Airs views on conscientious objectors
Panel debates draft resistance
By DAVID PAHLKA
Of the Emerald
“To kill or not to kill?”
“Who has the right to force
an individual to kill another hu
man being?”
These questions were discuss
ed at a panel on conscientious ob
jectors Sunday night in the
Grace Lutheran Church of Christ.
The panel included Lake Bellin
ger, deputy state director of the
Selective Service System; Luther
an Pastor Don Jerke and Herb
Titus, University law professor,
and Russell Sander, a senior in
sociology at the University.
Each speaker talked for 10
minutes followed by a question
and-answer period for the approx
imately 60 persons in attend
ance.
Pastor Jerke, who led off the
panel, said the idea of passive
non-commitment in a war, ac -
cording to Christian beliefs, is
not morally wrong. He pointed
out that the early Christian lead
ers took an anti-military stance
during the church’s first 300
years.
Russel Sandor, currently seek
ing a conscientious objector sta
tus, told the audience he believed
the Christian ethic concerning
the moral wrong of killing an
other human being. He described
the present view of modern war
Athletics move . . .
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said Thursday they have considered such a complex for about six
years, but only recently have they recognized the bad aspects that
result from building additions to exisiting buildings.
Bissett said the individual departmental needs were reevaluated
and planning officials “came to the recommendation that it would
be better not to make additions but to bring together the various
departments and release space.” Adequate facilities for the depart
ments would require tremendous space not available in the present
core area.
He emphasized the decision concerning the use of the athletic
facilities would implicitly relate to other decisions the committee
and planners must make.
DECISION MUST BE QUICK
The use of the athletic department land could be changed in phases,
but a basic decision must be made soon, according to Bissett. If the
fields are not going to be turned over to academic buildings eventual
ly, the University must plan now to expand in some other direction.
Although fine arts department officials have said the fields are
ideal sites for a creative and performing arts complex, they would
not object to such a project on another site, such as east of Agate
St., where former married student housing is located. They just
want the urgent needs of the music and drama departments for space
satisfied
Three other large land areas were explored for possible Univer
sity use by OPIR. Northwest Christian College is considering a move
to larger facilities, but no official negotiations have been started for
purchase of the college site by the University.
West of the 240 acre campus is a high land value area with many
new apartment buildings. Bissett said Monday in order to purchase
a useful land area west of the University it would be necessary to
condemn block-size sections. The estimated cost of purchasing 900,000
square feet, the size of the current athletic fields, wouild be $4.5 to 5
million. Such a move “might represent a real difficulty for the Uni
versity in assembling such a large piece of land,” Bissett said.
A third sizeable land area adjacent to the University, the Pioneer
Cemetery, has dropped from competition for now because a bill to
purchase the cemetery died in the 1969 legislature.
Other considerations of OPIR during the formulation of the plan
were full-time equivalent (FTE) student projections and the accom
panying space requirements, a non-limited enrollment policy, and
departmental growth and facility requirements projections prepared
last spring.
‘UNFORTUNATE’ PLAN
University planners have had two basic alternatives to consider
when trying to expand the academic core. The spaces between exist
ing buildings could be filled with other buildings, which Bissett says
would be “unfortunate.”
Filling in the present campus with high buildings could provide
enough floor space for larger enrollments, but many projects, such as
the proposed creative and performing arts center, require large
ground-level areas. „ . .
To meet floor space requirements for our present enrollment ot
over 15 000 students requires another million more square feet of
floor space than we presently have. An additional million square feet
of floor space will be required for an enrollment of 20,000 students.
Moving of the athletic facilities could answer two basic problems.
As presented, the plan is the most economical way the University
can acquire land. That land is also close to the present academic
core
A quick decision will have to be made in the light of close dead
lines for building projects to be considered by the next legislature
for funding. The decision also must related to basic planning policies
to be used to plan future expansion of the University, according to
Bissett In order to keep the same land-use intensity and allow for
unlimited growth the University must get more land or reorganize
the land already in use.
Housing Office ready
to hear complaints
Students will be able to air
their gripe about landlords and
apartments at a table on the
EMU Terrace today, the ASUO
Housing Office announced Mon
day.
The table, which will be manned
from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., is
the first activity of the housing
office since it was formed by the
ASUO Senate last week, accord
ing to Jim Teasdale, director.
The complaints received at the
table will be followed up, Teas
dale said, and individual housing
Tuesday, October J1, 1969
problems will be solved wherever
possible.
In addition, he said, the com
plaints will give the Housing Of
fice personnel a better idea of
where the problems are.
“If we get a lot of complaints
from one apartment house, for
example, we might consider or
ganizing the tenants in that
building.
