Lane County soon to vote
on PATRIOT Act resolution
Also, Commentator staff were
found guilty of charges the
\/bice editor pressed for taking
and spoofing her articles
Year in review
Jennifer Bear
Campus/Federal Politics Reporter
Rumors and whispers of executive
excess, loss of liberty and nefarious
pranks between publishers all found
their way to the front page of the
Emerald this year. Students who have
been taken over by the summer spirit
may already be on vacation in their
own minds. But for readers who stay
tuned until the ending credits roll and
the school year fades to black, the ma
jor stories from 2002-03 need one fi
nal close-up.
One issue that has continued to gal
vanize the citizenry and spark numer
ous protests is the constraints placed
on civil liberties, especially with re
gards to the USA PATRIOT Act.
Locally, the Lane County Bill of
Rights Defense Committee has been
the biggest organized opposition to this
controversial piece of legislation. Hope
Marston, a coordinator for the com
mittee, said the group hasn’t ceased its
efforts to oppose the PATRIOT Act.
The committee’s most recent ef
forts included an appearance before
the Lane County Board of Commis
sioners on May 14 to urge the com
mission to pass a resolution chal
lenging the act. Representatives
from the group brought a petition to
the board meeting with about 4,000
signatures, and Marston said they
hope the commission will pass the
group’s resolution in June.
Marston added that similar commit
tees from all across the country are
planning to move their fight from the
local level and bring national scope to
their cause by holding a conference in
Washington, D.C., in October, tenta
tively titled “Grassroots America De
fends the Constitution.”
“Committees from all across the
nation will converge on Washington,
D.C., to strategize and lobby our con
gressional representatives to repeal
the UPA and other violations of our
freedoms,” Marston said.
A long-time rivalry between two
campus publications heated to the
boiling point this year. The Oregon
Commentator was accused of break
ing into the personal Web site of
Raechel Sims, the Oregon Voice’s ed
itor in chief, and spoofing articles the
Voice was working on in an edition of
Caleb Fung for the Emerald
Lane County Bill of Rights committee encourages passage of a PATRIOT Act resolution.
the Commentator. Because the Com
mentator hadn’t actually plagiarized
the Voice’s work, Sims said she had
to find alternative means for making
the Commentator accountable for
sullying the hard work her staff had
undertaken.
Sims said she pressed a total of three
charges against die Commentator, but
they were only found guilty of two. She
added that they were just basic infrac
tions of the student conduct code. For
example, one of the offenses the Com
mentator was found guilty of was “in
tentional disruption, obstruction or in
terference with the process of
instruction, research, administration,
student discipline or any other service
or activity provided or sponsored by
the University.”
Sims said she was pleased with
the process overall. She added she
harbors no hard feelings for the
Commentator.
“I actually feel kind of bad for the
Commentator,” Sims said. “Had I
known they were so hard-up for
content, I would have offered to
write something — it would have
saved them the trouble of ripping us
off, as well as spared the masses of
Bret Jacobson’s vague, watery, anti
liberal rants.”
As of press time, Jacobson had not
responded to a request for comment.
Ben Buzbee, 2002-03 ASUO vice
president, is almost finished ironing
out the wrinkles in his reputation af
ter being cited for furnishing alcohol
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