Salem Roundup
Spending limitations
labeled unconstitutional
By MARY BETH BOWEN
Of the Emerald
SALEM—A bill that would have encouraged voluntary
limits on campaign spending died on the House floor Wednes
day, amid charges that it was “unconstitutional” and “un
necessary.”
HB 2037 would allow statewide and legislative candi
dates to sign a pledge form indicating whether they will limit
campaign spending to certain amounts.
Rep. Kip Lombard, R-Ashland, criticized the bill, saying
“there’s nothing in the law now that prevents a candidate from
challenging his opponent to a spending limit, and using a
refusal to do so as a campaign issue.”
Rep. Grattan Kerans, D-Eugene, chairer of the House
Elections Committee that produced the bill, said it would “give
every man and woman in Oregon effective access to political
office,” regardless of their personal wealth or financial backing
from special interest groups.
Opponents of the bill claimed it pressures candidates to
sign the limitations box, and thus conflicts with a 1974 Oregon
Supreme Court ruling that declared mandatory campaign
spending limits unconstitutional.
The constitutional argument was further strengthened by
a memo sent this week to House members from the American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which said HB 2037 is uncon
stitutional.
“Section 2 (of the bill) states it is the declared policy of the
state of Oregon to ‘encourage limits of campaign expendi
ture’,” the ACLU wrote. “The bill brings into play the powerful,
almost coercive element of state encouragement, thereby
seeking to achieve what the Supreme Court has said can’t be
required.”
Kerans said the ACLU's reasoning was in error, “because
the bill is not mandatory, but voluntary.”
“How far is encouragement' from “forced compliance ?”
he asked the House.
The bill died when the House voted to refer it back to the
elections committee. Kerans had said earlier that he would
table the bill if it was re-referred.
Gay discrimination bill debated
SALEM — Religion and moral
ity were at a high pitch Tuesday at
a packed public hearing on a bill
that would prohibit employment
and housing discrimination
against homosexuals.
Opponents of SB 603, spon
sored by Sen. Steve Kafoury,
D-Portland, said it would encour
age an immoral lifestyle and en
danger the physical well-being
and sexual identities of school
children. Supporters said it would
guarantee homosexuals the civil
rights that all other Oregon citi
zens enjoy.
The hearing before the Senate
Aging and Minority Atfairs Com
mittee drew an overflow crowd of
nearly 300 persons.
Maureen Gieber of Eugene said
that allowing homosexual
teachers in schools could lead to
negative influences on school
children.
“The law says that homosexu
als are already free to be them
selves,” she said. “But this bill
would impose homosexuality on
me and my kids.”
Gieber also criticized a provi
sion in the bill requiring a public
education program designed to
eliminate discrimination against
homosexuals.
Julia Baker of Portland, repres
enting the Archdiocesan Council
of Catholic Women, said she
doesn’t believe in discriminating
against anyone, but this biil would
raise to the status of normal life
style that has been frowned on as
abnormal.”
Rev. Randy Piersma of the
Bible Baptist Church in Salem
quoted scripture and said that the
Bible teaches that homosexuality
is unnatural, immoral, and wrong.
Supporting the bill was commit
tee member Kafoury, who said the
“committee isn’t voting on
By MARY BETH BOWEN
Of the Emerald
whether we like homosexuality,
we are voting on a matter of basic
human rights.”
“It is shocking to me that mem
bers of our society, who are citi
zens, are forced to live in constant
fear of being discovered, fear of
losing their jobs, their income,
their homes, fear of even signing
their names to the letters they
write to me as their elected rep
resentative,” he said.
Kafoury told the audience that
all citizens should be judged on
their individual merits, “not on a
membership in a racial or sexual
class.”
He added that a major problem
with the bill is the fear among
politicians that support for the
rights of homosexuals will lead to
defeat at the polls.
Also endorsing the bill was
Charles Hinkle, Oregon Chairerof
the American Civil Liberties
Union. Hinkle said the bill would
still allow an employer to fire a
homsexual employe if the
employe's sexual orientation in
terfered with his job.
