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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1995)
Student arrest follows car incident Joe Harwood An Oregon football player was arrested and lodged tn the l-ane County (nil early Monday morning after damaging his girl friend’s car during an argument Dante Shawn l ew is. 21. was jailed on first-degree criminal mischief and men acing charges He remains in custody at the Lane County Jail in lieu of $7,500 (tail, a i ustody referee said Monday after noon The incident oc« urred at 12 51 a m near the inters!•< lion of Last lHth Avenue and University Street while Lewis was driving the woman's vehicle home after a parly, according to a Eugene police report Lewis and the 10-year-old student had been arguing when he twice drove her t ar over a curb Lewis then get out of the tar. slammed the door shut and kicked the driver's side window i ausmg it to break act ording to the police report "It looked like a lover * quarrel to me." said Andrew Paulson a to-year-old Uni versity student who witnessed the alter i ation “I saw the car Jump a c urb, the guv get out and put his heel through the driver's side window Then he walked to the passenger side and ku ked that twice before it broke When Lew is allegedly broke the us ond window, the Ion e of the blow show i*red the victim with broken glass After Lewis kicked out the second vs mdnw in- threw the v u Mn \ purs.- and ( ar keys into the nearby i emeterv and left the m one Paulson said, The vt< tint told poiko that Lewis hsd hit her before, hut didn't contact polio* because "he could do wm* damage to mo " Polite later found latwis at an apart ment complex to West I- ugene ami too!* hint into t:uslod> Lewis told police he accidentally ran over the curb during the argument, hut then got "mat!" ami hit the curb a m*» and time He said he damaged the vehlt les windows bet a use he was mad. at t ording to the polit *• report The vehicle which sustained two hro ken windows, a flat tire and front-end damage, was tossed from the si one Lewis is a senior second siring free safety Roe vs. Wade festival focuses on clinic violence Tasha Eichenseher Oregon CWk t fn&akl Recent violence directed at abortion clinics was the focus of a Roe vs Wade celebration Sundav in the EMU The weekend festival marked the 22nd anniversary of the U S Supreme Court decision which legalized abortion. How ever. opposition to the law has persisted through demonstrations, protests, attempts to change legislation and violence According to a report from the Nation al Abortion Federation, the number of murders and attempted murders of abor tion providers has drastically increased over the last two to three years Since ini'.', five murders .uni eight attempted murders have been reported. Four of the murders and seven of the attempted murders happened in 1994 The highest numbers of arson, vandal ism, death threats and stalking incidents occurred in 1992 and 1993. ■Speaker Sally Sheklow said she thought violence against abortion providers was diminishing, until the lie, ember shoot ings at the clinics in Massachusetts and Virginia. Anli-abortionist John Salvi killed two receptionists and opened fire in a waiting room here, injuring five people. Sheklow is the development director of the Feminist Women's Health Center in Eugene. She said the Salvi incident has made people at the health center aware that all abortion clinics are in danger However, the recent outbreak of vio lence has not influenced the number of women coming to the health center for abortions, Sheklow said. "It doesn’t make women any less likely to get on abortion, it just makes them find worse doing it ' Several of the 13 or so people at the i el ehration said that using violence is a des Supporters of abortion rights placed a bulletin board with information about the histo ry of Roe vs Wade In the EMU Monday Sunday was the 22nd anniversary of the Supreme Court decision In the Roe vs Wade case perate and unsui .< essful attempt hv anti abortionists to change policy "It's frightening because we know they're so organized." said Mandy Hood, co-director of Students for Choice, refer ring to the violent anti-abortionist move ment. "Reactionary pro-lifers are too wrapped up in their religious beliefs to respect and understand the law Sheklovv said that she believes the recent violence directed at abortion c bn ics is a result of anti-abortionist inflam matory rhetorn By referring to abortion clinic s as death camps, some anti abor tionists provide a c limate ideal for breed ing violence People will continue lo ( ommit what some antl-abortionists call “justifiable homicide” lx»< nuse they know (hey t un y4**t some support, she said The Women's Health Center has |ust committed to spending $13,000 on mx;ii rit v measures, siie said Bulletproof glass will tie installed in the receptionist's win dow and |wople will not I*' allowud to tar ry purses or hugs into the i enter tuiwirui Welch, dirts tor of the Women’s (enter at the t inivursity, said that no mat Ittr w hat the cause, violent e ( an never be condoned She snid a resolution to (he abortion/anti abortion deitato is unlikely lKH.au.se the views are so polarized MOVIE Continued from Page 1 approai hod President and Chair man of Wail Disney Pictures Jot? Koih whom Smith had worked with on other films Koih. a big Cm fotlMine fan. was immediately infer estod in ih«' proposition It not about an easy a sell in terms of pit< hing a motion picture idea which usually ran fake years." l utz said “)Go Koth thought it was a groat idea from the very beginning so we never had to Sell Disney oil it " i.ulz said the Oregon Production Croup has approai lied the 1 hiivonti ty about filming on campus, but future negotiations com timing the use of i ampus fm ilities. as well as other lie ms with the University, will now !m< handled by Disney offi cuds Prefontatno is still considered bv many to be the greatest distance runner in Aniern an history At the time of Ins death, he held every Ament an distance record from the 2.000 to 10.000 meter-. After finish mg fourth in the S.QtXf meters at the 192 2 Olympics in Munich. Pre foni.iine was considered one of the favorites in 197(1 While i ornpeting tor (begun. I’re fontiiine set the standards for long* distant e running I'he four-time all Ainern an won four Nt AA t h.iiiipniiiships three m I Ilf three-gtlle and one in the 5,000 meters He was 24 years old when he died Producers plan to show that the flamboyant and charismata Pre font, nne w as more than just a gifted athlete. t he Prefont,line story is nun h more than what it seems to be on the surface but/ said Most peo ple would see the story pist as a Irai k and field movie and it's really much more than that because Pre sv mboli/ed an aw fit I lot 1 le was the first athlete to really fight for the rights of amateur athletes " I.ulz i harm lorizud Prefontaine as an "incredible spirit," and said he and the other producers will try and capture that spirit in the movie. 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