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Group kicks oflf voter campaign
■ A coalition seeks to interest students
in politics and get youth registered to vote
By Beata Mostafavi
Oregon Daily Emerald
The 19-foot-2.5-inch green ballot box, which towered
over the EMU Courtyard last year, was hard to miss during
the 2000 election.
Initiated by former ASUO President Jay Breslow, the
“World’s Largest Ballot Box” was part of the voter partici
pation campaign, aiming to ignite election interest.
Although there probably won’t be a 19-foot-tall object
to get students’ attention this year, the Oregon Youth Vote
Coalition is working on other ways to fight student apathy
and show state candidates that students’ issues should be
addressed.
“Students in the past have been seen as an apathetic
group with a disinterest in politics,” Oregon Student Asso
ciation communication coordinator Julie Suchanek
Ritchie said. “After the 2000 election, that’s not true.”
The coalition, which includes ASUO, OSA, Sen. Susan
Castillo and other members, will kick off the 2002 election cy
cle today at 10 a.m. in the Ben Linder Room. Disbursing elec
tion information and bringing candidates to campus will be
two of the goals until the race in May, coalition members said.
Candidates also need to be reminded that students make
up a large voting population and should be represented,
ASUO President Nilda Brooklyn said. She added that al
though May is a long way off, efforts to increase election ed
ucation and interest should be ongoing.
“We want to make a continuous effort because voting is
not just a one-time thing,” she said. “We also want the candi
dates showing that higher education is a priority for them. ”
Last year, more than 5,000 students registered to vote
during the campaign, OSA Executive Director Joelle Lester
said. And more than 80 percent of students and youth in
student-heavy precincts—a precinct where more than 50
percent of voters are students—voted in Lane County.
Lester, who coordinated the campaign last year, said al
though the numbers may have been high because it was a
presidential voting season, Oregon’s campaign was still
Student turnout lor 2000 elections
In a statewide effort to register new voters, the Oregon Student Association board
and staff led an aggressive campaign to increase voter turnout. Overall, the board
was able to register 27,296 new voters.
University of < Oregon State < Portland State
0«pn University University
2291 did net vote 295 did not vote : 1594 did not vote
Russell Weller Emerald
extremely successful.
“The University of Oregon had one of the best mobiliza
tion drives in the country,” she said. “The turnout was in
credible.”
She mentioned that Donald Green, a professor at Yale
University, did a report on the impact of nonpartisan voter
mobilization efforts on voters between the ages of 18 and
30. He cited the University as one of the most successful in
recruiting voters.
Door-to-door visits, person-to-person phone calls and
visibility on campus appeared to be the most effective
strategies from last year, Lester said.
The coalition also aims to make information as accessi
ble as possible by pushing election offices to mail out edu
cational pamphlets and answer questions over the phone.
Senior business major Todd Nakayama said although
he is a registered voter, he has never voted because he did
n’t know enough about the issues. This kind of campaign
could help, he said.
“My feeling is if I don’t know enough about it, I don’t
want to make a decision to put someone in power, ” he said.
Beata Mostafavi is the student activities editor for the Oregon Daily
Emerald. She can be reached at beatamostafavi@dailyemerald.com.
Citizens express concerns about towers
■ Health concerns topped
citizens’ cell phone worries
By Brook Reinhard
Oregon Daily Emerald
Mona Linstromberg has a problem
with cell phone towers, including one
planned for the campus area. Lin
stromberg, the co-founder of Citizens
for Responsible Placement of Cell
Phone Transmission Towers, took a
saw to her cell phone earlier this year
— and sent both halves back to Veri
zon Wireless as a silent protest of tow
er siting in her neighborhood.
Members of the citizen’s group were
anything but silent at a public hearing
held Tuesday night at Lane County
Courthouse’s Harris Hall. Each speak
er had a three-minute limit, but more
than 10 representatives from the group
signed up to speak, and they tag
teamed their time to give the planning
commission a half-hour long Power
Point presentation. Only one cell
phone industry representative spoke.
The Lane County Planning Com
mission called the hearing to solicit
feedback on a proposed ordinance for
cell phone tower placement. The com
mission is working on an ordinance to
update the aged Lane County codes
governing communications.
“Current provisions of the Lane
County code are quite antiquated,”
said Kent Howe, a representative from
Lane County’s Department of Land
Management. “In some zones there’s
still provisions for telephone to tele
graph exchange. ”
Citizens spoke against cell phone
towers for many reasons, but health
concerns took center stage in their
presentation.
“Some documented effects (of cell
phone tower transmissions) are mem
ory loss, spatial disorientation and
lower sperm count,” said Heather
Kent, one of the many tower oppo
nents at the meeting.
Under the Federal Telecommunica
tions Act of 1996, local governments
are prohibited from taking health con
cern into account when cell phone
towers are sited.
“Our government doesn’t take a pre
cautionary view,” said Martha John
son, another speakerthat evening. “It’s
‘innocent until proven guilty. ’”
Massachusetts drafted an ordi
nance requiring cell phone towers to
be sited at least 1,000 feet away from
schools after a Concord student man
aged to climb a tower and fall off.
As a result, the citizen’s group is
pressing for zoning regulations that la
bel towers as an “attractive nuisance”
and distance them away from schools.
Meeting attendees also voiced con
cern that the cell towers would be- r
come obsolete in a matter of years by
new satellite technology.
This claim was disputed by Ron
Fowler, AT&T real estate manager.
“Satellites will not replace cur
rent technology for... years. ”
After the ordinance is revised by
the commission, it will be presented
to the Board of County Commis
sioners in January.
Brook Rein hard is a community reporter
forthe Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be
reached at brookreinhard@dailyemerald.com.
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