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GI benefits to pacifists (special) — The House Education Committee Wed nesday night adopted a bill which would provide veteran educational benefits to con scientious objectors but tabled two student-drafted bills which would have required the State Board of Higher Education to establish affirmative action guidelines in admitting, hiring and promoting women and minorities. The committee sent to the House floor with a “do pass” recommendation HB 2540 which provides that persons granted the status of conscientious objector by the Selective Service System who have “satisfactorily per formed alternate civilian ser vice” will be eligible for the same educational benefits as other veterans. But HJR 54 which would have required the State Board of Higher Education to “establish guidelines regarding admissions of women and minorities to professional and graduate programs” and HJR 55 which would have required the board to “establish guidelines regarding hiring, promoting and granting of tenure to women and minorities” were tabled by the committee. Committee chairer Rep. Larry Perry (D.-Eugene) said Thur sday that the measures were tabled because the committee had not received any statistics to indicate the need for such requirements. Perry said that he wrote letters to the University Medical, Dental, and Law schools requesting admission and hiring statistics, but received no response. He said that he also wrote letters to the students in the Inter-Institutional Union of Students (IUS) who had requested that the bills be drafted urging them to make sure statistics were provided. House hears apartment owners complaints on rent-reform bill SALEM (Special) — A Portland lawyer told the House local government and Urban Affairs Com mittee Wednesday that passage of SB-159, the overhaul of landlord-tenant laws, would bring about a shortage of housing and even less cooperation between landlords and tenants than presently exists. George Birnie, representing the Oregon Apartment Owners Association, at the final hearing on the bill, said that committee testimony has brought out that the major landlord tenant problems develop “over low income housing and the people who compete for that housing.” He added, “There are other problem areas but the burden of the problem is in the sphere of low income.” Birnie told the committee that the primary problem is not present landlord tenant laws, but present economic conditions. He suggested that “government” look instead towards solving the economic problem by granting rent or housing subsidies to low incrane persons. “The basic underlying error in SB-159 is that it calls upon the landlord to solve the low income problem,” the Portland attorney said. He said that if the bill passes the legislature and is strictly enforced “apartment houses in downtown Portland will have to be torn down” because lan dlords of antiquated housing could not adhere to the conditions of providing “habitable dwellings” outlined in the bill. Birnie said that if the landlords had to adhere to the law “it would bring about financial disaster.” Therefore, Birnie said, “passage of the bill will mean even less housing than we have today.” He noted that less housing would hurt low income families. Birnie suggested that the committee junk SB 159 and consider another bill. “My group does feel that there should be legislation in the landlord-tenant area,” he said. “We realize that there is a need to outlaw retaliatory eviction (eviction for exercising legal tenant rights) and the lockout, which is really a form of trespassing.” “We also favor legislation to make landlords accountable for deposits,” he added. Another landlord representative, Steve Mozinski, representing the Portland Randall Corporation, told the committee that if SB-159 becomes law, Randall will begin charging two months rent in advance in its forty-six apartment complexes. “We need the psychological threat of the lockout — the landlord lien (confiscating a tenant’s property for non-payment of rent),” the young representative said. Committee chairer, Representative A1 Den smore (D-Medford) said that the committee will take action on the bill during a work session next Wednesday. 