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BRT
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come out of these things.”
Fitzpatrick said at this time of
year, it is normal for DPS to meet
with various campus groups, in
cluding the Office of Internation
al Education and Exchange,
which is the department most in
volved with international stu
dents on campus. These meetings
allow DPS to highlight specific
outreach programs, such as the
security substation in the Hamil
ton residence hall complex,
which allows DPS officers to con
duct nightly walk-throughs of
residence halls with the housing
staff. The safety sessions allow
DPS officers to familiarize stu
dents with various security is
sues.
Calm and caution has also de
scended upon the Office of Inter
national Education and Exchange.
“We are doing whatever we can
to make people safe and secure,”
BRT shows underreporting
of bias incidents
According to the Bias Response
Team, there were at least 30 to 40
reported cases of bias at the Uni
versity during the past 12 months.
However, the statistics show “un
derreporting’’ of tolerance issues at
the University, according to BRT
coordinator Mark Tracy.
“We are not getting the number
of reports we need,” said Tracy,
who is also the assistant dean of
diversity programs. Tracy noted
the statistics do include two inci
dents of bias reported over the
summer term and one reported
act of backlash since the terrorist
attacks of Sept. 11.
BRT is an interdepartmental or
ganization charged to ensure a
said Ginny Stark, OIEE’s associate
director.
The only major changes in inter
national programs, Stark reported,
were delays involving students at
tempting to travel to the Universi
complete University response to
bias incidents. Created in 1999,
one of BRT’s primary focuses is to
track and tally data regarding inci
dents of racial intolerance, and in
some cases, provide action for in
dividual cases. Individuals may
make two types of complaints on
the BRT Web site: informational
and action. During a complaint
that requires action, BRT will ini
tiate contact with the appropriate
groups and individuals in an at
tempt to remedy to the issue.
Tracy said BRT has been restruc
tured to increase the number of re
ports taken and make the organiza
tion more efficient to provide
better communication on campus.
—John Liebhardt
ty in the week following the at
tack.
John Liebhardt is the higher education editor
for the Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be
reached at johnliebhardt@dailyemerald.com.
DPS considers racial
profiling survey
The Eugene Police Department
recently began surveying the race
and ethnicity of individuals it
stops during routine traffic stops.
With perhaps the most diverse
population in Eugene, the Univer
sity’s Department of Public Safety
may also begin surveying.
“We haven’t moved in that di
rection yet,” said Tom Fitz
patrick, director of Public Safety.
“But it is something we have
talked about.”
Fitzpatrick noted that he spoke
to state Rep. Vicki Walker, D-Eu
gene, when she introduced a bill
against racial profiling during the
last legislative session. But those
talks were only informational, he
said. Walker’s bill would have en
couraged police departments to
initiate surveys of racial profiles.
The bill was eventually worked
into Senate Bill 415.
Citizen groups have often com
plained that police departments
unfairly target certain groups, so
many police departments have
begun to survey the race and eth
nicity of the individuals they
stop.
Fitzpatrick noted one difficulty
for most police departments when
surveying racial profiling is the
ability to track the results. That
will not be a problem with DPS, he
said, because the Field Interroga
tion Cards which officers fill out
during incidents contain space for
tracking the person’s race or eth
nicity.
“We probably have the capacity
to do it, “ Fitzpatrick said.
Fitzpatrick pointed that there
have been no reported issues of
racial profiling during his two
year tenure at the University.
Also, he said, University students
have a myriad of safeguards to
prevent against insensitive treat
ment or bias.
“It is pretty difficult for a (DPS)
officer to profile someone without
having attention brought to it,”
Fitzpatrick said.
EPD’s survey is just in pilot
phase, with 30 of 118 patrol offi
cers participating. A spokesperson
for the police department told the
Emerald that the surveys will sta
tistically prove that EPD does not
stop and question motorists on the
basis of race.
The Oregon State Police has
been conducting a survey for a
year.
— John Liebhardt
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