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Vol. LXVII1 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1968 No. 19
Burning of File
Step fo Peace,
Berrigan Says
By JAQI THOMPSON
Of the Emerald
Like the Biblical Daniel who
was thrown into a vast fur
nace for his loyalty to God, Fa
ther Daniel Berrigan related his
own “Trial by Fire” in a Boston
court for loyalty to his anti
war convictions as over 1,000
people listened Friday.
Speaking as part of the con
ference on Church and Civil
Disobedience, the Jesuit priest
explained his actions as “open
ing alternatives to death as the
American way of life.”
Last May he and eight oth
er persons burned all I-A and
II-A draft records of Catons
ville, Md. with homemade na
palm.
Just last Thursday all nine
were convicted of the charges
against them.
Sentencing is set for Nov. 8.
In a press conference Berri
gan explained the appeal would
probably be based on “an ad
mission by the government, that
it may be possible to object to
war as illegal and immoral.”
Berrigan does not expect to
win the appeal, however.
“Prison is the only realistic
assumption. We are interested
in an appeal only to get laws
in the future,” he said.
Modern war, he said, does not
have to be world-wide to be
total. Modern war is total be
cause it makes total claims on
the individual, he said. “Total
ity must be transferred to the
peace scene,” he said.
Berrigan stressed the need
for total commitment to the
idea of peace. In a press con
ference he added that non-vio
lence was the only moral means
of protest.
Modern war, he said, does
not have to be world-wide to
be total because it makes total
claims on the individual, he
saui.
Berrigan said his actions were
to show the powerless minorities
—the youth, the poor, the Black
■—in American society that he
and the other eight were will
ing to take equal risks of suf
fering, disgrace and possibly
death. He urged others to par
ticipate in a revolution against
“death as a social method, each
in their own way.
“I am delighted,” he said of
Eugene’s anti-draft activities
last week. “I only hope the
intervention and participation
increases.”
The Vietnam war, is war “ex
emplary,” he said, quoting Sec.
of State Dean Rusk, of death
as the American way. The war
is a testing ground for new
weapons and weapon technology,
and the civilian population of
Vietnam are the guinea pigs, he
said. Berrigan termed his trial
as “exemplary” also. “It is a
first step in the direction of hu
manization,” he said.
Berrigan said he saw evi -
dence of deliberate anti-per -
sonnel bombing on his unauthor
ized trip to Viet nam in 1967.
His book, “Night Flight Over
Hanoi,” was released last month.
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Index
Campus Happenings .page 3
Sports .pages 4, 9
Editorials.page 10
Campus Briefs .page 10
Classifieds .page 11
TODAY’S WEATHER
Foggy Monday.
Increasing clouds afternoon
and evening
High 60, Low 43
Chance of rain 0%
Photo by Dean Tonn
MlID PInsS went out with paper dolls, but evidently no one
has informed this busy co-ed. Her efforts are part of the
“First Annual,” an activity of the University Student Chapter
of the American Institute of Architecture. Other events included
toothpick-bridge building, paper airplane design and side
walk decoration. Creation of a common bond between archi
tecture students was the goal of event. For story see page 8.
Confab Critic
Attacks Ethics
By STEVE SMITH
Of the Emerald
“There is an emerging public
church, transcending denomin
ational lines and consolidating
all religious apologists for the
status quo,” declared noted so
cial critic William Stringfellow,
Saturday.
Addressing an audience of 900
the final session of the confer
ence on “The Church and Civil
Disobedience,” Stringfellow em
otionally attacked the cultural
totalitarianism in America to
day.
' “American society is present
ly dominated by three social
ethics,” he said, “the ethic of
white supremacy, the ethic of
violence and the ethic of greed.
It is often difficult to seperate
one from another.”
Stringfellow, a New York at
torney. attacked white society
for its attitude towards the
Black revolution.
- "White supremacy is the ori
ginal social ethic,” said String
fellow, "permeating every in
sitution, aspect and facet of our
vlife.”
According to Stringfellow,
most civil rights programs ad
dressed themselves to the con
tinuance of White supremacy.
"The whole concept of inte
gration was that the Negro pro
blem would solve itself, because
the Negroes would simply van
ish.
The war in Vietnam has con
tributed immeasurably to the
institutionalization of the sec
ond social ethic, violence, ac
cording to Stringfellow.
Externally, the burden of the
war is placed on the Black man.
Internally, the urban police
forces have become military or
ganizations opposed to those who
oppose the war.
"Violence .which has occurred
in the last 25 years has been
insit utionalized in many guises,”
he explained, “most recently un
der the guise of ‘law and or
der’.”
The White majority, according
to Stringfellow, replied to the
non-violent movement of the
Black man with white violence.
When the Black revolution
takes an occasional violent turn,
he explained, the white com
munity replies with "a simply
massive mobilization of force.
Inquiring Student Members
Hear Rev. Theodore Gill
An education explosion is
“sweeping the earth uncontrol
lably,” demanding a remodel
ed educational structure which
emphasizes matters of moral
and human ethics, and the na
ture and destiny of man.
Rev. Theodore Gill, current
ly director of the commission on
Education of the World Coun
cil of Churches, addressed these
remarks concerning radical stu
dent politics and education to
a large audience Friday after
noon in the EMU ballroom.
Rev. Gill was one of five cler
gymen invited to the Univer
sity conference entitled “The
Church and Civil Disobedi -
ence.”
With the year 1968 came “an
explosion in the educational ex
plosion,” Rev. Gill claimed.
“Students blasted the bottom
out of this phenomenon” of per
vasiveness in the educational
system.
