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,
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has already served. While in the
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of stealing thousands of bras and
panties from college campuses in
several parts of Western Oregon. At
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ents, investigators found more than
3.000 bras and panties, many la
beled with names, dates and places.
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lint, bags of used sanitary products,
seven assault rifles and three com
puters collectively containing
40.000 images of women being mu
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that belonged to a woman who
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ment complex from which 19-year
old Brooke Wilberger disappeared
in May 2004.
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police to consider Kim a suspect in
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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.”
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Apartments: Future of UO
housing being fleshed out
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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.
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