A4 The BulleTin • Friday, March 5, 2021
TODAY
Today is Friday, March 5, the 64th
day of 2021. There are 301 days
left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On March 5, 1953, Soviet dicta-
tor Josef Stalin died after three
decades in power.
In 1770, the Boston Massacre
took place as British soldiers
who’d been taunted by a crowd
of colonists opened fire, killing
five people.
In 1868, the impeachment trial
of President Andrew Johnson
began in the U.S. Senate, with
Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase
presiding. Johnson, the first U.S.
president to be impeached, was
accused of “high crimes and mis-
demeanors” stemming from his
attempt to fire Secretary of War
Edwin M. Stanton; the trial end-
ed on May 26 with his acquittal.
In 1927, “The Adventure of Shos-
combe Old Place,” the last Sher-
lock Holmes story by Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, was published in
the U.S. in Liberty Magazine.
In 1933, in German parliamenta-
ry elections, the Nazi Party won
44 percent of the vote; the Nazis
joined with a conservative na-
tionalist party to gain a slender
majority in the Reichstag.
In 1946, Winston Churchill deliv-
ered his “Iron Curtain” speech at
Westminster College in Missouri.
In 1960, Elvis Presley was dis-
charged from the U.S. Army.
In 1977, President Jimmy Carter
took questions from 42 tele-
phone callers in 26 states on a
network radio call-in program
moderated by Walter Cronkite.
In 1982, comedian John Belushi
was found dead of a drug over-
dose in a rented bungalow in
Hollywood; he was 33.
In 1998, NASA scientists said
enough water was frozen in the
loose soil of the moon to sup-
port a lunar base and perhaps,
one day, a human colony.
In 2003, in a blunt warning to
the United States and Britain, the
foreign ministers of France, Ger-
many and Russia said they would
block any attempt to get U.N.
approval for war against Iraq.
Ten years ago: Egyptians
turned their anger toward oust-
ed President Hosni Mubarak’s
internal security apparatus,
storming the agency’s main
headquarters and other offices.
Five years ago: Ray Tomlinson,
74, inventor of person-to-person
email, died in Massachusetts.
One year ago: Officials ordered
a cruise ship with 3,500 people
aboard to stay back from the Cal-
ifornia coast until passengers and
crew could be tested. The Senate
passed and sent to the White
House an $8.3 billion measure to
help tackle the coronavirus.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Paul
Sand is 89. Actor James B. Sikking
is 87. Actor Dean Stockwell is 85.
Actor Fred Williamson is 83. Actor
Samantha Eggar is 82. Actor
Michael Warren is 75. Actor Eddie
Hodges is 74. Singer Eddy Grant
is 73. . Actor-comedian Marsha
Warfield is 67. Magician Penn Jil-
lette is 66. Actor Adriana Barraza
is 65. Actor Talia Balsam is 62. Pro
Football Hall of Famer Michael
Irvin is 55. Rock musician John
Frusciante is 51. Singer Rome is
51. Actor Kevin Connolly is 47.
Actor Eva Mendes is 47. Actor Jill
Ritchie is 47. Actor Jolene Blalock
is 46. Model Niki Taylor is 46.
Actor Kimberly McCullough is 43.
Actor Karolina Wydra is 40. Sing-
er-songwriter Amanda Shires is
39. Actor Dominique McElligott is
35. Actor Sterling Knight is 32. Ac-
tor Jake Lloyd is 32. Actor Micah
Fowler is 23.
— Associated Press
STATE, NATION & WORLD
By slim of margin,
Senate takes up
$1.9T relief bill
BY ALAN FRAM
The Associated Press
Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian
More than 100 people affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University gathered in front of Mackenzie Hall
Wednesday to rally in support of survivors of sexual harassment and assault.
OHSU professors and students
protest to support social worker
BY MAXINE BERNSTEIN
The Oregonian
About 100 people gathered
Wednesday outside OHSU’s
administrative offices and
chanted, “We believe you!” in
support of the woman who has
filed a harassment and sexual
assault complaint against a for-
mer resident who became an
internet star as the TikTok Doc.
Doctors, professors, phar-
macists, radiologists, medical
students and other employees
called for a cultural change in
how leaders at Oregon Health
& Science University respond
to sexual misconduct allega-
tions on campus.
Sue A. Aicher, a 20-year pro-
fessor of chemistry physiology
and biology who organized
the gathering, said she was dis-
turbed to read that several fac-
ulty in the medical school were
told of the woman’s allegations
against Dr. Jason Campbell but
never reported them to univer-
sity officials for investigation.
A social worker at the Vet-
eran Affairs Medical Center
adjacent to OHSU formally re-
ported her allegations against
Campbell to the university in
April.
OHSU then conducted an
investigation and its equal op-
portunity officers found in Au-
gust that Campbell had forc-
ibly pushed his body against
the woman in her office after
sending her unwelcome and
inappropriate messages via text
and social media between Jan-
uary and March last year. The
OHSU inquiry found Camp-
bell had sent a picture of his
erection through scrub pants to
the woman.
The social worker filed a
federal sexual assault lawsuit
against Campbell and OSHU
on Feb. 26 seeking $45 million.
Campbell resigned in lieu
of a dismissal hearing on Oct.
23 , according to a university
spokeswoman. He appears to
have left under a nondisclo-
sure separation agreement, ac-
cording to information a law-
yer for Campbell shared with
the plaintiff’s lawyers, Michael
Fuller and Kim Sordyl. Camp-
bell has denied any liability
through a lawyer who repre-
sented him for one day.
