‘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
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