"They distrusted common
values and defied a system
which led to inhuman ends,”
he said. They are “screaming
at a plump, smooth parents’ so
ciety.”
This protest which Rev. Gill
described as “controlled, delib
erate moral mutation,” is a
“rough rejection of education
in general.”
The adversary is not the col
lege president or professor, he
said, but "that rigid vice -
chancellor, status quo and
‘academic tradition.’ ”
“It began in the schools, and
why not?” the ordained Pres
byterian minister asked. "Edu
cation is the transmitter of cul
ture.”
“This passion, this honesty
will be contained in this time
around us,” Rev. Gill speculat
ed. "But it certainly will not
be contained finally.
"The divisions are still there
festering. Seething has surfac
ed among students.”
The infection is in the thin
social skin, he said, and the
more it is slicked over, the
greater the chance of explo
sion. "We must not, in the name
of reconciliation, insure a lat
er eruption.”
Rev. Gill pointed out that
these protests most often show
up in countries considered most
developed. Protest, he explain
ed. has centered in and around
education, which underdevelop
ed countries lack.
For the past several months
Rev. Gill has been studying the
life of Dietrich Bonheoffer, a
resister of the 1930’s in Hitler’s
Nazi Germany. Rev. Gill said
Bonheoffer told his fellow re
sisters that "truth and justice
would be born of their own
blood when they took over,” and
that there should be "no limit”
to what the resistance must be
ready for.
Rev. Gill considers draft re
sistance “an essential means of
keeping the pressure on.”
"But don’t let us forget what
the issue is,” he demanded.
"You can’t let the debate die,
even if peace breaks out.”
America’s technological ad
vances have brought about many
of our society’s ills today, Rev.
Gill charged. And since the
world is dependent on the tech
nological success of the West,
he warned that we are faced
with "a choice of ruthlessness.”
Either we allow the institution
to continue toward genocide, he
said, or we offer “dynamic re
sistance.”
The minister pleaded for
people to “shun the man who
says the decision is easy.”
But Rev. Gill did not hesi
tate to reveal his decision, pre
dicting that "there is no way to
avoid genocide if we let the
institution continue.”
Millions are being killed by
the system, he insisted, "but they
won't take it any longer.”
Rev. Gill portrayed Bonhe
ofl'er as one who "deplored ges
tures,” and counted out the
"pious and righteous.”
“Don’t waste your time show
ing your righteousness,” the
speaker advised. “Leave that to
religious fundamentalism.”
He urged his audience not to
be surrounded by churches
straining to identify with the
resistance movement.
“I dread what lies before
us,” Rev. Gill concluded. "I
can’t take kindly to ‘me-too -
ism.’ It mars the scene. For
what other scene does so de
pend on what now depends on
you?”
"The decisive initiative of the
racial crisis has been siezed by
the Pentagon.” he declared, -Al
most the whole burden of the
Vietnam war is placed upon the
Black soldier.
"There is a threat of exter
minating the entire Black com
munity if the military solution
is allowed to go unchallenged.”
Stringfellow saw little chance
for present religious institutions
to oppose the totalitarianism of
society.
/ Institutional churches will do
little to dissent, "if they are
kept servile to the management
of their own debts and endow
ments,” he said.
The alternative, according to
Stringfellow, is a public church
similar to the confessing Chris
tian movements which formed
in other nations.
Stringfellow’s church would
be associated with non-Chris
tians. and would actively oppose
totalitarianism.
"There must be resistance of
all means against the status quo.
That may mean even death,” he
said.
The third ethic attacked by
Stringfellow was greed.
"Greed,” he explained, ‘‘is the
insatiable necessity, the inherent
attribute of all institutions, to
feed upon human life.”
Stringfellow offered the am
erican university as an exam
ple.
"The university has become
a servant of the military estab
lishment,” he said.
However, the effort, of students
to overcome the status quo, for
all their talk, is often "facetious
and terribly superficial.”
Despite present social conflicts
Stringfellow does not forsee to
tal revolution.
"The prospects for revolution
in this land, I am sory to say,
are quite remote.”
Architect Asks
Better Planning
"Ill Eugene there is no trans
portation for children, the side
walks have been narrowed and
the present sewer system is
overtaxed, serving as a storm
drainage control.”
Architect Otto Poticha, com
menting at mayoralty candidate
Paul Hoffman’s Town Meeting,
said he feels it is now time for
urban renewal instead of per
petuating old structures.
Dave Hunt of the Eugene Re
newal agency spoke of closing
parts of Broadway and Willam
ette streets to motor traflic to
create a mall. The project would
more than double the tax base
in the financial area, Hunt said.
Vince Farina, a downtown
merchant and former member
of the parking commission and
head of the City Planning Com
mission, questioned the practi
cality of the 12,000 parking
spaces to be placed on quadrants
adjacent to the proposed mall.
Moving all of those cars will
be a problem, Farina said.
Student Uninjured
In Plane Wreck
A University student and a
Navy recruiter parachuted to
safety Friday afternoon when
the light plane they were riding
in developed engine trouble
over Fern Ridge Reservoir ap
proximately 10 miles west of
Eugene.
Lt. Comdr. Drew Jones, sta
tioned at Sand Point Naval Air
Station in Seattle, was giving a
flight demonstration to John
Simpson, 19, of Klamath Falls
when the plane developed en
gine trouble over the south
shore of the reservoir and crash
ed. Both Simpson and Jones were
uninjured.
Immediately after the inci
dent Jones flew to Fairchild
Air Force Base near Spokane
to be with his wife, who has
been hospitalized with a heart
ailment. Mrs. Jones died later
Friday night.