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Career fair creates opportunities
The two-day event will bring more
than 60graduate schools and 70 em
ployers to ca mpus /PAGE 3
Open season
The Oregon u omen start
their quest for a sixth straight
trip to the NCAAs /PAGE 5
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An independent newspaper
Volume 100, Issue 46
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Student arrested
By Nicole Gallon
Oregon Daily Emerald
A University student was ar
rested Monday night at Hamilton
Complex and charged with tres
passing and harassment.
The student was apprehended
by the Office of Public Safety
while trying to enter the Collier
wing of the complex, said John
Crosiar, associate director of the
University Office of Communi
cations. The suspect was not a
resident of that hall.
When confronted by two OPS
officers, he verbally harassed
them, Crosiar said. Then a resi
dent of the hall arrived and led
the suspect into the building.
"OPS followed him inside,
where he continued to verbally
harass them,” Crosiar said.
As OPS was arresting the sus
pect, a crowd of students gath
ered in front of the complex,
where they began taunting the
officers, according to a report re
leased by the Eugene Police De
partment. The crowd prevented
the OPS officers from leaving the
building with the suspect, and
OPS called the Eugene Police De
partment for backup, the report
said.
When Eugene police arrived
on the scene at approximately 9
p.m., members of the crowd be
gan challenging the officers to re
peat Saturday night’s riot, the po
lice report said. Nine officers
responded to the incident, and
the crowd was estimated at 50 to
75 people.
The suspect was arrested for
verbal harassment and removed
from the building through a back
door, and the students harassing
the officers outside were dis
persed, Crosiar said. No other ar
rests were made.
The suspect was charged with
Criminal Trespass II and Harass
ment and was taken to the Lane
County Jail.
Many polling locations available
Students can take an
ASUO-sponsored shuttle
to voting sites
By Peter Broaden
and Kristina Rudinskas
Oregon Daily Emerald
Sometime today the ASUO
wants students to cast their ballots
and voice their concerns in-be
tween the classes, term papers and
tests.
First, registered voters need to
find the precinct they are assigned to
vote in. A locator map will be in the
ASUO office to direct students.
If voters live in the Hamilton or
Bean complexes, they can vote at
Agate Hall on campus.
Students who live in Carson
Hall, Walton or Earl complexes can
vote in the EMU Walnut Room.
The University Inn residents
should vote at Celeste Campbell
Center at 155 High St.
Most students who live in the
West University district can vote at
the Central Presbyterian Church at
1475 Ferry St.
For those who live in the area be
tween Emerald Street and Patterson
Street from the blocks of 18th Av
enue to 22nd Avenue, a poll will be
at South Eugene High School.
For those who have no idea
where to vote, the ASUO is driving
students in a shuttle to the polls.
The shuttle will be available from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m.
Community polling locations
are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. and
in-state absentee ballots can be
dropped off at all locations.
“The future that Oregon is mov
ing in is so important,” said ASUO
Vice President Morgan Cowling.
"Not only as students here at the
University but as citizens of Ore
gon.”
The quickest way is to go pre
pared.
“Go in with a card, knowing how
you’re going to vote," said ASUO
State Affairs Associate Ceri Swan
son.
This year's two state’s voters’
pamphlets are available in front of
the ASUO office.
There are issues of special im
portance, said ASUO State Affairs
Coordinator Matt Swanson.
“Cost and quality of the educa
tional experience — look hard at
their stance on education,” Swan
son said. “Education should be bi
partisan.”
The governorship and senate
races are especially important,
Cowling said.
Student lobbying receives most
of its power through elections,
Cowling said.
“When we go to them at the Legis
lature, we can say, ‘So many people
live in your district and voted for
you.’ I don’t think many students
understand that direct relationship.”
Halloween update
Scou Harnett V.meraLl
Acting Chief of Police Jim Hill shows members of the media a police video taken at Saturday night's riot.
Police confront riot problem
Police hope that stricter
penalties will help keep
situations under control
By David Ryan
Oregon Daily Emerald
The buzzword was ‘crackdown’
at a press conference held by Act
ing Chief of Police Jim Hill on
Monday about the Halloween riot.
Hill said police will redouble
their efforts to make sure stricter
penalties await rioters along with
those arrested Saturday night. At
the University, officials plan to
keep scheduling events, although
they are doubtful on-campus
events will prevent future riots.
Hill called the riot, which
caused $8,000 in property dam
age, “a culture of actively confron
tive conduct by certain young
adults. We have people inviting
us, taunting us to start a confronta
tion. I have no idea what kind of
culture this is.”
Hill said he wanted fed up mem
bers of the community to know the
police are doing something.
“What I’m trying to emphasize
to those folks that are willing to lis
ten is we are not going to fool
around with this,” hesaid. “We are
going to take enforcement action.
We will ask that people be vigor
ously prosecuted. We will do the
best we can to make sure there are
some meaningful sentences for
those people that are convicted of
[riot-related] activities.”
Hill said existing laws relating to
riots will possibly be strengthened.
“We are going to be reviewing
city ordinances and alcohol-relat
ed ordinances and see if we can’t
perhaps create some new sanc
tions and perhaps some longer
57 and 67 question
marijuana laws, uses
Supporters of measure 6 7
think it's wrong to punish
people who use mart/lia
na medically
By Felicity Ayles
Oregon Daily Emerald
State ballot measures 57 and 67
both deal with marijuana use, but
in different ways.
Measure 57 makes possession
of less than one ounce of marijua
na a Class C misdemeanor. Cur
rently, possessing this amount of
the drug is punishable by a $500
to $1,000 fine.
Citizens in favorof the measure
feel it is an appropriate deterrent
for young people using marijua
na.
“There is a tremendous in
crease in the use of marijuana by
young people," said Oregonian
Roger Burt, who published a
statement in favor of the measure
in the voter’s pamphlet.
The real intent of the measures
is to bring about some positive,
constructive intervention for
teenagers with alcohol and drug
problems, Burt said.
“Marijuana use is a serious
problem foreveryone,”hesaid.
Burt predicted if Measure 57
passes, marijuana use will go
down about 50 percent. Alaska
experienced the same kind of de
crease when the state re-criminal
ized marijuana in 1994 in a mea
sure similar to Measure 57, he
said.
Opponents of Measure 57 are
concerned about its cost.
Dave Fidanque, Oregon ACLU
executive director, said he is op
posed to the measure because il
would cost $1.4 million per year
to implement.
Fidanque said he also opposes
the measure because of the great
disparity in which people are
treated.
“If tire measure passes, it will
be up to the discretion of police
officers to decide if people go to
jail,” he said.
Fidanque also argues the mea
sure will allow police to seize ve
hicles and properties in conjunc
tion with drug crimes. A person
has to be involved in criminal
conduct to have their property
seized, and this measure will low
er those standards, he said.
But Fidanque supports Mea
sure 67, the measure that would
legalize marijuana for medical
use. Fidanque said the Oregon
ACLU helped draft the measure
and supports it.
If Measure 67 passes, he said, it
will prevent patients with med
ical conditions from being put in
jail for relieving their pain. The
fact that marijuana is put in the
same class as heroine is based on
politics, not science, Fidanque
said.
Fidanque insisted if this mea
sure passes, selling marijuana
will still be prohibited. The mea
sure will establish a state-con
trolled permit system for those
people who need the drug for
medical reasons.
"It’s just ridiculous to take a