“The employe could be fired if
he insisted on interjecting his sex
ual orientation into his relation
ships with co-workers or custom
ers,” he said, “But it would prevent
an employer from firing an emp
loye simply because he disco
vered the employe was homosex
ual.”
The committee will schedule
another hearing on the bill later
this month.
Japanese class offered
Japnese Literature and Cinema
(JPN 407) will be offered again
spring term although it is not listed
in the Time Schedule of Classes,
according to the Chinese and
Japanese department. The
course will focus on the works of
the 1960s.
Films scheduled for study in
clude Shindo’s “Island" (1961),
April 5; Kurosawa’s “Red Beard"
(1965), April 12; Imai’s “Night
Drum” (1958), April 19; Hani’s
“Bwana Toshi” (1965), April 26;
Oshima’s “Boy” (1969), May 3;
Ozu’s ‘‘There was a Father’’
(1942), May 10; Teshigahara’s
‘‘Face of Another” (1966), May 17;
Shinoda’s “Assassination (1964),
May 24 and Hani’s "He and She”
(1963), May 31.
The course is coordinated with
a history colloquium on Marriage
and Sex Roles in Japan. There will
be no admission charge for stu
dents enrolled in the class
Yale prof speaks today
Thomas Emerson, a Yale Uni
versity Law School emeritus pro
fessor of law, will deliver a lecture
entitled “Control of the Intellig
ence Agencies” at 10:30 a.m.
today in 129, Law.
The talk, sponsored by the
University’s law school, will be
open free to the public. Emerson
is the author of two books, “To
ward a General Theory of the First
Amendment" and “The System of
Freedom of Expression.”
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V-ball teams
meet for match
at high school
A match between the top men’s
volleyball teams in the Northwest
— the Multnomah Athletic Club of
Portland and the Emerald AA
men’s team of Eugene — is
scheduled for Sunday at North
Eugene High School beginning at
7:30 p.m.
The Emerald Volleyball Club
finished as the Region 11 champ
ion last year and Sunday's match
promises to be a hard-fought one,
according to Emerald members.
The match will show two different
styles of play — the high, power
hitting game of the Multnomah
club and the faster hitting, ball
control game used by Emerald.
Admission charge for the match
is $1 for adults and 50 cents for
persons 18 years old and
younger.
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Law students take first
For the third consecutive year a
team of law students from the
University’s law school has taken
first place in the Pacific Northwest
regional round of the Jessup In
ternational Law Moot Court Com
petition. The 1977 regional round
was held Thursday and Friday at
the law school. Five other teams
from law schools in Washington
and northern California also com
peted.
Greg Cook, a second-year stu
dent at Oregon, was judged the
top oralist in the region. Other
Oregon team members are Daniel
Callahan, Patricia Crain, David
Feist and Steve Jacobson.
The Jessup Competition annu
ally presents a current interna
tional law problem for debate by
law students before a mock Inter
national Court of Justice. This
year’s problem concerns the legal
ity of some present attempts to
limit nuclear proliferation. In win
ning the regional round, the
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Oregon team becomes eligible to
compete in the national semifi
nals, held next month in San
Francisco at the annual meeting
of the American Society of Inter
national Law. The winner of the
national round will debate the top
foreign team in the international
finals, also held in San Francisco
during the American Society
meeting.
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MEETINGS
The Baptist Student Union will meet at 6:30 to
night at 1930 Onyx St. Sara Wisdom, state WNU
director, will present a program about Annie Arm
strong. For more information or transportation, call
344-7443
LECTURES
Enc Adelberger. a University of Washington pro
fessor, will speak on "Parity Violation in Nuclei, at
3:30 p.m. today in Room 16, Science I. He will
describe a variety of experiments designed to study
this parity-violating force between two nucleons
Adelberger s lecture is part of the physics
department s colloquium
Manley Natland. a geological consultant, will
speak on "Water-Laid Clastic Sediments at 7:30
tonight in Room 177, Lawrence Interested persons
are invited to attend
MISCELLANEOUS
Spring softball entry blanks for women's and co
ed teams are now available in the WRA office
Room 8. Gertinger Entry deadline is 4:30 p.m April
7. For more information, call x4121
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