Beltline
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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