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THE SCANDAL
OF SECRECY
John W. Gardner, Chairman
Common Cause
I Former Secretary
of Health, Education and Welfare
One of the weird and nonsensical facts about our
government — at all levels — is that much of the pub
lic’s business is done in the deepest, darkest secrecy.
Citizens assume that only questions of national se
curity and some aspects of criminal justice are dealt
with in secret. Little do they know! Most of the time
our public officials act as though the way they con
duct our business is none of our business.
In 1972 roughly one-third of the Senate Public
Works Committee meetings were held in secret. The
figure for the Senate Agriculture Committee was 59
percent, for the House Appropriations Committee
over 90 percent The House Ways and Means Com
mittee, which drafts the laws governing every federal
tax dollar you and I pay, is notoriously secretive. Se
curity is so tight that even the staff assistant of a Con
gressman who is on the Committee can’t attend the
closed meetings. What are they hiding?
All sessions of congressional committees — and
records of all votes taken at such sessions — should
normally be open to the public. Committees should be
allowed to close a meeting only for considerations of
national security or invasion of personal privacy, and
the procedure for closing it should be carefully pro
tected against abuse.
In the Executive Branch, virtually everyone asso
ciated with national security acknowledges that the
system of classifying documents to preserve secrecy
has been badly abused — all too often for the pur
pose of concealing bureaucratic error. And the zeal
for secrecy extends to every government agency un
der the control of the Executive Branch. Regulatory
agencies often meet behind closed doors, omit public
hearings, and suppress reports the public should see.
Of course, the secrecy involved is only secret-from
the-public. The special interest lobbyists know very
well what goes on in those hush-hush meetings. Quite
often they're right in there with the decision makers.
The only one who has splinters in his nose from bump
ing against closed doors is John Q. Public.
Now there is a resolution before the Senate —
sponsored by Senators Humphrey (D., Minn.) and
Roth (R.. Del.) (plus 11 other sponsors) which would
open all Senate committee meetings. A bill (S 260) re
cently introduced in the Senate by Lawton Chiles of
Florida and in the House (HR 4) by Dante Fascell, also
of Florida, would open all Legislative and Executive
Branch meetings except those dealing with national
security or involving personal privacy.
Information is power, and secrecy is the most con
venient means of keeping that power out of the hands
of the people. What the people don't know, they can't
object to.
It’s time to change all that And you can help. Write
your two Senators and your Congressman. Tell them
you want them to open up the system. Or join Com
mon Cause (2100 M Street NW, Washington, D.C.
20037) and ally yourself with 200,000 other members
in getting these changes made. We’re going to give
this nation back to its citizens. The student member
ship rate is $7.00. Don’t just stand there!
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work for
OSPIRG?
OSPIRG opens competition for
13 summer research internships
Each intern will be paid $1,000.
All students of Oregon colleges
and universities are eligible.
The 13 students will work with
OSPIRG’s professional staff in
Portland. They will research
environmental and consumer
problems. Many will receive
academic credit for their work.
Applications are available at
OSPIRG, 408 S.W. 2nd, Portland,
Oregon 97204, or at any campus
OSPIRG local board office at the
15 OSPIRG campuses. Ap
plications must be complete by
April 1. Decisions will be an
nounced May 1.
Students can choose to work in
the following areas:
1) State Land Board: A study
of this agency with its important
ownership and regulatory role
over state lands, river beds, etc.
2) Health Insurance Plans:
What is the effect of health in
surance costs on the structure of
medical care pricing in Oregon?
How are rates set?
3) Oregon Coastal Con
servation and Development
Commission (OCCDC):
Evaluate the performance of the
OCCDC from January 1073 to
June 1973 to determine if it is
developing a coastal com
prehensive land-use plan which
strikes the balance between
development and the en
vironment as required by the 1972
Oregon Legislature
4) The Role of the Oregon State
Highway Department in
Promoting Tourism in Oregon:
Several reports have been done
on this topic, one of which was
suppressed and perhaps altered
before eventual release
5) United States Forest Ser
vice: Several aspects of the
United States Forest Service
timber management policy will
be examined.
6) Oregon State Real Estate
Division: What, if any, power
does this agency have over
questionable real estate sales
practices, especially large land
development?
7) Auto Insurance: How valid
is the data used to support the
high rates charged to young
drivers? This is a difficult
project and probably requires
someone with accounting, in
surance, or economics
background.
8 at 9) Oregon State Highway
Department. Two positions open
to conduct a general in
vestigation of what they do,
whether it is in the public in
terest, and whether major
changes should be made.
10) Consumer Investigations:
One student will help organize
and conduct several studies of
fraudulent or dangerous retail
sales practices or items.
11) Mentally Disabled: An
investigation of the basic policy
goals of care and treatment of the
mentally disabled by Oregon
institutions.
