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OCTOBER 26, 1993 EUGENE, OREGON VOLUME 95, ISSUE 40 A different perspective AN THONY t G«Nt y t Marie Raney, a graduate student in architecture, uses a pen to gam perspective while working on an assignment to draw doors and vestibules lor her media class Police arrest man for abducting girl j OPS cites a man for trespassing hours before he kidnaps a 2-year-old girl By Rebecca Merritt Ac all to the University Of fit r of Public Sitfetv late Friday night may have stopped a man who kidnapped a Z-year-old girl m south Kugene from committing additional i rimes on t atupus, the ()PS direr tor s.ntl A 1 hmersity t uslodi.tn i ailed OPS at 11 17 p ill Friday after spotting a suspicious looking man using a restroom in the edu cation building, OPS director Carey Drayton said I he man, Christopher Rav Hare, -1. was cited for trespassing and was forced off campus by public safe Iv offit iats Drayton said Hare has a con siderable t riminal record and apparently entered the hnilding through doors left unlocked by custcHlians "If he hadn't been identified, lie may have committed some crime on campus,” Drayton said H;ire was arrested hv Kugene pole o offii it' si\ hour1. Inter fur ahituclmg n two year old girl from her home ue.it tilth Avenue .mil VVillmnette Street, s.iiil I'mi Hirr. inforniiition director for the Kugelio < Mix e ol Puhlit S.detv Ai i ordiug to polo e reports. I hire broke into the south I ugeoe home .irourul I a in , taking the girl, a jar lull ol coins and a hlan ket I he girl s parents awoke to find their daughter missing and both the front door and a will dins open Short I v after the girls lather reported the kidnapping. Hirr said polii e offn ers found a dllf lei hag near Nth Avenue and Donald Street i ontaming the fam ily's i om jar. pu lures of naked, pre adolesi on) girls and Hare s identifii alum Offii ers stopped a pedestrian on ,'t5th Avenue and Willamette who said his name was C ihnstopher I hire hut said In ditin'! know anything about the kidnapping Polii e dogs'that wore let loose hi Ihe area found the girl in a vacant lot lying on the ground one hour after she was abducted Turn to KIDNAPPING. Page 3A Tozer will not appeal jury’s verdict for city □ Former University student won't continue efforts to hold city responsible for accident By Freya Horn For irm Oregon Oatly C merau.1 When Tiano Tozer filed a lawsuit against the city of Eugene, she wanted justice, she said. Instead, she said she faced an uphill battle against "a bunch of bunk." Tozer said she does not at this point plan to appeal last Friday's Lane County Circuit Court jury verdict. The 12-member jury found the city not guilty of negligence in its inspection and maintenance of traffic sign visibility, and absolved it of any liability for a vehicle acci dent that left Tozer severely injured. "Right now, I'm just relieved it's over." Tozer said from her home in Point Richmond, (alif. "It's been five-and-a-half years (since the accident), and now I just want to get on with my life." In May 1988, Juan Mejia's tar crashed into the Volvo station wag on in which Tozer was a passenger after he ran a stop sign at the inter section of Harris Street and East 23rd Avenue. Tozer. who was not wearing a seat belt, was injured when at least one of the vehicles ran over her logs after she was thrown from the car Both had just attended a University rugby game. Mejia as an on looker in the bleachers and Tozer as a player on the rugby team Mejia was arrested in August 1988. He pleaded not guilty and was convicted in April 1989 for assault and drunken driving He has repeatedly claimed he did not see the stop sign in time to halt because a tree's branches were obscuring it. Tozer filed her lawsuit against the city in the spring of 1990, the same year she named u bachelor's degree in political science and romance languages from the University, despite undergoing exten sive surgery. While relieved the three-week trial has ended, Tozer said she is disappointed by the jury's decision "I still hold Mr. Mejia accountable and always did,” she said. “1 even hold myself accountable for not wearing a seat belt. But I think the city should share in the responsibility for this accident." In representing the city. Eugene lawyer Jens Schmidt said the ac cident was caused solely by Mejia's intoxication and excessive speed He told the jury Mejia was not a credible witness because he had repeatedly lied to police officers and had two prior drunken dri ving convictions. The city "can't make our streets safe for alcohol-impaired drivers," Turn to TOZER. Page 4A Barred IFC member to file complaint □ IFC official is asked to leave curriculum committee meeting By Edward Kloplensteln Oogu i Otwy Emerald An Incidental Fee Committee member plans to file a complaint for being barred from an (Jet. 13 meeting of the Assembly Committee on Mul ticultural Curriculum. A week later, an assistant to the president suggested committee meetings should be open. Preston Cannon, appointed two weeks ago and new to the University this term, was asked to leave the meeting because the group was now and needed privacy to get to know one another, said Professor Davison Sopor, president of the University Senate Soper, though not u member of the group, filled in as acting chairman for the Oct. 13 meeting because no chairman had yet been selected. Cannon disagrees with Soper and believes the meeting should be open, especially for such important issues as the multicultural curricu lum. "If I don't know as a person of color what the committee is about, then that’s a problem," Cannon said. "That was not the reputation (of ethnic diversity) that I was sold on (when I came to the University)." Cannon later said. "I didn’t go looking for this. It just hit me in the face. (Soper) never said anything personal to attack me, but he wasn’t cordial. I felt like he was saying, Who is this guy?' and Get him out of here ' I am not happy with what happened and I want an apology." The IFC member also said he wants to see a greater emphasis on advertising if the meeting is open or closed. Cannon said he is planning to file his protest with the Office of Student Advo cacy within the next few weeks. Last week, an adviser to the University provost said future meetings should be open. Peter Swan, assistant to the president for legal affairs, looked up state law and found ACMC’s meetings do fall under the Oregon Open Meetings luuv Ho was asked to look at the policy by the University provost. The ACMC will meet Wednesday at 11:30 a m. in Room 100 Friendly. Cannon was invited to the meeting by Diane Collins Puente. ASUO vic e president and mem ber of the committee. Collins Puente will he adding a statement to the complaint as a wit ness. "When I walked in that room, mouths dropped in that meeting." Cannon said. All of the members of the committee were quiet when the pair walked in. with Soper star ing directly at them. Collins Puente said. " 'So what you’re saying is you're asking him to leave?' ” Collins Puente quoted herself as saying. Soper then said, "Yes." (jjllins Puente said. Cannon was then quoted by Collins Puente ns wishing the members a good, productive meet ing and then leaving. None of the other committee members said anything during die argument. "The committee is not responsible for what Dave Soper said But if they had on issue with it. they should have looked up at what hap pened (and said something).” she said. "There wasn't a lot of distractions." Collins Puente invited Cannon because he showed interest in the committee's work, she said. Collins Puente has been part of the Universi ty's curriculum changes since the first adhoc committee (the Multicultural Curriculum Com mittee) met two years ago to discuss a more eth nically diverse curriculum. Collins Puente also was part of last year's committee, "when all the chaos broke out,” she said, referring to arguments last year over whether there should be a multicultural cur riculum at the University.