DPS
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ment vehicles can use red and blue
lights.
“They’re not illegal to have. It’s
illegal to use them,’’ Maynard said.
After being presented with a
copy of the memo, obtained by the
Emerald from another former DPS
employee, Fitzpabick said he did
not remember ever releasing it, and
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have. It's illegal to ues
them.
Kim Maynard
Former DPS officer
said it could have come from a lieu
tenant acting out a verbal order.
“I don’t remember seeing it,” he
said. “I’m not saying I didn’t see
this.”
He added that he never put his ini
tials on the memo to indicate that he
read it before officers signed it.
The memo has 13 signatures
from DPS officers, each one veri
fied by a management supervisor.
Lt. Marte Martinez was the manag
er for nine of the officers who
signed the memo. Martinez is on
personal leave, and DPS and Uni
versity officials have declined to
disclose the details regarding the
issue.
Voting
continued from page 1
their ballots for Gore.
Former presidential candidate
Bill Bradley and Oregon Secretary
of State Bill Bradbury were two of
the keynote speakers at the event,
along with members of the ASUO
Executive and the College Democ
rats, the group that sponsored the
event.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., was
scheduled to appear with Bradley,
but Wyden spent Friday in Wash
ington, D.C., using a filibuster to de
lay legislation that would repeal
Oregon’s physician-assisted suicide
law.
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volved and educate
themselves. Spend an
evening not watching
Scooby Doo, sit down with
your voters ’ pamphlet and
read it.
Art Alexakis
Everclear frontman
“He’s a hell of a fighter and he
picks awfully good rock bands,”
Bradbury said of Wyden, who
helped organize the event.
But the scene was not the most
welcoming place for supporters of
Texas Gov. George W. Bush or back
ers of Green Party candidate Ralph
Nader. A few Nader supporters held
up signs in support for their third
party leader.
Bradley discussed his reasons for
endorsing Gore after dropping out
of the presidential race. Bradbury
promoted local Democratic candi
dates, including Vicki Walker, the
While no agency has cited DPS
for installing the lights on its vehi
cles, Fitzpatrick said the lights will
be removed once replacements,
probably in yellow and white col
ors, are found.
But DPS made the decision to in
stall the blue lights before officers
had been commissioned.
Fitzpatrick said that when DPS
bought the used cars from the state
motor pool, they had been stripped
of lights and other police equip
ment.
He said the decision to install the
lights was part of an ongoing at
tempt by DPS to commission be
tween five and 10 officers to “spe
cial security officer” positions. The
new rank would give officers prob
able cause arrest authority and the
ability to frisk suspects — and to
use blue police lights.
“It was not a big issue. At the
time it occurred it was a relatively
minor issue,” Fitzpatrick said of
the decision to install the lights.
The commissioned status is an
ongoing process, which Fitzpatrick
said should be completed by Ian. 1.
Special security officers are one
part of an attempt by Fitzpatrick
and the department to be a more
professional force with increased
policing privileges.
As these changes are being
made, a string of veteran DPS em
ployees have left the department,
accusing management of harass
ment, abuse of power and discrimi
current state representative for Dis
trict 41.
Along with supporting Gore’s po
sitions on the environment, a
woman’s right to choose an abor
tion, affirmative action and hate
crimes legislation, the speakers re
minded students that they still need
to cast ballots to effect any changes.
“In your entire lives, your vote
may never mean more than in Ore
gon in the year 2000,” Bradley said.
College students traditionally
have the lowest voter turnout, and
Oregon has become a battleground
state that could fall to either Gore or
Bush Nov. 7.
ASUO State Affairs Coordinator
Brian Tanner, who also spoke Fri
day, said afterward he would have
preferred the speeches focus more
on voting and less on who to vote
for, but said he was pleased with the
overall turnout.
“Nothing ever works out exactly
like planned,” he said.
After the band’s performance,
Everclear frontman Art Alexakis
took the microphone and gave his
support for Gore, but also acknowl
edged the Nader supporters in the
group and encouraged them to con
tinue “pissing in the face of adversi
ty-”
“I want people to get involved
and educate themselves,” he said.
“Spend an evening not watching
Scooby Doo, sit down with your
voters’ pamphlet and read it. ”
Bradbury urged students to get
out and vote one last time as the
crowd pushed onto stage for auto
graphs from the band.
As crews took down the equip
ment in the amphitheater, Alexakis
and Bradbury cast their mail-in bal
lots in “The World’s Biggest Ballot
Box” outside the ASUO Executive
office.
Everclear and Bradbury took the
tour to Oregon State University
and Portland State University later
in the day Friday.
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nation. Maynard was one of those
officers, and said Fitzpatrick didn't
cause problems such as the one
with the car lights.
Instead, Ke said Lts. Martinez
and Joan Saylor abused their power
and made management decisions
without properly consulting the di
rector.
Fitzpatrick “is just out of the
loop. He’s basically retired," May
nard said. “He just let [the lieu
tenants] run the show.”
Despite saying he never saw the
memo, Fitzpatrick insists he is still
in charge at DPS.
“I know what’s going on in this
department,” he said. “I am not out
of the loop.”
Saylor said there is no age dis
crimination in the office and would
not comment on any DPS person
nel issues.
At least five DPS employees
have left the department or been
transferred to other jobs at the Uni
versity since summer. Former dis
patcher Pauline Conaway filed a
lawsuit against DPS and the Uni
versity, which was dismissed, but
Conaway received a new Universi
ty job and $15,000 in an out of
court settlement.
Weekend
continued from page 1
minors to drink in their homes.
Police shut down one large
party on Hendricks Hill Drive,
where 34 people received cita
tions for either underage drink
ing or allowing minors to drink
in the house. Of those cited, 19
were University students.
On Saturday, police responded
to about 15 alcohol-related com
plaints in the University area.
The largest police action of the
night was outside of the Univer
sity area at a house on the 3800
block of Ferry Street, w'here more
than 100 people were gathered.
At that party, 41 minors were cit
ed for drinking alcohol and the
three people were cited for al
lowing minors to drink. Six of
the people cited were University
students.
During the weekends sur
rounding Halloween in 1997 and
1998, crowds of about 200 riot
ers, many of whom were stu
dents, threw bottles and rocks at
police, tore down light poles and
Citations issued
Friday in Eugene
Minor in Possession of Alcohol 58
Open Container of Alcohol on
Public Property 21
Allowing Alcohol Consumption by
Minors on Private Premises 8
Unlawful Sales of Alcohol 7
Urinating in Public 2
Possession of Less than an Ounce
of Marijuana 2
Disorderly Conduct 2
Littering 1
Harassment 1
Noise Disturbance 1
Source: Eugene Police Department
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uprooted street signs.
These conflicts, in addition to
the 1999 downtown “Reclaim
the Streets” protest-turned-riot,
led to the EPD’s adoption of more
aggressive crowd-control tech
niques and lowered tolerance for
alcohol-related crimes.
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