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IN BRIEF Group tries to overturn Seattle's lap-dance law SEATTLE — A group trying to overturn Seattle’s strict new rules for strip clubs turned in thousands of signatures to the City Clerk’s Of fice Monday, saying they hoped to force a vote sometime next year. Timothy Killian, who heads Seat tle Citizens for Free Speech, deliv ered a 14-inch stack of papers bearing what he said was 27,138 signatures. He planned to present at least 5,000 more on Tliesday. The group needs 14,000 valid signatures to force a ballot measure on the regulations. Last month, the City Council vot ed 5-4 to require that dancers re main four feet away from cus tomers, that customers be banned from directly giving money to the dancers, and that clubs maintain lighting levels akin to that of a de cently lit parking garage. The rules were scheduled to take effect next spring. The mayor’s office had suggested the changes, saying they would help keep new strip clubs from opening in Seattle after a federal court judge struck down the city’s 17-year moratorium on new cabarets as an unconstitutional restraint on free speech. Supporters of the regulations said the existing "no touching” rule was completely ignored and almost im possible to enforce in dark clubs without buying a lap dance. They also said the changes would protect the dancers by making them em ployees of a club, rather than private contractors. Critics said the rules were de signed to shut down Seattle’s few remaining strip clubs, would severe ly cut the dancers’ income, and were unbecoming of a city that fan cies itself a bastion of tolerance and liberalism. “We think they are out of step with the way Seattle citizens see themselves as a major metropolitan, urban center,” Killian said. Killian’s group and lawyers for the strip clubs say a better way to regulate strip clubs would be through zoning, to keep them away from schools, churches and homes. Seattle has no zoning regulations governing adult entertainment. Panty thief sentenced in Yamhill County McMINNVILLE — A Tigard man who stole bras and panties from stu dents at Linfield College and George Fox University was sentenced Mon day to more than four years in prison and another 18 months in the Yamhill County Jail. Sung Koo Kim, 31, who has been behind bars since June 2004, 17057,1 B£ tears vuag£ 947 Franklin Blvd. (near UO) • 343-4480 Individual, Family Style, Banquets to 100, Take Out Tues.-Thurs. 11-10:30, Fri. 11-11 Sat. 12-11, Sun. 11:30-10 Restaurant and Lounge Authentic Chinese Cuisine Fresh, Quality Ingredients will get credit for the time he has already served. While in the county jail, Kim can petition to spend the rest of his term in a treatment program. “I would like to sincerely apolo gize with all my heart to all the girls affected by my shortsighted, selfish, abnormal actions,” he said before Judge John Collins. “It was never my intention to scare or instill a sense of insecurity in them. 1 want to reassure them that I pose absolutely no threat or danger to them or the community.” Kim still faces criminal charges in Multnomah, Washington and Ben ton counties. He has been accused of stealing thousands of bras and panties from college campuses in several parts of Western Oregon. At the home Kim shared with his par ents, investigators found more than 3.000 bras and panties, many la beled with names, dates and places. Investigators also found dryer lint, bags of used sanitary products, seven assault rifles and three com puters collectively containing 40.000 images of women being mu tilated, raped and dismembered. Authorities also found underwear that belonged to a woman who lived in the same Corvallis apart ment complex from which 19-year old Brooke Wilberger disappeared in May 2004. The connection helped lead police to consider Kim a suspect in Eurail Passes issued On-Site!!! »^giTFff nyiT r.y4ii rv>uu3li 1011 Harlow^&^J 747-0909 Cfyjlj, LT— WS£ZO SETTLED [ everything you need is in the classifieds ] s»w paint. S&2?S in floors, fp. last, dpp. bedroom DOGS $850, ISl 579-1568. v rf a if ye me raid, corn 1 f « C J. Jp-W J? w A place to live. A roommate to share the place with. Stuff to put in the place. A car to get you and your stuff to the place. A job to pay for the place. Oregon Daily Emerald The independent campus newspaper for the University of Oregon that high-profile disappearance. At one time, Kim was held on a total of $15 million bail, an unusually high figure for someone accused of stealing underwear. Police later charged a New Mexico man, Joel Courtney, with Wilberger’s murder. In Yamhill County, Kim, who agreed to a plea deal last week, stole underwear from at least eight women at George Fox in Newberg and Linfield in McMinnville during the spring of 2004, said Brad Berry, the district attorney. Noted British author John Fowles dies LONDON — British author John Fowles, whose works include “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” and “The Collector” has died. He was 79. Fowles died Saturday at his home in Lyme Regis, Dorset, southwest England, after a long illness, accord ing to his publisher Random