Oregon daily emerald., May 24, 1978, Section A, Page 7, Image 7

Trial continues
for protestors
of divestment
By BECKY YOUNG
Of the Emerald
University Pres. William Boyd
testified for the prosecution and
Vice-Chancellor Freeman
Holmer, for the defense, as the
municipal court trial of Myra
Delay, one of 23 persons arrested
for occupying the State
Chancellor’s office, began Tues
day afternoon.
Delay, 469 E. 15th, is charged
with trespassing after participat
ing in a nine-hour sit-in protesting
the State Board of Education’s de
layed divestment proceedings.
She is the second demonstrator to
be tried.
In his opening statement, pro
secutor Kip Leonard said the
three-woman, three-man jury will
hear testimony proving that Delay
“went to Johnson Hall and stayed
there longer than she was sup
posea to.
He said protestors were warned
to leave repeatedly, by Boyd, Bob
Bowlin, dean of students and fi
nally police officers.
Jonathon Draper, of the South
African Liberation Support Com
mittee, is representing Delay. In
his opening remarks he said the
defendant does not claim she
wasn’t present or that she didn’t
hear people ask her to leave or
that the police did not warn her.
(However, she does claim,
Draper said, when the demon
strators were arrested, that no
state board member asked them
to leave and that there was confu
sion as to who had the authority to
demand the building be vacated.
Boyd testified that he has the
ultimate authority and responsibil
ity for all the buildings on campus.
He said he told demonstrators that
afternoon the time was going to
come when they would be asked
I to leave and if they didn’t, he
would order arrests.
Holmer, who negotiated with
demonstrators after the building
closed at 5 p.m., said he didn’t
have either real or implied author
ity to ask the protestors to leave.
Judge Wayne Allen repeatedly
sustained prosecution objections
to Draper’s questioning of witness
and prospective jurors concerning
apartheid in South Africa. Allen
said the issue on trial is not
whether the stock should be sold
but whether Delay is guilty of tres
passing.
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Tax measures
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Measure No. 2, the open meeting prop
osal, also won a sound victory Tuesday, by
a percentage of 75 to 10. The measure
requires open meetings of joint legislative
bodism, as well as requiring Legislative As
semblies of each house to adopt open
meetings rules. House and Senate commit
tee meetings will require advance public
notice, and minutes of those meetings will
also be open.
The measure sprouted from a lawsuit
filed by several newspapers after reporters
were not allowed to a meeting of a House
committee on field burning in 1975.
Elderly persons on a low income who
have trouble finding adequate housing got
a helping hand in the election, as the pas
sage of Measure No. 3 creates a fund to
fiance contruction of multifamily housing for
them.
The measure took a decisive 58 percent
to 33 percent.
Under the measure, the rentals will be
sued by elderly households, which have the
head of house 62 years or older, which can
not find adequate housing and which still
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pay Iss than 25 percent of the gross house
hold income.
The use of the controversial decompres
sion chamber in Lane County was soundly
defeated as voters approved Measure No.
6 and the elimination of the chamber as a
means of killing unwanted animals.
The proposal was approved by a 73 per
cent to 19 percent. The measure will allow
animals to be killed by no method other than
injections of sodium pentobarbital, adminis
tered by a licensed veterinarian or a trained
animal technician.
Proponents of county measure No. 61,
the bond issue for the planned regional
sewage treatment facility, got a victory
Tuesday as the measure passed by 53 per
cent to 32 percent.
Lane County Commissioners estab
lished the Lane County Metropolitan Was
tewater ServiceDistrict in March, which was
formed to provide $105 million in regional
sewage facilities. Under the bond measure,
$29.5 million, or25percent, will be financed
locally and fedeal funds will finance the re
maining 75 percent.
Emotions rise as budgets fall
By CAROLYN BEAVER
Of the Emerald
Several emotional exchanges
occured Tuesday night between
the Incidental Fee Committee
(IFC) and ASUO program per
sonnel as the committee dealt
with budget vetoes handed down
from the ASUO executive.
Six programs came before the
committee to dispute previous
cuts made in their budgets. Most
of those programs left with some
budget decreases, although a
couple were able to leave with
their budgets intact.
ESCAPE was the evening’s
biggest loser. A total of $759.79
was subtracted from its budget in
areas such as work study for its
Modern Africa
spiritualism
film scheduled
"The Forty-Day Experience,” a
film depicting the modern day
spiritual phenomenon of Africa will
be shown tonight at 7:30 in room
four, Edison school.
The film, by Oscar Ichazo, will
explore the spiritual movement
and analyze its impact and de
velopment.