Right now, he said, the office is
focusing on getting at the “nit
ty-gritty problems” while still
doing research on the broader
problem.
fare as a conflict of ideologies
not as a conflict between indivi
duals.
The neatly bearded man added,
“It is non-sensical for a Chris
tian man to allow himself to be
handed over to an organization
which will function to teach him
how to hate and effectively kill an
other individual whom he does
not even know.”
Bellinger, a draft board offi
cial, explained the reasons why
the current laws were enacted.
He said the original laws, enact
ed during World War II ex
pired in 1947, but were extend
ed because President Harry Tru
man felt he couldn’t effectively
defend the country with only
a standing army. Bellinger add
ed the Selective Service System
is an effective way to pressure
young men into the military serv
ice.
The panel members agreed that
the average American’s knowl
edge about the draft is notice
ably deficient, but conflict arose
between Titus and Bellinger on
whether the draft board gives
idequate information concerning
the laws governing conscientious
objectors.
Titus stated that in Eugene,
until two or three years ago, there
wasn’t any organization where
draft information could be ob
tained. The only way to avoid
the draft then was to have a
medical deferment or to work
in the defense industry.
Bellinger contended every po
tential draftee is given adequate
formation to decide his classifi
cation when he turns 18.
If a person wants to change
his draft status, he must write to
his draft board requesting a per
sonal appearance. He is then giv
en an informal hearing in which
his case is decided by the mem
bers of the board. If still not sat
isfied with his status he can ap
peal to a civil court.
Titus discussed the problems in
trying to obtain a conscientious
objector status. He argued the
prohibition of lawyers in a hear
Minorities to be involved
in ASUO government
In order to involve the Uni
versity’s minority students in the
student-governing process, the
ASUO executive branch has re
cently formed the Minority Coali
tion.
The coalition, composed of an
elected representative from the
Black Student Union, the Chicano
Student Union and the Indian
Student Union, was formed be
cause of a breakdown in commu
nication, according to an ASUO
memorandum outlining the coali
tion.
“The mood of the present
ASUO executives is consistent
with the aims of these groups and
rather than second guessing each
other we have set up a real sys
tem of communication and ex
change of advice between the
ASUO, the poverty programs and
the minority student unions,”
said the memorandum.
The memorandum explained
the rationale behind the coalition
as being both to prevent the
communication breakdown and to
enable minority students, who be
cause of discrimination and lack
of campaign expenses have here
tofore been locked out of ASUO
positions, to enter into the de
cision making processes.
The group will function as an
advisory council to both the
SAB to study policy
on group membership
Introduction of new board
members and a decision on mem
bership requirements for Univer
sity recognized organizations will
head the agenda for the Student
Administration Board (SAB)
meeting at 4:30 p.m. today in
101 EMU.
SAB will discuss whether or
not policy should be changed to
open organization membership to
students of all local academic
communities. Presently policy
states that only University stu
dents, faculty and staff and their
families may vote or hold office
in recognized groups.
At the first meeting, the board
temporarily granted a request by
the Arab students that their or
ganization be allowed to include
students from Lane Community
College as full members.
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The coalition will also provide
a two-way link between the pov
erty projects—Upward Bound,
Project 75 and the High School
Equivalency Program (HEP) —
and minority student unions and
the ASUO.
The members of the group,
which has been recognized by
the ASUO Senate and given the
task of recruiting ethnic repre
sentatives for the proposed Eth
nic Studies Center, are respon
sible to their unions first and
secondarily to the ASUO execu
tive branch, according to the
ASUO outline.
The group will be able to initi
ate policy through the ASUO.
ing hampers arguments for the
objector. The ban on tape re
corders in the hearing room hin
ders the man from appealing the
case on the grounds the hearing
was misconducted.
Titus also noted that the use
of personal witnesses by the ob
jector has been slight. During
a year’s time only one witness
was allowed to testify. All other
witnesses were denied the right to
testify, he claimed.
Titus stated the ones who real
ly judge the draft status of the
applicants are the board clerks
He cited February figures of the
Eugene draft board. With 749
applicants, it took the board
only eight hours to decide tnese
cases. Subtracting time taken for
lunch and for draft board hear
ings held that day, the approxi
mate average time for each re
maining reclassification was 3.5
seconds.
“This puts a heavy load of re
sponsibility on the local clerks
since the board members couldn’t
possibly determine that many in
dividual cases during that time,’’
said Titus.
Bellinger replied by saying only
XO per cent of the registrants
needed consideration and the
rest of the cases were routine.
Bellinger told the group the
only requirement for board mem
bers is that they be 30 years of
age and clerks have only to show
typing ability and average intel
ligence.
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