Watering practices called illegal
By JEFF BRYANT
Of the Emerald
The University Open Space Committee, a
campus advisory group which deals with the use
and development of outside spaces, responded to a
student complaint Monday morning concerning
indiscriminate grass-watering on campus.
Trish Weisman, a University freshman, cited
the waste of water and annoying watering of
sidewalks as her chief complaints. “Watering in
this fashion,” said Weisman, “is illegal as well as
annoying. A strong recommendation should be
made to the University Physical Plant in order to
stop illegal obstruction of sidewalks.”
Members of the committee agreed to ask the
Physical Plant to avoid pedestrian paths while
watering. They also contended that watering
sidewalks is hazardous to handicapped people as it
is more difficult for them to avoid the water.
Committee chairer Thom Hacker said that
members of the committee have received numerous
complaints about the sprinkler system and ex
pressed the belief that the Physical Plant will act on
the problem once they become aware of it.
“A method should be found to avoid the
watering of pedestrian paths,” said Hacker, ‘‘and a
letter stating our position will be sent to the
Physical Plant.”
Another problem considered by the committee
was the complaint that bicycle ramps are not
clearly visible from the sidewalk. It was suggested
that paint or colored stripes could be used in order
to increase the visibility of tfie ramps. A survey
may be taken to determine the need and type of
jxiarkings needed for the ramp.
The University Open Space Committee func
tions in an advisory capacity to the Campus
Planning Committee and deals with the problems of
use and development of outside spaces. Hacker
described the group as being ‘‘sympathetic with the
physical and aesthetic criteria of the campus as a
whole.” Hacker also stressed the need of student
participation and suggestions for the committee to
be truly responsive to the need of the campus
community.
Searches underway for USS Monitor;
sunken gunboat to provide example
By ROBERT BARKDOLL
(C) 1973, The Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Any day now
the North may rise again, a piece
of it anyway.
If all goes well, up from “the
graveyard of the Atlantic” off the
Carolina coast will spring, like
Venus from the Cyprian seas,
whatever remains of the USS
Monitor, the Union ironclad that
helped revolutionize naval
warfare in Civil War days.
Ten months after her
momentous duel with the Con
federate ironclad CSS Virginia —
nee Merrimac — near Hampton
f^oads Va., on March 9, 1862, the
Monitor foundered and sank in
treacherous waters off Cape
Hatteras, N.C.
There her hull has lain a
moldering for 110 years, defying
repeated attempts to pinpoint her
watery gravesite much less
salvage her.
But now a new game’s afoot.
At least two searches of a
different kind are under way for
the old “cheesebox on a raft” in
the dreaded Diamond Shoals,
where over the years the
Labrador Current’s turbulent
collision with the Gulf Stream has
wrecked half a thousand ships or
more.
One of these searches, backed
in part by the National
Geographic Society, is equipped
with the latest electronic gear,
from television cameras to
revolutionary sonar devices.
Heading this project are John
Newton, Marine Superintendent
of the oceanographic program at
Duke University’s Marine
Laboratory, and Dr. Harold
Edgerton of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology,
developer of the modern
stroboscope.
“We are very optimistic that
we are on the right track, that we
will find the Monitor,” Newton
said. “We base our high hopes on
the historical and other data
available to us, plus the tv
cameras and Dr. Edgerton’s
sonar, as well as other devices.”
Newton and Edgerton have no
time to lose. Already combing the
waters off the Carolina coast is
an expedition headed by Capt.
Michael O’Leary, operating out
of Teach’s Lair Marina (for
pirate Edward Teach, or
Bluebeard) of Hatteras, N.C.
The word filtering out of this
expedition is that O’Leary hopes
to find and raise the Monitor,
then turn it over to the govern
ment.
A third group, Underwater
Archaeology Associates, Inc.,
based in Richmond, Va., believes
it has found the Monitor, but
reported that its divers’ marker
was destroyed and the ship has to
be located again.
The group began its search in
May after working in cooperation
with the USS Monitor Foundation
of Washington, an organization
interested in the ship’s history.
No one with the archaeology
group has actually seen the ship
but a sonar device has recorded
the image of a turret the group
believes is part of the lost vessel.
