ASUO
hears four
election
complaints
The ASUO Elections Court met
Thursday evening to hear
testimony on four elections
complaints from the ASUO
Senate elections held in
November.
decision on the complaints,
however, since court member
Jan Horvath was absent due to
his car breaking down in Port
land. The testimony was taped
and will be played for Horvath
upon his return to campus this
weekend The court is expected to
decide on the complaints Mon
day.
Tom Bonner, who was elected
to the ASUO Senate in November,
made two complaints—one
against the Emerald for running
an advertisement for Steve
Maizels, another successful
ASUO Senate candidate in
November, on an election day in
violation of the ejection rules. A
statement from the Emerald that
the running of the ad was a
clerical error was brought before
the court. Bonner suggested that
the Emerald be fined for running
the advertisement.
Bonner’s other complaint was
that a student, Bob Groth, was
denied an absentee ballot for the
election and that Groth did in fact
deserve an absentee ballot. Groth
testified that he had talked to a
person at the ASUO Executive
office at 6:15 p.m. Nov. 17 and
was told that he was not entitled
to an absentee ballot. A
statement from ASUO secretary
Kay Whittig said that she was not
in her office at that time and that
whoever gave Groth the in
formation was not in authority to
do so. Bonner suggested that
procedures for absentee voting
should be made more clear than
they are at the present time.
Keith Parrish, an ASUO
Senator who was re-elected in
November, turned in a complaint
against ASUO Vice-President
Fred Loveys concerning iden
tification required of students at
the polling booths. Parrish stated
that he had shown only his term
fee card when he voted in the
election Nov. 13 while he should
have been required to show his
plastic identification card as
well. Parrish suggested that
Loveys was responsible for the
violation and that he should be
fined.
The final complaint came from
Tom Hartfield, a candidate for
the Senate in November whose
ballot slogan was left off the
Voter’s Guide and the primary
ballot on the first day of the two
day election. Hartfield failed to
make the general election and
considers this to be a result of not
having his slogan on the ballot the
first day. Hartfield asked that the
election for the seat he ran for, at
large number one, be run over.
OSPIRG attempts to
clarify funding
The Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group (OSPIRG) is
attempting to clear the air concerning the controversy over the
question of whether or not their funding system is legal.
Last year the procedure of funding OSPIRG at the three univer
sities in Oregon (Portland State, Oregon State, and the University)
consisted of extracting $1 from every student’s incidental fee each
term, refunded a few weeks later if the student chose not to support the
organization.
Challenging the legality of this sytem, Jerold Swibie, a spring
term 1972 student at PSU, wrote out his tuition check last spring $1
short. When refused admission, Swibie took the case to court, filing a
suit naming the State Board of Higher Education and OSPIRG as
guilty parties.
While the case was still pending, the funding system was changed
by the state board, which listed OSPIRG as simply another line-item
funded by incidental fees which also cover other student
organizations. Thus, OSPIRG is now funded on an annual line-item
basis, rather than a refundable per-student assessment.
The change in the funding system rendered Swibie’s case obsolete,
according to OSPIRG.
At a recent state-wide Board meeting held by OSPIRG, the case
was brought up.
Representatives decided to contact Swibie’s lawyer, in order to
have the case pursued.
“We had the choice of letting the case sit on the books until it is
forgotten, or pushing it through to the end to settle the question once
and for all,” said Steve Park, OSPIRG Treasurer at the University.
“We decided to clean up the rumors about the illegality of our
funding system, and we’re confident we’ll win.”
Steve McCarthy, director of OSPIRG statewide, said he feels that
the inactivity of Swibie’s lawyer indicated that “the other side no
longer takes itself seriously. We decided it is best for everyone to get it
disposed of.”
H ■ n-| Saturdays
UflK I II- from 9am to 2pm
Inauguration day march planned
Turnout small for anti-war meeting
In 1968 Mario Savio headed the
free speech movement at
Berkeley and started a
movement for human rights that
climaxed in Washington, D.C. in
November of 1971. But Berkeley
was 5 years ago and Washington,
D. C. is 2 thousand miles away
and it appears that the days of
student activism against the war
are as fargone as these events.
ArStudent Mobilization Com
mittee (SMC) meeting was held
Thursday night at the EMU, but
only about a dozen interested
listeners showed up to discuss
activities aimed against the war
in Indochina that are nationally
designed to coincide with
President Nixon’s inauguration
on Saturday, January 20.
The people who did show up
attributed the small turnout to a
list of other activities going on
around the campus, including the
Leo Kottke concert and NUC’s
presentation of “The Battle of
Algiers”.
Undaunted by the turnout,
Dave Huff, a campus
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Radio-thon benefits
Whitebird Clinic
An all-day fundraising “radio-thon” for Whitebird Clinic will
be sponsored Saturday by radio station KEED (1450) in Eugene.
From 9 a.m. until 9 p.m., city and state dignitaries, people
from Whitebird and air personalities will plead Whitebird’s case
which needs about $9000 to pay off house payments.
“It’s an attempt to tap the heart of the community,” Cliff
Wayne of KEED said of the fundraiser. “We also want to
- educate the general community to the services that Whitebird
performs.”
Wayne said that members of Whitebird’s staff would be at the
station to answer pledges phoned in and that barrels would be
placed in the station’s parking lot and studio so contributors
could drive by and offer a donation.
Tony Burns of Whitebird noted that the clinic was becoming
involved in other fundraising attempts. “These include ap
plications to foundations for grants, door-to-door canvassing
and letters to professional and business people in town,” Burns
said.
He said the main stumbling block in getting support from the
general community was that “people don’t feel they’re
receiving any benefits from the clinic.”
“We have to show them that many of our services, such as our
educational program, offers indirect kinds of benefits to them.”
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representative of SMC, informed
the group of planned activities for
the inauguration day.
The bulk of the day is being
planned around a nationally
coordinated March against
Death. Huff indicated that the
group will leave the downtown
mall on Saturday and march
across the Ferry St. Bridge,
ending up at Alton Baker Park.
Huff indicated that the success
of the march will depend on the
committee’s ability “to make as
many people as possible aware of
our activities”.
Coordinating the activities
along with the SMC will be the
Campus Radical Union, a newly
group speaker Windel Bruner,
hopes to amke Nixon reevaluate
the effects of his bombing raids in
North Vietnam.
Activities at the park will in
clude skits and shows by a
guerrilla theatre group and anti
war speeches by several local
and regional anti-war
representatives.
Asked what they hope to ac
complish through these
nationally organized in
auguration day demonstration,
Dean Perchek, coordinator of
Peace Now, explained that,
“Nixon saw the marches last
year and didn’t give a shit. This
year we hope he will."
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