12 & 13) Open: Students are
invited to submit 3-5 page
proposals for their own project
The projects will be received by
the student intern committee and
two internships will be awarded
based largely on the proposal and
the student’s evidenced ability to
carry it out.
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On Campus
Willamette Valley scenarios offered
A slide program projecting two futures for the Willamette Valley
will be presented by Kenneth Omlid, Lane County Commissioner and
member of the Willamette Valley Environmental Protection &
Development Planning Council, before a meeting of landscape ar
chitects and park planning students at the University on Thursday.
The 2:3fl p.m. class will meet in room 112 of the Health and P.E.
Building.
Emergency Senate meeting tonight
The ASUO Senate will consider placing a constitutional amend
ment which would restructure the ASUO Senate on Wednesday and
Thursday’s general election ballot at an emergency meeting tonight at
7 p.m. in the EMU. ASUO Senate President Cliff Zukin said the
proposal is an attempt to counter the “Abolish the Senate” a student
intiative measure, which would set up a one year interim committee to
work on a student-faculty method of University governance.
The proposed plan would reduce the size of the senate from 46 to 30
seats, according to Zukin. All seats would be at-large positions.
Black festival auditions tonight
Auditions will be ehld at 7:30 p.m. today in the EMU Ballroom for
the opening ceremony night of the upcoming Black Arts Festival at the
University.
“All Black and African students” are eligible to audition tonight in
the areas of poetry reading, drama interpretation, singing and dancing,
according to Debby Barnett, assistant director of the ASUO Cultural
Forum.
The Black Arts Festival will be held at the University the week of
April 23 to April 27, Barnett said.
Tonight’s auditions for the opening ceremony of the festival will
last three hours, she added.
[ Community
Land donated to Forest Service
Some 30 acres of land surrounding the old Santiam Wagon Road
was donated to the U.S Forest Service Friday. The land, which con
tains over a million and half board feet of lumber and is valued at
$80,000, was donated by the Louis W. and Maud Hill Family Foun
dation of St. Paul, Minnesota.
“We are very pleased to be able to see that this historical legacy
from Oregon’s pioneer days will receive permanent protection by the
Forest Service,” David Mason of the foundation said.
Most of the old road is on National Forest land. The donated
property is a portion of a 400-acre island of private property com
pletely surrounded by the Willamette National Forest. The land lies
about three-fourths of a mile east of Highway 126 about one mile north
of the Mt. Washington Wilderness.
Zane Smith Jr., Supervisor of the Willamette National Forest said
the Forest Service intends to manage the old wagon road as if it were a
trail, and in such a manner to protect its natural environment and
historical value. He said that timber harvesting, which would
threaten the wagon road will not be allowed
Former 'Youngblood' leader to perform
Jesse Colin Young, former leader of the rock group “The
Youngbloods,” will perform in concert tonight in Eugene
Young will perform from 8:30 p.m. to 11 p.m at Scarborough
Faire, 136 E. 11th Ave. Tickets for the performance, available at
Scarborough Faire, are $2.50 per person.
His performance, sponsored by KZEL-FM, will be broadcast live
over the radio station (96.1 megacycles) beginning at 9 p.m. Young is
currently touring the nation with a new group of musicians.
Young’s concert is one of several performances scheduled at
Scarborough Faire through March 10. Scarborough Faire is available,
by arrangement, to “community-oriented” groups wishing to stage
benefits, according to George Brown, the General Manager of the
cooperatively run crafts center. KZEL-FM contracts, promotes and
manages the performances. Brown said, and the fee is $15 a show.
Salary offer rejected by teachers
Eugene teachers, by a margin of about eighty per cent, voted to
reject the school board’s latest salary offer Friday night.
In a Thursday night meeting, the school board had made an offer
of $7,450 for a starting base salary The teachers were a«k.ng for a
$7,550 base salary.
C»ordon Quigley, president of the Eugene Education Association
(EEA), said the association would go before the school board at their
meeting tonight to ask them to reconsider the high™- figure.
Mellem criticizes ‘Hell’s Canyon’ bill
The Sierra Club and the Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs
today announced that Roger Mellem of Eugene has been appointed
Acting Northwest Representative for the two conservation
organizations. He immediately criticized the “Hells Canyon National
Forest Parklands Area ’ bill recently introduced in Congress by
Senator Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.) and Rep. A1 Ullman (D-Ore.).
Mellem will replace Brock Evans, who has become Washington,
D C. Representative for the Sierra Club and F W O C until a per
manent representative is found lata- this spring or summer He
studied conservation at the University Honors College in Eugene for
four years, and has been a student at Evergreen State College in
Olympia, Washington since last fall. There he was working with Mt.
Everest climber Dr. Willi Unsoeld in a wilderness education program.