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High rate of bicycle theft
continues to worry campus
■ Students find that even if their
bikes aren’t that great,’ they
can be a high risk for theft
By Marty Toohey
Oregon Daily Emerald
Amos Morey thinks the Univer
sity is “obviously not” a safe place
to bring a bicycle.
Early fall term he said his bike
was stolen while locked onto a bike
rack underneath Bean Complex.
Morey, a University freshman,
brought a bike from home that he
said “wasn’t all that nice,” as the
Department of Public Safety and
University Housing advised him,
and he said he locked it using a
cord made of Kevlar, the same ma
terial used in bullet-proof vests.
“I figured there’d be so many oth
er, nicer bikes next to mine that I
wouldn’t really have to worry
about it,” he said. “It didn’t really
matter, though. It turns out they
might steal anything.”
Morey registered his bicycle with
DPS, as the department requires for
any bike on campus. He isn’t exact
ly holding his breath in anticipa
tion of getting the bike back, how
ever, as only about 5 percent of
stolen bicycles are recovered, ac
cording to DPS.
“They said if they found it,
they’d let me know,” Morey said.
“I think it’s pretty much gone,
though.”
Morey is one of 112 people on or
near campus to report a bicycle
theft to DPS since the beginning of
the school year. This year the Uni
versity is on about the same pace as
the past two years, DPS Associate
Director Tom Hicks said.
Sixteen percent of students use
bicycles on campus, according to
Thomas Patterson Emerald
According to a recent study, roughly one out of every 18 bicycles registered by students
on campus was reported stolen in 2000, despite the security of bike racks.
a study by the University Plan
ning Commission, which means
that in 2000, approximately one
out of every eighteen bicycles was
stolen.
Sandy Schoonover, director of
residential life for University Hous
ing, said her department discusses
the number of bicycle thefts on a
yearly basis. However, she also said
that creating safer bicycle storage is
not one of University Housing’s top
priorities, and to her knowledge it’s
“not an area that’s been seriously
addressed.”
Former University student Colin
Vurek thinks bicycle theft on cam
pus should be addressed. She used
to park her bike on campus “all the
time” and said she thought it was
safe to leave her bike until after
dark. She never heard about the
theft rate on campus.
Her own bicycle’s front wheel
was stolen last spring while it was
locked onto a pole in front of a
well-lit apartment complex on the
corner of 15th Avenue and Alder
Street.
“The weirdest thing was that I
dreamed my bike was going to get
stolen the night before,” Vurek
said. “My bike wasn’t really that
great, and it was really the first
time I thought that someone might
want to take it.”
Vurek said that if people can
steal a bicycle front wheel “in
plain view of the front windows of
those apartments,” they could
“definitely steal a bike from a
place like Bean.”
Hicks identified the bike rack on
the north side of Bean Complex as
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