1973-74 IFC BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS Wyatt-Loveys Executive Recommendation IFC Recommendation Athletic Department EMU ASUO Executive Action Now Asian American SU Black Graduate SC Black Student Union Canterbury Center CCDC Chinese Student Assoc. Community Video Acc. Center Cosmopolitan Student Assoc. Cultural Forum DMIC Drug Info. Center ESCAPE Eugene Youth Hostel Foreign Student Org. Forensics Gay People's Alliance Graduate Student Council Growers Market Handicapped Student Supp. Serv. Housing Office lllahe School IUS IEC KWAX Legal Services Legislative Coordinators MEChA Migrant Labor Project Music National Student Lobby Native American SU Oregon Daily Emerald Oregon Prisoner's Coalition OSPIRG Recreational Folk Dance Repertory Dancers SEARCH SAB Student Bar Assn. Student Educational Programs Student Employee Defense Coun. Survival Center Tax Table University Feminists University Theatre Willamette Student Housing Women's Transitional Living $150,000 481.482.05 45.941.14 0 3.858.34 (incl.GSC) 9,034.24 0 0 1.100.00 350.00 (incl. IEC) 31.250.00 0 3.712.82 9.182.37 847.00 3.201.43 4,737.50 934.24 5.741.34 0 0 4.452.12 0 985.00 9,384.27 0 19.000. 00 2.953.14 5.442.75 0 1.850.00 1,914.80 3.835.48 30.000. 00 2.431.43 41.000. 00 441.84 4.200.00 8.144.37 2.884.38 7.997.12 13.000. 00 0 4.492.35 400.00 2.479.14 C 0 0 135.000. 00 485.882.00 45,941.14 2.523.00 4.124.00 3.104.00 8.142.50 1.350.00 15.000. 00 1.100.00 500.00 (incl. IEC) 31.250.00 0 3,974.32 9,482.37 847.00 3.824.43 7,421 00 1,537.84 3.831.04 0 2,498 49 3,740.29 0 1.008.00 7.210.49 2.477.00 19,000.00 2.751.00 4.913.00 4.149.00 1.850.00 1.533.00 4,512 54 35.000. 00 3.174.04 41.000. 00 431.43 4.200.00 7.438.49 2,439 42 8.204.00 12.500.00 0 4,512.17 543.00 2.832.00 7.000. 00 (incl. Housing) (incl. OPC) Totals TOTALS 934.924.00 934.924.00 934,924.00 952,444 952.444.00 19,000.00 1972-73 Budget 135.000. 00 397,187.35 54.930.00 3.019.00 0 500.00 5,894.15 209.00 15.500.00 0 0 450.00 31.030.00 7.299.00 5,513.27 9.847.00 704.00 3,947.80 8.700.00 0 5.380.00 0 0 4.385.35 3.500.00 2.495.00 10,340.45 1.800.00 19.000. 00 3.090.00 4.559.95 9.280.00 1450.00 0 5.592.95 24.400.00 0 41.000. 00 395.00 2.530.00 7.144.40 1.717.00 845.00 12.500.00 0 4.841.35 850.00 2.345.85 0 410.00 0 874.110.00 874,110.08 19.000. 00 TOTALS State Highway Commission sending out questionnaires to determine bike usage The Oregon State Highway Division is sending out a questionnaire this week to determine the intensity of bicycle usage in the Eugene Springfield area. This questionnaire is a revised follow-up on a controversial questionnaire sent out last January. The January questionnaire was critised for its distribution and for the form of its questions. Ernest Drapela, then president-elect of the Oregon Park and Recreation Society, expressed fears that the results of the winter questionnaire could be used by anti-bike legislators to attack the use of tax-monies for bikeways. The new survey was revised by a subcommittee of the Mayor’s Bicycle Advisory Committee. William Cranford, highway division project engineer for the survey, said at the time that the questionnaire would be repeated in May so that riding habits during both high-usage and low-usage periods could be compared. He also defended the timing and form of the winter questionnaire. The current questionnaire is designed to gather more information about bicycling activity in the area. Those who do not own bicycles now are being asked if they would ride a bike if safe and convenient bikeways were built. From replies received the Highway Division and the Eugene Bicycle Committee hope to determine the amount of interest in bikeway development now, since spring and summer is a more favorable time for bicycling. 5JllS]lla][la] IS jig |lcyp_& save We'll be closed Memorial Weekend (May 27-28) —except Saturday Anf if you bring this ad in on Saturday, May 26,1973, you’ll receive 25c off toward your purchase of meals of L*. $1.00 or more. Good only on May 26, 1973. Limit one per customer. Remember, we’re now open Sundays! WMW4 7AVIU4H “Bring the Orient Home” OlMlMMlMM clip & save 1275 Aider Sunday, May 27 . Back by Popular Demand FELLINI’S latest film in 16mm greatest film since 8 Vi THE CLOWNS 7:00, 9:15, University Theatre $1.25 or by membership in THF UrilU®SITY film society
