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Today
ASUO elections continue
ASUO Vice-President Mike Kment reported “a
heavy turn-out despite the weather” for the first
day of the final elections Thursday.
“Today’s turnout is comparable to last spring’s
turnout when we had over 5.000 votes,” he added.
“Of course it will help if the weather clears up. ’’
Students are voting for next year’s ASUO
President and Vice-President as well as choosing
between some 30 candidates for ASUO Senate
positions, and representatives for NSA, IUSOSSHE
and OSPIRG.
| Today is the last day to vote in the election.
Polling places are located at the PLC quad, at the
EMU, the Carson Quad and Commonwealth Hall.
Last day to drop
Today is the last day to drop a course and also to
make credit changes.
Drop-Add forms may be obtained at the Office
of the Registrar from 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m.
A department stamp is required for each drop or
credit change. Drop charge is $1 per course.
Employees chartered
Joseph Ames, International Secretary
Treasurer of the American Federation of State,
County, and Municipal Employees, will officially
present the University Employees Union with their
charter today.
This local unit is the only one in the United
States consisting of part-time student workers. At
present, the Union is negotiating an initial contract
with the University.
The ceremony will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the
John Jones’ room, Eugene Hotel.
City votes ‘yes’
on war referendum
It still may not be possible to say that most people in
Eugene oppose the Vietnam war, but most people who
voted Thursday do.
Eugene citizens approved Thursday a referendum
calling for withdrawal of American military forces and
material from Indochina by no later than Dec. 31,1971 by
a 5,470 to 3,957 margin.
At the same time, the city budget, which was the
vehicle for the referendum, was defeated 5,622 to 4,474.
The city had requested a $2.2 million increase above the
six per cent property tax limitation required by Oregon
law. It would have increased property tax $21.40 for each
$20,000 of property.
A slightly higher than usual 27 per cent of registered
voters turned out to mark ballots Thursday. In the past,
city budget elections have drawn only 18 to 26 per cent.
Measure 52, the antiwar referendum, was placed on
Thursday’s special election ballot by the city council at
the request of the Spring Action Coordinating Committee
of Eugene under the title: “Advisory vote on Southeast
Asia war withdrawal.”
The ballot resolution reads: “We the people of the
city of Eugene. Oregon, hereby request the President
and Congress of the U.S. to begin immediately the total
withdrawal of U.S. military and material from
Southeast Asia and to complete such total withdrawal no
later than December 31, 1971.”
Included in the city budget request was $38,000 for
additional summertime employment positions for high
schools and college youth. At present the city annually
employs 150 youths in many of the departments.
Councilwoman Wicks Beal said Monday night that if
the budget were not passed, the city would most likely
have to cut out the program.
Also planned by the City Council as part of their
$14,000 allocated for Health and Welfare was $8,000 to be
donated to White Bird Clinic for treatment of youthful
abusers of drugs and narcotics.
Last year the City of Eugene gave White Bird $4,700.
In an effort to speed the court process by cutting
paper work, $43,000 had been allocated for the com
puterization of police and court records as the third and
final phase of a program started two years ago.
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OREGON DAILY
Vol. LXXII, No. 152
University of Oregon, Eugene, Friday, May 21,1971
Knight pleads innocent
to disorderly conduct
A University senior convicted of “disrupting
University functions” during a May 5 takeover of
Army ROTC in a student court trial earlier this
week has pleaded innocent to disorderly conduct
charges in Eugene Municipal Court which stem
from the same incident.
Nancy Knight, who was suspended from school
for fall term 1971 in student court Monday for
disrupting the functions of ROTC during the May 5
liberation and occupation of the building, was
arrested Wednesday night on two municipal court
warrants issued in connection with her actions in
the Army ROTC building during the day.
The warrants charge that she used “coarse and
obscene language” against Army Capt. Victor
Takao and used a squirt gun against Army Capt.
John Lambert during the demonstration. Both
officers are instructors in the University’s ROTC
program.
Similar charges were made in student court to
show that Miss Knight disrupted the normal func
tions of ROTC.
Neither Capt. Lambert or Takao would com
ment on whether they had personally filed the
charges against Miss Knight or on why the charges
were filed at this time.
