Ducks
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who gears up before every game. He
said normally on the Thursday of
game weeks, he makes a stop at the
bookstore to see if there’s anything
to add to his game attire.
Aside from the emerald-green
paint that he splatters all over his
face for games, he usually wears a
Harrington jersey his father gave
him before the UCLA game last year.
“It’s kind of cheesy,” he said. “But
you’ve got to represent the team. It’s
total fan support.”
The correlation of enthusiasm for
the team and sales in Duck para
phernalia was especially obvious
during the Wisconsin game in Sep
tember, when the Ducks were
ranked No. 7 in the Associated Press
poll. Between the Duck Shops in
Portland and at the stadium, the
kiosk in Valley River Center, conces
sions and bookstore sales, more than
$100,000 in Duck gear was sold on
that Game Day alone, according to
bookstore representatives.
“That was probably one of the
biggest days in our history for
sportswear sales,” sportswear buyer
Beverly Emery said, adding that
sales have also been high this week
leading up to the Civil War game
against Oregon State University.
Emery said memorabilia sales,
which include items such as mag
nets, nail polish and temporary tat
toos, have seen an even sharper rise
this year. Pompoms, “quackers” and
car flags have been a few of the hot
items during game weeks, she said.
“We were shocked at how popu
lar the memorabilia were. It’s a real
high demand that we didn’t even re
alize,” she said. “Anything to show
their pride.”
A sportswear buyer for 18 years,
Emery added that when the Ducks
weren’t playing as well, the sales
weren’t even close to what they
are now.
Williams, who has been the book
store manager for 26 years, said
sales reached their peak in 1995,
when the Ducks went to the Rose
Bowl. The sales from that success
ful season led to a 1 percent increase
in the course book discount, which
Crime
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Hicks called the numbers an accurate
reflection of crime on campus, but
cautioned that statistics don’t always
tell the whole story.
(Those numbers) are as accurate as
crime statistics are,” Hicks said. “But
you have to look at any crime statistics
with a certain degree of realism. ”
Hicks said that the increased num
ber of liquor and drug law violations
could be because of the fact that De
partment of Public Safety officers
were stationed in residence halls last
year. This could also account for the
drop in burglary numbers. However,
he was quick to point out that crime is
often cyclical.
“We would like to think that it’s be
cause of increased patrols and pres
ence,” he said. “But burglary is the
type of crime that goes up and down.”
Colleges have been required to
disclose crime on and around cam
puses since 1990, when Congress
passed the Crime Awareness and
Campus Security Act. In 1998, the
law was amended to expand report
ing requirements and renamed the
Clery Act in memory of Jeanne Ann
Clery, a 19-year-old Lehigh Univer
sity freshman who was raped and
murdered while asleep in her resi
dence hall room on April 5, 1986.
The Clery Act requires all Title IV
eligible schools to publish and dis
tribute an annual campus security
report. The DOE is required to com
pile statistics from those colleges
and make them available to the
public.
Last year, in response to the
amendment, the department’s Office
of Postsecondary Education began
posting crime statistics on the Inter
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Campus attacker Iasi seen May 21
It's been more than six months since the last of six attacks on col
lege-age women occurred on campus, and according to Associate Di
rector of Public Safety Tom Hicks, there have been no new develop
ments in the case.
"We haven’t had any other incidents similar to those,” he said.
The attacks began last February and continued through late May. in
each incident, a woman in her late teens or early 20s was harassed and
grabbed by a man who made sexual comments and used threatening
language. All of the attacks took place after dark, and in one incident,
the attacker md a knife.
In each case, the woman escaped unharmed, but the Eugene Police
Department and the Department of Public Safety warned women on
campus not to walk alone at night and posted warning signs around
campus. One of the women was able to give a fairly complete descrip
tion of her attacker, and the resulting composite sketch became a com -
mon sight in area newspapers.
The last attack occurred on May 22 in Pioneer Cemetery, and since
a m further sightings of the suspect
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net. The process of posting results
went more smoothly this year than
last year, but some feel there are still
problems.
“We’re still seeing some inconsis
tencies in the data,” said S. Daniel
Carter, vice president of Security on
Campus, a nonprofit campus-crime
watchdog group.
One problem with the statistics
posted on the site, Carter said, is that
many schools omit disciplinary ac
tions and judiciary referrals in their
reports. Those referrals, which are
most often handed out for liquor and
drug law violations, can in some cas
es double the number of statistics in a
given category. The University gave
more than 400 disciplinary
actions/judicial referrals for liquor
law violations in 2000 and more than
200 for drug law violations, but it
made fewer than 200 liquor law ar
rests and only 71 drug law arrests.
Hicks said the reason for this dis
crepancy is that many universities
have drug and alcohol regulations
that differ from municipal codes,
and that some institutions prefer to
handle such matters internally,
rather than turning students over to
law enforcement officials.
Carter said that while the OPE
Web site is “getting closer” to accu
rately depicting crime on campus,
the DOE needs to give schools clear
er requirements. Also, he said, a
strong enforcement mechanism for
its reporting policy needs to be de
veloped.
The University reported no mur
ders, no manslaughters and no
weapons violations between 1998
and 2000 — the three years the DOE
has required statistics. The statistics
can be viewed in their entirety on the
OPE Web site at ope.ed.gov/security.
Emerald higher education reporter Leon Tovey
can be reached at leontovey@daiiyemerald.com.
used to be only 9 percent.
“It was an extraordinary moment
in time,” he said. “And people
would just come and buy and buy
and buy.”
He added that students are not
the only consumers responsible for
the high numbers—half of the sales
come from alumni.
Jim Perry, former president of the
alumni association and a member of
two new Duck items a year an
comes back for most of the games.
“I’ve got a closet full of that stuff
he said with a laugh. “It’s gre
when you see all that green and vel
low in the stands. That’s a big b< o t
to the team. ”
Emerald student activities editor Beata
Mostafavi can be reached at
beatamostatavi@dailyemerald.com.
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