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Celebrate with millions of other children who
display the courage never to surrender their
dreams to drugs or alcohol.
As part of the Red Ribbon Week Celebration,
wear or display a red ribbon in your work area or
when attending classes and other activities on
campus.
You can pick up your red ribbons ai the following locations
UO Housing Dining Halls • ASUO • Office ol the Dean ot
Students • President's Office • Student Health Center
I or more information about events happening in the
EugeneApringfield Community, call 141-4724.
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MEETINGS
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p m m EMU Cantury Room 0 rot more
information, rail J4ft 0530
P»y flit will meet toda* *1 ipro in
Room 279 Straub
Mortir Board will meet lomght at ft »n
I Mi (ed«( Room (
( nllnrr at Bunnew AdrmniatratMM will
hold a new peer advieera informational
trx*rtiru% ’min at 5 p m in Room 331
Gilbert for mom information,
tall 145 3 JO3
OMMRG will hold a NAETA meeting
tonight at ft in EMI f aantuf* Room C For
more information tall 144 4377
OSFIBC. will hold an nnvinso mental edu
(at ion meeting tonight at 7 30 in EMU Suite
1 f or more information tall 141.4177
OSIMMG will hold a campaign finance
reform meeting tonight at 7 in EMU (aaitwry
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BRIEF
The public is invited to an
informational meeting about
Ballot Measure 1 tonight at
Eugene City Hall. 777 Pearl
St.
The meeting, sponsored by
Community Partnerships,
will discuss the proposed
sales tax and its potential
effects.
The meeting is an impar
tial, non-partisan program
organized for informational
purposes The meeting is
scheduled from 7 tot) p.m. in
Room 104 of City Hall.
For more information, call
343-5256.
TOZER
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S< hmidt said in his i losing argument It's nist not
possible .'*
Tozer said she believes the « 11\ was skirting the
issue hy putting all of the blame on Mejia
"If the government is letting people legally drive
around with blood -alcohol levels less than 0.08.
then the street signs should at least lie kept visible,"
she said.
However, S< hmidt explained to the jury that the
law grants the ( d\ immunity front liability for any
derisions it makes based on allocation of resourt es
There is also a $200,000 liability cap. said Tozer,
whose medical bill to date is nearly $ too,not)
The city was "overburdened" and ”i ouldn’t keep
up" with citizen requests to maintain street signs
and prune trees, so its priority was to "put out the
fire bases, or emergent \ situations, Schmidt said,
blaming "sum e resources" for the shortfall
Sc hmidt also said the i itv’s transportation di\ i
sioii employees are not required nor ex put ted to
maintain all intersections to the standards set In
the city i odes that deal w ith \ egetation near street
signs.
Ai cording to these codes, a clearam e tieight of
at least 15 feet above a traffu sign is necessary for
safety, f urthermore. Oregon’s tfanspqfhition divi
sion i ites ,i visibility from a dislanceyf 50 (qyl as
<i guideline In this case, the tree’s foliage was with
in three feet of the stop sign, Tozer’s lawyer Don
Corson said
"This is not an urban forest,” Corson said in his
closing argument at the trial " There is no excuse
for the 111\ not follow mg its own standards
A total of six automobile collisions oi i.urred at
this intersection between 11)82 and 1988. accord
ing to evidence submitted by (orson Schmidt said
the city was unaware of this traffic history prior
to To/er’s act ident bee ause a "lac k of resources”
Ixdween 1985 and 1988 made it difficult for the i itv
to analyze problematic intersections
It w asn't until 1990 that Robert Noble, a trails
portation di\ ision supervisor, requested the inci
dent records for this intersection. Police records did
not cite the tree as n cause lor the nu idents. Schmidt
>..inl The < ity has since cut the tree dow n, hut this
vs,is inadmissible evidence for Inzer's case.
In 1‘IHH, the city was up to six months behind
sc hedule for nonomergency requests and did not
consider the intersection of Harris Street and Hast
2trd Avenue an emergency situation because it had
ret eived only one request for work there seven years
prior to Tozer's accident.
City records also indicate the intersection was
routinely inspei ted twice each year. The tree had
last Iwen trimmed about a year prior to Tozer's aci i
dent bec.ause the public works employee whose
route had included this intersection "couldn’t see
the sign." he testified at the trial However, he said
the tree would have grown back by the next spring
"just as good.”
Toz.er said she hopes her case has made private
property owners aware that they are responsible for
pruning vegetation to meet the ( itv codes.
"I doubt if many property owners know they can
tx> sued if they don't meet those sjh>< ideations.” she
said
In expressing frustration with the trial during
( losing arguments, Tozer's lawyer said. "This is a
classic ease ol how you can’t fight City Hall. They
have the resources and will grind you down."
However. I nzer has not allowed the events of the
pest ftvo-.iuda-hall years to grind her down, even
though she is for the most part dependent on a
wheelchair and will haven total of about $475,000
in medical expenses by the time her surgeries are
completed
I nzer helped win a silver medal for the women's
basketball team at the 1902 Paralympic Games in
Bari elona. and earned a graduate degree at the I Ini*
versitv of Illinois after completing her undergrad
uate studies at the University of Oregon. She has
also appeared in hundreds of classrooms and in
television commercials in her work for Mothers
Against Drunken Driving
As for future plans, Tnzer said perhaps she should
come back to Eugene to run for ('itv Council.
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