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Volunteers
Wanted!
Duck Preview is a visitation day for high school seniors who are
interested in the University of Oregon. Its success depends on
volunteer support from you... current UO students!
Duck Preview 2005
Sunday, November 6
Volunteering at Duck Preview
is a great way to:
• Get involved on campus
• Meet other students
• Get better acquainted
with the university
• Help prospective students
• Share your Duck experiences
with visitors
There will be two training sessions
to choose from:
• Monday, October 24 at 5:00 p.m.
in 461 Oregon Hall
OR
• Wednesday, October 26
at 5:00 p.m. in 461 Oregon Hall
023393
Contact the Ambassador Program by phone at
346-1274 or by e-mail at ambass@uoregon.edu
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
Caller: New policies aim to
protect students from fraud
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asking inappropriate personal ques
tions, offering to pay people $400 or
$500 for a two-hour study and calling
as late as 11:30 p.m.
In one call, the caller identified his
supervisor as Dr. Suiter, Cromer said.
There is no Dr. Suiter in the University
psychology department or in any other
department at the University.
“It’s very hard to figure out what the
person’s motivation would be in doing
this,” Moses said.
Legitimate researchers never call
late at night or pay study partici
pants more than $7 to $10 per hour,
Cromer said.
Cromer said most of the affected
students are not psychology majors, al
though they are mostly female.
“It’s not just a psychology prob
lem,” Cromer said. “It’s a campus
wide problem.”
All psychology faculty, as well as
graduate and undergraduate students
who perform research under the su
pervision of faculty members, have
been informed of the situation.
“People are kind of surprised and
disturbed that this is going on,”
Moses said. “It’s a disturbing thing
for the students who are receiving
these calls, and it has the potential
to negatively affect the legitimate re
search that’s actually going on in
the psychology department.”
One relief for the department,
Cromer said, was that the caller does
not seem to have infiltrated the securi
ty of the Human Subjects Pool Web
site, which students in psychology and
linguistics classes use to sign up to par
ticipate in studies for class credit.
“He seems to be using the phone
book, basically,” Cromer said.
The psychology department dealt
with similar difficulties in April when
a man was arrested for impersonating
a psychology professor. Moses said the
man derailed a student’s graduation
plan by promising her she could do
her honors research project in his non
existent lab.
Despite that, Moses said incidents
like this have not happened before
during his 13 years with the
psychology department.
“Very likely, it’s just a random oc
currence,” Moses said.
Cromer dismissed the possibility
that the calls could be perpetrated
by someone inside the psychology
department because of the caller’s
transparent tactics and ignorance of
department policies.
“Is it a research assistant having
some fun? I think that’s highly improb
able,” Cromer said.
The Institutional Review Board
must approve even/ study involving
human subjects that takes place at
the University. Juliana Kyrk, Institu
tional Review Board program officer
for the Office for the Protection of
Human Subjects, said that about
one third of the University’s studies
involving human subjects come
from the psychology department.
Other departments conducting
studies with human subjects in
clude political science, human phys
iology, anthropology, geography
and the College of Education.
Kyrk said all study participants must
be told the following before they par
ticipate: who is doing the research,
what the research involves, how long
the study will last, how confidentiality
will be maintained, who to contact
with questions about the study, the
rights provided by the Institutional Re
view Board, that participation in the
study is voluntary and that they may
refuse to participate in the study.
“It must be voluntary and noncoer
cive,” Kyrk said. “The participant al
ways has the right to discontinue par
ticipation at any time.”
Cromer said that if a student who is
not currently enrolled in classes that
are part of the Human Subjects Pool or
if that student has not signed up to par
ticipate in one of the paid psychologi
cal studies advertised in campus loca
tions receives a phone call about a
psychological study, he or she is proba
bly being contacted in error. She rec
ommended requesting the caller’s
phone number and calling back the
next day to ensure that the study is le
gitimate. Moses also recommended
writing down anything that appears on
a phone’s caller ID.
Moses said any students receiving
phone calls that sound inappropriate
from someone posing as a psycholog
ical researcher should contact him
(346-4918 or moses@uoregon.edu)
or the Department of Public Safety
(346-6666).
Contact the business, science and
technology reporter at
esylwester@dctilyemerald.com
Gay rights activists
target House speaker
TROUTDALE, Ore. — This quiet,
tourism-oriented town east of Portland
could become a battleground as gay
rights activists prepare a campaign to
a topple a Republican legislative leader
who thwarted a move to allow civil
unions for same-sex couples.
Ttoutdale is in the heart of the dis
trict represented by GOP House Speak
er Karen Minnis, who enraged gay
rights backers this summer by refusing
to let the House vote on a civil unions
bill that had been passed by the state
Senate with the blessing of the Democ
ratic governor.
State and national gay rights groups
are targeting Minnis for defeat in 2006
as part of an effort to elect more gay
friendly legislators and defeat lawmak
ers who have opposed giving more
rights to gays and lesbians.
A spokesman for a national gay
rights group in Washington, D.C., said
Oregon is one of several states where
bills to provide more rights to gays and
lesbians have faltered and where ac
tivists will work to defeat lawmakers
who stood in the way of the measures.
“There are a handful of states
where a change in a couple of seats
could make a big difference,” said
David Smith of the Human Rights
Campaign. “And you could choose
no finer example of that than House
Speaker Karen Minnis. ”
The civil unions controversy is the
latest chapter in Oregon’s gay marriage
debate that began in early 2004, when
Multnomah County issued marriage li
censes to 3,000 same-sex couples be
fore a judge ordered the county to stop.
Last fall Oregon voters approved a con
stitutional ban on gay marriage.
Minnis knows she’s in for a tough
re-election fight because of her stand
against the civil unions bill that would
have allowed same-sex couples to gain
most of the benefits of marriage.
“They’re coming after me,” she said
during an interview in Troutdale. “I
think they are going to attack me per
sonally at every given turn. ”
At least on paper, Minnis appears to
be vulnerable to a concerted, well
funded effort by gay rights groups.
Democrats hold an eight percent
voter registration edge in Minnis’
House district in eastern Multnomah
County. And Democrat Rob Brading,
who lost to Minnis by six percentage
points in 2004, plans to run against her
again next year in what promises to be
a higher profile race.
—The Associated Press