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Ducks secure bowl eligibility I 9 Oregon Daily Emerald An independent newspaper at the University of Oregon www.dailyemera.ld. com Since 1900 | Volume 107, Issue 38 \ Monday, October 17, 2005 mmittee the 2008 (M.CUN1FF yward Field’s ipic Track and The USA Track & Field site selection com mittee chose Eugene over 2000 and 2004 host Sacramento late Friday night. The trials take place from June 27 through July 6. 2008 and Games in Beijing. This will be Hayward's fourth time hosting the trials, the last being in 1980. * “We are ecstatic yet humbled by this rack Club President Greg Erwin, a former University determine athletes vi United States track and field ipete at the 2008 Olympic distance runner, said in a news release. The Oregon Track Club submitted the bid for the trials with the help of Northwest Event Management and the University Athletics De partment. USA Track & Field estimates the event will bring more than 1,000 athletes, 500 coaches, 1,000 media representatives and $20 million to the Eugene area. “It’s certainly an effort — needless to say — that’s going to be more widespread than the HAYWARD FIELD, page 5 Parker Howell | Editor in Chief Constitution Court will review RRC . *»«i§ .t'”, Tim Bobosky | Photo editor At the Programs Council meeting, David Goward, the Recognition Review Committee chairman, answers questions about how the new organization will affect student groups. Recognition Review Committee's inspection of student groups' loyalty to policies under scrutiny BY NICHOLAS WILBUR NEWS REPORTER Student government’s Recog nition Review Committee, which ensures student programs meet ASUO and University standards, is facing a review by the Consti tution Court that will decide whether the new committee is constitutional. The new committee is generat ing praise from some student groups while also raising ques tions about the committee’s power and legality from others. RRC will decide whether stu dent groups’ mission and goal statements meet standards and whether those groups are follow ing those statements. Approved groups are allowed entrance into the Programs Finance Committee hearings, where incidental fees are allocated. Charlotte Nisser, general man ager of campus radio station KWVA and Constitution Court justice, said last week that the court is reviewing and discussing the duties and procedures of the Recognition Review Committee. The court has the authority to re view the committee because the Green Tape Notebook, a book of rules and guidelines for student government, requires that it ap proves new policies, she said. The committee must be ap proved before it can make a decision. “I can tell you there will be a decision in the next week,” she said. David Goward, programs ad ministrator and chairman of the ASUO’s RRC, circulated a memo at Friday’s Programs Council meeting with “important clarifi cations and explanations” about the new committee. The memo was mainly in response to student groups’ concerns about losing funding through the RRC process. Last year, PFC, which will continue to review mission and goals statements after RRC, twice attempted to defund the Oregon Commentator, a liber tarian opinion journal, by deny ing its mission and goals. Some PFC members felt the journal propagated hate speech and wasn’t advantageous to stu dents or University diversity. Goward’s memo stated that RRC does not decide which pro grams are “worthy of funding”; it only decides whether a program is “worthy of ASUO recognition.” Programs that aren’t recog nized can’t receive funding. “We can unrecognize a group, which means they aren’t eligible to go through the PFC process, and if they cannot go through the RRC, page 7 Fictitious researcher harasses students The Department of Psychology has altered its research methods to thwart a fraudulent caller BY EVA SYLWESTER SENIOR NEWS REPORTER In the last two weeks, five University students have reported receiving phone calls from some one impersonating a psychological researcher, causing the psychology department to implement new procedures for its researchers who contact study participants by telephone. Under the new procedures, if a researcher wants to contact a prospective study participant by phone, he or she must e-mail the student one day in advance. These e-mail messages contain experiment protocol numbers, which callers must be prepared to verify. The numbers can also be verified at the psychology department office in 131 Straub Hall. “We took it pretty seriously,” said acting psy chology department head Lou Moses. “We want ed to set some procedures in place that would help students distinguish between the real and the phony ones.” While details vary in the five student reports. Human Subjects Coordinator Lisa Cromer said common tricks of the “mystery caller” include keeping people on the line for up to 40 minutes, CALLER, page 6 Measure addresses complaints on police A special election will decide whether an outside auditor is needed to review claims BY CHRIS HAGAN NEWS REPORTER The City of Eugene will mail voters’ pam phlets today for a special election that could al low an independent auditor to evaluate com plaints against the Eugene Police Department. The measure is the result of recommenda tions made to the council by the Eugene Po lice Commission. The commission spent 15 months studying the police department after police officers Roger Eugene Magana and Juan Francisco Lara were arrested for sexually abusing more than a dozen women. The two were convicted in 2004. Measure 20-106 would amend the city char ter so that the city council appoints an audi tor and a civilian review board of no more than seven to oversee the police department’s response to complaints. The civilian review board would monitor the auditor and review closed cases. It would also have the ability to EPD, page 4