The Africa method of spiritual
exercise was developed in 1970
by Ichazo as a method to com
plete human development
through meditation and spiritual
exercises.
Nominations open
for women’s award
The University will award a
member of the University com
munity with the Cornaro Ter
centenary for recognition of
academic achievement, as it par
ticipates in an international obser
vance of the first woman to earn a
doctorate.
The award, known as the “Cor
naro, ” was named in honor of
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia,
a Venetian who received her Doc
trix Philoshiae more than 300
years ago from the University of
Padua in Italy.
Nominees must have earned a
doctorate and be a current
member of the University faculty
or staff. Letters of nomination
must show that the nominee has
assisted women’s progress to
ward equal participation in the in
tellectual and professional life of
the academic community.
References from at least two
other individuals from the Univer
sity community are also required.
Nominations for the award,
which will be presented at the
June University Assembly meet
ing, will be accepted from faculty,
staff and students before May 30
by the Status of Women Commit
tee.
Nominations should be sent to
Judith Merkle in 923 PLC.
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instructional library and special
projects.
One area was vetoed by the ex
ecutive; the veto was then upheld
by the committee and eventually it
was reconsidered.
The cost for printing manuals
for ESCAPE volunteers was origi
nally cut by the executive. The ex
ecutive then asked that volunteers
make up the costs cut from the
budget.
IFC members went along with
the cut, amid protests from sev
eral ESCAPE members. After the
special projects line item was re
duced, ESCAPE representatives
became even more emotional,
saying the IFC had “cut the heart"
from their program. The printing
costs were then reconsidered and
allowed to remain as ESCAPE
had presented them.
The Native American Student
Union (NASU) was awarded $375
over its $6,292.25 total budget re
quest. The Emerald was given its
total request of $70,390, which
pays for a two-and-a-half cent per
student daily subsidy.
Although NASU was given
more money, the students were
not entirely pleased with the IFC.
Previously, the committee had put
$900 for NASU’s annual Pow
wow in a reserve fund to be paid
back to the IFC after the event.
The pay-back would have re
quired NASU to charge admission
for the Pow-wow. NASU members
had strong objections to the pay
back plan, saying the event was
Athletic pass price
rises due to fundina
Although their budgets weren’t
up for veto hearings, the Athletic
Department (AD) and Forensic
Team budgets were discussed at
Monday evening’s IFC meeting.
The committee unanimously
approved the quarter-million dol
lar AD budget after a review of the
budget from Don Chalmers, office
of Student Advocacy director.
In previous years the ASUO has
negotiated a contract for inciden
tal fee funding in exchange for
seats at basketball and football
games with the AD. Next year’s
IFC allocation to the department
will total $226, 731 and will take
the form of a “block grant,” Chal
mers said.
The figure reflects an increase
in student athletic passes. Next
year students will pay $37.80 per
pass as compared with this year’s
$34.50.
Also included in the contract is a
stipulation that “the money not be
used in any way violative of Title
IX," which prohibits discrimination
on the basis of sex, said Chal
mers.
The Forensics budget was
questioned rather than approved
Monday. IFC member Janet Eg
gleston called for a reconsidera
tion of the budget because of sup
posed violations in affirmative ac
tion guidelines in hiring a new
forensics director.
Also questioned was money
spent on trips the forensic team
took this year. The committee de
cided to hold the group’s money
until individual receipts are shown
to the IFC after the trips.
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like a religious ceremony to them.
One member made an analogy
between paying for the Pow-wow
and paying to come into a church.
Eventually, the committee de
cided not to put the Pow-wow on a
pay-back plan, but did decide to
disallow food as a legitimate part
of the $900 fund. After deciding
not to allow food costs, the com
mittee increased the amount to
$1,100 on a suggestion from
NASU's faculty adviser.
The Food-Op, which sells food
to students at discount prices, was
axed from next year’s IFC funding.
Gary Feldman, former ASUO
pres., said the program should be
able to “run on its own two feet”
and that “students shouldn't sub
sidize the cost of food.”
Because five members must
vote to override an executive veto,
and the vote was only 4-3, the veto
was accepted and the Food-Op
will not be IFC-funded next year.
The executive also vetoed the
entire Model United Nations
budget; however, the IFC over
rode the veto unanimously and
the budget remained intact.
The ASUO Comptroller was not
as fortunate. The comptroller’s
salary was reduced from $2,400
to $1,800. The comptroller keeps
track of the money spent by ASUO
programs.
Budget veto hearings will con
tinue Thursday night at 7:30. The
Black Student Union, Condon
Society, EMU and Graduate Stu
dent Organization Center for Edu
cational Policy Management
budgets will be heard.
May 23-26
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