All-around performance
Santiago Lorenzo beat out 17 other competitors
to win the Texas Relays Decathlon. PAGE 7
Targeting racial profiling
Vicki Walker, D-Eugene, has proposed a bill in the
Oregon House to help stop racial profiling PAGE 5
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Friday
April 6,2000
Volume 102, Issue 122
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today
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Attacks on campus prompt DPS to post alerts
ARTIST’S
COMPOSITE OF
SUSPECT
■Three women have been
attacked since February, and DPS
has hung posters around campus
to educate students
By Lindsay Buchele
Oregon Daily Emerald
Eugene Police Department spokes
woman Pam Alejandre said that among
the three attacks against women that
have occurred on the University campus
since February, at least one has an iden
tifiable suspect.
Though each woman attacked has de
scribed a different assailant than the oth
er victims, one woman has been able to
provide the police with enough infor
mation to develop a composite drawing
of the suspect.
This woman, a high school student,
was attacked from behind on Feb. 22
while walking on the south sidewalk of
Johnson Hall.
“The young woman was carrying a
book and was able to turn and hit her at
tacker with it,” said Tom Hicks, associate
director for the University Department of
Public Safety. “She’s the only one who’s
been able to see her attacker’s face. ”
Alejandre said each attack took place
after dark and all the victims were
grabbed from behind.
Turn to Assaults, page 4
Locations of recent
attacks on campus
There are three locations on
campus where attacks on
women have occurred
recently.
A fourth location is off
campus in Alton Baker Park,
north of the Autzen Foot
Bridge.
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Jon House Emerald
Kanoko Manabe practices her lines for the Singapore Student Association’s dinner production of ‘Seventy Candles’ in the Fir Room.
A night of _
MYSTERY
The
Singapore
Student
Association
will
celebrate its
culture
night with
the
interactive
play
‘Seventy
Candles’
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
Soon, someone will be mur
dered — and when it happens,
it will be up to the audience
members of “Seventy Candles”
to solve the crime.
“Seventy Candles,” an origi
nal audience participation play,
will be performed from 7 to 9
p.m. Saturday in the EMU Fir
Room to celebrate the annual
Singapore Culture Night. The
event is sponsored by the Sin
gapore Students Association.
The play combines a classic
“whodunit” murder mystery
with a celebration of Singapore
food and culture, SSA member
Christian Tan said. Tan co
wrote the play with fellow SSA
member May Heng.
The bright red posters SSA
has posted around campus tie
into the play with a single Chi
nese character, which symbol
izes both “longevity” and
“birthday.” The group chose
the character because it repre
sents two of the themes in
“Seventy Candles.”
The play’s storyline revolves
around the fictitious Weng fam
ily, which is throwing a sur
prise 70th birthday party for the
family patriarch Ah-Kong —
Chinese for “grandfather.”
But the cast of the show ex
tends beyond the actors on
stage, SSA president Lindsay
Goh said.
“The audience has a role in
the whole drama,” she said.
Audience members will be
treated as if they are “guests” at
the surprise party. During the
show, they will be served an
eight-course dinner that will
feature a wide variety of tradi
tional Singapore cuisine, SSA
member Aileen Tan said.
“The menu reflects the diver
sity of different racial groups
and cultures in Singapore,” she
said.
The interactive aspect of the
Turn to Singapore, page 6
EPD establishes
arson taskforce
■An increasing number of “suspicious” fires has
led to the creation of the squad, a cooperative effort
by several agencies
By Aaron K. Breniman
Oregon Daily Emerald
On the heels of last week’s Romania
Chevrolet fire, the second arson at the
dealership in a year, the Eugene Police
Department announced Thursday the
formation of the Joint Arson Task Force
to address the rising number of “suspi
cious” fires in the Eugene area.
The task force will comprise more
than 40 officers from the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms,
the Oregon State Department of Justice, Oregon State Police
and the EPD.
In the past year, there have been 128 fires in the Eugene
area that the department considers “suspicious,” said EPD
spokeswoman Pam Alejandre.
The task force announcement was made during the first
day of Jeffrey Michael Luers’ criminal case proceedings in
Lane County Court. Luers has been charged with multiple
Turn to Arson, page 3
Oil companies hurt
Africa, speakers say
■ Activists Annie Brisibe and Carwill James
discussed the impact of America’s oil companies
Thursday night at a Survival Center-sponsored event
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
Two leading environmental activists spoke at the Universi
ty last night to raise awareness about the effects of U.S. oil
consumption on African nations.
“I’d like to remind you, as you ride in your cars, as you live
in your beautiful homes... that in faraway Africa, in the coun
try which holds the oil Americans consume, people are dy
ing,” said activist Annie Brisibe, president of the Niger Delta
Women for Justice.
U.S. oil companies, which buy 50 percent of the oil pro
duced in Nigeria, have little regard for the lives of the Nigerian
people, said Brisibe.
They release toxic chemicals which destroy crops and con
taminate the water supply, and the oil pipelines they often
Turn to Oil, page 4