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LOCALLY BLOWN GLASS ART SCENE » SECTION B OREGON .COM DA I LY EMThe independent student newspaperE at theRAL University of Oregon | Since 1900 | VolumeD 111, Issue 80 THURSDAY | JANUARY 28, 2010 GLOBAL VIEWS BUSINESS ARIEL LISSMAN SPEAKS ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE AS AN ISRAELI SOLDIER TWITTER FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: Saying goodbye to the @DAILYEMERALD @ODESPORTS campus CRIME EPD arrests man charged bazaar with Rob Beard’s assault Frequented for smokes, pipes and wall decor, the Lazar’s Bazar campus location is closing its doors Eugene police said Wednesday they ar- rested the man they believe assaulted Oregon RaCHEL HatCH | NEWS REPORTER placekicker Rob Beard, 19, last weekend. he Web site for Lazar’s Ba- Police took Maurice Dion Peterson III, 20, zar on East 13th Avenue of Eugene, into custody Wednesday evening boasts itself as “the most on second-degree assault charges. unique retail store in the Pa- The beating Beard sustained early Sunday cific Northwest,” and it has was part of a larger fight police responded to certainly become one of the most unique shortly after 12:30 a.m. at East 17th Avenue Tstores on 13th Avenue between Kincaid and Hilyard Street. Police estimated between and Alder streets. 20 and 40 subjects were involved. But on Feb. 5, the shop will close Oregon placekicker Mike Bowlin was also for demolition. involved in the dispute, Lazar Makyadath, a Eugene resident and police reported both of 36 years, runs the store. football players were in- “Everybody on the street just calls me jured. Bowlin declined Mr. Lazar,” he said. medical treatment, police Makyadath grew up in New Delhi but said earlier, but Beard always wanted to come to the United was transported to Sacred MAURICE States. In 1974, he and his wife left India Heart Medical Center at DION RiverBend. PETERSON III and settled in Oregon. ASSAULT “I like everything about this The sophomore from SUSPECT town,” Makyadath said. “I fell in Fullerton, Calif., was list- love with this small city. I also like ed in critical condition Sunday, underwent it because there aren’t a lot of peo- facial reconstruction surgery this week and ple, unlike the big city where I’m is expected to make a full recovery. He was originally from.” no longer listed as a patient at the hospital Makyadath runs two other shops Wednesday night. in Eugene, a downtown Lazar’s Ba- EPD spokesperson Melinda Kletzok zar location and Shoe-A-Holic on said police could not provide any addi- Willamette Street. tional details regarding the arrest, citing an The campus location of Lazar’s active investigation. originally opened to accompany the Kletzok said Peterson’s charges are related neighboring shop Origin 79. Makya- only to Beard’s injuries and no other victims dath’s son Priya opened Origin 79 at this time. as a high-fashion clothing store, but — EMILY E. SMITH Makyadath said it closed because it CITY “wasn’t profitable.” NICK COTE | PHOTOGRAPHER “No college student has enough Lazar Makyadath, founder of Lazar’s Bazaar, will close his store branch on East 13th Avenue near campus on Feb. 5. His downtown TuRN TO LAZAR | PAGE 3A branch, along with Shoe-A-Holic, will remain open. Amendments STUDENT GOVERNMENT tighten Taser Senate votes down Pacifica Forum resolution use guidelines Resolution would have asked the Forum to leave campus; Temporary policy limits Taser heated debate stretches weekly meeting to five hours use in non-threatening cases; ALEX TOMCHAK SCOtt Oregon Student Public Interest Research NEWS REPORTER final policy still incomplete Group and others in support of open- After a long night of contentious de- source textbooks, free digital texts that JONatHAN MARX | NEWS REPORTER bate, the ASUO Senate voted down a res- professors can edit and change to suit olution Wednesday night that would have their classes. The Eugene Police Department’s in- asked the Pacific Forum to leave cam- OSPIRG campaign leader Maneesh terim Taser use policy, released and im- pus. The vote was seven for, 11 against, Arora spoke in favor of the resolution, plemented on Monday, restricts officers one abstaining. saying his group was already making ef- from using the stun guns unless a subject Because the meeting ended after forts to find the right open textbooks for is thought to pose a threat of physical midnight, the Emerald’s press deadline University professors to use instead of injury to the officer. interfered with further coverage. high-priced textbooks. The newly modified version of Policy The Senate also voted at its week- After encouraging words from the 309, the official title of the EPD’s Taser poli- ly meeting to support a measure University bookstore at its last