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Beltline continued from page 1 mental assessment of the highway from 1991 to 1995. Cahill said the project is in response to an in crease in traffic volume and safety issues. The announcement of the Belt line project follows the comple tion of the ten-year-long Ferry Street Bridge project. Philip Weil er, director of communications for the city of Eugene, believes commuters will be tolerant of the delays and the detours for the sake of a better highway. “I think the residents in Bethel and Danebo areas will be happy to travel a little smoother down Beltline,” Weiler said. “The proj ect will make travel a little easier. It will pull traffic off local streets and put it on the highway where it should be.” In the first phase of the cur rent project, Roosevelt Boule vard will be extended from Belt line to the existing section of Roosevelt Boulevard between Danebo and Terry Streets. New traffic signals will be installed on Roosevelt Boulevard at Belt line highway and at Danebo Street. This will provide an al ternate route. Once the Roosevelt Boulevard route is completed late this spring, the travel lanes on Belt line Highway will shift west ward, and no turns will be al lowed at the intersection of Royal Avenue and Beltline. Bridge and widening work and bike path construction is scheduled to be done this year, with paving, land scaping and illumination work scheduled to finish by September 2001. Conscious Productions presents: Roots Rock Reggae The Goiigos Friday, January 28 8 pm Agate Hall (18th & Agate) $ 12 advance: Tickets available at EMU Ticket Office, Face the Music, House of Records, and all Fastixx. $ 15 at the door concert line: 434-9249 Connecting ideas and action Get Engaged The Century Institute Summer Program June 25th to July 15th at Williams College in the Berkshires This three-week fellowship is intended for undergraduates with an interest in civic engagement and public policy. Students, scholars, and prominent policy practitioners together will explore the challenges America faces in building a just and prosperous society. The Institute will cover all the expenses including transportation, and students will receive a $1,000 stipend. For more information or to apply, visit: www.centuryinstitute.org or contact Ann Stinson via e-mail at cisp@tcf.org or by phone at (212) 452-7705 The Century Foundation The Sagner Family Foundation Forum attendants criticize EPD ■ At Tuesday’s People’s Forum, some community members question certain police behavior By Darren Freeman Oregon Daily Emerald Tempers flared at the third Peo ple’s Forum held Tuesday night at the Lane County Courthouse. While most of the forum fol lowed schedule and remained or ganized, a handful of the nearly 200 people present shouted out of turn in criticism of the Eugene Po lice Department during a question and answer period. Carol Berg, one of the organ izers of the forum, said the event, which was founded by a group of Eugene activists, met its goal of opening channels of communication between law enforcement officials and the community at large. “People had very strong opin ions, but it went along well,” Berg said. The most heated public com ments criticized the EPD’s use of tear gas and were directed toward Police Chief Jim Hill, who was the only EPD officer in the group of 16 scheduled speakers at the forum. At the end of the question and an swer period, Hill jokingly said, “I’m the cop du jour.” Several audience members claimed the EPD deployed the first canister of tear gas used to disperse the June 18,1999 protest turned-riot into a park where pro testers had gathered. This act, one audience member said, would have been illegal because the pro testers were in a contained area, not blocking public access. Hill said that while tear gas was deployed in the park to disperse the crowd, he saw the first canis ters released in the street in re sponse to rioting. One audience member re sponded, shouting, “That’s a lie.” After about 15 minutes of ques tions and comments from the au dience, scheduled speaker Charles Dalton, from the Police Commission, a private organiza tion that analyzes Eugene police action, took the microphone and asked that comments remain civ il. “I encourage all of us not to de monize each other and remember that all of us were born from a mother,” Dalton said. In addition to addressing the use of tear gas, comments from scheduled speakers and audience members addressed topics rang ing from police motivations and problems facing Oregon’s courts and prison systems to removing the police force and prosecution of police who brake the law. Civil rights continued from page 1 er registration. The ashes were practically still smoldering when former Oregon Supreme Court Justice Jacob Tanz er got off the plane to join civil rights efforts in Mississippi. Upon Tanzer’s arrival, a fellow civil rights lawyer showed him this scene. “The purpose was to fill me with a sense of conviction and dedication for what I was doing,” Tanzer said. A panel of Oregon lawyers who represented