EPD officers test students’ drinking skills
By Jason F. Jensen
Emerald Contributor
Sucking a penny won't work,
and you may have to roc.ito the
alphabet or stand on one leg.
Curiosity and fears wore an
swered Thursday night in the
Bean (ktmplex as Eugene police
officers subjected seven stu
dents to sobriety tests, deter
mining their varying degree* of
Intoxication.
"Guess the Drunk” was part
of Alcohol Awareness Wnok,
said Rob Campbell. Bean Com
plex program assistant.
"I think it send* a good m»
sago.” ho said. "It shows how
much each person drinks and
how it a (Tacts thorn compared
to tho others "
LTD officer Grog Harvey ex
plained the signs of intoxica
tion that ho looks for after stop
ping a driver. Harvey is one of
two officers driving the special
ly equipped DIJII cars, which
are equipped with recording
devicos and radars that can
sense in all directions
Tho officers also have new
''sniffing” flashlights that read
alcohol levels.
Harvey demonstrated numer
ous physical tests on the panel
of students Linda Malzels
seemed a bit unsteady on her
one-leg stand. Kirsten Kappa
port attempted to estimate
when 30 seconds had passod
but reacted ut only 17.
Tom Olguin had exceptional
ly red eyes, flushed cheeks and
required the help of a table to
stand properly And although
|on Isensee appeared normal,
he Insisted on an escaping to
the bathroom
Another test involved stu
dents reciting part of the alpha
New computer system to link schools
By Demian McLean
Emeraid Reporter
As early as next winter. University computer
science graduate students may lx; able to attend
classes at Oregon State University and quiz pro
fessors without ever leaving Eugene.
Engineering and computer science departments
ut five Oregon universities have begun develop
ment on a high-speed computer network that will
link faculty and student searchers from around
the state and eventually around the country
The Joint Schools of Engineering will design
the project, having won a S4.5 million federal
grant in October. The network, which will also
include Portland State University. Oregon Health
Sciences University and Oregon Graduate Insti
tute of Science and Technology, will be among
the first of Its kind at American colleges, re
searchers said.
Higher Education Vico Chancellor Roger Olsen,
who co-wrote the grant proposal, said the net
work is innovative because it will employ fiber
optic cables.
Fiber optics can carry telephone, video, compu
ter and fax messages on one line by converting
their signals to pulses of light.
"The advantage is that we tain transmit lots of
data rapidly between two points," Olsen said
"We'll bo able to transmit voice and data and pic
ture at one time."
Waller Rudd, head of Oregon States's computer
science department, described and idea for a
"desktop classroom."
"A teacher would sit ut the desk, and students
‘A teacher would sit at the
desk, and students would be
spread out over the state/
— Walter Rudd,
Oregon State University
computer science department
would Ihi spread out over the state,” ho sulci
"They'll see the image on thu sc reen and be able
to respond to questions through computer inter
face.''
Although Oregon universities are currently
linked by ED-NET the same video-computer
network that Cov Barbara Roberts used for her
“Conversations with Oregon" many say the
system is too primitive to meet the needs of com
puter science and engineering research.
University professor John Moseley, vice presi
dent of research, said ED-NET lac ks the capacity
for high-speed computer data transmission
"ED-NET Is basically a cable TV operation," he
said. "It's a teaching tool with one-way video "
With the new Ulcer optic network, engineers
and computer scientists will send reams of data at
the speed of light between stale universities and
actually see one another on the video screen
Rudd said this will save both faculty and students
travel time.
"Computer science students will be able to
work together on projects without driving up and
down the interstate, " ho said
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Harvey also dispelled the myth
that sucking u penny would
throw off the results of a
hreuthiltzer test
"We'll come out here and do
this for the students," said t%PD
offic er Ken Saxon. "They visu
al izc and understand — so the
next time they get behind the
wheel, lhev‘11 recognize that
muvlw! they shouldn't be driv
ing"
Den McVay, another student
panelist, was surprised to see
how sober people appeared, yet
how dulled their sense* wore.
Six-service
bike center
set to open
By Jacqueline Woge
Emerald Reporter
The Center for Appropriate
Transport, the first multiple
program bicycle center in the
nation and possibly the
world, will celebrate its
grand opening In Eugene Fri
day night
Most bicycle businesses of
fer one or two services, sell
ing and/or repairing bicycles
This center offers six services
selling, repairing, manu
facturing. advocating, educat
ing and delivering.
The center also differs from
other bicycle businesses in
being a non-profit corpora
tion wltii the main purpose
of civic improvement Ian
VandorTuin, the center's
spokesman, initialed the cen
ter to educate people on die
"unsustainability" of auto
mobiles. to build human
powered transportation and
to make it easier for people to
ride around the community
The center can show cy
clists they are a constituency
that can work with local gov
ernments as well as show
people they aren't the only
cyclists in the rain, he said.
beginning at H pm, the
celebration will Include mu
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