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- Back on track Luke Jackson and the Ducks bounce back from three straight losses to beat the Cougars. PAGE 7A A community remembers Memorial services will be held this week for Presi dent Emeritus Paul 01 urn, dead at 82. PAGE 4A Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon Monday January 22,2001 Volume 102, Issue 77 Weather today high 50, low 35 _ Talent Scouts Chrystal McConnell Emerald Before receiving their Cinematography badge, Boy Scouts Randy Cragun and Jason Bodily read over the storyboard for their film. Schools review Boy Scouts recruiting ■ Believing the group discriminates against gays, two local districts have questioned inviting it to visit students By Rebecca Newell Oregon Daily Emerald The national controversy sur rounding the Boy Scouts of Ameri ca’s ban on gay scout leaders has reached Eugene, and public schools are considering whether to allow the organization to retain its privilege of recruiting students during school hours. The controversy arose on a nation wide level last June when the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, af firmed the group’s standing as a pri vate organization with the right to set its own standards for membership and leadership. In Eugene, first the Bethel School District and now the 4J District have addressed the issue, trying to deter mine where the beliefs of a private organization fit in with the policies of schools. The Bethel School District was the first in Oregon to react to the Supreme Court ruling. In September, the Bethel school board voted unanimously to revoke the Boy Scouts’ ability to recruit members during the school day, a privilege the organization had shared with the Girl Scouts of the United Turn to Boy Scouts, page 5A Breslow scorns DPS’s decision ■ Students should have been consulted before the verdict to commission DPS officers, he says By Jeremy Lang Oregon Daily Emerald ASUO President Jay Breslow said the Department of Public Safety’s deci sion to give officers more police au thority will hurt students and the cam pus climate more than help them. “That was the completely wrong de cision,” Breslow said. “There’s nothing we can do.” DPS director Tom Fitzpatrick an nounced Tuesday the department will commission as many as 11 officers, who will undergo extra training. With the training, they will gain the extra re sponsibility of probable-cause arrest and stop-and-search rights. Fitzpatrick said DPS officers will be better equipped to respond to campus thefts and other crimes that generally rank low on the Eugene Police Depart ment’s priority list and allow those cas es to be tried in city court instead of through student conduct channels. Breslow said he hasn’t fully re viewed the new DPS policy and wouldn’t comment on whether he ap proves or is against the specifics of the commissioning. But the ASUO president said plenty of things about the decision still anger him, namely Fitzpatrick’s decision not to ask for input from students before announcing the commissioning plan. “It’s a violation of campus democra cy,” he said. “It directly affects the stu dent body.” Breslow compared Fitzpatrick’s de cision to last spring’s protest for Uni versity inclusion in the Worker Rights Consortium. Breslow was one of 14 students arrested during 10 days of peaceful protesting outside Johnson Hall. Although the two situations are dif ferent, Breslow said the underlying is sue of student voice on campus is the same. Turn to Reaction, page 5A The Department of Public Safety’s decision to commission officers: As many as 11 DPS officers will have the right to stop and search people and make probable cause arrest. DPS Director Tom Fitzpatrick said he wants the officers com missioned by April 1. An 11-person advisory com mittee will be formed by mid February to help guide the de partment though the process. Commissioned officers will re ceive extra train ing before they receive thei r ex tra rights. Source: Department of Public Safety Eugene protesters say Bush does not belong in White House Saturday’s event was part of a nationwide demonstration against what many call an undemocratic election By Darren Freeman Oregon Daily Emerald At times chanting “Hail to the thief,” more than 100 people raised angry voices and handmade signs downtown Saturday morning to protest President George W. Bush’s inauguration. The event was organized in conjunc tion with a massive protest in Wash ington, D.C., which drew thousands of protesters to the nation’s capital to call for, among other things, opposition to the Bush administration, election re form and campaign finance reform. Jan Nelson, a Lane County farmer, said at the downtown protest that she would never accept Bush’s presidency, echoing the vehemence still surround ing the remarkably close election, sub sequent Florida state orders and court decisions. “Bush didn’t win the election,” she said. “He’s totally illegitimate.” A handful of Lane County Democ rats, including county Democratic chairman Jim Rice and former state representatives Floyd Prozanski and Kitty Piercy, spoke through a bullhorn decrying the election and saying that Democrats will scrutinize the Bush ad ministration. “If elected officials want us to honor them, they must honor us by counting Turn to Protest, page 5A Adam Amato Emerald la Bolz addresses protesters at Saturday’s local demonstration against the Bush inauguration. “The eyes of Texas are on youv George W. Bush,” Bolz chanted before the crowd.