African-American clients in Mississippi in the six ties, when few Mississippi lawyers would do so, spoke Tues day night at the law school on their experiences as civil rights lawyers. The event was held to commemorate the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Robin Morris Collin, chair of the Minority Student Program-Com mittee, reminded the audience of 65 what the racial climate was like in Mississippi when these lawyers entered the scene. “Going to Mississippi in the summer of 1964 and thereafter was dangerous,” Collin said. “Crosses were burned in 64 of Mississippi’s 82 counties in one night. One night. It was a warning from the Klan: ‘Don’t come down here, you outside agitators.’” In die summer of 1964, what is now known as freedom summer, there were more than 1,000 civil rights-related arrests, 80 beatings, 35 shootings, 35 black church burn ings and 30 bombings, Collin said. This was the climate the three panel members entered. It was like “living in a pressure cooker,” Don H. Marmaduke said. Marmaduke joined Les Swan son and Jacob Tanzer on the panel that represented 25 Oregon lawyers who participated as vol unteers on the Lawyers’ Commit tee for Civil Rights Under Law, an organization chartered in 1963 by President Kennedy. Event organizer Merv Loya showed a film documentation of some of the Oregon Lawyers who participated in Mississippi, and then the panel members shared their per sonal stories and experiences. “This is a meaningful occasion, and we are very pleased to be a part of it,” Marmaduke said. “In the end, Oregon lawyers contributed more lawyers to this movement than any other state in the union,” he said. “We learned how the law can make changes in our society and our culture,” Swanson said of the experience. To go to Mississippi was not a mat ter of courage, Swanson said, “bad things were happening in this coun try —it wasn’t a hard decision. ” Tanzer echoed Swanson: “It wasn’t a matter of courage; it was a matter of opportunity. ” “There was a historic turning point—a mass movement,” Tanz er said. “A movement from an un just situation that might turn out to be a just situation. The choice of good and evil was clear. ” “What we gave them was a little bit of technical help,” Tanzer said. “What Martin Luther King gave them was the impetus that led to channel, focus, their energy. His weapon was a secret resource that called on the best of us. He called on us to love. He called on us to re spect. He called on us to be de cent.” After Tanzer saw the ashes of the church, he began to under stand what he and the other lawyers were up against. “I real ized what kind of forces were at work. It wasn’t just the law. It was fear. Malice. Intimidation.” “But they went anyway,” Collin said. Director continued from page 1 tion are to improve year-to-year continuity, organization and lead ership development. MCC staff members modeled the job description after the Women’s Center director position. Lisa Foisy, who holds that posi tion, said it is key in helping a stu dent group be more organized, therefore better able to serve its purpose. It is important for organizations to have systems in place, “so stu dents aren’t always reinventing the wheel,” Foisy said. The role of director is not to say what is right or wrong, but to pro vide students with organization and guidelines to achieve their visions. The director can help pave a road for students to go down by building re lationships within the University over many years, Foisysaid. Javier Hernandez, MCC pro gram organizer, said securing the funding “was a collaborative effort of the MCC staff.” Students who worked on getting the budget increase knew they faced a 0 percent PFC benchmark. They believed, and still believe, the position was worth the money. MCC staff lobbied PFC mem bers, the ASUO executive and oth er departments before Monday’s PFC meeting and had letters of support from the various student unions, Hernandez said. The 1999-2000 PFC-allocated budget funds five stipends for the MCC staff. The current budget also includes money for federal work study positions and stipends for a board of directors. The MCC cut its board of direc tors’ monthly stipends to save $2,000 in the 2000-2001 budget, effectively making the positions on the board of directors volun tary. “It was not necessarily a sur prise they approved it,” Hernan dez said. “Because of all of the work we had done. ” Foisy called PFC’s decision “a very well deserved victory for stu dents who put a lot of effort into this.” “The PFC really made a state ment,” Breslow said. He said the PFC will have to make sacrifices, and may not meet its 0 percent benchmark. “I think they did the right thing. I have a lot of respect for the PFC,” he said. 1 P.O. Box 3159, Eugene OR 97403 The Oregon Daily Emerald is published daily Mon day th rough Friday d uri ng the school yea r a nd Tuesday and Thursday during the summer by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. Inc., at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. 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