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ASUO Executive hopefuls—all 19 of them
—face off on campus issues and woo voters.
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Tuesday, February 12,2002
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Volume 103, Issue 94
Are students safe from
■ Some women say they don’t feel
safe on campus, but the University
points to well-lit paths and a fast
response time to emergency calls
By Marty Toohey
Oregon Daily Emerald
I | ihe University has continued to
increase its campus safety fea
JL tures in the past few years, but
some say problems with campus safety
lie in inadequate education and preven
tion measures.
The University maintains five well
lit paths for crossing the campus after
dark and is considering installing more
lights, as well as installing more emer
gency telephones around campus, De
partment of Public Safety Associate Di
rector Tom Hicks said.
DPS dispatchers respond within two
to four minutes when someone uses
one of the 37 blue-light emergency
phones spread throughout the cam
pus, Hicks said. A person can notify
public safety by hitting the red emer
gency button on the yellow poles, or
by dialing 346-6666 from locations
with a regular phone.
Community education major Lezlie
Frye doesn’t feel safe on campus, and
her concerns have nothing to do with
policing or quick-response measures.
She said the campus fosters a “rape
environment,” which imposes a “cur
few” on women who fear for assaults
at night.
Frye said she has to move around
campus at night because of her sched
ule and will not stop doing so.
“That’s not always the safest
choice, though,” Frye said. “That’s
the problem.”
Frye said the Women’s Studies Pro
gram and the Women’s Center are
“grossly underfunded,” and increasing
funding to them would go a long way
toward making the campus safe. She
suggested the University could offer
more opportunities for education about
rape culture and campus safety.
A woman was assaulted behind the
Knight Library two weeks ago, and po
lice have not ruled out as the perpetra
tor a man suspected of six attacks last
Turn to Safety, page 3
Rally for safety
A group of University students
concerned about the safety of women on
campus will hold a rally from 2 to 3 p.m.
today in the EMU Amphitheater.
The rally is a response to attacks on
women on campus* including the
attempted assault of a woman behind
the Knight Library two weeks ago, junio r
Leslie Frye said.
Hing the rally “No More
Curfews On Campus” to protest “socially
imposed curfews” that keep women
indoors at night because they risk sexual
assault and violence by going outside.
Photo illustration by Jonathan House Emerald
Lawmakers
plan to cut
$8 million
from lit)
■The Legislature’s rebalanced
budget would take $48 million from
Oregon colleges, but Gov. Kitzhaber
says a counter proposal is on the way
By John Uebhardt and Leon Tovey
Oregon Daily Emerald
State legislators are preparing for
a sustained fight over the proposed
budget-balancing measures passed
early Monday, and higher educa
tion officials are hoping things
won’t get worse.
The Legislature’s plan, passed during
the third day of a special session, in
cludes $48 million in cuts to the Ore
gon University System and about $8
million to the University of Oregon.
Gov. John Kitzhaber already said he
would veto portions of the proposal
and call another special session by the
end of February.
. The Democratic governor and the
Republican-controlled Legislature
have repeatedly sparred over how to
pay for the more than $830 million
state budget deficit.
The failure of legislators to reach a
compromise with the governor wor
ries higher education officials, who
think an extended budget battle in
creases the risk of permanent damage
to the state’s already strapped higher
education system.
“Somebody is going to have to blink,”
said John Wykoff, legislative director for
the Oregon Student Association.
Wykoff said he wants a budget
agreement before the governor or Leg
islature possibly decide to make
across-the-board cuts, a situation
which Wykoff fears could hit the OUS
much harder.
OUS Chancellor Joseph Cox echoed
Turn to Budget, page 3
■ Eric Bailey and Charlotte
Nisser say they will work
with student groups and lobby
for funding at the state level
By Diane Huber
Oregon Daily Emerald
Eric Bailey, a junior planning,
public policy and management ma
jor, is running for president. Char
lotte Nisser, a junior journalism and
international studies major, is run
ning for vice president.
Q: There are, at last count, 10
tickets running for ASUO Exec
utive, which is more than previ
ous years. What do you think
will set yourselves apart from
other candidates?
Three things: Our experience,
our strong platform and our deep
.. knowledge of
ASUO
Elections
This is the fifth in a
10-partseries
of question and
answer sessions
with ASUO
Executive
candidates.
the issues. To
gether we cover
student pro
grams, senate,
executive — we
have a diverse
background.
We know a ton
about every is
sue just be
cause we’ve
been involved with it so long.
Q: What is your platform?
Next year is an election year.
One of our top priorities is to get
out the vote. I think last year
(ASUO) did a good job getting
people registered, but I would like
to have seen
more educat
ing the voters
after registra
tion was com
plete. It’s not
so important
who they vote
for, but that
they vote, be
cause one of
the main rea
sons our stu
dent population is overlooked is
because of low voter turnout. Can
didates feel like they can overlook
us and win this thing easily with
out even fighting for our votes.
Q: What would you advocate for
at the state level, and how would
you carry out your plans?
A: We all
know the pend
ing state budget
cuts, as well as
tuition increas
es, are in the
foreseeable fu
ture. We feel
that’s probably
one of our
strongest issues
right now. We
want the peo
ple in Salem to know who we are
by face and by name. We want to
work with the student groups that
are affected directly by budget cuts.
Q: What specific campus-orient
ed initiates would you champion?
A: We also believe we can work
with student groups on issues of
race and diversity.
Another issue is protecting stu
dent tickets. A big myth on this
campus is that they’re free. They
are not; we pay a huge amount. The
Athletic Department knows they
can sell those student tickets for
three times what we’re paying for
them, so it’s always a struggle to
make sure we get to keep at least
the same amount of tickets that we
have every year.
And campus safety is also impor
tant. We’re not just spilling it out
there as something to get votes. The
overrealized fund — the surplus of
the incidental fee — we would like
to see that go toward campus light
ing, as well as bringing back the
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