Photographer contracted for demonstrations
Stephen Barnes, coordinator of
the student conduct program, said
last week that his office hired pri
vate individuals to take photo
graphs of student demonstrators
at the centennial-inauguration
ceremonies last month.
By MICHAEL KESTEN
Of the Emerald
“I don't know if you're new to the
University,” Barnes told an
Emerald reporter, "but we've
been doing this for years.
"We have pictures taken of
people who we believe engage in
disruptive activities contrary to the
student conduct code,” said
Barnes.
The Emerald learned that an
employe of Lewis Foto and Print
ing took pictures for the adminis
tration. Clarin Lewis was reached
at the Lewis studio at 225 W. 7th
Ave. Lewis said recently he had
been under private contract with
the University to take pictures of
campus demonstrators.
"It's all been above board and
has gone through legitimate
channels. Nothing has been done
behind bushes. I signed a private
contract, it hasn’t gone through
Lewis Foto,” Lewis said.
When pressed for further de
tails of his work for the University,
Lewis said, “Talk to Steve
Barnes. ’
Barnes would not confirm or
deny that his office had hired
Lewis to photograph students. He
said only that those hired were not
University employes.
Barnes defended the picture
taking saying it was a policy formu
lated by students and faculty and
approved by past University Pres.
Robert Clark. The policy, which
was established at the student
conduct committee meeting of
Nov. 12, 1970, authorizes the
coordinator of the student conduct
program (Barnes) to make the ini
tial judgment as to “whether
photographic coverage will be re
quested."
The policy reads that the coor
dinator must report to the commit
tee any instance when photo
graphs are taken, no later than its
first regular meeting following the
taking of photographs. The policy
also states that “Photographs,
films, or other similar records that
may be collected on any occasion
are to be destroyed within a period
of one month, unless charges of a
violation of the code or criminal
law involving that occasion are
brought or unless the committee
directs otherwise."
Concerning the use of the
photos, Barnes said, "We only
take pictures to identify students
for prosecution purposes...the
legal value of the pictures as evi
dence is very low...Whether a stu
dent is charged or not charged
does not depend soiely on the
pictures—a lot of other factors are
involved.”
Barnes concluded, ‘‘This is a
very complicated area and it’s crit
ical that the facts are not misinter
preted."
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Vol. 77, No. 96
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Wednesday, February 11,1976
Lockheed payments pose
threats to foreign powers
(AP)— Lockheed Aircraft Corp.'s admis
sion that it paid $22 million to foreign offi
cials and businessmen threatened the fu
ture Tuesday of the Japanese government
and the Dutdi monarchy and hampered ef
forts to form a new Italian cabinet. It also set
off official inquiries or calls for such inquiries
in Colombia and Turkey.
The leading Japanese opposition party,
the Socialists, demanded that a former
prime minister be added to the eight men
already summoned to testify under oath be
fore a committee of Parliament. The
socialist chairman said Prime
Minister Takeo Miki's Liberal-Democratic
cabinet would be forced to resign if the Loc
kheed affair was thoroughly probed.
The Dutch government appointed a
three-man commission to investigate al
legations that Prince Bernhard, the
64-year-old husband of Queen Juliana, re
ceived $1.1 million of the Lockheed money.
He has denied the accusations and said he
welcomes an inquiry.
Reporting the payments to promote air
craft sales, the Soviet news agency Tass
said the “scandalous machinations" of
Lockheed were linked to the desires of the
U. S. military-industrial complex to make
“fabulous profits' and enrich the govern
ment treasury.
"It is easily understood that other, includ
ing moral, considerations are relegated to
the background when such profits are in
volved," wrote a Tass commentator.
Pres. Ford condemned any illegal pay
ments by American firms overseas, and
Press Secretary Ron Nessen said the
President is leaning toward the idea of
establishing a cabinet-level committee to
review the practices of U S. corporations in
this area and the applicable laws.
U S. Sen. Frank Church, D-ldaho, chair
man of the U.S. Senate panel inves
tigating the payoffs, met with
seven members of the Japanese
Diet, or parliament, and said he does not
know the names of Jqsanese government
officials said to have received Lockheed
payments. Church also said he does not
intend pursuing his inquiry further because
it would involve calling Jqaanese citizens
as witnesses.
Testimony coming out of Church's sub
committee last week and reports touched
off by it produced these reactions in other
countries:
ITALY-Premier-designate Aldo Moro,
working feverishly to put together a new
minority Christian Democratic
cabinet and end a 34-day gov
ernment crisis, was under pres
sure to drop Luigi Gui, interior minister
in the caretaker government. Gui, a former
defense minister, was named by several
Italian newspapers as a recipient of Lock
heed money. Gui, who has denied it, asked
the state prosecutor to investigate.
COLOMBIA— Pres. Alfonso Lopez
Michelsen ordered an official investigation
and said he will ask for copies of U S. con
gressional records after Bogota newspap
ers published what were purported to be
Lockheed documents showing that two
former Colombian air force commanders
asked kickbacks from Lockheed.
TURKEY — Defense Minister Ferit
Melen branded as "an insidious affront" to
the national prestige a rqp ort from the sub
committee that Lockheed paid about $1
million to a local contractor. An opposition
parliamentary group asked for a full probe
by the national assembly.
In Jgpan, Yanosuke Narazaki of the
Socialist party told the budget committee of
the lower house of the Diet that Kakuei
Tanaka, when prime minister, allegedly
was involved in a 1972 government deci
sion to switch from a plan to produce anti
submarine patrol planes domestically and
import the Lockheed P3C instead. Japan
has not imported any P3Cs.
Narazaki said the switching decision was
connected with alleged payoffs by Lock
heed of $12.3 million in Japan between
1958 and 1975. The payments were re
ported in testimony before a U S. Senate
subcommittee last week.
Tanaka, like Prime Minister Miki a
member of the Liberal-Democratic ruling
party, was forced to resign in 1974 in a
scandal about his private finances.
The ruling party and the government ag
reed Monday to opposition demands to call
eight businessmen to testify before a par
liamentary committee Feb. 16 and 17 about
the payments.
( Continued on Page 13)
Freudian slip?
A parking sign outside the University's Straub Hall seemed to have asserted a bit of
individuality, Tuesday. Or, perhaps it was just an experiment by the nearby
psychology department for people with a reverse personality.'
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Sorcery
And superstitions spur in
terest on this South Pacific
island...Page 3.
Fake ID
What happens to the users
and the taverns...Page 7.
V.
Refs
They're slipping, according
to one official...Page 11.
Schools
Some would like to see
them used more for com
munity activity...Page 5
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