Oregon daily emerald., March 01, 1973, Page 3, Image 3

President Clark avoids arrest
Protesters summons citizens
By JIM RUSSELL
Of the Emerald
As a “dramatic and decisive
comment” on the plight of
political prisoners in South
Vietnam, about 10 members of
three local peace groups sym
bolically “arrested” Eugene
Mayor Les Anderson, City
Council member Wickes Beal,
and a number of other prominent
civic and educational leaders
Wednesday afternoon.
The arrests took place between
noon and 3 p.m.
The three groups staged the
‘‘arrests” to dramatize what they
described as the Saigon govern
ment’s “terrifying and
repressive treatment of its own
citizens.”
Marion Barnes, coordinator of
an ad hoc committee formed
from the three groups, said after
the day’s arrests, “We can laugh
about it here, but it is a real issue
for the people in South Vietnam.
The lives of these political
prisoners may well depend on us
and what we do with the issue.”
The three groups were the
Women’s International League
for Peace and Freedom, the
Eugene Peace Center, and the
Movement for a New Society.
A statement prepared by the ad
hoc committee emphasized that
“The American public has
largely forgotten about the
political prisoners of South
Vietnam, which number over
200,000, and the government of
the United States bears a major
responsibility for the im
prisonment and criminal
treatment of these people.”
The committee first
“arrested” Prank Wilkens,
pastor of the Newman Center,
and Sue Gordon, chairer of the
Eugene Clergy and Laity Con
cerned. The “arrests” took place
at the Central Presbyterian
Church, 1475 Ferry St.
Moving on to the regular
meeting of the Eugene City
Council in committee-of-the
whole session, the committee
then “arrested” Anderson, Beal,
and the chairer of the Mayor’s
Committee for International
Cooperation, Ruth Carson.
Eugene attorney Charles
Porter was not available at the
city council meeting as the
committee had planned, but the
committee issued a summons for
his arrest in his absence.
After being “arrested,” An
derson made a short speech,
commenting on the direct
responsibility of the United
States in Vietnam.
From the council meeting, the
committee moved to the
University campus, where it had
anticipated the “arrest” of
University President Robert
Clark.
However, Clark was not at his
office at the time committee
members arrived, and an “arrest
Primaries slated Friday
for fee board seats
No kidding, it’s election time again.
Although ASUO General Elections were just last Wednesday and
Thursday, students will be voting in a primary election Friday. The
primary — along with a general election that will be held March 7 — is
just one more by-product of the passage of Amendment “A,” the one
that abolished the senate. Also included in that amendment are
provisions for a five-person incidental fee committee to distribute
some $800,000 of student incidental fees during the next year.
The primary will narrow down a field of 41 candidates who are
running for those five positions. The top two vote-getters for each
^position will run in the general election next Wednesday.
Voting procedures are similar to those of the last election.
Students will receive five computer card ballots, one for each position,
after presenting a winter term fee card and photo I.D. card at one of
the polling places Voters may then vote once for each position.
Polling places that will be open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. include the EMU,
the Co-op, and the intersection of 13th and Commonwealth. Polling
places at Carson and Hamilton Dorms will be open between 11 a.m.
and 6 p.m. Mobile units will also circulate to collect votes at frater
nities, sororities and the College Inn.
Absentee ballots may be obtained by presenting a letter of ex
planation and a winter term fee card to the ASUO Vice President.
Upon approval, the student may vote before election day.
A complete listing of the candidates along with their election
statements is scheduled to appear as a paid advertising section in
Friday’s Emerald.
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Footnotes: Room 15 in the Basement of the EMU.
summons” was given to his
secretary.
Assistant sociology professor
Ted Goertzel was next on the
committee’s list, and he was
“arrested,” along with about 50
students in a sociology class he
was teaching.
Committee members told his
class, “If Eugene were located in
South Vietnam, all of the people
who were arrested in the
demonstration, and, many others
would already have been
arrested for neutralist sym
pathies by the Thieu regime in
Saigon.”
They also said thousands in
Eugene would be probably
grabbed off the streets if they
were in Saigon for various
violations and shut up into in
terrogation centers for years on
end, without trial. The committee
added that the entire population
of Eugene would be undo* strong
government surveillance if
Eugene were South Vietnam.
“The U.S. taxpayer has sub
sidized the South Vietnamese
prisons,” the committee said,
“also it’s extensive secret police
force and their corps of American
advisors. We just want the
citizens of Eugene to realize how
their freedom would be curtailed
if they lived under President
Theiu’s rule in Saigon and South
Vietnam.”
Through this demonstration
and the “arresting of these
people” the committee stressed
the hope that “our symbolic
action today will arouse the
citizens of Eugene to write to
their representatives in
Congress, urging them to in
vestigate Saigon’s corrupt
regime more closely and to cut
off all funds for South Vietnam.”
Asking to “see my lawyer”
after being arrested in his
Sociology class, Goertzel was
answered by Coordinator Barnes
with a definite “no way.” Barnes
was quick to point out that if this
were South Vietnam he not only
would not be able to do that, but
with all certainty his lawyer
would be put in jail too.
Option deadline
change defeated
By DAVID HANSON
Of the Emerald
The Faculty Senate approved Wednesday a motion to
allow the inter-institutional transfer of credit from certain
community college professional programs and approved the
(just released report of the Curriculum Committee on class
changes for next year.
Two motions to change the deadline for grade options
from six weeks to three weeks after the beginning of the term
and to abolish distinctions in professorial ranks were not
approved by the Senate.
The inter-institutional transfer proposal would create a
committee in a particular academic or professional school
which would examine the applicability of credit transfers in
technical-vocational courses to specific departments in the
university.
Presenting the motion, Richard Ingraham (CSPA) said,
“The question is whether skills can proceed concepts instead
of concepts proceed skills. We will assure that students get
their liberal arts concepts in the last two years.”
Robert Kime (Health) argued that many professional
services such as inhalation therapy which are now taught in
community colleges are in desperate need of qualified in
structors who have received subsequent training at a
university.
tsiocK creau is needed in certain areas, he said, to
allow students to become teachers in those critical areas.”
Currently, non-transferable courses in community
colleges are determined by the State Board of Higher
education. The proposed committee would advise the
Academic Committee in making a transfer agreement.
Jack Sanders (Religion), a member of the Academic
Committee thought the proposal would open up professional
requirements that ‘Kivould remove the general
requirements.”
Ingraham denied that it would.
Sanders also presented the motion to move the grade
option deadline to three weeks instead of six weeks after the
beginning of the term. He claimed students who change their
option to pass-fail after mid-terms do so to escape “a
pejorative grade.”
“The tendency is to have P’s recorded on the transcript
rather than C’s,” he said.
Senate member Robert Harris (Architecture) argued
that many students need the six weeks in order to determine
how they should focus their efforts, and questioned why
students wouldn’t be allowed to “doctor their transcripts.”
Sanders replied that the current situation is causing
professors to “look at transcripts and assume a P means the
student didn’t put much effort into the class.”
“The real reason for the pass-fail option is to allow a
student to learn subject matter and not have to worry about
what his grade is,” he said.
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