French Consul tours
campus, presents flaa
University Pres. William Boyd received a French
flag Monday from Pierre de Mirmont, consul general
of France.
Mirmont and his wife visited the University campus
Monday as part of an extended tour to various west
coast universities.
“President Boyd personally requested a French
flag, so I brought him one," Mirmont said.
Mirmont is responsible for arranging with the
French cultural attache to present the film festival
currently being shown at the University.
“I am here to represent my country," Mirmont said.
He explained the University is important because of
its direct participation in French foreign exchange
programs as well as for the percentage of enroll
ments and interest shown in foreign languages.
The Mirmonts also had the opportunity to converse
with the students from France enrolled at the Univer
sity.
They seem to be very happy here,” he remarked.
Mirmont said American student are pretty well
read in the area of international issues He explained
that Europeans are more concerned with Amencan
politics because "the future of the world seems to rely
on it."
Mirmont holds degrees in law and oriental lan
guages. He acted as private advisor to the King of
Cambodia from 1945-50, counselor at the French
embassy in Pakistan from 1963-65 and deputy direc
tor of protocol with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from
1969-76.
After a day’s stay at the University, the Mirmonts
continued on to Oregon State University.
Group supports Alaska
federal wildland addage
By LAURY MASHER
Of the Emerald
"Oregon Friends of Alaska,” a
new University group, has or
ganized to support the Alaska Na
tional Interest Lands Conserva
tion Act (H.R. 39).
Introduced to the House of Rep
resentatives a year ago by Con
gressman Morris Udall, D-Ariz.,
H.R. 39 proposes to add 115 mill
ion acres of federal wildlands in
Alaska to National Parks, National
Wildlife Refuges and National
Wild and Scenic rivers.
Gail Gredler, a representative
from the Eugene chapter of
Oregon Friends of Alaska, says
mining, oil and lumber industries
are in direct opposition to the bill.
“There is a lot of development
interest in Alaska," according to
Gredler. ‘‘They (the industries)
want to see as little as possible put
into conservation systems be
cause that makes it a lot harder for
them to get at it.”
A second bill, proposed by Rep.
Don Young, R-Alaska, limits the
additions to the conservation sys
tems to 40 million acres. Young
represents a state “whose gov
ernment is inclined toward more
economic development on the
federal as well as state lands."
The Eugene chapter of Oregon
Friends of Alaska is one of three in
Oregon. The group stemmed from
previously existing chapters in
Corvallis and Portland.
“We are trying to urge people to
write to Senators Hatfield and
Packwood,” says Gredler.
The bill has the support of 80
members in the House, but the
Senate has not gotten beyond
labeling it as S.B. 1500.
Gredler says Oregon Friends of
Alaska would like people to write
letters to senators, requesting the
Senate Energy and National Re
sources Committee to take up the
Alaska National Interest Lands
issue.
The group further requests let
ters to Congressman Jim Weaver,
who is a co-sponsor of H.R. 39, to
urge his continued support.
Seals
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However, Greenpeace claims
that according to a Department of
External Affairs memo, the total
landed value of harp seal pelts in
Canada for 1975 was about $2.3
million. The group says that in the
last year statistics are available,
1974, the total income of New
foundland was $1,831 million, of
which sealing contributes about. 1
percent of the province s income.
The Canadian government
says there are lots of seals and
sealing is necessary to control the
expanding population.
However, Staffan Soederberg
and Lannart Almvist of the
Swedish Museum of Natural His
tory, analyzing the statistics pro
vided by the Canadian govern
ment to its embassies abroad
prior to the 1977 hunt, found the
number of seals is decreasing.
The statistics were self
contradictory, so they made the
simplifying assumption that in
case of disagreement, the larger
figure was correct. They found the
decrease was part of a pattern,
from 3.3 million seals in the early
1950’s to only about 1.2 million
today. Their work was not sup
ported by any sealing or anti
sealing group.
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Greenpeace clsums there is no
hunting involved; members say
the killing is a needless slaughter.
Moore, who has attended two
hunts and will lead a protest on the
ice this March, has described the
hunt:
‘When you approach, every
thing is very calm and serene. The
seals congregate in huge herds.
You may have 1,000 on the ice.
"Then the hunters begin to
move through the herds with dubs
or a Hakapik,’ a long handled in
strument with a metal spike at the
end.
"When the hunters approach,
the baby seals generally don't
move... Then the hunters give him
one solid one on head. Then two
or three more until it cracks,”
Moore says.
Mercer says the baby seals are
killed instantly and painlessly.
"What we are dealing with is emo
tions," Mercer says. “The dub
bing of a cute little whitecoat seal
pup with the blood spattering over
the white snow is a horrendous
sight.”
“It is the initial jerk, that sight
that repels,” he says. ‘The real
issue is humaneness. The
method used is more humane
than any trapping or sport hunt
ing.'
Greenpeace claims that many
of the pups are skinned alive. The
reason is that the pup will, when
approached, bring in its head,
causing several layers of fat to
cover its forehead, making pene
tration more difficult.
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