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Harassment: UO examines support system
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spoke with Lobetos’ parents on the
phone hours after receiving the e
mail, but they did not know more
than what was included in the e
mail, Martinez said.
Phone calls to Lobetos’ parents in
Hawaii were not returned.
Trips to Hawaii by top administra
tors are common because of the ex
tensive ties the University has with
the Hawaiian community, and the
University saw those ties an oppor
tunity to speak with anyone who
may have heard of Lobetos’ situa
tion and has questions about the
support services available at the
University, Martinez said.
“This wouldn’t be a reason or an
extra reason to go, but it clearly is
an opportunity to answer ques
tions,” Martinez said.
Kirk Koenig of the University ad
missions department e-mailed ca
reer and college guidance coun
selors in Hawaii a couple weeks ago
regarding the incident, said Linda
Liu, associate director of the Office
of Multicultural Academic Support.
The e-mail said the University ad
ministration was looking into the
situation and that “they want to
make sure that this type of thing
doesn’t happen anymore,” said Nel
son Chee, a career and college coun
selor at Castle High School in
Hawaii who received the message.
The University is examining the
support system in place on campus
to see how a student was able to
feel so unsafe that he felt it neces
sary to leave without first contact
ing any University officials or ac
cessing any support services,
Martinez said.
“We want to make sure we’re
making it easy for students to get
connected to support services when
they need it most,” Martinez said.
Members of the Hawaii Club re
ceived Lobetos’ parents’ e-mail dur
ing the first week of school after
they sent messages to Lobetos and
other Hawaiian freshmen inviting
them to the club’s first meeting of
the year.
Liu attended the club’s Oct. 15.
meeting to serve as a liaison be
tween the Hawaii Club and the ad
ministration, she said.
“My biggest role, really, is to let
students know that we’re here as a
support system for them,” Liu said.
“Unfortunately, it’s gotten out to
other communities that the Univer
sity may not be the safest place. ”
Interim Vice President for Student
Affairs and Director of University
Housing Mike Eyster sent an e-mail
Thursday to all students living in
the residence halls informing them
of the variety of support services
available to them and condemning
the racist acts reported to
the administration.
“As members of the University of
Oregon community we must have the
conviction and the courage to truly
treat one another the way we would
like to be treated,” Eyster wrote.
The Hawaii Club has a petition for
students to sign in support of Lobetos.
“I wish there could be someone
held responsible for what happened,
whether it be a student or housing,”
Hawaii Club Co-director and Universi
ty junior Lily Bender said.
Club co-Director and University
senior Nestor Ugale said it’s obvi
ous the University wants to do
something, but officials don’t know
what can be done.
Eyster said he would like to see
whoever was responsible for mak
ing the threats punished according
ly, but “we were unable to speak
with anyone in the building who
was aware of the problems the stu
dent had encountered.”
University Housing also held a
meeting Thursday in Carson Hall
with about 30 or 40 residence assis
tants and other students to discuss
the incident.
“The meeting ended with, I think,
a sense of commitment by everybody
in the room to work together and try
to prevent these kinds of things from
happening,” Eyster said.
Publicizing the extensive support
systems on campus, such as the Bias
Response Team and the Office of
Multicultural Academic Support, to
parents instead of just students is one
step Eyster would like to take to en
sure anyone who needs the services
are able to take advantage of them.
Students experience discrimination
on campus every day and do not get
the help they need, Ugale said.
“The only reason that the case is
getting so much attention is because
he went home,” Ugale said.
Ugale said there are serious holes
in multicultural and academic sup
port which must be filled.
“There are so many resources on
campus that he could have touched,
but it wasn’t readily available to
him,” Ugale said.
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RRC: Committee will review 36 programs
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ahead of time.”
Goward said he will hand out the
template at the next Programs Council
meeting, which is Nov. 3, the last day
of official hearings.
Assault Prevention Shuttle was one
of the two groups approved without
corrections or amendments.
During the APS hearing, group
co-Director Diana Erskine said
Goward personally brought in a
copy of the template after the by
laws were submitted.
Goward, a former APS employee
and current volunteer, said
he is contacting groups whose
bylaws are incomplete.
RRC member and Asian Pacific
American Student Union Chairman
Scott Lu said he wasn’t given the
ASUO bylaws template.
During the hearing, RRC members
spent much of their time looking over
programs’ documents. Goward said he
did not give RRC members the groups’
mission, goals and bylaws statements
until the day before the meeting. Two
of the four RRC representatives said
they had time only to “look over” the
programs’ documents.
Several RRC members questioned
the purpose of the hearings. Lu said he
didn’t know that program bylaws were
included in the hearing.
Representative Mike Filippelli
said he was unclear whether
“continued recognition” should be
granted if groups were asked to up
date or amend by laws.
Also at the hearing, Goward an
nounced RRC member Stephanie Car
riere resigned because she couldn’t
meet the time commitment.
The RRC hearings will continue on
Thursday and Friday evening at 7 p.m.
in the EMU Boardroom.
Contact the campus
and federal politics reporter at
nwilbur@dailyemerald.com
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problems for the nearly 2,500 current
Measure 37 claims and those that may
be filed soon.
Law professor Tom Lininger exam
ined the political aspects of the ruling.
Experts say appeals of the circuit
court ruling are likely. Facing a last
chance to file claims before the Oregon
Supreme Court eventually rules on the
issue, many potential claimants may
rush claims, Lininger said.
“The legacy of MacPherson may be
a spike in claims,” Lininger said.
He said he recently spoke with the
Lane County democratic chairwoman,
and she said the ruling may also have
an impact on the 2006 elections.
Law professor Keith Aoki said the
two sides of the land-use debate seem
like separate worlds, one supporting
absolute property rights and the other
supporting land-use planning.
Oiganizer and Sustainable Land Use
Planning Fellow Jonathan Evans said
he was pleased with the turnout, and
he hopes that discussions like this pro
mote community involvement in the
issue. More than 50 people attended
the discussion.
“There are more people here than
there are normally for my classes,”
Aoki said.
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at chagan@dailyemerald.com
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