UO kicker, two others plead guilty to fight charges

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Three men, including a University of Oregon football player, pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a campus-area fight.

Robert Beard (above), who also faced a misdemeanor assault charge, pleaded guilty to harrassment.  Judge M.K. Merten sentenced him to one year of probation and 100 hours of community service. 

Maurice Peterson and Kirby Hawkins each pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge. Both were initially charged with felony assault in the second degree, a Measure 11 crime that carries a mandatory 70 month prison sentence.  Instead, both were sentenced to 18 months of probation and 100 hours of community service.

New details about the January 24 fight were revealed in the Friday morning hearing.  According to prosecutor Bob Lane, issues surrounding the fight started long before the three men arrived. 

Friday, 2010, March 5 - 10:36

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March 26, 2010, 4:07 pm

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A University of Oregon student from China shocked with a Taser plans to sue the City of Eugene and the Eugene Police Department.

Ilona Koleszar, the attorney representing the 19-year-old student and his roommate, also student from China, filed tort claim notices with the city attorney.

The notices, one for each student, inform the city the students plan to seek damages.

The notice for the 19-year-old says "Police officers entered the claimant's apartment...without a warrant, shot him with a taser, handcuffed him and detained him, in violation of his civil rights."

The noticed filed on behalf of the other student also claims officers entered his apartment "without a warrant, detained him and handcuffed him, in violation of his civil rights."

Last fall, Eugene Police Officer Jud Warden shocked the 19-year-old student with a Taser in his own apartment.  Warden mistakenly believed the students were trespassing.  Both students did not speak fluent English.

The students' names were redacted from the tort claim notices.

Eugene Police Departments spokeswoman Jenna McCulley said Police Chief Peter Kerns was out of town Fri

Friday, 2010, March 26 - 16:05

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March 30, 2010, 9:21 pm

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He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.  Now you can hear an excerpt from Junot Diaz's next novel.

Diaz is expected to read from "Dark America" in April at the University of Oreogn.

The new book is a science fiction novel about the survivors in an alternate United States, in which a psychic terrorist has destroyed New York City.

Diaz won the Pulitzer for his novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao."

The reading is at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 29, in the Browsing Room of the Knight Library on the UO campus.

It's free and open to the public.

Tuesday, 2010, March 30 - 21:16

Former UO football player to be charged in campus-area fight

April 5, 2010, 10:07 am

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The Lane County District Attorney's has filed information charging Michael Bowlin, a former University of Oregon football player, with misdemeanor charges stemming from a campus-area brawl.

According to court records, Bowlin will be charged with three counts of harrassment and one count of disorderly conduct for the January 24 incident.  The paperwork names three different alleged harassment victims.

UO kicker Robert Beard was also involved in the same brawl.

On February 15, head coach Chip Kelly announced Bowlin had withdrawn from the school and was no longer in the football program.

His arraignment is scheduled for April 9.

Monday, 2010, April 5 - 09:57

Former Duck's arraignment rescheduled

April 9, 2010, 4:26 pm

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Michael Bowlin's arraignment, originally set for April 9, has been rescheduled for later this month.

The Lane County District Attorney's Office has filed information charging Bowlin with three counts of harrassment and one count of disorderly conduct--all misdemeanors--for a January 24 brawl in the campus area.

Bowlin was a kicker on the University of Oregon football team.  He left the university and the football team in February.

Friday, 2010, April 9 - 16:18

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April 14, 2010, 10:49 am

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On Time Systems, a Eugene company, is developing an iPhone application that would help drivers avoid red lights.

Here's the KVAL News story on the application.

Beta testing starts next week.

Wednesday, 2010, April 14 - 10:41

Former Duck enters not guilty pleas

April 29, 2010, 10:11 am

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Michael Bowlin appeared in a Lane County courtroom Thursday morning to face charges of harassment and disorderly conduct more than three months after a campus-area brawl.

An attorney entered not guilty pleas on behalf of the former University of Oregon football player.

Another football player, Robert Beard, was seriously injured in that fight.  He later pleaded guilty to one count of physical harassment

Bowlin withdrew from the team and the university.

Thursday, 2010, April 29 - 09:40

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June 30, 2010, 10:58 am

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Former University of Oregon kicker Michael Bowlin was sentenced to 12 months of probation for his role in a January fight near campus, involving UO kicker Robert Beard and two Lane Community College students.

Bowlin pleaded guilty to one count of harassment.  Prosecutors dropped two other charges of harrassment and one charge of disorderly conduct.

Bowlin was among a group of "several drunk men moving from party to party in the University area, sometimes being ejected from the parties," District Attorney Alex Gardner said after Beard and the LCC students were sentenced to probation in March.  "Then they stumbled into this area and they're sort of generating controversy." 

That led to the brawl, in which Beard was injured and hospitalized.

Bowlin left the football team and the school the month after the fight.&

Wednesday, 2010, June 30 - 10:37

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Steele's 'Fire Pelosi' tour rolls through Eugene

October 7, 2010, 4:40 pm

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Republican party star Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, appeared in front of a small but enthusiastic crowd of supporters near the University of Oregon.

Senate candidate Jim Huffman joined him Thursday afternoon, as Steele asked voters to take action on behalf of Republican candidates.

Steele's Eugene stop is part of his 'Fire Pelosi' tour.  He's visiting 48 states to energerize Republican voters.

"Those days of sitting back in Washington, and sort of looking at the map and going, 'We can win in Ohio and Florida and Texas, maybe here, maybe there. But places like California, Oregon, New Mexico, Maryland, where I'm from are off limits because republicans don't traditionally win there, that's crazy,'" said Steele.

Thursday, 2010, October 7 - 16:31