Lambert said he knew who made the complaint
but added, “I have no comment” on who it was.
Takao said he was “not free to discuss” who
filed the complaint, adding he didn’t wish to make
any further comment until he was legally bound to
do so.
However, Miss Knight said that the two com
plaints had been filed by the two captains.
Donald McCarty, co-ordinator of the Univer
sity’s conduct program was out of town Thursday
night and unable to comment on the issue of a
person being charged before both student court and
Municipal Court, in relation to the same incident.
Miss Knight was one of three students found
guilty of conduct “which intentionally obstructs or
disrupts the University functions” during the
Monday trial. She and Beula Wood were both
suspended for fall term. The third student, Michael
Berry, was placed on probation for the 1971-72
school year.
Student busted
after sit-in
One University student was arrested Thursday
afternoon on two counts of assault and battery as
the result of her participation in an anti-war
demonstration at the Air Force Recruiting center.
About 15 to 20 members of the Women’s Union
held a sit-in in the Air Force office and were told by
Eugene Police officers they would have to leave
within two minutes or be subject to arrest on
disorderly conduct charges. The demonstrators left
and started to march around the building.
According to the Eugene Police, Lyn Shapiro
was arrested after she attacked an officer taking
pictures and civilian employe of the department
who went to assist the photographer.
She is lodged at the City-County jail with bail set
at $1,000.
Members of the Women’s Union told the
Emerald that Miss Shapiro used her sign to stop the
picture taking At that time the civilian aide to EPD
Chief Dale Allen grabbed the sign and the girl
resisted said the eyewitnesses. The demonstrators
then said a uniformed officer approached and made
the arrest.
A spokesman for the Women’s Union told the
Emerald the sit-in was held at Air Force Recruiting
center because the “massive bombing of Vietnam is
their responsibility. Even after we pull out the
troops the bombing will continue.”
Photo by Peter wemrobe
Exact figures are checked by poll workers at 10 p.m. Thursday night
on the Eugene antiwar referendum and city budget election at the
Einance Dept, of the City Hall complex downtown.
Drive, He Said" on rough road
Film faces local suits
“Drive, He Said,” a film made at the University last
spring involving nude scenes shot on campus, will be
released this summer.
X-rated by the Motion Picture Assn, of America, the
film, which is currently facing two lawsuits, is about a
college basketball player and what is happening to his life.
Much of the film focuses on campus disruption and parts
of it were filmed during actual demonstrations at Johnson
Hall last spring.
“Drive” will be released during late June and early July.
Columbia Pictures’ president, Leo Jaffe, recently said
that his company had never made an X-rated film and would
emphasize G and GP pictures. Columbia will appeal the X
rating given to “Drive,” asking for an R-rating, according to
the company’s publicity manager Jack Nicholas.
Jaffe prepared the following statement on the matter,
Nicholas said:
“The theme of the picture is serious and the use of
language or sex alone does not make it objectionable. It is
neither pornographic nor obscene. It is a happening that
exists in today’s society, and parents should be afforded the
right to determine whether or not their children should see
the picture.”
His statement said the film had been “screened for many
groups which agree that it is a picture of great significance
and should not be an X-rated picture.”
Nicholas said he doesn’t know whether or not the film
will be released on schedule if the R-rating appeal fails.
“Drive, He Said,” which was the first attempt at
directing by actor Jack Nicholson, stars Mike Warren, a
former basketball player from UCLA, and Karen Black, who
won an Academy Award nomination for her performance in
“Five Easy Pieces.” “Drive” is currently an American
entry in the Cannes Film Festival.
Segments of the film were shot at McArthur Court last
April and involved former University basketball player Billy
Gaskins.
The two suits which the film faces are:
•$5500 against Drive Productions, Inc., and J. Stephen
Blauner, the film’s producer, filed by Winfred Smith, a
University security officer, who alleged that he was hit by an
automobile when he attempted to intervene during filming of
a nude scene. Trial will be July 1 at Lane County Circuit
Court
• $525,000 against Drive Productions, Inc., filed by the
University, which contends that producers of the film
violated terms of a contract signed in February 1970 which
gave the firm the right to use the campus as a background.
University officials say the contract provided that the
University not be identified by name and that no nude scenes
or drug use be shown. The suit is pending