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Monday, November 12,2001
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University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 103, Issue 55
Fostering Families
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On-site child care is one benefit for residents of the three apartment complexes at University Family Housing’s Spencer View. Family Housing has more than 2,300 residents.
By Marcus Hathcock
Oregon Daily Emerald
The term “University
Housing” often evokes
images of many young,
rowdy freshmen living to
gether during the academic year.
But University Housing isn't strict
ly dedicated to providing residen
cy for the “traditional” 18- to 22
year-old undergraduate student.
The University offers three
apartment complexes designed to
accommodate student families.
These buildings offer more than
just a place to live and study —
they also provide a community
that fosters family life.
HOME SWEET
HOUSING
University Housing makes life easier
for students with children
The concept of family housing
at the University began at the
close of World War II, said Frank
Gaddini, Family Housing area di
rector for the East Campus and
Spencer View complexes.
After the war, Gaddini said, old
army barracks were disassembled
from Vanport and shipped down
the Willamette River to Eugene to
use as "married student housing"
for returning GIs. Those barracks
were reassembled on the land
that is now Spencer View, at 22nd
Avenue and Patterson Street.
“The old army barracks sat on
that spot for 50 years before re
building,” Gaddini said.
Now, 55 years later, Gaddini
said Family Housing has more
than 2,300 residents. Of those
2,300, Gaddini estimated that 900
of them are students. The approx
imately 1,400 other residents,
Gaddini said, are partners and
children of the students.
Times have changed since the
1940s, and the definition of a
family has also changed, said
Candice Cardiff, Westmoreland
Family Housing Area Director.
“We don't have any stipulation
about couples having to be mar
Turnto Housing, page 5
Author Ken Kesey remembered for his message
■ UO graduate and local icon
Kesey, author of two critically
acclaimed novels, died
Saturday in Eugene
By Leon Tovey
Oregon Daily Emerald
In the wee hours of Saturday
morning, Ken Kesey — writer,
prankster, teacher and family
man — died at Sacred Heart Med
ical Center, where he was being
treated for complications from
liver surgery.
Two weeks ago, doctors re
moved a tumor from the 66-year
old Kesey’s liver. On Tuesday, his
condition deteriorated and he
was moved to the hospital’s in
tensive care unit, where he was
given dialysis and placed on a
respirator. At 4:30 a.m. Saturday,
Kesey slipped away
Prior to Kesey’s death, family
friend Phillip Dietz said that peo
ple were “holding up well” and
that whatever happened, the fam
ily would remain strong.
“This is a very close family,”
Dietz said. “They really love Ken
a lot. ”
On Sunday afternoon, friends
and family gathered at his Pleas
ant Hill property to make arrange
ments for the funeral. In honor of
Kesey’s memory, members of his
extended and immediate family
built his coffin and dug his grave.
“It’s very beautiful to watch,”
Kesey’s daughter Sunshine said.
“My father had a lot of friends and
family here in the community. ”
A memorial service at McDon
ald Theatre was tentatively
planned for the middle of this
week, she said. Kesey is survived
by his mother, Geneva Jolley; his
wife, Faye; his son, Zane; his
daughters, Shannon Smith and
Sunshine Kesey); his brother,
Chuck Kesey; and three grand
children.
Kesey, who graduated from the
University in 1958 with a Bache
lor of Science in speech, first
caught the public eye in the early
1960s, when his novels “One
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
and “Sometimes a Great Notion”
became massive commercial and
critical successes. Not yet 30
years old, Kesey — who had stud
ied at Stanford with such 1960s
icons as Allen Ginsberg and had
been involved in drug experi
ments in a California veterans’
Turn to Kesey, page 6
Research
suggests
vote valid
in Florida
■The review suggests more
Floridians wanted Gore, though
President Bush had more valid votes
By Jeff Zeleny, Michael J. Berens
and Geoff Dougherty
Chicago Tribune
The most comprehensive study of the
troubled presidential election in Florida
shows the main culprits were simple
and fixable: ballot design, inconsistent
election rules and voter error.
The yearlong review of the Florida
election reveals that even if the U.S.
Supreme Court had allowed a recount
of ballots, there is no clear indication
that Democrat Al Gore would have
gained enough votes to triumph over
Republican George W. Bush.
A close examination of the ballots
suggests that more Floridians attempt
ed to choose Gore over Bush. But more
Turn to Florida, page 7
Election
examines
student fees
■At issue are a one-year jump
in the PFC budget and more senate
control over EMU money
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
For the past several weeks, ASUO
members have been preparing meas
ures to amend how incidental fees are
allocated at the University.
On Tuesday, students will decide
whether to incorporate their proposals
into the ASUO Con
stitution.
Both measures
on the ballot for the
ASUO special elec
tion, which will be
held Tuesday and
Wednesday, would
amend the Clark
Document — a sec
tion of the ASUO
Constitution that
governs the use of
incidental fees.
One of these
measures would give the ASUO Pro
gram Finance Committee (PFC) a one
year exemption to a rule that caps budg
et growth at 7 percent per year.
The other measure would allow the
Turn to ASUO, page 8
ASUO
Special
Election
Vote on DuckWeb
on Tuesday and
Wednesday
Today: Measures on
the ballot this week
Tuesday: What
students think about
the incidental fee