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www.CaptainNimrod.com 017463 Hallouieen. Friday Oct. ?lst & Saturday Hov. 1st: JW —at 9pm, EMU Ballroom— Ticket* at the EMU ticket office. The cost is $6.00 for students & $8.00 for the general public. FREEH After Party in Fish Bowl FREEH Great Prizes for Rocky Horror Trivia & Costume Contests Free Refreshments)! UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SATIN LOVE ORCHESTRA HOysE hauowben bash Friday October si JC RICO S ZULU DRAGON PEARL DJANGO DEB CLEVELAND BAND HALLOWEEN COSTUME PABTY! LUNA open Tuesday through Saturday at 4 pm 30th East Broadway (541 ) 434-LUNA Event info and more at www.lunajazz.com LAURA KEMP w/ ROY BREWER TIM MCLAUGHLIN’S 11 EYES W/ THE TURNTABLE ENABLER i Next to Adam’s Place Restaurant 434-LUNA Dinning Room open 5 pm to 9 pm weeknights 10 pm weekends Check out these fall workshops! i Real World Experience for Credit Thurs., Oct. 23, 3:30 p.m. 360 Oregon Hall • Applying to Grad School Wed., Oct. 29, 3:30 p.m. 360 Oregon Hall •How to Graduate on Time Thurs., Oct. 30, 3:30 p.m. 360 Oregon Hall sponsored by the Office of Academic Advising 364 Oregon Hall, 346-3211 r Abandoned park plans uncertain The West University Park sparks debate among nearby neighbors concerned about safety By A. Sho Ikeda Senior News Reporter Sitting between Hilyard Street and Patterson Street on 14th Av enue is a patch of land about half the size of a soccer field. Street lights dimly illuminate the far side of the park, while homes and apartment buildings line its dark ened boundaries. Weeds grow be tween cracks in the brick tiled pathway that connects the dry grass field to the sidewalk. An ag ing brown sign with curvy white lettering tells passersby the name of this no man's land: West Uni versity Neighborhood Park. The park has been off-limits to the public since 1995. Now, West University residents, business own ers and other community mem bers will begin to discuss the future of the abandoned parcel of land. With the West University Task Force and the newly re-formed West University Neighborhood As sociation raising concerns about crime and quality of life in the area, the park has become an im portant issue regarding the vitality of the neighborhood. Steven Baker, a West University resident, said there are "mixed feel ings in the neighborhood" about the park "There are some people who think that (the city) should open the park and there are others who want to keep it closed," Baker said. Baker, who has lived in the West University neighborhood since 1973, said residents of the area were concerned with transients and other individuals who fre quented the park during the years it was open. He said certain people were using the park for drug deals, public drinking and other disrup tive behavior. The West University Neighbor hood Park closed in 1995 when tenants, landlords and property owners asked the city to close it be cause of criminal activity stemming from it. The city became concerned with the welfare and safety of resi dents near the park and stated it had "become a haven for illegal ac tivities" and created "an atmos phere that is unfit and unsafe," ac cording to a city administrative order ordering the closure of the park in November 1995. City Park Planner John Weber said the park's location on 14th Avenue limited its visibility, which led to many of the problems it ex perienced. With one side facing 14th Avenue and privately owned land separating it from Hilyard and Patterson Streets, the park is otherwise surrounded by building, fences and trees. Weber said after the park's clo sure, the Eugene City Council searched for options to improve it, such as purchasing land to extend its boundaries to a nearby street such as Hilyard Street. However, purchasing more land for the park was too costly for the city at the time. Ward 3 City Councilor David Kelly said purchasing adjacent property to extend the park's boundaries to either Hilyard or Pat terson Street is a possibility now, but nothing is currently planned by the city. Kelly also said there has been in terest by property developers to pur chase the park from the city and build residential housing on the site. However, he added that careful consideration would have to be tak en before any plans to sell the park were to be made. "We shouldn't sell it to the high est bidder," Kelly said. "We have to determine what would be best for that site." The West University Neighbor hood Association will hold a meet ing on Nov. 5 to discuss issues re garding the area, including the West University Neighborhood Park. The meeting will be held at Central Pres byterian Church, 555 E. 15th Ave., Room 121 at 7 p.m. For more infor mation regarding the meeting, con tact City Neighborhood