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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1974)
See photos and review of Van Morrison’s Valentine’s Day McArthur Court performance in today’s “ode” entertainment guide. Vol. 75 No. 109 Eugene, Oregon 87403 Thursday, February 21,1974 Respond to Reynold's letter Picketers challenge EMU ban By ALAN McARTHUR Of the Emerald Citing protection under the First Amendment, the coalition of groups in support of the United Farmworkers (UFW) gave notice Wednesday that they will not abide by the ban on all picketing inside the EMU as ordered by EMU Director Dick Reynolds in a letter to the coalition on Monday. In a letter to President Robert Clark and EMU Director Dick Reynolds, Michael Goldstein of the Eugene Coalition said that “only ‘significantly disruptive' activities are considered r violations,” according to the Student Conduct Code. Picketing, he asserted, is not under that category. But Dick Reynolds, after stating that a total ban was not the object of his letter on Mon day, said the definition of “picketing” was the prime point in question “If you take picketing to mean a serpentine line weaving through the cafeteria, then, yes, that is disruptive and won’t be allowed. But I did not intend a total ban,” he said Wednesday night. Reynolds said Goldstein asked him if several people standing in the EMU lobby holding picket signs would constitute a Senate gives governor energy crisis powers SALEM (UPI) - The Senate Wednesday passed the bill granting the governor emergency powers 'to deal with the gasoline shortage and other energy emergencies. The bill now goes back to the House for concurrence in minor amendments. The measure gives the governor authority to impose mandatory curtailments in use of energy resources. It is expected Gov. Tom McCall will use the authority to im pose some type of gasoline rationing system in Oregon. The governor’s authority would last for 30 days. It could only be .renewed if the Legislature is called back into session and approves an ex tension of the emergency proclamation.' disruption, and he replied that it would not. If a disruptive event did take place, Reynolds ex plained, the administration’s action would be decided by ex perience. Reynolds had said earlier this week the picketers were ordered to stop chanting and picketing in the EMU because “noon-time customers—both faculty and students’’ had made complaints about the action, adding that the EMU “can’t afford to lose the clientele.” Goldstein’s letter took issue with this point, however, because “there is no authority anywhere in the code...that the mere presence of demon strators... constitutes conduct in violation of the code.” The letter from Goldstein to Clark and Reynolds had not been studied thoroughly by either man as of Wednesday night, but Reynolds stated that Goldstein’s letter was, in his opinion, “grabbing at some things I never said or meant.” “It is a sorry state,” Goldstein said in his letter, “when a University administrator is willing to violate the legal and Constitutional rights of the people in order to perpetuate his dic tatorial and oppressive lettuce and grape policy.” Handicapped students request, finally receive campus recognition By SHAWN ROSSITER Of the Emerald Three years ago there were no asphalt ramps, two students in wheelchairs and very little at tention paid to handicapped students on campus. Now, at least 54 handicapped students attend the University, including 17 wheelchair students, and the demand for accessible classrooms and equality is being heard. “The number of handicappped students had increased tremen dously, by several hundred per cent,” Judy Bogen, assistant dean of students, said. “There’s no way to count the exact number and I prefer it that way. Many handicapped people don’t con sider themselves different.” This increase has been motivated by several ad ministrators, faculty members and the handicapped students themselves who have pushed for legislation and fiancial backing. Their requests haven’t always been answered. A $1.9 million proposal to the state legislature for University building remodeling and extra revision for handicapped student access was refused. The legislature doesn’t see that it has the money to spend for this kind of building repair, Harold Babcock, director of the physical plant, said. “Those who are in control of the money, and I’m pne of them, have to make the decisions that will benefit the University,” Babcock said. “Should we build one elevator for $50 or $60,000 or a lot of little things for the same amount of money?” Babcock believes the University is doing all it can to make daily transportation and learning easier for the han dicapped students. The only drawback is money. “We should do a lot more...even a few elevators would make a tremendous dif ference,” Babcock said,“but there’s no money coming in.” Despite the financial obstacle, handicapped students are hearing about the campus awareness and are enrolling for classes University grounds are relatively ideal for students in wheelchairs because there are no hills, Babcock said. Also, han dicapped students are being recruited in high schools by ALERT, a student organization for watching planning committee decisions and initiating changes that would benefit students with mobility problems. “We aren’t willing to be left in the back room of a nursing home anymore,” Chris Casady, an ALERT member, said. “If decisions are made at the drawing board, it only costs .1 to 1 percent more to make a building totally accessible to the population.” Casady, a senior in CSPA, is a quadraplegic and confined to a wheelchair. Mobility problems in the community aren’t limited to handicapped persons although they are the ones fighting for added ramps instead of stairs and first floor classes. “My grandparents have the same transportation difficulties that I do,” Casady explained, “and so do women with strollers.” In the past few years, the office of Student Services, the University Physical Plant, contacted faculty members and (Continued on Page 6) IFC voting nears 10% with 848 turnout If today’s voting for IFC candidates continues at Wednesday’s rate, 10 percent erf the student body will have voted, according to Amy Sawelson, Chairer for the Elections Board. So far, MS students have voted. If it rains tomorrow, the booths at 13th and Commonwealth, the Bookstore, PLCand inside the EMU will remain; the booth behind the EMU on Onyx Street will be moved inside; the booth on 15th and University will be moved inside the P.E. building and the one at the Hamilton-Agate crosswalk will be moved under the dorm ledge. A booth will be provided at the infirmary today, according to Sawelson. “The election is running very smoothly and uneventful ly,” she said. Students who wish to vote should remember to bring their plastic I.D. and current fee card. SOC students fight cuts; faculty positions endangered SALEM (UPI) - Students from Southern Oregon College met with state officials Wednesday in an effort to prevent budget cuts that will cause the dismissal of several SOC faculty members. Because of declining enrollments at SOC, the school’s budget is being reduced and eight staff members are scheduled to lose their jobs in June. Another 11 staff members will be eliminated at the end of the next school year if the funds are not restored. SOC students Mike Sett ell, John Campbell, and Bob Swanson, had planned to meet with Gov. Tom McCall, but the governor was in Seattle for a meeting with British Columbia officials. The students, representing the Faculty Retention Committee, brought petitions with the signatures of some 500 SOC students asking for restoration of the funds. The three-member delegation left the petitions with the governor’s office and also met briefly with State Treasurer James Redden. M Photo by David Pritchard Jim Calvin helps Guy Burkhardt down a curb in this photo but University grounds are relatively ideal for students in wheelchairs because of the lack of hills on campus. Increasing awareness of the problems these students face has come through the efforts of several administrators, faculty members and handicapped students them selves who have pushed for legislative and financial backing.
