Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 2000)
Come in and get a sub for less at CAMPUS SUBSHOP 1225 ALDER • 345-2434 MON-FRI 10AM-10PM • SAT 11AM-9PM • SUN 12PM-9PM OFF Any Yogurt (•Except small cones and tinies. Expires 10/19/00) Campus SUBSHOP Mon.-Fri. lOam-lOpm Sat. llam-9pm Sun. 12pm-9pm 1225 Alder 345-2434 Not valid with any other discounts or coupons. One coupon per customer. HOMEY HILL FARMS® University Housing Your Future Starts Here To check out our many housing options, call us at 346-4277, or log on to http://housing.uoregon.edu An equal-opportunity affirmative-action institution committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act Fruit — fresh or frozen; fresh veggies, too. We blend & juice just for you. No added sugars, fillers or fluff. To have the best smoothies we use only good stuff. Bagels and baked goods and munchies abound. If you want a snack, it's here to be found. Espresso or drip — cold or hot; if you want the best coffee, Ernesto's is the spot. Mondays - Saturdays • 346-1100 In the REC CENTER * 15th & University • New Expanded Menu i:/ ...—at* ODE CLASSIFIEDS... QQ worth looking into! Drinking continued from page 4B Koleszar recommended that you not present physical identification, regardless of your age or sobriety. Gilliam said that police will gen erally not hassle you on the street unless you give them a reason. “We try to focus on behavior and not so much the fact that people have been drinking,” Gilliam said. “We don’t want fights. We don’t want people urinating in other peo ple’s yards — screaming in the dark and all that other stuff.” “The cops are in the alleys. They’re everywhere,” Koleszar said, describing police presence in the University neighborhood on a Friday or Saturday night. “They see a group of five people on the street, and they’re going to stop them. I see groups or people walking around, maybe they’ve had something to drink, maybe they’re over age, maybe they’re underage. I don’t know. I see them and 1 say, pardon the pun, ‘Man, you’re sitting ducks.’” One of the most common triggers for citations is an open container. “We see a lot of young people walking around on Friday and Sat urday nights with beer bottles in their hands,” Gilliam said. An open container can be any vessel without a factory seal. Bota bags, flasks, re-corked wine bottles and partial bottles of liquor all qual ify, although enforcement of this law is discretionary. “If you’re overage and you get cit ed for alcohol, you’re not paying at tention,” Beutler said. “There’s no reason to walk around with an open beer. Make sure you have a backpack with you. Don’t think you can just put beer in your pocket and then put your finger down in the bottle because what’s going to hap pen is when you remove your fin ger, it’s going to spray beer all over you. I speak from experience.” There is absolutely no excuse for driving drunk under any circum stances. If you are a woman, you can take advantage of Saferide. Oth erwise, there is the Designated Dri ver Shuttle available to men and women. Both service are free to stu dents. Take advantage of them. While a drunk swaggering down the sidewalk can be cute, that same drunk behind the wheel is deadly serious. Be aware that you can also be cit ed for Driving Under the Influence of Intoxicants (DUII) while on a bi cycle. This is a Class A misde meanor that carries a maximum fine of $565. When it comes to parties, smaller gatherings are generally safe, but if you host a rager with an open front door, live music and alcohol for sale, you’re opening yourself up to a world of hurt. “I think you’re nuts if you have a 1 party in [the University] neighbor s hood,” Koleszar said. In most instances, a neighbor’s complaint initiates the police re sponse. “Parties that are overflowing be yond the capacity of the house are i going to attract attention, and if ? you’re at one of those parties, you can believe that at some point dur ing the night, the cops are going to * come,” said Sgt. Gilliam. I If a patrol officer spots a large party, but no one has complained, \ they will actually seek out grumpy neighbors, according to Gilliam. He explained that the police “don’t want to be the only people testify j ing. We want a neighbor to say ' ‘Yeah, I was offended by it.’” You must keep your neighbors i on your side. Contact them ahead * of time and notify them of your plans. Give out your phone number and tell them to call you first if there is a problem. If they do'call, take it seriously. Most importantly, invite them. If they feel included, they will be much more amicable and less likely to ring up the fuzz. In addition to issuing citations, the police have the power to seize “evidence” of noise violations, such as stereos, speakers, instru ments, tuners and just about any thing else. This property is held in the evidence locker until the case is resolved, which could be months. “It’s not done all that often,” said Gilliam. “It’s discretionary with the officer and most of the time, it’s based on repeated calls back to the same address.” Keep as low of a profile as possi ble. Keep doors and windows closed to mute the noise. Designate a smoking area such as the back yard or a room to avoid a mob of people hanging out in front of the house. Turn off porch lights. Keep Drinking trivia dipsomania n. an abnormal craving for alcoholic drink (Greek, dipsa thirst + mania madness) Famous quotes about drinking “A woman drove me to drink and I never had the courtesy to thank her.” — W.C. Fields "I drink to make other people more interesting.” — George Jean Nathan "You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.” — Frank Zappa “Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.” — Ernest Hemingway “Work is the curse of the drinking class.”—Oscar Wilde “Time is never wasted when you’re wasted all the time.”—Catherine Zandoneila “Without question, the greatest in vention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza." — Dave Ba rry “I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.” — Tom Waits “All right, brain, I don’t like you and you don’t I ike me—so let’s just do this and I’ll get back to killing you with beer.” — Homer Simpson SOURCE: www.dipsomanio.com the alcohol out of the line of sight of the front door. Beutler suggested that you “put blankets over the windows. If the cops can’t see any thing, then there’s no probable cause.” As much as you might want, do not get a keg. “It’s an engraved invitation to the police,” Koleszar said, noting that the location of the party must be given when picking it up from the distributor or bar. “If you do buy a keg, don’t be so silly as to lie about where it is going to be or provide false ID to buy it. Bad, bad, bad, bad idea. You might as well jump into quicksand.” An EPD pamphlet, titled “Party ing in Eugene,” suggests that “if your party gets out of control, con tact the police. We will come out and assist you in regaining con trol.” Gilliam said that if the host calls first, “then our policy is that we will not enforce applicable laws against the host of the party.” So, one option is to keep a police scanner in the house where it can be heard, such as in the kitchen. If you hear your address, get on the phone immediately and ask for help from the police. When they ar rive, greet them with jubilant relief: Turn to Drinking, page 15B
