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Thursday, February 26,2004
Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 105, Issue 108
Senators
approve
disputed
allotments
The Student Senate approves
PCF’s 200405 budget, OKs
KWVA’s special funds request
and confirms 3 new justices
By Chuck Slothower
News Reporter
The ASUO Student Senate approved nearly
$4.9 million in allocations at a Wednesday
night meeting, funding the ASUO Programs Fi
nance Committee's 2004-05 recommendations
for more than 120 incidental fee-funded stu
dent groups. PFC's budget drew controversy be
cause some senators said the allocation was too
much and would result in higher incidental fees
next year.
'That's a heck of a lot of growth," Senate Vice
President Kevin Day said. "I think we can cut
some of that."
* PFC members countered that they allocated
less money this year than provided for by the
Senate benchmark. The benchmark, which was
set in November, allowed for a 3.4 percent in
crease in funding from 2003-04. PFC's pro
posed budget is an increase of 1.9 percent from
the current budget.
"Any growth that we gave (student groups)
was within the bounds Senate set for us," PFC
Chairman Adrian Gilmore said.
PFC's budget does not take into account the
Turn to SENATE, page 3
Department
of Public
Safety officer
Herb Horner
instructs
people to
back away
from the
Knight
Library during
the building’s
evacuation
Wednesday.
Patrons were
forced
outside from
about 3:45
p.m. to 4:45
p.m. while
EPD officers
searched for
a bomb.
None was
found.
Tim Bobosky
Photographer
Bomb threat forces library evacuation
University graduate student
James Gregory Evangelista
was arrested for allegedly
calling in the bomb threat
By Jared Paben
Senior News Reporter
A University graduate student
was arrested Wednesday after he
allegedly called in a bomb threat
that dosed the Knight Library for
about an hour while Eugene Po
lice Department officers searched
the building.
Two EPD officers familiar with
the facility searched for a bomb,
but after a thorough sweep none
was found. In the meantime, hun
dreds of library patrons were forced
to wait outside from about 3:45
p.m. to 4:45 p.m.
James Gregory Evangelista, a
46-year-old special-education
graduate student, was arrested
several hours later after police
traced the call to a pay phone at
the University Bookstore,
police said.
Surveillance footage showed
Evangelista talking on a pay
phone around the time the bomb
threat was made, according to an
EPD press release. Evangelista was
cited with menacing, harassment
and disorderly conduct.
There was no answer when a
call was made to Evangelista's
phone number listed in the Uni
versity Student Directory. A
woman answered a call to Evan
gelista's number listed in the
phone book, a different number,
and she said she does not
know him.
EPD spokeswoman Kerry Delf
said the motive for the bomb
threat was unclear. Delf said the
bomb squad was not sent to the
scene, but six EPD officers inves
tigated the incident as a "proba
ble hoax."
At about 3:30 p.m., the Emer
ald received a call from a man
claiming he placed a bomb in the
library to protest President
George W. Bush's administration.
Turn to BOMB, page 16
Take Back the Night
looks into holding
multi-gender march
A public forum will be held today to debate
combining the women's, gender-neutral
and gender-queer sections to make one march
By Jennifer Marie Bear
News Editor
The annual Take Back the Night march protests violence against
women, but women aren't the only ones who want to participate.
Members of the transgender and transsexual communities
have also been victims of assault or sexual violence, along with
some men. Even people of all genders and sexualities who
haven't been victims of violence want to show their opposition
to a world where anyone fears walking alone at night.
To ensure that everyone who wants to participate feels com
fortable in the Take Back the Night march, the ASUO Women's
Center has divided the march into three different sections — a
Turn to NIGHT, page 16
Lauren Wimer Photographer
Psychology Professor Jennifer Freyd’s study
shows people believe recovered memories less
often than they do continuous memories. “In
our opinion,, if people are biased against
recovered memories, it's a kind of like a
prejudice," Freyd said.
Study: Many are skeptical
of recovered memories
A University professor’s study
shows that many people are
disinclined to believe scenes
recovered memories reveal
By Lisa Catto
News Reporter
Many people find it hard to believe
that recovered memories of childhood
abuse turn out to be true, according to a
study by University psychology Professor
Jennifer Freyd.
Freyd recendy presented her research to
an annual meeting of the American Associ
ation for the Advancement of Science in
Seatde. Her research shows that a discrep
ancy exists between what science and the
media portray about recovered memories
of childhood sexual abuse.
Freyd said the bias against recovered
memories suggests ignorance and confu
sion about memories of abuse. She added
that forgetting about a caregiver's abuse is
more common than continually remem
bering the event.
"In our opinion, if people are biased
against recovered memories, it's a kind of
like a prejudice," she said. "We suspected it,
but we wanted to actually measure people's
belieis in a way that would let us have more
than just a suspicion."
She added that the research shows mem
ories have the same chance of being true or
false, regardless of whether they are contin
ual or recovered.
In the study, 327 undergraduate Univer
sity students read vignettes describing
childhood abuse and rated each on believ
ability of the victim's memory. The rating
system was zero (not at all believable) to 5
(very believable).
Turn to MEMORIES, page 16
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