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Sophomores Walter Jones, foreground, and Ian Trumbo don gorilla suits to promote their candidates Tuesday afternoon in the
EMU Amphitheater.
ASUO: General elections begin April 13
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of the primary vote, the two top
ranking candidates move on to the
general election April 13-15.
Several ballot measures are also
slated for the primary, including a
measure on whether students sup
port paying higher fees for renew
able energy and a slate of revisions
to the ASUO Constitution proposed
by the ASUO Executive.
Ballot measures require a majori
ty of votes to pass.
Students can vote on any com
puter with access to DuckWeb, in
cluding computer labs located in
the EMU, the Knight Library and
McKenzie Hall. Official voters’
guides will be available at The Buzz
and the ASUO office, EMU Suite 4.
Candidates set up booths and
spoke in the EMU Amphitheater
during a campaign event Monday.
Executive hopefuls will square off
in a debate at 7 p.m. today in the
Gerlinger Alumni Lounge, answer
ing questions concocted by students
and from the audience.
Some candidates will also partici
pate in an open forum starting at 7
p.m. in the Hamilton Mall.
ASUO Election Coordinator Kelly
Cheeseman said officials hope
20 percent of students turn out for
the primaries, about 6 percent more
than voted last year. Participation
in the primary elections has
declined over the past three years,
from 15.3 percent in 2002 to
15.2 percent in 2003 and 14.1
percent in 2004.
Cheeseman said election officials
have spent more money on advertis
ing and have focused on new meth
ods to attract voters.
“We just hope to have a fair and
fun election for the student body
and for the candidates,” she said.
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PSAG: Officials disagree on procedures
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University would have a greater im
pact than a citation.
Facilities Manager for Housing
David Rodgers said the custodial
staff doesn’t have the time.
“They would be in here every day,
and we just don’t have the staffing,”
he said. “They’re cleaning up a
mountain of vomit every weekend.”
DPS Interim Director Tom Hicks
said he looks at the judicial system
as an educational process.
“Our job is to consistently enforce
the laws and the rules of the Univer
sity, and if the person was contact
ed by Eugene Police or any other
police agency in the area, they’re
going to get a municipal citation,”
Hicks said.
DPS officer Scott Cameron said
that as a Eugene citizen, he finds it
distasteful when “we try to make
policies that say that University of
Oregon students are sort of above
the law on their first time.”
Director of Student Judicial Affairs
Chris Loschiavo said he doesn’t
believe it’s valid to compare on- and off
campus housing because the residence
halls are more closely scrutinized.
“DPS is allowed basically within
the students’ homes, 24/7, monitor
ing,” Loschiavo said. “We don’t
have EPD walking down the halls of
apartment buildings, even in Duck’s
Village and the Commons, where
we know there’s all kinds of issues.
“If even one student would fail to
call in for emergency assistance for
fear of getting into trouble, that’s
one student too many.”
Harmon said she worries that
a student may not want to call in
a drunk friend who already has
several citations for minor in pos
session, knowing they’ll get into
even more trouble.
“They’ll think they’ll probably be
fine, they just need to throw up,”
Harmon said.
Rodgers and Harmon both said
they would like to see a citation the
second time but leniency the first.
“If my friend’s out there and they
haven’t learned their lesson the first
time and they’re drunk again, man,
throw the book at them ‘cause
they’re going to kill my child or
somebody else’s child,” Rodgers
said. “If they can’t get that lesson
and they’re here to learn, it’s like a
second drunk driving offense.”
Loschiavo said he thinks “ham
mering” students with citations
could potentially lead to students
being afraid to call for help.
But EPD Sgt. Mark Montes said
there is little evidence to support
such a claim.
“You would not believe the
comments from people that identi
fy themselves as students that have
four, five, six, seven, eight
MIPs or open containers and just
say, ‘Go ahead, give me a ticket. It’s
just $90,’” Montes said. “So if
there’s some way that we hear from
a percentage of students who
say they do have that fear, then I
would see some validity in that
perception.”
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Governor, tribes
approve casino
at Cascade Locks
BY BRAD CAIN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SALEM — The Confederated Tribes
of Warm Springs and Gov. Ted Kulon
goski have reached agreement to build
a casino in a small town in the scenic
Columbia River Gorge, a spokesman
for the tribe said Tuesday.
Len Bergstein said the governor and
tribal representatives are scheduled to
sign the formal agreement during a
ceremony Wednesday in Cascade
Locks, a financially struggling town
where the casino is to be built.
“There is essential agreement be
tween the negotiators for the state and
for Warm Springs to build the casino,”
Bergstein said.
The negotiated agreement calls for
Warm Springs to give a portion of the
casino’s revenue to the state, Bergstein
said. He declined to say how much.
Mary Ellen Glynn, a spokeswoman
for the governor, declined to discuss
the agreement. She said representa
tives of Kulongoski’s office and the
tribe were to meet later Tuesday at
the Capitol to go through details of
the agreement.
Located about 40 miles east of Port
land, the Cascade Locks casino is ex
pected to be a big moneymaker for the
tribe. TVibal leaders have estimated
that the new casino will draw 3 million
patrons yearly.
Kulongoski’s predecessor, Gov. John
Kitzhaber, had turned down the proj
ect in 1999 because he opposed off
reservation casinos.
The new casino’s location also has
drawn criticism from the group
Friends of the Columbia River Gorge
and other conservationists who are
concerned about increased traffic and
air pollution.
Bergstein said the agreement calls
on Warms Springs to use some of the
casino’s profits to enhance “environ
mental protection” in the gorge, but
he declined to offer specifics.
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