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TODAY'S WEATHER Oregon daily EMERALD Vol. LXVIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1369 No. 131 Partly sunny today and Wednesday Chance of thunder High 78 Low 48 201, f chance of rain HB 1880 change includes trespass of public property SALEM (Special) — A bill that hurried through the Ore gon House with unusual speed and then slowed down in the Senate Education Committee may leave the committee amended to extend beyond the original intent of the bill. House bill 1880, which aroused the concern of students and legislators for its speed in passage and content, may be amended to result in a public property trespass law. The amended version of the bill would extend the right of the Governor to declare a state of emergency when a clear and present danger exists to all public property. The original bill limited the Governor to de claring the emergency to state college and university cam puses. The Senate Education has or dered the bill re-engrossed and will probably take action on it Wednesday. Monday the bill was introduced and discussed. The proposed amendment re quires the Governor to consult with the public official, such as the university president or other officer in charge of the state building involved, and the police before any emergency period is declared under the bill. The Governor would have to put the bill into effect before anyone could be prosecuted by it. The public property would have to be described in the emergency proclamation and it would have to be publicized. Any person excluded from pub lic property under the provi sions of the amended bill would have priority in circuit court for review of their case. Other action by the Legisla ture may liberalize punishment of marijuana violators. The new law would allow judges the op tion of treating the possession or use of marijuana as a felony or a misdemeanor. Present law provides for punishment as a felony. The bill has been passed by both houses unanimously. The House approved a bill which could create a 15-member board of education to supervise all public education. The bill passed the House, State and Federal Affairs Committee de spite objections from educators. The bill would become effective Jan. 1, 1970. No action has been taken by either house on the plan. Athletics, music cut for new programs Changes affect ASUO budget By ROBIN ROY Of the Emerald The 1969-70 ASUO budget, in cluding an amendment dras tically altering University prior ities, was approved Monday night by the ASUO Senate. The amended budget was ap proved by a 23-3 vote. Areas seriously affected by the amendment were the ath letic department and and the music department. Eleven other departments were affected. Four new areas emerged from the amendment: Ethnic Studies, budgeted at $75,000: Conflict Center, $25,000: Visit ing Professor Program, $18,000 and Ombudsman, $10,000. Money for the Ethnic Studies would go toward a center for the study of Blacks, Mexican Americans and American In dians. Funding would also be available for a scholarship pro gram. This area represents the highest increase in the budget. Incidental fees available total $1.17 million. The Fiscal Com mittee presented its proposed budget Thursday night. The amendment, which passed 20-6 originated Sunday in what one senator termed, "a sort of ad hoc committee.” "A number of people met last night (Sunday) to go over the material presented by the fiscal Amended HB 1880 Editor’s Note: The following is a copy of the proposed amendments to House Bill 1880, the campus disruption bill. House Bill 1880 would be amended to read: Relating to public property; providing penal ties; and declaring an emergency. Be it enact ed by the People of the State of Oregon: Section 1. As used in this Act unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Police” means the municipal police and the county sheriff of the political subdivision in which the public property is located, and the De partment of State Police. (2) “Public official” means the state officer or employee who is the administrative head of the board, commission, state agency or division or department thereof which has jurisdiction over any public property, or his designate. (3) “Public property” means state lands, premises and buildings including but not limit ed to any building used in connection with the transaction of public business or any lands, premises or buildings owned or leased by the State of Oregon. Section 2. After consultation with the pub lic official, or his designate, and the police, the Governor may proclaim an emergency per iod if he finds that there exists on any public property a clear and present danger of in jury to persons, damage to property or denial of or substantial interference with ingress or egress from public property. The proclama tion shall describe the public property affected by the proclamation. He shall cause his proc lamation to be publicized. When the Governor finds that the danger has ended, he shall pro claim the end of the emergency period. Section 3. During tlie emergency period pro claimed by the Governor under section 2 of this Act. the public official