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May 29,2001
Volume 102, Issue 158
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Attacker spotted in cemetery
■ Police think a recent sighting in the Pioneer Cemetery is the same
man responsible for six campus attacks since February
By Lindsay Buchele
Oregon Daily Emerald
Local police say the man they be
lieve to be responsible for six cam
pus-area attacks has surfaced again.
The Department of Public Safety re
ceived a report May 21 that a suspi
cious person was “lurking” in the Pi
oneer Cemetery, and the person fit the
description of the man who has been
attempting to assault women on and
near the University since February.
“We’re assuming this is the same
person,” said Eugene Police Depart
ment officer Ray Livingston, who has
received five of the six attempted as
sault reports. “He fits the description
provided by the composite drawing.”
Livingston said the suspicious per
son, who was reported by University
students at Gerlinger Hall, was de
scribed as wearing a mask and dark
clothing and was hiding behind bush
es on the north side of the cemetery.
“By the time we responded to the
call, the suspect had run away,” Liv
ingston said.
EPD officer Peter Aguilar said there
is always an increase in reports of
suspicious persons when the weather
gets warmer, but when someone is
nervous enough to call, it’s something
me ponce roiiow
closely.
“We have our
dispatchers ask
as many ques
tions as they can
before an officer
responds to the
call,” Aguilar
said. “We try to
determine
whether a crime
ARTIST S is taking place or
COMPOSITE OF if a person just
SUSPECT looks suspicious.
If there are
weapons or someone looks like
they’re being hurt, that call has a
higher priority.”
The latest report is not the first to
describe the suspect in the cemetery,
Livingston said. The fourth and fifth
attempted assaults made by the sus
pect also took place in the cemetery.
The fourth assault attempt took
place on the northwest side of the
cemetery. During the assault, the sus
pect reportedly said, “Pretty bitch,
why don’t you want to be with me?”
Livingston said the victim kicked the
suspect’s shins with her shoe and was
able to escape.
Livingston said during the fifth as
sault attempt, the suspect appeared to
be masturbating in the cemetery and
then began to approach a woman,
who fled before the suspect could get
to her. The woman then reported the
incident.
The sixth attack, which took place
April 13 by the Knickerbocker Bike
Bridge in Alton Baker Park, was the
last police had seen or heard of the
suspect until last week. Livingston
said this could be due to the local
publicity the attacks have been get
ting.
“This suspect tends to lay low for a
while in between incidents,” Liv
ingston said. (
EPD Sgt. Scott McKee said in a re
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R. Ashley Smith Emerald
Marion Jones waves to the Hayward Field crowd after her victory
in the women’s 200 meters at the Prefontaine Classic Sunday.
Crowd remembers
fallen US patriots
■ More than 500 people gathered at West Lawn Memorial
Park and Funeral Home to honor those who died for freedom
By Lisa Toth
Oregon Daily Emerald
The crowd members bowed
their heads in a moment of si
lence. During that time, the only
sound that could be heard was
the rippling of the American flag,
raised at half-staff, as it thrashed
in the fierce wind.
Below overcast skies Monday
afternoon, a crowd of more than
500 people gathered for a Memo
rial Day service at the West Lawn
Memorial Park and Funeral
Home. Bouquets of flowers and
red, white and blue symbols of
patriotism adorned the graves of
those people who died in the
service of their country.
Even before the service began,
a lone member of the Oregon
State Defense Force Pipe Band
set the solemn mood while prac
ticing the bagpipe in the parking
lot.
Master of ceremonies and vet
eran supporter Rod Huey opened
the service before the crowd,
which included survivors of
World War II and the Korean War
as well as a Pearl Harbor sur
vivor.
. “Young people, it is especially
important for you to know that
freedom isn’t free. It is costly, but
worth every ounce of sweat,
blood and tears,” Huey said.
As Huey was finishing his in
troduction, crowd members
turned their heads upward and
pointed their fingers to the sky as
a team from the Eugene Sky
divers performed a parachute
jump carrying the American flag
and a Prisoner Of War/Missing
In Action flag that read “You are
not forgotten.”
The University’s ROTC pre
sented the posting and retire
ment of the
flags. The col
or guard, com
posed of flag
cadets Karl
Ludeman and
Aaron Sarver
and rifle
cadets Tre
Hester and Jon
Seigle, was
led by Color
Sgt. Marcella
Marchesano.
ii Because
they died,
we may live.
Ray Byrne
brigadier
general,
41st Infantry
Brigade
“It is very important to pay re
spect to those w’ho have served
their country so well in the
past,” Marchesano said.
After vocal soloist Phyllis
Hamburger sang “The Star Span
gled Banner,” U.S. Senator Ron
Wyden, D-Ore., addressed the
audience members by reminding
them to give thanks to all the vet
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many died for the freedom they
have today.
Although some young people
recognize that wars have affected
their lives, Harold Burgard, a Kore
an War veter
an and Eu
gene resident,
said many do
not realize the
sacrifices that
veterans have
made.
“People
brought up to
day don’t
even realize
there was a
war,” he said.
“A lot of our
people died
for the free
dom young
people have
today ... We
just happen to
be the lucky
ones that
came back.”
Cmdr. Bob
ii They
foughtfor
honor, and
if we honor
them we
carryout
what they
[believed
in].
Christina
Lindsay
choir
member,
Shasta
Middle
School Jj
Potter, a member of the Ameri
can Legion Post 3 and a veteran
of the Korean and Vietnam wars,
said the ceremony’s message
was aimed at younger people
who may take freedom for grant
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By Beata Mostafavi
Oregon Daily Emerald
While some young people
may see Memorial Day as just
another day off from classes,
several students from Shasta
Middle School showed Monday
that they find more meaning in
the holiday.
The school’s symphonic band
and concert choir performed tunes
such as “America the Beautiful”
and “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
during an annual Memorial Day
ceremony held at the Eugene Pio
neer Cemetery on campus.
Eighth grade Shasta band
member Danielle Rogers said
Memorial Day should be cele
brated to honor the soldiers who
fought for all the rights she has
now.
“They died so we could have
a better future,” she said.
For the ceremony, about 50
community members gathered
around the Pioneer Statue,
which stands in the center of
dozens of Civil War veterans’
graves. An American flag hangs
from each headstone.
As the music played, mem
bers of different patriotic organ
izations, such as the American
Legion Post 3, spoke with the
hope of honoring veterans and
reminding young people that
Young musicians
honor war veterans
■Shasta Middle School's symphonic band and concert choir
performed fora Memorial Day ceremony
Tom Patterson Emerald
Maj. Ken Nygren tries to make his seven-and
a-half-year-old son Eric aware of the
importance of Memorial Day ceremonies.