Greene: gay law
denies human rights
By KEVIN HACKETT
Of the Emerald
The existing Eugene gay rights ordi
nance guarantees homosexuals
“privileges beyond what other people
enjoy,” according to Lynn Greene, a leader
of a movement to repeal the ordinance pas
sed by the Eugene City Council last
November.
Greene is director of VOICE of the Peo
ple, which succeeded in getting measure
51 placed on the May 23 ballot. If the meas
ure passes, the city council’s action to ban
discrimination on the basis of sexual pre
ference would be repealed.
Greene told Eugene’s Active 20-30 Club
Wednesday that the Eugene ordinance de
nies people freedom of thought and con
science: She said the ordinance violates
these “guaranteed human rights.
She hypothesized that an employer
whose employees objected to working with
a homosexual because of their conduct
would be backed into a comer.
“Under the ordinance you are faced with
either having all of your employees quit or
fire the homosexual and thereby violating
the law,” she said, adding that under the
ordinance an employer firing a gay person
would result in a possible fine and jail sen
tence.
“Under the ordinance, homosexuals are
protected against discrimination for any
conduct that would lead you to believe they
are a homosexual in jobs and public ac
comodations,” Greene said. As a result
straights could be thrown out of public
places for certain actions while gays
couldn’t be legally ejected for similar ac
tions she said.
Greene charged that other cities, that
have passed resolutions weaker than
Euqene's, have experienced a rise in the
occurences of boy prostitution and ven
ereal disease. ... .. t
"Statistics for Oregon and Washington
show that from 66 to 80 percent of all
syphilis cases involve homosexuals.
Greene refuted the claim that the ordi
nance would provide for greater integration
for qays in the straight community.
She cited Great Britain, which passed
pro-gay legislation ten years ago, as an
example of what could happen in Eugene^
She said that integration hasn’t resulted
and the opposite has occured, with Bntish
society being fragmented into two polarized
groups.
“The ordinance couia create a
heterosexual culture and a homosexual cul
ture. I don't think that would be good for
Eugene.”
VOICE of the People is a locally funded
group of 1,000 volunteers and has received
no financial or other forms of support from
national anti-gay rights groups, such as
Anita Bryant’s, according to Greene.
Greene said VOICE’S campaign differs
from Bryant’s in that VOICE isn’t appealing
to people’s moral and religious conviction.
“We are trying to reach people who feel
uneasy about voting against something to
do with human rights," Greene said. “Peo
ple should vote yes on measure 51 be
cause the ordinance gives homosexuals
privileges at the expense of guaranteed
human rights for other individuals."
Appraisal starts
on Oregon s soil, waier
By KATHLEEN MONJE
Of the Emerald
A formidable analysis of
Oregon’s natural resources and
their future is underway, in re
sponse to the federal Resources
Conservation Act of 1977.
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture's Soil Conservation
Service (SCS), the State Soil and
Water Conservation Commission
(SSWCC) and the state’s 47 Soil
and Water Conservation Districts
are working together to develop
Oregon’s share of a five-year na
tional conservation program.
“Primarily, there are still an
awful lot of problems nationwide
with respect to land usage and
water management,” said Doug
las Bishop of the Portland SCS
office.
The act calls for SCS appraisal
of the nation’s soil, water, and re
lated resources; development of a
comprehensive five-year program
to guide conservation efforts; and
F
evaluation of the effectiveness oi
existing conservation programs.
“Each Soil and Water Conser
vation District will examine its
problems and end up with differ
ent priorities,” Bishop said.
In Lane County, there are three
SWCD’s—the Upper Willamette,
North Lane and Siuslaw. The five
elected SWCD board members
will identify severe district prob
lems, and then hold public meet
ings for citizen input, according to
Bishop.
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The 47 district appraisals will
then be coordinated at the state
level. “Each state will identify its
major problems — this will tell us
what specialists to hire and what
the state's budget needs are,”
Bishop said.
"This appraisal part of the five
year process is to be completed
by the end of 1978, with a nation
wide inventory of conservation
problems ana opportunities, ne
said. The three county districts are
scheduled to complete their
natural resource appraisals by
June, 1978.
Groups or individuals interested
in participating in the conservation
appraisals can contact the
Eugene office of the Lane Soil and
Water Conservation District, at
687-6436.
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Standards Committee's recom
mendations regarding the award
ing of academic credit for tutoring
“We cannot accept the notion
that every worthwhile activity
should be granted academic cre
dit," Struble said. The committee
recommended that credit for tutor
ing be offered only through the
Learning Resources Center,
Center for Self-Development and
the ESCAPE field program.
Marshall Wattles, vice-provost,
gave a progress report on the
Graduate Teaching Fellows Fed
eration (GTFF) bargaining ses
sions.
“I’m sure you’ve seen in the
paper or heard the news that the
negotiations have reached an im
passe,” he said. “We failed to
reach an agreement on an issue
and the Union took the position
that the University is stalling."
Wattles said the issue had to do
with relationships which the Uni
versity collective bargaining team
believes involve a conflict be
tween the graduate students'
separate roles as student and
employee.
“We have never attempted to
take from the GTFs any rights or
benefits they have, but we do not
believe it is appropriate to put in a
contract privileges that attach to
graduate students as students,
Wattles explained.
Wattles said the next step in
negotiations is to have a State
Conciliation Service mediator at
tempt to resolve the differences
on the points in contention.
"We are not sure when the
mediator will be here, but we as
sume that it will be within the next
two or three weeks,” he said. "Fol
lowing that, the law establishes
other procedures which will be fol
lowed if negotiations do not make
appropriate headway.''
Wattles said the University
wishes to resolve the issue as
quickly as possible. "We are ap
preciative of the role of graduate
students on our campus." he said.
"We stand ready to continue
these negotiations at any time that
they wish to come back to the bar
gaining table. If they do not come
back we shall follow the proce
dures mandated by law in the
hope that we can arrive at solu
tions beneficial to the University
and to the GTFs."
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