According to available records,
the sunken gunboat went down at
35 degrees, 13 minutes north
latitude; 75 degrees, 13 minutes
west longitude — or 15 miles due
east of Cape Hatteras.
“But that site has a high
concentration of shipwrecks,”
said Newton. “At least eight hulls
are thought to be located within
a five-mile radius, and the wa
ter depth ranges up to 310 feet.”
Newton and Edgerton, whose
expedition gets under way
August 17, said in applying to the
National Geographic Society for
a grant that the Monitor was a
tantalizing prize.
‘‘Because the vessel was
abandoned intact and has
remained outside the grasp of
would-be salvors or souvenir
hunters,” they said, “it will
provide an uncontaminated and
undisturbed example of ship
board life on a class of vessel that
it alone survives to represent.”
They also noted that the
Monitor was the prototype
revolving turret vessel and the
historical records indicate she
contained more than 40 patent
able innovations.
The 172-foot Monitor, armed
with two 11-inch shell guns
mounted in a revolving turret,
was designed by Swedish
engineer John Ericsson as the
ultimate weapon for perfecting
the Union blockade of the Con
federate States.
It was hustled down to Hamp
ton Roads from New York after
the Confederate forces raised a
scuttled Union frigate, the
Merrimac, recommissioned her
the Virginia, and plated her with
iron. They fought it out for
several hours in full view of
thousands of spectators at
Hampton Roads. At day’s end
each side claimed victory.
Each vessel met a sad fate. The
Virginia was destroyed by the
South near Portsmouth, Va., to
avoid capture. In December of
1862 the Monitor foundered off
Hatteras.
One of the 49 surviving
members of the 65-man Monitor
crew has left a report showing the
kind of sea that salvors and any
other sailors can expect to en
counter off Cape Hatteras.
Temporary shelter offered
A temporary place to stay
for students caught in the
housing crunch will be
provided by the YMCA this
fall. The organization is
asking people in the com
munity to offer a bed, a floor,
a couch or whatever they have
to students who may be
arriving in Eugene without
any housing arrangements.
The temporary housing is
only for two or three nights,
while the student makes other
arrangements. The service
will be offered from Sept. 14
24.
The YMCA is currently
advertising through
newspapers, radio, television
and through area ministers
for people who have room to
spare.
Anyone with some extra
space, or anyone who needs a
place to stay can call the
campus YMCA at 686-4431 or
come to room 16 EMU.
Phase four called ‘disaster’
for the American consumer
“Phase four is a disaster for the American consumer ... We are
desperately risking a major depression,” Don Willner, former state
senator and past president of Consumer Federation of America, said
Friday at a Democratic Forum meeting in Eugene.
Willner, who returned from Milwaukee, Wisconsin July 23, said
the American consumer didn’t participate and was forgotten in phase
four just like the other phases. “The result,” Willner said, “is high
rising prices.”
Willner gave several examples of high rising prices reported in
the Friday Oregonian and then turned his attention to oil companies.
“The big oil companies are withholding gasoline from the market
By MARILYN WILLIAMS
Of the Emerald
while trying to prove their political point ... for example, did you
notice Exxon found a bunch of oil in the Midwest that they overlooked
shortly after voting went through to o.k. the Alaska pipeline bill?”
He said big oil corporations can use their economic power by
boycotting. “But what about the independent gasoline dealer?” he
asked.
Willner questioned the fairness in phase four of organized labor
and business corporations using their economic power to get ahead of
everyone else. He said whenever the consumer uses economic power it
suddenly becomes philosophically unsound.
“Octane ratings (which go into effect after Aug. 12) on gasoline
pumps are the only thing that consumers got out of phase four,”
Willner said.
Willner listed several measures the consumer could initiate to
fight phase four. Some of the measures included boycotting markets,
buying very selectively, organizing for political and economic action,
writing to congressmen and the President.
Willner warned, “Consumers better recognized that no one is
going to help the consumer unless the consumer helps himself.”
Bringing back true competition was one of Willner’s alternatives
to phase four. “Economic power is in too few hands,” he said. He
stated that before too long a few large corporations board members
will be making the decisions for all of citizens unless they take action.
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