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Eugene, Oregon Volume 104,Issue 10
Tuesday, June 30,2002
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Students face per-page printing
fees this year, as the University’s
computer labs change their
long-standing printing policies
By Leon Tovey
for the Emerald i
Returning students will be in for a
bit of a shock at campus computer labs |
this fall. In an effort to recoup costs
and conserve paper, the Computing
Center has decided to start charging
for printing in its computer labs.
Currently, printing is free in the i
McKenzie, EMU, Klamath and Mill- a
race labs, but according to Mary 1
Bradley, lab coordinator for the Com
puting Center, beginning fall term
students using the labs can expect to
pay between 5 and 10 cents per page.
Bradley said a final decision on the
amount of the charge has not been "*
reached yet, but that the days of free
printing in the labs are over.
The two primary reasons for the *
decision are cost and waste, Bradley
said. The Computing Center spent
approximately $52,000 on paper and 1
toner for the four labs in fiscal 2001
02, up from $18,000 in 1999-2000
and $26,000 in 2000-01.
But the bigger worry for conserva
tion-minded officials was the
amount of paper used in 2001-02:
467 boxes, at 5,000 sheets per box,
for a grand total of 2,335,000 sheets.
“And we see it wasted,” Bradley
lamented. “Of course we would like
to see printing remain free, but our |
feeling was that the only way to cap
the printing was to charge. ” j
Recycling Coordinator Robyn
Hathcock echoed that sentiment.
Hathcock, who is also a member of J
the University’s Environmental Is
sues Committee, said the committee J
has been looking at ways to curb ex
cessive paper use at the labs, but that
it hadn’t specifically advocated a
price increase.
Hathcock said there was concern
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Photo Illustration by Adam Jones Emerald
Renovated Safeway scheduled to open Wednesday
The updated store will have
a pharmacy, placing it in
competition with its long-time
neighbor, Hirons Drugs
By Ken Paulman
for the Emerald
After being closed nearly three
months for renovation, the Safe
way supermarket at West 18th
Avenue and Oak Street in Eu
gene is set to reopen Wednesday
morning.
But the addition of a pharma
cy to the new store is causing
tension between two longtime
neighbors.
Since 1957, Safeway and Hi
rons Drug have stood side by
side on this block facing West
18th Avenue, and the two stores
have never been in direct compe
tition for customers until now.
“We’re disappointed that
they’ve chosen to compete with
us in pharmacy,” manager Steve
Hirons said. “It feels like we’re
David, and they’re Goliath.”
Prescriptions account for
nearly two-thirds of Hirons’
business, he said.
The first Safeway opened its
doors in Portland in 1926 and
the chain now has more than
1,700 stores in the United
States and Canada, and is Ore
gon’s fourth-largest employer.
Family-owned Hirons Drug
started in Eugene in 1939 and
has two locations, with a total
of about 85 employees.
Safeway spokeswoman Brid
get Flanagan said that the deci
sion to add a pharmacy to the
new location was in response to
customer demand.
“Our goal is to make sure the
shopping experience is the
same from location to location,”
she said. “There wasn’t a day
that went by when the manager
(at the Oak Street location) was
n’t asked why there wasn’t a
pharmacy. ”
Of the eight Safeway stores in
the Eugene-Springfield area, Oak
Street was the only location
without a pharmacy.
Hirons said that he under
stood the rationale for the deci
sion, and he said it is in the best
interest of both businesses to
generate as much traffic on the
block as possible.
“We don’t want to be enemies
with them,” he said. “We want
them to succeed in the food
department. ”
Hirons said that a small, fami
ly owned business has an advan
tage in that it can provide better,
more personal service, and that
the store will continue to rely on
earning customer loyalty to stay
competitive.
“We know our customers by
name,” he said.
The conversion of the old
grocery store into a modern, 24
hour supermarket would pre
sumably be good news for this
central Eugene neighborhood.
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Advocates
propose
city code
changes
Eugene’s Human Rights Commission
will hold a hearing today to discuss
adopting a domestic partner registry
and gender discrimination language
By Jan Montry
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Eugene Human Rights Commis
sion has drafted proposed additions to
the city’s discrimination and harass
ment code that will protect transgender
people in the workplace and create a
domestic partnership registry. The
Commission will hear public opinions
at a 7 p.m. meeting today at City Hall.
Specifically, the Commission wants
to require “reasonable restroom access”
to transgender employees who wish to
use a certain restroom based on their
gender identity, add “gender identity”
to the equal employment requirement
and provide “reasonable accommoda
tion” of a person’s gender identity when
implementing dress codes. The propos
al will also allow people to sue if they
feel they are being discriminated.
Eugene City Councilor David Kelly,
Ward 3, said he expects the proposal to
be received well in the City Council.
“I think at a fundamental level, one of
our city goals ought to be welcoming all
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Emeralds
continue
to struggle
Eugene looks to refocus after losing
the rubber match of a five-game
series to the Boise Hawks
By Brad Schmidt
Oregon Daily Emerald
Mishaps, bobbles and errors, oh my!
Mistakes have been story of the Eu
gene Emeralds’ season thus far, and
Sunday’s 9-5 loss to the Boise Hawks
was no different.
With two outs in the top of the sixth
inning, umpires ruled that center field
er Kennard Jones dropped a deep fly
ball as he bounced off the outfield wall
and fell to the ground in what Ems
manager Jeff Gardner called the “turn
ing point” of the loss.
Even after the game, Jones believed
he made the catch and questioned his
coach about the judgment. Gardner,
who spent time in the major leagues
from 1991 to 1994, taught his young
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