Three cancel
lectures due to
physical danger
A trio of controversial speak
ers scheduled to speak Tuesday
at the University, cancelled
their visit after a series of mid
night bombings Monday.
According to John Froines,
assistant professor of chemistry,
Tom Hayden, Bobby Seale and
Reece Erlich, cancelled their
visit “because there was a def
inite feeling of physical dan -
ger in coming.”
Hayden, founder and past
president of Students for a Dem
ocratic Society (SDS); Seale,
national chairman of the Black
Panther Party, and Erlich, foun
der of the California Peace and
Freedom Movement, were sched
uled to speak at an afternoon
discussion.
Speeches set
The speeches were scheduled
for 2:30 p.m. at McArthur
Court. They were to speak on
“Political Repression and Sur
vival.”
Froines, and local Black Pan
ther leader Howard Anderson,
told an afternoon press confer
ence that the visits were cancel
led after a series of threats
during the week convinced them
that there was danger in speak
ing at the University.
“A whole series of events
made us believe that there was
an attempt to intimidate t h e
people from coming,” Froines
said. ,
Includes phone calls
Froines included in those
events, threatening phone calls
to local political leaders, an at
tempted bombing of an instruc
tor's home and the series of
bombings Monday night.
Both Froines and Anderson
disclaimed any knowledge of
the persons responsible for the
bombings.
“I have no idea who did it,”
asserted Froines, “but it might
be groups on the right. No group
on the left is in favor of ter
rorism; terrorism divides you
from the people.”
Counter-revolutionary
Anderson agreed that the
bombers were probably counter
revolutionaries” intent upon dis
crediting leftist groups. He de
scribed the bombings as counter
revolutionary acts.
Froines indicated that both
Hayden and Seale would appear
at the University in the near
future.
“We are not intimiated by the
use of force,” he said. “We will
have speakers here, hopefully
before the end of the term.”
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No. 137
Anonymous donor offers reward
No clues in $10,000 bomhinas
By RICK FITCH
Of the Emerald
Police have taken no suspects yet in connection with a series of
explosions that caused more than $10,000 damage in Eugene late
Monday and early Tuesday.
Capt. W. H. Smith of the Eugene Police Department said Tues
day FBI agents have joined Lane County law enforcement agen
cies in the investigation, and Police Chief Arthur Ellsworth said
an anonymous donor has posted a $2,500 reward for information
leading to the apprehension of those responsible.
Meanwhile, there were reports Tuesday of a bomb scare in the
EMU, an attempted dynamiting of a University graduate assistant's
home and a bombing of the Coos County courthouse in Coquille.
EMU Director Dick Reynolds said someone phoned the main desk
at 2:15 yesterday afternoon and stated a bomb was set to ex
plode in the building at 2:30. The building was cleared until 2:40,
but EMU staff members could find no trace of an explosive.
The girl who received the phone call described the caller as a
male with a low voice. She said the person was "not old, but wasn't
a kid.”
Reynolds said the police were not summoned.
Elliott Gehr, a graduate assistant in anthropology, told the Em
erald Tuesday eight sticks of lighted dynamite were put in the
mailbox of his Springfield home at about 7:30 p.m. Sunday, but
didn’t explode apparently because rain dampened the fuse, which
was old and defective.
Gehr, who stated he “didn’t have any idea” why he would be a
target, also reported that three shots were fired at his home
from a car late Monday night. The Lane County Sheriff’s Depart
ment, which disposed of the dynamite and is currently investigat
ing the entire matter, has made no arrests. ,
The explosion in Coquille, 100 air miles southwest of Eugene,
ripped a hole in the lawn of the Coos County courthouse, badly
damaged the building, and shattered windows as far as four
blocks away.
Capt. Smith said police are not currently investigating the possi
bility of a link between the Springfield and Coquille incidents and
the rash of bombings that hit Eugene’s downtown and University
districts, but promised, 'Well be comparing notes in the next
couple of days.”
He said police have officially confirmed the following sequence
of explosions in Eugene.