meeting, cy, will remain in effect until the final policy aimed at giving professors lower-cost the Senate did not discuss the resolution, is complete in the coming months. EPD options for textbooks. voting to pass it unanimously with 17 spokesperson Melinda Kletzok said last The vote was on a resolution passed votes in support and none against. IVAR VONG | PHOTO EDITOR week that the final policy could be complete unanimously with little discussion. Arora said the resolution will affect Pacifica Forum protestors spoke Wednesday evening in support of the Senate’s as early as February. The resolution supported efforts by the TuRN TO ASUO | PAGE 3A resolution asking the Forum to leave campus. TuRN TO tasER | PAGE 3A TODAY FRIDAY SATURDAY EDITORIAL BOARD Allie Grasgreen | Editor in chief Emily E. Smith | Managing editor (541) 346-5511 Greg Dewar | Opinion editor CLOUDY SHOWErs RAIN Kaitlin Kenny | Senior copy chief [email protected] 54º/43º 52º/44º 51º/38º OPINION TALK TO US • Limit submissions to 600 words • Submissions should include name, phone number and address • The Emerald reser ves the right to edit all submissions • One submission per person per calendar month NEWS STAFF (541) 346-5511 IN MY OPINION | GrEG DEWAR ALLIE GRASGREEN Editor in chief EMILY E. SMITH Managing editor CJ CIARAMELLA IPad? I won’T drink the kool-aid RACHEL HATCH JONATHAN MARX ALEX TOMCHAK SCOTT Apple has finally unveiled its tablet, but why should faces up. I was still fazed by the name. Perhaps a more Make no mistake, however — the iPad is not a desktop News reporters you care? fitting moniker than the utterly dull iPad could have been or even a laptop replacement, it has a specific set of goals LAUREN FOX Apple is about as responsible in the computing world as drummed up, which depending on your accent could and abilities: Mac is not cannibalizing its market by com- Scene and freelance editor a fat kid is in a candy store. sound a lot like “iPod.” Good thing I only know one guy peting with its regular line of computers. You are afforded MARIA BAUM All ye whose faith wavers, bow down before the almighty from Massachusetts. less ability than either a Macbook or an iPhone; it is nei- ANDREW HITZ Apple: it has released a giant iPhone. My vision of the future includes an iPad sitting on a desk, ther a phone nor does it possess all of the capabilities of a KALIE WOODEN Impressed? I wasn’t. Despite the fact that consumers propped up by an OSX book: Its permanent home as a 9.7- computer. iPads come sans-USB and Firewire Ports and Scene reporters time and again reject things that are big and bulky, Mac inch digital photo frame replete with a can only have a maximum of 64GB of solid state storage, BEN SCHORZMAN now tests the faithful to see just how much bulk they’ll buy. steaming cup of buyer’s regret. which thus far has proven an industry flop. The fact that it Sports editor Don’t get me wrong, it’s a solid marketing move. The “Ma- Shifting gears for a moment, perhaps has an LED screen and sells for the original price of the iP- LUCAS CLARK communists,” as I like to call them and a term some of them what’s more alarming is Jobs’ attempt to hone seems to speak well to Apple’s marketing department. ROBERT HUSSEMAN PATRICK MALEE have coined for themselves, will essentially eat whatever woo the old print media dinosaurs the same They’re trying to create a market somewhere between a Sports reporters Steve Jobs puts on a plate. And with such a clever name as way he wooed the music industry. In the laptop and iPhone, and I just don’t think it exists. GREG DEWAR “iPad,” who wouldn’t? Steak, rat poison, something more end, he ended up controlling the individual I’m not a bigot; it’s just that for so long in the computer colorful, you get the idea. If I had a loyal userbase of peo- pricing of songs, and the concept of the al- industry Macs have been the running joke: Simple com- Opinion editor FILE NOT SHELLEY DEADMOND ple who would buy whatever I wanted them to, basically, I FOUND bum was forced right out the window. Yet puters that can’t do a whole lot and disable the end-user TYREE HARRIS would milk them dry. this is the one thing I will credit Jobs for: the purposefully. Putting a UNIX core in OSX helped, but GRACE PETTYGROVE Tablet PCs may have existed for a decade, but how music industry no longer has to worry about file sharing and Mac’s idea of innovation never seems to be to allow you to Opinion writers many of them have you actually seen outside of an artist’s constantly declining sales profits. do more, only allow you to do it in a different way, which, EDWIN OUELLETTE studio? The idea here is to bring it to the people, replete Perhaps in this same model, as a benevolent benefactor, coincidentally, is a basic extrapolation of its former slogan.