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Asian organization keeper of c ulture See Page 7 Oregon Daily Emerald Tuesday, April 2H. 1987 Kugene, Oregon Volume 88, Number 1 1 l Students circulate petition to improve campus safety Lawrence Hall incidents prompt move By Scott Mahon (II Ihi' h mi'ralil 1 nllow my; .m attempted rape on cam pus. .1 petition asking for improved safe ty standards for architet tun* fat ilities lias bet’ll signed by more than too members of the campus t ommiimtx Police arrested Kulon K. Dunlap. |r . 1750 S. Bertelsen Apt. 17, in connection with an April 17 incident in which a female interior an liitei lure student was assaulted in an elevator in Lawrence Hall. Dunlap, 25. is charged with Theft II, public indecent v. physical harassment and attempted Sexual Abuse I, all misde meanors. Dunlap pleaded not guilty to all charges at an April 20 arraignment According to architecture students at the scene, Dunlap accosted the woman in an elevator at about 1 1:20 a m. After the women screamed. Dunlap fled the elevator on the fourth floor and ran down a hallway with at least two students chasing after him. Students eventually caught Dunlap and turned him over to campus security and Kugene polic e. Dunlap remains in custody with bail set at $50,000. The attempted rape culminates a history of incidents at Lawrence Hall, not known to be related to this case, such as trespassing, vandalism and theft, ac cording to Lisa Kramer, a graduate teaching fellow in architecture. She and others attribute the problem to inade quate security in and around the north campus building. Kramer authored the petition with two fellow architecture students and faculty and staff in the architecture and plann ing, public policy and management departments The petition, ( irculated last week, recommends the University implement three measures to improve safety standards for the fat ilities. The first measure requests that direct hook up security phones he inst.tiled on eat li floor and in e.i< h w ing of l.,i\vrem e I lull, in the ( oik Ion S( hool studios. ,uul in filt h Millr.it e studio building It re quests th.it outgoing p.iv phones he in the latter two buildings .is well The setond measure suggests placing .111 alarm in the elevator at Law rent e Hall I he third measure recommends ap pointing an architecture and allied arts saletv committee t (imposed ot students, faculty *111(1 stall to examine long-term safety issues sik h as parking, lighting and building at t ess I he petition will he submitted as evidence ol concern for safetv during a contract bargaining session Thursday, according to ('.'IT business manager Scott kerlin. Students have voiced concern tor Lawrence Mali safety on previous occa sions. Improvements have been made in some instances. University Vice Presi dent of Administration Dan Williams said. "It we have a problem, it doesn’t take 200 students to convince me of it." he said. "We will respond positiveK to that sort of request." "It we can make some changes in that facility to improve it. we re going to do it very quickly." he added "You can’t just wait until these at tat ks happen, then fix the problem in that area. You have to solve the complete pro blem at once," commented Kandi Per son, an architecture graduate student. Police are investigating a possible t on nectinn between the Lawrence I tall int i dent and an attack on a Kugene woman in Alton baker Park the same morning, according to Sgt. Chuck Tilb\ of the Kugene Police I)epartment. both incidents have "heightened already existing concerns about oui safety," reads the petition April showers? As temperatures soured into the niid-HOs Monday, instructor l.ind.i Blanchette moved her trench JttJ class out doors The campus was littered, in fact, with students and faculty trying to m.ike the most of tickle Oregon sunshine As tin• Trench say. "I’rotite/.-en!" (“Take .idvantuge ol it!"). ___Photo hy Hobhio I .o Confrontations arise as strike continues By }an<>t Paulson Of the hmeralri A replacement teacher allegedly assaulted a striking Churchill High School in struct o r M o n (J a y a s substitutes arrived for two days ot in-service training at Eugene-area schools. School Superintendent Margaret Nichols reported two confrontations when replacement teachers crossed striking teachers' picket lines for the first time. At Churchill, striking teachers blocked the path of the bus carrying the replace ment teachers, according to Nichols. The bus proceeded to another unloading area. “There was a lot of noise and many people milling around.” Nichols said. It was impossible to get the bus doors open, she said, and as one replacement teacher stepped off tin? bus. striking teacher Joe Garrison fell to tlu* ground. An ambulance was called, as were the police. “No one I've talked to knows exactly what happen ed,’’ Nichols said. “So meone obviously struck or pushed Joe Garrison. We’re trying to find out exactly what happened.” Police asked the picketers to move twice, but they declined to do so, she said. The police repeated the re quest and informed the picketers if they did not move they could be arrested. The sixteen police officers then formed a “crowd con trol formation.” and holding batons with both hands, moved the crowd. Nichols Turn to Strike, Page 3 City Councilors demand strike talks be resumed By Alicia (iano CM Ih*1 Knirralil The Kugene ('itv (Inum il on Monday insisted negotiators in the; Kugene teachers strike return to the bargaining table hv 5:110 p.m. Tuesday. Speaking for the? council. Mayor Brian Ohio said a ipemorandum to this effect would he delivered to both negotiating teams by Tuesday morning. The council is also re questing the striki; he settled before Wednesday. I 'p to now the council had not taken sides, hut in light ol violence at Churchill High School Monday when replace ment teachers reported to work, he believed it was time for the council tc» ‘ insist a settlement he reached," Obie said. He wanted to make it clear however, that while the council was demanding a settlement. they wanted a settlement both sides would tie satisfied with. The strike had mine from con tract negotiations to a community-wide concern for public safety, lie said, and add ed tie had received many phone calls Monday from worried citizens about Monday's violence, concerned about potential violence when schools reopen on Wednesday. If something is not done by Wednesday and the strike con tinues, Obie said another threshold will be reached and the potential for flairing tempers and serious injury will increase. Both sides will answer to the council and community it no settlement is readied, tie added Obie requested that everyone involved in the strike “keep their collective cool and behave within the laws of this cite and St.Ill' " "This strike will not be settl ed on the picket lines, but at the negotiating table." he added. The council is specifically asking both sides to begin negotiations again by fc.tO p m Tuesday with school board members and members of the Kugene Kducation Association Executive committee attending. Ohie made it clear that the council was not asking either side to violate their negotiation principles in asking this, but for board members and KKA ex ecutive committee members to meet in adjacent rooms to negotiators, to be available for caucusing. State Mediator John Vale will be available to assist in the negotiations Tuesday, Obie Turn to Count il, Page f
