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a report of items stolen from a vehicle at
the Spencer View Apartment Complex.
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received a report of acar battery stolen
from a vehicle near tbe Rainier Building.
Vandalism
Tuesday, Nov. 6,12:55 a.m.: DPS
received a report of students putting
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Tuesday, Nov. 13,2:49 a.m.: OPS
received a report of a damaged card
Substance Abuse
Wednesday, Nov. 7,2M p.m.; DP$
received a report of a possible drug man
ufacturing facility in Hamilton Complex.
Hdnesday, Nov, 7,8:56 p.m.: DPS
received a report of three students possibly
smoking marijuana inWaitonCompfex.
Miscellaneous
Tuesday, Nov. 13,2:49 a.m,: OPS
officer dispatched in response to a
report of a person urinating in public
near Hamilton Complex.
Friday, Nov. 9,10:1&p,n*,: DPS
received a report of a missing person
who was last seen on die first door of
Prince tuden Campbell Hall.
Election
continued from page 1
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled
last year that groups at public uni
versities cannot receive incidental
fees by ballot funding. Because of
this ruling, University groups that
previously went to the ballot for
funds plan to take their budget re
quests to PFC this year, which
would greatly increase the PFC’s
budget growth.
Programs and services will bene
fit from the exemption because it
will allow PFC to continue funding
them without the significant cuts
that would have been needed to stay
within the 7 percent growth limit,
Madden said.
“The winners in this whole thing
are going to be student services and
programs,” she said.
Both measures affect the Clark
Document, a section of the ASUO
Constitution that governs student
incidental fees.
Just 422 students—less than 3 per
cent of students enrolled at the Uni
versity —voted in the special election.
ASUO Elections Coordinator
Courtney Hight said she holds her
self and other members of the ASUO
Elections Board partially responsi
ble for the low turnout, because the
election was not widely publicized.
“We definitely recognize that
there were things we could have
done differently,” she said.
The measures on the ballot
may not have interested students
because they were complicated,
and students might not have seen
how the measures would affect
them, she said. Technical diffi
culties on DuckWeb also may
have contributed to the low num
bers, she added.
Hight said she is focusing on
increasing voter turnout for the
winter ASUO election, when stu
dents will elect ASUO executives
and senators for the 2002-03 aca
demic year.
Through increased publicity ef
forts, she said she plans “to inun
date the campus with the election.”
Her goal is to raise voter turnout to
20 percent, she said.
ASUO President Nilda Brooklyn
said the election was difficult be
cause ASUO sponsored the meas
ures and had to remain neutral.
“I think it was a hard election
simply because you couldn’t cam
paign for it,” she said. “But I’m glad
students did vote, and I’m glad the
measures passed.”
Kara Cogswell is a student activities reporter
for the Oregon Daily Emerald. She can be
reached at karacogsweil@dailyemerald.com.
Travel
continued from page 1
sponses to increasing security
measures since the Sept. 11 attacks.
While neither Amtrak nor Grey
hound examine passenger baggage, the
tfain service has increased security by
placing more police officers at stations
and on trains, said Sarah Swain, public
information director for Amtrak.
“Riders also need to know that to
purchase a ticket and to board the
train they must have a valid photo
ID,” she said. “The company is also
having aerial monitoring done of its
train tracks.”
Swain said University IDs are a
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valid form of ID for buying tickets
on Amtrak, but if students ride the
trains into Canada, they must carry
additional identification.
Greyhound is testing some secu
rity measures at 30 of its stations, al
though none are on the West Coast.
“The tests include checking peo
ple’s photo IDs and wanding —
which are handheld electronic
scans of people” to search for
weapons, Greyhound spokes
woman Jamelle Braunsfield said.
Instead of requiring reservations,
Kristin Parsley, Greyhound’s external
communications director, said the com
pany increases bus service as needed,
depending on the number of riders.
“We’re different than Amtrak and
the airlines,” she said. “We can man
age business in real-time, not on pro
jections. We simply add buses to ac
commodate additional travelers. ”
Amtrak will also add some cars to
their trains for holiday travel,
specifically over Thanksgiving.
“That is our biggest holiday,
ridership-wise, and the plan does
show more cars being added in
the Pacific Northwest corridor,”
said Swain. Whatever option
University students choose to use
for going somewhere during
break, travel agents advise to al
low more time for getting there —
especially by air.
“For road warriors — business
people — who travel all the time,
the changes since (Sept. 11) are
nothing new,” Norris said. “But
people who only travel at the holi
days need to recognize all the
changes that have taken place and
allow for that. ”
Norris said she recommends trav
elers take something extra with
them onboard.
“I tell them ‘Pack their patience,
the holidays are stressful,’” she
said.
Sue Ryan is a community reporter
for the Oregon Daily Emerald. She can be
reached at sueryan@dailyemerald.com.
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