editorial
Wayne Morse, of course!
For the Democratic nomination to the U.S.
Senate, the Emerald strongly endorses Wayne
Morse over his opponent, Jason Boe.
Morse says the main issue of the campaign is
inflation. He says that the prime interest rate is so
high (11 per cent) that people cannot afford to build
houses. If elected he would introduce legislation to
bring the Federal Reserve Board under tighter
Congressional control.
Morse also attacks tax loopholes, the oil depletion
allowance, and the fact that the energy cartels act as
nations unto themselves, entering into agreements
with foreign powers without regulation by the
government.
NUCLEAR WASTE
Because he sees the problem of nuclear waste as
unsolvable, Morse opposes nuclear power. Even if
the country faced an energy shortage, Morse says he
would rather do without energy than have people die
because of nuclear pollution. Morse feels, however,
that if nuclear plants are going to be built, they must
be kept away from population centers.
The usurpation of power by the president is also a
major concern, says Morse. He feels that the trend
must be stopped if the U.S. is to avoid becoming a
police state.
President Nixon's impeachment and conviction is
also a high priority. Morse's opponent, Jason Boe,
has attacked him for calling for Nixon's conviction,
saying that a Senator who will be a member of the
"jury" should not make such statements.
But Morse says that Boe is incorrect. Once the
president is impeached says Morse, each member of
the Senate takes an oath and swears that his vote
will be based only on evidence presented during the
trial. Morse says that taking a position on im
peachment is not only proper, but absolutely
necessary. Some people just don't want to believe
that Nixon is a criminal, says Morse, but that the
message of his crimes of war and crimes against the
constitution must be brought to the people.
Morse also supports unconditional amnesty and is
totally opposed to any further aid for South Vietnam.
Morse's opponent, Jason Boe, was president of
the Oregon Senate during the 1973 legislative
session. Boe supported land use planning, consumer
protection and the landlord-tenant bill, but overall his
record is poor.
Boe is basically a conservative, despite the liberal
facade He voted against a bill that made it legal to
sell condoms in places other than pharmacies, and
against a bill which would have required health
insurance policies to cover voluntary sterilization
operations. He is opposed to abortion.
Boe also opposed bills granting convicts civil
rights, putting tighter controls on subdivisions, and
lowering penalties for the possession of marijuana.
Boe voted against a conflict of interest bill which
was much stronger than the watered-down version
which eventually passed.
FUNDAMENTAL IGNORANCE
On nuclear power, Boe says he opposes a
moratorium, but supports crash programs to develop
other sources of energy. During his interview with
the Emerald, Boe exhibited a fundamental ignorance
of the issue. He stated that he was in favor of
breeder reactors because they use their own waste,
and thus would be cleaner than conventional fission
reactors. In fact, environmentalists have stated that
the breeder reactor is far more dangerous because it
produces more of the deadly plutonium-239 than it
uses.
On the positive side, however, Boe said he op
posed siting nuclear reactors near population
centers. He sees nuclear power only as an interim
solution to the energy problem.
He favors public financing of campaigns for
presidential and congressional general elections, but
feels there are problems in developing a financing
program for primary elections.
Boe sees the lack of good leadership in the U.S.
Senate as an issue in the campaign. He feels that his
experience in the legislature qualifies him for the
office he seeks.
He also makes the point that he has the best
chance of beating Republican Senator Bob Pack
wood in November. He feels Morse's age an issue,
saying that the campaign and working as a U.S.
Senator is a young man's job.
AGE ISSUE PHONY
It's time that this issue is exposed for what it is:
Boe is using it because he simply can't outdo Morse
on the real, substantive issues.
Morse is 74, but he is capable, intelligent and alert.
He should not be discriminated against on the basis
of age. Morse has showed his usual vitality in this
campaign, and there is no indication that he would
lose that vitality after he was elected.
Some of this country's greatest men have done
their best work in their older years. Supreme Court
justices Holmes and Douglas are excellent examples
Morse has kept active in the years since he lost his
Senate seat to Packwood. He has been an arbitrator
on labor cases, has taught seminars on law, political
science and economics on campuses across the
country, and has served as a legal consultant for law
firms preparing appellate court cases.
What this state needs in the Senate is a man with
guts, integrity and a proper dose of moral outrage.
Wayne Morse is such a man. He always has been,
and always will be. He deserves your vote.
Letters
Go Brig Green
I see so many people dancing a deathly jig
to the tune of “Go Brig Green.” Even in the
sunshine, it's raining as puddles fall to the
campus ground; the keys deferred, too *
mystified to grasp —tossed over transoms
by Authority, human in Monster form—all
at once, there are murmurs which leave the
children threadbare, eyes frightened
amongst wind no one can really contain;
illusion is sold, how to bid is taught from
scaffolding of giant dishonest tombstones.
You can study hard for the prison exams,
agreeing to obey and watch your life go by.
I see a face in the oil-sliced rainy pools; so
many eyes, concentric, splitting some
how: down roads, one drag after another.
Clock faces deserving bloodied lips,
molested springs, for all the human ex
pressions they have massacred, twisting
ruthlessly among masses of gears; slow
and steady asphyxiation, the pace of
engineered ulcering. The rain comes from a
direction that has no end; the faces in the
dampened sunshine are wept with cracked
books that touch only as the saddening
clocks bid.
