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
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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.