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EDITORIAL Drunk driving will continue to kill Drunk driving fatalities in Oregon declined signifi cantly last year as a result of tougher laws, widespread education campaigns and the social stigma attached to driving under tne influence. A survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that in 1993, Oregon experi enced the fourth largest drop nationwide in the propor tion of alcohol-related traffic deaths to all traffic fatali ties, down 21.4 percent since 19H2 The study also found that the number of people killed in U.S alcohol related traffic accidents has plunged from 25.1(>2 in 19B2 to 17.491 in 1993. Playing a major role in the declining fatalities, at least in Oregon, are the stiff and expensive penalties for dri ving with a OH or higher blood-alcohol level The aggres sive nature of the punishment moled out to those who drive under the influence ac ts as a somber deterrent. Police also use more sophisticated tools for detecting people who am driving impaired than in the past Pass ing a field sobriety test is no longer a drunk driver's greatest « hailengo. Portable breath analyzers and flash lights that dotoc t alcohol are two examples of the now technology. Education efforts by groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving appear to be paying off. MADD has shown the public graphic proof over and over of the con sequences of drunk driving the loss of life, family, friends and freedom for the offenders. Most importantly, campaigns to eliminate teenage drunk driving are getting through to those needing the lesson — teenagers. The percentage of teens who die In alcohol-related fatal accidents in Oregon is 29.H percent, well below the national average of 40.7 percent. Again, tough laws act as powerful a deterrent. Anyone under the ago of 1H loses driving privileges if convicted of any alcohol-related crime, including minor in possession. Police officials say another explanation for the drop in tralfii fatalities are the mandatory seat belt laws and improved safety features, including air bags, on newer automobiles Laws and consequences do not stop everyone from sliding behind the wheel after a few loo many drinks. That's where an evolving ->tK.iu! const ien< o lends a hand in the struggle to stop drunk driving. The public educa tion and designated driver programs are effective and sutt e.ssful tools in increasing public awareness, More over, drinking and driving is simply no longer accept able in many social circles, While the news is heartening, much work must be done on the costly reality of drunk driving. Oregonians shouldn't rest until all aleohol-rulated traffic injuries and deaths reach zero. Be aware, especially over the holidays, of celebrating too much. Take time to arrange a designated driver or taxi if holiday plans Include intoxicants. 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Cinyton Veo Nowaroom 344-SS11 Dlaplay AdwUting Wd-3712 Buamoao Offico J4^SS12 Ct—tftod Adwtiamg Jto-4343 JAPAN JAVS IT S£bJT VS A WARa)/^6 IT UAXA-0 BE ATTACKING PEARL. MAR8OR. BUT IT WAS AN ROUP LATf SO m€V'R£ APOLOGIZING LETS SEE... Afiout WGVooo MTf ( fi ■ f % *'■# AMO 'vow TV/.5 8uS»JtiS ASOcr TfrAOt 7 ■ COMMENTARY Residency rules discriminatory Linda Hancock We, Jeaninarie Dawson, Audrey Harris and ! are staking full Oregon res idem v On Nov 27, an artn le appeared tn The Register-Guard about our efforts Since then, we have been treated as though we are exposing a set anti Watergate We are conlat ted daily by the media from various states. The As sot Kited Press, radio stations {including NPKi and television stations Dawson was spit upon on campus in an expression of “Californian* go home." She has been verballv abused by Oregon students, and our children have been harassed at si hoof When we finally asked an Oregon reporter why there w as so much excitement over our appeal, he informed us it is because Orego nians halo Cdifomians So what have we reviled Californians at tually done f We are t h • i ing the exclusionary nature of the new resident > rules 1 n l‘HI3 we moved here, enrolled our children in local schools and sports and entered the Univer sity Ttiis summer we applied to the University for in state resi dency status hut have been denied beteuse being parents is not considered n primary activi ty Yet we each chose Eugene for our children's sake One in our group, who is an undergraduate, was accepted to many schools, including Harvard and Purdue She t hose the Uni versity because of Eugene's school system and a higher qual ity of life for her children. A reporter pointed out that she is saving a lot of money going to this university instead of Har vard Not really Though Harvard is indeed a few thousand dollars more expensive per annum than the University, Harvard's finan cial aid package is much more generous, and she would not be accruing suc h a large student debt Anojthei m our group who is pursuing her doctorate, gradu ated from a top 10 school {No. l one in her field) yet did not even apply to the schools that both appealed to her ac .nirnmallv and wore suggested to her (Harvard, Yak* I Jniversity ami Rutgers i hii versity) because she did not want to raise her child in Cambridge, Mass . New Haven, Conn , or New Brunswick. N.J All in our group wore intent on leaving our home state and would have uprooted our families and relo cated whether or not we were accepted to an institution of high er learning Wi seek full resident \ Ixsau-e w<• consider Oregon our "domi cile" as defined bv the Oregon State System of Higher Educa tion one's "true, fixed, and per manent home and plat e of habi tation" (Rule 580—10—029(1). Wo discovered that the new rules ore written in sut Ji a way that vir tually no one relocating to Ore gon can ret eive residency status. Like most statte., Oregon mandates that within 30 day s of relocating to Oregon a person must exchange her driver's lit ense and car license plates from her home state for an Ore gon driver's license In addition, a person must decide whether to continue to file taxes in her home state or give up residency for Ore gon residency. Notwithstanding these state requirements. OSSHE has its own supplemental set of residency rules and. surprisingly, they dis criminate against older adults and parents We are allowed to become residents in the eyes of the state of Oregon, hut the OSSHE has separated itself from the state The Nov. 29 Emerald editorial stated that 1 out-of-stators who moved to Ore gon knew the rules and should have considered the conse quences before relocating." How ever. when we obtained infor mation from the University, the new rules had not even been adopted. We were never informed that we would be judged under rules going into effect after we started our pro grams. Should students not have been informed that they could never he considered full residents in this state?To t«‘ fair, the Univer sity School of I-aw grandfathered in students who began fall term 1993. Even if those of us who entered the University fall term 1993 were grandfathered in. where does that leave students who move here, lock, stock and barrel w ith children, spouses and lovers, and relocate their whole lives? Instead of exceptions being made, the rules need to he addressed. The same edi torial stated that the "effect of Proposition 9 |sicj was the virtu al collapse of California's uni versity system " 1 found that statement more than a little puz zling con si dwtng that California universities, specifically UCLA and UO Berkeley (my alma mater), are among the best in the nation. In any event, in 1993. despite observing 20 years' worth of the draconian results of California's Proposition 13 and despite Oregon’s claim for pride in and support of its education system. Oregon passed Ballot Measure 5, One of the results of that measure was a gutting of state support for education. Ore gon then made the conscious decision to aggressively recruit out-of-state students The Uni versity Bookstore at one time even sold sweatshirts with the imprint "University of California in Eugene " The Register-Guard recently ran an article on tfiat very topic and noted that die Uni versity targets wealthy areas in California — a curious move giv en Oregon's public resentment of Californians. The amend ments to the OSSHE's adminis trative rules adopted Nov. 22. 1992. serve to deny residency to virtually all students who had not already lived in Oregon for 12 consecutive months Ixdore Nov. 1. 1993. While we certainly understand any university's need for residency requirements. OSSHE's rules are written either with an anachronistic conception of “student" in mind —• young, mobile, childless, unencumbered. Turn to RESIDENCY, Page 3A
