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Outside bitter Madeline Ernst has
recoveredfrom a mid-season illness to
rank among the Pac-10 leaders in kills
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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