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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1970)
Nerve gas protest activities to be main concern of SDS By JOHN LANIER or the Emerald About 35 members of the University’s Students for a Dem ocratic Society (SDS) discussed plans for political activities to be conducted in the period before the end of the term at a meeting early Wednesday afternoon. They also criticized mistakes the group had made in the past, and discussed methods to cor rect these deficiencies. Student Marty Bennett said the group should concentrate its en ergies on a series of protest ac tivities against planned shipments of thousands of tons of nerve gas to the Pacific Northwest. Holladay protest The first of these protests, he sat'd, will be held this Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at Holladay Park in Portland. It will be an attempt to “coalesce as many people as possible in one place” to demon strate opposition to the chemical weapons and to hear a number of notable speakers, he added. The group also discussed the possibility of a mass demonstra tion at the naval station in Ban gor, Wash., where the gas is ex pected to land, if the Pentagon goes ahead with its plans. Students attending the meeting then signed up to work on vari ous aspects of organizing for the demonstrations, including trans portation, leafletting and public ity. Better organization Sticking to plans for the fu ture, several students then spoke on the need for better structural organization within the campus political movement. Several SDS members then crit icized the general tenor of the organization, which they said is overly-critical of individuals and insufficiently critical of their methods and ideas. Another said that some of those involved tend to “harrangue” to an excessive degree those who do not agree with SDS politics rather than carrying on adequate discussions with them on the is sues. “I think that if we are go ing to change things, which is what we all want to do,” he added, “we have to do things Candidates show liberal attitudes Liberal arts candidates for the Faculty Senate show a “surpris ing liberality on campus issues,” according to Shirley Terreberry, chairman of (he Student Faculty Coalition's Election Committee. The committee recently com - pleted and released a survey cov ering the candidate's responses to 15 measures which have been or soon will be topics before the Senate. Of nine candidates responding, all nine favored ending ROTC con tracts, and seven said they would Suspects arrested on theft charge Three people were arrested Tuesday morning and charged with breaking into vending ma chines in a University dormitory. Arrested an hour after the theft had occurred were Allen Hoffman, who listed his residence at a University dormitory; Ste phen Robert Cohn of Elmira and a 17-year-old boy who was tak en to Skipworth Juvenile Home pending action by the juvenile court. According to the Register Guard, the Eugene police appre hended the trio while they were having breakfast at a Franklin Blvd. restaurant only a couple of blocks from where the crime was committed. Officers told the Register-Guard that the suspects allegedly used a pry bar to force open several machines in the basement of Car son Hall. It wasn't immediately known how many machines were entered or the total amount of money taken. A witness living in the dormi tory saw the suspects by the vending machine at about 4:30 a.m and reported it to the head resident, who called the police. The suspects were arrested at 5:30 am. University ! Theatre Now Playing All Seats Reserved $2 50-3 50, 342-1411, X17P1 PiOt 4 favor replacing the Faculty Sen ate with a legislative body equal 1> divided between students and faculty. The liberal arts faculty is scheduled to elect six repiesen tatives to the Senate at a May 25 meeting. Included in the slate are 12 candidates. Of the 12, two were unwilling to complete the forms and one was out of town. According to Miss Terreberry, the survey was conducted to pro vide voting faculty members with some guide as to the candidates’ opinions on topics of concern on the campus. “In the area of liberal arts there are so many instructors that not everyone knows the can didates personally, or knows what they stand for,” she said. A similar survey was conduct ed in the CSPA school where only one representative will be elected from a two-man slate. Representatives were elected in each of the other eight schools or departments conducting elec tions this term, before similar surveys could be conducted. Body to deliberate charges on Wainer A University faculty commit tee began deliberations Tuesday on charges that research asso ciate Irving Wainer is guilty of "conduct flagrancy unbecoming a faculty member." The ad hoc committee will con tinue its deliberations in execu tive session next Tuesday, when it expects to make a recommen dation to University President Robert Clark regarding the facts in the case and what, if any. action he should take. Wainer is charged by the ad ministration of having disrupted a faculty meeting on Jan. 14, disrupted Duck Preview Feb. 3 during the Weyerhaeuser re - cruiting incident. Public hearings were held dur ing April and May to hear the administration's charges and Wainer s defense. The purpose of the hearings is not for "termina tion for cause." ..—| If you haven't tried | Miniature Golf, come on out. I We have a treat for you! ■ the Putting Green which relate to working class people.” And, he continued, carrying NLF flags and chanting pro-Viet Cong statements ‘‘are alienating those people.” He suggested that the organi zation concentrate on the matter of nerve gas as an issue which can increase the political aware ness of large numbers of people. . If the Pentagon goes ahead with shipping plans, he explain ed, this decision made “over the heads of the people” will reveal to many just how “powerless” the common man is in this coun try. No compromise Others responded that the or ganization’s support for the NLF is part of its ideological foun dations, and that ideology should never be compromised. Those goals of the NLF and those of the working class are es sentially the same, and the two struggles should be linked up in the minds of working class Am ericans. “The people in this room aren’t going to make the revolution,” a final speaker concluded. “The peo ple out there (in the community) are going to have to do so.” BULLETIN: CSPA Is now accepting applications from those who intend to become new majors in the school next fall. See Sue Roberson, 119 Hendricks, ext. 2601 Deadline May 29th — Now or Never! I- -- -■ ~ tell us what you think about: —THE WAR —STUDENT UNREST • •• /om in on INTERFACE: Our Community Faces the Issues on PL-3/Cable Channel 10 THURSDAY, MAY 21, 8-11 P.M. 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