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Oregon daily emerald An Independent Newspaper Surtt Photo Pro-homo-sapiens' name has gone through several changes. He was Erwin Wood Williams and Pro-human Williams before he settled on Pro-homo-sapiens. Gray-haired thinker bases philosophy on ‘best interest of man ’ By MARK KIRCHMEIER Of the Emerald Amidst the smokestacks and lumberyards of east Springfield lives a silver-haired philosopher who goes by the name PRO homo-sapiens His home is neighborhood landmark. Plastered with bumper stickers and window decals it's the world headquarters for PRO homo-sapiens' self-invented philosophy of World Law through Scientific Theology and Scientific Morality. (PRO-homo sapienty.) PRO describes this belief as 'man’s will determining his character. If he lives PRO-homo-sapiently, he has the best possi ble character." For the laymen, this translates into a hodgepodge of Dar winism, social activism and Christian zealotry. PRO has written a 75-page book on the credo, “Scientific Morality," explaining in laborious detail the tenets of PRO-homo sapienty. An excerpt: "PRO-homo-sapienty is composed of all loyalty to the best interests of Man and allied species, such as food plants, first and foremost. Each and every living thing on this planet Earth will be no less than 100 per cent defensive of homo-sapiens; or be capitally punishable.” Why such severe punishment? "Because there are two, and only two, living forces on this planet and they are mortal enemies: PRO-homo-sapiens and anti-homo-sapiens. They're continuously at war with each other," he says. PRO claims Biblical approval of his vision. He cites Isiah 2:4, "Nation shall not rise up against nation; neither shall they learn war any more." "To effect this Isiahan prophecy," he says, "You must will no less than 100 per cent PRO-homo-sapienty or be capitally punished. The reasoning is simple; if a man would rather die than make the act of 100 per cent PRO-homo-sapienty that would save his life, then we have to let him have his way about it and kill him in self-defense." PRO elaborates on anti-homo-sapienty by saying, "Only living things who are PRO-homo-sapiens have the right to live. Anti homo-sapiens such as disease germs, cattle ticks, potato bugs, (Continued on Page 12) V Vol 78, No 75 Eugene^Oregon^T^M Friday, January 21, 1977 Unofficial votes on IFC items place prior decision in danger By BETTY McKEEHAN Of the Emerald Janet Eggleston, Incidental Fee Committee (IFC) member, res igned her position Thursday morn ing because she is no longer a registered student, and at least one IFC allocation may be jeopar dized Eggleston notified IFC mem bers of her non-student status at Wednesday night s meeting. She indicated no plan of resignation. IFC members must be regis tered students at the University. Eggleston didn't vote at the Jan. 19 meeting but had voted at two proceeding meetings this term. In the Jan. 5 vote to allocate $700 to ASUO to fund an opinion column in the Oregon Daily Emerald, Eg gleston cast the tie-breaking vote. With her non-student status confirmed, the vote is officially 3 to 3. "IFC will probably freeze the funds and take the issue to the constitutional committee," said Jeannette Bunch, IFC administra tive assistant. Eggleston was elected to IFC last November. She did not enroll this term for "personal reasons," she said. She plans to return to school next term but doesn’t know if she will run for IFC again. In other business Wednesday IFC members allocated supple mental funds to two programs, while denying a third request. Six IFC members voted to grant Jim Bernau, ASUO lobbyist, $1,430 to help support the lobby for state subsidized child care for student parents. The committee suspended the rules to allow them to vote on the issue last night be cause, according to Bernau, it was "a matter of urgency.' Bernau satd "Students have never submitted such a bill,” but he is confident that it will pass. Passage of the bill would result in reduced student incidental fees, said Bernau Currently the Child Care and Development Center (CCDC) re ceives funds from IFC. Paul Bartel, IFC member, ex pressed his support for the alloca tion because passage of the bill "would remove CCDC from our (IFC) jurisdiction,” he said. A SEARCH class entitled “The Wilderness Experience” did not fare so will. Barry Hood, course instructor, was denied a request for $260 from IFC. The funds would have allowed the SEARCH class of about 20 students to make a movie of the wilderness area. The request also included the cost of renting a plane to make aerial shots of the area. The committee considered var ious amendments to reduce the original amount but the motion to allocate the funds failed 4 to 2. IFC Chairer Gary Feldman op posed providing extra funds for the class saying, "Supplementary requests are set up for emergen cies and unexpected expenses. I can't see expansionary spending during the year.” The PSI center won about one third of their requested allocation by a 4 to 2 margin. Committee members aggreed to give the center $ 173 to pay for a telephone and other necessary administra tive costs. Don Steele, Food-Op General Manager, submitted a supple mental budget request which will be considered at next Wednesday's meeting. Report on Amazon management fails, rekindles controversy By LORI PETERSON Of the Emerald A preliminary proposal to put the Amazon (married student) Housing Complex in the hands of its tenants has been termed by the Married Housing Council as "not workable," but Amazon Coopera tive Tenants (ACT) aren’t stop ping there. The housing council made its decision Dec. 2 and Gerald Bogen, vice-president for student affairs, later termed the council's decision "appropriate.” The idea of cooperative man agement came up during a rental increase hearing last spring, but Amazon representatives were told the idea was "irrelevant" by a State Board of Higher Education hearing officer. Universi.y Pres. William Boyd then recommended that a task force of community members, students and faculty look into the possibility of cooperative man agement for Amazon. Members of the task force worked on the issue during the summer, planning by-laws, resi dent policies lease agreements and preliminary budgets. Members of the task force were in touch with other successful cooperatives throughout the na tion, and one Amazon tenant traveled to several cooperatives. The review of the proposal criti cized a number of different areas. In the task force proposal review it stated “ .. .families with children find that with work and school they have little enough time to be to gether as a family, let alone par ticipate actively in the affairs of the project.” It also stated "foreign students who have the disadvan tage of trying to learn in a foreign language also admit to having a similar difficulty in managing housekeeping affairs in a strange place.” Bogen also filed a statement that said, "If you continue to work on the tenant management con cept, be mindful that the president (William Boyd) and I are impres sed by the great contribution Amazon has made to large num bers of previous students and the need to provide these facilities in the future.” Dave Zupan, ACT member says Bogen’s statement was premature. "It was understood there would be revision; this is just a preliminary plan,” he said. Zupan said the Married Housing Council review on the proposal was "quite poorly done and done very quickly." Zupan termed it "a slap in the face to the task force." Vernon Palmer, task force member, said ACT also received a lengthy critique on the proposal from the University Housing Of fice. "They tried to make a case out of it instead of being critical," Palmer said. Currently, members of a steer ing committee are working on par ticular sections of the proposal, including the budget, in order to elaborate and strengthen them. No date has been set for sub mission of the final proposal.
