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University of Oregon, Eugene, Monday, October 5, 1970 Vol. LXXII, No. 18
No suspects yet in $50,000 PLC bombing
By ART BUSHNELL
Of the Emerald
Eugene city police reported Sunday they had no
suspects in the Friday night bombing of Prince Lucien
Campbell Hall, which caused an estimated $50,000
damage to the building.
Materials gathered from the ground floor scene of the
explosion, whch occurred at about 9:20 p.m., have been
sent to the department’s crime laboratory but as of
Sunday there had been no arrests.
No one was injured, although one campus security
officer and almost a dozen faculty members were
working in the building at the time of the blast.
No warning was received prior to the blast.
Eugene police officials have not yet determined what
caused the explosion. However, Oakley Glenn, new chief
of the University’s Office of Campus Security, declared
the explosion was apparently caused by “some kind of
explosive device.”
According to Eugene police Lieutenant Patrick
Larian, the explosion originated from a ground floor
lavatory. No fires occurred.
Sgt. Larry Spencer of the Eugene police, said Sunday
night he was “not even sure they have verified that
dynamite caused the explosion, that was just a smell in
the air when people arrived at the scene. We have not
determined the types of explosives used and nothing has
been received back from the crime laboratory.”
Although structural damage had been feared Friday
night, University Business Manager Walter McLaughlin
said engineers had been called in over the weekend and
their preliminary investigation had shown it “safe for
people to be back in the building” and had found “no
noticeable structural damage.”
McLaughlin would not revise the $50,000 damage
estimate made by Eugene Fire Department Battalion
Chief Frank Stronach until engineers and architects had
had a chance to thoroughly examine the structure, and
process he estimated might take up to two weeks.
The University Business Manager said with damage to
“cracked plaster, wires, plumbin and everything else”
there was “no way to give a reasonable estimate until
after the professionals go over the building.”
The weekend examination of the building took place to
ascertain whether or not it would be safe for University
personnel to return to work in their offices and for
classes to be held in PLC today.
McLaughlin said as far as the engineer could deter
mine, until the rubble on the ground floor is cleared
away and further examination is possible, there was no
structural damage.
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Campus violence main topic of Government Day
By HARRIET FOTIS
Of the Emerald
An over-riding concern with campus
disorders and student violence heightened
by Friday’s bombing of PLC dominated
the discussion between University
representatives and state and local of
ficials at Saturday’s annual Government
Day.
Government Day is a University
sponsored event to promote discussion
between lawmakers and the University
community.
In his opening remarks to the
legislators, University President Robert
Clark called the bombing an “outrageous
act...that can only create frustration and
anger in the people of this community and
state.”
The expression of shock and deep
concern in the faces of the students present
at PLC in the aftermath of Friday’s
bombing was a “moving experience” said
Clark.
ASUO President Ron Eachus, in an
swer to a legislator’s question, agreed with
Clark that “the majority of students were
shocked and surprised that it (the bom
bing) did happen on campus.”
In his prepared text for presentation to
the 150 persons gathered for the day’s
activities, Clark asked the legislators to
try and understand some of the sources
and anxieties of student unrest.
Clark said that even though “in a
recent report Oregon was listed among the
half-dozen states in this country with the
lowest incidence of campus protests...that
is not to say that our students are com
placent.”
Clark said that he liked the radicals.
He finds in them, “a rugged honesty, a
contempt for hypocrisy, a willingness to
challenge and test ideas, a rebellious spirit
that will produce men and not
sychophants, a compassion for the op
pressed, a commitment to values that can,
if it does not go awry, make a better
society.”
He attributed the limited amount of
violence and disruption on campus last
year to the efforts of University faculty
and students who, “would not support or
condone violence or disruption.”
The University, Clark said, is more
effective in resolving nonviolent disrup
tions than law enforcement agencies. He
agreed with a recent remark by President
Nixon in that “the university if it has the
will, is more competent than the govern
ment to deal with these cases.”
In the discussion period that followed
President Clark’s remarks, ASUO
President Ron Eachus told the gathering
that he could see no reason why the left or
right would want to bomb PLC.
The poverty programs at the
University were also discussed briefly.
Clark said that he considered “The most
serious domestic problem to be the plight
of the minority people.”
He spoke of the minority programs in
progress at the University and explained
to the legislators the desperate need for
funds to help support the programs.