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(Sarah Northrop) BY GINA SCALPONE • TWITTER GINASCALPONE e University of Oregon Police Department according to the clery log. drop in registration to fewer people going out of responded to 700 crimes during winter term, e decrease came mostly from bike and bike town for spring break than for winter break and a according to the UOPD clery log. part thefts, which decreased 72 percent, from 53 lower level of concern. at’s up from 678 reported crimes during fall incidents of bike or bike part theft in fall term For spring break, UOPD partnered with the term, but 56 were reported to the Offi ce of the Dean to just 15 in winter term. Campus Geographic Information System and of Students at the end of fall term. Another 17 of the “ ere is a greater utilization of bikes during fall Mapping Program to build an intake system to crimes reported during winter term were reports by and spring,” said McIver. “ at translates into fewer improve communication between students and the Title IX coordinator that took place during fall thefts [in winter term].” offi cers. is is meant to help students and their term and over the summer. McIver added that there’s a learning curve to bike roommates remember and use the vacation UOPD didn’t identify any new trends in crime theft prevention for students. “ ey absorb it more watch program. “People who signed up wouldn’t over the course of winter term, UOPD spokesperson over the course of fall term,” he said. always remember,” said McIver. Kelly McIver said. DUII arrests and tickets increased 150 percent, from McIver said the program is a deterrent to e majority of the clery log entries, 462 of them, six in fall term to 15 in winter term. Ten of those DUIIs property crime. “I think it’s something the chief will were low-level alcohol and drug violations that were led to arrests in winter term, up from fi ve in the fall. want to bring back,” he said. reported but otherwise handled by the Offi ce of the UOPD uses federal grant money for dedicated DUII Dean of Students, McIver said. arrests every month, McIver said. More than 100 of the reports were closed after UOPD ended the term by bringing back the taking a report because there were no suspects. Vacation Watch program. McIver said 104 Correction: e article “From Emeryville to “Unfortunately, especially with property cases, residents signed up to have their residence Eugene: e History of Espresso Roma and the there’s often no more information that can drive a patrolled during spring break. closure of Cafe Siena” misstated the amount of case,” McIver said. He said there’s not much UOPD e vacation watch ended without any burglaries back taxes that the owner of the Espresso Roma can do in those cases, but they take a report that the or other incidents. McIver said two registered Corporation currently owes. e owner paid back victim can use for insurance purposes, and the UOPD residences were unlocked when checked, so offi cers just over $219,000 to the state of California and can include it in their statistics for crime prevention. contacted the residents and secured the homes. says he paid $2 million back in other taxes. e Total theft decreased by 45 percent from fall term e program was fi rst introduced during Emerald is working to confi rm the amount he paid to winter term, from 123 total instances of theft winter break and nearly 300 students registered, back. e story has been updated online. listed during fall term to 63 instances in winter term, according to Around the O. 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Text YOU to 87573 e-adultshop.com PAGE 4 | EMERALD | MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2019 A NEWS LEGISLATORS TO CONSIDER ADJUSTMENTS TO TRANSFER PROCESS BY ZACK DEMARS • TWITTER ZACK_DEMARS e state of Oregon is home to 24 different that could transfer to any Oregon community way is a really complicated technical challenge,” universities and community colleges, and a college or public university and set major-specifi c omas said. “ at’s part of the reason new bill in the state’s legislature proposes curriculum for the same purpose, according to we need a student portal.” improvements to the process of transferring background on that bill. All told, the bill to create that portal and credits and courses between them. e goal of those transfer maps was to continue the process of creating the major transfer e bill, S.B. 730 (and its identical partner simplify the process of transferring between maps would cost the state about $1 million over in the house, H.B. 2028), would make several any of Oregon’s higher education institutions, the next two years, according to the most recent changes to the state’s “Transfer Student Bill of omas said. Previously, students had to transfer fi scal impact statement for the bill. at new Rights and Responsibilities,” originally passed between colleges and universities that already had funding, omas said, would have to come from in 2011 and modifi ed in 2017, according to state agreements between them, which means risking the legislature and, therefore, state taxpayers. information on the bill. losing credit for classes students already took. Aside from the cost to the state, the University Proposed changes include the expansion of In 2017, by approving H.B. 2998, the legislature of Oregon may also face increased costs an advisory group and a new online system for sought to reduce a growing trend of credit associated with faculty traveling to participate transfer students to visualize their transition loss among students who transferred between in coordination meetings as new “major transfer between universities and degrees in the state. community colleges and universities in Oregon. maps” are discussed and agreed on by the state’s 24 An amendment to the bill, adopted by the senate According to the HECC, more than 60 percent community colleges and universities. e cost to education committee, adds a section to “minimize of transfer students lost some credits when they the university, according to the impact statement, the complexity” of the processes. changed schools, and 35 percent lost more than would be about $10,000 per year. “ e philosophical underpinning of our one term’s worth of coursework.