Phc*o by Greg Howard
John Kerry takes a look at himself.
Conservationists focus
on future of wilderness
Saving the McKenzie River and
French Pete areas from future
logging was the focus of a
Thursday night meeting of
various conservationist groups
who formed a panel that replaced
Henry Jackson when he was
unable to attend.
A “Save the McKenzie River”
slide show, produced by Don
Hunter, head of the University’s
audio-visual department was
shown and will be sent to a
hearing in Washington, D C. on
May 25 to help with the groups’
lobbying efforts.
Joe Kemp, president of Friends
of the Three Sisters, said that
sometimes his group participates
in a joint-effort with the Sierra
Club as in the case of the French
Pete Valley controversy.
“We’ve gone the route from
appeals to meetings and now to
talking directly with the forest
service,” said Jim Baker of the
McKenzie Guardians, a group
heading the fight for saving the
McKenzie River area with em
phasis on the main river from its
source to Hendrick’s Bridge. The
group has drawn up a proposal
for multiple-use of Forest Service
lands along the river
“This show is not to attack
Zane Smith (Supervisor of the
Willamette National Forest), but
to put pressure on him,” Baker
said.
The Sierra Club, said its
representative Holly Jones, has
close ties with the Three Sisters
organization and that "the great
work of the Sierra Club is here in
the grass roots.
“It doesn't matter what group
we belong to; we’re all concerned
with the same thing which is
environment and wilderness. The
biggest problem is com
munication; to communicate a
little more of what the Sierra
Club should do for you,” Jones
added
The club is involved in many
things, wilderness being only one
among such areas as population,
air pollution, urban sprawl and
freeways, he said.
Related closely to the Sierra
Club is the Wilderness Society,
said its representative Joe
Walicki. “It’s pretty similiar to
the Sierra Club, but it relies
mostly on local support The
Wilderness Society is mainly an
educational society; it doesn’t do
as much lobbying as the Sierra
Club.”
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On the MeGovern campaign trail
A day in the life of John Kerry
Bv STEVE BAGWELL
Of the Emerald
The phone rang at the KVAL television studios
Thursday afternoon. The caller, Eugene Mayor Les
Anderson, was trying to reach John Kerry,
Massachusetts Congressional candidate, busy
McGovern campaigner and prominent member of
the Vietnam Vets Against the War, who was ex
pected soon for a taping session
Anderson was concerned that Kerry, scheduled
to speak that evening first at Lane Community
College (LCC) and later from the EMU free speech
platform here, might incite a restless audience to a
trashing spree on the mall.
When Kerry arrived, he returned the Mayor's
call, saying with his unmistakable Boston accent.
"Mr. Anderson, none of my remarks will be so in
tended”
A single sidelong glance at the 29-year-old
former PT-boat commander would convince most
men of that. Kerry is a polished politician, not a
street-corner firebrand. Bearing a marked facial
resemblance to Sen. Ed Muskie of Maine, the lean,
modishly dressed Kerry shows his St. Paul’s to Yale
education and the influence of a father who gave a
lifetime to the American foreign service.
In the KVAL control room, technicians were
getting set to tape an interview with their youthful
anti-war visitor Above banks of monitors with
cornflake ads and soap commercials filling their
screens, amid an array of dials and knobs, the face
of Kerry finally appeared:
“It was the utter absurdity and stupidity of
young men looking up at me with their guts hanging
out asking ‘why’ that turned me against this insance
conflict,” he said.
Kerry comes through with feeling, but it’s hard
to visualize dark stains of coagulating blood on the
pressed double-knit slacks he wears these days. It’s
just that Kerry is no longer as much the deeply
disillusioned veteran of the Mekong Delta as he is
the bright Kennedy-style novice of the American
political scene.
In that role, Kerry has toured 40 states speaking
against President Nixon and the war, for George
McGovern and peace. And in that role he is very
much at ease.
If he was tired Thursday after speaking in
Portland, Salem, Albany and Corvallis, Kerry hid it
well during his opening remarks before about 100
LCC students.
He told them that 20,000 men have lost their
lives needlessly since Nixon took office and they
applaud. He told them that 300 millionaires paid no
taxes last year and they share his silent frown.
But Kerry’s real message was, "We must get
out and canvass for George McGovern if we want to
reclaim our country." This message was not as
passively accepted by the audience, a group geared
to take to the streets
A man in the back shouted his support for the
“revolution of today.” Kerry let the man spit out
many excited accusations, then patiently painted
him into a corner. Suddenly the student said. “All
right. I’ll cut my hair and knock on doors for your
man.”
If the campaign meeting had been more slickly
organized, one would strongly suspect the baek-of
the-crowd heckler of being a plant But with the
informal disorder of the gathering, the conversion
was written off as just one more odd occurrance
during a week full of such happenings.
After leaving LCC, Kerry headed on to the
University for vet another speech in the seemingly
endless parade of them. When he finished, the
remainder of his day was given to such things as
taping an interview for a radio station in Klamath
Falls and lecturing local McGovern campaigners on
the techniques of canvassing.
But for a handsome young Yale graduate
seeking to get ahead in the often mad race of
electoral politics, such tasks are necessary. Every
tomorrow brings a new state of the same.
sideans which provides training
for search and rescue, said
members Robin Lodwick and
Bob Medill. This group was also
represented on the panel.
The University Outdoor
Program provides the purpose of
“dragging people out of their
cars and out of their cement to
look at their culture and to see
where we should go,” said
program member Fred Swanson,
also on the panel.
The National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) has been
such a successful tool for en
vironmental protection that it is
being amended to death, said
Jane Novick of the Eugene
Future Power Committee.
The Atomic Energy Com
mission is leading the fight
against the Act, she said, to
eliminate to exempt some
nuclear power plants from the
NEPA requirements. The fight
against the proposed nuclear
power plant that was to be built
by the Eugene Water and
Electric Board (EWEB) started
the group.
Symposium to feature poets, authors
A poetry symposium in which
three well-known poets and
authors will participate is
scheduled for Tuesday, Wed
nesday and Thursday by the
University Creative Writing
Program
The three artists invited to
head the symposium are
Alexander Kuo, director of the
Ethnic Studies Program at
Central Washington State
College, Charles W'right, a
teacher in the writing Program
at the University of California at
Irvine, and William Stafford, a
teacher at Lewis and Clark
College
The general public is invited to
attend the poetry workshop,
discussions, and readings to be
held at the EMU
Each of the guest artists will be
using his own books for study at
the symposium Kuo’s book,
“The Window Tree,” was
published in April 1971 by the
Windy Row Press.
Wright will use his book "The
Grave of the Right Hand,”
published by Wesleyan
University Press
Stafford has published several
books, including "The Rescued
Year,” “Travelling Through the
Dark.” and "Allegiance,” all
published by Harper and Row
An introductory and key-note
panel lecutre will be given on
Tuesday from 2 to 4 p m The
poets will present their views of
modern poetry and their own
aims in writing
Beginning at 8 30 p m on
Tuesday, the first symposium
will be conducted The poets and
a moderator. Ralph Salisbury,
associate professor of English at
the University and author of a
recently published book of
poems, “Ghost Grapefruit and
Other Poems,” will appear on
stage to answer questions from
the audience.
The poets will go over poetry
manuscripts of University
students in the poetry workshop
to be held at 2 p m Wednesday.
At 8 pm Wednesday, the
question answer session of
Tuesday evening will be con
tinued
Thursday at 2 p m an informal
coffee session will be held in
which audience-participants in
the symposium will be free to
visit with the poets
The symposium will conclude
with the poets' reading of their
own poems. This will begin at 8
p m Thursday evening
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