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EWEB may get anti-nuclear slant Analysis by KATHLEEN MONJE Of the Emefgld The five-member Eugene Water and Electric Board underwent some surprising upsets during the May 23 election — the two liberal candidates, Bartels and Jack Craig, won their respective Ward 4 and 5 and at-large races. The two new board members, with long-time minority member Camilla Pratt, create a new balance of power on the utility’s governing body. The new majority character may well prove to be anti-nuclear, conservation and alternative-energy oriented. “The board’s been a preserve of Eugene businessmen,” Bartels said. "Craig and I are liberal Democrats.” Bartels pointed out that Craig’s opponent, incumbent Cal Schmidt, has said he was elected in 1974 for his pro-nuclear stand. “So this election is a big change,” Bartels said. Craig said he ran for the EWEB at-large seat in order to make policy changes in “the conservative board’s power structure.” Bartels, Craig and Pratt take similar environmentalist stands on the utility’s part-ownership of the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, though Bar tels said it’s hard to make any direct predictions on the way the new majority will handle EWEB’s Trojan share. "It’s a very complex issue,” he said. But he and Craig both cam paigned on strong anti-nuclear platforms which emphasized the economic weaknesses of nuclear power, he said. Pratt also won her seat with an anti-nuclear stand. He feels their wins at the polls indicate the voters' anti-nudear position. Since he promises the public will be “a lot more involved” in EWEB policy decisions, the utility’s committment to Trojan is probably scheduled for reexamination. Pratt agrees that the new members will help "open the board up to generating public discussion of issues important to us all, such as the regional energy plans.” However, she said though she “hates nuclear power with a pas sion,” she's never advocated closing the plant, because of the difficulty of getting out of Trojan ownership and the economics of EWEB’s financial involvement. Former EWEB board member John Reynolds said before the e lection that Bartels and Pratt would jointly help move EWEB more rapidly toward energy conservation and the utilization of local, small scale energy sources. Instead of simply helping the utility move toward those goals, Bartels said his and Craig’s election means “we’ve taken control of the board, and we'll definitely move toward it.” He sees changes in board policy as a "pragmatic, problem-solving trend, not a political one.” Pratt said the change in the board should accelerate the pace of altrnative resource research, but points out that the utility’s staff is “extremely progressive” in this area. “Having board members who consider alternative energy very important encourages the staff to get on with it,” she said. High Court okays newspaper search WASHINGTON — The Su preme Court ruled 5-3 today that police with a warrant acted within constitutional bounds in searching a newspaper office for photo graphs of a crime, United Press International reported Wednes day. Election, ROTC resolutions pass Two motions affecting current University faculty election proce dure and a resolution of apprecia tion for ROTC were approved by the University Senate on Wed nesday. One election proposal submit ted by journalism Prof. Charles Duncan requires that persons nominated for both the Advisory Council and the Faculty Person nel Committee be notified by the faculty secretary. The nominee will have to choose which office he wishes to run for. The “Modified Hare single transferrable vote system,” pre sented by music Prof. Robert Hurwitz, would permit persons to vote for as many candidates as they wish, upto the number of pos itions available. Voters will then rank the candidates in order of preference. The motion passed after con siderable discussion about the feasibility and costs of implement ing a new system. Oregon Daily Emerald The justices reversed a lower court ruling that police violated the Constitution when they entered the Stanford University news paper offices with a warrant in 1971 and searched it for photo graphs of a demonstration. Most of the time when police obtain search warrants, they are to search the property of a suspect for evidence of a crime. The lower court said non suspects, or "third parties" not in volved in a crime, must be given greater protection from un reasonable searches — espe cially when they are newspapers. It said police first must try to sub poena pictures of documents in cases like this one, rather than suddenly entering with a warrant and making a forcible search. But Justice Byron White, writing for the Supreme Court majority, disagreed, saying: ‘‘The critical element in a reasonable search is not that the owner of the property is suspected of crime but that there is reasona ble cause to believe that the specific ‘things’ to be searched for and seized are located on the property to which entry is sought." White said the lower-court rul ing might undermine law en forcement, because evidence could disappear while officers were out getting a subpoena. He rejected arguments that such searches could ‘‘chill” the gather ing of news by a free press. ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT TO TELL YOURS THE ANSWER! DEADLINES: Friday—1 p.m. Thursday; Monday—1 p.m. Friday OREGON DAILY EMERALD CLASSIFIED ORDER BLANK Th*a information it for tha Emerald only. It will not appear In the ad. 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