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OREGON DAILY Emerald Vol. I.XVIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE. TUESIWY. NOVEMBER 21, 1967 TODAY’S WEATHER Fair, Morning Fog Low 34, High 58 Chance of Rain 0% No. 43 Police Were Ready No Pickets At Wisconsin MADISON. Wis. (CPS) — More than 300 battle - ready police were on hand at the University of Wisconsin's Camp Kandall Memorial Building at 0 a in. today when Army and Ma rine recruters arrived. They were greeted by a lone protester who sat in the snow in front of the building but did not interfere with the 14 students who went in to be in ter vie wed The interviews lasted until 1145 a.m when the recruiters left and :«i0 students arrived. They walked around briefly car rying signs, then went to near by Selective Service Headquar ters. At the draft building, they went inside and walked around chanting "Hell no, we won't Happiness Is Rest In spile of cries demanding that we not leave the University populace uninformed, the Em erald staff, weary from over work and vain football games, will rest for the rest of the week. In fact, there won’t be a pa per until next Tuesday. go." As they walked back they were followed by a yellow school bus containing about 20 riot police. The police were brought in from all over Wisconsin. No arrests were made, and there was no violence. Students appeared unwilling to undergo the same kind of battle with police that occurred on October 18 when a number of students were arrested, gass ed, and beaten by police, after they dropped to block the en trances to a building where the Dow Chemical Company was re cruiting. There may be another dem onstration next week when the Central Intelligence Agency recruiter is in Madison, though he will be ofT-campus and no protests are planned at pres ent State Circuit Judge W. L. Jack man issued a court order last week, barring the demonstra tors from interfering with re cruiting The injunction forebade any student from "obstructing the functions of the university," counseling such obstruction, singing or chanting in hallways in a disruptive manner, and I Continue d on pane 2) Photo by Dean Brickey AS FALL LEAVES FALL, so increases the work of the Univer sity*' Gardners. We have been blessed with an Indian summer, the Kardners have been blessed with more toil and sweat. CIA Retreats from Campuses Near Regional Recruiting Offices WASHINGTON (CPS) — In the interest of "maintaining a peaceful academic atmosphere,” the Central Intelligence Agency has decided not to recruit on campuses that lie near one of the agency's regional recruiting offices. A CIA spokesman today con firmed that college and uni sity placement bureaus affected are being notified of the de cision, but did not say where the agency’s regional offices are located. He estimated that there arc “ten or twelve” of them, however, presumably in the major cities. The spokesman also noted that in some cases interviews would he conducted in a down town area of cities that do not have CIA offices. He mention ed Boston as an example, ex plaining that interviews would be conducted in the federal building there rather than on campuses in the area. The CIA has met with pro tests, some of them obstructive and others not, on several cam puses this fall. Among them are the Universities of Colorado, Maryland, Iowa and California at Berkeley. According to the CIA spokes man, the agency normally re cruits at 100 campuses around the country. He added that “at many of them we've had no trou ble." He indicated that the dis ruption of CIA recruiting has been concentrated in cer tain areas of the country, main •uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiuiiiuimiiiiiMiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimuiiiiiiiumuiiuiiiiiiiiiiiimin Index Sports .page 4 Editorials .page 7 Campus Briefs .page 5 Classifieds .page 5 wm:iiiiiHiimiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiimiiiiii ly the East and West coasts. He said the agency has had almost no trouble on campuses in the Middle West and South. Placement officials on cam puses'in the Washington area have already been notified that the CIA will do its recruiting in its downtown office. Only one Washington area university — the University of Maryland — has had a protest against CIA recruiting. The CIA spokesman denied that the agency was succumb ing to pressure from students who have protested CIA re cruiting. "We don't view it in that light," he said. He added "one of the young men who called here said SDS was calling it a victory,” but denied that the change was likely to affect the agency recruiting efTorts. The SDS national office in Chicago has not commented offi cially of the CIA’s decision, but one of the SDS officers there said that it should probably not be regarded as a victory. “We want to stop CIA recruiting.” he explained. The CIA may well attempt to reinstate on-campus recruiting on the campuses where it is be ing halted, according to the spokesman. He said that if the protests died down, “I’m sure