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Since 1900 | Volume 107, Issue 29 \ Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Smoking
regulation
mandates
remodels
Restaurants are affected as City
Council changes the open-air
requirement for smoking areas
BY CHRIS HAGAN
NEWS REPORTER
The Eugene City Council continued the
battle between smokers and public health
officials last week, tightening the rules for
smoking areas in bars and restaurants.
The council voted last Wednesday to in
crease the amount of open space required
for smoking areas from 25 percent to at least
75 percent.
The city has pledged $15,000 to help busi
ness owners comply with the new costs.
The figure is based on city estimates of
the number of owners that will need to ap
ply for building permits, but Ward 3 City
Councilor David Kelly said the number isn’t
set in stone.
“We would allocate more funds in an
instant,” Kelly said.
The city will give business owners one
year to comply with the new rules.
The new rules are a clarification of rules
set up for the areas after the city banned
smoking in public places and places of em
ployment in 2000. At that time, the council
left the specifics of the smoking areas to the
city manager and staff.
But some on the council weren’t pleased
with what came back.
“The adopted definition of what was
outdoors surprised a number of us and
a number of those in the medical commu
nity,” Kelly said. Some on the council
were concerned that the 25 percent re
quirement wasn’t living up to the intent of
the ordinance.
“The original goal was to protect the
health of workers in places of employment
in Eugene,” Kelly said. “The key was not
changing the ordinance, but bringing the
ordinance back to the philosophy we
originally intended.”
The open-space mandates are written as
percents instead of number of walls to al
low design flexibility for owners. To com
ply with the new rules, a square smoking
area would only be able to have a roof and
one wall.
SMOKERS, page 6
Bogart shuns schoolwork for campaign
Graduate professors debate whether the protester
should receive credit for classes he wont attend
BY NICHOLAS WILBUR
NEWS REPORTER
In his final year of graduate
school, Brian Bogart has spent 30
hours protesting across from
Johnson Hall and zero hours
inside the classroom.
He will not meet the course syl
labus requirements in his Political
Science 540 class, but he will still
receive credit toward his peace
studies master’s degree.
Although volunteers are record
ing lectures for him and he is
meeting with his professor outside
of class, he plans not to
attend any of his three classes.
Instead he’ll be spending five
hours a day for the next nine
months protesting the U.S. govern
ment’s military priorities and the
research contracts between the
University and U.S. military agen
cies, as part of a national “Camp
U.S. Strike for Peace” campaign.
“I don’t have to attend the class
es because I’m keeping up outside
of (them),” Bogart said. “What I’m
doing outside the Classroom is suf
ficient to fulfill the requirements of
that course. ”
University officials debate
whether Bogart should receive
BOGART, page 7
Brian Bogart is earning credit toward a master’s in peace studies by protesting the
University’s military research funding.
Jim Williams, general manager of the University Bookstore, helped coordinate the
Hatoon memorial located near the bookstore.
Honoring
HATOON
A memorial that is being built near the bookstore
to remember Victoria Adkins is nearly finished
BY KELLY BROWN
NEWS REPORTER
Construction is nearly com
plete on a memorial honor
ing Hatoon Victoria
Adkins, a well-known campus
figure. A resident of Eugene
for more than 30 years, Hatoon
was killed in a bicycle accident
while crossing Franklin Boule
vard last March.
The memorial, a small granite
plaza bearing quotations, words
and symbols, is located on the
east side of the University Book
store next to the bench where Ha
toon lived. It also features a stone
column with a carved niche for
flowers, which Hatoon often gave
to her friends and acquaintances.
Those who were close with
Hatoon are pleased with the
progress.
Susan Kelley, the owner of Blue
Heron Bicycles who helped plan
and privately fund the memorial,
says it is a group effort by many
who loved her.
“It was collaborative. (Eugene
Police Officer) Randy (Ellis) went
out to find the stones,” Kelley
said. “The words, the things we
thought of when we thought
of Hatoon and certainly some of
the money came in from a variety
of sources.”
Jim Williams, manager of the
bookstore, worked as a coordina
tor for the project and said the idea
of a memorial occurred immedi
ately after Hatoon’s death.
“Within a week or so of Ha
toon passing away, there was this
memorial — well, shrine would
be the best word. It developed
within the hour,” he said.
Initially, the group envisioned
a stone column with a small
brass plaque, but as donations
poured in they decided some
thing more elaborate and less
formal would better capture
Hatoon’s spirit.
They contacted Lisa Ponder of
Heritage Stone, who specializes
in memorials. Ponder said she is
HATOON, page 7
Jewish celebration Rosh
Hashana harkens the
arrival of the new year
Chabad House; the Jewish student center at the University,
prepared festivities for all in recognition of the Jewish year 5766
BY BRITISH MCCLENAHAN
NEWS REPORTER
Rebbetzen Aviva Spiegel was doing laundry,
cleaning the house and preparing her home, the
Chabad House, for a celebration Monday night.
“A woman was asking me where she could
find some Challah bread, so I invited her over
to make some with me,” she said.
Spiegel, who was busy preparing a meal for
12-20 people, said she was very busy with all
the holiday preparations, but was calm and
NEW YEAR, page 6
IN BRIEF
Muslims start fasting for
Ramadan cleansing
Ramadan, the ninth month of the Muslim
calendar and a holy month for Muslims, begins
Wednesday at sundown.
During Ramadan many Muslims will refrain
from eating, smoking, drinking, fighting and
sex during daylight hours for the entire month.
Each night the fast is broken with a meal called
Iftar, and each morning before the sun rises
families eat suhoor together.
According to www.factmonster.com, “Ra
madan is ‘a month of blessing’ marked by
prayer, fasting, and charity.”
During Ramadan, Muslims participate in
fasting and charity because fasting and giving
to others are two of the five pillars, or duties, of
Islam. The other pillars are declaring that Allah,
the Arabic word for God, is the only god; pray
ing five times per day; and making the pilgrim
age to Mecca.
Muslims celebrate the “Night of Power” on the
27th evening of the month, when they believe the
Prophet Muhammad first received the revelation
of the Quran, according to www.holidays.net.
When the fast ends at the start of the next month,
the three-day “Feast of Fast Breaking” holiday is
celebrated with gatherings, gift exchanges and
large meals, according to the Web site.
Ramadan is a time for cleansing the body
and soul and getting closer to Allah.
“We control our own lives for a change in
stead of letting things control us,” Khadija Al
Rafeea, a Fulbright exchange student from
Bahrain, told the Emerald last year. “Once a
year you get in control of daily pleasures, in
stead of them controlling you.”
— Jared Pa ben