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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,
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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.