LCC senate impeaches Red Fox;
students receive court summons
With only one member of the
Lane Community College student
senate absent, the council voted 9
to 3 to force student body
president David Red Fox to
resign.
Red Fox, the missing member,
said he didn’t know about the
meeting. “They seem to do
everything behind my back,” he
said.
Robin Burns, LCC student
publicity director stated, “Red
Fox was notified about the
meeting.”
Asked how he felt about the
senate’s action, Red Fox said,
“This action was probably taken
without a quorum.” What con
stitutes a quorum is one of the
points that senate members and
Red Fox are disputing.
The senate members maintain
that there are at present thirteen
voting members with another
twelve members who were
recently elected but haven’t been
sworn in yet. “They will be sworn
in today,” explained Burns. Red
Fox feels that a quorum would be
“at least 25 members present.”
Dave Simmons, senator at
large, explained that the senate
has been acting according to the
bylaws of LCC constitution. “A
quorum is based on elected and
sworn in senate members,” he
said.
Red Fox feels that the senate’s
action “violates my right to
representation.” His lawyer, Ray
Edward Fechtel said, “We don’t
recognize any act taken by this
group of people as valid.” He said
he is “recommending that he
continue to act in his presidential
capacity.”
Barry Hood, LCC student vice
president said he felt Red Fox’s
attempt to remain in office is
“illegal and entirely against our
(LCC) documents.” He added
“as of right now, I am the
president.”
Tuesday, Red Fox filed a law
suit in Lane County Circuit Court
against 10 of the student
government in an attempt to halt
the senate action against him.
The 10 defendents will be served
with summons requiring them to
appear before court in a just
cause hearing where they will
have to explain their reasons for
their actions.
Simmons felt “very surprised”
that Red Fox took the case to civil
court rather than “appealing the
academic counsel or judiciary
branch of our government (LCC)
for clarification of our act.”
Simmons doesn't believe that a
judge will consider the case. “He
will probably state it is a school
problem rather than a civil suit.”
He said he finds the whole
incident “incredible” and feels
that Red Fox filed the suit as “a
publicity stunt.”
Hood stated. “I think it’s a
threat.” He continued, “I think
Red Fox is trying to scare us. The
action today concludes this
chapter of alienation and unrest
at LCC and allows us to return to
the real problems of the student
body.”
Peace committee plans Indochina Project
as a reminder of political prisoners
By JAMIE HARTSHORN
Of the Emerald
The Eugene Peace Action
Committee (EPAC), an
“anti-war, anti-imperialist
group” met Tuesday night to plan
the strategies of two upcoming
events.
The events, an Indochina
Mobile Education Project
scheduled Nov. 7 through 9 on
campus and a demonstration
slated for Nov. 17 will be staged
to inform the community of the
overall picture in Indochina and
r
to support of freeing “the 200,000
political prisoners held by the
Thieu regime and to end all aid to
the Saigon police state,” ac
cording to EPAC literature.
Created to “bring information
about Vietnamese daily life to
American communities and
college campuses,” the In
dochina Mobile Education
Project utilizes films, speakers
and exhibits about Vietnam.
A film “Saigon—A Question of
Torture”, will be shown by the
project tonight at 7:30 in 337
Commonwealth. Two speakers,
OSPIRG starts study
on student transportation
By LEE SIEGEL
Of the Emerald
A study of the transportation needs of Oregon college
students has been initiated at several campuses by the Oregon
Student Public Interest Research Group (OSPIRG). The aim of
the study is to determine problems students have in getting to or
leaving their campuses.
In Eugene, most of the action has been at Lane Community
College (LCC) where a survey of the student body is underway.
Bill Van Dyke, OSPIRG staffer in charge of the overall
study, said that if the results of the survey show a need for it,
OSPIRG will develop a proposal for a reduced student fare
system. Such a system might be subsidized by the imposition of
a one dollar per term parking fee at LCC. Parking is presently
free.
By charging a parking fee, OSPIRG feels that crowded
parking conditions might be relieved because of increased bus
usage by students.
At Portland Community College (PCC), OSPIRG has
already made a proposal to charge such a fee. The PCC student
government has approved the proposal, and it is currently under
consideration by the administration.
Under a reduced fare system, students would pay full fare to
get to the PCC campus, but return home without charge. Tri
Met, Portland’s bus system, will charge a set amount of money
for each extra bus that is necessary to handle the increased load
of students leaving the campus.
If a need for it is discovered by the OSPIRG survey, a
similar proposal will be made at LCC.
There has been little action yet here at the University.
Students interested in conducting a study of the transportation
needs of students here should contact the OSPIRG office, 686
4073.
Similar studies are underway at Portland State University
and Lewis and Clark College.
Jacqui Chagnon and Roger
Rumpf, who are “anxious to meet
with individuals and groups in
Eugene,” will follow the film.
