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News brief
University hosts
Wushu Championships
More than 100 competitors from
colleges and universities in Oregon,
Washington, California, Arizona,
Maryland and Canada traveled to
the University on Saturday to par
ticipate in the 6th Annual Colle
giate Wushu Championships.
About 300 people attended the
competition, which took place in
Gerlinger 220. University freshman
Phillip Dang won the men’s all
around competition, and Universi
ty Wushu Club coach Peter Wolf
was named as the outstanding in
ternal competitor. UC-Berkeley
won the team competition.
^ Wushu, which developed in
mainland China in the past 50 years,
is a contemporary form of Chinese
martial arts, said Brandon Sugiya
ma, one of the founding members of
the University Wushu Club.
“The emphasis is on competition
and performance,” he said. Wushu
is “based on traditional fighting
styles in China.”
Already an international sport,
Wushu may gain greater recogni
tion at the 2008 Olympic games.
Beijing is hosting the games, and
there is speculation that Wushu
may be recognized as an Olympic
event, Sugiyama said.
— Kara Cogswell
Thomas Patterson Emerald
In response to roughly $61,000 in theft this year, surveillance cameras will be set up in places such as the EMU computer lab.
Computer theft
continued from page 1
Many departments have started
using the commercial program Se
curity Tracking of Office Property
Theft — STOP Theft. STOP Theft
plates are attached to property
units such as computers and pro
jectors, and identify the equipment
through a national serial number. If
a plate is removed, a tattoo-like
mark remains on the property to
identify it as stolen, Hicks said.
The department may eventually
install the system into all high-risk
campus property like computers,
Hicks said. He added that DPS is
also exploring other security op
tions such as ensuring that all class
rooms and labs are locked at night
and installing alarms on some
property items.
So far, 21 items have been
stolen from McKenzie, Columbia
and Cascade Halls, Knight Library,
the EMU, Millrace and a few fac
ulty offices, valued at roughly
$61,000. This excludes the value
of stolen personal computers be
longing to students.
The increase in stolen digital
projectors, which range in value
from $3,500 to $5,000 each, has
ASU0
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Q: What specific campus-orient
ed issues will you champion?
A: If elected, we’re going to work
really closely with the parking is
sues. Students, through parking per
mits, parking tickets and parking
meters, are paying $10.3 million to
run the DPS. Also, when students
are ticketed, there is one person that
reviews their appeal. I don’t think
lots of students know that they
could re:appeal for a second trial
where there is a board that gets to
see the re-appeal that actually has
two student seats. That board is very
weak — they meet once a month,
and that’s a voluntary board, so we
want to stress for students to partici
pate and make it more knowledge
able. Also, the housing code — we
want to make sure when students
start renting, they will have some
protection and renter’s rights.
been one of the greatest concerns
this year, Hicks said. The number of
projector thefts jumped from two in
1999 to 11 this past year.
“One of the things we’ve been
discussing is implementing some
kind of programs that keep better
track and inventory of especially
computer equipment, which seems
to be more vulnerable to thefts,” he
said. “We also want to provide
some kind of deterrence.”
eleven Mmari, coordinator of
microcomputer support systems
services, oversees several offices in
Ordgon Hall, the University Coun
seling Center and the Career Center.
He said after the computer theft in
Oregon Hall, he also plans to install
STOP Theft and security locks on
several of the public computers.
Keeping better track of who comes
and goes into the buildings after
hours is another goal, he said.
Computer Lab Coordinator Mary
Bradley said she also plans to in
stall one surveillance camera in
each of the Millrace, Klamath, EMU
and McKenzie labs by spring term.
The increase in projector thefts has
been the main push to do so, she
said. She added that in general, it’s
difficult to steal property out of the
labs. All computer labs have a mo
Q: How would you define diver
sity? And how would you plan to
bring together the diverse voices on
campus?
A: We would define diversity as
a society comprised of different
cultures, different backgrounds
and different individuals. Some
thing without color, gender or sex
uality barriers. We are involved
with retention of faculty of color,
and we’re also involved in the in
clusion of students of color in dif
ferent departments, so we feel that
we are already doing work to
make this campus a diverse com
munity.
Q: If two different students
groups were at odds with each oth
er, how would you resolve the
conflict?
A: Mostly through communica
tion. We have worked with a lot of
different leaders and different or
ganizations, and we have seen a lot
of different conflicts arise.
tion detector, door alarm, locks and
staff monitors.
Meagan Show, a freshman com
puter lab assistant in McKenzie
Hall, said it’s hard to imagine how
someone could take the large digi
tal projectors out of labs and class
rooms unnoticed. But the new
Dell computers put in the lab this
term are about 1 foot by 3 inches
— smaller than the average size,
she said.
“When we first got new comput
ers put in, it was pretty easy to steal
one,” she said. “The computer part
is so small it could easily fit into a
backpack. But now that everything
is locked down, nothing could be
taken that easily.”
She added that it’s hard to be
lieve a student would steal such
valuable property at all, but that
tightening security measures
would probably deter them.
“I was really surprised,” she said.
“Everyone who comes in here
looks pretty decent, and I wouldn’t
expect them to steal anything. I
think surveillance cameras would
especially stop a lot of people from
trying to get away with it.”
Beata Mostafavi is a freelance reporter
forthe Emerald.
Q: If there was one thing you
could change about the University
instantly, what would it be?
A: Administration. We feel that
administration and the students
should work together. We feel that
administration does not listen to
students.
Q: How would you do things
differently than the current ASUO
Executive?
A: The current ASUO Exec has
does a tremendously good job this
year. There is always room for im
provement. We have a very friendly
and welcoming personality, so we
would try to make ASUO more ac
ceptable and more welcoming to all
students. A lot of ASUO Execs in
the past have promised that the
ASUO will be more friendly, but it’s
not changing the ASUO, it’s chang
ing the people in it and the energy
that they bring.
E-mail reporter Robin Weber
at robinweber@dailyemerald.com