Veterans in quandaryover aid cutback
By KELI OSBORN
Of the Emerald
Veterans and School officials
on campuses throughout the state
are still unsure what effect
nationwide cutback sin the Veter
ansAdministration will have in
Oregon.
VA regional director Donna
Arndt says her staff, some of
whom are campus representa
tives at the University and other
schools, must be reduced to meet
a quota established by VA head
quaters in Washington, D.C.
“But, I hope attrition will solve
the problem,” she says.
Others are not so sure, and
wonder if the regional office might
not have a plan for dealing with
cutbacks-including the removal
of campus representatives.
“I’m hearing rumors on top of
rumors. The latest rumor is that
only some (of the campus rep
resentatives) will leave,” says
Allen Greenway, a Portland
Community College official with
that school’s veterans’ outreach
program.
Greenway says he and other
college officials have sent letters
to elected officials, asking for con
firmation of some of the rumors
making the rounds.
“That may have caused the
second rumor,” he says, hinting
that the regional office originally
may have planned to recall cam
pus representatives but has since
re-considered such action.
Bill Dobson, another PCC offi
cial, says representatives of the
Oregon Veterans Civic Council
recently asked the regional VA of
fice when and if campus represen
tatives will be withdrawn.
‘They said it may happen, but
that there’s nothing formal yet," he
says.
The OVCC, a group of individu
als and organizations concerned
with veterans, voted unanimously
at a Sept. 24 meeting to send a
recommendation to the VA central
office, “indicating that it was not
pleased with the withdrawal of vet
representatives,” Dobson adds.
Lane Community College veter
ans have begun to organize in
order to fight VA cutbacks and
other problems confronting veter
ans.
There seems to be several key
issues. The one of most im
mediate concern is the removal of
vet reps that got us rolling,” says
LCC student Ted Seal.
Staff at Congressman Jim
Weaver’s local office are also un
sure about the regional office s
plans
Jim Russell, director of con
stituent services for Weaver, says
he has yet to see a response to a
letter seeking confirmation from
Arndt as to her plans for veterans
campus representatives.
We don’t have a definite an
swer. All we have are suspicions.”
he says.
According to Russell, a reduc
tion in staff by VA central office
has resulted in raising a 1974 ratio
of one representative for each 716
students to one for 832.
“I don't know when it becomes
too heavy a load to handle, or
when congressmen should inter
vene. I don’t know.. Russell says.
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In an attempt to put off recall efforts of
“hippie" factions, Archie Whinestein died
Thursday.
“His campaign managers say prelimi
nary surveys show the strategy may have
worked. “It's too early to make any
speeches yet,” said a Whinestein manager.
“But right now it looks like the recall try has
been dropped.”
A national Republican committee be
lieves Fourth Congressional District candi
date Jerry Louseman has a good chance of
taking the office.
Mercenaries for Louseman, a local group
hired to support the Candidate, has enough
firepower to do the job, they believe.
Sports — One member of the Oregon
football team, Elmo Philipski, exudes confi
dence when he talks about his football abil
ity.
“I believe in the absurdity of life,” he says.
“The main reason I came to Oregon is ab
surdity. I was going to go out of state, to a
good school with a quality footbaii team, but
then I said ‘What the hell’ and came here.”
Philipski has been consistently rated last
on the Oregon team. He attributes his suc
cess to his attitude. “Life is a big joke,” he
says. "When I go out on the field I think of
this and it gives me strength.”
Members of the University team say they
are “running for Christ”, but Philipski re
fuses to file, and says he will not conduct a
write-in campaign.
Learn Chinese in 30 years, Lesson Two.
The Chinese language department has
accidently forgotten to bring you the last 29
lessons of Learn Chinese in 30 years due to
technical difficulties. However for those of
you who are still interested in becoming
bilingual, we will provide a recap of the last
29 lessons.
You are now fluently obnoxious in
Chinese, and your horizons have been
considerably broadened. You now walk
around saying things like:
when you mean “hello” and:
when you are at a loss for words.
Your friends now do insulting imitations
of you behind your back such as:
In a few more lessons you II be intolerably
revolting, and ready to move on to Chinese
Three.
In this week’s lesson we will also learn
how to put the finishing touches on your
oriental room. Try to find some bamboo
screens and white-faced dolls and place
these in strategic locations. If you have a
spare wok around the house it will fit right in.
Now stand in the middle of your room and
conjugate the verb:
Very good.
Next week we will go out on the lawn and
sing Chinese beer-drinking songs and eat
cookies with Chinese print on the wrappers.
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