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Tuesday
February 20,2001
Volume 102, Issue 98
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Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Tom Patterson Emerald
University junior Andric Brown videotapes testimony about a racial profiling incident he experienced with Eugene police.
His video, along with others, will be presented to Congress on Mar. 13 as part of the national Student Lobby Day.
Students target
racial profiling
■The Oregon Students of Color
Coalition and ASUO kick off
a week of events highlighting
minority students’treatment
By Serena Markstrom
Oregon Daily Emerald
In order to help more students on
campus understand a situation many
minority students regularly face, the
Oregon Students of Color Coalition and
ASUO are coordinating a full week of
events on racial profiling by police.
Students tqped video and audio sto
ries in the Multicultural Center on Mon
day, describing incidents when they
were treated unfairly by police. The au
dio tapes will be played through the
loudspeaker from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Wednesday in the EMU amphitheater.
On Thursday at 6 p.m., a panel, in
cluding state Rep. Vicki Walker (D-Eu
gene) and law enforcement profession
als, will field questions about upcoming
legislation and racial profiling in gener
al. The location for the event is yet to be
announced.
There will also be a rally at 11:30 a.m.
Thursday in front of Johnson Hall. Jami
la Singleton, who is working with the
coalition, said the overall goal of the
campaign is basic: to raise awareness
about racial profiling.
State legislation is important, Single
ton said, to “make police accountable for
why they pull people over.”
The panel will focus on the legislative
efforts in Oregon. Only eight states cur
rently have laws on the books for police
to collect racial and ethnic data. Accord
ing to OS A documents, there is no corre
lation between race and the probability
of committing a crime, but 70 percent of
people searched in vehicles on the na
tion’s highways are people of color.
Students who wish to support a bill
sponsored by Walker, which would re
quire police to collect demographic in
formation, can sign “citations” to repre
sentatives available at tables by the
amphitheater. OSCC has already collect
ed 300 of the makeshift tickets, which
they will present to the Oregon legisla
ture.
OSCC representatives have also
placed lawn signs containing statistics
throughout campus and distributed
backpack signs to spotlight this issue.
The red and white signs, which read
“I am a moving target,” are meant to
draw attention to students of color. All
students of color are encouraged to wear
the signs, whether they feel they have
been the target of racial profiling or not.
“I’m a person of color, and that is es
sentially saying I am a target to police,”
said Kawezya Hutchinson, the ASUO
Federal Affairs coordinator.
Hutchinson, a freshman, will bring
the video testimonials to Washington
D.C. to play before congress for Student
Lobby Day on March 13.
During the taped testimonials Mon
day, Andric Brown, a junior public rela
tions major, described an extreme inci
dent in which he said he was unfairly
charged and beaten by police.
In his three years at the University,
Brown said he has been stopped nine or
10 times, but he had fewer problems in
Portland, where he is from.
“It’s normal now; I’m just used to it,”
he said.
If students have incidents of racial
profiling they would like to share, they
can call 346-0631 to arrange for a taping.
Candidates: Mac Court is for students
ASUO ticket
Brad Schatzel,
Kevin Stolle say
the good seats
currently
go to alumni
SCHATZEL
STOLLE
By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
Brad Schatzel is a junior
history major. His running
mate, Kevin Stolle, is a junior
sociology major.
Q: What is your platform?
A: We’re both big Duck
fans, so we have one main is
sue: We want to get back all
the student seats in Mac
Court. Students have been
pushed up and out of good
seats at Mac Court. We’re go
ing to try to use the power of
the Executive office to have a
little influence in the Athletic
Department and hopefully
restore at least some of that
seating to the students.
Q: How does the decision
to run for office fit into your
career goals?
A: It doesn’t. I want to be a
high school history teacher,
and one way or the other, I
don’t think the ASUO Execu
tive will — obviously it
shows leadership and in
volvement in the college
community — but I don’t
think it would make too big
of a difference in me getting a
job at a high school.
Q: What specific campus
oriented initiatives will you
champion?
A: What I talked about orig
inally and OSPIRG. Kevin
and I are supporters of OS
PIRG as far as what they
stand for and even where
their money goes. We think
it’s a good organization. That
and the Programs Finance
Committee. We were hearing
about the trouble they were
having a couple of weeks ago
with The Insurgent funding,
and we were just talking
about that together and how
that shouldn’t have even
been a conflict or an issue. I
don’t know how involved Jay
and Holly were with that at
all, if the Executive has any
say in that.
Q: What would you advo
cate for on the state level for
students, and hrw would
you carry out your plan?
A: We’d probably try and
stop, or at least lessen, the tu
ition increase and the inci
dental fees that go along with
that increase. As far as to car
ry that out, I don’t know. I
would assume that I could
talk to local congressmen like
[Peter] DeFazio, maybe talk
to [Gov.] Kitzhaber. I guess as
president of the ASUO at the
University I could probably
get an appointment with
Kitzhaber, talk to him, talk to
our senators Gordon [Smith]
and [Ron] Wyden, I guess.
And try to raise awareness on
campus about what’s hap
pening, because I think a lot
of students just don’t know
about something like that,
and if you had a public cam
paign you could let them
know what’s going on. I
mean, when students get up
set, cool stuff happens, so if
you let them know tuition’s
going up and they can do
something about it, we could
get some support that way,
too.
Q: What is your definition
of student activism?
A: A lot of different stuff. I
guess anybody who is run
ning with us on student
council to anybody who’s in
any of the student groups —
the Black Student Union —
there’s tons of different
groups — the Hillel House —
stuff like that. There’s stuff
outside of that, too. You can
get involved with Green
peace or any group that’s do
ing something, and keeping
your eyes open and partici
pating. And last year, like the
Johnson Hall protest. That
was a great example of stu
dent activism — just camp
ing out and having a good
time and trying to get your
point across.
Q: How do you define di
versity, and how do you plan
to bring together the diverse
voices on campus?
A: That’s a good question.
I think on campus when you
say diversity, you think of the
racial makeup of the student
body. How to bring them to
gether? I don’t know.
Q: If two student groups
were at odds with each oth
er, how would you resolve
the conflict?
A: I think the easiest way
and the most common way is
to just bring them together,
and sit them down and have
them discuss. I think before
you do that you need to sit
down with each group indi
vidually to see what was go
ing on, and get their side of
the story and bring them to
gether in a meeting some
where. Have a cup of coffee
or something.
Q: If there was one thing
you could change about the
University instantly, what
would it be?
Turn to Schatzel/Stolle, page 4
In memoriam
DIERINGER
A candlelight
vigil will be held
in memory of
freshman Jill
Dieringerat6:30
p.m. Wednesday
at Hayward
Field.
Candles will be
provided and
University mem
bers will speak, although the final
speakers list has not been confirmed,
Dieringer died Feb. 9 of meningococcal
disease.