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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1969)
Navy recruiters ousted from EMU “VICTORY” ‘Court’ juror proclaims By JOE CHASE and ART BUSHNELL Of The Emerald Navy recruiters were forced Wednesday to close their station in the EMU after a mock trial for war crimes was followed by violence. Shortly after conviction by the Peoples’ Liberation Court, Navy recruiters told the Emerald their treat ment had been mild and orderly. Then some students returned and the action began. The ensuing removal of the Navy's recruiting team was a two-stage affair. First, a group of from eight to twelve students, after burning literature being dis tributed by the Navy, marched up the stairs of the EMU chanting “The Navy must get out.” These students picked up a table being used by the recruiters and removed it from the building. The table was covered with a woolen, blanket-like cloth, in scribed "LT.S. Navy.” Upon reaching the outside of the building, the students threw the cloth in the fire. Following the removal of the table. Lt. Robert Olson, in command of the recruiting team, ordered two of his four men out of the building with classified material. This material was control material used in testing po tential recruits. Shortly after the removal of the classified material, the second stage of the assault began. The students proceeded back upstairs with linked arms and demand ed that the Navy team either leave or be ejected. The two remaining-officers, Olson and Lt. J. U. Chuck Fer ber—a graduate of the University, were then bodily removed from the building by the students. During the removal, Ferber said he was shaken up. Dr. Robert Feeney, a civilian who rushed up after hearing reports that a doctor might be needed, said (Continued on pjge S) PEOPLE’S LIBERATION COURT JUDGE Dav Gwyther stokes lire Vol. LXVIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1969 No. 68 . .....'i " " ~ ' ^ i WHO SAID SNOWBALLS were round?—As a couple was caught capering in Wednesday's snow, the weatherman was forecasting partly cloudy skies for Thursday with a 10% chance of snow. The high expected is 30 degrees, with a low of 20 degrees. Johnson comments Burning compared with free speech In a conference with student leaders Wednesday night. Act ing University President Char les Johnson equated the burnt naval literature with University free speech policy. lie told the students that to start restricting groups from campus would be taclily approv ing others. This would damage the free speech policy the Uni versity has fought hard to main tain, he said. The two hour dialogue result ed in the moving of the Naval recruiting operation to the placement: center of S u s a n Campbell Hall. The balance the University has tried to achieve with regard to moral commitments was the discussion topic. Students were asked to explain the eviction of the Navy recruiters from the EMU. Bill Kerlee, ASUO Presiden tial Assistant, explained the move as a "characteristic action of people completely alienated.” Participating students Dav Gwyther a n d Blaine Ackley tried to differentiate between free speech a n d recruitment. They explained the violence Wednesday as “frustration” be cause they felt the Navy officers would not exchange ideas in the spirit of free speech. They felt Lieuallen claims Nothing gained by Salem move By PEARL BARREN Of the Emerald Chancellor Roy Lieuallen said Wednesday he had not yet heard what he considers ‘‘persuasive and adequate reasons” for mov ing the headquarters of the State Board of Higher Educa tion to Salem. Lieuallen’s comments to the Emerald concerned a bill to be presented to the state legisla ture. The bill recommends that the office of the chancellor and administrators of higher edu cation and the State Board of Higher Education be moved in January 1971 to the former state tuberculosis hospital in Salem. The chancellor's office has been located at the University since the creation of the posi tion, according to Lieuallen. Other higher education offices are located throughout the state, with the central business office at Oregon State University. “I feel the board offices ought to be identified with state edu cation,” said Lieuallen. “In or der to work effectively with my colleagues on the campus I need them to consider me as a colleague in higher education, rather than be associated with the state government,” he com mented. Lieuallen said he would have no objections to his offices being moved to another campus. Lieuallen also opposed the bill on grounds that if all the state offices for higher educa tion were moved to Salem “a substantial number of families would be uprooted. “This shouldn’t be done with out good cause and I have not yet been presented with per suasive reasons for it, including the need to use the TB hos pital,” said Lieuallen. State Rep. Roger Martin, R Clackamas Co., sponsor of the bill, told the Emerald Wednes clay that he felt “there is a lack of communication between high er education and the state board. If they were physically housed in the same building, there might be better communi cation and coordination of cur riculum.’’ Refuting this idea, Lieuallen said, “I don’t think communica tions have ever been better.” Martin also argued that "most important state agencies, espe cially those with budgets as big as the state board of higher education, have their head quarters in Salem.” In regard to the hospital building, Martin said “the state of Oregon definitely has use for the hospital. It may be sold if not put to use some other way, but we cannot have a building standing vacant.” Martin emphasized the fact that his bill is not intended to criticize Lieuallen’s work at the University. ‘ The bill is not a direct challenge or criticism of partiality against Lieuallen,” he said. Martin admitted that he does not think the bill has “a great chance of passage.” “At the last session of the legislature a joint resolution was introduced to move the chancellor off to Salem,” he said. He added that he had talked to several legislators and peo ple in education who favored the move, though he declined to give specific names. When asked if he felt it would really be beneficial to move Lieuallen away from an academic center to an office at mosphere he replied, “Students may have a better chance of getting to him, but I think Lieuallen is mature enough that he does not need to be in the middle of a campus to know what is going on.” they did not. belong in the EJUIJ. Ackley maintained that the violence had not been planned by any group. A group formed spontaneously, he felt, because "student energy cannot main tain blocked channels.” Dean of Faculties Charles Duncan suggested the matter be aired at an open hearing of the Student Conduct Committe. Committee backs non-residency of UO sophomore The University student who is appealing his classification as non-resident student, suffered another setback Wednesday. The Intel'institutional Com mittees on Residency meeting in Portland voted by 8-2 that Bruce Winterhalder, a sophomore, is properly classified a non-resi dent student. Richard Collins, secretary of State Board of Higher Educa tion, explained the ruling was made on the basis of a rule which requires a student to be independent of his parents for a full year before being consid ered emancipated. When told of the decision, Winterhalder said, “1 thank the two people on the committee who voted for me, but 1 hope an appeal will yield a more favorable result.” The next, step in the appeal procedure is to take the case before a committee composed of Collins, Chancellor Roy Licu allen, and an attorney for the state board. “The chancellor has been in Salem quite a bit because of the legislature,” Collins said, “but we will consider the case as soon as we can.” In spite of the ruling of the large committee, Collins said, “There is a chance the smaller committee will change it. I can not, however, speak for the com mittee.” The case arose when Winlcr halder was declared a non-res ident student after his parents moved to Wyoming. He had not lived with his parents for a year, however, and did not go to Wyoming with them. Last week Winterhalder’s par ents filed a statement of non support, asserting that they would not give him any more financial aid.