Oregon Daily
FRIDAY. MAY 28, 1993
Study says
thrillseeking
motivates
hate crimes
j Researchers call prison
terms for perpetrators a
“crash course for hatred"
BOSTON (At*) — The int idem was all
too familiar. A black man walking home
was assaulted by a group of whites.
"'flow do you like this, nigger?”' the vic
tim. 27-year-old Darryl lames, recounted
following Monday's attack in Boston's
Charlestown section '"Don't come around
here anymore.’ ”
Such examples of urlmn hate have many
causes: growing tensions between racial
and ethnic groups and increasing violence
in society.
But two Northeastern University
researchers say most offenders are young
people not yet lost to hatred Mostly. they
commit their crimes for the thrill ol it
"What we are dealing with are kids who
say, 'For fun. we're going to gel someone
who is different,”' said Jar k Mr Devitt, asso
ciate director of the school s Center for
Applied Social Research "Simply dump
ing them in prison is not going to teach
them that w hat they're doing is wrong.”
Mi Devitt and Jack l.evin, a sociologist
and author of several books on preiudice,
studied lf>'i cases filed w ith the Boston
Police Community Disorders Unit dur
ing the past two years
McDevitt, a criminologist, also has
reviewed data from 11 other t ities tor the
FBI. His conclusion: In many cases the vic
tims of so-called hate crimes are inter
changeable.
"It doesn't matter to a lot of these kids
who their victim is.” lie said " They are
looking lor someone different to attack
The researi tiers classified nearly (>t) per
cent of the cases as "thrill hate i rimes"
involving two or more utt.u kers. usually
teen-agers The researchers i lassifieri rnosj
remaining cases "reactive hate crimes."
w here someone considered an outsider is
attacked for venturing into another group's
area.
A third classification, "mission hate
crimes," is committed by dedi< atari ide
ologues like neo-Nazis McDevitt said
those crimes were rare.
interviews with the thrill crime offend
ers revealed that when the original target
— a black or Asian — wasn't available, the
group would seek out someone else, often
homosexuals.
"These are marginal kids who are not
making it at home or at school." Levin
said "They want to feel OK about them
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WftO*Q tff AMtMtny I o
John Thomas, tins arts and Japanese senior, broadcasts his first show on the new campus radio station, KWVA (88.1 FM), Thurs
day night. The station went on the air Thursday after three years of battling FCC bureaucracy
KWVA celebrates first day on the air
j Station will continue to
work bugs out of system
By Tammy Batey
KW'VA. the University’s student-run
radio station, finally hit the airwaves
Thursday, and station organizers were
is statu
kVVVA (HH 1 KM) ki< ked off its first
day with the song "Hey Mr. 1)|" h\
They Might Be Giants at 1:32 p in.
Students voii'il io establish u station
during (he 19H0-9t)s< hool year Station
organizers say they have spent the past
three years trying lo ' ul through red
tape to get .1 permit front the Federal
Com mu tin.at ions Commission.
Hut Thursday went off without a
hitch — well, almost Station organiz
ers say .1 humming sound could he
heard when the dis< jockeys or news
hroudt asters spoke They believe the
sound may have been caused by a prob
lem with the line running between the
EMU and Prim <■ I.in mn (aimptmll Hall,
whore the antenna and transmittor sit
on I In* roof.
KVVVA General Manager Mike Love
lady said an engineer will look ,ii the
Iiii<< next week Despite tin* problem,
l.oveladv said hu ran now taka a
breather aftar three years ol stress
"I've had butterflies in inv stomm h
and haven't been able to sleep well lor
the last ievv weeks,'’ he said "1 ve
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East Asian language program up for approval
j Department requests funding for new
faculty and graduate teaching fellowships
By Sarah Clark
Oregon U#fty t fn&aid
Thu University could offer master's degrees and doctorates
m Chinese and Japanese literature and Japanese language if the
state Hoard of Higher Education approves u plan for the pro
grams Friday.
If approved, the graduate Japanese language program, which
would train students to teach Japanese, would start in the fall.
said Wendy Larson. Last Asian Languages amt Literatures
department head. Thu Chinese and J.iponese lilnrnturi’ programs
would liegin sometime ituriug the next four years
Thu Last Asian languages and I.itnraturws department is ask
ing for $238.7(i4 in additional permanent funding over tfm next
four yoars. according to thu plan Tfie money would pay for two
or throe now faculty positions, graduate teaching fellowships,
clerical support and supplies. I .arson said
The money would come from reallocation of University mon
ey (money available because of faculty vacant ius, eU ) and out
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WEATHER
Partly cloudy today with a 40
percent chance of showers
Thunder showers are possible in
the evening Highs near 70
degrees Tne weekend is
expected to be the same, possi
bly clearing on Sunday.
Just a Reminder
Today is the last day of the
DUCK CALL initial registration
period for Fall 1093 classes.
ARTIST WINS EMMY
(API - A computer graphic artist from Eugene has won an Emmy award for
the opening titles of As the World Turns, the CBS-TV soap opera
Paula Conn of Digital Artworks was presented the award in a ceremony las!
weekend for Outstanding Achievement in Graphics and Title Design
Son-technical awards were announced Wednesday night.
Conn, who shared the award with the firm Castle. Bryant. (ohnsen of Los
Angeles, created the metallic 3-D letters that spell As fhr World Turns
The letters appear from behind a doseup view of the world and sweep pas!
the camera as various seasonal images are mapped onto the moving letters
The sequence runs 36 seconds.
Conn said she spent three months working on the project last winter
SPORTS
Oregon htuKi basketball loach |»rry Green announced
Wednesday that guard Johnnie Reece and forward Clyde
Jordan are no longer members of the learn
Reece will nol return because of disciplinary action and
Jordan lias decided to transfer to another unspecified school
Both players started occasionally over the past couple of
years, but were disciplined during the past season for breaking
curfew Reec e was also sent to the loc ker room in the middle
of a game
The Ducks now have one more sc holarship to give (or nest
season