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Neighbors: Board to create newsletter
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able to work around the tree roots.
“I’m pretty sure we can save 90 if
not 100 percent of the trees,” Gallup
said.
Community activist Zachary Vis
hanoff said the plan to pave the alleys
in the neighborhood “rolls out the red
carpet for developers.”
Upgrading the alleys makes the
property more appealing for those who
want to profit from it, Vishanoff said.
Neighborhood resident and former
board member Steve Baker dis
agreed, saying developers are not
concerned with the condition of
things such as alleyways.
“It makes no difference to a devel
oper on whether an alley is paved or
not,” Baker said.
Baker supported the project and
said it could be a good remedy to what
is often called “broken glass syn
drome,” the belief that one rundown
neighborhood feature leads to another
rundown neighborhood feature.
Cal Young Neighborhood Associa
tion member Charles Biggs suggested
Gallup consult with the urban forest
manager to see if any trees could be
planted in the alley paving process.
The association also discussed the
need to examine the proposed River
front Research Park project. Oregon
Nanoscience and Microtechnologies
Institute, an association of Oregon re
search facilities, is looking to build a
site in the research park across from
the University on Franklin Boulevard.
City Councilor and neighborhood
resident David Kelly said ONAMI re
cently decided its prospective spot
north of Franklin Boulevard would
sustain too much vibration from the
train tracks and is looking for a site on
the south side closer to the University.
Vishanoff said such indecisiveness
is a sign that ONAMI’s motives and
usefulness must be examined.
“This is a 60,000 square-foot build
ing jumping around like it’s on a pogo
stick,” Vishanoff said.
Board member and University stu
dent Adam Walsh also showed sup
port for a discussion about University
development and its effects on the
neighborhood. That discussion is slat
ed for the group’s March 3 meeting.
The Eugene Police Department’s re
lationship with the University’s stu
dent body was mentioned as a poten
tial topic of discussion — one that
board member and University student
Don Goldman said is very important.
Goldman lambasted the police and
the “party patrol” at the executive
meeting Wednesday night, accusing
officers of “attacking students and giv
ing them tickets for ridiculous things.”
The association discussed the
need to increase neighborhood
awareness and student involvement.
Board members decided to create a
newsletter addressing major issues
discussed at meetings to hand out
door-to-door.
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Imaginary: Taylor interviews acclaimed authors
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when a fictional character is experi
enced by the person who created it as
having independent thoughts, words
and/or actions,” the article said.
Taylor’s study found that of the 55
authors interviewed more than 92 per
cent had experienced the illusion of in
dependent agency. The study also
found from diaries and interview tran
scripts that authors from Henry James
to Alice Walker have had characters
that act with a sense of independence.
Honors College professor Henry Al
ley, also a published novelist, said
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most authors, including himself, think
of their characters as having some de
gree of autonomy.
Alley said that in one instance he
spent nearly 15 years with the same set
of characters as he rewrote a story
eight or nine times.
“These characters, in a sense, be
came companions with me,” he said.
“They were trying to help me out. ”
Alley added that in creating his char
acters, he often “develops a certain re
spect for (the characters). ”
“Sometimes the characters seem to
exist separate from the plot,” he said.
“They have their own integrity.”
Taylor is currently working on a
book about the phenomenon of the il
lusion of independent agency in fiction
authors. The book will feature Taylor’s
interviews with several prominent au
thors, including Philip Pullman, author
of the “Golden Compass,” and mur
der-mystery novelist Sue Grafton.
Ultimately, Taylor said she hopes
her work will contribute to a greater
understanding of the human mind.
“I’m trying to understand the hu
man mind and I think imagination is a
very important part of it,” she said.
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