Calendar
Friday, May 12
The international Coffee Hour will be
held from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Interna
tional Lounge. This week there will
be election platforms for Internation
al Student Association co-directors.
Sociology Colloquium: Robert
O’Brien discusses “A Critical Realist
Approach to Crime Rates.” 3 p.m.
Room 225, Chiles Business Center.
Free. For information, call 346-5002.
Performance/Lecture: Shoshone
Bannock playwright and storyteller
Ed Edmo presents “Celilo Falls: A
Place, A Memory.” Then, Eugene
filmmakers Ian McCiuskeyand Steve
Mital premiere their new documen
tary video, “Echo of Water Against
Rocks: Remembering the Last Days
of Celilo Falls.” 7 p.m. Museum of
Natural History. Free. For informa
tion, browse natural-history.uore
gon.edu or call 346-3024. Reception
follows.
Saturday, May 13
Stop-in Studio: Barbara Dibs from
Mrs. Gossman’s Sticker Co. demon
strates how to make any occasion
special with personalized sticker
cards. 2 to4 p.m. Downstairs, Univer
sity Bookstore. Free. For information,
call 346-4331.
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terim tools to help deal with this
rapidly escalating situation.”
Rikhoff specified that he want
ed two representatives from the
commission to meet with- two
members of the Human Rights
Commission on a weekly basis to
work with community leaders in
devising a strategy to involve all
the members of the controversy.
Commissioner Carla Newbre
said that in her work as a crisis
counselor, she could identify crisis
situations and that this issue was in
need of a “crisis intervention.”
“I want [the commission] to
look at this as a sacred duty, be
cause the future of our city is at
stake,” Newbre said.
Commissioner Maurice Denner
called for the members of the Eu
gene Police Employees Union to be
included in any discussion, saying
that officers’ safety when respond
ing to protests was a critical issue.
The commission did not address
the issue of direct activist involve
ment until the end, when Commis
sioner Tim Laue said that “we need
to include those who are protesting
... everyone should be represented
in a real discussion.”
Tapes of protesters and police
clashing at a recent march cele
brating the birthday of Mumia
Abu-Jamal, a Pennsylvania death
row inmate convicted of killing a
police officer, were distributed to
commission members with the
warning that the footage was evi
dence in the criminal trial of eight
protesters arrested at the march.
Activists at the University of
Oregon Survival Center expressed
disbelief that the commission
would accomplish any of their
goals.
“Obviously, this meeting is
only for the part of the public that
buys [the police department’s]
line,” Randy Newnham said.
“I don’t trust police to do any
thing but public relations,” Madi
son LeBlanc said. “They’re just a
bunch of thugs. They literally tack
led people just for jaywalking.
There was no order to disperse un
til the police started shooting rub
ber bullets and beating people.”
LeBlanc cited the Mumia march
as one of the bigger examples of
why protesters eye police with dis
trust, calling the officers’ reaction
one of “unprovoked violence.”
Newnham said that “if we had
been out there talking about Mu
mia frying, we would have been
paraded through town.”
The commission voted to hold
future meetings on May 22 and
June 1 in order to meet its July 1
City Council deadline to draft a
working proposal to deal with the
issue.
Commission targets prostitution
■The Eugene Police
Commission meets to
confront complaints
regarding sex solicitors
By josh Ryneal
Oregon Daily Emerald
Responding to complaints from
Eugene residents, the Eugene Po
lice Commission drafted an ordi
nance and modified another
Thursday night to create a prosti
tution-free zone between Fifth
and Eighth avenues and Washing
ton and Chambers streets.
The commission had received
several complaints from neighbor
hood residents that “johns” regu
larly cruised the area, soliciting
them and their children for sex. A
commission subcommittee recom
mended that prostitutes should be
cited in state rather than municipal
courts because of the former’s abili
ty to send offenders to local drug
treatment programs.
The city already has a prostitu
tion-free zone in the area of 29th
Avenue and Willamette Street.
The subcommittee also recom
mended that prostitutes and those
soliciting sex would receive equal
sanctions, and that those convict
ed of prostitution-related crimes
would be excluded from the pros
titution-free zones for the period
of one year.
Plans to publish photos of those
convicted of prostitution-related
crimes were initially added to the
draft but were struck from the fi
nal version after commissioners
expressed concerns about the
plan’s constitutionality.
Similar measures enacted in
Portland were struck down as un
constitutional by the Oregon
Supreme Court.
Another ordinance — already
on the books and intended to stop
motorists “cruising” down main
thoroughfares — was modified to
specifically target “johns” who
typically drive through an area
two orthree times looking for
prostitutes.
The ordinances will be referred
to the Eugene City Council for re
view and decision.
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