‘Great’ service helps students resolve conflicts
The Conflict Resolution Services
lets disputing parties interact
with each other in a program that
its supporters call ‘miraculous’
By A. Sho Ikeda
Reporter
It's 2 a m. and a student wakes up
from hearing someone loudly shout
ing in his residence hall. I Ie peeks out
his door to witness his neighbor
drunkenly stumbling around, yelling
obscenities. Other students open
doors, rub their eyes and poke their
heads out to see what the commotion
is. Angry at being rudely awakened,
the first student doses his door and
makes a mental note to talk to his res
ident assistant in the morning.
The above incident is one of many
that can occur during college, said An
nie Bentz, director of Conflict Resolu
tion Services. When a student com
plains about the actions of another
student, the offender must go through
a process where the transgression may
be resolved through a mediator, such
as a complex director, or through a
formal judicial process, which is simi
lar to a court trial.
The program focuses
less on punishment and
more on repairing harm
and enhancing a sense
of community. This
creates the opportunity
for people to care about
each other again."
Annie Bentz
Director of Conflict Resolution Services
I lowever, through cooperation be
tween the Student Judicial Affairs Pro
gram and Conflict Resolution Ser
vices, students will be able to choose
an alternative means of settling dis
putes beginning this fall.
Unlike the current student judicial
process where the offenders and
"harmed parties" are separated, the
Restorative Justice Program aims to
reconcile transgressions through a co
operative effort by all involved parties,
Bentz said.
The first step in the program is for
the offender to accept responsibility
for his or her behavior and the trou
ble he or she caused, Bentz said, as
well as have the opportunity to ex
plain the actions. The next step is for
all participants — the offender,
"harmed parties" and student facilita
tor involved with the program — to
create an appropriate way to redress
the harm done.
"The program focuses less on
punishment and more on repairing
harm and enhancing a sense of com
munity," Bentz said, adding that the
Restorative Justice Program allows
all sides of the incident to talk about
the situation and discuss how they
were affected.
"This creates the opportunity for
people to care about each other
again," Bentz said.
Bentz and Director of Student Ju
dicial Affairs Chris Loschiavo worked
together to create the Restorative Jus
tice Program at the University. Loschi
avo said he and Bentz were inspired to
create the program after learning of a
similar successful program at the Uni
versity of Colorado-Boulder.
"The difference between this pro
gram and the normal judicial process
we have now is that both sides get to
talk to each other," Loschiavo said.
Loschiavo said misunderstandings
can arise when students harm other
students accidentally, or when they
are drunk and aren't considerate to
ward other students' feelings.
"It can be very helpful and a relief to
find out that there was no malicious
Jessica Waters Emerald
Annie Bentz, director of Conflict Resolution Services, helps students resolve grievances outside the Student Judicial Affairs Program. Bentz
serves as a mediator in this process that focuses more on restoring community than on punishment.
ness behind an act” Loschiavo said.
One example where the program
could be implemented is a case of
vandalism in a neighborhood adja
cent to the University, explained Kary
Meier, office specialist for Conflict
Resolution Services. The owner of the
vandalized property and other neigh
borhood residents could talk to the
offenders and discuss how they were
affected by the crime, Meier ex
plained. The offenders could then ex
plain why they committed the van
dalism. Finally, the parties and
facilitators could come up with an ap
propriate way to resolve the harm,
such as having the offenders repair the
vandalized property.
Meier has already seen restorative
justice techniques at work in juvenile
justice programs in Eugene.
"I've seen miraculous changes hap
pen when there has been communica
tion between the offender and the peo
ple who were harmed," Meier said,
adding that she believed the program
would work well at the University.
"For the most part, everyone here
wants to learn and this makes it more
possible for people to leam from each
other," Meier said.
Both Bentz and Meier said they
hope to see more students become in
volved in the program as facilitators.
Bentz said she hopes to recruit stu
dent facilitators in the fall.
"This is a great opportunity for stu
dents to get involved with the pro
gram," Bentz said.
Contact the reporter
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"As unpalatable as raising taxes is
to most people, the benefits to higher
education would be better for stu
dents," Farr said.
The Senate's proposed budget
would enact a temporary income tax
surcharge, which Farr described as be
ing "very progressive." Families who
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