Everything under the sun
■This year, 91 vendors will
participate in the ASUO’s
spring street fair
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
It’s spring. The sun is out, the
school year is almost over, and
many students may be more eager
to lie in the grass than to sit in the
classroom.
And beginning today, they will
have one more welcome distrac
tion.
Kicking off today and running
through Friday, this year’s ASUO
spring street fair will be just that,
with temptations ranging from
professional massages to tasty cui
sine.
A tradition at the University for
more than 20 years, the street fair
is put on by the ASUO every fall
and spring term, ASUO Marketing
Director Thu Van Hoang said.
As in the past, the line-up for
this spring’s fair is nearly full,
ASUO Programs Director Tambi
Boyle said. With 91 vendors
signed up, she said, there is only
spot left.
Boyle said this year’s fair fea
tures an eclectic group of vendors.
Some of the more unusual services
being offered include massages by
three businesses — Rejuvenation
Mind and Spa, Pacific Body
Works, and Castle Essential Oils —
as well as tarot card readings at In
tuitive Readings with Irene.
In addition, Huang said, there
will be many crafts, clothing and
jewelry booths. Many of these are
run by local businesses, such as
the student-run clothing business
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The food booths, perennially
popular among students, will
also offer a variety to choose
from, Huang said. This year’s fair
will feature traditional booths,
such as the Bangkok Grill, as well
as several new vendors, such as
Ben & Jerry’s.
Ben & jerry’s employee Jason
Caputo said because the company
has never been involved with the
street fair before, he’s not sure
what to expect. But, he said, he
hopes to sell between 200 and
300 ice cream bars each day.
As part of the street fair celebra
tion, the ASUO will also be spon
soring several musical acts in the
EMU Amphitheater. The acts will
take the stage alongside ongoing
presentations held as part of Inter
national Week.
Over the years, the street fair
has become an event that every
one on campus looks forward to,
Huang said.
ASUO president Jay Breslow
agreed.
“I love the street fair,” he said.
New bill aims to protect identity
■ Senate Bill 647 would make
businesses use specific
measures when doling
out personal information
By Aaron K. Breniman
Oregon Daily Emerald
In response to the rising number of
cases of identity theft — in which a
criminal steals a person’s personal in
formation and uses it to commit fraud
or theft — the Oregon legislature is
working on a bill aimed at curbing the
number of such incidents around the
state.
Senate Bill 647 would require
specific measures to be taken when
disposing of personal information.
The bill passed the Oregon State
Senate on a 29-1 vote, and has yet to
be assigned to a House committee.
The bill is sponsored by Senate De
mocratic Leader Kate Brown, D
Portland.
“The intent of the bill is to reduce
the problem of identification theft by
requiring businesses to delete or
shred all personal information,” she
said.
Brown said she became aware of
the issue after a media outlet
showed her footage of a reporter
scavenging through trash bins and
finding personal information.
EPD spokeswoman Jan Power said
the department has seen an increase
in identity theft in the Eugene area.
Due to the popularity of the Internet
and the increased availability of com
puter technology and programs to
forge documents, Power said identity
theft and fraud are becoming more of
a problem.
Power recommended many
things individuals can do to reduce
their susceptibility to having their
identity stolen, such as placing out
going mail in
locked mail
bins, having
personal
checks deliv
ered directly
to the bank
and making
sure to cut up
or shred credit
card offers be
fore disposing
of them.
The department’s Financial
Crimes Unit, a full-time force at
tacking the financial crimes in the
Eugene area, employs one sergeant
and four full-time detectives.
“This is a simple, no-nonsense bill
that ensures that people’s personal in
formation is being discarded in a man
ner that is safe, secure and unrecover
able,” Brown said, adding that the
problem continues to grow, and a state
mandate is necessary to control it.
“People’s lives are being thrown
into turmoil,” Brown said. “Their
identities are essentially being taken
away from them and their otherwise
good names are being tarnished.”
Educational institutions, howev
er, do not fall under the parameters
set by this bill. Brown said that she
believed there were laws already in
place to require schools to protect
this type of information.
At the University, measures are
taken to ensure the confidentiality of
student’s personal information. In
Oregon Hall, both the Office of the
Registrar and the Admissions Office
treat confidential material carefully.
“Anything that has any student
identifiable information is put
through a confidential recycling pro
gram,” Admissions'Director Martha
Pitts said. “We work diligently to pro
tect students’ right to privacy. ”
Pitts said that the University uses
Social Security numbers mainly to
speed up the matching and process
ing of information, such as applica
tions, transcripts, SAT scores and fi
nancial aid documents, among
others.
But there are no measures in
place to protect the information a
student places on his or her home
work, such as their identification
number, or ensure the confidentiali
ty of a professor’s class information.
To change their student number
from their Social Security number to
a University-generated number, stu
dents can go to the Office of the Regis
trar, provide proper identification,
and request the number be changed.
Bush rejects environmental trends
By John Heilprin
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President
Bush said Tuesday he’s committed
to clean air and clean water but
will “make decisions based upon
sound science, not some environ
mental fad or what may sound
good.”
Bush used an awards ceremony
for youths taking part in environ
mental activities to defend his ef
forts to strike what he calls a balance
on environmental issues against ac
cusations that his administration is
more interested in promoting the in
terests of landowners and energy
developers.
“Ours is a policy that truly be
lieves that technologies have ad
vanced to the poiijit where we
can have economic growth and
sound environmental policy go
hand-in-hand,” he said.
In recent weeks, Bush has en
dorsed a treaty seeking a world
wide phase-out of a dozen highly
toxic chemicals and upheld Clin
ton administration regulations re
quiring cleaner diesel fuels and en
gines and requirements that thou
sands of businesses report releases
of toxic lead.
But he also has reversed a cam
paign pledge to regulate carbon
dioxide from power plants as a
pollutant, withdrawn from a
global warming treaty, rescinded
new arsenic standards for drink
ing water and eased environmen
tal requirements on mineral
mines in the West.
Bush said Tuesday that his
biggest mistake since taking of
fice was “allowing people to de
fine me as somebody who’s not
friendly toward the environ
ment.”
An ABC-Washington Post poll
Monday showed that only 47 per
cent of the public approve of Bush’s
handling of the environment while
52 percent said they favor protecting
the environment over economic
growth. The poll also said 55 per
cent of those questioned opposed
Bush’s proposal to drill for oil and
gas in Alaska’s Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge.
“We need to be good stewards of
the land,” Bush said at the White
House. “But we’ve also got to un
derstand that if we don’t bring
more natural gas to the market,
we’re going to have blackouts. ...
We’re going to make decisions
based upon sound science, not
some environmental fad or what
may sound good.”
Carl Pope, the Sierra Club’s ex
ecutive director, said Bush has ig
nored the views of climatologists,
biologists and the National Acad
emy of Sciences supporting regu
lating C02 emissions, tightening
arsenic standards and protecting
more endangered species.
“This administration has
shown an almost unprecedented
disregard for the opinions of the
mainstream scientific communi
ty,” Pope said. “I invite the presi
dent to allow scientists to shape
his environmental policy. It
would be a very different envi
ronmental policy than the one
we’ve seen to date.”
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