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—■ m, irr a—»—a, „.j Danielle Hickey | Photo editor The West University Neighbors information session, held at the West University Neighborhood Park on 14th Avenue, offered residents information on local businesses and provided an opportunity to discuss issues facing the area. West University Neighbors reactivates idle association The community forum hopes to increase resident participation to help improve the neighborhood BY MEGHANN M. CUNIFF NEWS REPORTER A strong neighborhood doesn’t come easy. At least, it hasn’t for Drix Rixmann and the rest of the West University Neighbors association. Saturday marked what Rixmann said will be remembered as a golden day in the history of the West Univer sity neighborhood; the West Univer sity Neighbors hosted an information session and neighborhood meeting in West University Park on 14th Avenue between Hilyard and Patterson. “I think it was a tremendous suc cess,” Rixmann said. “It was a per fect blend of people.” The event drew more students than any previous meeting of the neighbor hood association, Rixmann said, with an estimated 40 students stopping by throughout the afternoon. Mayor-elect Kitty Piercy spoke at the meeting, commending Rixmann and the rest of the neighborhood association’s efforts to unify the Uni versity and the rest of the Eugene community and encouraging them to continue working with students. “We need to make our University and our city even closer allies to gether,” she said. “Students bring talents, ideas and a future into our community. ” The West University Neighbors association had been dormant for nearly a decade, making the neigh borhood the only one in Eugene without a community forum until Rixmann and a handful of other neighborhood residents decided last fall that the neighborhood was in desperate need of help. A string of riots had strained the re lationship between the neighborhood and the University, and city officials had long been looking for a way to solidify a healthy student presence in the neighborhood west of campus. West University Neighbors was created, and now meets once per month to discuss issues pertinent to the lives of neighborhood residents, such as riot prevention, improved communication between neighbors and neighborhood beautification. Larry von Klein of von Klein Proper ty Management was at the meeting to discuss a proposal to build a 27-unit apartment complex near 10th and Pat terson, similar to Von Klein’s Hilyard House, located at 725 E 14th Ave. Von Klein is asking for the West Uni versity Neighbors’ endorsement for Eugene’s Multi Unit Property Tax Ex emption program. Twenty neighbor hood residents must be present for the association to vote on the issue, and only 12 were present for the meeting. Rixmann said attendance at meet ings has shown slow but steady im provement, and he is positive the im provement will continue. “If this was my QuickBook, I’d be happy because we’re getting more,” Rixmann said. “Like skin, we’re healthy and we’re growing. ” meghanncuniff@dailyemerald.com Nader: Greens encourage votes for Kerry uuiiiinuv.'J iiwiii x “He’s never done anything but take votes from Democrats,” Eugene resident Jeff Sears said. “He works hand in hand with Republican mon ey to take Democratic votes.” Though Sears was not part of an organized protest, there is strong or ganized opposition to the Nader cam paign on the national level. “1 think it’s wrong for Nader to say that there’s no difference be tween John Kerry and George Bush because four more years of George Bush and four years of John Kerry would be a very different experi ence,” Greens for Kerry founder Sarah Newman said in a phone in terview from Santa Monica, Calif. “We are composed of registered Greens — former Nader voters — in swing states,” Newman said. “We are asking voters in swing states to vote for Kerry. ” Greens for Kerry encourages voters to network with each other in support of John Kerry over George Bush A variety of demonstra tors were on hand for the Nader speech Sunday with representa tives from Billionaires ForBush.com and con cerned indi viduals repre senting only themselves. Erik R. Bishoff Photographer through Vote Pairing in which a Kerry voter in a “safe state” can swap votes with a Nader voter in a swing state. “The vote pairing is allowing people who are going to write in Nader in Ore gon to participate now,” Newman said. Newman claims it is possible to advance the progressive movement while supporting John Kerry. “I think that a progressive move ment is really growing as a result of people coming across party lines and uniting to defeat Bush,” she said. gabebradley@dailyemerald.com ONLINE * A lO64c0uftca68spu(s*di6oussion on freedom otspeech Friday in the Knight J.aw.Center. Fertile complete story, visit www,dailyemerald.com. , . I [» < < H I / t H ( I M ) I I I I > I « 1 M t I M t I l I t I I » I II t I t I t t I I I , ■ > l t > f f t t ,_■ • i i i . * The ethics of election coverage Is there such a thing as "unbiased coverage?" ...Should there be? 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