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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1982)
‘Project Be Safe’ an effort to curb crime By Diane Winocur Ot Dm EitmtiM Dorm residents and campus police have combined forces to curb the University's crime rate Elected representives from each re sidence hall will help bring safety infor mation to campus residents through “Project Be Safe," which is patterned after the neighborhood watch groups, says Sgt Rick Allison of the Eugene Police Department Allison says there is reason for con cern Although the University community saw a seven-percent drop in crime, the national on-campus average grew 150 percent Campus security officials also say the average University student, over a four Ken Kesey to present workshop Oregon author Ken Kesey will conduct a fiction writing work shop and read from some of his works today on campus The workshop begins at 2:30 p m in Room 302, Gerlinger Hall, and the reading starts at 8 p m in the EMU Ballroom The free events are spon sored by the University's Crea tive Writing Program Kesey wrote “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,'’ "Some times a Great Notion'' and numerous other works Culture shock, adjustments: lecture topic Adjusting to a new culture and making the transition easier are the topics of a seminar today at 4 p m in the EMU Forum room It is essentially a program about the cultural adjustment program for new foreign students," says Peter Briggs, associate director of the inter national services office "Students cope with the adjust ment problem if they know to deal with it. " Briggs says everything in the foreign student s life from the academics of the University to the width of the roads requires some adjustment "Students can take on certain aspects of culture shock — watching TV, drinking too much — without even realizing it," he says Lecture, panel on U.S. role in South Africa Congolese National Libera tion Front member Serge Mu kendi will speak on "South Africa and U S Involvement" Wednesday in the EMU Forum Room The talk will be followed by a panel discussion Ronnie Herdnon, chairman for the Portland Black United Front; Chinosole, a Lane Com munity College professor who lived in Angola for about 8 years and is a former United Nations staff writer; and representative of the People for Southern African Freedom will be on the panel, according to a Black Student Union member The event begins at 7 p.m. and is sponsored by the BSU and the Foreign Student Union Oregon Daily Emerald year stay at the University, will be the victim of a crime at least once “We have the same crimes that other places have," says Allison, calling the residence hall community a "city within a city " Already this year campus officers have responded to break-ins, thefts and a knife fight Community awareness and improved communication between students and the public safety office can help solve the crime problem, Allison says A dorm crime often goes unreported because residents hesitate to take re sponsibility, he says The project's representatives may ease this situation, Allison says The representatives will be responsi ble for notifying fellow dorm residents of the campus crime situation and tor mak ing their halls safe The representative are to host crime prevention talks and provide up-to-date information on campus crime trends, such as locations of recurring crimes and composite sketches of suspected criminals Project representatives are to report security problems — such as malfunc tioning locks — provide free identifica tion engraving of residents' possessions and submit a weekly safety report to the housing department Securing property is the representatives main concern, not to spy on students activities, Allison says "They are not agents of the police They will provide security in the form of information They are not there to act. to become involved or to inrorm on oiner students We won't even accept that Kind ot information,' he says Allison says he patterned the project after the highly successful West Univer sity Neighbors' neighborhood watch program, which has reduced crime in that area Housing Director Dan Williams and the Residence Hall Governance Council endorsed the program for this year Only 17 of the 50 residence hall sec tions have submitted forms to Allison so far But he expects more responses before the group's Oct 25 training session at 6 30 p m in the Bean West Conference Room “If represented floors have less crime because of this, you can bet the rest will jump on the bandwagon,” Allison says west Bell’s new Charge-a-Call phones don’t use coins. All you do is dial and use your Bell Sys tem Calling Card, call collect or charge to a third party. For either long distance or local calls. Which means you don’t have to waste time looking for loose change. Charge-a-Call. Because no change is a change for the better. @ Pacific Northwest Bell ^Subject to surcharge. < 19H2 Pacific Northwest Bell Page 7
