Two members of PIE stamp warnings on tax forms at IRS building. No arrests were made
Stamp tax forms at IRS
Group protests war costs
Three persons from Peace Investors of Eugene
(PIE), stamped warnings on tax forms at the In
ternal Revenue Service building Wednesday in an
attempt to inform taxpayers of how their money is
being spent.
Although it was a possibility that the PIE
representatives could have been arrested for their
actions, no arrests were made, and no law en
forcement officials were in the IRS lobby at the
time.
PIE requested of IRS, the main post office and the
campus branch of the U.S. National Bank to post
information which stated that 64.1 per cent of the
Senate meets tonight
Candidates for the ASUO President and Vice
presidency will present their positions and be
available for questioning at tonights’ ASUO senate
meeting.
The senate meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in 101
EMU, and the candidates forum will begin about 8
p.m., Senate President David Jennings said.
In other business the senate will consider former
senator Fred Loveys' senate re-apportionment
plan, and finalize IUS delegate selection
procedures.
collected taxes are spent on military purposes
As of Tuesday, both the bank and the post office
had complied with PIE’s request. IRS refused
PIE representatives approached IRS officials
again Wednesday morning, and Don Shade
supervisor of the IRS group in charge of collections.
said, “we refused at that time also to post the
material.”
Because PIE had warned IRS officials they would
stamp available tax forms with “Warning: More
than one-half of your taxes go for war,” the forms
were removed from racks in the lobby of the IRS
building.
At 9:50a.m., PIE representatives Charles Gray
46, and Peter Bates, 22, both of 1059 Hilyard St., and
Doug Anderson, 21, a senior in journalism at the
University, brought into the IRS lobby tax forms
and instruction booklets they had collected at other
distribution points.
They stamped each one with the warning and
placed them on the racks.
Shade then removed the forms, saying, "We can’t
leave them there because some taxpayers may not
want the stamps there, and we have to protect their
rights.”
PIE stamped and placed the forms on the racks
twice more within a 45 minute period, and both
times Shade removed them.
Gray said PIE might return to IRS later, but no
formal plans were made.
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ASUO Cultural Forum
HPUP hearing held,
Dad’s room packed
More than 100 persons jammed
into 101 EMU Wednesday af
ternoon to hear representatives
of the sub-departments of
Chinese and Japanese and the
interdisciplinary Asian studies
program defend their degree
offerings before HPUP.
And they applauded at nearly
every presentation made during
the one and a half hour-long
hearing.
The hearing was the third in a
series scheduled by HPUP—the
Hearing Panel on University
Priorities. Budget units
requesting hearings are
responding to HPUP’s March 17
22 recommended cuts of nearly 2
million dollars for 1972-73.
HPUP has scheduled a
deliberative session for 7:30 p.m.
today in the Johnson Hall con
ference room.
At Wednesday’s hearing, the
panel heard verbal presentations
from Angela Palandri, associate
professor of Chinese; Theodore
Stern, head of the department of
anthropology; Burton Moyer,
dean of the College of Liberal
Arts; Michael Fish, visiting
assistant professor of Chinese;
David Jennings, ASUO Senate
President; Yoko McClain, in
structor in Japanese; University
student, Kevin Maloney, senior;
Esther Leong, assistant
professor of art history; Marjorie
Lee, graduate student; Carol
Cross, chairman of the Black
Graduate Student Council;
Charles Porter, candidate for the
Democratic nomination for 4th
District Congress; and Tom
Brady, assistant professor of
history.
Ms. Palandri appealed for re
instatement of $3,424 and $6,177
for Chinese and Japanese,
respectively, which HPUP had
recommended be cut. Her appeal
was made "in terms of student
interest, and the importance of
these languages."
The recommended cuts in
Chinese, which would mean
suspension of the major in
Chinese and reduction of
literature courses, drew com
ment from Ms. Palandri.
She said the lack of knowledge
about the degree program in
Chinese has hampered the
number of Chinese majors. “Our
degree programs are still very
young and not well known even to
people on this campus.
“One professor advised a
student who wished to change his
major to Chinese, 'If you want to
be exotic, study Icelandic. What
is there to read in Chinese but
laundry slips and restaurant
menus?' And when a transfer
student last term wanted to
register as a Chinese major,
someone in the Registrar's Office
obligingly told her to major in
something else, since HPUP
wanted to eliminate it.
it is a wonder that we still
have at least two dozen declared
majors this term,” she said.
But Ms. Palandri emphasized
that student interest in Chinese
classes is large, citing a study
done by business school graduate
student Jim Davis which showed
a 26.1 per cent increase in student
credit hours for the department
of Classics, Chinese and
Japanese between 1968 and 1971.
“The increase for Chinese and
Japanese alone is actually more
dramatic,” she said.
“Personally, I am perfectly
willing to offer a salary cut” of
$3,424, which is the amount
HPUP recommended be cut from
Chinese, "if it means saving the
degree program from ex
termination,” she added.
“And I will even write to HEW
(the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare) to ex
plain that my action is entirely
voluntary, with no discrimination
of sex or race involved.”
Fish told the panelists that
suspending the degree program
in Chinese would seriously
hamper Chinese students. “The
fourth year (of study) can make
all the difference. Without the
fourth year, a student has a
beginning which won’t go
anywhere on its own.” He added,
“The cuts don’t hurt our hopes or
our dreams—they hurt what we
are now.”
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