Duck vote among
issues on ballot
Along with 34 candidates run
ning for various ASUO offices, two
constitutional amendments and
one referendum will appear on
Wednesday’s and Thursday’s bal
lot.
The first amendment would
change the number of signatures
necessary to initiate recall proce
dures for ASUO officials. Section
12.22 of the ASUO Constitution
now requires 10 percent of the
student body to sign a recall peti
tion. The amendment changes
that figure to five percent.
The second amendment con
cerns Student University Affairs
Board (SUAB) positions. It would
change the number of SUAB
members to 17 and make one of
the members a charirer only.
SUAB now has 18 representa
tives, one of whom is the chairer
who also has an academic consti
tuancy.
The amendment also concerns
filling SUAB vacancies. The con
stitution now says the ASUO pres
ident will fill vacancies if they
occur more than four weeks be
fore a scheduled ASUO election.
The amendment adds the stipula
tion that the summer session va
cancies will be excluded from this
policy.
Committee to appoint Mallard
Drake University Duck has sub
mitted this referendum: "...The
University administration should,
at the earliest possible conveni
ence, adopt the duck MALLARD
DRAKE as the graphic symbol
representing the University of
Oregon Ducks.”
Mallard, the duck introduced by
Steve Sandstrom, last year's
Emerald graphics editor, hopes to
beat Donald out at the polls.
Women ’s labor roles
examined in session
By SUE DeWERFF
Of the Emerald
The changing roles of women in
organized labor will be the subject
of a two-day workshop Saturday
and Sunday in the EMU, co
sponsored by the Oregon Labor
Education and Research Center
(LERC) and the Oregon Coalition
of Labor Union Women (CLUW).
"The conference of workshops
is being put on exclusively by and
for the Oregon labor union staff
members, local officers and for
‘rank-and-file’ union members to
access the needs of working
women in Oregon,” according to
Margaret Simeral, assistant pro
fessor of economics and vice
president of the Oregon Federa
tion of Teachers. Simeral is in
charge of the organizing of the
event.
The workshops, which will
begin Saturday at 9 a.m. features
sessions on Women in Non
Traditional Jobs, Discrimination,
Legislation and Current Issues,
Lobbying and Legislative
Priorities, Unemployed Women,
Welfare and Female Headed
Households, Nature of Women s
Jobs and Implications for Organiz
ing, Strikes, Demonstrations and
Boycotts, Health and Safety of
Women Workers, The Women’s
Movement and Organized Labor,
Part-time Jobs, Job Sharing and
Unions, Strikes and Grievances,
Women in Leadership Positions:
Making the Union Responsive,
and Organizing and Negotiating.
"This conference is being held
to develop Organized structures
and contacts for women in state
meetings,” says Simeral.
Simeral expects about 150 men
and women from all occupations
to attend.
"Session leaders for the event
will range from Oregon women
AFL-CIO staff members to ap
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According to Steve De.utsch,
LERC acting director, a research
project on women in labor unions
entitled: "Women Workers in
Oregon — A Portrait in Time,” will
be distributed. It is a booklet com
piled of facts and figures on the
types of jobs employing women
including non-traditional jobs and
the approximate age groups and
incomes of women connected
with each occupation.
Other information to be distri
buted at the conference includes
pamphlets on the Equal Rights
Amendment, Childcare, Laws
Concerning Job Equality and the
Changes and Progress of Women
in All Occupations in Oregon.
On Saturday evening beginning
at 8 p.m., a series of films entitled
“Union Maids,” “The Emerging
Woman,” "Salt of the Earth” and
“Right Wing Machine,” will be
shown in the EMU Forum.
Registration cost for the confer
ence is $5. Forms may be ob
tained in Room 154 PLC.
State’s 180,000 acre limit
on field burning rejected
By ANN TRENEMAN
Of the Emerald
The federal Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) turned down the state proposal allowing for
180.000 acres of field-burning this summer say
ing the proposal did not contain enough “reason
able measures’’ to control air pollution in the
Eugene-Springfield area.
Donald Dubois, EPA regional administrator,
told the State Department of Environmental Qual
ity (DEQ) officials Thursday that unless the state
can come up with a new one-year plan acceptable
to the EPA, field-burning will be held to the federal
limit of 50,000 acres.
Dubois said the plan should consider a reduc
tion in acres burned; limit burning near Eugene
and Springfield on days when winds blow from the
north; limit burning after rainfall; and require
grass-seed growers to use alternative burning
techniques to reduce pollution emmissions.
Although some similar regulations were con
tained in the rejected plan Dubois said more
stringent rules should be considered.
The field burning controversy began last year
when the state legislature adopted a 180,000 acre
limit which is in direct conflict with the federal
50.000 acre limit. The EPA said it would consider
a one-year interim plan. However, state Attorney
General Jim Redden ruled that before the
180.000 acre limit could be reduced in a com
promise measure the EPA must first reject it.
So it’s back to the drawing board for the DEQ,
Environmental Quality Commission (EQC),
Eugene city officials, and the grass seed industry.
The DEQ will present the current situation at the
EQC monthly meeting today in Salem. A DEQ
spokesperson said he doesn’t think any decision
making will take place tomorrow but a course of
action will be decided on.
‘‘If we can come up with more alternatives we
can stick with 180,000 acres,” he said.
An EPA spokesperson said Thursday that it is
unlikely the EPA will accept any plan that does not
cut down on the number of acres to be burned.
The EPA ruling was good news to Eugene offi
cials who had voiced the same objections to the
state plan.
“We are pleased to get some tangible valida
tion of the Mayor and the council’s (Eugene City
Council) attitudes on air quality,” city attorney
Stan Long said.
Long said he will be attending the EQC meeting
today and says the city would like to see more
improvements made in how and when burning
occurs. He would also like to see the acre amount
reduced.
"If Eugene and the growers are able to come to
terms, I’m fairly sure the EQC and the DEQ will
accept those,” Long stated reiterating Eugene's
offer to meet with grass seed industry representa
tives.
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