Bicyclists have one week
until penalties commence
DPS will distribute citations in amounts up to $25
in efforts to ensure safety for pedestrians on campus
BY PARKER HOWELL
SENIOR NEWS REPORTER
After two weeks of issuing warnings
to bicyclists who violate Oregon’s bike
rules, Department of Public Safety offi
cer Lt. Herb Horner said during a Pub
lic Safety Advisory Group meeting
Thursday that his department will give
offenders one more week to comply
before it begins issuing citations.
Bicyclists who don’t dismount on
sidewalks or yield to pedestrians dur
ing school hours may receive citations
of up to $25. DPS has posted sandwich
signs near campus and positioned of
ficers to hand out information on prop
er bike procedures in recent attempts
to stem the problem, Horner said.
A PSAG committee on bicycle- and
skateboard-rule enforcement con
vened last year, but didn’t report its
findings to the full board before the
end of the year, DPS Interim Director
Tom Hicks said. He added that DPS
decided to go ahead with enforcing
citations without a committee report,
causing discussion among board
members at the meeting about the
best way to handle bike problems.
ASUO President Adam Petkun said
the bike situation should be reviewed.
“It’s hard to understand why we
went forward without hearing from
the subcommittee,” he said.
Director of Legal Services Ilona
Koleszar agreed, saying additional
warning signs are needed to spread the
word to new students, international
students and visitors to campus.
“If we expect that these policies
will be successful in preventing colli
sions with bicycles, we have to follow
through all the way,” she said.
She added that the citation process
shouldn’t occur until a committee
has reviewed the procedures.
Horner said DPS has exhausted its
options and needs citations to increase
public safety after receiving several
complaints this year because riders
consciously disregard posted signs.
“We’ve done everything we think is
reasonable to get the word out,” he
said.
Horner added that once citations
are issued, word will quickly spread
about the laws.
“People do not adhere to warnings
— a citation they don’t forget,” he said.
“It’s unfortunate, but sometimes that’s
what it takes to change the behavior. ”
EMU Director Dusty Miller said bi
cycle traffic is a serious problem, espe
cially around the EMU breezeway and
the intersection of East 13th Avenue
and University Street. Miller said some
people travel through the breezeway
going 15 to 20 mph and will eventually
injure someone.
"It’s not a question of if it happens,
it’s a question of when it happens,”
Miller said.
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for American citizens,” he said on his
Web site. “We are a constitutional re
public and the rule of law must al
ways be upheld.”
Congressional race
Peter DeFazio, the Democratic in
cumbent for the Fourth Congression
al District, was one of 66 representa
tives to vote against the Patriot Act. In
addition, he was involved in several
failed attempts to repeal certain pro
visions of the Patriot Act.
“Attorney General Ashcroft thinks
we need to shred the Constitution
and Bill of Rights to safeguard the
American public from terrorists,”
said DeFazio in a news release. “I
couldn’t disagree more. Secret, war
rant-less searches through library and
bookstore records put our constitu
tional freedoms at risk. We won’t win
the war on terrorism by putting our
civil liberties at risk.”
Republican challenger Jim Feld
kamp, a former FBI agent, has per
sonal experience using the Patriot Act
provisions in the hunt for internation
al terrorists.
“It just raised the level of the law
to catch up to the level of technology
the criminals use,” he said. Feldkamp
added that the Patriot Act still pro
vides for “strong judicial oversight”
in the investigation of terrorists.
Feldkamp referenced a specific in
stance when he was investigating a
suspect with connections to Hamas
who was funneling large amounts of
money to fund terrorist activities.
“Because of the Patriot Act, I was
able to ask the Theasury Department
for help,” he said.
The Treasury Department sent out a
mass e-mail to financial institutions
across the world to find out with which
banks the suspect had an account.
When the Treasury Department re
ported that the suspect had more
than 80 bank accounts, Feldkamp
said he still had to go to a judge and
get a separate subpoena for each in
dividual bank account in order to
pull the records.
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