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Campus Riots
A n in-depth look at rioting and what has
changed since last year's Halloween riot
Friday in the Emerald
Northcutt settles in^
After some uncertainty, Dennis
Northcutt has found success as at
Arizona wide receiver /PAGE 7
(An independent newspaper
| Volume 100, Issue 43
* University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Conference
series covers
social issues
The student-oriented weekend
seminars will include topics such
as attachment disorder, juvenile
violence and media images
By Tricia Schwennesen
Oregon Daily Emerald
Students can learn more about current so
cial issues in a series of weekend confer
ences organized by the Substance Abuse Pre
vention Program.
Judy Vergamini, a certified counselor and
adjunct instructor, will discuss the social
and emotional causes for attachment disor
der and approaches to help children who
suffer from it on Saturday. Children who suf
fer from attachment disorder may display
antisocial behavior or a lack of conscience.
“Sometimes people who have attachment
disorder might hurt things, animals, them
selves or even other people,” said Karen
Wiant, SAPP education coordinator.
Wiant said traditional counseling can
help, but some children benefit from a con
troversial treatment called holding therapy.
“In holding therapy, they hold the child
down to help them get in touch with their
feelings,” she said.
1 wo other conferences are slated for No
vember.
“Kids Killing Kids” will be a historical
look at juvenile violence in 150 Columbia
Hall from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 8.
Speakers include Vi’Ance Easter, a specialist
in juvenile anger management; Dan Close,
Ph.D., an associate professor with the commu
nities and families program; and David Mace,
Ph.D., from Lane County Youth Services.
Speakers will present techniques for work
ing with kids and prevention and safety issues.
“Drugs, Sex and the Media” will examine
the subtle and overt messages found in ad
vertising, radio and television. The confer
ence will be held Nov. 15 from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m. in 150 Columbia.
Jay Wurscher, an addiction counselor and
Turn to CONFERENCES, Page 6
Get Out the Vote
- ,.. , . . AmandaCowaiVEmeraki
Art Aiexakis, lead singer of the band Everclear, encourages the crowd to vote at the EMU Amphitheater Wednesday as University President Dave Frohnmayer lookson.
wyden, Alexakis rock the vote
A call for
students to
get involved
in voting
was made
by Sen. Ron
Wyden and
Everclear
singer Art
Alexakis
By David Ryan
Oregon Daily Emerald
Joined by the lead singer of Ever
clear, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden urged
students to pull their political
weight at a Get-Out-The-Vote rally
at the EMU Amphitheater Wednes
day afternoon.
“Are going to sit this one out?” said
the Oregon Democrat, who is run
ning for re-election on the Nov. 3.
“Next Wednesday when you wake
up, I don’t want you to have to wake
up and find that you have politicians
whodon’tcare about y ou. ”
Speaking between the perfor
mances of two bands, Wyden, Uni
versity President Dave Frohnmay
er and Art Alexakis, lead singer of
the Portland-based band Everclear,
urged students to vote.
The rally was the third of four
held at college
campuses near
the 1-5 corridor
Wednesday.
Frohnmayer
held up an absen
tee ballot and told
the crowd he
would place it in
an EMU ballot
box after the rally.
"I can’t tell you how to vote,” he
said. “I can tell you it’s important
that your voices are heard.”
STATE
ELECTIONS
Wyden stressed that lower debt
from student loans needs nonparti
san support.
“1 don’t care whether you are a
Democrat or a Republican,” he said.
“When college students graduate
from school, they don’t have a De
mocratic debt or a Republican debt.
When they get out of school, they
should have a chance to use what
they have learned in college.”
In an interview before the rally,
Alexakis talked about his motiva
tion to speak to students, which in
cluded the $15,000 in loans he had
to pay off when he dropped out of
Turn to VOTE, Page 4
Measure 20-03 would provide funds to improve Eugene’s parks
oy reiibiiy nyies
Oregon Daily Emerald
Landscape architecture pro
fessor Cynthia Girling is teach
ing her students to appreciate
the parklands available in Eu
gene.
For a term project, her stu
dents are creating an open
space plan for the
Eugene/Springfield area.
But Girling said the park
lands being used for the pro
ject are becoming restricted
because of the rapid rate of
growth in Eugene. She said
Eugene Ballot Measure 20-03
would help purchase land
and develop parks in under
served areas in Eugene.
fcverybody should have a
neighborhood park close to
their home,” she said.
Measure 20-03 would pro
vide funds for the construction
of new parks and renovation of
existing parks in the Eugene
area.
No one has filed opposition
to the measure.
The last time a ballot to
fund parks and open spaces
was available to voters was in
1976, and that measure
passed. Twenty-two years lat
er, many supporters feel the
currently proposed improve
ments are overdue.
Larry Hendricks, facilities
director for Kidsports, said it’s
time to upgrade all the parks
in and around Eugene.
Kidsports supports the mea
sure because it will be the ma
jor beneficiary of the money,
Hendricks said. The organiza
tion, which is dedicated to
providing places for children
to play sports, will receive at
least 50 percent of the funds.
Hendricks said the organiza
tion is running out of venues
for sporting events. Kids have
to play basketball at the Lane
County Fairgrounds because
there’s no where else to go, he
said. The ballot measure will
bring more places for the kids
to play, he said.
“There are athletic fields in
Eugene with no drainage sys
tems,” he said.
The measure will provide
the funds to fix these fields so
that six or eight games, instead
of just one or two, can be
played on them, he said.
“It’s just a very well
thought-out plan,” he said.
If the measure doesn’t pass,
Hendricks said, some commu
nity resources will be closed,
such as the Amazon Pool.
The measure would repair
the pool and make it available
to people. In addition, it
would open up neighborhood
parks not yet developed, he
said.
Measure 20-03 funding
Measure 20-03 includes $25.3 million to make
the following improvements:
$11,750,000 for projects providing services to
all of Eugene.
$750,000 to upgrade existing sports fields.
$3,430,000 to develop existing neighborhood
parks.
$5,350,000 to acquire land for future parks.
$3,720,000 for the Ridgeline Park expansion.
Source: City of Eugene