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Tuesday, February 10,2004
Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 105, Issue 96
Jamming for charity
Chris Solomona, left, and for
mer computer science major
Joseph Barker make peanut butter
and jelly sandwiches near the Uni
versity Bookstore on Monday The
Oregon Hillel will have a table
there from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
through Thursday. It is providing
the materials for at least 2,000
sandwiches to be delivered to four
different local charity organiza
tions in Eugene.
"It took a lot of hard work and
detailing, but it's worth it," Ore
gon Hillel member Talya Weiner
said. "It's a great cause, and we'll
be feeding a lot of people this
week."
This is the first time the event
has been held at the University. At
the end of the week, the campus
group with the highest sandwich
total will receive $ 100 to donate to
the organization of its choice.
— Lillian Dunlap
Lauren Wimer
Photographer
Council plans
housing code
work session
The Eugene City Council did not set a date,
but it said Monday evening it plans to address
housing codes during a future work session
By Nika Carlson
News Reporter
After years of interest and several months of concerted effort by
student groups and ASUO, the city of Eugene is planning to address
housing standards at the city level.
In a Eugene City Council work session Monday evening, Ward 8
City Councilor Nancy Nathanson proposed that a work session take
place before June 1 to discuss a housing code. City Manager Dennis
Taylor later said city staff members have been working on the issue
and planned to have information ready for a work session by May or
early June.
"I think that we're in a positive position ... but it's not enough,"
ASUO President Maddy Melton said.
Melton was concerned that most of the work on housing stan
dards would take place during the summer months when most stu
dents are not in school if a session were planned for early June.
"I think that it's an irresponsible move on the part of the Council
to prioritize this issue and give this issue a work session during the
only three-month period when students won't be here to speak
about this issue," she said. "1 think that the students I represent
should be able to come here and speak their voices like I am now."
Melton was at the work session and City Council meeting with
about 25 other members of the University and Lane Community
College student group, Eugene Citizens for Housing Standards.
The group urged the City Council to prioritize a set of housing stan
dards, which are enforceable at the city level, for rental units. Oregon
has a statewide set of housing standards, but they are only enforce
able by the Small Claims Department in the state's circuit courts.
However, the student coalition says the state's court system is ex
pensive and time-consuming, and therefore prohibitive to most
renters. With state budget problems, the group is also concerned that
the state will give renters' cases a low priority, delaying hearing them
for long periods of time.
"Some basic needs aren't being met in die city," ASUO Campus
Outreach Coordinator Shannon Tarvin said.
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Underdogs try to prevent Kerry’s success in South
John Edwards and Wesley Clark
hope to keep frontrunner John Kerry
from winning critical delegates
By James Kuhnhenn and Dana Hull
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Sen. John Kerry stumped
for votes in Tennessee and Virginia Monday, hop
ing to build his growing lead for the Democratic
presidential nomination by defeating two South
ern rivals near their home turf Tuesday.
Polls showed the Massachusetts senator leading
in both states over his chief opponents, Sen . John
Edwards of North Carolina and retired Army Gen.
Wesley Clark of Arkansas. Kerry focused his fire
Monday on President Bush, while Edwards talked
about trade and Clark boasted of his military
credentials and said he'd leave it to states to
regulate gay marriage.
While the three faced off in the South, former
Vermont Gov. Howard Dean campaigned for next
week's Wisconsin primary, and in an abrupt turn
about Dean said he would continue his campaign
even if he lost in Wisconsin on Feb. 17.
"We can't just abandon all of those people we
brought into the process," Dean said.
Campaigning in Roanoke, Va„ and Memphis,
ferry looked for his first victories in the South. He
lost last week to Edwards in South Carolina and
to Clark in Oklahoma, but has won 10 of the 12
Democratic contests so far.
All but ignoring his Democratic foes, ferry lam
basted President Bush's release Monday of an eco
nomic forecast that predicted the creation of 2.6
million new jobs this year.
"This report was prepared by the same people
who brought us the intelligence on Iraq," Kerry
said. "This president has the worst jobs record of
the last 11 presidents combined. I don't think we
need a new report about jobs in America. I think
we need a new president who's going to create
jobs in America."
Kerry, who swept Maine, Michigan and Wash
ington state over the weekend, picked up endorse
ments Monday from Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West
Virginia and the Amalgamated Transit Union.
But he got decidedly lukewarm praise Monday
from a Virginian who regretted that Dean wasn't
actively campaigning there
"Vote for Kerry, he's slightly better than Bush,"
said a handmade sign held aloft in Roanoke by Bri
an Lang 35, a mechanical engineer from Roanoke
"When you look at his record, how's he going
to go up there and say, 'Don't vote for Bush vote
for me' when he voted along the lines with Bush,"
Lang said.
In fact, Kerry's Senate votes generally are in line
with his party, though like many Democrats he
sided with Bush on authorizing war against Iraq,
the anti-terrorist Patriot Act, and education reform.
"He's not different enough from Bush for me to
be enthusiastic about him," said Lang. "I'll vote for
him if he gets the nomination, but he's nowhere
near what Dean is. *
But David Cook, a 36-year-old member of the
Virginia National Guard who was activated dur
ing the Iraq war, said he was thinking of switching
to Kerry after voting for Bush last time.
"President Bush said he was going to give us a
considerable amount of money for our home
land security after 9-11," Cook said. "What did
we see out of it? Got sent overseas, that's what
we saw out of it."
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