the smoking ban,
the Eugene City Council opted to
leave the law as is
By Darren Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
City councilors decided Wednes
day to uphold an exemption in the
city’s smoking ban that allows tobac
co use in bars that are building out
door smoking areas.
Most Eugene bars were required to
go smoke-free July 1, but 31 bars re
ceived six-month reprieves to build
outdoor smoking areas. The council
revisited the law after a bar manager
said at a recent council session that
his newly smoke-free business was
losing customers to establishments
that still allow smoking.
The council voted unanimously at
Wednesday’s noon meeting to charge
the city manager’s office with making
sure those 31 bars are actually building
and not just ducking the ban.
“It’s very important to be fair to the
businesses that are doing the right
thing,” Councilor David Kelly said.
Though Councilor Betty Taylor
briefly discussed changing the ordi
nance, most councilors chose not to
alter the law.
“I don’t want to be in the business of
amending the ordinance,” Councilor
Nancy Nathanson said. “That changes
the rules, injects uncertainty and takes
a lot of time.”
Tom Fieland — the manager of the
Good Times Cafe & Bar, Wetlands Brew
Pub & Sports Bar and Highland's Brew
Pub — told the council July 9 he was
losing business to bars holding exemp
tions.
After Wednesday’s meeting, Fieland
said the outcome wasn’t ideal but was
an improvement.
“Certainly, I’d like to see a totally
leveled playing field, but at least
they’re taking action,” he said. “We’re
going to have to wait and see what the
administrative rule is.”
At the request of the council, the city
manager’s office decided July 11 to re
view the 31 bars holding exemptions.
So far, the office has examined 15 of
the bars and concluded that all but one
plan to build legitimate smoking areas.
“Most of them were pretty clearly
new seating areas,” said Jan Bohman,
the Eugene senior analyst overseeing
the project.
The only bar in question is the Wild
Duck Brewery, which received an ex
tension to build an awning over an ex
isting smoking area, she said.
Turn to Smoking ban, page 3