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Students spend a day yanking and tugging
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Quarterback Jason Fife plays the starters’
role in Oregon’s annual Spring Game.
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Volume 103, Issue 139
“We’re not going to find another room like this. ”
—Tom Tracey, co-owner John Henry’s
Thomas Patterson Emerald
Thursday’s at John Henry’s are (in)famous for the hard-partying ’80s Night crowd. Soon, though, the bar and venue will relocate to make way for low-income housing.
By Lisa Toth
Oregon Daily Emerald
There’s a secret about John Henry’s
— the venerable bar at 136 E. 11th Ave.
that features everything from live mu
sic to community artwork — that only
the locals know.
About seven years ago, native Eugenean
Adrian K. Adrian built a square skylight
above the bar that he said most customers
don’t notice. Through the skylight, a huge
maple tree grows above the building — but
it can’t be seen from the street.
The “heritage tree” can only be viewed
through the skylight, and Adrian said it’s an
especially beautiful spot “when the sun is
setting and the leaves are blowing.”
It’s little details like this that the regulars
at John Henry’s said they’ll miss the most
about the location.
St. Vincent de Paul of Lane County, which
owns the building, will tear down the build
ing shortly after John Henry’s closes it’s
doors May 3. However, the doors will reopen
— possibly as soon as June — at the bar’s
new location at 77 W. Broadway, co-owner
Tom Tracey said.
will play on
Downtown bar and concert venue
John Henry’s is closing its doors
May 3, but the owners are already
at work on a new location
John Henry’s and the other businesses on
the 100 block of East 11th Avenue are being
evicted — a move Tracey said they knew was
coming for several years — so the charity can
start construction May 6 on a low-income
housing project.
“It’s an inevitability,” Tracey said. “This
building is falling apart. We could probably
get a few more years out of it, but the roof is
shot and needs to be fixed.”
Even though the building is in shambles
and the bathrooms have seen better days, the
spirit of John Henry’s is indestructible. Gen
erations of drunk college students have
danced in the “big old funky room” to the
music of national and local bands. The red
brick room and adjacent pool hall are deco
rated with neon lights, red tinsel and silver
stars hanging from the ceiling.
The room is already so “wrecked” that
Tracey said it makes for an easy cleanup.
Employees just hose it down every morn
ing. But Tracey added that the atmosphere
can’t be recreated.
“It’s dedicated to the music,” Tracey said,
explaining that at John Henry’s, the tunes are
the center of attention, and the bar has al
ways had a clientele that supports music. He
said he enjoys offering a place for bands to be
in the spotlight.
“It’s nice to see people doing something
constructive and artistic rather than destruc
tive,” he said. “Rock music is a great expen
diture of energy.”
Turn to John Henry’s, page 6
Students
protest
Marlboro
campaign
■Anti-tobacco activists counter
Philip Morris-sponsored
promotions at local bars
By Eric Martin
Oregon Daily Emerald
A group of more than 20 anti-smok
ing advocates braved the cold weather
and a cold reception during a Friday
night protest of a grassroots Marlboro
promotion at Club Tsunami.
The protesters, including a handful of
students, arrived at Club Tsunami, 2222
Centennial Boulevard, shortly after 9:30
p.m. as a Marlboro Bar Nights promotion
happened inside. But security staff or
dered the protesters to leave the proper
ty when they arrived at the club. Security
personnel told reporters that they had to
leave notebooks, tape recorders and cam
eras outside before entering. Philip Mor
ris representatives at the club refused to
comment for this story. Christina Malito,
a spokeswoman for Philip Morris, said
the company doesn’t conduct interviews
with student publications.
“It’s our policy that we don’t do inter
views with student publications,” she
said in a phone interview last week.
“It’s been company policy for a while.
We stick to it.”
The protesters Friday night held
signs, including one depicting a Marl
boro cowboy smoking a limp cigarette,
and wore T-shirts with anti-smoking
messages such as “I miss my lung,
Bob.” Several protesters drove Volk
swagen vans with ornate murals paro
dying some tobacco company adver
tisements. One, a takeoff of Newport
cigarettes, read “Newcorpse.”
Once the protesters re-grouped on
the sidewalk north of the club, a man
who refused to identify himself took
close-range photographs of many pro
testers, including Oregon Daily Emer
ald staff. Activists said the man was not
part of the protest, and some of them
Turn to Tobacco, page 5
Gubernatorial candidate wants to improve higher education
HILL
■Jim Hill hopes to keep tuition
costs as low as possible so that
more Oregon students can attend
in-state colleges and universities
By Brook Reinhard
Oregon Daily Emerald
Jim Hill, a lawyer,-consultant, former
state legislator and state treasurer, has
held public office for two decades.
First elected as a state representative in
1982, he served two terms before being
elected to the Oregon Senate in 1986.
Hill resigned his senate office in 1992
to serve two consecutive terms as state
treasurer, a position he held until
2001. He received his law degree from
Indiana University College of Law and
now lives in Wilsonville.
Q: Why should students take an in
terest in this primary election?
A: As you know, Bev (Stein) and I did
show up at the U of O. I’ve actually been
down and spoken to President Frohn
mayer. One of the reasons that we
showed up was to get the interest going. I
don’t know if we will be coming back
down; you know the primary is very
close. But the reason I wanted to get down
to the candidate forum was to drum up
funds and interest from students.
Q: Would you back initiatives to raise
tuition at Oregon universities beyond
the 3 percent per year cap?
A; What we’d hope to do is not to have
to raise tuition. My goal is to keep the
cost of tuition down as much as possible.
It continues to rise and rise and rise; of
course every time it does, fewer people
have the opportunity to go to school.
Turn to Jim Hill, page 4
Governor Race
This is the first of a six-part series featuring
the leading gubernatorial candidates
in Oregon’s May 21 primary election.
Democrats
Today: Jim Hill
Tuesday: Ted Kulongoski
Wednesday: Bev Stein
Republicans
May 6: Kevin L. Mannix
May 7: Jack Roberts
May 8: Ron Saxton