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Since 1900 \ Volume 107, Issue 52 \ Friday, November 4, 2005
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Anticipating the aftermath
In the event of an emergency,
campus could become a center
of relief for Eugene community
BY KATY GAGNON
NEWS REPORTER
In late August the world watched as residents
of the Gulf Coast scrambled to escape the
devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.
In New Orleans, the Superdome and the
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, designated
to provide relief from a violent storm, became
shelters for people in need of supplies. Local and
federal governments could not communicate.
External aid didn’t arrive in the region for days.
A hurricane is unlikely to hit Eugene, but the
city is still susceptible to other disasters that may
leave the area in need of aid.
A major subduction zone earthquake could
affect regions from northern California to British
Columbia and it could be difficult for affected ar
eas to get outside aid, said Ray Weldon, a Uni
versity geology professor.
“Once a natural disaster exceeds a particular
size its impact on society changes dramatically,”
Weldon said. “This is what we saw in Katrina.”
Hurricane Katrina affected such a huge area
that “making decisions about who to help and
where to go and what
to do became a real
challenge for the
emergency man
agers,” he said.
The University cam
pus could become the
center of a relief effort
locally because a large
disaster would likely
send people to shelters
built on the University’s open spaces.
The city and University do have plans for an
emergency response. These plans come in the
form of the Incident Command System and the
National Incident Management System, both
nationally recognized models that establish who
is in charge during an emergency.
But as shown in New Orleans, a city familiar
with ICS and NIMS procedures, these programs
may not always be completely sufficient.
PART 3 OF 3
Wednesday: How pre
pared is Eugene for an
earthquake?
Thursday: What is the
city's flood plan?
Today: How can people
prepare for disasters?
Because of this, people are encouraged to
take proper precautions and prepare for a dis
aster, said Jenny Carrick, American Red Cross
community relations director for the Oregon
Pacific Chapter.
Carrick said every household should assem
ble an emergency kit equipped with enough crit
ical supplies to last 72 hours.
“You can not rely on the government to serve
the needs of every human being,” she said.
“That’s just a fact of life.”
Shelters on campus
In the event of disaster, rather than students
evacuating from campus, people will likely
come to campus in need of shelter, said Andre
LeDuc, program director for Oregon Natural
Hazards Workgroup.
Abundant open space is one of the greatest
assets the University could offer in emergency
situation, LeDuc said.
In the event of a major earthquake, more
than 10,000 people in Lane County could need
shelter, according to the Eugene Multi-Hazard
Mitigation Plan.
According to ONHW, the University has about
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WHAT WOULD YOU DO DURING A DISASTER?
Katrina Stearns
sophomore
JusnN Pearch
iunior
"We have a drawer in our apartment
dedicated to things we might need,
like matches and flashlights."
“I'd look for people. I wouldn't
want to stay at home.”
“I’d see family because they
have all the stuff.”
“I never think about
that. I think maybe the
school would take
care of us, like maybe
what we should do.
I’m not afraid."
Paul Skorniak
junior
Tong Shen
senior
Senate votes
to adopt
new model
for stipends
The financial outline, which
decreases the number of paid
student leaders, was accepted
BY NICHOLAS WILBUR
NEWS REPORTER
The Student Senate voted on Wednesday to
approve a new stipend model that decreases the
number of paid student group leaders after the
Programs Finance Committee tried to table the
proposal for one week because some groups
were dissatisfied with the model.
Senate Ombudsman and Programs Finance
Committee Chairman Jared Axelrod’s motion to
delay the issue failed after an extended debate be
tween the Senate, Executive and PFC members.
“I know for sure that the President’s office
won’t approve of it,” he said. “Even this model is
a little higher than what they’d like to see. ”
Axelrod said the model proposed Wednesday
night was unfair because it was an amendment
to the one he’d been working with for the past
several weeks.
He said the new stipend model not only
contained many errors that should be fixed
before implementing it, but also did not gen
erally win support from programs leaders and
PFC members.
“This is a grave issue that we’re dealing
with, and it’s going to affect a lot of groups,”
he said. “I think PFC can come up with some
thing different after crunching the numbers
on their own.”
Because the benchmark isn’t due until Nov. 9,
Multicultural Center co-Director Khanh Le asked
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Walsh new
chairman of
neighbor
association
West University Neighbors, with
new chairman, passes resolution
opposing sale of Westmoreland
BY CHRIS HAGAN
NEWS REPORTER
A new era began at the West University
Neighbors meeting Thursday night as ASUO
President Adam Walsh was elected chairman
and received a gift from outgoing chairman
Drix Rixmann.
“I pass this apple on to you,” Rixmann said, as
he passed an apple with leaves rubber-banded to
it to Walsh. “God bless you, buddy.”
Walsh, a former WUN board member, was
the only candidate for the position. Eight oth
er board members also ran unopposed and
were elected unanimously by the roughly 30
people, including many students, who attend
ed the meeting in downtown Eugene.
The WUN unanimously passed a resolution
WUN, page 3A