Campbell got a job at the
University of Florida’s teaching
hospital, but Florida officials
put him on leave after learning
of the sexual misconduct alle-
gations.
Demonstrator ordered to
pay for chalking sidewalk
The Associated Press
MEDFORD — An Ashland
woman was ordered to pay
almost $500 for her role in a
downtown Medford demon-
stration that involved tempo-
rary sidewalk chalk.
A Jackson County judge
sided with a Medford Munici-
pal Court ruling last week, rul-
ing that $493.04 was a reason-
able amount for Teresa Safay to
pay for cleaning up spray chalk
on the sidewalk outside former
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden’s office
in 2019, The Mail Tribune re-
ported.
Safay was among demon-
strators who gathered outside
Walden’s office and wrote mes-
sages in chalk urging the him to
vote to impeach then-President
Donald Trump, according to a
ruling filed Feb. 26 in Jackson
County Circuit Court.
Safay was later cited for “de-
facing streets or sidewalks”
by purchasing spray sidewalk
chalk and distributing it to
other demonstrators during the
demonstration.
Safay’s lawyer, Lauren Re-
gan of the Civil Liberties De-
fense Center in Eugene, sought
to have the citation dismissed,
arguing Safay specifically used
a sidewalk chalk designed to
be temporary and argued the
code was “intended to apply to
permanent or semi-permanent
marks.”
In December, Jackson
County Circuit Court Judge
Lorenzo Mejia found Safay
guilty of the code violation.
In his ruling, Mejia said the
spray container had the mes-
sage, “Durable spray lasts up to
seven days” and found it was
semi-permanent enough to
come under the prohibition of
the code.
A person spent seven hours at
$50 per hour to clean up about
three car lengths of sidewalk
chalk, according to court filings.
Safay’s lawyer then disputed
the $493.04 restitution amount
for the cleanup saying the build-
ing overpaid the contractor, and
that the contractor didn’t follow
instructions on the cleaning
product.
In February, Mejia ruled that
the $493.04 restitution amount
was reasonable, saying the con-
tractor’s job “was made much
more difficult by the fact that he
did not know what substance
had been sprayed on the side-
walk.”
Court records showed
Wednesday that Safay had paid
all fines and fees in the case.
WASHINGTON — The
Senate voted by the slimmest
of margins Thursday to be-
gin debating a $1.9 trillion
COVID-19 relief bill, after
Democrats made 11th-hour
changes aimed at ensuring
they could pull President Joe
Biden’s top legislative priority
through the precariously di-
vided chamber.
Democrats were hoping
for Senate approval of the
package before next week,
in time for the House to sign
off and get the measure to
Biden quickly. They were en-
countering opposition from
Republicans arguing that the
measure’s massive price tag
ignored promising signs that
the pandemic and wounded
economy were turning
around.
Democratic leaders made
over a dozen late additions to
their package, reflecting their
need to cement unanimous
support from all their sen-
ators — plus Vice President
Kamala Harris’ tie-break-
ing vote — to succeed in the
50-50 chamber. It’s widely
expected the Senate will ap-
prove the bill and the House
will whisk it to Biden for his
signature by mid-March,
handing him a crucial early
legislative victory.
The Senate’s 51-50 vote to
start debating the package,
with Harris pushing Dem-
ocrats over the top, under-
scored how they were navi-
gating the package through
Congress with virtually
no margin for error. In the
House their majority is a
scrawny 10 votes.
The bill, aimed at battling
the killer virus and nursing
the staggered economy back
to health, will provide direct
payments of up to $1,400 to
most Americans. There’s also
money for COVID-19 vac-
cines and testing, aid to state
and local governments, help
for schools and the airline
industry, tax breaks for low-
er-earners and families with
children, and subsidies for
health insurance.
“We are not going to be
timid in the face of a great
challenge,” said Senate Major-
ity Leader Chuck Schumer,
D-N.Y.
The new provisions offered
items appealing to all manner
of Democrats. Progressives
got money boosting feeding
programs, federal subsidies
for health care for workers
who lose jobs, tax-free student
loans, and money for public
broadcasting and consumer
protection investigations.
Moderates won funds for
rural health care, language as-
suring minimum amounts of
money for smaller states and
a prohibition on states receiv-
ing aid using the windfalls to
cut taxes. And for everyone,
there was money for infra-
structure, cultural venues,
startup companies and after-
school programs.
Even with the late revisions,
there was a good chance law-
makers will make yet another
one and vote to pare back the
bill’s $400 weekly emergency
unemployment benefits to
$300.
That potential change
could also extend those emer-
gency payments another
month, through September. It
was described by aides and a
lobbyist who spoke on condi-
tion of anonymity to describe
internal conversations.
Quake hits off New Zealand,
prompting evacuations
BY NICK PERRY
The Associated Press
WELLINGTON, New
Zealand — One of the biggest
earthquakes to hit the South
Pacific in modern history
forced thousands of people in
New Zealand to evacuate and
triggered tsunami warnings
across the world Friday, but it
did not appear to cause inju-
ries or major damage because
it struck in remote ocean.
The magnitude 8.1 quake
was the largest in a series of
tremors that hit the region
over several hours, including
two earlier quakes that reg-
istered magnitude 7.4 and
magnitude 7.3.
The earthquakes triggered
warning systems and caused
traffic jams and some chaos
in New Zealand as people
scrambled to get to higher
ground, but their remoteness
meant they did not appear to
pose a widespread threat to
lives or infrastructure.
The largest quake struck
about 620 miles off the coast
of New Zealand. One of
the earlier quakes hit much
closer to New Zealand and
awoke many people as they
felt a long, rumbling shaking.