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‘Vampires’ bloody sucks
John Carpenter's Vampires’ is full of
blood and gore, but little plot or
substance/PAGE 7A
Runners hit Eugene
'The Ducks host the Pac-10's
lx?st with the conference cham
pionships Saturday/ PAGE 17A
An independent newspaper
Volume 100, Issue 44
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
After last year’s riot that left Alder
Street in shambles, the spotlight of
blame came to rest on seven men in
one house— this is their story
By Michael Hines
Oitgon Daily tmerak)
ugene police ended a smurfs fist fight,
Hitler’s fierce destruction of street
-L—J signs and an enormous student riot
last Halloween—all by midnight.
As cops clad in riot gear lobbed tear gas
canisters onto 17th Avenue, costumed stu
dents —bloodied, bruised and mostly drunk
—started dashing from the drifting fumes.
What they left behind was a trail of de
struction on Alder Street that stretched from
14th Avenue to 18th Avenue. Lamp posts
and street signs were strewn across the
street, and shattered glass blanketed the
pavement.
Police and the media quickly turned on
1708 Alder St., a large white house where
seven college-age men lived. That Friday
night, it had been the site of a raging eight
kegger.
Turn to STUDENTS, page 13A
City means busmess,
Mayor Torrey says
Communication is the
key to a successful party,
Councilman Lee says
By David Ryan
Oregon Daily Emersld
Forget the disco ball, and
check out the spinning blue
lights.
On Halloween night, twice as
many police officers will be on
the streets of the West Universi
ty Neighborhood than on an or
dinary Saturday night — and
possibly more.
They will be checking regis
tered kegs, double-checking the
kegs and dividing the mostly
student-occupied streets into
sections to sweep through on
patrol. In addition to an un
known number of Oregon
Liquor Control Commission
agents roaming the area, two po
lice Rapid Deployment Units
will be on standby.
“I think [students] need to
know that we mean business,"
Eugene Mayor Jim Torrey said.
He is confident the authori
ties’ presence will deter stu
dents from getting into situa
tions where police have to
intervene.
“The history is that tradition
ally there have been large par
ties that have gotten out of con
trol,” he said.
Students clashed with police
last Halloween on the comer of
17th Avenue and Alder Street,
downing street signs and
prompting police to fire tear gas
into the crowd.
If there is a repeat of last
A group ol rioters vandalize a stop sign during the 1997 Halloween riot.
Emerald
year’s riots, Torrey said the city
might require students to hire
private security guards for par
ties.
“The community will de
mand [the city] do something,”
he said. "The property owners
will demand that we take con
trol of the streets.”
For now, there is justification
for the increased police mea
sures, Torrey said.
Torrey recognized that stu
dents want to have a good time
at parties but said the city has a
Turn to CITY, page12A
University says
no thanks
to notification
By Teri Meeuwsen
j Oregon Daily Emeriti
University students can continue to
| keep their drug and alcohol violations to
! themselves.
Because of state laws that protect stu
j dents’ rights to privacy, the University
| decided not to uphold the amendment
i of the Higher Education Act that al
i lowed parental notification when their
| students younger than 21 commit an al
j cohol or drug violation, said Dan
! Williams, vice president for administra
■ tion.
i Williams, the deans of student life,
members of academic student services
and the president’s legal advisor met, re
viewed the laws and made the decision
Turn to NOTIFICATION, page 5A