- 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
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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.