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Since 1 900 University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Friday, March 1,2002
Volume 103,Issue 107
“Men are not rapists. Rapists are rapists.99 — Susie Shauger, student
EMPOWERMENT
through
Project Saferide holds a women’s awareness
discussion and self-defense demonstration
in response to sexual assaults on campus
By Robin Weber
Oregon Daily Emerald
Man-haters, angry feminists, frigid “womyn,”
ball-busters, call them what you want —
they’ve heard it all before. But to the group of
nearly 10 women who met for a night of sup
port sponsored by Project Saferide on Thursday, they just
want women to be aware.
Saferide education coordinator Caitlin Tatum joined
forces with Sexual Assault Support Services program co
ordinator Raven Koch to inform women through discus
sion, action and information how they can become em
powered in the fight against sexual assault.
“It’s a safe, comfortable place where women can come
be with women of similar interests,” Tatum said.
The event was held in reaction to sexual assaults on
campus becoming a bigger concern, according to Tatum.
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(Above) Nikki
Fancher, Mary
Stuenkel and Holly
Zeuthen (left to
right) engage in
empowerment
and confidence
building exercises
at a self-defense
workshop on
Thursday in the
Ben Linder Forum.
Demonstrating,
Caitlin Tatum
(left) fends off
Holly Zeuthen
in a mock attack.
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responsible for all three incidents, but DPS
and the Eugene Police Department say they
have no suspects.
The most recent incidents took place at
neighboring rooms in Clark Hall last week
end, and were preceded by an incident Jan. 31
around 8 p.m. at Hamilton Complex (“Police
suspect same man is behind campus mastur
bation incidents," ODE, 2/28).
DPS distributed fliers to announce that the
incidents took place and give safety tips.
They will “help (people on campus) avoid
the perpetrator or help us catch him," Fitz
patrick said.
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University Housing’s fliers give basic re
minders such as “lock your door at night” and
“don’t allow strangers in the building.”
"It's important for students to realize they
can have a major impact on the safety of their
surroundings,” University Housing director
Mike Eyster said.
Fitzpatrick and Eyster encouraged students
to notify DPS if they notice anything suspi
cious. The DPS emergency line is 346-6666,
and the non-emergency line, to be used if
there is no immediate threat, is 346-5444.
—Marty Toohey
Senate
tables
tuition
increase
■While legislators attempt
to solve Oregon’s budget woes,
OUS administrators worry
By Brook Reinhard
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Oregon Legislature reached a
compromise Thursday that tables a pro
posed tuition increase and dulls pro
gram cuts for higher education.
Student leaders cheered and Univer
sity officials were dismayed as legisla
tors avoided action on a University
backed amendment to budget proposals
that would have allowed individual
Oregon University System schools to
raise tuition rates up to 3 percent be
yond normal levels.
As part of the compromise, legislators
agreed to restore $5 million to the un
dergraduate education budget for OUS.
The increase will fund exclusively “stu
dent-professor” costs including salaries
and academic budgets.
“This is a solution that all of us can
live with,” said Joelle Lester, executive
director of the Oregon Student Associa
tion, an Oregon higher education advo
cacy group.
Legislators have been meeting all week
in their second special session to solve to
Turn to Budget, page 8A
Cemetery
safety still
an issue
■ Increased lighting may not help,
but might actually create more
problems, campus officials say
By Marty Toohey
Oregon Daily Emerald
Emily Lepkowski doesn’t feel safe
near Pioneer Cemetery.
The University student gets nervous
when friends walk in the cemetery after
basketball games at McArthur Court, and
she won’t stray from the sidewalk onto
cemetery grounds, even on the days when
sunshine softens its shadowy corners.
“If you walk by the cemetery, anyone
could reach out and grab you,” she said.
“You don’t feel safe there after the sto
ries you hear.”
The stories include official complaints
to the Department of Public Safety and
the Eugene Police Department of a man
in the cemetery following women and
Turn to Cemetery, page 8A