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Oregon daily emer Ad Independent Student Newspaper Vol. 76, No. 146 Eugene, Oregon 97403 Monday, April 21, 1975 Four (or five) vie for ASUO top spot By JIM WORLEIN Of the Emerald Filing for positions in the ASUO’s spring elections ended at 5 p.m. Friday, and be fore the weekend was over, at least one presidential candidate had positively drop ped out of the race. Two well-known names in campus poli tics, Jane Aiken and John Stewart, have apparently pulled out of the contest for the top spot in the ASUO hierarchy. This leaves Jim Bemau, Dave Donley, Mike Schaefer and Ed Delore to scrap it out for ASUO president. There was no filing for vice-president as the winning candidate will appoint his choice for the position. AiLw. r+rr* ufait «*QQ «-*» m |ka* * odlu 3Tlv V?QD <77• u "ifll her withdrawal would be on the election board's desk today. Aiken has been a prominent figure on the campus political scene for the past two years. She ran for the position last year, only to lose in the primary. She was elected to the Incidental Fee Committee (IFC) and was chosen as its chairer. Her political stint at the University has been marked with controversy in dealing with such issues as student seating rights in McArthur Court and women's athletics. Aiken said her responsibilibies as IFC chairer should take top priority and she wanted to stick with the 1975-76 ASUO budget the IFC is currently working on. Stewart is definitely out. The Emerald received a copy of a letter to Debra Corbett, election board member and ASUO vice president, in which Stewart said he was out Conduct chief subject of suit University Student Conduct Coordinator Steve Barnes is the defendant in a $50,000 law suit filed by a University freshman last week. Thomas Donovan filed the suit against Barnes claiming that Donovan was wrong fully accused of violating the student con duct code. The suit is a result of charges brought against Donovan winter term. Donovan had been charged with malicious destruction, damage or misuse of University property, intentionally disrupting or obstructing uni versity functions and disorderly conduct. The charges stemmed form a protest of the University's purchase of Teamsters let tuce. Several trays of lettuce were dumped on the floor in the EMU Skylight Room. Charges against Donovan were later dropped after the prosecution made its case. The University freshman is asking $25,000 in general damages and $25,000 in punitive damages. of the race effective at 10 p.m. Sunday night. He listed no reasons on his with drawal. He said later, “it was for a number of reasons,” but he would not specifically list any. Stewart ran and lost as a Democratic candidate for state representative from Dis trict 41 in 1974. He was delated by Republi can Mary Burrows. His ASUO experience included serving as the vice-president and as an ASUO senator from 1971-73. He is currently the chairer for the Oregon Nuclear Moratorium Committee. Bemau is presently the administrative assistant for University affairs in ASUO Pres. Robert Liberty’s administration. He too has been active in student government and this past year has been involved with student-faculty co-governance and the proposed EMU tavern among other things. Bemau is a graduate student in political science. Donley is serving his term as an IFC member which he won last fall. The past few months he has been examining records to see if students lost ownership rights to various pieces of property on campus, in cluding McArthur Court. He is a junior in political science. Schaefer is also a junior in political sci ence and is the president of the Political Science Student Union. Unlike other candi Photo by Warren Morgan The bureaucracy breaker ASUO Information And Grievance Center- Brett Carson, working in th& newly opened booth, helps Mike Doherty find some needed information about the University. The ASUO center in the EMU lobby was designed to give students easier access to information about University life and to channel grievances to proper University agencies. The booth is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday. I dates he has no ASUO experience, but has worked with various political organizations, he said. Delore has been involved with American Government Dependent Students (AGDS) and has worked in veteran’s affairs and as an AGDS lobbyist in Salem. He had student J government experience at Southwest Oregon Community College before serving in the Navy for four years. He is a junior in finance. This will give students choice of four can didates in the ASUO primary election scheduled for April 30 and May 1. University forms committee to advise Clark in event of strike By DENNIS PFAFF Of the Emerald The University administration has formed a committee to formulate policy and to ad vise University Pres. Clark on University operations in the event of a classified employes'strike. The sixteen-member committee, chaired by Executive Dean John Laltas, was ap pointed by Clark to explore ways in which the University could be kept running in the event of a strike. Most of the committee members are from various administrative departments; how ever, two faculty members, George Zaninovich, political science, and Del Haw kins, marketing, were also appointed. In addition, ASUO Pres. Robert Liberty will represent the student body. Although a formal meeting of the commit tee has not been held, most of the commit tee members met Wednesday to discuss various topics. Muriel Jackson, director of University relations, is handling communi cations for the committee. An over-riding concern was expressed by all the members of the committee for “the continued opera tion of the University in the event of a strike because of the impact on individual stu dents if basic operation of the University is interrupted,” Jackson said. Also during the week, Pres. Clark sent a letter to all University employes in which he urged them to accept Gov. Bob Straub s latest salary offers to state employes. In the letter, Clark summarized Straub's recommendations saying, “about two per cent of the classified employes will receive a six per cent increase on May 1, 1975. About 88 per cent of the employes will re ceive a 12 per cent increase and about 10 per cent of the employes will receive a 17 per cent increase. All classified employes not at the top step of their range will con tinue to be eligible for merit increases ap proximating five per cent the coming year." Although the Oregon State Employes Association(OSEA) has recommended the Governor's proposal be rejected, Clark warned that the Legislature may not be wil ling to fund even the amount Straub has suggested. In any event, Clark said he be lieves the Legislature is much more apt to fund the present porposal if an agreement has been reached. Clark also said, “Naturally we hope that you classified employes will not support a strike. We believe that our institutional mis sion is an important one and that you are an important part of it.” He called the Governor's proposal a “fair one." OSEA reportedly sent out ballots Satur day in which it is asking employes to au thorize a strike. The union has also indi cated its hope to have the ballot returned by April 28. If any more than fifty per cent of the employes indicate they want to go on strike, a strike will be called, union leaders say. Along with Jackson, Liberty, Hawkins and Zaninovich, the committee member ship includes University vice-presidents Ray Hawk, Harry Alpert and Gerald Bogen. Assistant to the President for Legal Affairs Therese Engleman, Director of Business Affairs W. N. McLaughlin, Director of Per sonnel Jack Steward, Director of the Physi cal Plant Harold Babcock, University Lib rarian H. William Axford, Director of the Erb Memorial Union Adell McMillan, Direc tor of University Housing H. P. Barnhart and Director of Campus Security Oakley Glenn will also be seated on the committee.
