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Volume 100, Issue 45
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Riots on Alder Street repeated
Between 80 and 100people
gather at a disturbance that
results in 12 arrests
By Felicity Ayles and Michael Burnham
Oregon Daily Emerald
During the University’s third riot in
just more than a year, Eugene police ar
rested 12 people, fourofwhom indicated
they are University students.
Around 11:35 p.m.,acrowd composed
of mostly student-age people gathered be
tween the 1600 and 1700 blocks of Alder
Street. As police officers looked on, riot
ers lined both sides of Alder Street and
started yelling, throwing bottles and
pulling street signs from the ground.
“The first sign came down about 15
minutes ago,” University junior Jon
Rossitto said. “[The crowd] has been try
ing to get riots happening here all night.”
Rossitto was one of quite a few crowd
members leaving the scene before the riot
erupted.
“It’s just like last year. Everyone wants
to get it on again,” University senior Ron
Weaver said. Everybody converged at the
comer of 17th Avenue and Alder Street be
cause of the riots from last year, he added.
There were an estimated 80 to 100 peo
ple on the 1700 block of Alder Street, EPD
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Police mobilize at the comer of 18th Avenue and Alder Street. Moments later, two cans of tear gas were deployed in order to disperse the crowd.
Scott Ikinwtt/Ememki
Fire, fraternity incident spark riot
Several
occurrences
Saturday
night lead
to unruly
crowds
gathering
on Alder
Street
By Michael Burnham
Oregon Daily Emald
Two late-night Halloween incidents con
tributed to rioting along four blocks of
Alder Street and portions of adjacent roads.
Rioting continued until early Sunday
morning.
Police initially responded to an incident
at a fraternity house, followed by a fire at a
quad complex. Both incidents indirectly
contributed to a series of altercations be
tween the Eugene Police Department and
disorderly crowds on Alder Street, EPD
agent Rob Olsen said Sunday.
“The fraternity and the fire were only
contributors in increasing the number of
people in the area,” he said.
The Eugene Fire Department received a
call at 11:09 p.m. reporting a fire at Cam
pus Quads at 751 E. 16th Avenue. Five fire
engines, one medic unit and two EFD chief
officers arrived at the scene of the one
alarm blaze in room 104 at approximately
11:15 p.m. Fire-fighters put tile flames out
at 11:17 p.m., said EFD District Chief Dan
Wirth, who was at the scene. He added that
the resident of room was not present when
the blaze was contained. The room’s owner
could not be contacted as of Sunday
evening.
According to EFD Capt. Ken Hem, who
was the first of the fire-fighters at the scene,
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Scott tkmiett/V.merald
A rioter brandishes a broken stop sign moments before police move in.
Higher ed act requires more thorough reporting of campus crime
By Teri Meeuwsen
Oregon Daily Emerald
Anyone interested in campus crime sta
tistics will soon see a more comprehensive
list of crimes and a crime log at the Office of
Public Safety in response to the Higher Edu
cation Act’s passage earlier this month.
The act requires colleges that have a secu
rity office to keep daily logs of crimes re
ported and to make these logs available to
the public within two business days, except
where prohibited by law.
The act also requires universities to ex
pand their list of crimes that they must re
port each year to include manslaughter and
arson.
Other provisions include: expanding the
reporting requirements to include informa
tion about crimes that occur near campus;
keeping statistics on violent crimes direct
ed at individuals because of race, gender, re
ligion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or dis
ability; and allows the Secretary of
Education to impose a fine on colleges that
deliberately misrepresent their crime statis
tics.
“We’re happy to see the need of reporting
crimes prioritized,” said C.J. Gabbe, ASUO
federal affairs coordinator. “In the long run,
students will feel safer (by seeing these logs
and more statistics), but now it’s good to
know how safe we are, and how we can
work to make students even safer.”
The Higher Education Act revises the
campus crime bill that had been effective
since 1992. The previous bill was spurred
by the murder of Jeanne Clery, a student at
Lehigh University in Pennsylvania in April
1986. The parents of Clery wanted universi
ties to report campus crimes in a compre
hensive way. The revised bill was tacked
onto the Higher Education Act and renamed
the “Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Se
curity Policy and Campus Crime Statistics
Act.” As a result, the Higher Education Act
creates a more detailed look at reporting
crime.
“The parents were not fully satisfied with
how things were going, so they wanted to
improve and enhance and expand it,” said
Tom Hicks, Office of Public Safety associate
director.
While the idea behind the changes are
commendable, actually implementing them
will be difficult, he said.
“It will take a lot of work with the nuts
and bolts of it,’’ Hicks said. “At the same
time, the spirit of law is good and not some
thing to be argued with."
Creating an easy way for students and
community members to see reported crimes
in a crime log will be difficult to create, he
said. Currently, to find a day’s worth of re
portable crimes, students or community
members have to search through police re
ports and dispatch logs. However, the issues
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