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University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon Emerald An independent newspaper Volume 98, Issue 21 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2,1996 INDEX Opinion 2 News Digest 3 News 4 Sports 21 Classifieds 25 Crossword 27 TODAY If you do not have your new student identification stop by room 12 in the basement of the EMU to take a new picture INSIDE Oregon women's soccer assistant coach Keri Sanchez brings first-hand experience to Ducks The LaVerne Krause Gallery in Lawrence Hall features art for students to enjoy WEATHER Partly cloudy. High 75. Low 45. - ---------- -IKIiUHlMlPpARKING - Parking shortage likely to last ■ NUMBER OF ON-CAM PUS SPACES: 3,270 ■ STUDENT ENROLL MENT: 17,010 ■ STAFF: 3,400 RATIO OF PEOPLE/ SPACES: 6.2/1 ■ 97-99% OF STUDENT PARKING IS UTILIZED ■ 78-83% OF STAFF PARK ING IS UTI LIZED ■ The existing parking supply | is effectively uti- | lized for faculty/ ; staff parking and is fully uti- j lized for student parking during | the day. ■ Of the 39% who drive to campus, 78% purchase a parking permit. j Of those who drive and do not i purchase a per- j mit, most indi cated that they did not do so because it cost too much. SOURCE: UO Parking Survey __I MATHEW STIFFLER/Emerald Cars jam the Bean parking lot on Tuesday morning, making it difficult for anyone to find a spot. With more per mits given out than there are spaces, parking on campus will only get more difficult in the future. Frustrated students are lookingfor answers and spaces By Ben Kwasney Higher Education Reporter Running late for class? Driving to campus? Don’t plan on finding a parking space in time to make it to class unless you’re lucky. The Office of Public Safety sold 6,362 parking per mits last year for the 3,268 available spaces. Students only have access to 1,300 spaces, while faculty and staff can park in 2,380 spaces. And short term parking uses 371 spaces. “It’s not a boom, boom in and out thing,” said Rand Stamm, parking program coordinator for the Univer sity. Campus traffic never comes or leaves at the same time of day, he said. He said since every student has a different sched ule and not all permits sold are used for a full year, it is not necessary to put a cap on permit numbers. The University completed a study on parking last fall, looking for viable alternatives to the campus park ing crunch. The 13th Avenue car pool lot continues along University Street to Johnson Lane. It opens ap proximately 15 spaces on a first-come, first-serve ba sis. Each car will pay $63 for. a yearly permit and is re quired to carry at least three passengers. “The idea behind this is to try to encourage more people to car pool and basically get less one-person to-one-car type of mind set, and get people working together and car pooling together,” said Stamm. He said OPS is still considering moving parking to Autzen Stadium, but it would be difficult to safely im plement this year. “It would be a huge pain in the butt to have to go back and forth. If you’re living here, it’s not that nec essary to have a car,” said Katie Schmidt, a University freshman and residence hall student. Schmidt, who squeezed her Geo Metro into a com pact spot partially taken by a large four-wheel drive Turn to PARKING, Page 14A Banned books to be read freely ■ CENSORSHIP: Knight Library promotes Banned Books Week with a read tonight in the Browsing Room By Tom Potter Student Activities Reporter Freedom comes in many forms. Some thing as simple as picking up a book can be a little-known liberty. “Challenged for Censorship: A Read Aloud Celebrating the Freedom to Read” is a program designed to proclaim the freedom to read. It will take place in the Knight Library Browsing Room today from 5:30 to 7 p.m. The program is part of the 15th annual promotion of Banned Books Week. The American Library Association publishes a list of banned books and is responsible for promoting Banned Books Week. “It should concern everybody,” said Rare Book Catalog Librarian Bruce Tabb. “This is what a library is all about — freedom to find out what you want to find out about.” The program is sponsored by the Univer sity and all interested parties are invited to attend. Volunteers consisting mostly of library staff will read five minute sections from var ious books that were challenged. Challenged books are works that someone complains about and attempts to ban from the library. A banned book is a book that is actually taken out of library circulation be cause someone makes a complaint and his or her objection is deemed justifiable by a li brary board. The books that will be read are also all on display at the library. Faye Chadwell, head of Collection Devel opment for Knight Library, said it is impor tant to remember not all of the books that will be read aloud were banned, but they were challenged. This is important to stu dents because they should have ideas repre senting both sides of an issue, Chadwell said. She said it is important to remember that public schools and all academic libraries are susceptible to censorship. But censorship isn’t confined to just books. “It’s not just print, it’s also what’s on the Internet,” she said. Censorship is becoming particularly Turn to CENSORSHIP, Page 15A Incident on campus reconfirms fears of sexual assault ■ DANGERS: University officials recognize that the problem goes beyond statistics By Kristin Bailey Student Activities Editor Statistics have indicated it for years: It’s not selective, no one is immune. And last week a new University student found out that sexual assault really can happen to anyone. “A female student was walking through campus on the morning of Sept. 26, and she was unfamiliar with her surroundings,” Stan Reeves, director of the Office of Public Safety, said. “She stopped in a building to use the bathroom, and a male walked in be hind her. ” What ensued that morning may be cause to validate the fears of any one who walks alone on campus. “After she emerged from the bathroom stall, the student was grabbed by the man,” Reeves said. The first “He pinned her to the of a three- wall, put his hand over her mouth and attempted pari series to fondle her .» However, Reeves said the woman avert ed further attack by kicking her attacker in the lower leg, which caused him to release her. The student, whose identity was not released, ran back to a residence hall and notified the authorities. The attacker has yet to be caught. “The attack is still under investigation by the Eugene police campus detail,” Reeves said. The assault is the first of its type reported on campus this year. However, University officials say sexual assault is a larger prob lem than numbers indicate. "We are concerned with the low statis tics,” said Laura Blake-Jones, associate dean of the Office of Student Life and coor Turn to DANGER, Page 13A SEXUAL ASSUALT NATIONAL STATISTICS: ■ One in four women will be sexually assault ed during their college careers. ■ Women between the ages of 16-24 years old have the highest victimization rate in the country. ■ Only one in 20 campus rapes are reported to the police. OREGON STATISTICS: ■ A rape of a woman or girl occurs every six and a half hours. ■ In 1990 there were 1,330 reported rapes statewide, up from 1,311 in 1989. ■ Of the 1,330 reported rapes, only 454 ar rests were made. SOURCE: Office of Student Life
