Center attempts to curb theft
Resource center unll register
bikes and show students how
to lock up against theft
By Laura Baker
Oregon Daily Emerald
You know the feeling. You walk
outside, ready to unlock your bike
and head to class. Except in place
of your bike, all you find is a lone
wheel locked tightly to the post.
Bike theft on campus is a "tremen
dous problem,” said Robert Guse,
Office of Public Safety officer. Since
Sept. 21, Guse said OPS has had at
least 25 reports of stolen bikes.
In order to curb this problem, to
day and next week, campus bicy
cle coordinator David Niles will
have a resource center in front of
Gilbert Hall on 13th Avenue regis
tering bikes and showing students
how to lock their bikes properly.
In conjunction with bike regis
tration , students can also park their
bikes in an attended bike parking
area next to the resource center.
These areas will be open until
Oct.9. “The bikes that are locked
here probably won’t be tampered
with,” Niles said.
According to Guse, in 1995 Eu
gene was third in the nation for
bike theft, with 302 bikes reported
stolen. Last year, OPS had a signifi
cant rise from 1996 with 281 bikes
reported stolen.
Both Guse and Niles said the
biggest mistake students make in
locking their bikes is using a cable
lock and locking just one wheel or
another detachable part of their
bike instead of the frame.
Guse said OPS does not recom
mend using cables to secure any part
of the bike apart from the compo
nents, such as the seat and wheels.
“No cable is good enough,” Guse
said. He recommends students use
the Bike Club Ultra Junior or a
small U-lock that fastens on the
bottom or side.
Niles’ resource center focuses on
teaching students where to lock a
bike and what size of lock should
be used. The center also gives stu
dents a chance to register their
bikes with OPS.
According to Guse, one in 10
stolen bikes are recovered. "Regis
tering your bike with OPS allows
us to be able to return bikes when
they are returned," he said.
University staff aren’t the only
ones concerned about bike theft.
Senior Sam Sears hopes to start a
campaign to inform students about
theft on campus.
“Bike theft seems to be some
thing that needs to be addressed, “
Sears said. "If you ask anyone
who’s been around here for a long
time, they would know someone
who’s had a bike stolen or have
had one stolen themselves.
“I want to let people know what
Eugene is like concerning bike
theft. My main objective is to curb
the problem.”
Sears’ campaign is just in the be
ginning stages but said he hopes to
get the ASUO involved.
Both Niles and Guse empha
sized that it is better to have a lock
that leaves very little extra room on
the sides. “All a thief needs is two
inches of space in order to jack a
lock,” Guse said. “And all it takes
is two turns and the lock snaps.
“Hopefully we can get rid of this
reputation as being an easy place
to steal bikes.”
Exhibit unveiling
to honor alumnus
An art exhibit and
resource center will be
dedicated to a former
Emerald editor
By Tricia Schwennesen
Oregon Daily Emerald
A photo and art exhibit will
be unveiled and dedicated to
Willis S. Duniway today in the
resource center in Allen Hall.
At 10:30 a.m., the Allen Hall
exhibit will reveal a photo of
Duniway and a photo illustra
tion of Duniway’s photo com
bined with the image of a 1932
Oregon Daily Emerald front
page, created by journalism Pro
fessor Tom Bivins.
Duniway was a 1932 Univer
sity alumnus and former Emer
ald editor who went on to a ca
reer as an award-winning wire
service bureau chief.
Bivins said he designed a se
ries of nine computer-generated
posters illustrating the history of
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the School of Journalism and
Communication and related to
each specific sequence, such as
news editorial, public relations
and advertising.
The journalism school will
also launch construction of the
Willis S. Duniway Journalism
Resource Center as part of the
second phase of the $6 million
Allen Hall renovation project.
"The Duniway Journalism
Resource Center is the center
piece of the east wing renova
tion of Allen Hall,” journalism
school Dean Tim Gleason said
in a news release.
The second phase of renova
tion was made possible by a
$400,000 gift from Dorothy
Duniway to honor her late hus
band and will include work on
the main floor of Allen Hall, the
resource center and the Hall of
Fame.
The second phase will be
completed by the beginning of
spring term, Gleason said.
Gleason said the resource
center will house computer ter
minals, study tables, meeting fa
cilities and specialized research
materials.
“It will be a fully wired facili
ty,” Gleason said.
The Duniways have a history
of media-related work that
spans four generations.
Their legacy began about 150
years ago with Abigail Scott
Duniway, an abolitionist and a
pioneer of the alternative press.
Her brother was Harvey Scott, a
long-time editor of The Oregon
ian.
Gleason said the dedication is
a small event to honor Willis S.
Duniway.
“We just wanted to do some
thing to commemorate him,”
Gleason said.
News Brief
Woman puts brakes
on runaway car
EUGENE — Stephanie Farrell
heard the cries from her desk.
“Help! Help! My baby!”
She looked out her office win
dow to see a runaway brown sta
tion wagon veering into oncom
ing traffic Wednesday morning, a
terrified boy chasing it.
Farrell, 32, didn’t stop to think.
She darted out a side door, sprint
ed toward the car and grabbed the
driver’s door which was wide
open. With her feet dragging the
ground, Farrell managed to grab
the steering wheel and jump in.
That’s when she saw the calm
infant girl buckled into a car seat.
“She looked at me like, ‘Who
are you? Where’s my mom?”’ Far
rell said.
To the baby’s mother and old
est brother, Farrell’s actions were
nothing short of a miracle.
“1 told her, ’Thank you. You
saved my life, because my baby is
my life,”’ Noemi Zarate said.
The car got away from Zarate,
38, after it stalled and she was at
tempting to push it off the road.
Jose, 11, was pushing from be
hind when his mother lost her
grip on the driver’s side door.
After jumping in, Farrell
pumped the car’s brakes and
managed to pull it off the road a
half-block from her office.
“She was like an angel coming
down from the sky,” Jose said.
— The Associated Press