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Ruhl Lecture Sponsored by the university of Oregon School of journalism and Communication "American Democracy at Risk" Can America Survive its Greatest Risk Yet— the Loss of an Independent Press and a Diversity of Voices Frank Blethen Publisher the Seattle Times Tuesday, May u knight Library Browsing room 4:00 P.M. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON This lecture is made possible by The Robert and Mabel Ruhl Endowment. FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL (541) 346-3819 AT THE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION. Accommodations for people with disabilities will BE PROVIDED IF REQUESTED IN ADVANCE. Bike theft continued from page 1 Education and registration While acknowledging that thieves can probably bust any lock, DPS Associate Director Tom Hicks said that most stolen bikes are ei ther locked improperly or not locked at all. “If you have a good lock, it still takes time for somebody to work through it,” Hicks said, adding that DPS attempts to bring this message to students each year. When new students move into the residence halls each fall, DPS hosts a “Bike Corral,” a roped-off area where students store bikes during their first days on campus and receive informa tion about how to properly secure a bike. The best system, Hicks said, is to fasten a U-lock around a bicycle’s frame, front tire and rack and to supplement that lock with a chain wrapped around the rack, the frame and the back tire. Seeking to return stolen bikes to rightful owners, DPS maintains a reg istry of bicycles on campus. Registra tion is voluntary and encouraged, but Hicks noted that only 5 to 10 percent of bikes reported stolen are found. The majority of stolen bikes leave town and are often chopped into pieces to be sold as parts, he said. Sgt. Teresa Selby of the Ashland Police Department said Oregon bike thieves typically travel in large trucks up and down Interstate 5, steal bikes and sell the parts throughout the region. “They’ll ship parts down to Cali fornia or up through Oregon,” she said. “I’ve heard that they’ve trav eled as far as the East Coast.” Theft rates lower on other campuses Also near 1-5, which Selby depict ed as a pipeline for bike thieves, is Oregon State University. And unlike Ashland, the Corvallis terrain is characteristic of other Willamette Valley towns: flat and biker-friendly. Though OSU bike racks are often full and ripe with potential targets, the bike theft rate per student is two thirds of that on the Eugene campus. Paulette Ratchford, director of OSU campus safety, said the school’s bike registration program has kept theft rates relatively low. Like the DPS program, bike regis tration at OSU is voluntary, and those who register receive detailed instructions about how to secure a bike and what about a bicycle is at tractive to thieves. Ratchford said that the registra tion stickers posted on bikes can be a deterrent, but the education as pect of bike registration is an even stronger anti-theft program. “People tend to have a shorter learning curve when they’re in a di alogue” with public safety officers, dansko regular price shoes adidas over 100+ styles Simple 957 Willamette • 687-0898 www.Lazars.com Emeries. 20%off All Bed Head Products All Breeze Products s10 (through June 14,h) 'Best Stylists Around1 m; For franchise r P 1-877-44PC UTS Campus information, please call A TANmxq 1609 L 13th * (2 blocks from UO) * 484-3143 ♦Hrs: M-F 9-8/Sat. 9-7 Introduction to Ken Kesey Mark Chilton, Noon-1 :50 p.m. MUWH/ENG 199/CRN 40566 2002 SUMMER SESSION • JUNE 24-AUGUST 16 Register by telephone now. Pick up a free summer catalog in Oregon Hall or at the UO bookstore. It has all the information you need to know about Summer Session. http://uo5ummer.uoregon.edu/ • jauiuit^ Ratchford said. Students registering bikes at OSU are encouraged to watch a video, in which a convicted bike thief explains that the best way to secure a bike is to use both a U-lock and a chain. A Cor vallis judge ordered the man to record the tape as part of his sentence. Because the man used to cruise through campus carrying either bolt cutters or a hydraulic U-lock splitter, the man said he was de terred by combination locking sys tems, which would require both lock-breaking devices. Further north and also near 1-5 is Portland State University, which has the second lowest bike theft rate in the state at 1.1 thefts per 1,000 students each year. Only the Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls could boast a better record because the school had no theft rate at all. Ed Guy, director of the OIT campus security office, said no bikes were stolen in the past three years because nearly all the school’s students either drive or bus to the cam pus, which is located in a rural area out side of the Klamath Falls city center. PSU, on the other hand, is locat ed in the middle of Portland’s downtown, and scores of students ride bicycles on campus. John Fowler, director of the PSU public safety office, said the key to the low theft rate on campus is the placement of bike racks in visible locations where foot traffic is high. PSU also runs a registration pro gram and hosts an annual “Bike Rodeo,” both similar programs to those DPS hosts at the University. “There’s not a lot of opportunity for somebody to come up with bolt cut ters and blatantly steal a bike,” he said. E-mail community editor Darren Freeman atdarrenfreeman@dailyemerald.com. UNIVERSITY Of 0RE60X, EMU EAST LAWN We need volunteers. For information call 346-4373.
