Oregon daily emerald., January 30, 1973, Image 1

“When that I was and a little tiny boy.
With hey. ho, the wind and the rain;
A foolish thing was but a toy.
For the rain it raineth every day.”
Shakespeare.
Draft halted — temporarily
The draft of men into the U.S. military is now
over. But only temporarily.
All inductions into the U.S. Army were halted
Saturday, but that doesn’t signify the end of the
Selective Service, the end of registering for the
draft, the end of the lottery system, or the end of
mandatory physicals for those with low lottery
numbers.
According to Tom McGarry, director of the ASUO
Draft and Military Information Center <DMIC), 18
year-old men will still be required to register with
their local draft boards, and those with low lottery
numbers will be given physicals in the event draft
calls should be re-instituted.
McGarry said the lottery drawing for those men
who will turn 19 in 1974, orignally scheduled for
February, has been postponed until later this
spring.
“The Selective Service law will remain in force
after probable renewal by Congress,” he said.
“What will be lacking will be the authority for the
President to induct.
“The current law is written in such language that,
even when an all-volunteer military force is
established, Selective Service must retain a stand
by authority to draft men if it becomes necessary.”
What should University students do in the face of
Saturday’s halting of inductions?
McGarry said Selective Service officials from
Eugene's local board No. 13 recommend that
students retain their II-S deferments “until further
details about the cancellation of induction orders
has been received.”
The Saturday announcement of the induction halt
by U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird “left
local and state boards without guidelines to give
advice,” "McGarry said.
He added that Selective Service headquarters
for the state of Oregon in Salem had received no
information by early Monday afternoon, and did not
expect to receive any before today.
McGarry noted that the Saturday induction halt
affected about 5500 men who were to have been
inducted between March and June. The first 2500,
scheduled for induction in March, were to have
come from the Extended Priority Group (EPG)
which is for men who have lost their previous
deferments, he said. The remaining 3000 were to
have been called from the 1973 lottery, he said.
The DMIC director explained that the last
military inductions took place in early December,
1972. Based on a Congressionally-set reduction of
the U.S. Army, as well as increased enlistments,
draft calls for January and February of this year
were cancelled, he added.
The halt of inductions this weekend was
paralleled by “an increased emphasis on the
reserves and National Guard," McGarry reported
“There has been some discussion that, if man
power needs are not met by volunteers, the
President will ask Congress for the authority to
induct people into the reserves and National
Guard.”
However, no details concerning the length of
service, or provisions for alternative service in the
case of conscientious objectors have been released,
he said.
McGarry said it is President Nixon’s announced
policy that in a future emergency, the nearly one
million men in the reserves and the National Guard
would be activated before the draft is used.
Student fee control
asked at hearing
By NAN HENDERSON
Of the Emerald
SALEM (Special) — The next ASUO Senate election could be the
most heated in the history of the University.
That would be the case if an amendment to SB 47, introduced
Monday before the Oregon State Senate Education Committee by
ASUO President Bill Wyatt, is adopted by the committee
Under the amendment, student senators would Have the final
authority to determine the amount of the student incidental fee and
what programs would be funded by the fees.
Theoretically, students would have the control over incidental fees
since they could vote for persons who most represented their feelings
about how much money should be levied and what the money should be
spent on.
Wyatt, Joan Eggleston and Don Brookhyser, representing the
Interinstitutional Union of Students (IUS), appeared before the
education committee during the second hearing of the session on SB
47. They presented a unified testimony in favor of the amendment
which would take the control over incidental fees from the State Board
of Higher Education and place it in the hands of student government.
John Richardson, assistant chancellor of the State System of
Higher Education, however, voiced opposition to the amendment after
the hearing.
, “Under the proposed amendment, the board is being asked to
collect students’ funds over which the board would have no control,”
Richardson said.
“I don’t believe it would be sound state policy for the board to
collect fees from students without having the accountability for the
spending of those fees,” he said.
Wyatt argued in his testimony that students should have control
over money paid totally for their benefit and he said that each student
body has different interests and needs “which can best be met by the
flexibility and self-control allowed in the proposed amendment.”
Wyatt “very seriously” questioned the ability of state board
members to “properly interpret” those student needs. “I would assert
that the individual student governments are in the best position to
make that observation,” he said.
Committee member Victor Atiyeh (R-Portland) questioned the
need for the amendment, since “under the present system no harm
has been done so far. I can’t understand what your fear is,” Atiyeh
said.
“It's not a question of fear,” Wyatt answered. He said the question
was really the right of students to control their money so if they chose
they could cut the amount of money athletics, for example, is
allocated.
“If the vast majority of the people in Oregon did not want a
program such as the State System of Higher Education, I don’t think it
would be funded,” Wyatt said.
He said that if students didn’t want a program such as athletics,
that program shouldn’t be funded either.
Wyatt added that the amendment would also put some power in
the positions of student government. “Practically speaking, there is
absolutely no decision-making authority now in student government,”
Wyatt said.
Cindy Parker, a Portland State University student senator, and
chairer of PSU’s student incidental fee committee, testified that she
was concerned about the wording of SB 47, but she did not state how
she felt about Wyatt’s amendment.
“We have considerable input at Portland State on how incidental
fees are spent, but I am concerned that if the bill is passed, that power,
which we fought so hard for, might be taken out of the hands of
students.”
Tim Crush, Oregon State University student legislative coor
dinator, and Dave Thompson, Southern Oregon College student body
president, explained how incidental fees were spent at their in
stitutions but did not take a position on the amendment during their
testimony.
The Senate Education Committee plans to hold a work session on
the bill before voting on the amendment or the original bill.
Senate filing begins
Filing begins today for students interested in running for the
eight ASUO Senate seats up for election this term.
ASUO Vice President Fred Loveys said Monday that filing
will begin at 10 a.m. today in the ASUO executive office, 30B
EMU.
Loveys said the “provisional’’ closing dealine for filing for the
eight senate seats is noon Friday. He said the ASUO Senate,
scheduled to meet this Thursday, will determine the closing
deadline.
The eight seats up for election this term are: in the residence
category, one married student housing seat, one fraternity seat,
one off-campus housing seat, and one College Inn-Cooperative
housing seat.
— In the academic category, one sophomore seat and one
senior seat.
— In the academic category, one liberal arts-humanities seat,
and one liberal arts-social science seat.
Primary elections for these seats this term will be held Feb. 14
and 15, and the general elections for the seats will be Feb. 21 and
22.