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Sen. Smith
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Association member Tom Partin said
the visit demonstrated Smith’s wide
spread appeal, especially in a city known
as a liberal stronghold.
“He understands our issues,” Partin
said. “He just harvests his a little more
than we do.”
Before leaving to a standing ovation,
Smith also entertained the crowd with a
couple of lighter, personal anecdotes
about the president, and the crowd chuck
led at Smith’s veiled jabs at Clinton.
“The in-flight movie offerings have real
ly been cleaned up of late,” Smith said of
the difference between Clinton and Bush’s
Air Force One atmospheres.
E-mail managing editor Jeremy Lang
at jeremylang@dailyemerald.com.
News brief
Bush faints at White House,
recovers quickly
(KRT) WASHINGTON —
President Bush briefly lost con
sciousness Sunday evening at
the White House when he
choked on a pretzel and fell to
the floor while watching a tele
vised NFL game.
A White House physician
said Bush recovered quickly,
but suffered an abrasion on his
left cheek and a bruise on his
lower lip. The president ap
parently fainted when his
heart rate temporarily dropped
after swallowing a pretzel im
properly.
The incident happened about
5:30 p.m. as he watched the Mi
ami-Baltimore playoff game, the
White House said. Bush was
alone in a room of the residen
tial quarters when he fainted.
The president believes he
•was unconscious for a few sec
onds, officials said. Bush con
tacted a White House nurse,
and a physician was sum
moned. Tests, including a neu
rological exam, indicated
Bush's blood pressure and
pulse appeared normal.
Officials said Bush would
travel this week as planned, in
cluding a trip to Illinois.
— Jeff Zeleny
Chicago Tribune
©2002. Distributed by Knight
Ridder/Tribune Information Services.
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those houses go, and cite a 20-year-old
growth management agreement be
tween the association and the Univer
sity as a reason why the houses should
stay. Representatives of the Universi
ty’s planning and housing depart
ments say the agreement expired 10
years ago and was never intended to
stop the University from building stu
dent housing on the property.
Jeff Osanka, a board member and
longtime association president, said
that a 10-year limit has never been
mentioned in any negotiation with
the University, and that the associa
tion has operated as if the agreement
was intended to run forever. He had
to search through the agreement for
several minutes before finding the
10-year limit reference.
“That document was created so
there would be a permanent agree
ment, and the University has a
moral obligation to honor the agree
ment,” he said. “You can’t just alter
or discard it because it’s inconven
ient to your plans. Words like ‘cake’
and ‘eating it too’ come to mind. ”
Osanka said the agreement has as
pects based on a 50-year cycle, and if it
expired, “That would be a dramatical
ly different relationship between the
neighborhood and the University. ”
The sides differ in their interpre
tation of a policy the University
adopted in the agreement. The pas
sage in question says, “This plan
should govern for a period of 10
years. At the end of this period ...
these policies should be reviewed
and revised as changing circum
stances and conditions warrant.”
The 10-year period passed in
1992, and the neighborhood associ
ation and the University continued
acting as if it was in effect.
University Housing used its own
money to pay for many of the 110 lots
purchased in the east campus area
since the 1950s. University Housing
Director Mike Eyster said the money
exclusively comes from students’ rent,
Adam Jones Emerald
Strong opposition to the University’s housing plans in the east campus area sparks
propaganda on 13th Street outside Columbia Hall.
and housing as a separate department
doesn’t receive University funds.
The University purchased the
property with the intent of building
apartments or residence halls, and
the need for more student housing
is pressing enough that it must build
apartments on some of the proper
ties, Eyster said.
“We had a waiting list of 300 stu
dents for the new graduate student
housing complex” on Moss Street,
which has 72 units, Eyster said.
“Everyone would like to keep the
houses, but that’s not what they
were purchased for, and the need
for more housing is dramatic.”
Maintaining the single-family
homes is simply not feasible, he said.
University Planning Associate
Christine Thompson also said the
University intended to use the prop
erty for student housing.
“When the University purchased
the properties in the ’50s and ’60s,
nobody would have imagined they
would still be single-family housing
40 years later,” Thompson said.
“That land was purchased for stu
dent housing.”
Thompson also said the agree
ment with the neighborhood asso
ciation should be re-evaluated.
Eyster said he favors creating more
apartment complexes like the gradu
ate student housing and is finishing a
proposal for another such building
near the first. He said he does not,
however, want to build a residence
hall in the east campus area.
“It would be too far away from the
nerve center of campus,” Eyster said.
Instead, the University should
build a new residence hall between
the Walton and Earl complexes, he
said. Tennis courts are currently lo
cated there, but they could be
moved to a less centralized location
on campus, according to Eyster.
Laura Marriott, the current presi
dent of the Fairmount Neighborhood
Association, said she is meeting with
University Planning Director Chris
Ramey on Friday to discuss the Uni
versity’s plans for the area. She said
she needs to study the agreement be
fore making further comments about
it, and will be “on the fence” until she
studies it and meets with Ramey.
E-mail community reporter Marty Toohey
at martytoohey@dailyemerald.com.
Eugene
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such as the library and federal build
ing would “go a long way toward
maintaining economic vitality by
keeping employees downtown and
by providing daytime customers for
the numerous small businesses that
rely on those employees.”
The general consensus at the meet
ing was that subsidizing large com
panies such as Hyundai and giving
tax-free incentives to businesses such
as Symantec are not only futile tac
tics in sustaining economic growth,
but actually contribute to the lack of
government funds needed to sustain
other sectors, including education.
Sociology professor Greg
McLauchlan said Hyundai, also
known as Hynix, is an example of
urban sprawl development.
Hyundai is a subsidized company
built on Eugene wetlands that was
supposedly going to bring money to
the area, he said. Instead, Hyundai
didn’t hire as many people as ex
pected, then later laid off a portion
of the workforce, while developing
a $5 billion debt, he said.
Wilson calls this type of economic
recruitment a “race to the bottom.”
“Our government needs to find
ways to support public-minded pri
vate developers who creatively take
on the challenges of downtown new
development with commitment to
the community as a forefront,” Wil
son said.
Jan Spencer, a member of CPA, is
concerned that the mayor is not go
ing to learn from the past. But
Spencer and other CPA members are
hopeful that with a large community
voice and a small-town spirit, the
uniqueness of Eugene will flourish.
On a similar note, one of the new
ideas Mayor Torey brought up last
Wednesday was the possible
widening of the Autzen Foot
Bridge. The bridge would be wide
enough to create a lane for a Breeze
shuttle route, which the city hopes
would decongest traffic to and from
Autzen Stadium.
City Councilor David Kelly said
Friday, “I think there is some po
tential in a shuttle.” To get the idea
rolling, the council will have to
seek feedback from the Lane Tran
sit District.
He added that using an existing
bridge to cure a transit problem
would be wiser than building a new
one. He added that from an engi
neering standpoint, the bridge could
be widened without spending a lot
of money. The project is an idea that
he is willing to look at, he said.
Ben Hughes is a freelance reporter
for the Oregon Daily Emerald.