Winter term elections
to be held this week
It’s a new version of an old
game, called ASUO Elections,
Winter Term Edition, to be
played February 14,15,21 and 22,
by as many or as few players who
happen to show up.
ASUO Vice President Fred
Loveys and the ASUO Elections
Board are again presiding over
the contest, enforcing the new
rules and distributing in
formation in the ASUO Voter’s
Guide. The Guide is available at
the EMU.
According to the guide, there
will be eight polling places, open
Wednesday and Thursday be
tween 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., with a
few exceptions as noted in the
guide. The polling places include
the EMU Terrace, the Co-op, the
PE Building, Hamilton and
Carson Dorms, 13th Avenue and
University Street, 13th Avenue
and Commonwealth and the Onyx
Street entrance to the EMU or in
the EMU eating area.
Each student must present a
Winter Term Fee Card and an
I.D. card with a photo on it.
Bottle bill legislation
draws national attention
By NAN HENDERSON
Of the Emerald
SALEM (Special) — Though
the 1973 Oregon Legislature is
daily cranking out new
legislation, a bill passed during
the 1971 legislative session
continues to draw more state and
national attention than any piece
of legislation in the history of
Oregon.
“I have never known a piece of
legislation to attract so much
attention as the bottle MU,”
reports Kess Cannon, natural
resources assistant to Gov. Tom
McCall.
In a Monday interview. Cannon
said a bill similar to the bottle
bill, which called for a cash
deposit on all soft drink and beer
bottles and cans, has been in
troduced in every state in the
country except Kentucky, where
the legislature is not in session.
“And IS foreign countries have
also contacted us about the bill,”
Cannon said.
So a recent announcement by
the commercial can and bottle
lobby implying that the famed
bill might be hurting the en
vironment instead of helping it
came as quite a shock.
The lobby announced last week
that the parentage of beverage
container litter in relation to the
total amount of litter on Oregon’s
highways had increased from
14.4 pa cent to 18.2 pa cent by
volume, since the new law wait
into effect in Octoba.
And the lobby attributed the
statistics to a highway division
report on the effect of the bottle
bill instigated in Septemba by
the state’s Executive Office.
But the announcement failed to
point out that the report indicated
the total amount of litta has
decreased tremendously since
Octoba, Cannon said.
And in a Monday press con
ference on the issue, McCall, who
was a strong proponent of the
bottle bill, called the lobby figure
“meaningless.” He said it only
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indicates that there has been a
shift in the type of litter.
“The significant thing is that
littering has been substantially
decreased since the bill took
effect,” McCall said.
Cannon painted out that piece
counts provide the true indicator
of whether beverage container
litter has increased or decreased.
On Oct. 1, the highway division
report indicated maintenance
crews found 3,968 bottles and
cans along 25 randomly chosen
one-mile sections of highway in
western Oregon, Cannon said.
The number has dropped to
1,149 pieces by Jan. 1, he added.
Neither Cannon nor McCall
said they can figure out how the
commercial can and bottle lobby
got hold of the report, but McCall
said he was “disturbed” that the
lobby is using the figures from
the report to try to prove the bill
has not worked.
McCall said the lobby “gave a
shockingly distorted view of what
is happening.” He added that
legislative and state officials
from five states called his office
asking about the lobby
statement.
“We were able to assure them
that nothing went wrong and that
the bill is working to our great
satisfaction,” McCall said.
And Cannon reported that
legislation to extend the law to
require a deposit on wine and
liquor bottles will be considered
by the legislature this session.
Voters will then receive a
computer-punched ballot card for
each division they are eligible to
vote in. The computer cards are a
new feature this term, and ballots
will be tabulated at the computer
center.
This term there are 10 seats up
for grabs. In the Humanities
Division, there is Randy Shilts
running unopposed for the
Liberal Arts position. For the
Social Science position, Mike
Bonner is up for re-election,
opposed by Liza Burgoyne, G.T.
McNaughton, Gordon Ivins and
Anne Lomax.
In the Class Division, three
candidates are ud for the
Sophomore Class seat, Jim Davis
(for re-election), Patrick Bonner
and Kent Goodwin. Bert Ben
nehoff is running unopposed for
the senior class seat.
Sixteen candidates are running
for six seats in the Residence
Division. Carl Sell, Gregory
Browning and Ivan Henke are
competing for the fraternity
seat. Vicki Kirkpatrick and
Raoul Lambert are in the running
for the married student housing
post. Jon Spangler, Harley
Leiber and Gail Hoffnagle are on
the ballot for a single seat
representing College Inn and Co
ops. And eight candidates — Joe
Driggers, Gregg Wasson, Lee
Siegel, Peter Yoakum, Roger
Wyatt, Tom Alderman, Jim
Bernau and Douglas Chambers
— are running for three off
campus seats.
The Voter’s Guide itself has
been the subject of recent con
troversy concerning Loveys’
introductory statement made on
the inside front cover. ASUO
Senator Hank Itkin promised at
the last Senate meeting to file a
complaint to the elections board
regarding the statement, which
in part reads “Maybe you will
vote for someone who really will
try to represent you this time,
rather than be taken by fancy
slogans or trite phrases . . . and
maybe the Senate will begin to
represent students’ needs instead
of furthering the ‘Senator’s’ own
political interests.”
The senate took a straw vote in
favor of Itkin’s complaint.
At stake in the elections will be
10 seats, or one-fourth of the
senate. According to Loveys, it
will cost about $1500 to ad
minister this term’s senate
elections.
One of the duties of the senate
is allocating almost $840,000 in
annual Student Incidental Fees.
mt Its Greatest..^
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