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Tuesday, June 22, 2004
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Volume 106, Issue 1
Collision kills University student
Michael Joyce died June 12
after his bike collided with a
car driven by another student
JARED PABEN
EDITOR IN CHIEF
A University student riding his bicy
cle in the wrong direction on East 13th
Avenue died early on the morning of
Saturday, June 12 after a vehicle struck
him head-on, Eugene police and a wit
ness reported.
Pre-journalism major Michael Joyce,
23, died at Sacred Heart Medical Center
after he collided with a 1994 Cadillac
driven by University student David
Soulier at about 12:30 a.m.
Eugene Police Department officers
discovered that 23-year-old Soulier, a
senior studying philosophy, had a blood
alcohol content of .08 percent, according
to an EPD press release. Operating a
motor vehicle with a BAG of .08 percent
or above is illegal in Oregon.
EPD did not cite Soulier at the scene
and has not charged him with a crime,
but might do so after an investigation by
the Major Collision Team and a review
by the Lime County District Attorney's
Office, EPD spokeswoman Pam
Olshanski said.
Messages left by the Emerald at
Soulier's listed Albany phone number
and an e-mail to Soulier were not
returned.
University student Christian
Kempton, who said he witnessed the
accident and gave a report to police,
Please see ACCIDENT, page 4
Joyce's family and friends
honored his life at a ceremony
last week in Portland
JARED PABEN
EDITOR IN CHIEF
Sexy love child.
Electric. 1 lope. Open.
Traveler. Beauty.
Grow. I love you,
Michael.
These were just
some of the things
friends of University
student Michael
Joyce scrawled on the
\ ' - ' ,/v/ j driveway of his father
Michael Joyce and stepmother s
Please see MEMORIAL, page 4
ASUO
President
Adam Petkun
works in the
ASUO office.
Two
Constitution
Court and
one PFC
positions
must be filled
by June 25.
Erik R. Bishoff
Photo Editor
Duties at hand
The ASUO Executive is planning for the fall and filling vacant positions
MEGHANN CUNIFF
FREELANCE REPORTER
hile most students are enjoying
their first taste of summer free
▼ Y dom, members of the ASUO Ex
ecutive staff worked to recruit staff members
and organize for the upcoming school year.
First on the Executive's agenda is filling
one Programs Finance Committee seat
and two ASUO Constitution Court posi
tions, ASUO President Adam Petkun said.
The ASUO Constitution mandates that
open positions be filled within 30 days,
leaving the Executive working with a June
25 deadline to do so.
The finance committee position has nu
merous qualified applicants, but with only
law students eligible for the open
Constitutional Court seats, the Executive
has had difficulty finding applicants,
Petkun said.
"It's a struggle to get law students to apply
because they're not around right now,"
Petkun said.
The administration is under increased
public pressure to fill the Constitutional
Court spots by the specified deadlines af
ter 2003-04 ASUO President Maddy
Melton left two seats vacant for months
beyond the 30-day deadline, Petkun said.
At least one strong applicant for the court
seats has replied to the Executive's
advertisements, and the administration is
confident that the positions will be filled in
a timely fashion, Petkun said.
The Executive is also looking for candi
dates to fill open seats on both the
Athletic Department Finance Committee
and the EMLI Board.
After the open positions have been filled,
the Executive will shift its focus to working
with the Student Vote Coalition to coordinate
an on-campus voter-registration drive in the
beginning weeks of the school year, ASUO
State Affairs Coordinator Amy Du Four said.
With a goal of registering at least 7,500
new voters in less than three weeks, the
drive is set to be the largest in the country.
"It's kind of the foundation of every
thing," ASUO Vice President Mena
Ravassipour said. Once the registration
drive has been has been organized, "we'll
start weaving new beginnings ... We're in
the process of figuring out what all that
entails," she said.
Working hard this summer to organize
the drive is essential to the administra
tion's success, Petkun said. A successful
registration drive will "set a great founda
tion for the rest of the school year" and
help the staff develop awareness about
ASUO activities, Petkun said.
The staff will recruit volunteers for the
drive at IntroDUCKtion and various campus
and community events. The drive is "an ef
fort to build community and educate stu
dents about the importance of voting and
upcoming electoral issues that affect us as
Please see ASUO, page 8
UO architect
died June 9 from
cardiac arrest
'Campus builder' Garry Fritz led hundreds
of renovation and development projects
OMIE DRAWHORN
NEWS REPORTER
As an architect and head of capital projects and repairs for Uni
versity Facilities Services, Garry Fritz dedicated himself to mak
ing the campus a better place. With his openness and respect for
others, his calm, laid-back style, and his professionalism and
dedication, Fritz's very nature made him a problem solver.
"He was the campus builder," said George Hecht, Director
of Gampus Operations for Facilities Services. "I le built bridges
to people, built buildings and built solutions to problems."
Fritz, 54, a long-time prominent University architect, who
was responsiDie tor the planning and
design of buildings across campus, died
June 9 of cardiac arrest at the Down
town Athletic Club.
Iritz, a graduate from the University's
School of Architecture and Allied Arts,
was responsible for the planning and
design of Deschutes and Willamette
halls, the Knight Library addition, the
Law Library, the Lillis Business Complex
and the expansion of Autzen stadium.
oince ivoy, ne nas contributed
to the development and renovation of
25 percent of the campus's total Garry Fritz
square footage. At the time of his
death, Fritz was in charge of 140 projects and oversaw
five project managers.
"I le had a vision of how to accomplish constaiction and a
view of quality that kept us on track and solving problems,
making the campus a better place," I lecht said. "I knew any
thing he was working on was going to go well."
During turbulent periods of growth, Fritz's co-workers de
pended on him to hold everything together.
"He was our anchor," said Janet Lobue, a constaiction proj
ect manager for Facilities Services. "Even our maintenance
people have come up to me and said, 'What are we going to
do without Garry?"'
Fritz's friends and colleagues said Fritz was a great listener.
Lobue said Fritz had an uncanny ability to help people find
solutions to problems.
"(Fritz's colleague) Charlene Lindsay used to say you coukl
go into Garry's office with a problem, talk to him for 15 min
utes, work your way around to the solution, and leave and re
alize he probably hadn't said more than 12 words to you,"
Lobue said.
Don Peting, one of Fritz's former architecture school in
structors and, more recently, one of his colleagues, described
Fritz as an incredible, loving person. When his first wife, An
gela Fritz, became ill and confined to a wheelchair, he nursed
Please see FRITZ, page 3
NEWS BRIEF
EPD: 'Kidnapping' at
McKenna Estates
labeled a hoax
The Eugene Police Depart
ment has concluded that
Thursday morning's possible
kidnapping at McKenna Es
tates was actually a prank.
A security guard at Chase
Village Apartments called
police immediately after the
incident, telling them that
he saw a man force a
screaming woman into the
car trunk shortly after mid
night Thursday.
A witness police inter
viewed said the woman was
not forced out of the rear pas
senger-side seat and into the
trunk, but that she voluntari
ly crawled into the trunk and
started screaming in an at
tempt to fool a security
guard, according to an EPD
press release.
The witness also said the
driver — actually a woman
— later returned to the com
plex, with the woman who
was in the trunk trying to
hide in the front seat.
According to the press
release, those involved in
the prank could face crimi
nal charges and fines if
identified.
— Jared Paben