IN BRIEF
Valuable bicycle stolen
from Graduate Village
A specialized bicycle valued at
more than $2,000 was stolen from a
disabled graduate student earlier
this month.
Architecture student Julie Grant,
who lost the use of her legs in a car
accident eight years ago, noticed on
Oct. 21 that her silver Quickie Spirit
470 handcycle was missing. It was
the first time she had checked on
her bike since Oct. 9.
“I kept trying to tell myself that I
left it in Seattle,” she said. “Then I
saw pieces of the cable, and then I
knew for sure that it was gone.”
Grant used a chain Kryptonite
lock to secure her bicycle. When it
was stolen, the bike was parked
outside Graduate Village in a se
cured bicycle area that is only acces
sible by a resident’s key.
Grant filed a report with the De
partment of Public Safety and the
Eugene Police Department.
She is also checking advertise
ments on eBay and craigslist to see
whether the thief is trying to sell it.
Whoever stole it knew the bike’s
value, she said.Grant purchased the
bike two years ago using a settle
ment from her car accident. She
can’t afford to replace it.
She won three half-marathons
with the handcycle, but said she
won’t be able to compete without
the bike.
Grant said cardiovascular exercise
is very important to her health. Be
sides riding her handcycle, “There’s
no other way to get my heart rate
up,” she said.
Grant said the bike helped her so
cially, too.
“You can be out doing normal
things,” she said.
Anyone with information should
contact the Department of Public
Safety at 346-5444.
Katy Gagnon
JULIE GRANT, AN ARCHI
TECTURE MAJOR, NO
TICED LAST WEEK THAT
HER QUICKY SPIRIT 470
BIKE WAS STOLEN FROM
THE BIKE RACK AT
GRADUATE VILLAGE.
SHE SAID SHE RELIES
ON THE HANDCYCLE
FOR EXERCISE.
Courtesy
Community: Neighborhood residents disturbed by disruptive noise, crime
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The code is slated to sunset in
2008, when the city can decide to re
new it, scrap it or change the system.
Many residents at the meeting ex
pressed interest in expanding the
code to include other areas, such as
tenant cleanliness.
Brett Rowlett, who helped craft
the code as part of Eugene Citizens
for Housing Standards, said its scope
is limited right now because of the
previous problems of creating a com
plex housing code.
“In the past they tried to create so
complex a code that they couldn’t
find a compromise,” Rowlett said.
“We focused on habitability and on
the most basic needs of renters. ”
But Rowlett held open the possi
bility of expanding the code after the
sunset. Code enforcement inspector
Randy Sangder said members of the
housing code program will be study
ing the data that it generates and
looking for trends.
“We are in the process of docu
menting this as well,” Sangder said.
“The whole program will be re
viewed over the next three years.”
Rachelle Nicholas, code enforce
ment supervisor for the Eugene
Rental Housing Program, explained
to questioners that other ordinances
besides the new housing code cover
areas such as garbage pick-up.
“These issues can be addressed
through other codes,” Nicholas said.
“There are other means for you to
deal with that.”
Attendees also discussed what res
idents can do to control noise viola
tions and crime in the neighborhood,
two problems that many people
agreed are not improving.
Gary Kreger, a neighborhood resi
dent and operator of the McGarry
House bed and breakfast on 19th Av
enue, told stories of marauding
groups of students moving from par
ty to party.
“The weekend of the Washington
game I called the police all three
nights, and I was told the Party Patrol
was not available,” Kreger said.
“That did not feel good.”
Eugene police officers Chris White
and Dallas Hall told residents that
much of the problem has to do with
the understaffed police department.
“When we get a call we put them
in the order we receive them,” White
said, “but there are lots of them. ”
Hall said EPD is distributing fliers
on how to party safely and legally to
keg distributors, 7-Eleven stores and
other places in the community to let
people know the consequences.
Extra officers will be out for the
Halloween weekend, Hall said.
Walsh said there are many Univer
sity events planned for the weekend,
and the ASUO is distributing litera
ture to try to let people know how to
party responsibly.
“We are trying to let them know
what the repercussions are and how
to be safe,” Walsh said.
Residents were also concerned
about a perceived increase in crime,
especially car thefts. Officers and
some other residents were quick to
point out that thefts are not usually
perpetrated by students.
“Thieves we catch on campus are
almost universally drug addicts,”
White said.
Walsh agreed that students aren’t
the ones causing the thefts.
“Students will cause noise viola
tions, but a meth addict will
steal your things,” he said after
the meeting.
Walsh believes it’s important for
the University to reach out to the
surrounding communities to solve
these problems.
“The University borders these
neighborhoods, and if they’re having
a problem with students, we should
be here.”
Contact the city, state
politics reporter at
chagan@ daily emerald, com
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on other minorities is an attempt to
‘‘divide and conquer.”
“If you’re not black and you’ve
been discriminated against, you
know how it feels,” she said.
Taylor and Sifuentez emphasized
that affirmative action programs are
necessary because United States
society has not yet achieved
equal representation.
Babach Lau, a second-year law
student, agreed with his fellow pan
elists that discrimination still exists
and affirmative action programs
can be valuable, but he offered a
skeptical perspective throughout
the evening.
Lau said he was disappointed by
the results achieved so far by
affirmative action programs, adding
that the problem is greater than mi
nority access to employment and
college admissions.
“I wish I could see more
progress,” he said. “I think it is a lot
deeper than admissions; many mi
nority students come from under
funded education. ”
Penny Daugherty, director of the
Office of Affirmative Action, began
the evening by attempting to
debunk common myths about affir
mative action. She informed the
audience about affirmative action
law and University policy regarding
employment.
She said that affirmative action
law does not permit quotas. In
stead, employers can create goals of
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“A goal is a target that an employer
can reach given every good faith ef
fort,” she said.
Sharitha McKenzie, a senior who
attended the discussion, found
Daugherty’s explanation of the dif
ference between a goal and quota
interesting.
“I liked hearing about the legal ba
sis for affirmative action,” she said.
Mai Vang, co-director of the
OSCC, was pleased with the pan
elists but wished more students
would have attended.
She added that the program was
open to students from all political
viewpoints on affirmative action,
and the OSCC attempted to
find panelists who opposed
affirmative action.
“It was an open discussion,” she
said. “We did attempt to get the oth
er side, but we did attempt to keep
things on the positive side for affir
mative action.”
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