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hBFfiOW DAILY EMERALD
your independent student newspaper
Fire: American Red Cross
helps students find shelter
Continued from page 1
Beck, who said he doesn’t have
renter’s insurance, returned Wednes
day afternoon to survey the damage.
He kicked at the melted plastic lining
the doors of his 1989 BMW sedan that
his father gave him a little more than a
month ago.
He is staying at his father’s house in
South Eugene but he hopes to use win
ter break to find another studio close
to campus. He was able to retrieve his
textbooks from the apartment after the
fire but wasn’t able to go upstairs later
in the day.
“I think the main concern was, you
know, the fire damage to the floor and
how sturdy it was,” he said. “That’s
basically what the fire department
said, too.”
Beck said there was “really no fire
damage” in second-floor apartments,
but firefighters knocked out walls,
leaving damp drywall on the ground.
“In my apartment, like all the walls
are coated with black. I don’t know if
that’s from the smoke or from the
ash,” he said.
Beck said he didn’t know
Huddleston but thought Huddleston
shared the two-bedroom apartment
with a roommate.
Amy, a University sophomore
and complex tenant who asked that
her last name not be printed, said
she has been friends with Huddle
ston for about five months.
The couch appeared outside his
apartment about two weeks ago,
she said.
Rob Bennett, owner of Bennett
Management Company, said this was
the first he’d heard of the couch. Gen
erally, “the rental agreement does not
allow for furniture outside,” he said.
There is no “full-fledged on-site man
agement,” and no one regularly
checks for infractions.
“You hope people follow the rules,”
he said. “As a management company,
we visit the site from time to time. ”
Although each unit had a working
fire detector, Bennett said the building,
like many low-rise buildings, had no
external fire alarm.
Beck said he didn’t hear a fire alarm.
Amy said she tested her smoke alarm
about two weeks ago, but “it just
didn’t activate or something.”
Bennett said it’s “going to be
awhile” before students can move
back, although they will be able to
retrieve some items.
“There’s a tremendous amount of
cleanup and demo work that has to
occur before we can start building it
back,” he said.
His company will try to help the dis
placed students find other apartments.
“We’re trying to help a little. I think
people are generally, on a very basic
level, basically on their own,” he said.
“It’s an unintended and very difficult
situation for everybody.”
editor @ daily emerald, com
HIV: Gordon tries to save
others from getting the vims
Continued from page 1
Soon after returning home, his step
father kicked him out, he said. With
his last few dollars, Gordon boarded a
bus heading to New Orleans.
For the next few months, he lived on
the street, surviving by selling his body
for sex. During this time, Gordon had
sex with 50 to 70 men. Most of those
encounters were unprotected.
Then, a man in New Orleans
encouraged him to move to Eugene.
He did, but he soon found himself on
the streets again.
He was visiting Looking Glass New
Roads, a local drop-in shelter for
homeless youth, when a representa
tive from HIV Alliance offered him $10
to get tested for HIV.
The test came back positive.
At 18, when Gordon first started
having sex, he said, he did it for
attention and “just wanted to feel
important.”
The first time he had unprotected
sex was around Mardi Gras of that
year, he said.
“I was more focused on the atten
tion and didn’t feel like putting up a
fight about asking about protection or
not,” Gordon said. “If he didn’t want
to use a condom, we didn’t use one.”
Today, in his workshops with
at-risk youths, Gordon stresses that
everyone is important enough to ask
about protection.
“I didn’t have that,” he said. “It’s too
late for me, but I can use my
experience and my story to protect
someone else.”
Gordon is not afraid of living with
HIV, and he wouldn’t change anything
about his past, even if that meant
never becoming infected, he said.
“Maybe the reason why I’ve gotten
it is to save someone else,” he said.
Niki Martin, youth educator and
outreach director for HIV Alliance,
said Gordon has been a “phenomenal
asset.”
“He has done more in six months
than I’ve seen been done in a long
time,” Martin said.
Gordon said he really likes Eugene
and is looking forward to attending the
University next term.
“I always tell people that Eugene is
the cocoon that’s changing me from a
caterpillar to a butterfly,” he said. “And
although, like the butterfly, my life
may be short, I plan on making it a
beautiful one.”
Contact the crime, health and safety
reporter at
kgagnon@ dailyemerald, com
WORLD AIDS DAY EVENT
in support of World AIDS Day, the ASUO Women’s Center will host a talk
and slide show by world-renowned public health educator and photographer
Lindsey Reynolds.
The event takes place today from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the EMU’s Inter
national Resource Center. Reynolds will share her experiences of working with
AIDS victims in Africa, said Stefanie Loh, Women’s Center spokeswoman.
Reynolds is also the co-director of the non-profit organization Thembanathi,
which cares for orphans and other children made vulnerable by AIDS, the or
ganization’s Web site stated.
For the past three years, Reynolds has worked in South Africa on HIV pre
vention projects to provide care for orphans and children with AIDS.
In South Africa, 21.5 percent of adults are HIV positive and 370,000 adults
and children died of AIDS in 2003, according to the Joint United Nations Pro
gram on HIV/AIDS.
Admission to the event is free.
“World AIDS day is this big official event,” Loh said. “This brings it down to
a more personal level. ”
— Katy Gagnon