we would look at it again, to see if we could return to the campus.” Drug Experts To Discuss Marijuana The social, medical and legal aspects of marijuana will lie the subject of a panel discus sion at noon Monday, Novem ber 27, in the EMU Eallroom. Panel members are Paul Blachly, professor of psychiatry at the University Medical School; Arthur Pearl. University professor of education, and Sid ney Lezak, U.S. attorney for the District of Oregon. Blachly recently testified be fore the State Pharmacy Board on a proposal to remove mari juana from the narcotics list. The panel members will meet informally Monday afternoon at 2 p.m. in the World Affairs Briefing Center with interested students, faculty and the pub lic. The professional staff of the University may meet with the panel at 3 p.m. in the EMU. This is the second in a series of six panel discussions, lectures and informal meetings on drugs sponsored by the ASUO Speak ers and Debate Bureau. This series is designed as a Community Action Program whereby members of the civic as well as the academic commu nity can take an objective look at the various aspects of drug usage. It is planned to incorporate an objective viewpoint; to pre sent the over-all picture of the risks and pleasures involved in the use of drugs. Subjects to be discussed in coming weeks are: Barbiturates, Pep Pills and Narcotics, January 9; Psyche delic Drugs, February 6; Alco hol and Drinking Behavior, February 27; and President’s Crime Report As It Relates to Alcohol and Other Drugs, April 16. Each discussion group will be composed of experts in the field to be discussed. According to Tony Hazapis, director of the Speakers and Debaters Bureau, the speak ers’ purpose is not to indoc trinate, but rather to educate by separating myth from real ity. New Committee Investigates Campus Discrimination Problem By LES BLUMENTHAL Of the Emerald The ASUO Committee on Housing Discrimination was established this year with the purpose of making the Uni versity community, “aware and sensi tive to the problems of discrimination,” according to a report from the commit tee issued Monday. The report explained the committee’s job is to investigate charges of discrim ination and to make recommendations to President Flemming on the basis of their findings. In the case of off-campus discrimina tion the committee will make recom mendations to the city courts, following their investigations. The first official action taken by the committee this year was to commend Sigma Chi in their compliance to Uni versity policy towards housing dis crimination. The second major step taken by the committee was the sending of letters to three Greek organizations that had not signed the anti-discrimination and local autonomy statement. The organizations were urged to com ply or state reasons why they couldn’t. While it isn’t the stated goal of the committee to “get the Greeks,” the im mediate goal of the committee is to see that each house has local autonomy in the selection of its members. According to the report, “the root of discrimination lies in the national organizations' dictates on membership selection procedures.” The report went on to elaborate on tools used by the Greek organizations to discriminate. Three of the tools are the blackball system, required recommendations from local alumni and alumni holds. The committee report said the elimi nation of these tools will cause fraterni ties and sororities to improve them selves. The main problem of the committee, according to the report, is not finding cases of discrimination, but the loose ness of the direction of the committee. One member said, ", . . it seems like we are going around in circles.” The main problem to be faced is the committee members not knowing where they stand in the ASUO structure. One member said, “As a committee, our power of recommendation is not clearly defined, nor is our power to hear a case or know what line of com munication to follow in regard to hav ing the ruling carried out.” The prevalent feeling on tne commit tee is hearings should be held when cases are questionable. The report stated that through these hearings and reports, the courts would have a clearer view of the intricacies of the selection procedure, and in what areas the potentialities for discrimina tion lie. The committee is impatient. They want to act, but they don’t hold any real power. Members say they feel too much time is being wasted, and dis crimination will continue on campus even after the Greeks comply with Uni versity policy. They say they feel the tools of dis crimination should be exposed and the energy of the committee could best be used in the uncovering and making pub lic these tools. , One committee member added, 'If we’re going to function in an official capacity, lets do it fairly and hear from all sides . . . let’s start doing some thing constructive.” The report concluded, "While the com mittee has not produced great quanti ties of decisions or recommendations, the real importance of the committee lies in its existence.”
