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Photo by Doug Williams
Students oppose
Mobil recruiter
Blasting ‘Big Oil’
A campus visit by a Mobil Oil recruiter
Monday was met by University students
and community members protesting
"oil monopolies ”
The recruiter, Murray Mendenhall,
spoke to students in the Geology
building about a career with the oil
corporation.
Local groups, among them Students
for a Nuclear-Free Future, the
Democratic Socialist Organizing
Committee. Live Without Trident and
the Trojan Decommissioning Alliance,
picketed, passed out leaflets and is
sued a political statement in opposition
to "oil monopolies" during Menden
hall's visit
Literature posted around campus
and handed out during the protest says
the eight largest oil corporations in the
United States control 64 percent of the
world's known oil reserves. 60 percent
of the natural gas reserves and 45
percent of the known uranium re*
serves
“Beyond controlling uranium re
serves, Mobil, Exxon, Gulf, and others
are throughly integrated into all phases
of the nuclear fuel cycle,” the literature
says “But these same companies,
perhaps more than anyone, understand
the severe limitations of these non
renewable energy sources ”
The information claims five of the
nine major (photovoltaic firms in the
United States have recently been pur
chased by major oil companies
Also, 12 of the top 25 firms in the
solar industry are owned by oil and
aerospace corporations, it says, adding
that geothermal exploration in this
country is being conducted largely by
the major oil companies
IFC elects Cohen as chairer
Adam Cohen was elected In
cidental Fee Committee chairer
at the new committee's first
meeting Monday
The meeting was limited to an
administrative briefing from
ASUO Vice Pres Dennis
Correction
In Monday's story on the
University Office of Affirma
tive Action, the name of the
assistant compliance officer
was misspelled as Bea
McFadden
The correct spelling is
Bean McFadden
Mohatt, assignments to monitor
programs and a discussion of
procedure and bylaws
Cohen, who was an IFC ap
pointee in June, was elected
unanimously to the chair posi
tion. *1*11 do a good job,' Cohen
said "I appreciate your sup
port "
Ken Brittain was elected vice
chairer over Alan Contreras in a
4-3 vote
Mohatt advised the commit
tee not to fee! obligated to solve
every problem of every program
that comes to the IFC
"If programs come in here
and lay all their problems on
you, don't feel like you always
have to respond,” he said
"That's our job "
Mohatt said the committee
should work with the ASUO ex
ecutive office to help solve a
communication problem
between the ASUO and its pro
grams He said the IFC can help
by channeling problems to him
“I hope we can work
together," Mohatt said. "It's real
important that we do "
The ASUO and the IFC should
work together to form a budget
time line, according to Mohatt.
"Programs should submit bud
get proposals by the first of
January, so we have to get
moving,"
Cohen said programs intend
ing to request IFC funding for
the first time should file their
plans with the committee before
Friday
Committee members were
assigned "program tag" posi
tions Tag persons, designated
for each ASUO program, must
become experts on their as
signed program and be
prepared to report to the com
mittee
Two tag persons apiece were
assigned to the EMU board, the
Athletic Department, the Office
of Student Advocacy, the Emer
ald, OSPIRG. the Oregon
Student Lobby and the ASUO
The next IFC meeting is
scheduled for Monday at 3:30
p m in the EMU. room to be
announced
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