DPS releases annual

safety report
The Department of Public Safety recently released an annual report of campus safety and security programs and services in compliance with federal law.
DPS Interim Director Tom Hicks said the report is available, on request, to current and prospective University students and employees and is also available online at http://safetyweb.uoregon.edu/safety/crime_stats.htm.
The report has crime statistics for the past three years on crimes that occurred at the University in certain off-campus buildings owned or controlled by the University and on public property immediately adjacent to the University.
Institutional policies regarding matters such as drug and alcohol use, crime prevention and sexual assault are also included in the report.
For more information, contact DPS at 346-5444.

— Ali Shaughnessy

ASUO approves funding for students to attend ‘Creating Change’ conference

The ASUO Student Senate approved a $2,000 request Wednesday to enable seven students involved in the University’s gay community to attend a conference in Miami. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Educational and Support Services plans to send the students to the “Creating Change” conference.
ASUO Vice President Eddy Morales spoke in support of the proposal, which passed 15-0.
“Our University does not have the safe space for the conversations that will happen there,” Morales said early in the three-hour meeting.
The senate also narrowly denied a request for $5,385 from the Women’s Center to put on the “The Vagina Monologues,” a popular performance event. The senate considered loaning the money to the Women’s Center or allowing it to deficit spend, but the senators could not agree and the motion failed, 7-8.
“We don’t have to figure this out tonight,” Harding said. “We can take the week to look at this.”
The senate also delayed approving mission and goal statements for the Unitarian Universalist campus group, angering the group’s coordinator, Jandyra Dohofsky.
Senate President Ben Strawn said the senate needed more time to learn about mission and goal statements.
“We’ve never done it before,” Strawn said. “We don’t want to approve something that would be illegal.”
The senate also approved a $250 request from the Black Student Union and a $50 request from the African Student Association.

— Chuck Slothower