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Thursday, March 14,2002
Since 1 900
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 103,Issue 116
Woman reports fighting off attack at Gerlinger
■A student reports striking back
against an assailant Wednesday night
with pepper spray and her keys
By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
A 19-year-old female University student
came away physically unharmed from a re
ported attempted attack between Gerlinger
Hall and the Knight Library on Wednesday
night, but the male assailant wasn’t as lucky.
The woman was walking between the
two buildings about 8:15 p.m. when a man
tried to grab her from behind, Eugene Po
lice Officer Randy Sewell said. The
woman quickly turned, fired pepper spray
into his eyes and hit him on his left cheek
with her keys, he said.
“This woman pretty much unloaded on
him,” Sewell said. “I’m pretty impressed
with her.”
The attacker ran away into the Pioneer
Cemetery, he said, and the woman ran to a
Wednesday’s attacker
Eugene police are looking fora white male in
his early 20s, 6 feet tall, medium build, with a
mole on his tight cheek. He may also have
scratches or bruises on h is left cheek.
Gall 346-2904 with any information.
SOURCE: EPD
friend’s house just off campus, where she
called the police.
Although the reported incident was brief,
the woman was able to give police a descrip
tion with a few specific characteristics. She
described the man as white, in his late 20s,
about 6 feet tall and having a medium build.
But she also reported a “noticeable mole” on
his right cheek, and Sewell added the man
probably has scratches or bruises on his left
cheek from being hit by the keys.
Sewell added that the man was dressed all
in black — hat, shirt and pants.
The campus has been the site of a number
Turn to Attack, page 4A
The devil and the underdog
El Teatro
Campesino, a
Chicano theater
group,uses a
combination of
music and skits to
tell a history of
the downtrodden
Mexican worker.
Thomas Patterson Emerald
A voice for farm workers
■ MEChA brings El Teatro Campesino,
a farm workers’ rights group, to campus
for its seventh annual talent show
By Danielle Gillespie
Oregon Daily Emerald
“El Corrido de Jesus Pelado Rasquachi,” or
“The Ballad of Jesus the Underdog, ” a tradi
tional folk song that has been altered through
the years to tell the peoples’ news, bellowed
through the EMU Ballroom on Wednesday as
El Teatro Campesino evoked the emotions of
the audience while telling about the need for
migrant worker’s rights.
MEChA brought El Teatro Campesino to
the University this year for the first time for
Chicano Explosion, an annual talent show
put on by the student group for the past seven
years, MEChA director David Jaimes said.
El Teatro Campesino is a farm workers the
ater group founded in 1965 by Luis Valdez
during Cesar Chavez’s farm workers’ rights
movement. Valdez is best known for his play
“Zoot Suit” in 1978, which is the only Chi
cano play to reach Broadway, and for his film
“La Bamba,” which is still one of the most
successful Chicano films, managing director
Anahuac Valdez said.
“It is sad how underrepresented Chicanos
are,” he said.
The theater group has traveled all over
the United States and Europe for two gener
ations and has put on numerous plays.
“Many of us who are performing now
Turn to MEChA, page 3A
Senators decry hike in athletic ticket cost
■The ASUO Student Senate narrowly
passes a special request for $27,512 in
order to keep student pre-season tickets
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
The ASUO Student Senate passed a
$27,512 special request by the Athletic De
partment Finance Committee on Wednesday
night by a vote of 10-7.
The Senate also voted to
reallocate the ADFC budg
et so that 5.5 percent,
rather than 2.88 percent,
of the 7 percent increase
approved by the Senate
will go toward student
tickets for in-season
games. The remaining 1.5
percent will go toward tickets for pre-sea
son games.
Senators who voted for and against the re
allocation and the special request voiced
their dismay at what they perceived as the
ADFC’s lack of concern for students.
“This whole situation, for lack of a better
word, simply sucks,” Sen. Mary Elizabeth
Madden said. “It feels like blackmail.”
Turn to Senate, page 3A
Student
reports
robbery
attempt
■Julian Collins said he was
approached by an armed man
Tuesday near Gerlinger Hall
By Marty Toohey
Oregon Daily Emerald
An attempted robbery was reported
near Gerlinger Hall on Tuesday night,
but the victim said he outran a man
armed with a handgun.
Julian Collins, 19, of Eugene, said he
was walking alone along the bicycle
path between Gerlinger Hall and Pio
neer Cemetery at 8:20 p.m. when he
heard a man approach from behind.
“I turned around, and he had a gun
shoved in my face,” Collins said.
The man seemed agitated and de
manded money, Collins said, and he
tried to calm the robber.
“I just kept telling him, ‘Calm down,
it’s not worth it, we don’t have time for
this, just put the gun down,”’ Collins
said. “It was scary, and your life really
does flash before your eyes.”
A few seconds after he was
stopped, Collins said his girlfriend
called his cell phone, asking if he
had reached the Sigma Nu fraternity
house, which he was heading to after
playing basketball at the Student
Recreation Center. He told her he
couldn’t talk, and once she hung up
he turned and sprinted away from
the man.
The man didn’t say anything at that
point and didn’t appear to give chase,
Collins said, but as Collins approached
Sigma Nu, on 736 E. 11th Ave., he said
he thought the man followed him.
Collins then went to a nearby apart
ment and called his girlfriend and the
Eugene Police Department.
The man was gone by the time the
EPD responded, and police don’t have
any leads, EPD spokeswoman Pam
Alejandre said.
Collins described the man as a white
male in his early 20s, about six-foot
two and 180 pounds, with dark hair
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