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Planning for Patterson House pushes ahead
Von Klein Property Management's newest upscale
apartment complex will house 40 people with 27 units
BY MEGHANN M. CUNIFF
NEWS REPORTER
Campus area real estate giant von
Klein Property Management is “moving
forward” with plans to build an upscale
apartment complex across the street
from the University Inn at 979 Patterson
St., co-owner Larry von Klein said.
The new building, called the Patter
son House, will be similar in design
and features to the coveted Hilyard
House at 725 East 14th Ave., which
von Klein said never has vacancy for
more than a few weeks.
“There is a demand for this type of
housing,” von Klein said.
In order to move forward with con
struction, von Klein said the property
must qualify for Eugene’s Multiple Unit
Property Tax Exemption program
(MUPTE), the same program the Hil
yard House qualified for.
“The Hilyard House could not have
been built if not for the tax exemp
tion,” Von Klein said.
MUPTE provides a 10-year tax ex
emption on housing construction with
in Eugene’s downtown area to encour
age an increase in housing without
affecting the urban growth boundary.
Police officer Randy Ellis, who pa
trols the West University neighbor
hood, said the Patterson House would
be a nice addition to the neighbor
hood and could set a precedent for
better-maintained housing in the
neighborhood.
“It’s probably going to force some of
the other buildings in the neighbor
hood to upgrade,” Ellis said.
One thing Ellis said he worries about
is the possible long-term effect the tax
exemption program could have on his
toric houses in the campus area. If
multiple-unit buildings are so strongly
encouraged, it could lead to the de
struction of the neighborhood’s older
buildings, which don’t necessarily de
serve to be decimated.
VON KLEIN, page 6
Danielle Hickey | Photo editor
Von Klein’s Patterson House would go up in what is now a parking lot nestled
between the Beta Chi fraternity house and another apartment building.
Uniform
ordinance
might not
affect DPS
A proposed city law will require
private agency uniforms be
distinct from EPD uniforms
BY KARA HANSEN
NEWS REPORTER
The Eugene Police Commission unani
mously agreed Thursday that the city
should require private security and safety
agencies to have uniforms substantially dif
ferent from those of Eugene police.
The proposed ordinance prohibits anyone
from wearing a uniform “substantially simi
lar” to a Eugene police officer’s in “colors,
design, identifying insignia, badge, standard
equipment and other features.”
If the recommendation is approved by the
City Council, the ordinance would have lit
tle to no effect on any existing agencies in
Eugene, including the University’s Depart
ment of Public Safety, which Police Com
missioner John Brown said was the impe
tus for the proposal.
Because DPS is a state agency, it may not
have to comply with the city ordinance.
Nevertheless, if the rule does apply, it could
prevent confusion when DPS and EPD offi
cers respond to situations on and around
the University campus, Brown said.
One such situation occurred at Neighbors
Bar & Bistro near campus one-and-a-half to
two years ago. Brown, who was on a ride
along with police, said about 11 uniformed
officers responded to arrest one person, and
only two were Eugene police. The other
nine were DPS, he said, which gave police a
bad rap for what looked like “overkill.”
“Right now, you can’t tell the police and
DPS apart,” Brown said. "You need to know
who has a gun and who doesn’t.”
He said unlike EPD, DPS are not sworn
officers and are not armed, which could
create security risks when a subject with
a gun might shoot an officer they think is
also armed.
Security agencies also aren’t restricted
from having the word “police” on their uni
forms, although no entities in the Eugene
area currently use it, he said.
The recommendation would have no
UNIFORMS, page 4
‘REFUSENIK’ RESISTANCE
Tim Bobosky | Photographer
Israeli citizens Shimri Zamaret and Noam Bahat both received jail time when they refused to comply with
Israel’s mandatory draft. Here they point out occupied territories, shown in gray, on a map of Israel Friday
at Cosmic Pizza as part of their national speaking tour.
