Bargaining proposal to hit AOSL table
By WALLY BENSON
Of the Emerald
Proposals for student collective
bargaining, reduced rate and
number of tenure awards and a
new system of faculty governance
will be presented by ASUO vice
president Kirby Garrett to the As
sociated Oregon Student Lobby
(AOSL) Friday.
In the collective bargaining
area, the main target deals with
recognizing the existing student
associations as the exclusive bar
gaining representative of the unit
on their campus. Garrett says this
will remove the necessity of hold
ing an election between compet
ing bargaining agents for the right
to represent.
Garrett feels the students in the
collective will be better informed of
what they, as students, can do
when they feel they have been
wronged. "It’s a process to con
solidate and clarify existing regu
lations,” he says. "We will have a
document people can refer to."
The contract will have a more
extensive grievance procedure,
and the association will act as
agents for students. “We’ll do the
routine stuff and take care of stu
dents’ problems for them," Garrett
says.
Though such an arrangement
may sound significantly different
from the current system, Garrett
terms a contract with the Univer
sity a means of “enhancing
communication and discussion
between students and the ad
ministration. It will create a climate
of analysis on the part of the stu
dents about their institution."
One of the “housekeeping"
measures is securing a student
role in faculty collective bargain
ing in the event they form a
statewide bargaining unit. Stu
dents currently have the right to
“meet and confer” with the
negotiating parties only if the
faculties of each campus form
their own unit. This right was won
in HB 3043, passed by the 1975
Oregon state Legislature. Garrett
says only a clause is needed in the
bill to make it applicable to state
wide bargaining. The rest of the
bill will remain the same.
Another area of concern to the
ASUO is the administration of the
contract — what the parties can
do if they wish to file an unfair
labor practice with the Employ
ment Relations Board (ERB). Cur
rently, students can only file such
a claim if an action violates a right
given them by HB 3043. Garrett
wants to broaden the role of the
student negotiating team in this
area, so they could file an unfair
A
Prof raps U.S. political structure,
calls for ‘constitutional revolution’
By TOM JACKSON
Of the Emerald
“Be patriotic — unvote!”
That’s the title of a book by Ted Becker, a
University of Hawaii professor of political sci
ence and law who spoke at the University
Monday on problems with the American sys
tem of government and possible solutions to
those problems.
“I’m riot going to vote because I don't want to
waste my time,” said Becker.
He said that power in the United States is
becoming concentrated and that the leaders of
the nation are actually very wealthy business
leaders — whom he calls the “central elite.”
“I don’t know who runs this country,” said
Becker, but added, “government reacts to bus
iness.”
Regarding the Vietnam war, Becker said
‘lor the first time in my life I wasn’t proud to be
an American. On top of that came Watergate,
and we found out that our government was
awfully lawless. That depressed me a lot.
“All of this adds up to problems in the sys
tem. I think the time has come for Americans to
stand up and say they don’t like the way the
system works — that they want to stop support
ing that system.”
Becker said he believes that the traditionally
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low voter turnouts (only 46 per cent in 1972)
are caused by dissatisfaction with the system
rather than apathy.
He said that people “have to start thinking
and acting like American revolutionaries,” be
cause the only way to change the political
structure would be through a “constitutional
revolution.”
Becker defined the revolution as “phase
two" of what he calls “the continuing American
revolution.” He said the 1776 rebellion was a
reaction to government oppression, after
which the people of the U.S. formed a "social
contract.”
“People are more aware the contract is
being breached flagrantly and continuously,"
he said.
“Nothing in the revolution has to be illegal,
and it can’t be repressed.” He said his im
mediate tactic in the revolution is the “unvote,"
but added that the revolution will be a long
process. "The American revolution was a
bourgeoise revolution," said Becker, "and that
is where the initial thinking is going to come
from. That's why I’m talking to university audi
ences.
“I think we could have a much better sys
tem,” he said, “I want all Americans to live
better.
“I’m not trying to be a revolutionary leader,
I’m trying to be a revolutionary thinker."
labor practice as a third party.
"What we seek is an explicit
statement in the contract of how
the ERB relates to students," says
Garrett.
The main change in the area of
University governance is a pro
posal to do away with the General
Faculty meetings.
Garrett also proposes a re
vamping of the tenure system. “I
personally have a question about
tenure being a viable institution in
modern American higher educa
tion,” he says. “Although suppor
ters claim tenure exists to insure
academic freedom, it is being
used to insure economic stability."
“I think the General Faculty is
totally undemocratic and unrepre
sentative," says Garrett. "They
are not a deliberative body that
can make decisions." The pro
posal calls for retaining the se
nate, which Garrett says is the
only logical representative sys
tem.
He proposes a system where
faculty are awarded tenure for a
specific length of time and would
come under review after the term
has run out. After several renew
als, the faculty members could be
up for permanent tenure.
Author advocates
sex responsibility,
natural births
By HEATHER McCLENAGHAN
Of the Emerald
“The problem with students in
our society is they don’t want to
grow up and take responsibility for
their sexual lives," author
Suzanne Arms said in an inter
view last weekend.
“The moment you begin to ovu
late, new choices and risks are
open to you. That's the time to
begin planning a family."
Arms, photo-journalist and au
thor of the critically acclaimed
“Immaculate Deception" was in
Eugene to give her views on
humanistic childbirth and Ameri
can childbirth practices.
Arms said college women
have a unique position in relation
to the world.
"Women in school are together
with other women in an environ
ment conducive to growth. They
can look at life decisions with intel
ligence, but I wouldn't dare to say
that the majority of them are care
fully planning their families," she
said.
Noting that one-third of all
women who give birth in the Un
ited States are under eighteen,
Arms said, "Older, more educated
women tend to wait and plan their
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families, but it's surprising how
many college women don't use
contraception. This is just a re
fusal to face reality and assume
responsibility for your own body."
“Family planning means more
than just contraception The time
to begin thinking is before you
have the decision thrust upon
you," she continued. "When you
are in college you have the luxury
of not being part of the system —
the luxury of examination of
thought."
Physiologically, the prime age
for a woman to give birth is be
tween the ages of 15 and 18, but
as Arms explained, most women
are not prepared emotionally to
handle a pregnancy at that time.
Arms, an advocate of natural
childbirth, believes that aware
ness throughout the birth process
from conception to delivery is an
essential tool in population con
trol.
“When women become truly
conscious, they don't have as
many children," she said. "A fine
birth experience is not determined
by the length of labor, it is deter
mined by how much care the
woman gave to the birth. Women
who have bad birth experiences
tend to have another baby within a
year and a half, we've found. But
women who have ecstatic tre
mendous experiences are satis
fied with the child they have. They
are content and lack the urgency
of the other mothers.’’
According to Arms, a young
woman in college today is faced
with long range choices. She be
lieves the shift toward single par
ent families should make college
women realize they may well end
up raising a child alone.
"Today men are choosing to
avoid anything that smacks of re
sponsibility and women need to
recognize this. Women can de
mand a great deal more from men
than they have," Arms said.
Every man who becomes a
father should realize he could be
come a single parent. For this
reason Arms advises couples to
look on the birth of a child as an
individual as well as dual respon
sibility.
“Agreements and commit
ments are as important as com
munication and trust in getting a
relationship off to a good start and
preparing it for the birth of a child,"
Arms explained.
“Every woman needs to realize,
though, that having a baby means
total care and total responsibility
on her part."