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continued from page 1
larger than a couple of parties. The
Eugene Police Department issued
more than 55 MIP citations and 15
citations for allowing consumption
of alcohol by minors. But EPD
spokeswoman Jan Power said the
big football victory last weekend
— or anything else, for that matter
— didn’t make last weekend espe
cially bad for parties in the Univer
sity area.
“We have a problem with that
every weekend,” Power said. “If
you look at a three-year history,
you’ll see it’s a significant problem
most weekends during the school
year.”
But the one difference that sets
last weekend, as well as this com
ing weekend, apart from others is
that students who get busted can
avoid hefty fines with a new Uni
versity program — and many stu
dents, like Shleifer and Llewellyn,
are.
BUSTED, or Beginning Under
age Success Through Educational
Diversion, is a 10-hour course of
fered through the University, and it
is open to all 18- to 20-year-olds in
the Eugene area, said Miki Mace,
administrator for the University’s
Substance Abuse and Prevention
Program.
Mace said more organizations
like hers are offering proactive
choices for those cited for MIPs or
allowing consumption of alcohol
by minors.
“If [people] make choices to re
duce their drinking, we take a look
at things like what does their sup
port system look like,” Mace said.
“If the only thing they do when
they go out with their friends is
drink, we look at if these people
are really their friends. If they give
them a hard time about not drink
{ l It appears to us that
fines don't work; all they
do is punish.
Miki Mace
administrator for the
University’s Substance Abuse
and Prevention Program
yy
ing, they may not be.”
The course is also about reducing
the debt burden on those cited.
"The goal is to give people alter
natives to paying fines,” Mace said.
“It appears to us that fines don’t
work; all they do is punish.”
Mace said research done by the
program indicates that many MIP
recipients have been cited for the
offense two or three times previous
ly
“I think many of them don’t have
the information to make different
choices,” Mace said.
To participate in BUSTED, stu
dents must pay a court cost of $50
and a University fee of $35. Partici
pants also must have completed
Drinking Decisions, a 20- to 30
hour educational course similar to
BUSTED. Upon successful comple
tion of BUSTED, first-time offend
ers can have their citation fees
waived, Mace said, as long as they
haven’t had any drinking offenses
in the four months following the
class. The course also offers partici
pants the chance to earn college
credit.
Llewellyn said the $350 cost of
his citation will virtually force him
to use BUSTED after he goes to
court, but he has mixed feelings
about the program.
“It’s essentially an educational
diversion,” he said. “I don’t like it,
but it’s kind of good. It gives peo
ple with money the easy way out
and just pay [the fine]. It sticks it to
those who don’t [have enough
money].”
For Shleifer, whose busted party
was broadcast on the local news,
the course will make his $350 cita
tion manageable.
“The class is will be a good ex
perience because the vast majority
of students at the U of O are ex
posed to alcohol,” he said. “The
class offers the opportunity to help
with that.”
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ford, assistant director of Athletic
Media Services, said.
The year-long setback of adding
seats has also caused a change in
the setup of construction. Original
ly, the project was slated to take
place in three phases. The first
phase began last summer, and in
cludes work on the north berm of
the stadium, removal of raspberry
bushes, and complex electrical
work that put the stadium on its
own power source.
“The project has now been ex
panded from a three-phase project
to a four-phase project,” Williford
said. “We have divided the origi
nal phase one into two phases.”
The second phase will begin af
ter this football season.
“It will include work on the
north side of the stadium, a new
ticket building, fences and under
ground utility during next spring
and summer,” said Steve McBride,
assistant athletic director of inter
nal operations.
Phase 3 of the project, which
should be completed by the 2002
season, will be the most noticeable of
the four-phase expansion, adding
12,000 new seats, at least 3,000 of
which will be located in a new cov
ered club section.
There will also be 32 new skybox
es, a three-story luxury suite and im
proved concession stands. The total
stadium capacity will increase from
41,700 to 53,800 seats.
“Phase four will finish up the rest
of the work in the nine months be
tween November and August 2002,
including completion of suites and
renovation work,” McBride said.The
entire project should be completed
and ready to accommodate fans by
the 2003 season.
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