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Gay advocacy group questions campaign Demonstrators intended to protest the message in Gordon Smiths commercial Dave Goldberg for the Emerald A demonstration planned for Thursday by the gay advocacy group Basic Rights Oregon to ex press concern over a Gordon Smith campaign commercial was thwart ed by inclement weather. Four sup porters showed up at the Federal Building in downtown Eugene to protest the commercial, which por trays Smith as an advocate and supporter of gay and lesbian rights. The commercial features Judy Shepard, mother of Matthew Shep ard, the 21-year-old Wyoming stu dent who was killed in 1998 in an anti-gay motivated hate crime. In the commercial, Judy Shepard endorses Smith’s campaign, saying Matthew “would have liked Gordon a lot.” Critics say Smith has not always been a supporter of the gay and les bian rights movement. Basic Rights Oregon volunteer and Eugene resident Alan Brown suggest ed that all one has to do to know where he stands on gay and lesbian rights is look at his record. According to Harriet Merrick, a volunteer and former chairwoman for BRO, Smith voted against Senate Bill 34 in 1993, which would have prohibited discrimination in employ ment, public accommodations and real property transactions on the ba sis of sexual orientation. BRO also takes issue with Smith’s stance on Measure 9. In 2000, the Oregon Citizens Alliance sponsored the measure that sought to prohibit public schools from sanctioning ho mosexuality. “He was asked to oppose it,” said Merrick. “He did not.” Smith’s office was not available for comment at press time. Human Rights Campaign, the na tion’s largest gay political organiza tion, has endorsed Smith. According to its Web site, the main reason for their endorsement is his sponsorship of the Local Law Enforcement En hancement Act in 2001, which broadened the definition of federal hate crimes to include attacks based on sexual orientation, gender and disability. While BRO admits Smith has be gun to support federal hate-crime leg islation, it claims his record on les bian and gay issues makes him an unreliable advocate. “Many folks had seen his TV ad, and we want to focus on his overall record,” Merrick said. “While we ap preciate his personal growth in some areas, our feeling is that Gordon Smith’s record is inconsistent and we cannot count on him.” The steady rains may have dimin ished the size of Thursday’s event, yet Jan Anderson, a Eugene resident and BRO supporter, was not deterred. “I found it very informative,” said Anderson, who called Smith’s com mercial a “manipulative ploy.” Dave Goldberg is a freelance reporter for the Emerald. Campus Watch lists Stanford as ‘anti-Israel’ joanna Petrone The Stanford Daily (Stanford U.) STANFORD, Calif. (U-WIRE) — Stanford University is among 18 uni versities targeted for “anti-Israel bias” by a watchdog organization that many in academia perceive as a threat to freedom of expression. The stated goal of the new organi zation, Campus Watch, is “to im prove Middle Eastern studies in North America” by targeting “anti Israel and anti-American bias” in academia. “Stanford students are getting a very poor interpretation of the Mid dle East, an extremist viewpoint that doesn’t tolerate other viewpoints. ... Stanford students should be con cerned,” Campus Watch founder Daniel Pipes said. Since its inception this year, Cam pus Watch has been awash with con troversy, as a large number of stu dents and professors oppose the organization’s policy of naming and “monitoring” suspect universities, professors and student activists. Stanford Prof. Joel Beinin, who was one of the professors Campus Watch originally posted a dossier on, said, “This sort of McCarthy-style list-making and ‘monitoring’ has no place in university life, as its purpose is to intimidate people from express ing their views and to set boundaries on permissible speech.” The Campus Watch Web site states, “American scholars, to vary ing degrees, reject the views of most Americans and the enduring policies of the U.S. government about the Middle East.” Pipes said this problem was brought to the surface last year with “the publication of Martin Kramer’s book, ‘Ivory Towers on Sand’ ... (which) lays out the case that Middle East studies are seriously flawed.” Pipes also pointed to the anti-Israel campus demonstrations of last spring as impetus for starting Gam pus Watch. Campus Watch’s Web site says, “This bias (in Middle Eastern Stud ies) seems to stem from two main causes. First, academics seem gener ally to dislike their own country and think even less of American allies abroad.... Second, Middle East stud ies in the United States has become the preserve of Middle Eastern Arabs, who have brought their views with them.” Turn to Anti-Israel, page 5A WHAT TO DO IF YOUR PARTY STARTS TO GET OUT OF CONTROL 1 Call the police yourself if uninvited guests disrupt your party or if your guests won't pay attention to your requests to behave and obey the law. Call before things get too out of control. Police will view your trying to keep things under control as a preventive measure. 2.Respond positively if a police officer comes to your house. The officer is most likely responding to a complaint. Make sure the person interacting with the police officer at the front door is sober and able to be responsive to their requests. Do as much as possible to comply with what the police are asking you to do. Enlist the help of your friends and housemates. 3.Interfering with a police officer makes a bad situation worse. Do not physically resist the officer under any circumstance. Use common sense and cooperate. Don't throw bottles at or near police officers. If you have committed a crime and a police officer asks you to identify yourself, you need to do so. Always tell a police officer your name if asked. Giving a false name is a separate offense and will likely escalate what might have been a citation into a trip to jail. 4.Understand that you can be arrested. A police officer may take someone into custody for any violation of law that carries a potential jail penalty. This includes most state criminal laws and many city ordinances. For some violations, an officer may detain you while verifying your identity and issuing a citation. 5.When a police officer asks you to clear an area, leave right away. 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