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Theft
Monday, May 21,4:15 p.m.: A bicycle
was reported stolen from the Knight Li
brary.
Wednesday, May 23,11:05 a.m.: A
caller reported a forced entry into the
Gerlinger Annex.
Wednesday, May 23,11:51 a.m.: A bi
cycle was reported stolen from Carson
Hall.
Wednesday, May 23,9:02 p.m.: A caller
reported stolen items from a locker in
the Student Recreational Center.
Vandalism
Monday, May 21,11:54 a.m.: A caller
reported damaged tires on his vehicle,
which was parked in a PLC parking lot.
Wednesday, May 23,1:40 p.m.: A caller
reported that his vehicle was broken
into and items were stolen from it at
the intersection of Patterson Street
and 14th Avenue.
Suspicious persons/
Activity
Monday, May 21,12:54 p.m.: A suspi
cious person was reported near Ore
gon Hall.
Monday, May 21,9:58 p.m.: A caller re
ported a subject riding a motorcycle
on the lawn by Condon Hall.
Tuesday, May 22,12 a.m.: A caller re
ported a disorderly male subject near
Caswell Hall in the Bean Complex.
Wednesday, May 23,9:07p.m.: A caller
reported a suspicious subject in the
area of 14th Avenue and 18th Avenue.
Wednesday, May 23,11:44 p.m.: Units
responded to a call about a woman
screaming on 15th Avenue.
Thursday, May 24,10:55 a.m.: A caller
reported a suspicious subject at the
Bean Complex.
Thursday, May24,11:14a.m.: A caller
reported reckless burning at the Bean
Complex.
Thursday, May 24,11:33 p.m.: A male
staff member reported a suspicious
male subject on 13th Avenue.
Friday, May 25,2:56 p.m.: Acaiier re
ported a sex crime that occurred at the
Spencer View Apartments.
Saturday, May 26,3:45 a.m.: A female
caller reported very suspicious-looking
male subject in her neighborhood and
requested an officer evaluate the
scene.
Traffic Incidents
Monday, May 21,10:55a.m.: A caller
advised her car was victim to a hit and
run in the PLC parking lot.
Monday, May 21,5:02 p.m.: A caller re
ported his/her car was victim of hit and
run in the Bean Hall parking lot.
Wednesday, May 23,7:42 a.m.: A caller
reported a vehicle accident near the
Vivian Olum Child Development Cen
ter.
Thursday, May24,7:48a.m.: A caller
reported a vehicle accident at Franklin
and Onyx streets.
Drugs/Alcohol
Wednesday, May 23,10:26 a.m.: A
caller reported a subject trespassing at
the Casanova Complex, carrying what
appeared to be an alcoholic beverage.
Thursday, May 24,6:03 p.m.: A caller
reported a group of people playing
loud music and drinking alcoholic bev
erages at the Bean Complex.
Friday, May25,12:59 a.m.: An officer
issued a minor in possession citation at
the Bean Complex.
Sunday, May 27,12:50 a.m.: A female
caller reported two to eight males
drinking and smoking marijuana at
Collier Hall in the Hamilton Complex.
Miscellaneous
Monday, May 21,11:02 a.m.: A caller
reported a subject collapsing in front
of the Museum of Art in the memorial
quad.
Monday, May 21,12:48 p.m.: DPS re
ceived a report of an unconscious fe
male at the Knight Library.
Wednesday, May 23,5:20 p.m.: A caller
reported an electrical burning odor
coming from an elevator in Willamette
Hall.
Wednesday, May 23,10:18 p.m.: A
male caller reported possible informa
tion on an assault suspect.
Thursday, May24,10:07 p.m.: Stu
dents called reporting they were stuck
in the elevator at the University Inn.
Friday, May 25,1:59 p.m.: A caller re
ported an injured athlete at the finish
line at Hayward Field.
Disorderly Conduct
Monday, May 21,5:16 p.m.: A caller re
ported an incident of indecent expo
sure at Condon Hall.
Monday, May 21,10:52 p.m.: A caller
reported eight male subjects on bicy
cles intimidating pedestrians by
Grayson Hall.
Wednesday, May23,1:29 p.m.: A caller
reported subjects throwing water bal
loons at passersby and vehicles from
Boynton Hall in Hamilton Complex.
Wednesday, May23,5:02 p.m.: A caller
reported two subjects at Lambda Chi
Alpha shooting at pedestrians with a
BBgun.
Thursday, May24,1:27 a.m.: An offi
cer contacted two subjects urinating in
the PLC parking lot.
Friday, May 25,12:32 a.m.: A female
caller reported a vehicle with males
throwing water balloons at peopleat
the intersection of Kincaid Street and
14th Avenue.
Friday, May 25,6:08 p.m.: A caller re
ported four to five subjects engaged in
a dispute at the intersection of
Franklin Boulevard and Villard Hall.
Saturday, May 26,11:53 p.m.: A fe
male caller reported a fight in progress
between two males at McClure Hall in
the Earl Complex.
Monday, May 28,10:06 p.m.: A caller
reported an assault near Schafer Hall
in the Walton Complex.
Research
continued from page 1A
While Minson’s team is working
primarily with older adults, Mari
lyn Nippold, a professor in the com
munication disorders and sciences
program, is using school-age chil
dren in her research.
Nippold recently began to study
children’s abilities to express com
plex ideas verbally, a process know
as expository discourse. She said it
involves thinking logically and us
ing reasoning skills.
“Expository discourse is one of
the most challenging types of oral
expression,” she said. “You really
have to understand something in or
der to explain it.”
Nippold said she hopes to inter
view 100 students throughout Ore
gon in the fifth, eighth and 11th
grades. She said 20 fifth-grade stu
dents have been interviewed so far.
“We’re expecting we’ll see devel
opment improve as we go up the
grade levels,” she said.
Nippold said they interviewed the
r
fifth graders by asking them to de
scribe their favorite game. Because
this kind of conversation requires us
ing complex details such as describ
ing the game’s rules and how it can
be won, researchers are able to ob
serve the students’ thought process
es, she said. The researchers will ana
lyze the results in the summer before
moving on to eighth graders and 11th
graders in the fall.
“This is more challenging than
story telling,” she said. “We’re tap
ping into complex, high-level think
ing skills.”
Nippold said establishing reason
able language standards for public
students can help educators im
prove students’ verbal skills and
their long-run success.
“Manual labor jobs are not as readi
ly available as they used to be,” she
said. “More and more people need to
have good speaking skills.”
McKay Moore-Sohlberg, associate
professor of the communication dis
orders and sciences, program, is
working with the University’s com
puter science department to improve
e-mail to make it easier for people
with cognitive impairments to use.
She said it’s often challenging for
people with strokes or other cogni
tive impairments to get out and inter
act with others, so e-mail may be an
efficient way for them to maintain
communication with the world.
“Often these folks are severely
isolated,” she said.
Moore-Sohlberg said she and oth
er researchers performed a study on
eight people last summer who have
cognitive impairments. The partici
pants used computer interfaces to
send e-mail, and the researchers
then made a list of the different
problems they had with the com
puter, such as difficulty navigating
the mouse.
“There’s a great variability in
what kind of help and prompts peo
ple want,” she said.
Moore-Sohlberg said the people
they’ve used in the studies enjoyed
taking part in the research.
“Some have called us asking if
they could be in more studies,” she
said.
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