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Straub sets Friday
as day for women
Women have played an im
portant role in bringing qualita
tive change to the American
way of life but barriers still re
main which prevent them from
participating fully in all phases
of society, Gov. Bob Straub
said last week.
Straub said he has pro
claimed Friday as "Oregon
Women’s Day” to help encour
age participation in the Oregon
Women’s Conference, which is
scheduled to run Friday,
Saturday and Sunday at Wil
lamette University in Salem.
Conference organizers es
timate that more than 1,000
women from the state will at
tend the open conference,
which begins at 4 p.m., Friday.
The event is funded by a fed
eral grant from the Interna
tional Women’s Year Commis
sion in Washington, D.C., and
is one of 56 occuring this year
in every U.S. state and terri
tory. In addition, each state will
send a delegation to a National
Women’s Conference sched
uled for November in Houston,
Texas.
"This conference will give
women an unprecedented op
portunity to share their mutual
concern and inform govern
ment, business, labor and
community leaders about the
crucial issues facing women
today,” said Straub.
Charlene Holmes, one of the
co-chairers of the event, said
the conference office will help
locate transportation for
women who want to attend the
conference. She said carpools
are being organized and any
one who wants to participate
should contact the conference
office at 730 Summer St. NE in
Salem or phone 378-8189.
Jill Ruckelshaus, former
presiding officer of the Interna
tional Women’s Year Commis
sion, will be the keynote
speaker. Some 60 seminars
dealing with topics ranging
from women’s health and legal
status to women’s personal ad
justments throughout their life
will be presented. Panels and
artistic displays also will be fea
tured.
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Nations near compromise
on ocean-floor caches
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP)
— The nations of the world are
moving toward a compromise on
the issue of how to parcel out min
ing claims to the ore-laden
nodules on ocean floors, accord
ing to negotiators to the United
Nations Conference on the Law of
the Sea.
They also say they have a prom
ise from the Carver administration
that if the compromise is reached
the United States will put up 20 per
cent of the capital of an interna
tional enterprise intended to share
in the mining.
The aim of the three-year-old
conference, resuming Monday, is
to write a treaty concerning the
seabed, territorial waters, off
shore economic zones, marine
research, antipollution measures
and other aspects of sea law.
The new session starts with 157
countries invited and will run to
mid-July. The fifth session, held in
summer, involved representatives
of 150 countries. The deadlock
over the egg-shaped, black
nodules — rich in nickel, copper,
cobalt and manganese — is be
tween have-not Third World de
veloping countries on the one hand
and technology-equipped cap
italist and socialist industrialized
countries on the other.
The former want a planned In
ternational Seabed Authority to
gather the nodules, either through
its own mining enterprise or
through association with private or
state enterprises.
The latter want the private and
state enterprises to get a crack at
the mineral wealth on even terms
with the international authority.
Talk of a breakthrough followed
informal talks held by 85 countries
in Geneva, Feb. 28-March 11
under the chairmanship of Jens
Evensen, Norway’s minister for
the law of the sea.
In a report circulated privately to
delegations last week, Evensen
said ideas came out of the talks
“pointing in the direction of a pos
sible compormise," a mixed sys
tem ensuring the right of individual
nations and private businesses,
as well as an international author
ity, to mine the sea’s resources.
The Evensen report said the
negotiators were considering call
ing for a review conference 20 or
25 years after the new treaty takes
effect to decide whether the mixed
system should continue.
The negotiators also were work
ing toward “viable solutions for the
financing and the setting up of the
enterprise, ensuring its ability to
enter into operations at an early
stage,” the report said.
The mixed system would be
good for industrialized countries
anxious to get their corporations in
on the mining. The review confer
ence would guarantee the de
veloping countries a chance to tilt
the competition toward the inter
national authority, to which they
look for economic aid.
Accommodating the indus
trialized countries appeared to be
the only way the authority, with its
own resource development oper
ations, could be sure of the money
and the technology needed for the
mining.
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Rent
Bill Groesz, member of Amazon
Community Tenants (ACT), said,
“This is not the first time she has
raised these points." He added,
“The Housing office has been sit
ting on them.”
“It confirmed what the residents
are feeling," stated Peter Purdue,
Amazon resident. “This was actu
ally confirmed by someone within
the housing department.”
Both Thorpe and Smith were
unavailable for comment on the
memo.
Access renovation costly
A report outlining costs of mak
ing all state system buildings ac
cesible to the handicapped, and
another dealing with a rent com
plaint at the University of Oregon
were presented to the State Board
of Higher Education Friday during
their meeting at the Oregon Insti
tute of Technology (OIT).
The board voted to ask the
Oregon Legislature to pay the
costs of making all buildings ac
cessible, which will total $1.4 mill
ion at the University alone. The tab
for remodeling all state system
schools will run $5.3 million, ac
cording to Jack Hunderup, vice
chancellor for facilities planning.
Elevators will have to be instal
led in many old buildings, accord
ing to new federal regulations es
tabiished by the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare.
The University will allocate
about $980,000 for elevators in 18
different buildings. The remainder
of the money will be used for minor
adjustments in buildings.
The proposal now will go to the
Ways and Means Committee for
consideration.
John Ralston, a spokesperson
for Amazon Community Tenants
(ACT), presented a housing com
plaint to the board.
Ralston accused the University
Housing Office of “willful mis
management” of the Amazon
(married student) Housing com
plex. He told board members he
hoped they would veto any rent
Financial aid available
Even the end of the term is a good time to be thinking about
financial aid, according to the University’s financial aid office.
It is still not too late for students to apply for financial aid for next fall
and students who plan to continue at the University and have not yet
made application should do so some time this week. The financial aid
office is located in 270 Oregon Hall.
In addition, the Summer Time Schedule of Gasses contained a
misprint in the section relating to summer financial aid eligibility. Under
graduates must be enrolled for 12 hours in order to be considered full
time students, regardless of whether they are enrolled for the eight
week or eleven-week session.
Graduate students must be carrying nine quarter hours in order to
be considered fulltime students and law students must carry six semes
ter hours in order to be considered fulltime.
increases, and he urged them to
initiate a “vigorous investigation”
of the situation.
The University has proposed a
$10 rent increase for Amazon
Housing, effective July 1 but
Amazon residents have called a
strike against the housing office,
charging them with “misman
agement.” Many tenants have put
their May and June rent checks in
escrow, under ACT management.
Officials at the University have
withheld the proposed increase
temporarily and have delayed any
eviction action until they receive a
report from Haskin & Sells, inde
pendent accountants investigat
ing the housing office’s material
justifying the rent increase. The
board will hear the University’s re
quest in June at a special ad
journed session.
Edward Harms, former Amazon
resident and board vice
president, questioned the board’s
involvement in the rent issue, and
said it should be settled by the
University.
Loran "Stub” Stewart, board
member, said the Amazon rent
has developed into a “perennial
problem” and one solution might
be to “sell the dam stuff...liquidate
a problem.”
The board also approved a 7.3
per cent increase in faculty
salaries for each of the next two
years. The salary request will also
go to the Ways and Means Com
mittee for consideration.
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