Adam Amato Senior Photographer
r ASUO Executive candidates debate campus-related, community and political issues Tuesday evening in the EMU Fir Room. Only two
candidates did not participate. Voter turnout was very low last year at 15.22 percent.
DEBATE
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groups are familiar with ASLIO rules.
Ben Strawn said it's the ASUO Exec
utive's responsibility to keep groups
informed of the rules.
Adrian Gilmore said that as a
lawyer in training, his job is to break
down complex rules for people. I le
said the ASUO Executive should
make the rules clear to groups, per
haps by giving them printed material
explaining the rules.
Nick Popenuk said the ASUO presi
dent has the responsibility of under
standing the rules and stressed the im
portance of having an open dialogue
with groups.
Ben Brown, who is a running on a
shirts-optional platform, showed up
at the debate shirtless and said stu
dent groups have the responsibility to
educate themselves on the rules.
Adam Petkun said his service on the
ASUO Constitution Court has helped
him understand the rules and he takes
pride in explaining the rules to others.
Candidates were also asked
whether they would keep tuition low
if that meant hurting the quality of
education by cutting classes and cut
ting budgets.
Strawn, Gilmore and Popenuk all
said they would prefer to raise tuition
rather than let the quality of educa
tion suffer.
Brown said shirtless students could
afford an increase in tuition by using
the money they saved not buying shirts.
Petkun said he would like to see the
quality of education stay high, but
doesn't want to see a student forced
out of school after three years because
of high costs.
Candidates were asked how they
would help repair trust between Uni
versity students and the Eugene Police
Department and Department of Pub
lic Safety.
Gilmore said the ASUO Executive
should inform students of their legal
rights and make them aware of
ASLIO Legal Services if they need le
gal counsel.
Popenuk said the Executive should
have a close relationship with EPD and
DPS and to educate students about
their rights.
Brown said there is nothing more
"cuddly" than a "shirtless man," and
said police won't be able to cite stu
dents if they have their "big flabby
man-tits" hanging out.
Petkun stressed the importance of
informing students of their rights and
raising the University's standing in the
community by pushing for housing
standards.
Strawn's running mate, Diana
Aguilar, said police should concentrate
on more frequent crimes on campus,
such as bike and other property thefts,
because they tend to occur most often.
Candidates were asked how they
would deal with campus gadfly Bruce
Miller, who was present at the debate.
Gilmore said he respects Miller and
would remain available to him, but
stressed Miller cannot harass students.
Popenuk explained that he just met
Miller on Monday and didn't have
any problems with him.
Brown said that given his no-shirts
platform, he couldn't listen to any
man wearing four shirts.
Mena Ravassipour, who is running
with Petkun, said she has a lot of ex
perience communicating with Miller
and she thinks it's important to listen
to everybody because that's how new
ideas are shared.
Strawn also said he has extensive
experience communicating with
Miller at ASUO Senate meetings and
he tries to be fair. However, Strawn
said Miller called his mother Monday
and told her Strawn was "mean and
immature." Strawn added he will nev
er tolerate badgering.
Contact the campus/federal
politics reporter
at jaredpaben@daityemerald.com.
CCRTP
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The task force is a campus-commu
nity coalition that includes University,
law enforcement, city government and
community representatives who ad
dress issues such as off-campus safety,
party control and housing issues.
Lehner underscored die challenges
of finding one definition for commu
nity policing.
"We have to make that definition
and we haven't done that work yet,"
Lehner said.
Since he took office earlier this
year, Lehner has met with represen
tatives from campus, including
ASUO President Maddy Melton, to
discuss the department's relation
ship with the University.
"I hope the relationship between
the students and EPD can hopefully
be better than it has been," Melton
said. She added the new chief had
made it clear students' rights would
not be trampled on, and students also
had a responsibility to address the
part they play in problems EPD might
have concerns with.
Lehner added it was key to have the
right players at the table to have suc
cessful dialogue.
Assistant Dean and Associate Direc
tor for Student Life Sheryl Eyster said
one of these steps is the creation of a
packet to be given to students who are
making tire transition from on-cam
pus to off-campus living. She said the
packet, which is still being put togeth
er, will include various brochures on
students' rights and responsibilities as
well useful community resources.
"We hope to have that ready for stu
dents this spring," Eyster said.
The University is also already help
ing to co-fund a bicycle patrol police
officer in the West University Neigh
borhood. While the officer deals with
concerns related to parties, some of
the most common concerns in the
area include dark streets and unsafe
alleys where criminal activity has been
reported, said Associate Vice President
for Institutional Affairs Jan Oliver.
EPD also has a new sergeant as
signed to work on campus in collab
oration with DPS. Sgt. Mark Montes,
who started work on campus at the
beginning of spring tenn, said patrols
are beneficial in keeping things un
der control in general.
"I've seen a more calming effect by
having regularly scheduled party pa
trols," Montes said.
Contact the news editor
at ayishayahya@dailyemerald.com.
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