Ordinance
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evenly among them, which is
something Koleszar said she’s not
sure is addressed in the ordinance.
Kelly said he believed the fee
would be split evenly among those
responsible, but he wasn’t sure.
The ordinance states that all par
ty hosts will be “jointly and sever
ally responsible” for payment of
the fee, which means that every
one responsible must make sure
that the whole fee is paid.
But Koleszar said those issues are
only the tip of a much larger ice
berg: The deteriorating relationship
between students and the police.
Students already have issues
with the way they are treated by
police officers, Koleszar said, but
the ordinance is not going to make
that situation any better.
C ( I don Y know anyone
who is satisfied with the
police grievance process.
Ilona Koleszar
ASUO Legal Services Division
Attorney
Several students have ap
proached Koleszar in the past with
complaints about the way police
handled party break-ups. Allega
tions have ranged from officers
breaking interior doors to students
being trapped inside a house for
up to two hours while the police
gather the names of everyone at
the party.
“We had one person that was
sent to detox for refusing to answer
questions after he was told he had
the right to remain silent,”
Koleszar said. “1 don’t know what
else to do with that but complain.”
Kelly said that he takes com
plaints about mistreatment seri
ously, which is why he suggested
students file formal complaints
with the Eugene Police Depart
ment and the Human Rights Com
mission.
But in Koleszar’s experience,
grievances filed by students aren’t
generally answered.
“I don’t know anyone who is
satisfied with the police grievance
process,” she said.
Koleszar took Kelly’s suggestion
a step further, and encouraged stu
dents to send a copy of their griev
ances to each city councilor. That
way, she said, the councilors will
see how many complaints EPD re
ceives.
“Otherwise, they get swept un
derneath the carpet,” Koleszar said.
City Councilor Bonny Bettman,
who represents the downtown and
University areas, said she would
like to hear from any student who
has filed a grievance, and who felt
that nothing came of it. She added,
however, that complaints must be
dealt with through the proper
channels.
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try to work with [Bettman], It
would be better to work around
her with other councilors. We have
a voice on the council, but it’s not
through our city councilor, ironi
cally.”
But Bettman said she is support
ive of students and that the ordi
nance strikes a fair balance be
tween students’ right to party and
their older neighbors’ desire for
peaceful neighborhoods.
“Because I support the ordi
nance, I’m not anti-student —
that’s quite a leap,” she said.
Bettman was elected to the
council last May and took office in
September to replace councilor
Bobby Lee, who spent two terms
in office. Student leaders and oth
er city councilors had often
praised Lee for representing the
student voice in council, and at his
departure, most said that the coun
cil would miss his perspective.
“After Bobby Lee left, I don’t
think the energy around [repre
senting students] is as high as it
was,” Mayor Jim Torrey said. “But
councilor Bettman is new and has
n’t had a chance to learn the needs
of students.”
Members of the Executive said
their concerns about Bettman be
gan when she visited the ASUO of
fice for the first time on Oct. 19 to
discuss the ordinance.
“I was really frustrated in the
meeting because she came into it
with an attitude that ‘students are
a bunch of drunkards and I don’t
have to represent them,”’ Breslow
said.
The Executive proposed several
amendments to the council that
would have made the ordinance
more lenient. Bettman supported
some of the amendments but op
posed two key proposals, which
the council ultimately shot down.
“Other city councilors were real
ly jazzed up over our proposals,
but she wasn’t really supportive of
them,” Breslow said. “To me, it
seems like she’s not interested in
solving anything, but is interested
only in punishing students.”
Bettman said that she consid
ered the ASUO’s input but didn’t
support all of the proposals be
cause she felt they would have
rendered the ordinance ineffectu
al.
She said she hopes this conflict
won't sour relations between her
and the ASUO.
"I invited them to stay in touch
with me and let me know what
their issues are so we can be mutu
ally supportive,” she said. “Cer
tainly we didn’t agree on some
fundamental things, but there may
be other issues we agree on.”
W:
Shively, however, wasn’t so op
timistic about future relations be
tween the ASUO and Bettman,
and said that the Executive will
continue working closely with oth
er councilors, including David
Kelly, Gary Pape and Betty Taylor,
as well as Mayor Jim Torrey. Taylor
was the lone vote against the ordi
nance, which she said “went far
beyond deterrent.” Torrey. at the
request of the Executive, con
vinced the council last spring to
postpone a vote on the ordinance
until this fall, when students re
turned from summer vacation and
were available to address the issue
before council.
But Shively pointed out that the
passage of the ordinance was fresh
and that the Executive was still
“peeved.”
“I don’t know [Bettman] very
well, and she doesn’t have much
of a voting record yet,” she said.
“We’ll see what happens.”
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