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Monday, January 12,2004
Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 105, Issue 76
CRUNCHING THE NUMBERS
Adam Amato Senior Photographer
PFC members Joe Snyder, Colin Andries and Adrian Gilmore confer during a break in Thursday's meeting.
Through a series of meetings,
ASUO finance committee members
appropriate nearly $5 million
to dozens of student organizations
By Chuck Slothower
News Reporter
The members of the ASUO Programs Fi
nance Committee introduced themselves for
the record at their meeting Thursday.
"I'm Mena Ravassipour, Senate Seat No. 3
— two," she exclaimed, correcting herself.
Ravassipour forgetting which PFC seat she
occupies is perhaps understandable given that
it came halfway through a five-hour meeting.
The meetings, three of which are planned for
this week, have a considerable purpose: PFC
is charged with making recommendations to
the ASUO Student Senate on the budgets for
dozens of student groups each year, allocating
nearly $5 million.
"What we do is we go through line by line
and approve each item in the budget," PFC
Chairman Adrian Gilmore told the Emerald
in November.
Gilmore, a law student getting a precocious
hand on the gavel, is one of seven PFC mem
bers. Colin Andries, who holds Senate Seat
No. 3, praised Gilmore's style of running PFC.
"He's very calm," Andries said. "He's not
overbearing, but he's in control."
PFC Vice Chairman and At-large member
Toby Piering, Programs Committee Ap
pointee Khanh Le, At-large member Joe Sny
der and Executive Appointee Michelle Rose
round out the committee.
"We have a really good group this year,"
Rose said. "We have really, really good chem
istry."
Rose, a pre-business administration major,
said she wants to be a local politician and per
haps work with investment or real estate after
graduation.
"Working with budgets, I think, will be
good no matter what I do," Rose said.
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Ex-Duck
arrested
on assault
charge
Former Duck football player
Junior Siavii was arrested after
an alleged altercation with a
woman at Taylor's Bar & Grille
By Hank Hager
Sports Editor
Former Oregon defensive tackle Junior
Siavii was arrested for assault early Friday
morning after he allegedly struck a woman
at a Eugene bar.
Eugene Police
spokeswoman Pam
Olshanski said offi
cers responded to a
complaint at Taylor's
Bar & Grille at 894
E. 13th Ave. at about
1 a.m. and found
the woman with
redness and bruis
ing around her eye.
Olshanski said
Siavii was at the bar
with about 10 Oregon football players and
was not cooperative with the officers at the
scene. Olshanski said the woman allegedly
spilled alcohol on Siavii, although officers
found no indication of alcohol on the for
mer Duck.
Siavii, 24, was freed from Lane County
Jail on $255 bail.
Oregon spokesman David Williford
said it is hard to comment on the incident
until the Department of Intercollegiate
Athletics learns the particulars.
"It is certainly unfortunate; however,
something occurred and it is certainly not
condoned," Williford said. "It is difficult
to impose sanctions on someone who is
no longer on the team."
The woman who filed the complaint,
Junior Siavii
Former Oregon
defensive tackle
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EPD says officers didn’t use brutality in party bust
EPD defends its officers’ actions
after a University student alleged
that police used excessive force
when frying to arrest her boyfriend
By Chuck Slothower
News Reporter
An inquiry filed by a University student with the
Eugene Police Department regarding police con
duct in breaking up a Nov. 14 off-campus party
has been resolved, but the student is dissatisfied
with the results.
University sophomore Emily Plummer filed an
inquiry with EPD before winter break after officers
responded to a noise complaint and found a party
with about 300 people in attendance, including
minors allegedly consuming alcohol, according to
a police report Plummer alleged that EPD officers
used excessive force in breaking up the party,
wielding batons on her boyfriend, Harry Dal
gaard, and stomping on him, lacerating his face
and embedding gravel in his ear.
EPD Internal Affairs Coordinator Sgt. Kel
Williams said the officers were j ust doing their jobs.
"There's absolutely no sign that officers com
mitted misconduct," Williams said. "The force
they used was reasonable and necessary given the
resistance they encountered."
The police report, written by Williams, states
that Plummer began to leave the party after receiv
ing a citation for minor in possession, at which
point she saw Dalgaard on the ground with three
officers pinning him down. The officers attempted
to arrest Dalgaard and fell to the ground when he
struggled. One officer deployed his baton to "lever
(Dalgaard's) arm free for handcuffing," but did
not hit him, the report says.
The report says the "stomping" Plummer re
ported was Officer Tony Baker's attempt to re
strain Dalgaard.
"Officer Baker turned Dalgaard's head to one
side to minimize the chance of facial injury, then
pinned his head to the ground with his shin to try
to limit his range of motion," the report stated.
Williams said Dalgaard resisted police.
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