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DPS
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new Jeeps as well, and some cars
will be equipped with defibrillating
paddles for first aid.
Fitzpatrick said DPS will also re
place the yellow lights on its patrol
vans. Yellow lights can only be
used by hazardous waste cleanup
cars.
According to Kim Maynard,
who left the department almost
two months ago, DPS employees
had to sign a waiver saying they
wouldn’t use the lights, even
though they were installed on the
cars.
“They’re not illegal to have; it’s
illegal to use them,” Maynard said.
He said he believes the department
installed the lights under the as
sumption that officers could be
come commissioned officers and
gain the right to use them.
Fitzpatrick said officers never
had to sign an agreement not to use
the lights, but he said the depart
ment will promote between five
and 10 officers to “special security
officers” by Jan. 1, 2001, at the lat
est. The new designation, which
will come with extra training, will
give officers probable cause arrest
authority and the ability to stop
and frisk people.
“We are moving in that direction
very swiftly,” Fitzpatrick said.
“With those powers, you are in
essence police officers.”
The change is part of Fitz
patrick’s philosophy: To make DPS
as professional and police-like as
current Oregon law allows.
“When you have a problem, you
don’t call a security officer, you
call a police officer,” he said.
But Maynard said he never
thought of himself or the depart
ment as police officers. Instead, he
believed DPS should be a security
force to help students stay out of
trouble before the police get in
volved.
“They’re all just gung-ho on the
commissioned police officer
thing,” Maynard said of DPS man
agement. “And it’s really ridicu
lous because the people that have
the talent to be cops are going to be
cops. So what we’re going to get
are the ‘wannabes’ — the people
that don’t quite make it up to that
level.”
Although they are far from
reaching the point of being police
officers, Fitzpatrick said he would
like to see his officers carry guns as
part of becoming a more profes
sional, better-trained and better
DPS veteran
employees who have
left since summer:
David Niles, bicycle coordinator —
summer
Terry Gaeta, officer — summer
Kim Maynard, officer—about a
month ago
Dotti Clegg, officer—about a
month ago
Pauline Conaway, dispatch — about
three weeks ago
equipped force.
"It’s not a threat with proper
training,” he said. “If you’re going
to have cops, they should have
guns.”
But Maynard said this change in
philosophy could be a reason why
so many DPS employees have left
and been replaced by younger offi
cers. He added that bike training
and defensive tactics training
made it more difficult for older of
ficers to perform at the higher lev
el.
Fitzpatrick agreed that as
changes happen, some of the veter
an officers may not be comfortable
with the increased training and de
mand involved.
“It’s not as easy an assignment as
people think,” he said.
To an extent, the department is
still struggling. Along with the res
ignations and reassignments, DPS
Lt. Marte Martinez is on personal
leave for undisclosed reasons. She
was put on administrative leave by
Fitzpatrick, is now using saved va
cation time to stay off the job and
has hired a lawyer.
Fitzpatrick, Martinez and her
lawyer all said they would not
comment on the reasons for the
leave.
“We’re struggling with staffing
but we’re adequate,” Fitzpatrick
said. “I think we have a positive
future. This department was strug
gling before I got here.”
Internally, the department still
plans on implementing a new “21
Standards of Conduct” policy by
Nov. 1. The standards, which have
a number of subpoints, detail con
duct issues from drug and alcohol
policy to readiness for overtime.
The draft policy also has a disci
pline clause that includes termina
tion, but Fitzpatrick said that the
officers’ contract with the Oregon
Public Employees Union will al
ways overrule a decision made
Big Box
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As the ASUO emerges from a
successful voter registration drive
— one in which it registered more
students than any other member
school of the United States Stu
dent Association — it moves into
the second phase of its campaign:
Voter education.
Part of the effort to educate vot
ers is Ballot Measure Awareness
Day, which runs from 10 a.m. to 3
p.m. today in the EMU Amphithe
ater.
The day includes a ballot meas
ure fair, with booths set up for rep
resentatives of various committees
to distribute literature about the
measures.
“It’ll be a really great opportuni
ty to come out and receive further
information from actual represen
tatives of committees,” ASUO in
tern Megan Hughes said, who
helped organize the event.
Tanner said the fair is not meant
to be a debate or a forum for op
posing sides to air out their opin
ions. Rather, it is a time for inter
ested students and community
members to pick up more informa
tion about some of the 26 ballot
measures contained in this year’s
two-volume voter’s pamphlet.
“There are a lot of ballot meas
ures that affect students, and they
should definitely know what’s on
them,” said Nikaline Kate
silometes, another ASUO intern
who helped with the fair’s organi
zation.
Tanner said the ASUO’s educa
tional efforts have focused on sev
en ballot measures that specifical
ly impact higher education —
measures 7, 8, 9, 88, 91, 93 and 98.
Voter education will continue
Friday, as the ASUO hosts another
fair, this time for candidates. This
event is set to take place from
noon to 4 p.m. in the amphithe
ater. While some candidates will
be at the fair, ASUO State Affairs
Coordinator Melissa Unger said
many of the people present will be
candidate representatives for both
the local and national elections.