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Theft: Students are required to register bikes
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report was down $44 from the previ
ous year. Some of the bikes were val
ued at only $1.
Susan Kelley, owner of Blue Heron
Bicycles on East 13 th Avenue, said she
saw more customers coming into her
store to replace stolen bikes and bike
parts during May than she has in the
past. She added that it always seems to
go up in the spring and again in the fall
when students return, but she sees cut
cable locks “everywhere. ”
EPD Detective Sgt. Pete Deshpande
said he speculates the stolen bikes are
often traded for drugs or sold for drug
money, with the victim never seeing
his or her property again. The
methamphetamine problem in Eugene
and Springfield is largely responsible
for the towns’ high rates of property
theft. He said his department employs
a couple of full-time detectives who
continuously compare the descriptions
and serial numbers of stolen bikes
with the information on pawn slips,
but most police reports don’t have ade
quate information, and most of the
bikes don’t end up in pawn shops.
The majority of bike thefts reported
to die Department of Public Safety are
stolen from areas near the residence
halls, DPS officer Chris Fosnight said.
He recommends using two locks in
stead of one: a cable lock through the
frame, seat and tires to make the bike a
single unit and a U-lock to attach the
bike to the bike rack. It takes more
time for a thief to get through both, but
if a student wants to use only one lock,
he or she should use a U-lock because
it’s easier for bike thieves to cut
through cables than it is for them to
pick locks.
Students are required to register
with DPS any bike they ride or park at
the University, or they face the possi
bility of a $15 to $20 fine. Only half the
bikes reported as stolen to DPS from
September to March were registered.
DPS holds recovered bikes until some
one can prove ownership. Fosnight
said every student should know his or
her bike’s serial number, which is usu
ally located under the crank next to the
pedals but varies from brand to brand.
If the bike is not claimed after 90 days,
it goes to auction.
The total number of bikes stolen
throughout Eugene last year was just
less than 1,000, Deshpande said. He
said the number of bikes stolen this
year will most likely be more than
1,000, as it was in 2003.
Fosnight said his department
“feel(s) like there has been an in
crease” in University-area thefts as
well, especially in bikes worth less
than $750. He added that the number
of bikes reported stolen is lower than
the actual number and that people
don’t usually report the theft of a seat
or wheel.
emilysmith@ daily emerald, com
Senators: Watson calls for U.S. Senate rules
Continued from page 4
passed its rules.
“A lot of time and effort went into
revising those rules, and it was unfor
tunate we couldn’t get enough people
there to pass them,” she said.
She also said there were “a lot of dif
ficulties in the budgets this year, and
that’s going to affect a lot of programs
and groups.”
“Unfortunately, we weren’t able to
come to a better overall solution when
it came to our end of the table, but
we’ll see how it works out next year,”
she said.
Stoll said she agreed with University
President Dave Frohnmayer’s idea that
the amount of stipends should be ex
amined but said it needs to be reduced
in a “step-wise fashion so groups
aren’t hindered by it but rather have
time to adjust to it.”
“There should be a better way to go
about that,” she said.
Stoll said she’s applying to teach sci
ence in Africa with the Peace Corps
and may go to medical school.
Michael Watson, Seat 17
Watson wrote in an e-mail that
the Senate’s “most critical decision,
or lack thereof, was not voting to re
verse the so-called decision” by the
Constitution Court to remove three
PFC members from the committee.
He called the decision “unconstitu
tional in any free system of govern
ment,” saying “Senate leaders mis
construed Senate rules to deny
Senators the right to vote” on two
resolutions about the matter.
“I have never witnessed a group so
devoted to the proposition that they
are powerless to say anything,” he
wrote. “(The court decision) was done
because the three removed senators,
two being the only elected latino stu
dents in the government, dared speak
their minds freely in a legislative hear
ing. Having examined the oft-cited US
Supreme Court Case called South
worth v. University of Wisconsin, I can
assure you that Mr. Derrick’s decision
illustrates a gross deviation from legal
and equitable principles, and rests on
a complete misunderstanding of the
Southworth decision. ... The fact that
a rule is written neither guarantees it is
interpreted correctly nor legitimate.
(The) ASUO is currently a tyranny
of 5 judges.”
He said the case is also a sign
about “how little the Administration
seems to care about assisting stu
dents in learning from practicing gov
ernment how principles of Separation
of Powers work. ”
“A Political Science or Law professor
should be at every meeting helping
students learn from this process,” he
wrote. “Student legislators should in
sist they are real legislators, elected and
operating under color of state law at a
public university.”
He added that senators should re
peal the Green Tape Notebook rules
and replace them with the U.S. Sen
ate’s Rules of Procedure or Robert’s
Rules of Order.
“Life never has to be this ridicu
lous,” he wrote. “The current set-up
leads to a slavish devotion to rules
that violate Separation of Powers
principles at every turn. And nobody
understands them, making them
worthless. The U.S. Senate rules are
100% simpler to learn, and don’t lead
to roll-call votes on how many
cheese-sticks a group is wanting to
buy at a bowling alley! ”
Watson said he will continue
studying law at the University and
will be an exchange student at the
University of Adelaide in Australia.
Former Senators Khanh Le and
Ben Hovland could not be reached
for comment.
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