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Thursday, April 11,2002
Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 103, Issue 127
UO students
protest gay
oppression
in silence
■ LGBTQA supplies bandanas and
cards to students participating in the
National LGBT Day of Silence, which
ends in a rally at South Eugene High
By Robin Weber
Oregon Daily Emerald
Students supporting the National
Queer Day of Action took a stand for
their voices on Wednesday without
speaking a word.
Workers in the Lesbian Gay Bisexual
Transgender Queer Alliance office sup
plied black bandanas, rainbow stickers
and cards all day advocating their cause
in support of the of the National LGBT
Day of Silence. The day-long vow of si
lence is designed to symbolize their op
pression in society.
This is the project’s first year at the
University.
“It’s really important to get it going,”
LGBTQA Publicity Coordinator Cat Mc
Graw said.
Participant Jo Humphreys stuck to
the vow of silence for the day, writing
about personal experiences and in
■» volvement in the project.
“Being transgender, I definitely have
a lot of fear and hear about people in
similar situations getting beat and
killed all the time. A chance to bring
focus onto that is a good thing,”
Humphreys wrote.
University representatives joined
more than 300 schools across the
country participating in the day of ac
tion. According to the project’s Web
site, www.dayofsilence.org, the the
Day of Silence Project was founded in
1996 at the University of Virginia to
raise awareness.
By 1 p.m„ only 10 to 15 students par
ticipated, LGBTQA Co-Director Maddy
Melton said. The LGBTQA aimed at a
larger scale but did not want to interfere
with International Week activities.
“We initially wanted the event to be
bigger,” Melton said. “However, we
wanted to respect the fact (the Interna
tional Student Association) had previ
ously planned events this week.”
According to the Web site, the Day of
Silence is the brainchild of Maria
Pulzetti, who in 1996 wrote a school pa
per about nonviolent protests with a
grassroots approach. After the first
turnout boasted 150 participants, Pulzetti
joined forces with Jessie Gilliam to push
the project to the national level.
During Wednesday’s Day of Silence,
the LGBTQA sent out silent students
with two speaking allies to ask people
to fill out written assessments about
gender and silencing. They are also re
cruiting input from campus cultural
groups about how their members are
quieted in the hopes of opening up
lines of communication within the
Torn to Silence, page 3 , ,, 41,
EPD, DPS to expand safety measures
The Department of Public Safety has begun preparations for a pilot safety program,to be known as Yellowjackets.
Junior Lezlie
Frye leads a
March 5
rally against
campus
violence and
for campus
awareness.
Thomas Patterson Emerald
NEW PLANS: Additional night
patrols are in place, while other plans
to increase security await approval
By Darren Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
Responding to recent attacks against
women on campus, the University, the
Department of Public Safety and the Eu
gene Police Department are poised to ex
pand existing security programs and are
considering new methods to make the
area safe at night.
Proposals include assigning volunteer
observers to comb campus after dark,
constructing a comprehensive outdoor
lighting infrastructure and increasing
community education. Already, DPS and
EPD have shifted schedules and paid
overtime to increase night patrols.
“We want the campus to be safe and
to feel safe,” DPS Associate Director
Tom Hicks said. “There are certainly
other things that can be done. Public
safety can be more visible, and we can
have more people out there.”
University administrators, student lead
ers, EPD and DPS representatives will dis
cuss recent attacks, security reforms and
proposals at 5:30 p.m. today in the Knight
Turn to Safety, page 3
LIGHTING: University officials
question the ASUO’s interest
in the campus lighting project
By Darfen Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
Members of a planning subcommittee
charged with fine-tuning the Universi
ty’s new outdoor lighting system said
participation in the program from
ASUO President Nilda Brooklyn and
Vice President Joy Nair has declined in
recent months.
“We have tried and tried to have con
sistent input.... We have had very limit
ed success,” University planning associ
ate Christine Thompson said at the
subcommittee’s April 4 meeting.
“They’ve been invited to every meeting. ”
ASUO Vice President Joy Nair, who
was in the ASUO office during the
April 4 meeting, said she didn’t receive
an invitation.
Turn to Lights, page 3
Lawyers compare Japanese internment to Sept. 11
■The lawyers, who have
defended Japanese Americans,
spoke out against government
injustice and national ‘hysteria’
By Eric Martin
Oregon Daily Emerald
Three lawyers who fought to
overturn the convictions of Japan
ese Americans who “broke” cur
fews and “disobeyed” evacuation
orders in the seething aftermath of
Pearl Harbor told listeners Tues
day evening to “stand up” against
gpyqrppaept iryp$hce, , , ..
The lawyers, who spoke to a
crowd of more than 50 people in
110 Knight Law Center, said the
emotional climate in America af
ter Sept. 11 was dangerously close
to the “hysteria” that prompted
government officials to order the
internment of more than 120,000
West Coast Japanese Americans
after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
“It’s up to the rest of us to
reach out to them,” attorney Dale
Minami said of Arab Americans.
“By coming together, it makes it
impossible for the government to
flo tl^t again.”
Minami argued for Fred Kore
matsu in the Californian’s attempt
to reverse his 1944 Supreme Court
conviction for failing to comply
with an evacuation order. The
Court reversed the conviction in a
landmark 1983 decision.
Minami said in his travels to
discuss the case, he has seen
members of the Japanese Ameri
can community support Arab
Americans as the world searches
for a scapegoat for the terrorist
attacks.
The other lawyers, Rodney
Kawakami and Peggy Nagae, also
won landmark cases representing
Japanese American clients convict
ed of similar crimes. University
journalism Professor Lauren Kessler
shared stories from her prose about
an Oregon family forced to live in
cramped internment camps.
“If there was even one example
of someone of Japanese descent in
volved in espionage who gave the
government a reason to have in
ternment, it would be easier to un
derstand,” first-year law student
Jennifer Wang said.
E-mail reporter Eric Martin
at ericmartin@dailyemerald.com.