Vol. 74, No. 79 An Independent Student Newspaper Tuesday, November 21,1972
Senate seats, referendums at stake
ASUO elections to end today
Today is the final day of the
general election for 28 seats in the
ASUO Senate. Several
referendum issues are also on the
ballot.
Polling booths for the election
will be located on the EMU
terrace, the information booth at
the intersection of 13th and
University Streets, the Co-op, the
intersection of 15th and
University Streets, Carson Hall
and on 13th Street near Com
monwealth Hall.
Five of the polling places will
be open from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.
The other voting booth, in Carson
Hal), will be open from 11 a.m
until 7 p.m.
Fifty-three candidates are
running for office in four
Writer Abell
‘in residence’
Ron Abell, formal organizer of
the James G. Blaine Society (the
society which aims to discourage
the overpopulation of Oregon)
will be the personality in
residence in the dorms today and
tomorrow.
Abell, who is presently
teaching journalism and writing
at Lewis and Clark College, was
graduated from the University of
Oregon with an MS in Journalism
in 1960. During his schooling at
the U of O. Abell wrote feature
articles for the Emerald.
After graduating Abell spent
ten years as a news reporter,
including two years as political
reporter for theEugene Register
Guard. Also he was a press
assistant to former Senator
Wayne Morse in 1967-68.
divisions—residence, class,
academic area and ethnic-at
large.
Students will be asked when
they vote where they live, what
their class is, what their major is
and what ethnic group, if any,
they belong to. This will be done
to help the poll workers deter
mine what categories the
students are eligible to vote in.
Students will also be voting on
several issues having to do with
tuition—whether or not it should
be raised for faculty and
classified staff salary increases;
whether it should be dif
ferentiated between graduate,
upper and lower-division
students, students in different
majors and students who can and
...
can't afford it; and whether it
should help provide foreign
student scholarships.
A proposal asking students if
they favor the legalization on
campus of alcoholic beverages
for students over the age of 21,
and if they favor a proposal to
establish an EMU tavern with
profits or losses affecting in
cidental fees will also be on the
ballot.
Voter’s guides for the election
are available at polling places,
the EMU and offices of depart
ments where Senate seats are up
for election.
Ranjan Ray, listed in Monday’s
Emerald as a candidate for the
foreign student seat, said he is
not a candidate for any senate
seat.
Monday OSPIRG vote
voided, try again
8 “Students who voted on Monday will be allowed to vote
g- again Tuesday on the OSPIRG race upon presentation of their
| pink I D. card. Poll workers will recognize the OSPIRG number
8 on the card and allow students to vote again,” Loveys said.
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All ballots cast Monday in the OSPIRG election have been
declared void because the names of three candidates for the
OSPIRG Board were left off the ballot.
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OSPIRG’s list of candidates and ballot slogans turned into
the ASUO for the General Election ballot did not include the
names of John Hoffman, Peter Glazer or David Cornwall, ac
cording to Fred Loveys, ASUO Vice President.
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"OSPIRG State Director Steve McCarthy asked that
Monday’s ballots be voided and new ballots be printed for
today’s voting,” Loveys said.
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Memorial service
held ‘third time’
for slain students
By KAY HILL
Of the Emerald
More than 325 students met in the EMU ballroom Monday af
ternoon to mourn the deaths of Denver Smith and Leonard Douglas
Brown both age 20, who were slain on the campus of Southern
University, last Thursday.
Tim Travis, an ASUO administrative assistant, began the
memorial by saying, “This is the third time I have spoken in a service
for people killed by authorities on a campus. Kent State, Jackson
State, and now this.” He wenton to say, “Each time, those who pulled
the trigger walked away unconvicted, unaccused.” Authorities care
more about the control of the administration than the lives of two
students, “it is deplorable that demonstrations have become a form of
a capital punishment, Travis added. “We have mourned too many
times for students and leaders,” he said.
Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.) who sent a tape
message to the service, felt that “there was no need to have live
ammunition” during the campus demonstration. He also said “the
killings were not an accident”. McCarthy, who tried to pass a bill
through Congress after Kent State which would have disarmed
National Guardsmen in demonstrations, said, “there was no excuse
for untried and untested sheriffs to have ever been in that situation”
(the demonstrations at Southern University).
After McCarthy’s message, Etta McDonald lead the group in
singing of “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” the Black National Anthem.
U.S. Rep. Paul McCloskey (R-Calif.) in a taped interview, then
spoke. “The hope for the future of America is for people to reach out
with feelings of love, judgment, wisdom and common sense, rather
than hate,” he said. “You have a new sense of responsibility, he said,
to not react to violence with violence.”
After a guardsman sees some act of violence, say a student
throwing a rock through a window, the next time he sees a student, his
reaction to them has become prejudiced and an angry and fearful man
in uniform will act in violence, he said.
In making a plea for non-violent repercussions, he also felt that
“We must never permit it to happen again. The real application of
what happened at Southern University is in those who are still living.
We bear the responsibility not to be violent, and control these who
want to be violent.”
Florice Walker gave the eulogy saying “they were only 20 years
old. They will never be able to laugh, shout, feel sadness or
frustrations, walk down the aisle to receive their degrees, get
married.” She spokeof the “wide spread shock for the events at Kent
State and Jackson State.
“America didn’t learn from its history and I wonder if they
(authorities, government) will remember?” she asked. She ended the
eulogy with a poem by Claude McKay titled, “If we must die”, which
ended with “If we must die, let it not be like hogs with the howling dogs
growling at us from outside our pens. If we must die, let us die nobly.”
Rosa Boxley then sang “Precious Lord” so powerfully that,
despite the somber mood of the service, many people were forced to
applaud.
Billy Ingram then ended the memorial with a personal prayer
which “sympathized with the personal loss of the two slain men’s
families and asked for comfort for them”. He also asked for peace to
be sent into the community (Baton Rouge), so that nothing else
happens.”
Etta McDonald ended with the most personally sobering remark
possible, “Remember, it could have very easily been you.”
»»» o»o James L<nk
A University student tells
State Buard of Higher
Education President George
Layman that he doesn't un
derstand why some people
advocate a women's' studies
program on campus. Th<is
student was one of about 40
who talked with four state
hoard members, including
Layman. Monday in the EMU
Dad's Hoom. See story, page
Also in today’s Emerald, the
second part of Dave Wood
son's three-part interview
with former Sen. Wayne
Morse deals with Morse’s
thoughts about the 1064 Gulf of
Tonkin resolution. See story,
page I.
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Photo by Steve Twedt
hornier Senator Wayne Morse