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.
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