Students
file for
positions
Campus election time is rolling
around again, and the final list of
candidates for three of the offices
is complete.
Filing for the office of ASUO
President are Jack Condliffe, Jim
Davis, Arthur Kenny, Jan Oliver
and Mark Powell.
Three persons filed for the one
open Incidental Fee Committee
(IFC) position. They are David D.
Parr, David Tyler and Derek Wil
liams.
Several Oregon Student Public
Interest Research Group board
positions are open and Bob
Blucher, Harry Esteve, Sharon K.
Hill, Terry Joe Johnson and David
Tobin seek terms on the board.
The election will be conducted
by mail this year for the first time,
using the two stubs attached to
spring term fee cards. The stub
numbered "1" should be mailed
with primary ballots, and the stub
numbered “2” with the general
election ballots. Only the presi
dential and IFC candidates will be
included on the mail-out ballots.
Voting for the other positions will
be held in Suite 4, EMU and in the
departmental offices.
The primary election is
scheduled for later this month and
the general election for May.
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Friday is the last day to regis
ter for classes and to pay fees
for spring term. The Registrar’s
Office will be open 10 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. and the Business Of
fice win be open 10 a.m. to 4
p.m.
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daily emerald
^ An Independent Newspaper
Vol. 77, No. 127
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Thursday, April 8,1976
Dormies may get booze privileges
By PATTY FARRELL
Of the Emerald
Dorm residents over 21 may be allowed to drink alcohol in their
rooms next year if a proposal by the Dormitory Governance Council is
approved by the University administration.
Dave Hercher, chairer of the council's committee on alcohol, pre
sented Housing Director H. P. Barnhart with a six-page proposal Tues
day, outlining toe specifics of the plan and defending the reasons for the
request. The committee suggested that the Housing Office restrict
specific dorms to persons over 21, allowing alcohol in the rooms of
those complexes. Alcohol would still be restricted from dorms housing
minors.
The proposal also establishes a program intended to "reduce
alcohol abuse by residents of University dormitories.”
Such a program "win foster awareness of the risks and conse
quences of alcohol abuse and help prevent or at least minimize
alcohol-related problems," the proposal reads.
Hercher anticipates the main argument against the proposal will be
that alcohol consumption wM go up if students are allowed to drink in the
dorms. “There's no reason to believe that will happen,” he says.
The proposal points to the program at Oregon State University
which allows alcohol in dorms and quotes OSU Dean of Students
Robert Chick as saying that “no negative effect on dormitory living is
apparent.’’
If Housing Director Barnhart approves the proposal, the plan
should be implemented next year. He has not yet taken any action, but
said he wil tell the council his decision “by the end of the week.’’ He
refused to comment on the proposal until then.
If Barnhart refuses the request, the council win have to wait at least
a week to appeal his decision. The appeal would be directed to vice
president Gerald Bogen, who is out of town for 10 days.
Hercher is concerned that if the proposal is not approved quickly,
students will reserve too many rooms in too many different complexes
to be able to set aside the restricted dorms. Students have already been
reserving specific rooms for next year.
As a member o# the Student University Affairs Board, Hercher has
brought the matter before the General Faculty. At its May meeting, the
faculty will consider Hercher’s motion to revise the Student Conduct
Code to allow alcohol in dorms designated for students over 21. The
motion win be retracted if either Barnhart or Bogen approves the pro
posal by the Dormitory Governance Council, but Hercher says, "I
merely want to be able to fall back on this if negotiations through the
channels fail.”
By HEATHER McCLENAGHAN
Of the Emerald
World population surged over the four
billion mark last week and although
starving faces no longer haunt the cov
ers of national magazines, the threat of
world famine has not disappeared.
In observance of Food Day today,
local food activists have planned events
to make the public conscious of the
plight of the planet’s hungry.
The Food Action Council of Eugene, a
group concerned with changing per
sonal consumption patterns to lessen
individual impact on world food prob
lems, has scheduled a “food tasting
party" at noon today on the downtown
mall as well as a series of workshops on
Saturday.
Noting that very little progress has
been made toward combating hunger on
the international level, Peg Kehrer of the
Hunger Information Center says the at
tention given to the food crisis a year ago
"stunned people too much. The situation
was made to sound impossible so peo
ple got scared and wanted to put it out of
their minds.”
The world's hungry are still hungry,
Kehrer claims. “Our government is not
moving in the direction of change," rhe
said. “Henry Kissinger told the World
Food Conference that in 10 years no
child will go to bed hungry. We should
weigh our government’s policies against
that statement. The United States is
constantly backing down from the prom
ises we made at the Conference.”
Kehrer admits the food issue is too
complex to place the blame on any one
nation or practice, but she says, "To
some extent you can blame the Ameri
can public for eating junk foods and for
depending on fancy packaging and
foods that are processed at a high
energy waste level."
Today’s food tasting party is designed
to acquaint shoppers and business per
sons with inexpensive, less energy
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Group attempts to change
food consumption patterns
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intensive vegetarian meals.
“We want people to see what kinds of
meals can be put together and to show
them that not all meatless dishes are
weird and exotic,” explains Kehrer.
Everything from “homegrown re
medies” to "global food problems” will
be discussed Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5
p.m. at Lincoln Community School, 650
W. 12th Ave. According to Kehrer, the
event will show people how a grass roots
effort may have an effect on the food
crisis. “What you do locally and at home
is not insignificant — it matters what you
do in your kitchen,” she said.
The Food Action Council suggests a
good way to observe Food Day, 1976, is
to support local alternatives, such as
Growers’ Market, to corporate food dis
tribution. A personal step in the right di
rection, says Kehrer, is to “ask yourself
how a change in your life could help
alleviate hunger in the United States and
in the world.”
Don Luce, journalist and agricultural
expert, will address the Emerald Empire
Kiwanis Club today in observance of
Food Day.
Luce will speak on “Food and Hunger:
Government Use of Food for Politics and
Corporation Use of Food for Profits.”
Luce is best known for his activism in
the Vietnam era. He co-edited “The Pen
tagon Papers” and, along with two
American Congressmen, discovered
the famous tiger cages in one of South
Vietnam’s largest prisons.
Currently Luce is a co-director of
Clergy and Laity Concerned and is ac
tive in the Stop the B-1 Bomber/National
Peace Conversion Campaign.
Luce will speak in the World's Fare
Restaurant at Valley River Center at a
buffet-style lunch. The meeting is open
to the public, but reservations are re
quested. The reservations may be ob
tained by calling Capt. Russel Fritz at
343-3328.