House. The publisher said Fowles’ wife, Sarah, was by his side at the time of his death. Fowles’ writing career spanned more than 40 years and his most fa mous work — “The French Lieu tenant’s Woman” was made into the Oscar-nominated film starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons. A former English teacher, Fowles’ first novel “The Collector” — about a butterfly collector who imprisons a woman in his basement — was published in 1963 and became an immediate best-seller. It was made into a film in 1965 starring Terence Stamp. “The French Lieutenant’s Woman,” concerning a mysterious 19th century Englishwoman, was published in 1969 and became the most commercially successful of Fowles’ novels. He also wrote “The Magus. ” Writ ten in 1965, it is the story of Eng lishman Nicholas Urfe who takes a teaching post on a remote Greek island when his affair with an Aus tralian woman becomes too serious. There he becomes involved in an in creasingly intense psychological game with a local magician. The novel’s inconclusive ending is typi cal of Fowles’ work. His other works include “Daniel Martin” (1977); “Mantissa” (1982), “A Maggot” (1985) and a collection of short stories, poetry and works of nonfiction. The author hated the fame that accompanied his success and com plained of feeling persecuted by his readers. “They want to see you and talk to you. And they don’t realize that very often that gets on one’s nerves,” he once said. Dan Franklin of the publishing company Jonathan Cape, part of Random House, said Fowles was an “extraordinary writer with an ex traordinary range” but shunned the literary world. “He hated playing the game of the famous writer. He just wanted to be in his garden in Lyme Regis. What he loved was nature, birds and flowers. Not people,” he said. “’The Magus’ arguably changed the lives of every 18-year-old who read it, and ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ changed British fiction with its post modernist tricks.” Fowles was born March 31, 1926, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, in eastern England to a cigar importer and teacher. He studied at Bedford School and briefly attended Edinburgh Univer sity before entering into compulso ry military service from 1945 to 1947. After the war, Fowles received a degree in French from Oxford Uni versity and began a career as an English teacher. One teaching post took him to a college on the Greek island of Spetsai, an experience that provid ed inspiration for “The Magus.” — The Associated Press Apartments: Future of UO housing being fleshed out Continued from page 1 It’s very possible that the buyer of the property could continue to operate the apartments as low-income hous ing, University Vice President for Fi nance and Administration Frances Dyke said, and the University hopes to give priority to such buyers. “We do not need to take the highest financial offer,” Dyke said. An intent to continue operating the apartments would add value to a po tential buyer’s offer, she said. Board member Dave Ralston, a Springfield city councilor, said the pro jected $15 million to $18 million value of the property is a sign that no organi zation interested in low-income hous ing would be able to purchase it, but Dyke said the inquiries the University has gotten about the property say oth erwise. Ralston asked why the University will not open the units to non-students and students at Lane Community Col lege and Northwest Christian College if the University is concerned with Westmoreland’s roughly 84 percent occupancy rate. Interim Vice President for Student Affairs and Director of University Housing Mike Eyster said the colleges have different missions, which has cre ated problems in the past. He did not detail the problems. Board chair John Van Landingham said it’s understandable that the Uni versity may not want to compete with the private sector for housing. “I think there are some people at the University who would be happy if there was no housing,” Van Landing ham said. Dyke and Eyster outlined the rea sons for the sale, emphasizing the need to improve on-campus housing and the need to purchase land closer to campus. Richie Weinman, Eugene housing and neighborhoods manager, asked if the money from the sale would be used to build more housing. Dyke mentioned the state-owned property east of the Romania car lot as one of the properties the University may have a chance of acquiring soon. The University is also hoping to pur chase the car lot from the UO Founda tion, Dyke said. Those sites as well as the Baker Center downtown are all be ing considered potential sites for a new residence hall, Dyke said. “What I think I heard you say is you don’t know if you’re going to build housing with it or not,” Weinman said. The sale money will ultimately ben efit housing, Dyke said, but because the needed renovation and addition of residence halls are still in the prelimi nary planning stages, the money will be put to other immediate uses. “We can’t let the money just sit there,” Dyke said. Contact the news editor at mcu.niff@dailyemerald. com GOT A STORY IDEA? give us a call at 346-5511.