shall order ex cluded from the public property described in the proclamation such persons who in the judgment of the public official are contributing to or aggravating the danger which the Gov ernor has proclaimed to exist. Section 4. After informing the person or dered removed or excluded from the public property of the proclamation and order, the police shall remove or exclude such person from such public property. Section 5. Any person ordered removed or excluded from any public property under sec tion 2 of this Act shall have immediate access to the circuit court for the county in which the property is located for review of the order of exclusion or removal. Such access shall be in the form of a writ or review and shall be given priority over all cases on the docket of the circuit court. Section 6. Any person who, having been or dered excluded or removed from any public property, knowingly enters thereon or who remains on such property during an emer gency period proclaimed by the Governor un der section 2 of this Act and who refuses to leave such property upon request by the po lice shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than $500, or both. Section 7. This Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this Act shall take effect on its passage. committee which was very val uable. We got to talking about issues and a group of us came up with these proposals,” Sena tor Tom English explained. The total request of the com mittee was $1,171,279. A total of $1,162,880 is available, which means $8,399 must be cut. In addition, $23,045 for salaries and assessments must be in cluded, calling for a total cut in the amendment committee’s proposal of $31,444. As of press time, no solution had been of fered. The amendment proposed: • Athletic Department: Eliminating a requested $249, 000 request but supplying a $100,000 reserve should the de partment not break even or make profits. • Music: Decreasing the sub sidy by $8,150 dropping t h e budget from the proposed $18, 350 to $10,200. • EMU house: Cutting by $5,000 providing an expense budget of $111,694. • EMU foods: Cutting ex penses by $2,500 and realizing a $510,941 income, • University programs: In creasing the budget by $600, totaling $10,900. • W It A and Recreation Council: Eliminating WRA as a separate item, putting it under Recreation Council. The Coun cil’s budget now stands at $25,215. • Rally Board: Cutting the budget entirely. • Model United Nations: Re ceiving an increase of $600 onto a proposed $25,000. • ASUO administration: In creasing by $21,000. Including the Forensics budget which was dropped as a separate item. • Draft Information Center: Increasing to $3,560. • International Education Center: Upped by $1,350 to $5, 630. • SEARCH: Was rebudgeted at $7,150. (Continued on page 3) Wants responsive student government Winger-Alpert urge more involvement BY WANDALYN RICE Of the Emerald Bob Winger and Spence Al pert want to make student gov ernment more responsive and get more people involved, while improving? the image of the Uni versity with the community. Winger, candidiate for the ASUO presidency, is a junior in history and has been involved in student government ever since he started as a freshman at the University. His running mate, Spence Al pert is a first year law student and "as an undergrad, I wasn’t involved at all.” I an interview Sunday, the two candidates explained their pro grams, goals and reasons for running for office. According to Winger, his in terest in student government began very early. “My father has been a professor at OSU for 30 years. My whole environment has been one of education and it has given me an interest in education and a sense of citizen ship. You can learn about yourself and learn how to handle people. I intend to go to law school and the things I have learned by being committed to goals and principals will help me.” Alpert said he became involv ed for the first time this year WINGER-ALPERT, ASUO PRESIDENTIAL TICKET Seeks responsive government, student involvement, improved University image because "I could see many changes that needed to be made in the education system and I could see that many people who were trying to make changes weren’t going about it in the best possible way. "1 l'elt that I could try to im prove University relations be tween the University and the community.” Both candidates feel it is im portant to get more students in volved in student government. To do this, they propose to have an activity interest card in the registration packet. On this, stu dents could indicate interest in various programs and areas. Thus, when a committee is formed to work on a project, leaders could get names of peo ple who have expressed an in terest and make personal con tact with those people. In addition. Winger and Al pert explained, the student body officers “should show a personal interest after people get in volved and try to effectuate the programs they are working on so they get some rewards.” Winger said, "You mobilize people by not staying on the third floor of the EMU. You can't stay even a little bit aloof. “You have to be personal enough that they feel you are (Continued on page 2)
