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Southworth yields more questions than answers
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Supreme Court
decision has
student groups
wondering
about future
distribution of
incidental fees
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Oregon Daily Emerald
A year ago, student groups such as
Justice For All, College Democrats and
College Republicans didn’t receive a
share of the student incidental fee
money that goes to support a variety of
student programs on campus.
Before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled
last March in support of the incidental
fee system, there was a possibility that
no other student group would get any
money either.
However, the unanimous decision
handed down by the Court in South
worth vs. the University of Wisconsin
upheld the fee system, quelling worries
that universities around the country
would have to rethink the way they fi
nance their student programs.
It has also done something else —
even though this year's budget process
will begin later
this month, no
body is exactly
sure how the
Southworth case
will impact the
procedure. Questions abound about
who will get fee money, how much
more students will pay and how it will
change the entire process.
The fee system as a whole had been
questioned since the 1995-96 school
year, when University of Wisconsin
students Scott Southworth, Amy
Schoepke and Keith Bannach objected
to their money going toward student
groups with views opposed to theirs.
Before the decision, the University’s
system barred student organizations
that endorsed political or religious
views from receiving money through
the incidental fee.
Wisconsin's incidental fee system,
however, was already more liberal than
the University's. No distinction was
made between educational and politi
cal student groups, allowing College
Democrats, College Republicans and
WISPIRG — Wisconsin's version of
OSPIRG — to receive funds for politi
cal purposes.
But the decision should bring the
University on par with Wisconsin’s
more liberal system this winter, when
the ASUO begins the process of financ
ing student athletic tickets, EMU pro
grams and a number of student groups.
This will include the power, and
possibly the obligation, to administer
funding to student organizations with
controversial views.
Graduate English student Scott
Austin said Southworth opened up the
campus forum so that groups with dif
Turn to Southworth, page 3
New faculty enthusiastic about teaching in Eugene
■The University welcomes several new professors
this fall, who have traveled here for reasons
ranging from the weather to the football team
By Kristy Hessman
Oregon Daily Emerald
New students aren’t the only ones trying to find their
way around campus this fall. New faculty members are also
getting used to the atmosphere.
The University has welcomed 42 new tenure-related in
structional faculty members, who will teach in a variety of de
partments, from anthropology to dance to women’s studies.
Like students, the new faculty members are just getting
settled into new positions, daily routines, and class sched
ules, and for the most part are excited to be here.
I have always had a desire to move here and into the
University’s geography department,” said geography pro
fessor Susan Hardwick.
Hardwick came to the University from Austin, Texas,
where she taught at Southwest Texas University for three
years.
“The first week of classes went really well,” she said. “I
was impressed with the caliber of students, as well as the
campus.”
Hardwick also said she has noticed differences in the way
research and teaching are integrated at the University.
“It relates to classroom teaching and really makes a dif
ference,” she said. "The other big difference is that it is hot
there. I’m looking forward to the rainy weather. ”
Of the 42 new instructors, 15 are women and 27 are men.
Seven of the new faculty members have been identified as
Kevin Calame Emerald members of minority groups, and 11 are non-US citizens.
Dr. Susan Hardwick, one of the new professors starting at the University this Fall, advises Brook Geffen Monday in Condon 153.
Turn to New faculty, page 6
Police bust parties, marijuana ring over busy weekend
Lots of
activity in the
campus area
keeps EPD
officers on
heightened
patrol Friday
and Saturday
By Andrew Adams
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Eugene Police Depart
ment’s campus detail spent much
of last weekend responding to calls
that ranged from loud parties to
armed robbery.
In addition to breaking up 10
parties and citing 49 University
students for drinking-related of
fenses, the police also dealt with a
possible sex crime and a “marijua
na distribution business,” accord
ing to various police reports.
Lieutenant Pete Kerns said the
department’s “party patrol,”
which heads out on Friday and
Saturday nights throughout the
school year looking for loud and
disorderly gatherings, wrote most
or the citations. Despite all the vic
tory celebrations stemming from
the football game Saturday, Kerns
said the weekend’s flurry of “mi
nor in possession of alcohol” and
“allowing the consumption of al
cohol by a minor” citations was
about average for this time of year.
One party, however, yielded
more than just alcohol-related tick
ets. Kerns said that while officers
were busting up a loud party at
1922 Emerald St., they noticed evi
dence of marijuana distribution.
"We saw marijuana-packing ma
terial that just reeked of green mar
ijuana, and we saw cash and
scales,” Kerns said.
This prompted the officers to re
turn the next morning at 7 a.m.
with a search warrant, when they
discovered plastic baggies, scales,
marijuana growing equipment,
three shotguns and an SKS assault
rifle. In a safe, officers found about
three pounds of packaged marijua
na, airline tickets to Amsterdam
and $47,000 in cash.
David B. Soulier, a 19-year-old
resident of the house and Lane Com
munity College student, was arrest
ed for interfering with a police offi
cer and unlawful delivery of
marijuana. The case is currently be
fore the Lane County District Attor
ney’s office for review, but Kerns
said if convicted, Soulier could face
a maximum penalty of up to five
years in prison or a $100,000 fine.
Kerns said it was not illegal for
Soulier to possess any of the
firearms, but the fact that he had
both weapons and drugs in the
same house may “enhance the po
tential drug charges.” Because he
was not at the house when Soulier
was arrested Kerns could not say
what exactly prompted the charge
of interfering with a police officer,
but he said in his experience it usu
ally results from a person becom
ing argumentative or uncoopera
tive with police officers.
“When we go to these parties it’s
not uncommon that we have a lot
of drunk people around thinking
they have privileges they don’t
have,” he said.
Three University students
Turn to Crime, page 6
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marijuana
packing ma
terial that
just reeked of
green mari
juana, and
we saw cash
and scales.
Pete Kerns
EPD
Lieutenant}}