Group receives awards
for CD-ROM state atlas
A team from the geography
department earned “Best
in Show” for the animated
map computer program
Andrew Shipley
Freelance Reporter
This year, the University is gaining
national recognition once again, not
for an athletic team, but for a team
from the geography department’s In
foGraphics Lab. The group recently
won awards for creating a CD-ROM
version of the Atlas of Oregon, which
is a comprehensive guide of the
state’s economy, culture, history and
natural resources.
The CD-ROM was recognized at
the 2002 International Map Design
Competition, hosted by the Ameri
can Congress on Surveying and Map
ping, or ACSM, earning both “Best in
Show” and “Best in Category”
awards. The awards will be presented
on March 31 in Phoenix.
More than 70 experts from around
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been issued so far this term, includ
ing the 31 citations issued last week
end. Sunday afternoon, a weekend
shift watch commander said the
weekend was “very active” after offi
cers issued more than 20 citations
between Friday and Saturday night.
Aguilar, who works on citywide
patrol, said the recent rise is not an
indication of more people drinking
but simply a reflection of more is
sued citations. Taking into account
a variety of factors, from concerts
and local events to holidays like Mar
di Gras, Aguilar said one factor —
warmer weather—has been known
to draw more people to the streets.
“When it’s cold, people are party
ing indoors with doors and windows
closed, but when it’s warm they take
out the tiki torches and open their
backyards,” he said. “People are also
more likely to walk from place to
place, which increases the chance
that (officers) will contact them.”
EPD spokeswoman Pam Olshanski
said 142 of the 318 weekend MIP cita
tions reported to EPD last October were
issued in the West University neighbor
hood, an area somewhat notorious for
parties and increased enforcement. Out
of the 1,548 liquor-law violations issued
city wide in 2002 — including posses
sion, furnishing, purchasing and unli
censed kegs — 384 were issued in the
area, meaning 24 percent of all citations
were issued in a neighborhood holding
only four percent of the Eugene popula
tion, she said. Despite variations in the
most recent statistics because of de
layed data entry and case updates, Ol
shanski said the numbers convey a sig
nificant increase in MIPs compared
with winter term 2002.
DPS Associate Director Tom Hicks
the state contributed to the original
Atlas of Oregon, published in 2001.
The InfoGraphics team, run by direc
tor James Meacham and designer
Erik Steiner, then decided to trans
fer the data onto a two-disc CD-ROM.
“Once the book atlas was com
piled and designed, it was a matter
of transforming the information
from a print medium into a digital
medium in a way that didn’t lose
any of the value and ease, and
which, at the same time, took ad
vantage of certain extremely inter
esting and powerful aspects of the
digital world to present the data in
new ways,” Atlas text editor Tom
Hager said in an e-mail interview.
Interesting features on the CD
ROM include an animation that al
lows the reader to observe geological
change over time. On another page,
readers can see Oregon’s trade levels
grow and shrink throughout the
state’s history, an effect that is impos
sible in the printed medium.
The Atlas has been hailed by many
Alcohol-related citations
Jan. - Feb. (weekend)
MIP issued by EPD
(not including 03/07
through 03/09).
All liquor law violations
issued in West University
neighborhood year round
by EPD.
DPS MIP cases
issued Sept. - March 2003
as compared to 2001/2002
academic year.
Scott Abts Emerald SOURCE: EPD and DPS reports
EPD and DPS reports reflect an increase in minor in possession of alcohol
citations this year compared with 2002, while the number of alcohol-related
citations issued in the West University neighborhood during the last two years
has shown an increase as well.
said DPS has received reports of
more than 107 MIP cases — which
can include one to several citations
per case — since September, equal
ing a 23 percent increase from the
same time frame last year. In 2002,
DPS reports showed MIP cases to be
more prominent in October and
February than the last three, warmer
months of the school year — April,
May and June. Although he couldn’t
speculate on the February rise, Hicks
said October — being the first full
month of the academic year — tends
to involve more enforcement from
DPS officers who are trying to set the
authoritative tone for the year.
“To some extent, it’s going to
have to do with the level of
enforcement,” he said, “and that
varies throughout the year.”
Director of Student Judicial
Affairs Chris Loschiavo said he
believes the recent warm weather
could have increased the atten
dance of parties held the last two
weekends, but trying to predict wild
or quiet weekends is a difficult task.
“No one saw the September riot
coming, and that happened before
classes started,” he said.
Although Student Judicial Affairs
receives a different, and in most
cases higher, number of MIP reports
compared to DPS, Loschiavo said
one observation can be made by all
local officials and authorities: “This
year, we’re already ahead of where
we were last year.”
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as a triumph.
Allen Carroll, chief cartographer of
the National Geographic Society,
whose Family Reference Atlas was
defeated by the Atlas of Oregon in the
competition, said the University’s en
try was a “tour-de-force in cartogra
phy and design,” according to the
University Press Web site.
Students are also benefiting from
the Atlas.
“The book and the CD-ROM have
more information in them than I
could ever realistically hope to use,”
said freshman Zak Bennet, who has
used the Atlas. “The CD-ROM just
makes it a lot easier to get to.”
The hard copy Atlas has already
surpassed circulation expectations
with sales of 10,000 and growing.
To purchase the Atlas of Oregon
CD-ROM, which costs $49.95, visit
the University Press Web site
www.uopress.com.
Andrew Shipley is a freelance reporter
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