Task force seeks solutions to prevent riots
The community group
joins with police to try to
stifle future incidents
By Felicity Ayles
Oregon Daily Emerald
Warmer weather equals more
parties, and more parties equals
more riots.
At least that’s what the Campus
Community Relations Task Force
agreed in its meeting Thursday
night while brainstorming ideas
for riot prevention next year.
“Spring becomes a more active
time in terms of parties,” said We
ston Morrill, dean of student life.
“We're not against parties, we’re
just against the riots that result
from them.”
Eugene Police Officer Julie
Boyd said the campus unit of the
Eugene Police Department is try
ing to better its relationship with
partygoers.
There were 120 minor in pos
session citations given out in Jan
uary at various parties, but EPD
Officer Edward Tsui said there is
no quota for police officers to fill.
“If you’re breaking the law and
the person standing next to you is
breaking the law, I’m going to cite
you both,” he said. “I think we’re
pretty consistent.”
Eugene police Sgt. Rick Gilliam
stressed that the EPD only shows
up at parties when responding to
complaints.
“We are not out there looking
for parties,” he said.
Jan Oliver, assistant vice presi
dent for institutional affairs, said
she thinks crime in the West Uni
versity area has increased despite
all the police department’s pre
ventative activity.
“Even if you take out all the
party problems, what has been
equally as troublesome have been
crimes of assaults, thefts and
crimes against persons,” Oliver
said.
Whatever the crime, Morrill
said, students need to realize they
must comply with officers’ re
quests.
"We talked to a number of stu
dents after the problem at Hal
loween,” he said. “If the officer
gives a command in these circum
stances and the individual does
not follow that, they are at risk of
being arrested.”
Efforts to de-glamorize the riots
should be a top priority for stu
dent groups, Tsui said. Students
have told him the riot was a rite of
passage because it was an expect
ed, annual thing, he said.
Laura Blake-Jones, associate
dean of student life, said the Of
fice of Student Life has collected
data to find out what students re
ally think about the Halloween
riot. She said there was a 37 per
cent increase since last year in
students who feel the University
is concerned with alcohol abuse
on campus.
She also said 93 percent of stu
dents surveyed said they ap
proved of the activity of the police
on Halloween night, and 78 to 80
percent said they would leave the
area or move back if asked by po
lice. The survey was conducted
only among first-year students
living on campus.
Blake-Jones said the Office of
Student Life is working to prevent
a riot next Halloween and is try
ing to find funding for student
groups involved in prevention.
Overall, Boyd said, the relation
ship between students and police
should be changed so the riots are
not repeated.
"That’s in the past. Let’s pro
hibit it and create a better rela
tionship between students, police
and the community,” she said.
Officer Pete Aguilar, visiting
from Boulder, Colo., said the
Boulder Police Department is see
ing some balance this year after
past riots. He said the police have
often been hurt by out-of-hand ri
ots because they waited too long
to respond to the problem.
Aguilar said many officers have
been injured in the line of duty
while dealing with riots, and the
Boulder Police Department now
implements civilian observation
teams to help with surveillance.
"We are relying on that as pre
vention,” he said.
Another agenda item of large
concern was that of speeding traf
fic on Alder Street. Campus Co-op
representative Benjamin Cutler
said he has observed speeding
traffic numerous times on Alder
Street and asked for police to help
with the problem. He suggested
adding speed bumps or stop signs
to reduce traffic speed.
uass will teach heritage speakers or Spanish to read and write
Formal instuction gives
native speakers skills
not learned at home
ByG. Jaros
Oregon Daily Emerald
iHablas espanol?
There’s a new class at the Uni
versity designed for people who
understand the question, but
might not know how to spell it.
For the first time, the Depart
ment of Romance Languages is of
fering a class aimed at people
who can speak Spanish but didn’t
learn it in an academic setting.
Many people have been raised
in Spanish-speaking homes or
neighborhoods or were raised in
Spanish-speaking countries and
then moved to the United States.
They often learn to speak Spanish
without knowing how to read or
spell in that language.
“Many of these people don’t
want to come into our regular
classes because they already
know how to speak,” said Shelley
Merello, the instructor teaching
the class.
The new class, for “heritage
speakers,” is being offered spring
term. Heritage speakers are Amer
icans of Hispanic origin.
The class will emphasize the
students’ development of Spanish
writing skills, building vocabu
lary and the discussion of literary
and journalistic texts.
Students also will develop an
awareness of the many varieties
of Spanish. There are different re
gional and social dialects as well
as a more or less international
standard used in newspapers and
books, Merello said.
“We are assuming, since His
panic numbers are growing in
Oregon, the need for this will
grow,” Merello said.
Oregon leads the Pacific North
west with a 99.1 percent increase in
its Hispanic population, according
to the U.S. Census and Larson
Northwest Hispanic Media & Mar
keting in Portland. That is the sixth
highest growth rate in the United
States, according the census.
There were 11,513 permanent
Hispanic residents in Lane Coun
ty and 189,809 in Oregon, accord
ing to 1998 figures.
“This number is believed to be
an undercount of 9 to 14 percent
and doesn’t include migrant His
panics,” said Ron Larson, owner
of the media and marketing com
pany. Nearly 75 percent of the re
gion’s Hispanics are under age 35,
Larson said.
The Hispanic population in the
United States is more than 29 mil
lion people, or 10.9 percent of the
population, according to the 1997
Census.
Most of these people are born
and educated in the United
States, said Robert L. Davis, direc
tor of the University Spanish Lan
guage Program. Because their ed
ucation has primarily been in
U.S. schools, they develop limit
ed proficiency in reading and
writing Spanish, he said.
The class is listed in the Spring
1999 Schedule of Classes as
“Spanish 399 Espanol Hispan.”
For more information, call Davis
at 346-0956.
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