Those interested in scheduling
Chagnon or Rumpf to speak
before an organization or class
should call EPAC at 345-8057.
A large multi-media exhibit
will be displayed by the project
today and tomorrow in the Erb
Memorial Union.
“The exhibit consists of
photographs, poetry, prose,
original art, and maps depicting
the culture, land, and spirit of
the Indochinese people,” ex
plained Chagnon. “It also shows
the impact of the war on these
three areas.”
Not an exhibit of “maimed
bodies and burned babies,” it is
designed to show how the war has
affected the Vietnamese society,
she said.
“The emphasis is on showing
the Vietnamese people as
people," said Chagnon, “not as
statistics or body counts.”
Nov. 17 is the date scheduled by
EPAC for its demonstration. A
press conference will be held at
9:30 a m. Nov. 13 in the Eugene
Hotel to discuss demonstration
plans and objectives.
Marchers are instructed to
gather Nov. 17 at the corner of
13th and University at 1 p.m. and
march to the downtown mall (or
Harris Hall, if the weather is
bad) for a rally featuring
speeches, music, poetry, and
guerrilla theater.
Speakers at the rally will in
clude a member of the Union of
Vietnamese in the United States
and former prisoner-of-war
Robert Chenowith, held in North
Vietnam from 1968 to 1973.
Phoebe Friedman, an anti-war
activist recently returned from
North Vietnam, is also due to
address the rally.
Information on these events
and the objectives of the Eugene
Peace Action Committee are
available from EPAC, 345-8057.
The group meets every
Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Newman
Center, 1850 Emerald.
See related story page 9.
Cynthia Solem
Photo by Steve Twedt
Feminist discovers
oppression in Turkey
By SANDY DAL PORTO
Of the Emerald
Three summers ago Cyndy Solem was in Turkey and “the idea of
the women’s movement began to make sense to me.” Today she is co
coordinator for the University Feminists, a position she received last
Monday.
In the compact Feminist Office in 301 EMU, an aura of feminism
charges the air as books, pamphlets and bulletins sift out the
Feminists’ purpose from the busy stream of surrounding offices.
Solem,sitting on the edge of her chair and leaning forward with ner
vous enthusiasm, elaborates on past experiences which cultivated her
awareness of the women’s movement and brought her to this small
reservoir on the University campus.
An advocate of left wing politics, Solem’s first acquaintance with
the women’s movement was in 1969. Pinpointing her first impression
when a friend introduced her to the movement, Solem recalls
remarking, “I don’t need anything like this.” She said she failed to
understand the oppression of women and failed to realize its
similarities to the oppression of third world people.
Travels to Britain and Turkey created changes. Solem saw a
vitality in a group of British women. She saw a “horrendous role
differentiaion” in Turkey. In Turkey, Solem says, she discovered what
the oppression of women is.
Her long blond hair falling straight to her shoulders, her brown
tinted glasses creating a mysterious haze over her eyes, 23-year-old
Solem recalls a summer in Turkey, a summer that sparked her
realization of offensive male-female roles. “Turkey, as well as many
other countries, has a strict role differentiation. The women do all the
work. The men smoke and relax and are basically the dominators.”
Stranded in an Istanbul bus station once for five hours, Solem said
she was the target of a group of men. They enjoyed teasing her, and
Solem realized their dominance over her, their oppression of her, and
this is “when things really began to make sense, when the women’s
movement seemed aDDlicable.”
Her reminiscences about Britain are brighter. “There is a long
tradition of feminism. A lot of creative women, such as novelists, have
been British-born and feminists.”
In Britain, Solem became acquainted with a group of women film
makers, actively devoted to creating a healthy conception of the
character of women in films.
Solem’s travels and her participation in March Eighth, a women’s
group in Madison, Wise on son have culminated in a way of life, a way
of thinking, she says.
Her feelings towards the women’s movement reflect her personal
beliefs. Solem concludes that Gloria Steinem “is definitely in a
capitalistic mold.” Steinem, Solem explains, is advocating for women
to get ahead and for women to consider each other as sisters. Solem
sparks, “I’m not going to call all women my sisters. I don’t consider
Pat Nixon a sister.”
Her eyes, penetrating the haze of her glasses, her nervous en
thusiasm replaced by strong convictions, Solem continues, “I’m not
advocating that women charge ahead, I’m not advocating that they
become presidents of IT&T or General Motors. Some women can be
just as oppressive as men.”
Solem relaxes. Sitting back in her chair, she turns to simpler
thoughts. A graduate from the University of Wisconson and now a
University grad student in history, Solem said friends prompted her to
apply as co-coordinator for the University Feminists. After
screening and “rap” sessions, she was appointed to the position for the
1973-74 school year and will work alongside Catha Fields, Feminist
Coordinator.
Anyone wishing for more information is encouraged to contact the
Feminists Office in 302 EMU.