Original artist
updates Eugene
businesses map
After 19 years, University alumnus James Cloutier
draws a modem version of his poster map of Eugene
BY EVA SYLWESTER
FREELANCE REPORTER
The Eugene Poster Map is famous
around town for its pen and water
color depictions of local businesses
and landmarks. That the map is cov
ered with little ducks should not be
a surprise, since map artist James
Cloutier first came to Eugene to at
tend the University.
Cloutier was born in Portland, but
has lived in Eugene since 1958,
when he started his freshman year at
the University. He attended the Uni
versity on a baseball scholarship and
served as the student body vice pres
ident in 1962. However, art was al
ways his academic focus.
“I knew when I was about ten
years old I was going to be an artist,”
he said. “I also did a lot of art while I
was here — 1 was doing cartooning. ”
After obtaining his undergraduate
degree in art, Cloutier spent two
years in Kenya as a Peace Corps vol
unteer. While he was there, he paint
ed watercolor pictures of Kenyan
people and photographed wildlife.
When he returned to the University
for graduate school, he was given
the opportunity to do a one-person
show of his paintings and photo
graphs at the EMU. When he learned
that it would cost him an exorbitant
amount of money to have eight by
10-inch prints of his photographs
made for the show, Cloutier resolved
to learn to print his own photo
graphs. He took a photography class
and got a C because he spent too
much time in the darkroom making
prints and not enough time taking
photographs, he said. That winter,
he took the photography class again
and changed his major from painting
to photography.
At that time, photography was ex
clusively the domain of the journal
ism school and not the art depart
ment. However, before Cloutier
graduated, the dean of journalism
and the dean of art met and agreed
to let Cloutier and one other student
get Master of Fine Arts degrees in
photography, rather than the masters
in journalism degrees that they
would have otherwise received.
They were the first photography stu
dents to earn MFA degrees at the
University. Cloutier’s masters thesis
is still in the library, a photo-docu
mentary that he spent a year and a
half making about the tiny town of
Alpine, located between Eugene and
Corvallis.
Cloutier entered the publishing
business in 1977 and made books
and greeting cards featuring his car
toons. However, his big break came
in 1985 when he was commissioned
to make the first Eugene Poster Map
by a small company that a friend of
his worked for.
“They gave me a list of all the
businesses and I had to go out and
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Dots indicate Lane County Elections ballot drop boxes.
The boxes are available 24 hours a day and close at
8 p.m. today.
Bret Furtwancler | Graphic artist
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ousted, Atkinson said.
The way polls for swing states
have been changing, Warren said
it’s still possible for either candidate
to have a fairly decisive victory —
he said he is still confident Bush
will prevail.
University junior and Carry Ore
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the polls are not accurate portrayals
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of what’s really going on.
“There’s a huge demographic of
students that isn’t being tapped,”
she said.
Tarvin has been volunteering at
the Carry Oregon ballot drop-off
booth on the corner of 13th
and Kincaid.
Senior Ariel Ungerleider, also a
volunteer at the booth, is one of the
many voters who believes the
Supreme Court will be involved in
determining the winner of the presi
dential race.
“I don’t think there’ll be a clear
winner ‘til many days after the elec
tion,” Ungerleider said.
However, concerns about the pos
sibility of court involvement are not
prevalent at the Carry Oregon head
quarters, Atkinson said, because
most feel Kerry will win by a larger
margin than polls are assuming.
“If every state is doing the job
we’re doing right now, then some
thing like that won’t be necessary,”
she said.
Imholte said Republicans feel the
same confidence about Bush’s
chances for victory.
“I don’t think the election will be
as close as people think,” Imholte
said.
In 2000, the Supreme Court had to
take on the task of determining the
winner of the presidential race be
tween Bush and Democratic candi
date A1 Gore, after the Florida vote
was marred by controversial re
counts.
University law professor Garrett
Epps said he hopes the Supreme
Court will not get involved in this
election.
Epps wrote an Oct. 24 editorial
for the Washington Post urging the
high court to stay away from the
election, calling court involvement
in election outcomes unnecessary.
Margie Paris, associate dean for
academic affairs at the law school,
said there has been a “healthy de
bate” between Epps and law profes
sor Robert Tsai, who has written a
piece calling for court involvement
in the election if needed.
Paris said this debate has only in
creased the interest surrounding the
elections for those in the law school.
“It’s pretty consuming right
now,” she said.
Tsai said his piece, which is await
ing publication, focuses on the need
for consistency on the part of the
court, citing the hearing of Bush v.
Gore in 2000 as a reason to remain
open to the possibility of court in
volvement.
“If the Supreme Court is asked to
take the case I think it would be un
principled for them not to,”
Tsai said.
Epps said he hopes the election is
not close enough to even warrant
discussion of court involvement. He
said he teaches a class until 8:30
p.m. today and plans on tuning in to
election coverage soon afterward.
“If we’re lucky we’ll have an an
swer by then,” Epps said.
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