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STONEY
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proach him.
A group of students, who wore already
sitting and standing in a circle around the
speaker, then closed to form a barricade as
soon as the officers moved in.
The students, some of whom used moun
tain bikes as shields, kopl the officers at bay
for about a half-hour. Some studonts
shouted at the officers; however, the inci
dent remained relatively peaceful and no ar
rests were made.
One of the students in the barricade said
he believed the police were going to arrest
Burke and that the officers wanted to move
the gathering so they could break up the
crowd and got to him.
Drayton said that at first he had only
planned on telling Burke to move his show
to the EMU. After Burke failed to move.
Drayton said he planned on serving him a
letter of trespass, which would bun Burke
from coming on campus again Drayton said
ho never intended to arrest Burke
EPD Sgt Mike Cline said he was there at
Drayton's request und that EPD officers were
not there to arrest anyone.
After the standoff. Burke sold he had re
fused to move because "I'm an American
citizen and have been invited by the stu
dents."
The Incident was filmed by an OPS offi
cer.
"That Is for my protection." Drayton said
"So if somebody hits me with something, I
have it on tape and can find out who they
are."
After the officers were unable to get past
I hi; student!! to serve Burke the letter, all of
the officers left but Drayton. Ho stayed for
the rest of the show In hopes of serving the
letter to Burke at the end.
However, after his speech, Burke was
quickly escorted off campus by about 10
students Drayton and an assistant followed
the group into Taylor's College Side Inn on
the corner of 1.1th Avenue and Kincaid
Street, but they lost Burke when he went
out the back door.
The officers were never able to find
Burke Drayton said he would file a report
with the district attorney and Burke would
no longer be allowed on the University cam
pus.
Burke was detained hist Friday at Ori?gon
State University In Corvallis after people
complained about his shouting profanities
at the school's Memorial Union
PROTEST
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How can that be a teaching of
Jesus when his teaching is of
love How can these people be
promoting Christian values
when they're full of fear and
hate.”
Protesters wrote their con
cerns and comments on a long
sheet of butcher paper taped on
the walkway in front of City
Hall. Comments included: "We
are gay and straight together,"
"We are a gay, peaceful people
— Stop the CX:A” and ' I’m a
Catholic lesbian and Cod loves
me."
iiugene resident June Wil
liams said she hopes Spring
field residents were ignorant of
the measure's effects and not
aware that it promotes discrim
ination
The OCA won't stop with
limiting guy rights, said Adri
enne Ellis, a Eugene resident.
"Now it’s fags und dykes,"
Ellis said "But I'm pretty sure
soon it's going to ho Afri
can Am erica ns and Asian Amer
icans and other minorities
they're attacking."
When someone asked why
more Springfield gays and les
bians weren't protesting. NO
On Hate council Chairman
Alan Brown said the reason
was the OCA measure
"Would you come out after
the city legislates hate7" Brown
said
John Ceritz, Springfield Eire
and Life Safety public informa
tion officer, said a person left a
bomb threat on City Holt’s an
swering machine yesterday
morning. He said it was impos
sible to tell whether the bomb
threat was connected with
Measure 20-08.
BARBA
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Birr said thore is no reason la suspect anything other than suicide
and the investigation into Barbu's death Is essentially complete.
Freeman reported that he lost saw Barba at about 3 u in At that
time, Burba left the house, saying he was going to the cabin the two
owned. A neighbor reported having soon Barba pacing up and
down the street at about 4 a m.
A legal pad was found near Burial's body, Birr said, but the writ
ing consists of “rambling notes" thul am difficult to read. Birr said
some of it contains information about how certain legal matters
should be taken care of. such as paying off a loan.
Freeman was duo in court this morning and was expected to en
ter a plea to the charge of official misconduct. The court date has
been postponed. Birr said.
Thu charge stemmed from an incident in which official police
records wore found in Barbu and Freeman's home Freeman, a city
animal control officer, was indicted by a grand jury of using his
computer at work to obtain those files. Barba had reported that the
files were left on the front porch of their house.
The files allegedly contained potentially damaging information
about Barba's opponents in the City Council race. Allegations of
elections violations durir^ his campaign had been filed and re
ferred to the Secretary of State's office, as is standard procedure
Birr said one the charges Included an Incident whore a store own
er reported that Barba had come into the store requesting thul elec
tion fliers be posted Barba thun lifted his coat to reveal a gun.
Burba said he did so just to make the owner aware that he had a
gun. Birr said, but the owner said ho felt ho was being intimidated.
Barba lost his concealed weapons permit as a result.
The City Council seat for Ward 7 went to Shawn Boles, with
Gloria Wolf coming in second and Barba third.
Friends have said that Barba, a registered nurse who was in
volved in a home health care program, was deapondent and had
talked of sutctde during the past few weeks. Birr aaid.
However. Graham Huesmann. a University student and Barba's
friend, said he had not heard Barba talk of suicide and news of his
death came as a surprise.
“I thought he had a lot going for him." Huesmann said. “Ho was
talking about opening up an AIDS hospice. I talked to him for the
last time about a week ago. and he seemed like be had lot go of the
campaign and realized that he wasn't going to win.”
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Multicultural Affairs.
lu odd!lion, the University
president will appoint four
faculty to the committee; the
ASUO president will ap
point four students.
Kail term, the committee
will sjKtnsor an open forum
to hear concerns about how
issues of race and gender are
addressed in the curriculum,
and propose its recommen
dations to the University
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Brand said creating the
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ment would mean hiring fac
ulty who are qualified to
tench the courses Therefore,
the motion would also deal
with the Issue of minority
hiring.
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ty's strategic plan can he
done Minority hiring could
fall under those exemptions
A similar resolution,
which vvould have recom
mended that the University
step up efforts ter increase
the recruitment and support
of minority faculty and stu
dents was tabled hy Hoop,
the motion's sponsor
In the prior discussion,
senators brought up con
cerns aliout areas tit.il may
bo out of the jurisdiction.
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