Oregon daily emerald., May 02, 1973, Page 9, Image 9

public Interest Research Group
criticizes program through report
By LEE SIEGEL
Of The Emerald
The Oregon Student Public Interest Research
Group (OSPIRG) has released a 96-page report
which criticizes Oregon’s coastal protection
0It)gram as “groS8*y inadequate compared to
similar, recently established coastal programs in
California and Washington.” The report said the
nropram is inferior in terms of policy, membership
composition, interim permit authority, and state
finding. /
The report, written by OSPIRG Staff Attorney
Henry Richmond, calls for major changes in the
Oregon Coastal Conservation and Development
Commission (OCCDC), especially the im
plementation of an interim permit system so that
the OCCDC will have the authority to protect the
Oregon Coast while the comprehensive con
servation and development plan is researched and
written.
The OSPIRG report was presented at a meeting
between Governor Tom McCall, OSPIRG and other
environmental group representatives, and several
OCCDC members Monday morning in McCall’s
Salem office McCall complimented the OSPIRG
representatives on the thoroughness of the report
and said that he would have to study it before any
decisions could be made.
According to Dan Mulholiand, co-chairer of the,
local OSPIRG board and one of the principle
contributors to the report, “The OCCDC has been in
existence for 19 months and is presently one year
behind schedule in completing the comprehensive
coastal plan.”
The plan is supposed to be completed by
January 1975, but before the plan can be developed
an inventory and evaluation of coastal resources
must be completed. However, according to the
OCCDC schedule, only three out of the 19 different
resource inventories will actually be complete
Wore that date.
Die report unfavorably compared Oregon’s
coastal protection program to those of California
and Washington. The policies of California and
Washington are oriented more toward en
vironmental protection than Oregon’s policies %
which seek a balance between conservation and
development. Also, the Washington and California |
coastal agencies do not allow port commissioners to >:
be members. The OCCDC has seven port com
missioners as members. |
One of the key issues is that of permit authority. *
The OSPIRG report states that “California and
Washington coastal programs are strengthened by
a permit authority; OCCDC not only does not have $
an interim permit authority, until recently, but it
has resisted environmental group recom
mendations that it seek such authority; OCCDC |i|
still has taken no positive steps to obtain permit
authority.”
OSPIRG says that the interim permit authority
is necessary to fill the huge gaps in the existing
permit authority. Among the worst of these gaps is
the lack of any regulation over land fills in areas
above average high tide. This means that most of j:
Oregon’s salt marshes are unprotected. $
Also, tnere is no regulation of developments :j:
bordering the ocean shore but not in the low tide to :j:
vegetation line zone which is presently regulated by li
the State Highway Commission. There is no permit §
authority over large developments which would :j:
have regional impact. |:|
Regulation which does occur, according to the !•:
report, lacks a coast-wide point of view. OSPIRG :|:
also scored the pro-development bias of the present
OCCDC membership. The report states that
Oregon’s coastal program is heavily dominated bj >:
coastal port commissioners. i
A lack of funds to do an adequate joh was cited >:
as another major problem. The OCCDC operates
with $32,000 in state funds and $61,000 in coastal
county contributions, while the California coastal
program receives a $5 million state appropriation
and the Washington program receives $500,000.
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Malarkey
going to
Jordan as
Fulbright
lecturer
By CHARLES HOLZHAUER
Of the Emerald,
“I’ve been trying to learn a
little Arabic, but God it’s an
opaque language. I’m still on
the alphabet.”
Stoddard Malarkey,
associate professor of English
at the University is going to
Jordan as a Fulbright lecturer
for the 1973-74 academic year.
He will be teaching English
and American literature at the
University of Jordan in the
capital city of Amman.
Under the Fulbright plan,
the United States and another
country split the cost of
sending an American to teach
or study in the host country.
Malarkey says he chose
Jordan when he applied for
the lectureship “because I
guess it’s not a place I would
have visited in the normal
course of my life.”
Fulbright applicants may
apply either as “generalists”
or as “specialists” in their
field.
Malarkey applied as a
generalist. He thinks that
many people do not apply for
Fulbright grants because they
aren’t “big names” in their
field. “People aren’t aware of
the need for generalists,” he
added.
“Most European countries
don’t need generalists, but the
so called emerging nations in
Africa, the Mid East, and the
Far East, are very glad to get
them.”
Although the University of
Jordan will probably outline
the courses it wishes him to
teach, Malarkey expects that
he will teach a survey course
in American literature.
“I’d like to present a sort of
cultural history as reflected in
literature,” he said. “I’d like
to use works that are cen
tral...The Great Gatsby —
that’s such a beautiful book.”
He will be lecturing in
English, which is spoken by
most Jordanian university
students.
His wife and two of his
children will be going with
him when he leaves for Jordan
next September.
He is very happy. “It’s a hell
of a good way to see a part of
the world that I’ve always
wanted to see, and to be able
to spend some time there.”
After his year in Jordan
Malarkey will be returning to
the University.
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