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Oregon Daily TUESDAY OCTOBER 19. 1993 EUGENE. OREGON VOLUME 95. ISSUE 35 Little drummer boy — ANTHONY fOflNtY/tmWNd Surrounded by horns. Christopher Scheller, an anthropology freshman, plays the tympam during a practice of the Oregon Marching Band in the field next to Pioneer Cemetery City faces lawsuit by former student □ Case questions city’s negligence in street maintenance By Fr*y« Horn For Ift* fWv ( marjtK! A former University student has taken the i:ity of Eugene to court Tiann Tozer, a 1990 Universi ty graduate, alleges a May 14. I‘)H8 vehicle accident was caused in part by the city's negligence A 12-mnmher Lane County Cir cuit Court jury is hearing her case, which claims Eugene's Transportation Division allowed a hawthorn tost to obstruct a stop sign at the intersection of 23rd Avenue and Harris Street. However. Tozer says she did not know the tree was an alleged factor in the accident until more than a year later when loan Mejia was sentenced for driving under the influence of intoxicants and for third-degree assault, said To/ er s lawyer. Don Corson At his 1989 trial. Mejia blamed the tree for his inability to see the stop sign in time to prevent his vehicle from hitting the car that Tozer was riding in. According to court records, Mejia was on his way to a party following a rugby game at the University. A former University student, Mejia had come to Fugene from North Bend and had been drinking. Headed west on 2;lrd Avenue. Mejia’s Volkswagen jotta ran the intersection’s stop sign and rammed into a Volvo station wag on southbound on Harris Street Tozer and three of her Universi ty rugby teammates were in the Volvo on their way home from the game game. Tozer, the rear liift side passenger, was not wear ing a seat belt and was thrown from the car. Once a star rugby player, she is now confined to a wheelchair. Tozer, 2T>, is a familiar face in hundreds of i lassrooms and in television commercials in the campaign against drunken dri ving Now, she is also a familiar face in the courtroom as stie once again relives the May afternoon that changed her life. The jury must decide if the city’s transportation division Turn to COURT, Page 4 1 Community policing successful, friendly □ Businesses pay a third of unique policeman’s salary By Stephanie Sisson Oregon Daily Emerald When Eugene police Offi cer Ken Saxon began iiatrolling the campua area our years ago. he spent all day. every day writing tickets and taking people to jail. ’It was crazy," Saxon said. "Now. with the community 's help and the University’s help and our awareness within the business area, everyone's on the same track. If there's a problem ... if someone sees something dif Tum to SAXON, Page 4 ‘Oregon Voice’ a ‘harmless,’ relaxed magazine for moderates □ Voice fills niche at University, com bines spoofs with serious issues Editor's note: This is the second in a series of four arti cles looking at the three main alternative publications currently on campus, as well as others that have come and gone. Today, the focus is on the Oregon Voice. By Jim Davis Fa me Oregon Daily tmerak) "We get our money no matter what we publish." said Scot Clemens, publisher of the Oregon Voice. "1 think people see us as harmless, and that's why they keep giv ing us money." Harmless? Who would call a magazine that featured a picture of a hairless cat on its cover harmless? "A lot of people think that we re just striving for that Spy Magazine image. But 1 think that wo serve another purpose here on campus," Clemens said. "! think that we represent the people who don't go in for the Commentator or the Insurgent." he said. “I think we represent the BO percent of the student body that didn't umversiiy PU8UCATKJNS Second in a fbutpai series vote in last spring’s elec tions.” The Voice — which pub lishes its first issue this week — is difficult to describe. The University has a political balance among its three other Incidental Fee Committee-funded student publications with a conser vative Commentator, a lib eral Insurgent and a mainstream Emerald. Where the Voice lies in this mix is hard to ascertain. Many students simply dis regard it as a magazine of spoofs. In a sense, those students are right. This is a maga zine that sought out and interviewed the Hutchins used tar people from Springfield. This is a magazine that fea tured professor trading cards and gave out mint-flavored condoms. But is this all there is to the Voice! Is an economics pro fessor who found that his issue didn't have a condom the only controversy that the Voice brings to the campus? "We do have our serious side," Clemens said. "And our first issue this year is fairly serious. We get into the multicultural debate." In this respect, the Voice does take on a very serious tone. The Voice has covered issues ranging from women on welfare to date rape to drug trafficking in Eugene. In its pursuit of humor and seriousness, the Voire obtained interviews with the likes of Jesse Jackson and Timothy O’Leary. The Voice was originally started and funded in 1989 as a general-interest magazine. Cliff Pfenning, the found ing publisher, wrote in the first issue, "There's a common perspective outside the news-dominated Emerald that's missing from campus, and that's a void that we hope to fill." Since the outset, the people in charge of the magazine have ranged from liberal to conservative in their politi cal leanings, but the concept of the magnzinu seems to try to surpass campus politics. “I think that the Voice is a magazine for moderates who do not necessarily want to change the world,” Clemens Turn to VOICE. Page 4