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.
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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."
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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!
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