Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 7, 2001)
Full steam ahead m Micah Harris and the rest of the men's track and field team messed with Texas. PAGE 11 Hate strikes Penn State Death threats against black students caused sit-ins and new initiatives in Pennsylvania. PAGE 3 Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon Monday May 7,2001 Volume 102, Issue 143 Weather today PARTLY CLOObt high 65, low 45 R. Ashley Smith Emerald Law Professor Lisa Kloppenberg currently directs the University’s Appropriate Dispute Resolution Program, and she hopes to start a similar program in Dayton, Ohio. One woman’s (law)niovement ■ University law professor Lisa Kloppenberg is named dean of the law school in Dayton, Ohio By Brooke Ross Oregon Daily Emerald Today, her office door in the Knight Law Center is lined with col orful pictures and paintings made by her three children, but next month the office of associate law professor Lisa Kloppenberg will be vacant, and she’ll be settling into her new home and new job in Dayton, Ohio. Starting July, Kloppenberg will be the dean of the University of Dayton School of Law, becoming one of the few female law deans in the country. “It isn’t easy to leave this place,” she said. Early in her law career, Kloppen berg worked for one of the first fe male deans of a major law school, and she said it was an experience that further motivated her to pursue a career in the field. She said few females have served as deans of major law schools in the Turn to Kloppenberg, page 9 University environment fosters student activism ■The public nature of the University and its many groups set the stage for protests and demonstrations of all types By Andrew Adams Oregon Daily Emerald As students continue the Uni versity’s tradition of activism, faculty members are working to understand the roots of protest and how groups mobilize toward collective action. Through their work, professors have come to see patterns in the frequent student demonstrations and have also gained a better un derstanding of the driving forces for campus activism. Those who study social movements all agree that campus activism is still a vi brant force at the University and is grounded in a genuine hope for positive change. Assistant sociology professor Michael Dreiling has spent much of his career researching social movements and collective ac tion, or as he puts it, “humans at tempting to create power through collective organization.” He said a university campus is a prime location to sow the seeds of activism because of its public nature and numerous political groups. “The university as a public in stitution has increasingly be come a site of contentious poli tics,” he said. Dreiling said this contention has stimulated constructive dia logue and provided an appropri ate venue for discussion. It also presented him with Change in action Today: University professors talk about their teaching and experiences in regards to protests and activism. Tuesday: The Eugene anarchist community still maintains a presence, but for those involved, it’s not all about riots and mayhem what he said was an excellent ed ucational opportunity. During the sit-ins at Johnson Hall last spring, Dreiling took students from his graduate student semi nar to observe the protest. He said the trip was completely vol untary and was intended to sup plement class content, not to Turn to Activism, page 10 Head of Con Court resigns with suggestion-filled letter ■ Robert Raschio complains of poor interaction and a lack of communication between the three branches of ASUO By Emily Gust Oregon Daily Emerald After serving for more than a year on the ASUO Constitution Court, Robert Raschio resigned from his post as chief justice Thursday—but not without get ting in his final words. Before graduating and moving on from the student version of the judicial system, Raschio fired off a letter of resignation that of fered his suggestions to student government leaders and detailed his complaints about the role the court has taken on this year. The full text of the letter can be found on today’s Perspectives page. “It just doesn’t feel like, you know, that anybody ever comes to [the court] for any thing other than elections viola tions,” Raschio said. The court seems to have become “the supreme [Elections] Board of the University of Oregon.” During the ASUO elections late winter term and early spring term, grievances on campaign viola tions flooded the court, starting and stopping the general election two times. It all culminated in a 5 hour-long night of grievance hear ings just before spring break. This is not what the court is supposed to be doing, Raschio said. It’s supposed to be a re source for students, which is why he spent time this year try ing to get the court’s new EMU of fice up and running. Instead, jus Turn to Raschio, page 4 Series of arson crimes baffle Eugene Police Department ■ From Dumpsters to car lots, unexplained arson is on the rise in Eugene By Lindsay Buchele Oregon Daily Emerald Arson isn’t new to Eugene, but officials from the Eugene Fire Department and the Eu gene Police Department don’t know what’s causing the re cent string of suspicious fires being lit in the area. Officials have yet to appre hend suspects in several of the fires, from the multiple Dumpster fires to the more high-profile incidents of ar son, including two at Roma nia Chevrolet and one that damaged the house of Univer sity men’s basketball head coach Ernie Kent. “Arson is a fairly common crime,” EPD Detective Bob Holland said. “We see [arson] several times a week.” Holland said large fires, such as the fire that destroyed 34 vehicles at Eugene’s Joe Ro mania Chevrolet on March 30, draw more attention to arson because of the high-profile na ture of the crime. * High-profile fires are usual ly set by a specific group trying to send a message to the victims of the fire, said EPD Sgt. Rex Rarrong, supervisor of the EPD Arson Investigation Team. Barrong is also a member of the Joint Arson Task Force, a task force that combines the EPD, the r. I fhe Oregon State Department of justice and the Bureau of Ait. hoi, Tobacco and Firearms. Barrong said the task force began its work last month af ter a pattern of fires developed in Eugene, including a fire set at the EPD’s West University Public Safety Station on 13th Avenue. “Eugene has become a ‘cen terpoint’ for a lot of fires,” Bar rong said. Last summer, the fire depart ment responded to more than 100 fires lit in Dumpsters and cars in the Blair and Whiteaker neighborhoods, Deputy Fire Marshall Greg Musil said. Questions about why these Turn to Arson, page 5 R. Ashley Smith Emerald Unsolved arson, such as the March 30 fire at Romania Chevrolet, has led to the formation of a task force.
