Amchitka blast
subject of vigil
at IRS today
By TORRIE McALLISTER
Of the Emerald
A vigil calling for a halt to the
controversial Amchitka nuclear
test will form on the EMU terrace
at 12:30 p.m. today, and continue
at the IRS building until the blast
is called off. In between , the
International Coalition to Stop
the War (ICAT),vigil organizers,
has arranged for a speaker
program at the downtown mall.
Peter Jacobs, ICAT
spokesman, describes the vigil as
a final plea of concerned people
to ask the United States
government to reconsider the
Amchika test, and the idea that
nuclear war will ever be an an
swer to world problems. He said
that the vigil is being held today
internationally in Canada and
Japan, as well as across the
United States.
The vigil procession will begin
moving toward the downtown
mall at about 1:30 p.m. Jacobs
said. A stop will be made at the
Internal Revenue Service where
a small part of the group will
begin a vigil watch which is to be
kept continuously until the test is
called off or the bomb explodes.
“We want to keep a constant
number of people at the IRS
building 24 hours a day. This
means that people will have to
work together, spelling each
other so that everybody can have
time to go home to eat and
sleep.” Jacobs said.
At the mall people will be
addressed by Ken Kesey, author
of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s
Nest; City Councilwoman Wickes
Beale; Leroy Owens,
representative to the Oregon
State Legislature; Jim Weaver,
former candidate for U.S.
Congress; and a speaker from
the Women’s International
League for Peace and Freedom,
Jacobs said.
“Speakers will be asked to keep
their addresses brief, and we
expect forum to last for two to
three hours.”
The Lane County-Veterans will
be in attendance but will not be
serving as the marshals for the
vigil.
According to Jacobs there will
be a telegraph table where people
will be able to send public opinion
wires. A telegram will cost $1.25.
Jacobs said that because of
crowded parking conditions at
the IRS building, not all the
crowd will go to the IRS vigil
when the forum is over. However,
he encourages everyone to spend
sometime at the IRS vigil sight.
At 7:30 p.m. the community is
invited to a panel discussion
teach-in in the EMU with
professors from the University.
The panel will include a
geophysicist, a radiation expert,
and a political science professor,
Jacobs said.
“This will be an informative
session to help put some of the
rumors about the Amchitka test
into perspective. The professors
will not be taking a pro or con
stand on the issues. They will be
addressing their comments to
their knowlege of their fields,”
Jacobs said.
“These people are experts. We
hope people will take advantage
of the opportunity they have
offered us to develop our
awareness by volunteering their
time.”
ASUO President More has
urged students to participate in
the vigil activities. He released
the following statement Tuesday:
“The ASUO agrees with the
Atomic Energy Commission’s
own evaluation commission when
it says that the need for the
Pictured left to right are Ellen Bepp, Jamal Rahman, and Esaway Amashe who spoke at Tuesday’s
symposium on prisons. The theme of their talks was prison conditions in foreign countries.
Amchitka tests ‘should be
compelling if they are to be
conducted in the face of the
possible risks that have been
identified.’ But there are no
compelling needs.
“The ASUO perceives the risks
involved as:
1) The effects of the blast are at
best unpredictable; at worst they
may well trigger off a major
earthquake and tidal wave.
2) The Nevada test site has a
history of radiation leakage. The
Alaskan site invites a great risk
of radioactive leakage into the
Bering Sea.
3) The risk of endangering
SALT (Stratigic Arms Limitation
Treaty) talk.
“The ASUO would urge all
students and commuity people to
sign a tetition on the EMU
Terrace by Wednesday,
November 3rd. This will be wired
to the President. Also, in
dividual wires to the President
and Senators or Congressmen are
of the greatest urgency.
The Amchitka test vigil has
also received the approval of
George McGovern, (D-S.D.),
Congressman Paul McCloskey
( R. -Cal.), and former Oregon
senator, Wayne Morse.
McGovern’s statement to ICAT
reads:
“Brothers and Sisters:
“In the past few years a
popular debate among cynics has
revolved around the question of
whether the world would end with
a bang or a whimper.
