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Senate: Several companies interested in site Continued from page 1 purposes while a plan for the stu dent housing is finalized, Moseley said. “But those purposes will gener ate the revenue so that the amount of money from this sale that will go to student housing will not be less than the amount of the sale,” Moseley said. “I think in the end this will be a win-win,” he said. Dyke said needed property acqui sitions will likely be impossible un less Westmoreland is sold, and Moseley echoed that belief. “If we do not sell it we have no — zero — resources with which to ac quire any of this property that the University needs,” Moseley said. Interim Vice President for Stu dent Affairs and Director of Univer sity Housing Mike Eyster also said that the need to renovate and build new residence halls on campus is extreme, but there’s no money to do it unless Westmoreland is sold. University officials emphasized that nonprofit organizations in volved in low-income housing have shown interest in the site, which they said would minimize if not dis solve the negative effects the sale could have on the 592 people who currently live at Westmoreland. “We don’t know for sure if that’s going to happen, but that is what both the real estate people in town and the appraisers say is the highest and best use, therefore the use that will get the University the best price,” Moseley said. Bing Li, chairwoman of the West moreland Tenants Council, outlined her reasons for opposing the sale, asking why the University would want to sell property in which so many organizations see value. She also criticized University President Dave Frohnmayer for his dream of securing a land bank in the east campus neighborhood to serve as his administration’s legacy. “We shouldn’t sacrifice our homes and our children for some one’s personal dream,” Li said. Some people have expressed concerns that the sale money could be used to help finance the basketball arena the University is hoping to build at the Williams’ Bakery site on Franklin Boule vard, but Moseley guaranteed that “not one dime of this money will go toward any arena.” Frohnmayer said during his State of the University address later in the meeting that there is no arena, there is only hope for an arena. Estimated to cost as much as $180 million, the arena will be fi nanced through private fundraising efforts by the Athletics Department and through private loans taken by National Championship Properties, a subsidiary of the nonprofit organi zation the UO Foundation. “It would require an heroic act of philanthropy to proceed,” Frohnmayer said. Also at the meeting, the senate was notified of motions it will hear at its Nov. 30 meeting. One motion calls for public hearings regarding the University’s fund ing from the Department of De fense. Another would limit the amount of wireless Internet ac cess in classrooms because of concerns that students spend time browsing Web sites rather than listening to professors and participating in class discussions. Contact the news editor at mcuniff@ daily emerald, com Kate Horton | Photographer Mike Eyster, interim vice president for Student Affairs and director of University Housing, responds to a question from a University Senate member about the possible sale of Westmoreland Apartments. Mankiller: Students applaud former Native American chief Zane Rite | Photographer Former Chief of the Cherokee Nation Wilma Mankiller speaks to a crowd in the EMU Ballroom about the history and culture of Native Americans. Continued from page 1 necessity of doing so. “If we don’t frame our own issues, our opponents will,” she said. She ended her speech on a note of optimism for the future of the Native Americans by invoking her favorite proverb. “It’s hard to see the future with tears in your eyes.” Audience response was overwhelm ingly positive, with applause and sev eral standing ovations punctuating her speech. Shalan Ryan, an undeclared sopho more who is in Mankiller’s class, said she found the speech, as well as Mankiller herself, amazing. “She’s a phenomenal person. ... Tonight’s speech was a summary of a lot of stuff we learned in class, and it really cemented the ideas,” she said. Wesley Weathers, an honor guard of the Grand Ronde who presented the flag, said that the speech echoed much of what he already felt. 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