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U of O Environmental Issues Committee Police Beat Water balloon hits car in University Inn lot 1 Police are investigating items being thrown from the upper floors of the University Inn after a moving vehicle was hit by a water balloon April 13. While traveling south on Patter son Street and approaching the ve hicle entry area of the University Inn parking lot, a University stu dent’s vehicle was hit on the front windshield by what was later dis covered to be a water balloon. The student parked the vehi cle in the lot and attempted to determine what hit the car and the extent of the damage. He determined that the object included some sort of fluid and fonned a splash pattern when it hit the vehicle. A large crack ex tended horizontally through the windshield and the entire width of the window. An officer from the University’s Office of Public Safety arrived soon after and found a piece of a balloon on the vehicle’s wiper blade. The officer then searched the area around the University Inn and found several pieces of green colored plastic. The officer later met with a resident assistant at the Univer sity Inn who said she saw items fall past her window, which has a clear view of the parking lot, around the time of the incident. The items she saw included green water balloons and or anges. The resident assistant said she attempted to look out the window to see who was throwing the objects but saw no one there. Police interviewed a resident of the room from which the items were allegedly thrown April 14. The resident agreed to assist in providing information for the investigation. A witness to the incident told police he saw the items thrown from the room directly above the resident assistant’s room. He also identified the person he saw throw oranges at vehicles on Patterson Street. The incident is still under in vestigation. No suspect informa tion was available as of Tuesday. Fraternity warned for noise disturbance 2 Members of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity received a verbal warning for a noise dis turbance April 16 after neigh bors called police to complain about loud noise and music coming from the house, accord ing to a police report. Eugene police told officials of the house, 1306 E. 18th Ave., that a written report would be forwarded to the University’s dean of students and also to the Greek Life Board for review and possible follow-up action. Officers responded to the call and heard the noise from half a block away when they arrived at the scene. Officers saw empty beer bottles on the grass below a veranda. Numerous people were on the roof of the veranda talk ing and yelling over the loud music, according to the report. Pizza restaurant robbed at gunpoint 3A lone gunman robbed the Pietro’s Pizza Restaurant, 3540 W. llth Ave., on Monday. At approximately 11:44 p.m., a black or Hispanic male ob tained an unknown amount of cash and fled on foot. The suspect is described as 20 to 30 years old, 5 feet 9 inches to 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighing 180 to 190 pounds, with short hair and a dark moustache. He was wearing a black and white sweatshirt, a jacket, blue jeans, brown work boots and had pantyhose hiding his face. Man sentenced for Eugene-area robberies 4A 36-year-old Eugene man was sentenced Tuesday in Lane County Circuit Court after being convicted by a jury Friday for robbing seven different busi nesses in the Eugene area, ac cording to a police news release. John Franklin Knight was convicted on nine counts of first-degree robbery. The rob beries occurred between Jan. 29, 1998 and Feb. 12,1998 and in cluded nine separate victims. Knight was sentenced to a to tal of 52 1/2 years in addition to completing his sentence on the previous robbery conviction. —Compiled by /esse Sowa Survey: Results to be tallied by June m uonnnuen irom rage 1 officials to gage community con cern in the unique and highly transient neighborhood popula tion of 5,500, 80 percent of which are students. The West Universi ty Neighborhood borders the en tire west boundary of the Univer sity’s campus and encompasses an area that borders portions of 11th Avenue on the north and 19th Avenue on the south. The area was targeted for the first of such city surveys because of its aging housing, traffic and crime problems. Weinman attrib utes the area’s problems to the high transient population and some landlords’ apathetic attitude toward tenement maintenance. “There’s been deterioration of property,” he said. “Absentee landlords have found that they could get top dollar without fix ing up [buildings].” Money for the survey’s distrib ution comes as part of the city’s budget directed to fund the revi talization of neighborhoods. Ac cording to Funke, who is a plan ning, public policy and management major, the survey costs the city about $1,500 in mailing costs. Weinman said the results of the survey might be tallied and ready for implementation by late May or early June. As of Wednesday afternoon, Funke said he had already count ed about 100 completed surveys. However, he said the return rate has already begun to taper off. But this won’t stop city officials from attempting to elicit respons es from area residents. “For people who don’t re spond, they will get another sur vey,” Funke said. “We really want their responses.” The Oregon Daily Emerald is published daily Monday through Friday during the school year and Tuesday and Thursday during the summer by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. Inc., at the University of Oregon. Eugene. Oregon. A member of the Associated Press, the Emerald op erates independently of the University with offices in Suite 300 of the Erb Memorial Union. The Emerald is private prop erty. The unlawful removal or use of papers is prosecutable * by law. NEWSROOM — Stt-ffil Editor in chief: Sarah Kickler Managing Editor Nicole Krueger Community: Michael Burnham, editor. Tricia Duryee, Jesse Sowa Entertainment Evan Denbaum, editor Shannon Sneed Higher Education: Teri Meeuwsen, editor Ben Romano, Amalie Young Perspective: Michael Schmierbach, editor Chris Hutchinson, illustrator. 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