"The Amchitka nuclear test
scheduled to take place next
week offers fuel for both sides of
the question. The short-range
dangers of the explosion range
from earthquakes to tidal waves,
while the long range dangers
include possible radiation
poisoning of the air and water.
The only excuse for the AEC is to
give bureaucrats something to do
with their time.
“I have called on President
Nixon to turn away from both
end of the world theories—I have
called him to accept a third
alternative, a world peace where
our time and resources are
devoted to the stuff cf life and not
to the instruments of death."
Morse stated in a letter to 1CAT
that the "Amchitka test blast is
indefensible.
"We already have a nuclear
weapon overkill so superior to
Russia or any combination of
nuclear powers that we should be
urging world support for
dismantling nuclear might on the
part of all nations rather than
further endangering the peace of
the world.”
McCloskey said Tuesday at the
Geological Society of America’s
83rd convention in Washington
that, "The Nixon Administration
has refused to disclose adverse
environmental impact
statements to Congress. The
Congress is getting more ac
curate information from 25-year
old geologists than from the
assistant secretaries of cabinet
officers."
Fewer police for campus part of pending contract
By CLAY EALS
Of the Emerald
Fewer Eugene Police detectives and patrolmen will
be keeping watch regularly on the University campus
this fall.
This is one aspect of the new contract for this year
between the City of Eugene and the State Board of
Higher Education for police services on the University
campus.
The new contract has not yet been signed by either
party and is currently being redrafted and typed. Vice
President for Student Services Gerald Bogen says it will
be signed in the next few weeks.
If the new parts of the contract are approved by both
the University and the City of Eugene, there will be, in
effect:
—Three patrolmen shifts instead of four shifts,
seven days a week, 38 weeks a year.
—Two patrolmen shifts (same as last year), seven
days a week, 52 weeks a year.
-One detective shift instead of three shifts, five
days a week, 38 weeks a year.
—One detective shift instead of two shifts, five days
a week, 52 weeks a year.
—A new “position”—a sergeant will be in charge of
the patrolmen and detectives on campus, who will work
five days a week, 38 weeks a year.
(A shift of 52 weeks is for all year-round, white 38
weeks is the length of the shift for just the school year.)
Vice President Bogen calls the reduction in number
of shifts “essentially the same manpower coverage of
the University.” In fact, Bogen says the new
arrangement will provide “better coverage—because
the schedules are better established. We know more
about when they’re going to be here.”
Bogen adds he feels it is “not as appropriate” this
year to have the same number of detectives.
If the new parts of the contract are approved, the
University will pay the City of Eugene less money than it
did last year. TTiis year’s budget calls for $120,688 to be
paid the city, whereas last year’s contract was for
$121 ,*».
Another change from last year’s contract is an in
creased hourly provision for overtime pay—the
University is to pay $7.50 instead of $7.06 an hour for
EPD overtime work on campus.
The contract presently reads that there can be an
unlimited amount of overtime work done by the Eugene
Police detectives and patrolmen “with University ap
proval.” Bogen says he is working on establishing a limit
on overtime work.
“The way it’s written out now is inadequate," he
says. For example, he says It is difficult for the
University to plan in the fall for possible overtime work
by the EPD during the following spring.
This year is the second year of a unique
arrangement between the University and the City of
Eugene for police services. A new department, the
Office of Campus Security, located in Alpha-Straub, was
created last fall and combined a campus security force
of nigh (watchmen, traffic officers, student workers and
the Eugene policemen.
OCS still coordinates the efforts of the city
policemen and the other members of the security force,
but Bogen says the EPD is gradually, informally
creating a “campus division" of police coverage by
putting a sergeant in charge of all officers regularly
petroling the campus.
The basic function of the Eugene Police patrolmen
and detectives on campus is to deal with thefts on
campus, thefts which in past years have numbered, at
times, from 20-30 a week and 12000 worth of stolen goods.
The EPD crew is responsible for a boxed area
around the University, bounded on the north by the
Southern Pacific right-of-way beyond the Physical
Plant, on the south by 18th Ave., on the east by Villard St.
and on the • <*t by Alder St