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News brief
Public to give input
on cell tower placement
A public hearing will be held at 7
p.m. tonight at Harris Hall, 125 E.
Eighth Ave., to give the community a
chance to comment on new ordi
nances for cell phone tower place
ment. The hearing is a follow-up to a
community meeting held last month.
The Lane County Planning Com
mission is developing new ordi
nances for the placement of cell
phone towers for the comity. Several
companies are attempting to site more
towers in the Eugene area; one possi
ble site is close to the University at
East 15th Avenue and Villard Street.
Civic officials will be at the hearing,
as will representatives from the group
Citizens for Responsible Placement of
Cell Phone Towers. Comity Commis
sioners will make a final decision on
the ordinances in early January. For
more information, call 682-3734.
— Brook Beinhard
I Negotiations
continued from page 1
search, some departments are in a
position where they can do that. My
basic message (in the negotiations)
is that this is a cooperative effort.”
Brian Wolf, lead negotiator for the
GTFF, said the University would
have to consider a significant wage
increase if it wanted to make up the
ground lost in recent years. Since
1983, real wage salaries for GTFs
have declined by 13 percent, he said.
“There’s been no talk of a mini
mum or strike, per se, but we do
want something more than infla
tion,” Wolf said.
But administrators could be faced
with a difficult choice during the
negotiation process. With a predict
ed state budget shortfall of $290 mil
lion, administrators at all of Ore
gon’s state-funded universities are
being forced to look at their operat
ing costs, and Overbeck said that the
GTFF is concerned about what that
means forGTF salaries.
However, state Sen. Tony Corco
ran, D-Cottage Grove, who spoke at
a GTFF press conference Thursday,
threw his support behind the
union’s request for higher pay.
“Public universities in Oregon
would be cutting their own throats
to look at any reduction of GTFs,”
Corcoran said. “We will be watch
ing in Salem as we go through these
budget cuts. We’ll see who is taken
care of and who is not. ”
The GTFF is also seeking inclu
sion of “training grant” graduate
employees in collective bargaining
agreements and a stronger anti-ha
rassment policy in its new contract.
Leon Tovey is a higher education reporter for
the Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached
at leontovey@dailyemerald.com.
Decorations
continued from page 1
over” of the Sept. 11 terrorist at
tacks, he said.
Hawkins said businesses are real
izing how crucial this holiday sea
son is, with all of the potential gift
buying for Hanukkah, Christmas
and Kwanzaa.
“The percent of sales that a lot of
retail stores do between Halloween
and Christmas tends to be around
40 to 60 percent of annual sales,”
Hawkins said. “How nervous com
panies must be.... We haven’t expe
rienced this kind of an economy
since the ’40s.”
The trick, Hawkins said, is for
companies to figure out how to pro
mote early enough to win con
sumers’ attention, but not so early
they turn people away.
“There’s a real motivation to cap
ture the buyers early before some
one else does,” Hawkins said.
Meier & Frank visual director Vikki
Henry said it doesn’t matter when a
company decorates for the holidays,
as long as it’s before Thanksgiving.
“There aren’t any fringe benefits
to getting stuff up early,” Henry
said.
Though Henry said she was 25
percent done setting up the store’s
seasonal decorations on Nov. 2, she
said she’s not starting early to in
crease holiday spending.
The reason for the promptness,
Henry said, is to make sure every
thing is ready for the day after
Thanksgiving, the busiest shopping
day of the year.
“Regular business still goes on,”
Henry said. In addition to her deco
rating duties, Henry said she must
maintain the various sale displays
throughout the store. She said she’s
giving herself plenty of time to be
ready for Nov. 23.
Customers have complained
about the early decorations, Henry
said, but there’s a reason.
“People just don’t realize that this
has to be done so we’re prepared for
the day after Thanksgiving. It’s not
something that can be done quick
ly. This is a humongous store.”
Henry said she wouldn't person
ally want to start thinking about
Christmas until after Thanksgiving.
She promised that Christmas music
wouldn’t play in her store until
then.
In the past few years; J.C. Penney
men’s department manager Dean
Martin said he received complaints
for the store’s “early” decorations.
This year, he said he hasn’t heard a
single complaint, which he called a
“good sign.”
University senior Tim Hove said
it seems ludicrous to put holiday
decorations up in October, but he
said it’s not that big of a deal.
"If stores want to put up stuff ear
ly — let them do it,” Hove said. “I
think there are people who do com
plain, but lots who don’t even no
tice. Some just say ‘Gee, that’s early
this year’and move on.”
Like Hove said, not everybody
complains. Some people, such as
University freshman Amalia Lucas,
enjoy the hype.
“I think it’s kind of nice to extend
the Christmas season,” Lucas said.
“It feels nice.”
University junior joumalisjm ma
jor and J.C. Penney Sales Associate
Kristi Henderson said she was sur
prised to hear Santa Claus would be
coming to town before Thanksgiving.
“The season tends to be a few
weeks earlier every year,” Hender
son said.
Holiday visuals may be springing
up at area department stores, but
seasonal music is a rarity. Other
than the Christmas Corner shop in
Valley River Center, most stores
haven’t yet played holiday tunes for
their customers. Though they may
feel differently about decorations,
Hove and Lucas agree it’s not quite
time for carols.
“I can wait until December for
that,” Hove said.
Marcus Hathcock is a features reporter for the
Oregon Dally Emerald. He can be reached at
marcushathcock@dailyemerald.com.