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Downtown Springfield Eugone Cultural Forum 1980 Film Conference Survival off the Independent Filmmaker Saturday, May 10 EMU Forum Room 8:45 Introduction 9-11 Susan Shadburne Presentation of ideas grantwriting, and preparation of scripts 11:10-12:30 Mike McNamara - The Business of Filmmaking 12:30-1:15 Lunch 1:20-3:45 Manson Kennedy - The ins and outs of Film Distribution 4-6 Lenny Lipton - Overview on being an independent filmmaker 8:00 Films by Oregon Filmmakers 107 Lawrence OREGON WOODCARVERS Jan Baross THE KIDS AND/OR STRINGS Ken O'Connell RULES OF THE ROAD Joe Valentine QUILTMAKERS Sharon Sherman PIECE FOR GRATE David Joyce ATTEMPT Doug Pollock *3 UO Students *6 General Public Tickets on sale at EMU Main Desk Seating is limited, so participants are encouraged to pre-register Those who have pre-registered will have priority Registration includes the conference itself and admission to the evening film showing For mall order*: send a self-addressed stamped envelope along with a check to cover the cost of tickets to EMU Main Desk Erb Memorial Union, University of Oregon, Eugene. Or 97403 Make checks payable to the ERB MEMORIAL UNION glenn boettcher fire and rain The cover letter began, "Dear Friend: I’m sure you receive' many letters each week de scribing the dangers faced by our nation, but I hope you’ll take the time to read every word I’m writing you today. It could be the most important letter you’ll ever receive, or I’ll ever write.” I did read the letter, and it was important — because I realized the organization that sent me the letter, Americans for Nu clear Power, and the man who wrote it, ANP chairer Douglas Lee, are frightening examples of the "dangers faced by our na tion.” "You see, there’s a growing movement in America to stop growth, limit prosperity and halt all forms of energy develop ment, thus forcing us into a radically altered lifestyle,” Lee writes. "This movement is led by a new generation of professional activists trained in the ’60s and 70s by an educational system that moralized about our free market system being evil and oppressive “They now hold positions as teachers, lawyers, college professors, top government bureaucrats, television, radio and newspaper reporters, lead ing actors and musicians, even congressmen and senators.” This all-inclusive type of par anoia did not die with Joseph McCarthy. Lee says the real goal of these activists is power. “(1) Power to run the government. (2) Power to control the educational sys tem. (3) Power to dictate in dividual decisions. (3) Power to control private property. (4) Power to control each of our lives. "The leaders of the coercive Utopians know what they’re do ing. They did it in their anti-war efforts, and they are determined (to) undermine our freedoms again. "Last time, the losers were the now-suffering peoples of Vietnam and Cambodia, where a modern-day holocaust has meant genocide for millions of Cambodians and death for hundreds of thousands of refugees and boat people in Southeast Asia.” Lee says the activists have now set their sights on "you, me, our families and the future of freedom in our nation." "They know energy is the lifeblood of our economy. It provides the power needed to run our advanced industrial system which gives us our jobs, our high standard of living, the opportunity for the American Dream’ and just to live.” Lee goes on to relate specific examples: "Coal has been out lawed in many cases due to pollution levels, and mining has been greatly restricted to limit production.” Later he says nuclear power is the activists’ major target because it is "the knockout blow they must have to cripple our economy and create the disruptions necessary for their power grab to succeed." Unfortunately, the letter is not a hoax. Americans for Nuclear Power is a real group that claims to be “safeguarding the future and the freedom of our nation." Lee says he serves as ANP chairer because he has seen "the results of their program imposed on many peoples of the world, all with terrible repres sion, murders, loss of individual and property rights, and the to tal loss of freedom.” I can’t help believing Douglas Lee is a very confused person, or maybe he has been reading the memoirs of Henry Kissinger. Dist. 40 candidates debate on campus By ALAN HARRIS Of the Emerald A debate between Oregon House Dist. 40 candidates didn’t draw a huge crowd in the EMU Friday. But that didn’t stop the two Republicans and seven Democrats running for that seat from making personal pitches or, in one case, from sending a representative to make a pitch. The independent candidate, Bruce Anderson, didn’t attend and didn’t send a representive. Speakers were each given five minutes to address the is sues of state child-care support, health insurance for part-time state employees, state support for higher education, faculty unions and faculty evaluations. Then they had a few minutes to answer questions from the handful of people who wan dered in and out. Democrats in attendance were: Don Chalmers, Jack Craig, Margie Hendriksen, Carl Hosticka, Larry Perry and Ted Romoser. Another Democrat, Ruth Shepherd, was represent ed by a campaign worker. The Republicans in the race are Shirley Whitehead and Nick Tri. The topic of faculty unions received a lot of attention from some of the candidates. Faculty salaries at the Univer sity have declined 17 percent in the past eight years, and that’s “abominable,” Chalmers, the director of the University's Of fice of Student Advocacy, said. Hendriksen, Lane County counsel, said she has learned that University faculty members are “suffering terribly,” adding that she “has no problem with collective bargaining or the right to strike if that is the facul ty’s choice.’’ “I don’t like the idea of unions generally,” said Hosticka, a University professor. But although he said he feels unions tend to constrict a col lege’s ability to adapt to chang ing situations and detract from departmental authority, Hos ticka said he would favor union izing if all else fails. Teachers have to be careful because they have very "hopeful and idealized” atti tudes, said Romoser, a teacher at Lane Community College Teachers forget they are sur rounded by a bureaucracy that often isn’t sensitive to their needs, he said. Romoser was one of three teachers who or ganized the LCC teachers’ un ion. All the candidates but Whi tehead and Craig addressed the issue of faculty evaluations. The rest said they definitely support student evaluations as a means of evaluating faculty members. But open access to that infor mation for students was a stick ier matter. Perry, who has held the Dist. 40 seat twice before and pre sently teaches at South Eugene High School, didn’t commit himself on the open access is sue. Shepherd, an ex-Eugene School Board member, is for open access, according to her representative. As an attorney, Hendriksen said she considers faculty members in the same public figure light as baseball players and actors. If the criteria is set up properly there should be no reason why interested students can’t have access to at least part of the evaluation material, Hendriksen said Portland State University allows partial access, she added. Hosticka, Chalmers and Romoser agreed that student evaluations are essential but also agreed it is hard to know how to use them. Student evaluations are needed because students are the only ones in the classroom, and management has not learned how to evaluate faculty, Romoser said. Institutes of higher education should be more aggressive in marketing their curricula to the needs of the communities, said Whitehead, a Eugene construc tion firm owner. “I do feel we need to alter the urge to pump more money into higher education,” Whitehead said. The other candidates disa greed with Whitehead on state funding of higher education. Education is the "biggest in dustry in Dist. 40,” and will need all the friends it can get to fend off budget cuts in the next Legislature, said Craig, a former state legislator and current member of the Eugene Water and Electric Board.
