Student 'sits in' for ASUO summer Senator
The committee heard requests from the ASUO
multiculural advocate and the Womens Center
BY NICHOLAS WILBUR
NEWS REPORTER
The Senate Summer Committee
held its third meeting Wednesday in
the Alsea Room of the EMU. Sena
tors in attendance included Sara
Hamilton, Reynier Heyden, Monica
Irvin, Tyrel Love and Jessica Nair of
the Summer Committee as well as
Mike Filippelli, who is not on
Summer Committee.
Spencer Crum was absent, but an
old roommate, Kyle Baisch, signed in
as the missing senator. Finance Coor
dinator and former senate Treasurer
Nicholas Hudson said Crum will still
not be counted as in attendance for
having someone sit in for him, but
that it shows some initiative on his
part to designate someone to come
and take notes.
Crum later said in a phone
interview that he did not tell Baisch
to take notes, “I told him to be
Spencer Crum.”
“If there is something to be voted
on, vote how I would because we
think alike,” Crum said he told
Baisch. He also said ASUO President
Adam Walsh told him that making
quorum was all that was important.
Walsh was unavailable for comment.
Crum regretted not attending the
meeting, but said “there’s no possible
way for me to get down there at those
times. They made it sound flexible
when I signed up (for Summer Com
mittee), but it’s really not,” Crum said.
The first item on the agenda for
senate was to hear a special request
from the new ASUO Multicultural
Advocate Ty Schwoeffermann. Al
though his request form was sub
mitted the day of the meeting, in
stead of the five days advance
required by the ASUO Greentape
Notebook, Senator Filippelli’s signa
ture made the request legitimate.
Schwoeffermann requested $1,757
to be allocated to Weaving New Be
ginnings for the food, drinks and
catering of an October event.
ASUO, page 12
At Wednesday's summer senate meeting Ty Schwoeffermann, the ASUO multicultural advocate, requested money to fund a
multi-cultural event scheduled for fall term.
IN BRIEF
Mother, daughter deployed
to serve in National Guard
SALEM, Ore. — Sgt. 1st Class
Brenda Berrios and Sgt. Karissa
Smith never leave home without
their beauty products, not even when
the mother and daughter are bound
for Kuwait, as part of their deploy
ment with a Salem-based Oregon Na
tional Guard unit.
“We’re girls’ girls,” said daughter
Smith, 24.
“We always put makeup on and do
our hair,” her mother, 43, added.
Oregon National Guard officials are
unaware of another mother-daughter
team that has deployed together.
“You hear stories about husbands
and wives or brothers going together,
but I personally have never heard of
mother and daughter going,” said
Capt. Mike Braibish, a spokesman for
the Guard.
Steve Berrios, Brenda Berrios’
husband and Smith’s stepfather,
who spent 20 years in the Army,
shook his head when he heard the
women talk about the brightly col
ored bedsheets they are taking with
them to the combat zone.
“When I was in the service, I was
thinking, ‘get a blanket and go,”’
he said.
But his wife has packed a snazzy
set of pink and purple sheets, to re
mind her of home.
The two are headed to a U.S. mili
tary base in Kuwait, where U.S. sol
diers are processed to and from the
theater of war.
Neither imagined they would be
deploying together. Berrios originally
didn’t think she was eligible, and
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after Smith volunteered for deploy
ment, Berrios received news that she
had been cleared to go.
They will be gone for at least a
year, a long time given that most mil
itary families deal with the departure
of only a single loved one.
“It’s a little more comforting that
they are not going to Iraq or
Afghanistan,” said Doug Beddor,
Berrios’ father and Smith’s grandfa
ther. “But you never know.”
Their 47-soldier company
will spend 70 days at Fort Bliss,
Texas, where they will undergo
combat training required for all
deploying soldiers.
Once in Kuwait, the company’s
mission will be tracking
soldiers’ records, including
promotions, insurance forms and
emergency notifications.
As much as they will miss
family and friends, both women
said they are excited about the
adventure ahead.
“It’ll be great years from now,”
Smith said. “She’ll talk to her grand
kids and say, ‘Your mom and I were
deployed.’ And we’ll brag about who
saw the first camel spider.”
Police search for man
who escaped from jail
THE DALLES, Ore. — Police
are searching for a man who es
caped from the Northern Oregon
Corrections facility in The Dalles
Tuesday afternoon.
Springfield resident James Edward
Anderson, 35, was arrested in Hood
River County on July 17, and is fac
ing charges of theft, resisting arrest
and assaulting a public safety officer.
Officials first learned of his escape
when two women arriving at the jail
to visit another inmate said they had
spotted a man jumping off the
prison’s roof.
Jail Commander Capt. Larry
Lindhorst said Anderson apparently
cut through a plasterboard ceiling,
got into a crawl space above the
ceiling, then pushed out an air vent
to get on the roof. He was last seen
heading toward some nearby
railroad tracks.
Anderson is the third person to
have escaped from the jail since it
opened in October of 1999.
While one of the previous es
capees made it no further than
across the street, the other one, an
Immigration and Naturalization Ser
vices detainee, has never been lo
cated, Lindhorst said.
Anderson is a white male with
brown hair and brown eyes, weighs
approximately 195 pounds and is
six feet tall. He is also a registered
sex offender.
—The Associated Press
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