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SB 1000 supporters rally at Capitol
Demonstrators wanted to pressure Karen Minnis to put Senate Bill
1000, which would legalize same-sex civil unions, to a vote
BY AARON BURKHALTER
FREELANCE REPORTER
Basic Rights Oregon demonstrated last
Wednesday in Salem to show support for Senate
Bill 1000, which, if passed, will legalize civil
unions for same-sex couples and extend civil
rights protection to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender community.
Demonstrators converged on the Capitol
Building bearing signs and blowing whistles
protesting Speaker of the House Karen Minnis’
stance on the bill. Minnis had indicated that she
would not see the bill through to a vote.
“I don’t understand why her very particular
views should rule out a democratic process,”
RALLY, page 4
Between
800 and
1,000 sup
porters of
Senate Bill
1000 rallied
on the steps
of the Capi
tol Building
in Salem on
Aaron Burkhalter | Freelancer
PRIDE
in the Park
The 14th Springfield/Eugene
PRIDE Festival was a chance to
enjoy the area's diverse community
BY NICHOLAS WILBUR
NEWS REPORTER
A crowd of nearly 1,500 people came to Alton
Baker Park for the largest annual gay pride event
in Eugene on Saturday. The Springfield/Eugene
PRIDE Festival held its annual celebration with
the theme, “Life’s a Beach!... so bring your swim
suit, sunscreen and sweetheart and join us for a
day of fun in the sun.”
The PRIDE Festival, which stands for “Promot
ing Respect In Diverse Expression,” was recendy
added as part the Equality Project, an organiza
tion whose goals are to act as an information
source, promote educational activities and events,
build communities in local areas and be a strong
ally on progressive human rights issues.
Booth coordinator and Equality Project com
mittee member Tim Matteson is in his 10th year
organizing the event.
“I started here because I wanted to be more in
volved in the community,” Matteson said, “and I
encourage others to do the same.”
PRIDE is in its 14th year of providing this social
venue “to advocate for and enjoy our diverse
community” of gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans
gender people, according to its mission statement.
Mayor Kitty Piercy did the opening ceremonies
on the main stage and musician Josh Zuckerman
Wesley McIntyre of Eugene and Octavio Guerrio of Seattle enjoy what they described as the “cutiest" pride fest so
far, Saturday afternoon in Alton Baker Park.
was the entertainment headliner for the festival.
Zuckerman stopped in Eugene to spread his mot
to: “Be who you are ... It's all about love,” before
starting his tour in Thailand and Japan later
this month.
The PRIDE festival is largely a place for the
LGBT community to celebrate together, but no
one is excluded from the event.
“There’s a lot more diverse culture here,” said
Salem resident Calaya Williams, who recently
moved from Fairbanks, Alaska, “and a lot more
kids and dogs than gay pride events in Fairbanks.
There are probably 20 times more people
here, too.”
Sue Hartman, PRIDE volunteer and creator of
Rainbow River Womyn, a club for lesbians to get
to know each other in a safe environment, said
she would have liked to have seen more food op
tions and more booths, but there was pretty good
entertainment this year.
“Portland’s (pride festivals) are a lot bigger, but
this is okay. It’s building, but Bushenomics and
money issues hit us hard; money’s tight.”
The eight-hour function included music; enter
tainment; bachelor and bachelorette auctions;
FESTIVAL, page 4
Oregon Newspaper
Hall of Fame finds
home at University
After eight years in storage, the 49 photographs
that make up the display are hanging in Allen Hall
The Ore
gon
Newspa
per Hall of
Fame is
on display
on the
first floor
of Allen
Hall
Photo Illustration by Tim Bobosky
BYGABE BRADLEY
NEWS EDITOR
The Oregon Newspaper Hall of Fame has
found a permanent home in Allen Hall at the
University’s journalism school.
The display was dedicated on July 14 in a
small ceremony on the ground floor of Allen
Hall; the display hangs on the wall opposite
the student resource center.
The Hall of Fame consists of 49 photographs
of people who have impacted Oregon newspa
pers in various ways throughout the years.
The award was first bestowed in the 1970s.
The first Oregon Newspaper Hall of Fame was
dedicated by then-Senator Mark Hatfield at the
newspaper museum in Coos Bay in 1978. The
original Hall of Fame had eight inductees.
The display was later moved to the Oregon
Newspaper Publishers Association office in
Portland. Then, in 1997, the display was put
into storage where it stayed until recently.
“The hall of fame was, at that time, in a col
lection of boxes in the newspaper publishers’
office,” journalism school Dean Tim
Gleason said.
Gleason, who is on the board of the ONPA
and the Oregon Newspaper Foundation, was a
part of the effort to bring the Hall of Fame to
the University.
However, discussions to find a permanent
home for the display had begun before Gleason
was on either board.
“This is not something that started with me,”
Gleason said. “I was just fortunate that we were
able to make it happen.”
In 2003, the ONPA and ONF got serious about
reviving the display
“It goes back for quite some time,” Gleason
said. “The leadership of the newspaper founda
tion decided it was time to make it happen. ”
This meant finding a designer and raising the
approximately $20,000 needed to fund the
permanent display.
DISPLAY, page 3
Group aims
to revamp
campaign
finance laws
FairElections Oregon is collecting
signatures to place Petitions 8
and 37 on the state's batiot
BY TYLER GRAF
FREELANCE REPORTER
For many political observers from differing
political stripes — conservative, liberal, anar
chist, bemused non-participant — legislative
politics is a money game. An axiom applies:
----.He who spends the
most wins the most of
ten. Or, to put it in the
common vernacular of
disgraced Pennsylvania
congressman Ozzie
Myers, who was barred
from Congress after be
ing caught on video
tape taking a bribe,
“Money talks and
TONY ANDERSEN
FAIR ELECTIONS OREGON
bullshit walks.
FairElections Ore
gon, a self-described
grassroots organiza
tion, is attempting to use Oregon’s referen
dum process to amend the state Constitution
in order to reform the state’s campaign fi
nance laws.
“This is about democracy,” said Liz Trojan,
treasurer for FairElections Oregon. “The per
son with the most money inevitably wins;
that’s a statistic.”
Tony Andersen, an intern for FairElections
Oregon and a Planning, Public Policy and
Management student at the University, said
that he was attracted to the cause because it
split across party lines. He also said he be
lieves in the cause.
“It’s essential for the democratic system to
be as fair as possible,” said Andersen.
REFORM page 3
IN BRIEF
Suspect in student's death held
by police after turning himself in
The lead suspect
related to University
student Phillip
Julian Gillins’ death
turned himself in Fri
day evening at about
7 p.m.
The Eugene Policed
Department issued afl
warrant tor tne i
arrest of Darrell DARRELL SKY WALKER
Sky Walker, 23, SUSPECT
of Orange Coun
try, Calif., on July 19, after Walker failed to
surrender to good faith agreements con
ducted in southern California on July 15.
Walker is being held on manslaughter and
felony assault charges.
Walker was identified as having a signifi
cant role in the incident after witness state
ments, tips and other evidence that were
gathered during the investigation of the
June 10 assault, which resulted in Gillins’
death. Gillins was supposed to graduate
from the University School of Journalism
and Communication the day after the as
sault.
Walker remains in custody at the Lane
County Jail pending trial, according to a
press release.
— Nicholas Wilbur