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SPORTS Back in top form Outside bitter Madeline Ernst has recoveredfrom a mid-season illness to rank among the Pac-10 leaders in kills PAGE 7 MEASURES Sizemore plans ahead The Oregon Public Employees Union and the Oregon Tax Payers United prepare to go head to head in a battle over spending and taxes PAGE 6 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1997 TODAY AS IIO programs are ashed to attend a Pro grams Finance Com mittee meeting at 6p.m. in the Hen Under Room WEATHER Today Mostly cloudy High 53- Low 45. Friday Partly cloudy High 55. Low 47. Nobel Prize winner encourages dialogue Speaker Jose Ramos-Horta believes there is hope j'or sovereignty in East Timor By Kari Thorene Higher Education Reporter “Empires don’t last forever. Regimes don’t last forever. People — they are eternal; they are the makers of history,” Jose Ramos-I forta said Wednesday in his speech “Peace Makers: The Power of Non violence and East Timor. ” The speech fell on the sixth anniversary of the Santa Cruz cemetery massacre. In 1991 the Indonesian military gunned down over 100 peaceful protesters in East Timor's capitol, Dili. Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975 and there has been conflict over sov ereignty ever since, resulting in a bloody war that accounts for the deaths of millions of In donesian soldiers and an estimated 200,000 East Timorese, Ramos-Horta said. Ramos-Horta shared the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize with Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo for his work to bring sovereignty to op pressed people worldwide. He spoke in the EMU Ballroom as part of the University Free man Lecture Series, presented by the Univer sity’s Center for Asian and Pacific Studies and the Carlton and Wilberta Savage Endow ment in International Relations and Peace. Ramos-Horta paid tribute to many indige nous struggles worldwide and throughout history, ranging from the contemporary strug gle for democracy in Burma to the Holocaust. He encouraged peaceful protest and patience. “Confl ids can be resolved only by way of dialogue," he said. Ramos-Horta said he remembered his first experiences with international diplomacy as Turn to SPEAKER, Page 4 RAMOS-HORTA WENDY FULLER/Emerald This painting, titled ■Canting Out, "features Martin Luther King, Jr. and Alalcom X. It will be on display in the EMU Fir Room until Noe. 14. Portrait of an Artist University student and artist Yvonne Stubbs says returning to school has brought her inspiration By Michael Hines Student Activities Reporter Somewhere in New York, there is an art gallery begging for oil paintings like “Com ingOut.” That’s what Yvonne Stubbs hopes. Stubbs, who is in her final undergraduate year at the University, has been painting as long as she can remember. Now, on the verge of earning her bachelor’s degree, Stubbs said she is still improving. “There are so many opportunities in art and so many directions you can go,” she said. After finishing her degree, Stubbs will spend another year at the University to earn a bachelor of fine arts degree. Maybe she will pursue a master’s degree, and maybe she will pursue her gospel singing. But she will eventually need a studio for all of her work. “My garage is full of stuff,” she said. Turn to ARTIST, Page 4 WENDY FULLER/Emerald African sculpture, cloth and weaning are also on display through Friday. Poppe says attitudes are factor in riots Sgt. David Poppe said more police officers in the West University area would help, but not solve, the problem By Jesse Sowa Community Reporter Sgt. David Poppe of the Eugene Police Department said he believes the recent problem with riots and loud, out-of-control parties near the University campus in volves attitude problems, University stu dents observing the riots from the streets and party hosts not following the rules. Poppe said he does not believe one thing can be blamed for all recent West Universi ty crime problems. However, he said, “If I really had to categorize it, I would say it’s [the attitudes].” During a recent interview, Poppe dis played brass knuckles and a switchblade knife found by police officers during the Oct. 31 riot at 17th Avenue and Alder Street. “To me, these epitomize the problem in the attitude,” Poppe said. “Who would take these to a party?” Poppe said a major factor in the recent ri ots was that University students watched the occurrences from the streets and con tributed to the problem. “1 believe a number of students were pre sent at the 17th Avenue and Alder Street mini-riot not as active law breakers but just observers. "When you’ve got perhaps 100 people who are just standing in the middle of the problem, they become identified with the problem. And it’s hard to separate who is doing what. “How do you say ‘Don’t go to the riot’?” he said. “In essence, it’s a spectator sport. I don’t know how we alter that.” Eugene police officers attempt to curb problems with parties before they occur. Every Friday afternoon, officers obtain copies of all keg receipts sold to residents in the area and then contact as many of the party hosts as possible. The officers then give clear warnings to the hosts about their responsibilities to restrict alcohol from mi nors, keep the noise level down and follow other simple rules. “That does have a positive impact on Turn to POPPE, Page 3
