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University
ID change
approaches
completion
The Card Office conducted the
exchange to protect cardholders
from potential identity theft
BY ADAM CHERRY
NEWS REPORTER
The University's conversion to new identifi
cation numbers and identification cards for all
students, faculty and staff members is nearly
complete. The University Card Office reported
Monday that all registered students, faculty
and staff have changed their ID number from
their Social Security number to a randomly
generated number.
The conversion means students will no
longer be forced carry their Social Security
number with them, nor will they need to write
it on tests or class assignments.
The original timeline for the replacement of
student identification numbers comprised four
years beginning in July 2002. However, the
Card Office reported the process was completed
Feb. 15, more than a year ahead of schedule.
At the start of the program, the University
changed the style of identification cards to incor
porate the University's new “O” logo and allowed
ID holders to voluntarily switch ID numbers to a
randomly generated series of digits beginning
with “950.” The Card Office is phasing out the old
ID card, which featured a photo of Deady Hall.
The University decided to use random num
bers after it received a number of complaints
about identity theft, Joel Woodruff, manager of
the Card Office, said. Confidentiality of personal
information was also a concern.
“All the universities are doing it now,”
Woodruff said of the randomly generated
ID numbers.
The bulk of individuals who still have a So
cial Security number on file are “inactive
records,” and don’t currently attend school,
Woodruff said. By the end of the year, however,
those records should be converted as well.
Woodruff added that Lane Transit District has
been told to stop accepting the old generation
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Lauren Wimer | Senior photographer
Eugene Police Department officer Ben Hall measures the distance between where
Hatoon Victoria Adkins was struck on her bicycle and where the car stopped.
Danielle Hickey | Photo editor
Some students know Hatoon as a woman they pass on the street; others know her
as a friend. She will be remembered by many with a smile. A memorial has been set
up in front of the University Bookstore, where she used to live. She was 67 years old.
Police officer,; professor and bookstore employees
fondly remember their friend who lived on campus
BY STEVEN R. NEUMAN
MANAGING EDITOR
Eugene police officer Randy Ellis was visibly upset as he stood next to a
barren tree on the comer of East 13th Avenue and Kincaid Street on Monday.
He twice choked back tears as he recounted the few details he knew about
Hatoon Victoria Adkins, known to most only by her first name.
Volunteers helped move her belongings to a temporary storage facility
while Ellis and other community members stood around the bench and small
patch of earth outside the University Bookstore, staring blankly at the former
site of Hatoon’s makeshift shelter in the gray light.
“I went to the hospital when they brought her in; the prognosis was
not good when they brought her in. I left when they took her up to
surgery,” Ellis said with tears welling in his eyes.
1 ve Known Hatoon tor 2u years, it s a sad day m
for the University neighborhood when Hatoon’s I
not going to be here.”
Ellis heard she had died at 3:25 p.m. Around K
the same time the University Bookstore an- p
nounced her death in the store. News of her I
death spread rapidly across campus. 7
Chris Boyd, who has known Hatoon for the nine [
years he has worked at the bookstore, said shop- M
pers and employees became emotional when the
announcement was made. HATOON VICTORIA
“I don’t think she understood how big a part she ADKINS
played in people’s lives,” said University student ACCIDENT VICTIM
and bookstore employee Emily Rogers. “Every time
I walked past the corner there she was talking to somebody ; she had some
one over there, and they were just listening intently. It seems like she’s
talked to almost everyone on this campus at one point or another.”
Several community members held similar sentiments. Recounting
memories of Hatoon, they noted her as “a fixture” of the community.
Ellis said little about Hatoon’s life was known to be fact. Over the course
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A well-known campus figure died after an accident at
the crossing of Onyx Street and Franklin Boulevard
BY JARED PABEN
NEWS EDITOR
A well-known campus-area resident died Tuesday afternoon after she was
struck by a car while trying to cross Franklin Boulevard on her bicycle.
Hatoon Victoria Adkins, 67, died at Sacred Heart Medical Center from in
juries sustained when she was struck at about 1 p.m. by a motorist traveling
east on Franklin Boulevard near the intersection of Onyx Street.
Eugene Police Department officer Randy Ellis, who is stationed at
EPD’s University substation, confirmed that the deceased woman was
ACCIDENT, page 8
Lauren Wimer | Senior photographer
Yolanda Moses, the special assistant to the chancellor for excellence and diversity at
the University of California, Riverside, speaks at The Intersection of Race, Gender
and Ethnicity in Higher Education at the Knight Law Center on Tuesday.
Gender, race issues explored
Three women who work closely with multicultural and
diversity matters in higher education spoke at the forum
BY AMANDA BOLSINGER
NEWS REPORTER
Race, gender and ethnicity are often
the center of controversy on campus.
Tuesday night, three prominent women
from around the country were part of a
University forum titled The Intersection
of Race, Gender and Ethnicity in Higher
Education to explore those issues.
The forum, which was held in 175
Knight Law Center, drew about 80 peo
ple and was presented by The Center
for the Study of Women in Society and
the Office of the Vice Provost for Insti
tutional Equity and Diversity.
The three panelists were Norma Can
tu, Gertrude Fraser and Yolanda Moses.
At the age of 19, Cantu was the first
U.S.-born Latina to be admitted to
Harvard Law School. She was regional
counsel and education director of the
Mexican-American Legal Defense and
Education Fund and assistant secretary
of education for civil rights for Presi
dent Clinton’s administration.
Fraser, who was the program direc
tor specializing in education and schol
arship with the Ford Foundation in
New York, has been part of interdisci
plinary research on gender, ethnicity
and raceand helped create an intercul
tural global curriculum. She is current
ly vice provost for faculty advancement
at the University of Virginia.
Moses is former president of the City
University of New York and the Ameri
can Anthropological Association,
where she spearheaded efforts to
promote multicultural curricula. She is
currently special assistant to the chan
cellor for excellence and diversity at
the University of California, Riverside.
The three women made up what
Vice Provost for Institutional Equity
and Diversity Greg Vincent called “a
dream realized” and “a dream team”
for the discussion.
Each woman spoke about her vari
ous fields of expertise and her visions
of and solutions to the issues of race
and gender in higher education.
Moses started the forum by dis
cussing models of exclusiveness and
the way institutions respond to chang
ing student demographics.
“There are changing models of insti
tutions,” Moses said. “Current models
are a thousand years old, and we are in
the 21st century.”
Moses discussed statistics that show
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