Wednesday
November 3,1999
Volume 101, Issue 47
Weather
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University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
An independent newspaper
www.dailyemerald.com
‘Roll on Columbia’
A Media Services documentary centers on the relationship
between hydroelectric power, primarily Bonneville Dam,
and folk singer Woody Guthrie in the 1930s. PAGE 5
Seniors soon secede
Oregon goalkeeper Amanda Fox discusses her experience
and memories as a senior on the women’s soccer team and
her expectations for her last weeked. PAGE 9
KINKEL SENTENCING
Chris PietschThe Associated Press/Pool
Thurston High School shooting victim Teresa Miltonberger smiles as she recognizes a friend Tuesday morning when she enters the
Lane County Circuit courtroom where Kip Kinkel's sentencing hearing began.
Prosecution rests in Kinkel’s sentencing
Judge Jack
Mattison will
decide
whether the
Thurston
High School
gunman will
be sentenced
to 25 or 220
years
By Felicity Ayles
Oregon Daily Emerald
A pale but well-groomed Kip Kinkel
entered a Lane County Circuit courtroom
Tuesday morning for his sentencing
hearing. The prosecution concluded its
presentation on the first day after dis
playing photographs and other evidence
from Thurston High School and the
Kinkel residence for Lane County Circuit
Judge Jack Mattison.
Of the people
wanting to sit in on
the hearing, about 60
were selected by a
lottery system to at
tend. They watched
as Kinkel sat quietly
with his head down
on the table through
out the hearing.
Kinkel’s defense at
torneys will begin
their presentation
today, followed by victims’ statements
for the prosecution.
Kinkel, 17, pleaded guilty to four
counts of murder and 26 counts of at
Turn to Kip Kinkel, Page 3
KINKEL
Public lottery rules
The public lottery to determine seating for
the hearings for State vs. Kinkel will be held
in Harris Hall at the Lane County Courthouse
each morning before the hearings. All hear
ings will be in Courtroom 303.
People who want to see the hearing on a
particular day will be given a number. No
number will be given out before 7:15 a.m. or
after 8 a.m.
Drawing for available seats will begin
promptly at 8 a.m.
Everyone whose number is drawn will re
ceive a pass that must be presented at the
courtroom door. The pass is only valid for
the session indicated.
Anyone leaving the courtroom will be read
mitted only during a break in the session.
People entering Lane County Courthouse
must pass through two airport-style security
systems. One on the first floor of the court
house and one before the courtroom door.
No bags, purses, backpacks, boxes, pack
ages or weapons of any type will be allowed
in the courtroom.
SOURCE: Lane County public information office
Lane County voters
turn down 20-25
■ For is the second time in a year, voters have denied
additional funding for jails and public safety programs
By Sara Lieberth
Oregon Daily Emerald
With 74.2 percent of the vote
as of midnight Tuesday, Lane
County voters have made it
abundantly clear they don’t
want to spend more money on
jails and law enforcement pro
grams — again.
Measure 20-25, sponsored by
the Public Safety Coordinating
Council,
was failing
with 64,039
ballots
counted in
the special
election
held Tues
day. It
marks the
second time
Inside
Information about the 1999 state
and county special elections.
PAGES 6 & 7
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MEASURE
within a year that voters have
turned down the perceived
need for increased funding of
county jail systems, a juvenile
intake center and forest work
camps among others.
Though Measure 20-25, writ
ten as a surcharge, did not re
quire a 50 percent voter turnout
for passage, it still was over
whelmingly receiving “no”
votes as the hourly updates
were posted on Lane County’s
special election Web site. The
latest report represented a 33
percent voter turnout overall.
The measure, titled “Safer
Communities,” would have as
sessed an 8 percent surcharge
on individual’s state income tax
payments, which is a change
from the similar twin Measures
20-05 and 20-06 of November
1998 that proposed to levy tax
es on county property owners.
Both failed by extremely slim
Turn to Lane County, Page 6
3 female UO students
receive phone threats
■ West-Coast women have been sexually harassed by the
male suspect since the release of Playboy’s Pac-10 issue
By Darren Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
Three female University stu
dents received threatening tele
phone calls Tuesday night in
what the Office of Public Safety
suspects is a series of calls an
East-Coast man is making to
women at Pacific-10 schools.
The suspect has been making
the calls during the past few
weeks since the distribution of a
Playboy magazine issue featur
ing women attending Pac-10
schools, according to OPS.
The suspect has made more
than 20 phone calls to Washing
ton State University alone, OPS
Lt. Joan Saylor said.
Saylor stresses that the sus
pect is not in the area and does
n’t pose a safety hazard. Police
have a suspect and hope to soon
obtain a warrant, she said.
Saylor said OPS and police
believe the suspect has been us
ing Internet telephone directo
ries to call students with names
similar to the names of the
women featured in the maga
zine.
After women answer the
Phone harassment
The suspect, who police believe
isn’t located in the area, asks for
women by name and acts as
though he knows them. He then
asks sexually explicit questions
and often makes threats of vio
lence.
What to do if he calls: Hang up
and call either the Office of Public
Safety (346-5444) or the Eugene
Police Department (682-5111).
phone, the suspect asks for them
by name, acts as though he
knows them and asks them sex
ually explicit questions, Saylor
said.
“If they don’t play along, he
then makes some really serious
threats about raping and sodom
izing the person,” Saylor said.
The ASUO Executive might
look into requiring passwords
for access to the University In
ternet student directory if threat
ening phone calls from off cam
pus continue to be a problem,
said ASUO President Wylie
Chen.
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