• 10:59 p.m. Monday—The State Highway Department’s Eu
gent maintenance yard at 2141 E. 15th Ave. A second explosion
was reported at the same location two minutes later.
• 11:16 p.m.—The University Branch of the First National
Bank of Oregon. 1380 Villard St.
• 12:01 a.m. Tuesday—Eugene Register-Guard building, 975
High St.
• 12:15 a.m.—First United Methodist Church at 14th Ave.
and Olive St.
• 1:10 a.in.—Registrar’s office in Emerald Hall on campus, 13th
Ave. and Emerald St. Police said the damage was discovered at
1:10 a.in., but the explosion could have occurred earlier.
Police received reports that additional blasts had taken place at
the Eugene Medical Arts Building at 10th and Mill, and the Uni
versity parking lot on the corner of Franklin Blvd. and Agate
St., Smith said, but patrolmen dispatched to those locations could
find no evidence of explosions.
No fires were reported as a result of the explosions, although
H Eugene limnen were sent to
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there were no injuries, although
two of the buildings hit were oc
cupied at the time and there
were bystanders.
"They apparently weren't try
ing to hurt someone," Police
Chief Ellsworth said, noting
that each of the buildings nor
mally wouldn’t be occupied late
at night. Smith said it appears
that sticks of dynamite were
used in each instance, but fur
ther laboratory work is neces
sary to obtain definite proof.
At. the maintenance yard, the
first explosion was on the east
side of the building near an
elevated diesel tank and four
parked cars. The second blast
was a few feet away at an out
side stairwell.
Dale Allen, district mainte
nance superintendent, estimat
ed damages at $750 for win
dows and the building, $875 for
the vehicles, plus the loss of
150 gallons of diesel fuel caus
ed when the tank was knocked
off its base, breaking the fittings.
The cars sustained rear - end
damage and glass breakage.
Half a dozen state police pa
trolmen stationed in an office
on the west end of the yard,
raced toward the stricken build
ing after hearing the first blast,
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Robert Clark: man of achievements
Editor’s Note: The following is an an
alysis on recently-appointed University
President Robert Clark’s four-year ten
ure as president of San Jose State Col
lege. Miss Newcomb is a magazine jour
nalism major at SJS and was former
editor of the school’s Alumni Association
magazine, The Spartan.
By NANCY NEWCOMB
For the Emerald
Robert Clark resigned May 2 as pres
ident of San Jose State College to fill
the same post at the University, an in
stitution he served for 20 years prior to
coming to San Jose.
‘ The return to the University is in a
sense a return home,” Clark told the
press on the day of his announcement.
But in returning home, Clark is leaving
behind many achievements and a col
lege which he built to the stature it is
today.
There is probably much that com
pelled Clark to accept the new presi
dency, for California is not the easi
est state in which to be a college ad
ministrator. At this time five of the 19
state colleges are without presidents.
Clark stated that he was not pressured
into resigning his post here, yet there
are many factors which certainly could
be considered pressure points.
First and foremost stands the gover
nor of California, Ronald Reagan, a
conservative who makes strong sugges
tions to the State College Trustees and
the Board of Regents of the University
of California—the ruling bodies of the
respective institutions.
Following in suit are the State College
Trustees, who assume the power to dic
tate campus policy. Clark survived their
iron fisted rule by acquiring more local
autonomy for SJS.
Third is the state legislature, the
body that makes the laws controlling the
over all actions of college presidents and
their roles in handling campus affairs.
Finally, the president must face his
own students and faculty.
One might think that with such oppo
sition piled against him, Clark would
have run, quit or retired. But he didn’t.
And he came out on top as, perhaps, one
ol' the best college administrators in
California today.
When a college president resigns, one
can arrive at the best assessment of his
administration by talking to the people
he worked with—the faculty and stu
dents.
At SJS, Clark’s announcement was
received with shock, sadness and a
fear of who would replace him.
Bill Hurschmann, editor of the cam
pus paper, the Spartan Daily, said, ”1
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