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Vol. 78 No. 155 Eugene, Oregon 97403 Friday, May 27, 1977 Result of Southern Africa vote unsure By KEVIN HACKETT and LORI PETERSON Of the Emerald It's still too early to tell what ac tion is going to be taken by the University as a result of this week's referendum in which stu dents voted decisively to have the University cut off ties with U S. corporations with holdings in South Africa, Rhodesia or South west Africa. On Monday and Tuesday, stu dents approved a measure which would prohibit recruiters repres enting corporations with invest ments in these countries from using University facilities in their recruitment efforts. The measure Photo by Perry Gaskill A smashing performance Pat Morales is not a member of a new temperance league. Nor has he discovered an inexpensive substitute for the bottle opener. Morales explodes beer bottles by smashing them on the top of the neck and is one of a number of people who will perform tonight at the 1st Asian American Cultural Night in the EMU Administrators will make final decision passed 903 to 257. A second measure calling on the University Development Fund and the State System of Higher Education to divest themselves of stock and other holdings in corpo rations with investments in South ern Africa passed 980 to 180. But the University and the State System of Higher Education isn't necessarily bound by the referendum s directives. The ulti mate decision on whether any ac tion is to be taken lies with Univer sity Pres William Boyd and the state system. Roy Lieuallen, Chancellor for the State System of Higher Edu cation, said the results of the re ferendum could have an impact on University investments, but he was not sure how strong the im pact would be Freeman Holmer, the state system s vice-chancellor for ad ministration, said the state systems's southern Africa-related investment “is something that needs to be looked at and consi dered.”’ Holmer said the referendum provided “important information and it certainly will be taken into consideration.” He said while he doesn’t con tend the results of the referendum to be unrepresentative of the students' wishes on this campus, the state system includes many other schools and their interests would have to be considered too. The Southern Africa Support Committee, which initiated the petition drive to get the referen dum placed before the students, has said that its next step would be to encourage other student bodies at schools around the state to hold similar elections. There is some disagreement over whether the measure to deny recruiters.the use of campus facilities will have an effect on stu dents ability to obtain jobs. Don McCarty, director of Career Plan ning and Placement Service, said "as far as having an impact on U of O student^, it doesn't. I doubt if there's going to be an appreciable change in recruiting," McCarty said. James Reinmuth, acting dean of the School of Business Ad ministration, doesn't agree with McCarty's view of the potential impact of the referendum. "The effect of this goes further than just with the corporations involved in these countries. It is very likely that other corporations Subcommittee hears field burning views SALEM — If there is any issue now before the Legislature which can be said to place two diametri cally opposed groups against each other, that issue is field burn ing. At issue is SB 535, which calls for a reverse of the current field burning phase-down schedule set by the 1975 session of the Legisla ture. Under the current law, 95,000 acres of grass seed field in the Willamette Valley would be al lowed to be burned this summer, and 50,000 after 1977. The bill, passed by the Senate last month, will allow 235,000 acres to be burned this summer if passed. Now in the House State Government Operations Commit tee, the bill was the subject of de bate during a field burning sub committee hearing Thursday night. ‘‘Anyone who has been in volved in this issue knows how complex it is and that it has created adversary relationships,'1 Rep. Dave Frohnmayer, R-Eugene, told the committee. Frohnmayer spoke in opposition to the bill, calling it a “radical de parture from past decisions. “The acreage limitation in SB 535 cannot be allowed to stand,” he said. “It is a phase-up, a retreat which goes far beyond the rhetoric of the 1975 session." Frohnmayer also pointed out that the bill was "fixed and con stant, calling for no phase-down over time. He said the phase down plan now in existence "has acted as the only incentive for the grass seed industry to develop al ternatives to field burning. One of those alternatives most hoped for by the 1975 session was a development of field sanita tion machines to reduge the total smoke produced by burning each field. Those machines have now been viewed by most legislators as unsuccessful. But Frohnmayer told the committee the bill makes no provision for further ex perimentation with the machine. He also pointed out that "there is no mention in the bill of increasing the yield of grass seed fields, the use of agricultural chemicals or the use of alternative crops.” Frohnmayer, after being pres sed by committee member Rep. Brad Morris, R-Medford, said he would make “no compromise" on his stand of maintaining the cur rent phase-down plan. But Tom Hunton, the President of the Oregon Seed Council told the committee that the level of burning proposed in the bill “is a very equitable level. The grass (Continued on Page 10) will stay away too,” Reinmuth said. He said the business school’s placement efforts were hurt by the demonstrations heid when Weyerhaeuser and IBM re cruiters were on campus earlier this year. Reinmuth believes the action could have an adverse effect on the University's enrollment. He reasoned that if corporations are restricted in their recruiting efforts, and as a result students aren’t able to get jobs they’ll go else where to get their education. Reinmuth called the referen dum results a "near sighted, un wise and foolish decision.” ‘The University is supposed to be an open forum for the debate of ideas. By keeping recruiters off campus, I think a hearing of both sides of the i§sue will be denied.” ASUO Pres. Gary Feldman said he is not sure what course of ac tion his office will take on the re ferendum action until he can get a reaction from Boyd. Boyd is cur rently out of town. Feldman said the ASUO is going to write a letter to Boyd and the State System of Higher Education which would express the ASUOs support of the directives of the referendum and request a response. Concerning the referendum, Feldman said. "I don’t think they would ignore this. They owe the students a response.
