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Wednesday, April 10,2002
Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 103, Issue 126
Victim voices need for awareness on campus
This is the first
in a three-part
series about
campus safety
Today:
The history of
reported attacks
against women
on campus.
Thursday:
The University,
the Department
of Public Safety
and the
Eugene Police
Department
have increased
campus patrols
and are
considering
other security
methods,
including a new
campus lighting
system, a force
of volunteer
observers and
undercover
police officers.
Friday:
The University’s
tuition
incentives for
students taking
late classes
could increase
the number of
students
traversing
campus after
dark and could
create new
security
demands.
■A student shares her experience
of being attacked near Pioneer
Cemetery, one of 10 assaults or
attempted assaults in the past year
By Brook Reinhart)
Oregon Daily Emerald
Gwynne Engelking is jumpy.
She’s easily startled, and she does
n’t walk alone at night anymore.
The University sophomore has
good reason to be wary — in March
she was one of six women attacked by
a man believed to be responsible for
assaulting as many as eight women
since February 2001.
Engelking is one of the lucky ones.
She got away before the man could do
any serious harm to her, unlike one
victim who had a knife held to
her throat.
“It wasn’t very late at night,” En
gelking remembered. She was be
tween the Knight Library and Pioneer
Cemetery, walking alone from Beall
Concert Hall on March 16, when she
felt someone’s presence behind her.
“I felt his gait getting a little faster. I
sped up,” she said. But she wasn’t
fast enough.
“He grabbed me from behind and
twirled me toward him and started
screaming obscenities.”
Engelking was wearing boots, so
she took the only option she had
available and stomped down on his
foot — hard.
“I tried to break his foot. ... He let
go and I took off running,” she said.
To this day, the student doesn’t re
member every detail of how she got
away. She thinks she might have bro
ken her attacker’s foot, but only recalls
running to her residence hall room and
frantically dialing an emergency num
ber. Engelking never considered run
ning toward one of the Department of
Public Safety blue emergency phones
on campus, because that would have
boxed her between the library
and cemetery.
“I figured I could run faster than
DPS could get there,” she said.
She said wants her story told be
cause students need to realize certain
areas on campus should be avoided
at night.
“I just want this to be heard,” En
gelking said.
After last year’s cemetery attacks,
another recent string of assaults
against women has begun. The cam
pus has seen masturbation, attempted
rapes and even an attempted robbery
with a firearm in the last few months.
Police and campus security officials
are still urging students to exercise
Pioneer
Cemetary
1. February 2001 — East 15th Avenue and II diversity Street
2. February 2001 — south side of Johnson Halt
3. February 2001—northwest side of Pioneer Cemetery
4. March 2001 — north of the bike/footbridge
5. April 2001 —woman approached in Pioneer Cemetery
6. April 2001—Kickerbocker bicycle bridge
7. January 2002—attempted rape, north of Knight Library
0. February 2002—attempted assault north of Knight Library
0. March 2002—attempted armed robbery between Knight Library
and Pioneer Cemetery
10, March 2002—assault between Gerlinger Annex and Knight Library
caution in an area that may not be
as safe as one’s own backyard, but the
numbers supplied by law
enforcement don’t reveal an unprece
dented trend.
“This is by no means a crime spree.
I would say (reports of attacks are)
probably going to be a little higher
than previous years,” DPS Associate
Director Tom Hicks said.
Preventing Attacks
Eugene Police Department Sgt.
Scott McKee, who has worked on the
campus attacker case for more than a
year, said students should be particu
larly wary of the area around
the cemetery.
“You’re more safe traveling around
at night if you’re with somebody,”
Emerald
McKee said. “It’s been a shortcut since
they laid the first body there. But it’s
not a safe place at night.”
The statistics back up McKee’s
claims. Of the 10 assaults or attempt
ed assaults committed against stu
dents since last year, six have oc
curred in or near the cemetery. But
safety advocates disagree with McKee
on what students should do to stop
more attacks from occurring.
“There’s ways to reduce your risk,”
said Michelle Manoguerra, communi
ty education coordinator for Sexual
Assault Support Services. But
Manoguerra said it can be dangerous
to focus purely on what students can
do to stop attacks.
Turn to Attacks, page 3
LGBTQA embraces day of silence for cause
■The organization will also be passing out
cards to honor National Queer Day of Action,
hoping to combat the ‘silence queers face’
By Robin Weber
Oregon Daily Emerald
University students will wear black ban
danas across their faces today and observe a
day of silence in support of the National
Queer Day of Action.
The University’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans
gender Queer Alliance will have cards for par
ticipants to hand out about the oppression of
queer youth and why members are maintaining
silence for a day.
“The purpose of the event is to bring a voice
to people who don’t have one,” LGBT Educa
tional and Support Services Director Chicora
Martin said.
The cards explain the participant is not
speaking in silent protest of the discrimina
tion, and challenges people about how they
can end the silence.
“The cards are about those who face vio
lence and discrimination because of gender
identity,” said LGBTQA publicity coordinator
Cat McGraw.
The day of silence project began in 1996 at
the University of Virginia.
The LGBTQA is also encouraging participants
to attend the Break the Silence rally at 3:30 p.m.
today on the lawn at South Eugene High School,
400 E. 19th St. The rally is sponsored by Parents
and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.
The event is open to anyone who wants to
demonstrate against the “silence queers face,”
McGraw said. For more information, call the
LGBTQA at 346-3360.
E-mail reporter Robin Weber
at robinweber@dailyemerald.com.
Logo’s
fate is
‘sealed’
■ President Frohnmayer officially
endorses the historic seal and the
athletic ‘O’ as the school logos
By Eric Martin
Oregon Daily Emerald
University President Dave Frohn
mayer “sealed” the logo debate with an
“O” Tuesday when he announced two
symbols will represent the school: The
historical seal
and the athletic
“O.”
The “O” identi
ty “will become
stronger and •
stronger over the
next six months
to a year” as the
school uses up
older supplies
and orders more
stationery, Frohn
mayer said. The
logo will adorn
letterheads and
business cards,
among other
things. Frohn
mayer said the school will use the seal,
which depicts a silhouette of Mount
Hood and the Latin words for “Mind
Moves Mass,” for academic functions
such as graduation.
The president polled various on- and
off-campus groups since the fall to help
him decide which symbol best repre
sents the University’s academic and
athletic image. He also asked Portland
based consulting firm Landrey & Co. to
gather information about the school
and help decide on a logo that best
symbolizes it.
Prior months had seen heated wran
gling over the issue, as some University
senators said the “O” reflects athletics
more than academics. Others said a de
signer spent hours with Frohnmaver
discussing academics and his vision
for the school before creating the “O,”
which has become synonymous with a
wide variety of Duck athletic apparel.
And still others bemoaned the idea of
abandoning the seal because it is so en
trenched in school tradition.
“Symbols make people develop very
strong feelings,” Frohnmayer said.
“And symbolism is always important
in the academic world.”
Concurring with the president, Uni
versity Senate President Nathan
Tublitz said something as simple as a
logo can elicit complex emotional re
sponses in people. He said the Faculty
Advisory Committee and University
Senate Executive Committee have
spent hours deliberating over the issue
with the president and other officials
since early fall.
“Obviously, a symbol with a middle
finger raised is going to generate a dif
ferent response than a symbol that
doesn’t have something like that,” he
said. “I fully support (Frohnmayer’s) fi
nal decision.”
The move leaves open the possibility
for academic departments to decide for
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