merald
An Independent Newspaper
Vol. 78 No 117
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Tuesday April 5, 1977
Symposium continues
Blues singer and pianist Jesse Gray
performed Monday night as part of the
week long Women's Symposium.
Highlighting today’s activities will
be a presentation by Margaret Sloan
from 8 to 10p.m. in the EMU Ballroom.
Sloan, a founder of Ms. Magazine and
the National Black Feminist Organiza
tion, will speak on “Where There’s Sex
ism Can Racism be Far Behind?’
Other ' vents today are:
10:30 a.m. to noon. Presentation
and film by Birthright, Room 101,
EMU.
10 to 11:30 a.m. “Women and
Sports’’ panel, Century A, EMU.
Noon to 1 p m. Lee Heuermann,
local musician, Room 197, EMU.
Noon to 12:30 p.m. “To Be Young,
Gifted and Black," a film about Lor
raine Hannesbury, Room 108, EMU.
12:30 to 1:30 p.m. “Minority
Women1' panel, Room 108, EMU.
1 to 3 p.m. "Belly Dancing: From a
Feminist Perspective, “Room 167,
EMU.
2 to 3:30 p.m. “Women on the
Move1' panel, Forum, EMU.
2:30 to 4 p.m. “Naturpathic - Pre
ventative Health Care" presentation
by Robin Leavy, Room 108, EMU.
3 to 4 p.m. “A Water Rite," a one-act
play, Room 167, EMU.
3:30 to 5 p.m. “Therapy By and For
Women" a panel, Dad’s Room, EMU.
4 p.m. “The Farah Strike," a film
presented by the Revolutionary Stu
dent Brigade, Room 214, EMU.
7 to 10 p.m. “Feeling Good About
Yourself" workshop, Forum, EMU.
Changing of the guard
opens up ASUO slots
By PETER LEIBIK
Of the Emerald
ASUO Vice-Pres. Jamie Burns half
jokingly lists the qualities of a good ASUO
president: “Brilliant, forceful, witty, deci
sive. Somebody who's not afraid of criti
cism. Somebody who’s sensitive to the
needs of students. But definitely, please,
somebody who’s not perfect. We don’t want
any perfect presidents.’’
For folks who fit the bill, the filing deadline
for the 1977-78 ASUO president, as well as
positions on the Student University Affairs
Board (SUAB), the Incidental Fee Commit
tee (IFC), the EMU Board and class offic
ers, is 5 p.m., Wednesday, April 13.
The primary election will be held April 27
and 28 and the general election May 4 and
5. The new president and administration
will take over during the transition week of
May 9.
“You don’t have to have logged years at
the ASUO to run,” Burns explains. “File for
any of these positions.”
The president’s main responsibility is to
speak for and advocate on behalf of the
ASUO. The president also makes budget
recommendations and appoints students to
various committees. The president is paid
$250 per month.
"It’s a full-time job," says Burns. He can’t
recall a full-time student ASUO president
and says, “It’s impossible unless you don't
sleep.”
ASUO Pres. Jan Oliver agrees the job is
“incredibly, horribly time consuming.” “You
lose sleep over it,” she says. “It’s hard not
to talk about it in nine out of ten conversa
tions with your friends.”
Oliver has a health regime to help her
cope with job pressures. “I get up at 6:30
a.m. and do a meditation that says, ‘Hey!
It’s okay!” she says. Oliver then drinks a
protein shake because her stomach can't
take solid foods in the mornings anymore.
“It’s totally disrupted my personal life," she
says.
So why run for president? “It’s an incred
ible high to actually be of some use in youi
life,” Oliver says, “To simply provide some
advocacy for somebody."
It’s not easy to juggle all the sides of an
issue and come out with something clear
and put “your ass on the line," Oliver says.
Some students criticized Oliver and the
ASUO Executive for their advertising cam
paign in support of the United Farm Work
ers, but Burns insists it's important to know
where the president stands on the issues.
“Just because someone is in the ASUO,”
Burns says, “doesn’t mean they should
have to sublimate their political convictions,
whether they’re Reagan Republicans,
Socialist or labor-oriented."
To date, present IFC Chairer Gary Feld
man is the only candidate to have filed for
the presidency. Burns says most people
file on the last day.
Four two-ypat positions on the SUAB are
open: position 2, journalism and speech;
position 9, physics, general science, math,
geology/and chemistry; position 11, art
education, art history, fine and applied arts
and position 15, liberal arts, unclassified
and interdisciplinary studies.
SUAB meets once a month on their own,
once a month as a part of the University
Senate and once a month as student rep
resentatives at the General Faculty meet
ings. Because faculty attendance is notori
ously poor at Senate and Faculty meetings,
SUAB can "make a significant noise if they
all yell together,” Burns says. SUAB mem
bers receive a stipend of $45 per month.
One two-year post is open on the EMU
board, which makes policy decisions for the
EMU. Elected board members also receive
a stipend.
One position is also open on the IFC,
which determines the level of funding for
ASUO programs. IFC members also re
ceive salaries which vary from month to
month.
The ASUO elections are being held as
early as constitutionally allowable this year
to allow the new president to start building a
staff before summer. Bums emphasizes
that it is important for an administration to
build a strong base. Competent students
interested in working for the new administ
ration should note there will be some jobs
opening up May 9, Bums says.
Northwest meeting focuses on imperialism
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The internationalist tasks of the
American people center around
the role of the Soviet Union if at
titudes expressed at Saturday’s
Northwest Conference on the In
ternational Situation reflect prevail
ing views of the American left.
The regional conference, called
by the Maoist Revolutionary
Communist Party (RCP) carried
debate over the USSR’s growing
world reach throughout the day
long series of workshops, panel
and small group discussions.
Over 450 people attended the
event at the University of
Washington campus. A sizeable
Eugene delegation swelled the list
of registrants.
David Adami, addressing the
opening session of the confer
ence, called upon the American
people and all oppressed people
“to throw imperialism into the gar
By HEATHER McCLENAGHAN
Of the Emerald
bage can of history.”
Imperialism was the primary
topic of conversation, although
whoever represented the larger
threat of global expansionism —
the United States or the Soviet
Union — remained undear at the
conference’s end.
The “restoration of capitalism in
the Soviet Union” makes the
USSR an aggressive, imperialist
power in the same league with the
United States, European socialist
Claude Jolley told his audience at
a workshop on Europe. Jolly said
Eastern and Western Europeans
alike are beginning to see through
the sham of the two super powers’
designs on their lands.
Jolly charged the communist
parties of several European coun
tries — noteably France and Italy
— have abandoned the working
class struggle as a guiding
Marxist-Leninist principle.
“These parties were genuine
workers parties in the 1930s and
at the end of World War II in their
defense of the Soviet Union
against fascism. But toaay xnese
same parties have collaborated
with their respective ruling classes
to the point they are no longer
people’s organizations,” Jolly
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said.
Jolly insisted that the question
of Europe should remain as a key
focus of discussion in the United
States as contention between the
two super powers brews.
“Whether you like it or not, you
are going to be involved. What you
say and what you understand is
going to make a hell of a lot of
Jolly said the European work
ers’ movements are strong and
growing. Jolly cited recent strikes,
slowdowns and factory takeovers
as indications of the power of the
European working class.
Following through on the ques
tion of the internationalist tasks of
the American people, Jan Ford of
the Seattle RCP told several
hundred listeners the American
people must oppose imperialism
of both superpowers while, at the
same time concentrating the at
tack on the United States.
“We must direct the main blow
on our own rulers here in this
country," Ford said.