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Catholic Campus Ministry Social Connections Coffeehouses Sunday student Mass, 7:so pm Student Dinners Wednesdays, 9:00 pm Sports Events Midweek Social & Student Mass Faith Community Engaging Masses Meaningful Retreats Guest Speakers Confirmation Class April 10,4-6 pm webfootcaia Saturday, April 9,5:30 pm Societal commitment Mexico Mission Trip Charity Fundraisers Social Service Projects RCIA Wednesday, April 13th, 7:00 pm 1850 Emerald Street (south of Hayward Field) • 346-4468 Visit our web site at newmanctr-uoregon.org or send us an e-mail to newman@newmanctr-uoregon.org A product of the Oregon Daily Emerald Classifieds. For more information call 541-346-4343. Sponsors: Sex offenders top list of concerns Continued from page 1 last month’s neighborhood meeting, and within weeks flyers were circulat ing in the neighborhood denouncing the program’s presence because of its involvement with sex offenders. Sponsors, Inc. Executive Director Ron Chase, Greene, parole and proba tion officer Larry Wibbenmeyer, and a Sponsors employee fielded questions from attendees regarding the type of crimes committed by people in the program and the type of supervision they will have at the apartment quads the organization is looking to pur chase. The men said no specific prop erty has been identified. No sex offenders who have been classified as being predatory or a risk to college-aged students will be living at the property, Greene said. “I can’t promise there’ll be no sex offenders at all,” Greene said, adding that the amount of sex offenders with in the prison system makes it almost a given that programs like Sponsors may be dealing with people who have been convicted of sex crimes. Greene said between 75 and 100 parolees and ex-convicts currently live in the neighborhood, meaning that Sponsors is not bringing ex-convicts into the area but merely providing bet ter supervision to those already there. “We’re basically doing more than updating what we currently have,” Greene said. “The concentration and density will be exactly the same as it was before,” Chase added. Eugene police officer Randy Ellis spoke in support of Sponsors. Ellis, who patrols the West Universi ty neighborhood, said he has received many phone calls from people con cerned about the program but has spo ken with parole and probation officers and understands that the people Spon sors supervises do not pose any sort of threat to the community. “I’m finding myself caught here between the neighborhood who’s Marcus Larson | Freelance photographer Sponsors, Inc. Executive Director Ron Chase, left, and Board of Directors Chair Richard Greene attended Thursday night's West University meeting that addressed residents’ questions about the purchase of a group of quads west of Patterson Street. against it and Sponsors, the group I know the truth about from my co workers,” Ellis said. Greene said the people who will be living at the property will be those who have already completed the three month Sponsors treatment and reha bilitation program and have been clas sified at a low or medium risk level. Board member and University stu dent Craig Laupheimer welcomed Sponsors to the neighborhood and said it is the community’s duty to give the people involved with programs like Sponsors a chance in the world. “We owe them a chance,” Laupheimer said. “We have to assume they will not commit again.” Police chief Lehner discussed the looming rise of neighborhood power in city politics and said community polic ing is a big part of some of the changes that will be happening. He also partici pated in a group discussion about par ties in the neighborhood and talked about the role of the police in breaking up parties and what circumstances warrant what punishments. Also at the meeting, the West Uni versity Neighbors elected neighbor hood resident David Wallace as its 1st Vice Chair and University student and neighborhood resident Marie Valle as a board member. meghanncuniff@ dailyemerald. com 0®DD Vote on DuckWeb Online voter guide accessible through DuckWeb PRIMARIES Today is the last day to vote for primaries— voting ends at 5pm Generals are Wednesday,; Thursday and Friday of next week asuoelec@gladstone.uoregon.edu • 541-346-0629 Go VstG Student Elections — pop pi V - _y4n&4olia. Lunch Monday through Saturday Dinner 7 Nights a Week 992 Willamette Eugene, Or 97401 343-9661 J Money doesn't grow on trees. Look for Duck Bucks1" every Tuesday Oregon Daily Emerald
