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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
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“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
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