High honor finds top prof
■ The Presidential Medal
winner is praised for his
research, and co-workers
rave about his support
By Serena Markstrom
Oregon Daily Emerald
Intense, busy, practical, aca
demic, hard-working, thoughtful.
Unselfish, open, creative, fun
loving, supportive, wise.
These are the adjectives Hill
Walker’s colleagues use to de
scribe him.
Perfectionistic, demanding, in
satiable, generous with a good
sense of humor.
That is how Walker, expert on
youth violence and this year’s
winner of the Presidential Medal,
describes himself.
“It’s just a tremendous honor,”
he said. “I was very surprised.”
Each year since 1991, the Uni
versity president and an awards
selection committee select a
member of the community who
has made large contributions to
the University. As one of the Uni
versity’s highest honors, the
medal is awarded to someone
who has shown a commitment to
higher education.
Walker is the first faculty mem
ber ever to earn the prestigious
award.
Walker is a senior professor in
the college of education and a na
tionally recognized researcher
and expert on violence, early in
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Sting shows store owners lax on IDs
■ The Eugene police and
the OLCC found more stores
selling alcohol than
tobacco products to minors
By Andrew Adams
Oregon Daily Emerald
Police and Oregon Liquor Control
Commission officers, working with
-* underage Eugene Police explorers,
cited a total of 44 stores for selling
alcohol and tobacco to minors in a
sting operation held April 12-14.
The explorers, students interest
ed in a career in law enforcement
and whose ages ranged from 16 to
20, were sent in by officers and at
tempted to purchase alcohol and
tobacco. Those stores that sold to
the minors were cited at once;
those that didn’t received an ap
preciative letter from the Eugene
Police Department.
Of the 86 stores checked for ille
gal alcohol sales, nearly 40 percent
were cited. But of the 75 stores
checked for tobacco sales, only 13
percent received a citation for fail
ing to check identification.
Jan Power, public information
assistant for the EPD, said the de
partment was disappointed that
this year’s results for alcohol were
not that much smaller than a sting
in July of 1998 that cited 45 per
cent of the stores checked.
She added, however, that the pro
gram shouldn’t be viewed in terms
of success or failure as it is more of a
“wake-up call for store owners. ”
Bail for the citation of selling al
cohol to a minor is usually set for
$265, and the maximum fine for
such an offense is $500, Power said.
The OLCC levies fines against
store owners who sell to minors.
Jon Stubenvoll, the OLCC’s com
munications director, said the
commission’s fines range from
$1,650 for a first-time offender or a
10-day prohibition from liquor
sales to the revoking of a liquor li
cense for fourth-time offenders.
Stubenvoll said the OLCC has be
gun a program that reduces fines
for store owners who participate in
an educational campaign.
Robert Rice, owner of Tom’s Mar
ket at 1490 E. 19th Ave., said police
cited one of his clerks for selling
both alcohol and tobacco to the un
derage explorers on Thursday.
“It happened to a clerk with less
than five hours of training,” he said.
Although Rice did admit his
store is at fault, he said the cita-1
tions he received were because of
just one mistake and his store is
usually exemplary at refusing to
bacco and alcohol to minors.
“It makes us look bad, and we .
don’t deserve to look bad,” he said.
One of the majority of store own
ers who successfully passed the
test was Sue McGuire, owner of
the Alder Street Market at 798 E.
11th Ave.
“I have a good solid rapport with
the police, and I respect them and
know they have a job to do,” she
said.
But Stephanie Young Peterson,
a coordinator for Tobacco Free
Lane County, said there are several
owners who don’t take much time
in educating their employees.
“It is hard to get clerks trained
when some owners don’t see a
point to it,” she said.
Calendar
Tuesday, April 18
Math professor Gary Seitz will explore the puzzles of “Symmetry, Rubic’s
Cube and Beyond” in a public lecture at 4 p.m. in the Alumni Lounge at Ger
linger Hall. The program is free and open to the public.
Pride Month brown bag: “Queer Women and Sexual Health.” Noon. Suite
34, EMU. Free. For information, browse darkwing.uoregon.edu/~program
or call 346-1134.
Resume clinic with employer Frank Mossett of American Express Financial
Advisers, Inc. will give resume tips from 4 to 5 p.m. in the EMU Alsea-Co
quille Room. Sponsored by the Career Center.
Interviewing clinic with employer. April Razey will discus interview strate
gies from 5 to 6 p.m. in the EMU Alsea-Coquille Room. Sponsored by the Ca
reer Center.
Make fiter/day Earth Day
Support Campus Recycling
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plastic mug
T-shirt
canvas bags
^reusable lunch bags
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April 19th & 20th
EMU Courtyard 10am - 4pm
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