Irv Wainer of SUAW speaks to a crowd of approximately 150 attending
an anti-ROTC rally in front of the EMU.
Anti-war groups support
Vietnamese victory at rally
Claiming that ROTC and the
American destruction of In
dochina are inseparable, about
150 students attended a rally
supporting Vietnamese victory at
12:30 yesterday in front of the
EMU.
The demonstration, sponsored
by the Student Union Against the
War (SUAW) and People for a
Just University (PJU) was an
attempt to gather student support
for a resolution by associate
professor of biology Bayard
McConnaughey. The resolution
called for the elimination of the
existing ROTC program. The
faculty later defeated the
resolution by a 224-141 vote.
McConnaughey, speaking
before the crowd, declared that
the United States government is
waging a “symbolic war in In
dochina” in an attempt to warn
all Third World people that we
will protect our vested interests
at all costs. “It is time to make
our own symbolic gesture of
peace by eliminating ROTC,” he
said.
Other speakers lashed out at
HPUP. “We get body counts from
Vietnam and F.T.E. counts
here,” claimed one speaker
referring to faculty cuts proposed
by the controversial committee.
Speakers including
representatives from Veterans
Against the War, and the
Women’s Union spoke to the
crowd. Ron Eachus, former
ASUO president, said it was
again time to make an issue of
American involvement in In
dochina. “Although fewer
Americans are dying over there,
the bombing and destruction
continues,” he said.
Eachus urged support for the
North Vietnamese peace
provisions which call for the
immediate withdrawal of all U.S.
forces and a coalition govern
ment in Saigon, excluding
President Thieu.
Meeting later on in the evening,
members of the Student Union
Drug information center opened
by volunteers in EMU basement
A drug information center staffed by 18 volun
teers opened shop in a cubby hole in the EMU
basement this month.
The center, which is working in cooperation with
White Bird, takes calls and visits from people in
terested in any aspect of drug use, Mark Miller, the
Drug Information Center Director explained.
“We’re strictly a resource center, not a coun
celing center. We attach no moral judgments to the
information we provide. We supply answers to any
questions on the physiological, psychological,
sociological and even the religious mystical aspects
of drug use. We work at collecting just as many
facts as we can round up on what a person calling in
wants to know,” Miller said.
The drug information center developed as an arm
of Student Community Projects, an ASUO program
funded by student incidental fees.
The center relies on a number of agencies for
research information. The University libraries, the
Sacred Heart Medical Library, the White Bird Drug
Education Anex and MEDLAR, a world wide
computer bank of medical information, are among
the resources that center volunteers depend on.
The center also has two drug consultants: Joel
Adkins, Associate Professor of Psychology, and Dr.
Lenord Jacobson, a physician at Sacred Heart
Hospital.
“We have a lending library here in our office that
includes books and files on drugs which people are
free to check out,” Miller said.
If someone comes in with a question we can't help
them with immediately, we research it and call him
back. If its a big question, we'll write it up for our
file, and possibly disseminate the information into
the community,” Miller said.
Center Volunteers are also available for talks to
classes and organizations. ”As another aspect of the
Oregon Daily Emerald
Drug Information Center, we hope to work out a
drug analysis program with the city which would
allow individuals to anonymously send in drug
samples. These samples would be analyzed by a lab
for content, and the results forwarded to the person
and made available to the community,” Miller said.
Such information would help people understand
precisely what dangers may be involved in buying
street drugs, Miller feels.
"Many street drugs today have been found to be
cut with hazardous substances like arsenic,
strychnine, belladonna and methamphetamine.
“The drug, itself, may be improperly synthesized.
This is potentially hazardous because when a drug
like LSD is made, it is put through a number of
steps. If these steps aren’t followed properly, or the
person making it doesn't have the proper equip
ment, or lacks an adequate chemistry background,
he can come out with a product that is different then
what he intended with unknown effects,” Miller
explained.
"Also the Eugene police surveys show that a
substantial number of students from the junior high
level up are experimenting with drugs other than
just grass,” Miller said.
The center feels this makes it all the more im
portant for drug analysis to become available so
people can make informed decisions.
“Some people may reject the idea of drug
analysis, saying that people shouldn’t be taking
drugs, but this is really after the fact. The least we
can do is make sure people have factual information
about on what they’re getting involved in,” Miller
said.
The Drug Information Center is open from 9 a.m.
to9p m Monday through Friday and noon to 6 p.m.
on weekends Miller said the center welcomes calls
at extension 5411.
Against the War (SUAW)
outlined plans for their Spring
drive. One of the plans concerns
the adoption of a “sister city” in
North Vietnam by the students of
the University.
SUAW spokesman Dennis
Gilbert speaking about the new
role the anti-war movement must
take said, “We must begin to
educate students and the public
on the facts of the recent
escalation in the fighting." He
said that their union will concern
themselves with the following
points:
—“Drawing the line on what it
means to be against the war.”
Anti-war political candidates will
be those who call for the im
mediate end of the air war and
the ouster of the Thieu regime.
—The education of the people
on the “full grossness” of the air
war as it relates to the Viet
namese people and their en
vironment.
—Localizing the war. Letting
the people know that the In
dochina war, ROTC, high taxes
and even HPUP are all closely
linked together.
—The scheduling of May 1
through 6 as a week of
celebrating our solidarity with
the Vietnamese people and their
struggle. This includes the
adoption of a city in North
Vietnam as our sister city.
With these four plans of attack
SUAW-hopes to rekindle the anti
war movement in Oregon.
“Everyone knows the war is
wrong,” said Gilbert, “and we
can’t keep telling people what
they already know.” SUAW must
show the people that the war is
still continuing and the
destruction of Indochina is in
creasing, he added.
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