Oregon daily emerald., January 20, 1972, Page 3, Image 3

Editor's note: This is the last in a three-part
series reviewing the Oregon Criminal Code.
Almost everyone involved professionally with
law agrees that the major problem in im
plementing a new criminal code is educating the
populace.
Though it is important that citizens are
familiar with the law, it is imperative that the
5,000 people in Oregon who deal with the criminal
code as their profession know the law.
Four thousand of these persons are law en
forcers.
“How has the new criminal code changed the
old sodomy law?” or “What are the four
categories of theft (in the new code)?” These are
examples of questions law enforcers must be able
to answer, and two of over 80 questions Oregon law
enforcers were expected to know after completing
a 16-hour education program on the new code.
Though the new code was passed by the
legislature last spring, it did not go into effect until
Jan. 1, 1972 so that law enforcers, judges and at
torneys throughout Oregon could learn the new
law.
Judges and attorneys have learned the code
primarily by themselves, but the Oregon Board on
Police Standards and Training contacted Pat
Horton, a local attorney, in September about
heading a state-wide project to educate law en
forcers in the new code.
By Nov. 1, Horton had prepared an analysis of
the code included in a work book filled with
questions and exams for every law enforcer in
Oregon to complete.
“Everyone, from the superintendent of the
state police on down, was required to attend one of
the two-day schools conducted throughout the
state,” Horton said.
“They were all so eager to learn about the new
code, you couldn’t believe it,” he added.
Learning new laws
major problem
in revised code
Horton’s philosophy, as the education
program's project director, was to use the most
modern and innovative teaching methods possible
to make the program interesting and successful.
Audio-visual aids, as well as analysis of the code
“oriented to law enforcement” was used to aid the
policemen.
By NAN HENDERSON
Of the Emerald
“We contracted with the audio-visual
department at Oregon State university to provide
slides for the program,” Horton said.
Graduate students working in the department
designed and prepared the slides which depicted
different situations policemen might encounter.
The law enforcers were continually asked,
“Under the new code, what would you do in this
situation?”
“There was a lot of humor in the slides that
made them interesting,” Horton said. “For
example, the kids drew all of the policemen with
long hair.”
Oregon was divided into 42 areas and a two
day program was conducted in each area.
Horton trained several local attorneys as
moderators to conduct the educational programs
“and we all went to different areas of the state,”
he said.
Examples of the questions the policemen had
to answer included situation-oriented problems
such as these:
“The defendant in a rape case is 20 and at
tends the local university. The victim is 16*^. The
act of sexual intercourse was consentual. The girl
also told the male that she was 19 years old. The
girl’s father wants the boy arrested for con
tributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor.
Should you arrest? Why?”
The answer:
“No. First of all, it is a misdemeanor and you
need a warrant. Second, the male probably has
good legal defense, found in section 106
ignorance of age—as a defense.”
“The defendant enters a retail store and
fraudulently convinces the clerk he is Governor
McCall's son and charges $500 worth of mer
chandise to McCall's account. He does not sign a
sales receipt nor is there any other false token
presented. Can you charge the defendant for theft
in the first degree? Why?”
The answer:
“Yes. The theory of this theft is theft by
deception. It is over $200 so it is first degree theft.
Remember we no longer need evidence of a false
token.”
“We included questions dealing with the type
of thing that a policeman is likely to run across,”
Horton said. “We did the best job of educating we
could in the short amount of time we had,” he
added.
“It wasn't too confusing to the policemen
because they hadat least worked under a criminal
code and knew the terms and situations involved,”
Horton said.
He felt the program was generally a success,
primarily due to the innovative educational tools
that were employed.
“Most of the police officers had never seen
anything like this before and it was refreshing to
them,” Horton stated.
The main problem for the policemen in the
educational program was “remembering all of it
in the short amount of time,” Horton reported.
“But then the good cops are the ones that
continue to educate themselves,” he added.
Task force discusses
reapportioning
What if you gave an open meeting and nobody came?
That’s about what happened Wednesday afternoon when the
ASUO Task Force on Reapportionment presented their alternatives
to the present Senate structure.
The meeting was open—but only 24 persons, including 10 com
mittee members, showed up.
And because those present failed to reach agreement on plans to
present to the voters, Chairman Fred Loveys said he has decided not
to ask the Senate to consider action on reapportionment at tonight’s
meeting.
Instead, Loveys said the proposals will probably be discussed this
weekend at the Senate orientation session.
Senator John Boylan made an additional revision to his plan,
suggesting the Westmoreland and Amazon housing projects and the
College Inn receive one Senate seat each.
Thus, under Boylan’s plan there would be nine at-large, 25 off
campus, one co-op, two Greek, and seven dorm positions, for a total
of 47 seats.
A plan by ASUO Administrative Assistant A1 King suggested the
Senate be divided into graduate, undergraduate, special interest
group and academic areas.
Several persons criticized Loveys’ proposal to divide the Senate
into four categories: residence, class, special interest group and
academic area.
Former ASUO Vice President Mike Kment said Loveys’ plan
would “lead to divisiveness” in the student body because Senators
would be concerned only with their constituency, rather than the
University as a whole.
David Novick told the committee they “shouldn’t have the
problems determine constituencies, but constituencies determine the
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precincts
support tax
One-third of Oregon’s counties
passed the cigarette tax measure
Tuesday, which raised Oregon’s
tax to 9 cents per pack.
With 98 per cent of the
precincts reporting, the total vote
count was 244,633 to 235,826.
The five-cent tax increase will
go into effect Feb. 17. It means
that on that date cigarettes
purchased from vending
machines will cost about 45-cents
per pack instead of the current 40
cents.
Although no statistics were
kept for the 18 to 20 age group,
precincts with large youth
populations in college areas
favored the measure strongly.
A University area district
passed the measure by a 4 to 1
margin and the final tally out of
the Oregon State University area
showed a 2 to 1 margin.
Springfield, on the other hand,
defeated the measure by a 3 to 2
margin.
It was a typographical error in
Wednesday’s Emerald that
placed the 1 a m. vote total at
47,000. The figure should have
been 470,000.
Drug Subcommittee
sets public hearing
The Drug Subcommittee of the
Legislative Interim Committee
on Alcohol and Drugs will hold a
public hearing in Room 101 EMU,
at 8 p.m. tonight.
Among those scheduled to
testify before the subcommittee
are Paul Heruly, director of
Looking Glass; Charolette Ruis,
a Counsellor at Family Coun
seling; Lu Bain, instructor in
Drug Education; and Marty
Levine, Community Relations
Officer with the Eugene Police
Department will make a joint
presentation with Dennis
Ekanger.
Those persons not on the
hearing schedule may send
written statements, which will
become part of the official
record, to Steve Millemann, in
care of the Wallace School of
Community Service and Public
Administration, University of
Oregon.
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