Norman Solomon
A dream
May 15 marked the birthdate of a great
American who only a decade ago told the
American people why Black America could
no longer wait for civil rights. He traced the
history of civil rights and the Negro's fight
for equality back to its beginning some
three centuries ago. He later explained he
had gone up to the mountain and "I've
looked over, and I've seen the promised
land...I may not get there with you but I
want you to know tonight that we as a
people will get to the promised land."
On April 5, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee
the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said,
“So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried
about anything. Mine eyes have seen the
glory of the coming of the Lord." Dr. King
had a Dream and for his Dream he gave his
life.
Let all of us always remember the
message to our generation by the Lte
Senator Robert F. Kennedy:
“It is a revolutionary world which we live
in, and this generation at home and around
the world has had thrust upon it a greater
burden of responsibility than any
generation that has ever lived. Some
believe there is nothing one man or woman
can do against the enormous array of the
world's ills. Yet many of the world's great
movements of thought and action have
flowed from the work of a single man.”
It is my purpose to encourage the entire
Faculty, Staff, and my fellow students —
the members of my generation, to preserve
the memory of these wise and courageous
Americans so that their words may con
tinue to guide the way toward dignity for
all.
Today Americans are confronted with
many challenges. We still are faced with
environmental problems, with health
problems, with many social and moral
issues that affect the lives of all Americans.
We are faced with corruption at all levels of
government. But I for one am prepared to
meet all those challenges. And I believe
that my generation is prepared to meet
those challenges as well. And I ask my
generation, will you join in that endeavor?
Charles Israel Martinez
grad, health education, political science
Bad coverage
On May 3, the Emerald “covered" the
symposium, "Community Psychology and
Perspectives by Black Psychologists"
which was sponsored by the Black
Graduate Student Council and Black
Students Union. The name of the author of
the article capioned, "Black Students
Need to Develop Yourselves" was not
given. Perhaps there is a correlation bet
ween this and the nature of the contents of
the article. Be this as it may, what ensues is
directed to the Editor, seeing that he is
ultimately responsible for the standard of
journalism of the paper.
In the opinonof the planning committee of
the symposium, the article at issue was (a)
insensitive, (b) disrespectful to our guests
and (c) journalistically shabby. We would
therefore like to provide the readers with a
better insight into the nature of the sym
posium.
On April 29, Dr. William Pierce, Dr. Wade
Nobles, Dr. Carolyn Block, and Dr. Thomas
Hilliard, presented an overview of Westside
Community Mental Health Center, a survey
of ways non-black social psychologists
have examined and interpreted Black
Family Life, spoke of aspects of the Family
and Child Crisis Intervention Service
provided by Westside, and the role of Black
counselors in educational institutions
respectively. None of these events was
covered by the Emerald.
In the afternoon of the same day, a
reception was held at the Gerlinger Annex
Lounge where the University community
could meet the guests and find out in a
more relaxed atmosphere more about
"Westside" and the participants in the
symposium. It was felt that this setting
might have afforded the Emerald the
opportunity to interview the guests, but -
once again no effort was made to do so.
The following day, April 30, three
workshops were conducted: "The Black
Family: A Positive Perception;" "Family
and Child Crisis Intervention Service;" and
"Survival in a White Academic Com
munity." The essential point Dr. Nobles
made about interpreting and understanding
Black Family Life is that it should be viewed
first and foremost within the context of its
"intrinsic nature." He believed that this
interpretation should be predicated on a
Pan-African perspective. Dr. Block
described in greater detail the structure and
function of the Family and Child Crisis
Intervention Service. Her most charac
teristic point was that conventional
techniques rarely address themselves to the
problems of the "nature of lower class"
family life; accordingly prescriptions for the
elimination of problems are often wide of
the mark.
Turning to that aspect of the symposium
which was covered by the Emerald, Dr.
Hilliard commenced his talk by asking Black
students to raise some issues which
bothered them in their University ex
perience. Invariably, the problem of
professors' insensitivity to 'an ethnic
viewpoint" came up. In the attempt to
place this thorny question in a meaningful
context. Dr. Hilliard offered some
suggestions as to how students may cir
cumvent the biases existing in curriculum
and instruction. He advised Black students
to draw on the expertise of Black faculty.
Even though they may be traditional in their
approach to learning, one finds, he argued,
that they are often familiar with literature
on the Black experience. Dr. Hilliard also
suggested that Black students should seek
out other professors who are dedicated to
teaching and learning. But above all he
reminded his audience that it behooves
Black students, in light of the fact that the
above resources are limited, to move
aggressively, and collectively, to chartering
an independent course so as to make their
academic experience meaningful and
relevant. It was at this juncture that he told
Black students to develop the necessary
skills to assist them in achieving this goal.
We would like to thank the appreciative
audience which turned out for the sym
posium thereby making it a success. We
would also like to thank the Emerald for its
correction printed in the issue of May 6. We
would like to suggest however, that if the
Emerald is dedicated to enhancing the
cause of ethnic respect, then the "atrocity"
committed in the article of May 3, in the
name of journalism should be avoided in
future.
Art Barfield
for the Planning Committee
Symposium by Black Psychologists
Black Graduate Student Council