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work experience and discharge of
civic duties also matter, she said.
Law school administrators say
they are trying to defuse some of the
competitive elements of law school
and build student-to-student interac
tion to help each student succeed.
The Academic Choice for Excel
lence program for first-year stu
dents, now in its third year, is “de
signed to promote community,”
said Assistant Dean for Student Af
fairs Richard Ludwick. He said stu
dents learn to work together
through bi-weekly formalized
study sessions and casual mixers
during the law school’s orientation
week before fall classes.
“The law curriculum does not
often lend itself to [community
building], though the pedagogy is
changing,” Ludwick said. “So we
make an extra effort to build com
munity here.”
He added that mixing among
students here at the University
“tends to be more collegial and
kinder” than at other law schools,
even in simple gestures. Last year,
students brought in doughnuts for
classmates and sent out reminders
on key deadlines.
Third-year student David Floren,
who said he was near the top fifth
of his class his first year, said class
ranking is “something to be con
cerned about, but not worried.”
Although his ranking has
helped him search for jobs, he
said using the system is a handy
tool only to an extent.
“It's a natural advantage in hir
ing. But that's all it is — an advan
tage — and you can lose that advan
tage easily. People with no social
skills are discriminated against in
the workforce, no matter how well
they know their stuff,” Floren said.
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the official survey will be analyzed by
Vik Gumbhir, a Graduate Teaching
Fellow with the Oregon Survey Re
search Laboratory at the University.
The data collection has already cost
the police department about $15,000.
State Rep. Vicki Walker, D-Eugene,
introduced a bill against racial profil
ing during the last legislative session.
She said the EPD was doing the right
thing in acting on complaints.
“I think it’s fabulous,” she said.
“Eugene is working very hard to
overcome the perception they’re en
gaging in racial profiling.”
Walker’s bill to combat racial pro
filing was later signed into law, but
as a different version. The law asks
state law enforcement agencies to
incorporate language against racial
profiling into their mission state
ments and set up a committee to
help fund police forces establishing
a survey like the EPD’s.
Walker said in her work on the issue,
she heard from several students and
community members in Eugene who
accused the EPD of racial profiling.
“It’s a multicultural University,
and I’ve heard complaints from peo
ple of Middle Eastern and Indian
origin,” she said, adding that people
of other races also complained.
But Walker said all those complaints
were anecdotal, so it is good that the
EPD is conducting the survey to see
whether there is any truth to them.
“I think it’s great,” she said. “I’m
really excited about it.”
ASUO Vice President Joy Nair also
said the survey is a good step, but she
offered more tempered enthusiasm.
In her work with the Universi
ty’s Multicultural Center and other
student groups, Nair said she has
campaigned against racial profil
ing. She said the ASUO discussed
the survey during a recent meet
ing, and while many on her staff
have “some doubts about the moti
vations and the effectiveness” of
the EPD’s actions, they all still
agreed it was a good first step.
“When we started to really analyze
it, we decided some data collection is
better than none,” she said.
Nair added that as the year pro
gresses, the ASUO will remain active
on the issue and will respond to what
the EPD discovers in its survey.
Now that the EPD has begun its
data collection, it joins many other
law enforcement agencies already
analyzing their traffic stops.
Sgt. Scott Miller, a patrol super
visor with the Oregon State Police,
said the agency has been conduct
ing a survey for a year. He said the
OSP uses codes in its reports to
identify age, race and gender and
has not changed any departmental
policy since it started to keep
track.
“In case somebody questions us,
we can say, ‘Look at this, we’re not
harassing anyone,’” he said.
However, the time and cost of
equipment needed to conduct a sur
vey have kept some agencies from
beginning a program like the EPD’s.
“It really comes down to a ques
tion of stretching resources,” said
Capt. Bret Freeman, the police serv
ices commander with the Lane
County Sheriffs Office.
He said the sheriff’s office has an
“active internal affairs” division
that investigates any complaints
against the office and will be incor
porating some of the EPD’s tracking
software into a joint computer sys
tem it shares with the EPD and the
Springfield Police Department.
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