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Volume 105, Issue 33
Calling for change
Indigenous Solidarity Day
participants discuss the
politics of American history
and changes for the future
By Jared Paben
News Reporter
Stormy Ogden came to the EMU
Amphitheater on Monday to speak her
mind — and there was a lot on her
mind. As a native rights activist she was
asked to speak not in honor of Colum
bus Day but in celebration of Indige
nous Solidarity Day.
"1 came here to piss white people off
in a good way — to let them know that
one day out of the year doesn't make
up for anything," she said. "1 came here
to speak for native women imprisoned.
1 came here to hopefully speak for In
dian people that don't have this oppor
tunity to get up and speak."
She said America needs to do more
to atone for the genocide of the Ameri
can Indians at the hands of the
colonists. Together with fellow speaker
Chrystos, the women advocated for
changing the name of Eugene to
Calapooya in honor of the people who
once inhabited the region.
"Next year, 1 would really appreciate
it if this flag could be at half mast,"
Chrystos said to the crowd. "Or upside
down would be even better."
She went on to read poems she'd
written discussing everything from the
wealthy white people she works for as
a maid to the slaughter of indigenous
people by Americans. Other events also
took place throughout the day, includ
ing music and dancing.
Contact the people/culture/faith reporter
at jaredpaben@dailyemerald.com.
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Jonathan Harris, a member of the Oglala Sioux, Joseph Band Nez Perce and Umatilla
tribes, dances the Old-Style Chicken Dance in the EMU Amphitheater Tuesday afternoon
as part of Indigenous Solidarity' Day.
Students react
to DPS’ actions,
officer behavior
The Department of Public Safety is working
to promote a more approachable image by
increasing the visibility of its officers
By Ayisha Yahya
News Editor
In the months after former Department of Public Safety Officer
Michael John Bonertz struck a bicyclist with his patrol car, ripples
of opinion have circulated throughout the campus community
about how DPS interacts with the public.
According to an internal DPS report following the incident,
Bonertz said he was trying to cut off a
fleeing Donald Gariepy — who had
been doing tricks on his bicycle, a
campus offense — but he hit him in
stead. The report concluded the offi
cer committed misconduct during
the incident.
Many students on aimpus are critical
of both the incident and DPS.
"I think that the whole incident was ridiculous," junior Marielle
I lorendo said. "Any law officer — police or DPS — should know
better than that. " She felt the officer should not have hit the cy
clist regardless of the situation.
Some students are more skeptical about what really happened
that night, however.
"I was surprised," junior Leslie Kiines said. But "I think with
out being there we can't really be sure what happened and why."
ASUO Campus Outreach Coordinator Shannon Earvin said in
cidents like Bonertz's case illustrate that DPS is not a police force
and should not act like one.
"We feel that DPS is primarily a safety entity and should focus
on protecting and serving students even if that means calling in
for assistance on enforcement matters," she said in an e-mail.
Even without the incident casting a shadow over DPS' image,
the department hasn't always elicited positive reactions from the
student population.
'You don't hear a lot of good talk about DPS from students,"
Florendo said.
Sophomore MikeThurber, who lived in the residence halls last
year, said he didn't have any bad experiences with DPS personally,
but knew a lot of people who had "issues."
"DPS kind of struck me as somewhat bullish" Thurber said.
PART 2 OF 2
Monday: DPS’ hiring and
training procedures
Today: Reaction to DPS’
findings of misconduct
Turn to DPS, page 4
Broken parking meters cause confusion for students
jammed and broken parking meters are the
reason for some parking tickets on campus
By Ali Shaughnessy
Senior News Reporter
To University student Deborah Cole, parking at the University is
nothing short of a nightmare.
Parking meters have been a recurring problem for Cole, as well as
many other University students. Whether they have a dead battery, a
jammed coin slot or are just plain broken, students have expressed
distaste at having to pay a parking ticket for a problem that they feel
is not their fault.
Rand Stamm, parking and transportation manager for the De
partment of Public Safety, said that when a parking meter isn't
working, DPS should be contacted immediately.
"Each meter is posted with information on what to do if the
meter is broken," he said.
Cole said the first thing she did was contact DPS when she
parked in a space with a broken meter. And after she gave DPS
both her license plate number and the parking meter number,
Cole said she was under the impression that she would not re
ceive a ticket.
She was wrong. When she returned to her car there
was a $ 15 citation on her windshield.
After she petitioned the ticket, Cole was told she
would still have to pay. The reason being that when a
parking meter is broken, the international "no parking"
sign will still register on the meter.
Stamm said there is only one instance when a broken
meter won't show the no-parking symbol, and that's
when it has completely shut down. Otherwise, he said,
there will always be that symbol, visible to whoever may
be parking there.
However, Cole said her meter didn't have any sort of no
parking sign on it. She petitioned her ticket again and was told she
no longer had to pay it.
University student Andrea Aanderud said she has had the same
problems with broken parking meters as Cole. However, Aan
derud hasn't received a parking citation yet, partially because
she drives around until she finds a meter that works.
fi s frustrating, losing all those quarters while you're
•$$$&, looking for that one meter that will actually work," she
said.
Stamm said there is no way to refund money to peo
ple who lose quarters in broken meters because there is
no way to track how much money a person puts into the
meter.
"If you're going to feed a meter, you need to pay attention
to it," he said.
DPS does not keep a record of how many broken meters
Turn to PARKING, page 3
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