Oregon Daily
WEDNESDAY. MAY 12, 1993
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 94, ISSUE 155
They need A-negative
to tot flarxtr
Dorothy Lundpuist helps Nancy McGuire donate blood Tuesday at the Lane Memorial Blood
Bank as McGuire writes a letter to her boyfriend The bank which has a goal of dSO units of bkxxt
finishes today in the EMU Fir Room, and Anegative blood is especially needed
EPD car hits OPS truck on campus
j Collision occurs at 13th and Agate
intersection when school officer hurries
after bike thief, reports say
By Matt Bender
Oregon D&ty t mfr&td
An unmarked polfi e tar hit <1 University Office of Pub
lic Safely vehu le that was in pursuit of a bike thief last
Friday afternoon at a campus intersection.
OPS Officer Felisa Marie Padron puffed out in front of
EPD Sgt Bret Freeman's car at the intersection of East
1.1th Avenue and Agate Street Padron was turning left
onto Fast 13th from Agate about 2 40 p m w hen Free
man's tar struck the right rear quarter panel of the OPS
truck Padron was driving.
Freeman was not injured, and Padron was treated and
released at Sacred Heart General Hospital for a slight
neck injury
Freeman was traveling south on Agate and said fie
believed it was his turn at the four-way stop, according
to police reports, Padron told police that she came to a
complete stop at the intersection and decided to try to
get through the intersection ahead of Freeman's c.ar.
Freeman said he was heading south on Agate, stopped
in heavy traffic, waited until he believed it was his turn
and then proceeded forward. That was when thq colli
sion occurred.
According to polite reports, Padron said she know it
wus not her turn but tits ided to tr> to go anyway Padron
was m pursuit of <1 bike thief and W it nesses said she was
traveling fast
Witnesses said the OPS truck was moving in a "jerky”
motion and said the OPS truck spun its wheels while
i hasing the bike thief The witnesses said they saw
Padron driving fast in the area tadore the collision
In the moments before the collision, witnesses said
Padron traveled eastbound on l as! 13th. ran the east stop
sign at the hast 13th and Agate intersection, turned right
onto Agate and traveled two blocks to the intersection of
Agate and Hast 15th Avenue. She then made a U-turn on
Agate, drove back to the intersection of hast tilth and
Agate, and collided with Freeman, act ording to police
reports
EPD Sgt Dennis Baker said although Padron was in
radio contact with the OPS office, there was no way (nr
Freeman to know Padron was in pursuit of a suspect
Freeman is not a campus officer, so he would not be
on the same channel as the OPS and the campus EPD
officers. Baker said.
Baker said the hike thief was never caught, and the
city attorney is reviewing the accident to determine who,
if anyone, is at fault in the incident.
Baker said Padron was all right and hack on duty
Tuesday, though her iumA was a little stiff and sore
Housing priority
goes to needful
j Student parents with most
financial need get highest nod
By Sarah Clark
Universitv fiitnilv housing vstll give highest pn
ontv to student parents w ilh fin.nu i.il need starting
this fall. Uni versilv Housing Dins tor Mike I v ster
aiinmmt rwl Tuesday
t hiltlltiss students over ago J I u lilt Iiii.uk ial need
vv ill got nest priority. regardless of vv helhttr they ore
married, Kvstur s.ntl
Hitt runs (irioritiMs will atfei.t inns applti ants
applying for lull tor m anil later. ID sit-r said ( air toot
residents will not In' affi>< toil
(’.urrMiitlv. Inghe&t priority gons to student par
nuts. Init University I lousing does not msImiisiv idy
NEW PRIORITIES
APPLICANTS WITH
FINANCIAL NEED
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APPLICANTS WITHOUT
FINANCIAL NEED
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assess im.iiu liii
need The iu*si pn
only < iirrentlv goes
In m.irneil students
Beginning in ihe
full, new family
; housing a p p I it .mis
u ill luiv e In suhiuil
1 ini dine and expense
inform,limn in their
application* Appli
i .inis w hose major
expmses sur.h as tuition unit rent exi ••«><! rnoir
iiv< tjine will get higher priority f«*r housing
l v stcr s.ml hi ving priority based on firi.iin i«»l need
i\ fair Imt .nisi' family housing i.nnslitutes a sigtnf
leant form of financial assislam :e
I wo-fa'ilriMHii family housing units will rimt this
fall lor as low as $l7r> a month, which isi heaper
than other local housing, Kvster snul
limants agree that higher priority should go to
students with fitiani nil need However, some say
they are yvorried the new guidelines yv ill fill (aim
ly housing with single students and students ysith
roommates
Kon Si hlittler. .1 memher of the l.eshian. (iay and
H1sexu.1l Alliani e. has said the University should
rei oglu /e domestic partnerships to let gay. leshian
and other unmarried 1 oupies live in family housing
without letting in everyone who is not married
l.yster disagreed
"The fair way is to distribute family housing based
on financial need." bysler said, "not based on any
definition of a relationship ”
Kyslor said he is not worried that 1 hildless single
students will dominate family housing lax ause Ingle
est priority will still go to students with i hildron
Other students huve said requiring childless stu
dents to he at least 21 is unfair. Kyster said students
under 21 who believe they should qualify for fam
ily housing can petition the University for eligibil
ity.
WEATHER
Warm weather continues
today. Temperatures 75-80
degrees Slight chance of thun
dershowers this afternoon
Today in History
In 1978, the Commerce
Department announced that
hurricanes would no longer he
named exclusively after women
SENATE PANEL DECISION
SALEM (AP) - A state Serial* panel should decide soon whether to revise
Oregon's public records laws, Secretary ol State Phil Keisling says
When Oregon's public records law was adopted in 1973. it included 16
exemptions tor records the government was not required to disclose
Since then, more than 300 exemptions have been added Two bills current
ly before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senate Bill 499 and SB 500. would
replace those exemptions with three broad categories of exemptions
"I think the time is coming to have a decision on it,' Keishng said Monday
after a committee hearing on the bills
Under the first category, public agencies would dec ide if the public interest
is best served by withholding or releasing a record The other two categories
exempt records unless a compelling case is made for opening them
_CAMPUS
The University Senate will meet today at 110 p m in Room
133 Gilbert to discuss the rare, gender and non-European
requirement. Three amendments to the proposal will be voted
on by Senate members
Anything approved by the University Senate regarding the
race, gender and non-European requirement has to be
approved by the University Assembly before going into effect
The next University Assembly meeting is June 2