D0dging the draft
Two Israeli citizens spent two years in prison
after refusing the country's conscription laws
BY PARKER HOWELL
SENIOR NEWS REPORTER
ust over two months ago,
Noam Bahat and Shimri
Zamaret were released
from an Israeli military prison,
where they were confined for
nearly two years for refusing
to serve in the Israel Defense
Forces.
Bahat, 21, and Zamaret, 20,
were among five Israeli “re
fuseniks” who declined manda
tory conscription into the mili
tary at 18, which led them to
imprisonment and court mar
tials. The two men shared their
story with about 100 people Fri
day night at Cozmic Pizza, the
latest stop on a national tour
sponsored by the Refuser Soli
darity Network.
Israeli law dictates that men
serve three years and women
serve two years in the military,
and it does not allow people to
claim exemption as conscien
tious objectors, Bahat said.
Both men said they refused
military service because of
moral objections to the way Is
raeli soldiers treat Palestinians
in the disputed territories of
the West Bank, Gaza Strip and
the Golan Heights, and the
physical and emotional toll of
the war on Israeli soldiers and
their families.
Israel captured the disputed
areas in the Six-Day War of
1967 against Egypt, Jordan
and Syria.
The UO Cultural Forum
and the Committee for Coun
tering Military Recruitment
presented the Eugene stop to
show the implications the
men’s actions could have
for a possible U.S. draft,
according to a press release.
The men said military action
was particularly brutal when
they refused the draft, describ
ing curfews for Palestinians liv
ing in occupied areas that last
ed for more than six months.
Bahat said Palestinians were
not allowed to leave their
homes to attend work, school
or to socialize during the cur
fews, except for a few hours
once a week to buy food.
But Bahat added that many
Palestinians didn’t know
when the curfew was lifted
and either missed opportuni
ties to leave or ventured into
the streets when they were not
supposed to.
“It means a lot of stress, a
lot of anger,” he said.
Bahat read the testimony of
a Palestinian man who inad
vertently went to purchase
food during a curfew. One of
the man’s children died and
ISRAEL, page 12
University
to partner
with OHSU,
PeaceHealth
OHSU medical students will
receive some instruction at the
University, possibly by fall2006
BY MORIAH BALINGIT
NEWS REPORTER
University President Dave Frohnmayer
signed a letter of intent Friday that would es
tablish a partnership with Oregon Health
and Science University and PeaceHealth
Oregon Region to train medical students at
the University and at the PeaceHealth hos
pital Sacred Heart Medical Center.
The plan is part of an effort to double the
number of physicians OHSU graduates in the
next 10 years to address the impending physi
cian shortage in Oregon. OHSU is currently the
only institution that trains doctors in the state.
“An estimated 1,225 Oregon doctors will
leave the work force by 2006, and by that
time only 216 new physicians will have
graduated from the OHSU School of Medi
cine,” OHSU School of Medicine Dean Joe
Robertson said in a press release.
To compound the matter, medical needs
in Oregon are also growing at alarming
rates, Frohnmayer added, citing an aging
Oregon population and an increasing num
ber of retirees.
“It meets a real need when it comes to the
very alarming doctor shortages,” he said.
“That’s a danger for all Oregonians that we
need to address now.”
The exact details of the plan have yet to be
worked out, but Frohnmayer said he hopes to
implement the plan by fall term of 2006.
Students would receive the same instruc
tion at the University as they would at OHSU,
which is located in Portland, and the curricu
lum would be identical, Robertson said.
“It should be indistinguishable to the stu
dent’s academic experience,” he said.
Robertson said medical students would
have the opportunity to spend the first, third
and fourth years at the University; the sec
ond year would have to be spent at OHSU
“because of the nature of the curriculum. ”
“The benefit would be at the student lev
el,” Robertson added. “There would be
some students that prefer to be in Eugene.”
Frohnmayer said the medical students
MEDICAL, page 12