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Oregon Daily FRIDAY. OCTOBER 15. 1993 EUGENE. OREGON VOLUME 95. ISSUE 33 Out with the old P L .-a*— Ukjrymi' Sfi-t:.. Xj (fwi Gerald Henry, with the UO Physical Plant, uses a bobcat to remove the sidewalk in front of Straub Hall A new sidewalk will replace the old cracked and damaged one Ruling jeopardizes sales tax measure j November election may be canceled By Edward Klopfenstein ( On* f merjiM Though facing possibly no elei lions in November. ASUO officials art* still i ommitted lo registering 4.000 students by the Oct t‘> registration dead I inn. Marion County Circuit lodge Albin Nurhlad ruled Wednesday (hat Ballot Measure 1 was uncon stitutional because it contained more than one constitutional amendment. The judge ruled the measure should Ihi either voted on sepa rately or pulled off of the ballot. The ruling caught ASl IO State Affairs ('oortlinator Philip Hent lev by surprise, he said, though no changes are planned in the voter registration program Bent ley i' in i harge of the ASl <) reg is! rat ion drive. The judge's ruling was sur prising because 1990's Hallo! Measure 5. which passed, was similar to the current tax mea sure. a multifaceted reform pack age. Ben*lev said Bentley will he talking with state off it inis, t ommittee mem bers and members of the I egis lature during the next few days to better understand the fate of the lax measure, he said "At this point, I am confident there will lx' elet turns m Novem l>vr," Bentley stud "Mv only con cern is time ” Elections might be canceled if a higher i ourt doesn't ov erturn the ruling bei ause the state wouldn't meet the deadlines ms essarv to change ballots and inform out-of-state voters Bentley said he e\|ws ts the rul ing to be overturned and elm Turn to VOTERS. Page 9 Two new members increase ranks of IFC j Students bring diversity to committee By Edward Klopfenstein Ortygtx*inwtftki I hi- Incidental Fee Committee boosted its ranks Wednesday night when two new members joiniKi tint financ e body Committee members Preston Cannon and Shannon Wall worn approved by the Student Senate at a meeting Tuesday night The pair were appointed before the meeting by ASCO President I'.ric Bowen. "I think I'm right for the job fun a use I don't have a politic al agen da.'' Cannon said Wall said she was very exc ited about joining the Il'C Both new momliers bring very diverse bac kgrounds to a commit tee that needs more non politic al members to shake a very political past, Bowen said in a past interview Cannon. .10, labels himself as a non-traditional student coming bac k to c ollegp to finish his undergraduate degree The sophomore is considering broadcast journalism as a major Turn to ICF, Page 9 CAHOOTS brings human response to emergency situations j Radio-dispatched van assists police by responding to crisis calls, suicides Stephanie Sisson Qregor> Q&ty Ernef&kJ Calling 911 may not get you any help from the Eugene police It may, instead, get you assistance from CAHOOTS. CAHOOTS, or Crisis Assistance Help ing Out On The Streets, is a mobile team with the White Bird Clinic that responds to alcohol and drug problems, mental ill ness and other human service problems. It is part of Eugene's Community Response Team. "We do a lot of things that historically have been done by police, but that aren't law enforcement things," said David Zeiss, program coordinator for CAHOOTS. CAHOOTS consists of a van that is radio-dispatched through the 911 system and a two-person team staffing tht> van at all times One person is a crisis worker with experience in mental health prob lems. The other staff person is a medic, usually a trained Emergency Medical Technician or a nurse. "When we’re out there on the street, in the field, we’ll often come across a situa tion that requires at least some kind of medical assessment." Zeiss said. "Our focus is not on physical medicine. It’s just something we need to have, a back up. just in case.” Zeiss said that several years ago. White Bird began thinking of ways to make Cri sis Intervention more accessible to the community. "To a limited extent, we've always had some capacity to get in a car and go some place else in the community ... if some body needed our help who couldn't make it into White Bird,” he said Iii .1 grim! irom trio i .itv ot r.ugene made CAHOOTS possible. The program is still entirely funded through the c ity. Tim Birr, Public. Information Offic er for the Department of Public Safety, says CAHOOTS can help some people in cer tain situations better than a police offi cer would be able to. "CAHOOTS provide# a more appropri ate and a more humane response to cer tain types of calls," Birr said. According to Birr, in 1981. Eugene had 161 sworn police officers and took 55,000 c alls. He compared that to last year's 147 officers and HO,000 calls. "CAHOOTS frees up officers' time to do things they are more qualified to do and are set up to deal with," he said. Although CAHOOTS typically deals with young to middle-aged adults, they try to lie available to everyone. Zeiss said. "For example, a kind of thing where we’d lie typically dispatched is somebody who is wandering around, who seems IOSI, Wilt) migiu in’ IIII mutiny '.nil nun has Alzheimer's," In* said. "Thai’s not unusual for us." The (.alls CAHOOTS handles are often ones involving substance abuse, mental illness, some kind of emotional crisis, and family disputes that pose a small risk of violence. Another thing CAIUX3TS usually deals with are welfare checks. Welfare checks are typically made by police when some one calls them out of concern for some one they know who they haven't been able to contact. “We are often the ones who go out to the house to try lo figure out what's going on." Zeiss said. Zeiss said that he sees a need for more services like CAHOOTS in Eugene. "It's clear that it would make more sense for CAHOOTS to be operating seven days a week, and the only reason we're not is Measure 5." he said. “There Turn to CAHOOTS, Page 9