Liason Steve Norris at 682-5009. Contact the city/state politics reporter at shoikeda@dailyemerald.com. WUSHU continued from page 1 with schools such as Stanford, the University of California at Berke ley and UCLA all competing. Dang took first place in the all around men's competition, and he was also accepted to the U.S. Wushu team over the summer, al though he is now an alternate. Members of the club are also trained with a few weapons: a straight sword, a broad sword, a staff and a whip chain. Cortez is one of the few girls on the team and said she loves it. She started Wushu last year with no training and Dang said she has come a long way. Members of the club practice four times a week: Mondays and Fridays from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Fri days from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Sat urdays from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Prac tices take place at the Student Recreation Center. The University team is always looking for more participants. For more information, visit the club's Web site at www.geoci ties.com/uowushu, or attend a Wushu practice. Dang said he is excited about the talent on the team as they train for upcoming competitions. "We're pretty successful," he said. "It's inspiring." Contact the crime/health/ • safety reporter at alishaughnessy@dailyemerald.com. NEWS BRIEFS DPS releases annual safety report The Department of Public Safety re cently released an annual report of campus safety and security programs and services in compliance with fed eral law. DPS Interim Director Tom Hicks said the report is available, on re quest, to current and prospective University students and employees and is also available online at http://safetyweb.uoregon.edu/safe ty/crime_stats. htm. The report has crime statistics for the past three years on crimes that oc curred at the University in certain off campus buildings owned or con trolled by the University and on public property immediately adjacent to the University. Institutional policies regarding matters such as drug and alcohol use, crime prevention and sexual assault are also included in the report. For more information, contact DPS at 346-5444. — Ali Shaughnessy ASUO approves funding for students to attend 'Creating Change' conference The ASUO Student Senate ap proved a $2,000 request Wednesday to enable seven students involved in the University's gay community to at tend a conference in Miami. The Les bian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Educational and Support Services plans to send the students to the "Cre ating Change" conference. ASUO Vice President Eddy Morales spoke in support of the proposal, which passed 15-0. "Our University does not have the safe space for the conversations that will happen there," Morales said ear ly in the three-hour meeting. The senate also narrowly denied a request for $5,385 from the Women's Center to put on the "The Vagina Monologues," a popular performance event. The senate considered loaning the money to the Women's Center or allowing it to deficit spend, but the senators could not agree and the mo tion failed, 7-8. "We don't have to figure this out tonight," Harding said. "We can take the week to look at this." The senate also delayed approving mission and goal statements for the Unitarian Universalist campus group, angering the group's coordinator, Jandyra Dohofsky. Senate President Ben Strawn said the senate needed more time to leam about mission and goal statements. "We've never done it before," Strawn said. "We don't want to ap prove something that would be ille gal." The senate also approved a $250 re quest from the Black Student Union and a $50 request from the African Student Association. — Chuck Slothower CAMPUS lafe i.jf Jr Friday Lillis Business Complex opening, 11 a.m., Lillis Hall atrium, free. University President Dave Frohn mayer and Lundquist College of Business Dean Philip Romero will hold public ribbon-cutting cere monies to mark the complex's opening. Entertain ment and a barbecue will follow the event. Oregon Daily Emerald P.O. Box 3159, Eugene OR 97403 The Oregon Daily Emerald is pub lished daily Monday through Friday during the school year by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. Inc., at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.The Emerald operates inde pendently of the University with of fices in Suite 300 of the Erb Memorial Union. The Emerald is private prop erty. The unlawful removal or use of papers is prosecutable by law. NEWSROOM — (541)346-5511 Editor in chief: Brad Schmidt Managing editor: Jan Tobias Montry Freelance editor: Aimee Rudin News editors. Jennifer Marie Bear, Ayisha Yahya Senior news re porters: A. 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