IN BRIEF
Oregon Rep. Wayne Scott
projected as majority leader
SALEM — The Oregon House’s Re
publican majority met Thursday to
choose leaders for the 2005 Legislature.
House Speaker Karen Minnis of
Wood Village was expected to be nom
inated for a second term. The speaker
officially is elected by the entire House
after lawmakers convene, but the ma
jority party obviously has the votes to
decide who will hold the post.
Rep. Wayne Scott, a Canby
businessman who’ll be in his second
term, was expected to be elected by
the caucus to continue as House
majority leader.
Democrats picked up two Republi
can-held House seats in Tuesday's
election, narrowing the GOP advan
tage to 33-27.
State Department sets up
prayer room for Ramadan
WASHINGTON — In a gesture to
Muslims, the State Department on
Thursday set up a prayer room for
some 150 guests invited to dinner by
Secretary of State Colin Powell to end
their daylight Ramadan fast.
Rugs were placed in the room off the
side of the Ben Franklin dining room
so the Muslims could observe the call
to prayer that traditionally precedes the
end of fasting.
Afterward, the Muslims, men and
women sitting side by side, dined
on lamb and chicken and were as
sured by Powell that “we will move
aggressively forward to deal with
the Middle East peace process and
with terrorism.”
He reminded his guests, many of
them young Americans with a few vis
itors from Jordan, Indonesia, Morocco
and other Arab countries among them,
that President Bush was the first presi
dent to promise establishment of a
Palestinian state.
— The Associated Press
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and for drinking in public. At house
parties, hosts might incur charges for
furnishing, allowing consumption or
selling alcohol to minors. If police re
spond to parties at one address multi
ple times during a 90-day period, the
residents might face a fee for the cost
of EPD’s response.
The party patrol has been an on
again, off-again presence at EPD. It
became a more permanent fixture
following a chain of student riots in
2002 and 2003.
In 2002, former EPD Interim Chief
Tliad Buchanan estimated the patrol
cost taxpayers $6,000 to $10,000 per
weekend, according to Emerald
archives. In the same year, city officials
estimated that a riot in the West Uni
versity neighborhood cost EPD up
wards of $20,000.
The party patrol operates at about
$4,400 in overtime costs on a typical
weekend, EPD spokeswoman Kerry
Delf said. Weekends with big events,
such as Halloween, cost the city about
$17,000 in overtime costs for focused
patrols, she said.
The party patrol issued citations to
most of the 20 to 25 guests at the
house near East 14th Avenue and Fer
ry Street on Saturday, said University
sophomore Adam Caccavano, one of
the party’s hosts. He said he and his
roommates had tried to keep their par
ty quiet but were busted when EPD
caught a few guests leaving the party
with open cans of beer.
He and a roommate were cited for
possessing alcohol and for furnishing
it to minors after deliberating for more
than 30 minutes about whether to let
the officers inside. In the end, they
gave their permission, but he still won
ders whether he had to.
“In terms of letting us know our
rights, they could have been more
forthcoming,” Caccavano said, noting
the patrol’s supervisor later responded
to some of his questions. “Regardless,
we were still guilty. It is their job. ”
ASUO Legal Services Director Ilona
Koleszar said the officers could enter
as long as they had probable cause and
a reason to believe evidence would be
destroyed within the time it would take
to obtain a warrant.
“I think that in past years, the habit
of the police has been to cite them all
and let the courts sort it out,” Koleszar
said. “I’m hoping under the new police
chief there will be less of that. ”
Officers busted one more party by 3
a.m. They issued more citations for
underage drinking, using a test track
ing eye movements, which are affect
ed by the presence of alcohol, to deter
mine who had been drinking.
University student Ryan Sapper
said officers denied his request for a
breathalyzer, which he felt would be
more accurate than the eye test, and
didn’t feel officers were listening to
his concerns.
“It’s unbelievable,” he said that
night. “It’s ridiculous. They told me
to leave.”
Koleszar said officers aren’t required
to use a breathalyzer to test for viola
tions such as MIPs.
Fellman said officers have limited
time to respond to parties; they want
to disperse the crowd as quickly as
possible, but they also want people to
wait for their rides to go home.
“The bottom line is that we want
people to be safe and to follow the
rules,” Fellman said. “Unfortunately, it
takes enforcement action for that to
happen in a lot of cases.”
Koleszar recommended that minors
avoid huge parties with loud music
and kegs, but said to err on the side of
caution when dealing with police and
to be as courteous as possible.
Fellman said it also helps to have a
good sense of humor. He spent much
of his time at the second party joking
with the residents inside the house.
Sometimes partygoers’ anger to
ward police escalates to violence. In
the past, people have hurled beer bot
tles and rocks at the officers. Others
have slashed tires and broken win
dows on their vehicles.
“There’s a disturbing number of
people out there who think it’s OK to
hurt a police officer,” Fellman said.
“But we’re just doing our job. Unfortu
nately, sometimes that is the nature of
the business.”
Ready to head out to one of four
other parties near campus, the officers
sauntered away from the second
house and toward their vehicles.
The tailpipe of Fellman’s un
marked Ford Crown Victoria had
been stuffed with damp leaves. The
other officers laughed as they
checked their own cars.
“At least it’s not a 20-pound rock
through my window like last time,”
one officer said.
“Look on the bright side — at
least it’s not fecal matter,” another
officer joked.
But a few faces fell when the officers
noticed their cars, two of which were
slumped to the side, sitting on cush
ions of deflated rubber.
karahansen@ daily emerald, com
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