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ers are demanding Frohnmayer
join the Worker Rights Consor
tium, which monitors working
conditions in factories, like
Nike’s, that make University li
censed products.
However, by 4:30 p.m. the presi
dent had not commented on their
request via University administra
tors. Frohnmayer left Eugene for
an Institute of Health conference
in Washington, D.C., early
Wednesday morning and is ex
pected to return sometime Friday
evening.
In an e-mail statement to the
faculty and staff on Wednesday,
Frohnmayer stressed his willing
ness to join the WRC and his un
wavering demand that the deci
sion go through the proper
channels of University gover
nance. A 75 percent majority vot
ed to support the WRC in this
year’s student election.
When there was no word from
the president, demonstrators de
cided to move their protest off
the steps and into the lobby it
self. About 50 protesters gathered
in the short corridor leading to
Frohnmayer’s office, chanting
and banging drums, while Brew
er and fellow students Shannon
Hoke and Emily Walter sat inside
the office on the floor, quietly
chanting.
At 5 p.m., those in the lobby
agreed to leave and police arrest
ed the three inside Frohnmayer’s
office, making a total of 14 peo
ple arrested for trespassing in the
past three days.However, the
tone of the arrests changed when
Brewer refused to give police his
personal information and leave
the building with his trespassing
citation. After Hoke and Walter
were released out the back of the
building, two lines of police car
ried Brewer to a waiting van,
which took him to jail.
When Brewer returned to
Johnson Hall with bruises on his
shoulder and wrists, he said he
did the right thing.
“I had a duty to sit there until
the meeting [with Frohnmayer]
was set,” he said. “I stated that I
was not going to willfully leave
the building.”
The police and administrators
also drastically changed the drill
for the media inside Johnson
Hall on Thursday. At 5 p.m., OPS
officers, who kept the press out
of the president’s office, an
nounced reporters and photogra
phers would have to leave with
the protesters.
On Tuesday and Wednesday
reporters and photographers
were allowed to remain in the
lobby to watch police handcuff
and arrest those inside after 5
p.m. On Thursday, the arrests
happened without the press
watching.
“I’ve let you in and I’ve made
you go out, too,” OPS officer
Marte Martinez said when re
porters asked why they couldn’t
stay.
After the melee with protesters
and police ended, Martinez ex
plained that one reporter began
demanding entrance to Frohn
mayer’s office right before arrests
were about to be made. OPS de
cided, for safety, to remove re
porters as well.
ASUO Vice President Mitra
Anoushiravani, who, along with
ASUO President Wylie Chen, has
worked to improve relations be
tween EPD and students this
year, said Thursday’s incident
made her frustrated at more than
just the police.
“Having the administration
stand by and watch as police
treat students that way was dis
gusting. I have never seen some
thing so repulsing and invigorat
ing in my life,” she said.
The incident revitalized the
pledge to remain at Johnson Hall
for many others as well.
“We weren’t asking for a mira
cle, not even to talk to Dave,”
Walter told the demonstrators af
ter being released. “We just want
to set up a meeting.”
Jacobson said protesters will
remain camped outside Johnson
Hall through the weekend if
Frohnmayer does not meet their
demands and join the WRC.
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