DPS issues trespass notice

to ASUO gadfly
Legendary gadfly and attendee of numerous ASUO meetings Bruce Miller was banned from campus Friday after the Department of Public Safety issued him a trespass notice because he was “being disruptive” in the ASUO Executive office, DPS Sgt. Lynn Brown said.
“He came to talk to the office about an issue he’s concerned with, and he was asked to leave several times,” he said.
When he didn’t leave, ASUO members called DPS, Brown said.
If Miller is sighted on campus again, DPS will charge him with trespassing, Brown said. If cited, he could be issued a ticket or arrested, said Eugene Police Department Spokeswoman Mandy Fox.
Fox said Miller would only be arrested if he was also cited “doing something against the law.”
ASUO Accounting Coordinator Jennifer Creighton, who was in the office when Miller showed up at 1:10 p.m., said Miller comes into the office “just about every day.” Friday he “accused students of not doing their work” in a manner “more boisterous than usual,” she said.
“He has a lot of concerns, some valid and some not,” she said. “It’s hard because he’s not our constituent. He’s not a staff member or a student.”
Though not a student, faculty or an employee of the University, Miller attends Programs Finance Committee, Student Senate and other University meetings and events. Lazar Makyadath, owner of Lazar’s Bazar, said Miller occasionally worked at Lazar’s Bazar handling local advertising, but he doesn’t remember when he started, and he isn’t currently working there.
“He comes as he pleases and leaves as he pleases,” Makyadath said.
Miller has also been sighted at Oregon State University. ASOSU President Justin Geddes said Miller attended the president’s fireside chat in mid-February and asked questions about the structure of their student government. Miller had with him numerous papers from the University of Oregon’s elections. As far as Geddes knows, that was the first time he’d visited OSU.

— Diane Huber