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When attacked, jogger ‘did everything right’ oamaimid martin Oropoi* Cbtty An attempted attar k on a female jogger Thursday morning at the Amazon Park running trail has left pollct’ searching (nr a suspect and the victim a safe ty role model. Thi> 24 -year-old victim told polii e that she was logging south on the Amazon Park trail at 7 4r> a m when a man grabbed her from behind and pulled a knife on her After the assailant tried to pull the woman into the shrubbery, the woman resisted by sr reaming and ku king him Hie assailant then released the woman and ran east into the woods, said Tim Hirr, spokesman for the Eugene Department ofPuhlii Safety “The victim did everything right," said the department's public information of fit er. fan Power. Those are the things you want to do if you are attai keel The assailant is described by police as a 6-foot-tall white male with a thin build and brown hair cut short over the ears At the time of the attar k. ho was wear ing a dark hooded sweatshirt over a light-colored T-shirt, black jeans, black tennis shoes and baseball hat with a red hill. NIGHT EXERCISE SAFETY TIPS ■ Don't wear headphones i on both ears listen to your I surroundings ■ Try to exercise with some one It that's not possible, let someone know where you'll be going and when you expect to return ■ Look behind you and to both sides every so otten to scan the area ■ Carry a flashlight, whistle, pepper spfay or shriek alarm Make sure you are upwmd t! you need to use the pepper spray B Look pa ; people w the eye so they know you're aware ot their presence ■ Take a self defense course. ■ Be aware of safe havens and places to avoid on your route ■ Learn how to yell 'No'm a loud and deep manner. SOURCE Agmt\i GW D** **x#3 yV >«r c Shahon PANEL Continued from Page ! "Printden! Clinton in fully t ommitted to hav inn •> healthy economy and a healthy envi ron ment 'As government tschanging rapidly the Kl’A will play a role in the shifts,” he said. "Environmental quality is important u >■ need to be able to antic quite future prob lems end wo need to ba able to fonts on nontraditional environmental problems “ Kd Whitelaw. economic s professor, said it vvdl |m> hard to stop the growing, i hanging economy. We re moving out of an extractive past into something else — an information base, a high-tec h base." he said “This process has Ikwii going 0:1 for several dec -ides The Sony* and Hyundais are nnec dotes of that larger process This kind of growth is extremely powerful and slow ing it down is very difficult we'd have more difflc ulty not growing.” he said Mi ke t .Season . it V lu.m.l,' er. agreed with Whitelaw The growth !in Kugenel is urev er sibie and {Hyundai Is -i real-life teai hable moment for our community Hansen asked two questions of the pa mil First, should the United State* export its hum ronmental te« hnologv? George Grier, member of the Mi htmiac Watershed ('omit il, believt's the United States should become a partner in the international global export of environmental information, but Taunt Samuel, dins tor of Springfield Forest Products, said that the countries who need environmental its hnol ogv don't have the money to buy tt Nocundlv. Hansen asked for spot ifii messages he could take ha< k to the president con i enting tiie role of government in training the work fort r Grier believes educating i hildren is a ke\ "If v ou are try mg to build a work fon u for the future, you need to atari young.. so they can be adaptable to their envi ronment,” he said Finally. Steve Gordon, wet lands spin lalist. gave several S tail i t■ ! i. 11,i: i si•!i I. deliver to the president. "Don't fie afraid to get ahead of the problem and don't be afraid to invest m the process.' he said 'We have to find compromises we c an live with EXON Continued, from Page i us well .is the distribution of materials with sexual content to children, according to the Klet Ironic Frontier Foundation, a group that works with computer privm \ and freedom legislation The Communications Decency Act. as the Exon Bill is also known, would change the language of existing laws — which pri marily involve telephones — to include other telecommunications devices, such as computers — including the data servers used by Internet sites and commercial providers such as America Online. The bill would impose criminal liabili ties on servers and on-line services. The person responsible for posting a prohibit ed message could get up to $100,000 irt fines and two years in (ail Main supporters of Internet freedom oppose tfie legislation because they believe i( threatens to impose censorship on the free waves of the medium. "Lovers send Valentines through the mail and make dates by telephone, the same media used hy kidnappers for ransom arrangements, hut the post office and tele phone are not banned.” said Tom Collins in a post on the all politic s datahighway news group, an Internet bulletin Ixiard According to the electronic frontier Foundation, the legislation would impose content restrictions on computer commu nications that would thill first Amendment protected speech and restrict adults in lh»- public forums of computer networks to writing and reading only such ! 11 is suitable for i hildren 1 he (utu Institute, a think tank based in Washington, I)( said the i son Hill could severely restrict the free flow of informa tion that characterizes the digital age in a study released by the group Hut Ison says he is trvmg to preserve the dei ency of the Internet I want to keep the Information Superhighway from resembling a red-light district, (son said when introdiu mg the bill, according to the on-line publication tfatiumf I tus legislation will help stop those who electronically i ruise the digital universe (and) engage children in inappro priate communications " f WUNPERLAND • ^ 5vioco QAMtS , - — 5th STREET PUBIJC M.ARKCT 683-8464 f I YMO ADVENTURE ; VAHIV H«Vf R PI. 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