daily Emerald
Vol. 82, No. 72
Eugene, Oregon 97403
January 6, 1981
As draft registration resumes
Protesters voice anti-war sentiments
By MIKE RUST
Of th« Emerald
Eugene’s peace movement went out
into the cold Monday to protest the most
recent round of draft registration.
Approximately 150 demonstrators
braved chilly weather to gather at the
Eugene Post Office and hear songs and
speeches against the draft and what was
described as a resurgence of American
militarism.
Men born in 1962 are registering for
the draft this week The latest registra
tion is a continuation of the program
begun last summer when men born in
1960 and 1961 visited post offices
around the country to fill out registration
forms.
Speakers at the rally included Ron
Phillips of the University Veterans As
sociation, Ellen Bondurant of Parents
Against Registration and the Draft and
Marian Malcom, a member of the steer
ing committee of the Coalition Opposed
to Registration and the Draft.
“They're going to use 18-year-old
children to fight their wars for them and
spill their blood for them,” Phillips told
the crowd. Fifty percent of American
casualties in Vietnam were 19 year olds,
the former Marine said.
While most commentators speak of an
East-West split, Phillips said, the real
conflict in the world today is between the
North and South.
“The Northern Hemisphere has the
money and it has the power,” he said.
“They’ve been raping the Southern
Hemisphere for many years now.”
Bondurant echoed Phillips, claiming
children are being asked to fight and die
in order to procure resources for their
parents’ and grandparents' generations.
“Our enemy isn’t the Soviet Union,”
she said. “Our enemies are ignorance
and apathy.”
Bondurant cited El Salvador, South
Korea and Jamaica as countries con
trolled by American corporate interests.
El Salvador, under the control a mili
tary government, currently is undergoing
waves of violence from both right- and
left-wing terrorists. Voters in Jamaica
last year turned out the pro-Cuban
socialist government of Prime Minister
Michael Manley.
Malcom, also a member of Clergy and
Laity Concerned, described draft regis
tration as a major step toward reinstitu
tion of the draft which “makes interven
tion feasible."
She said that instead of increasing
military strength, draft registration was
intended to prepare both the American
public and the world community for an
interventionist foreign policy.
‘Uncle Sam is in a mood to
show some muscle some
where — to reassert our
claim to cheap labor.'
“It's a warning to the world — a signal
of an agressive American stance," she
said. “Uncle Sam is in a mood to show
some muscle somewhere — to reassert
our claim to cheap labor.”
Malcom also expressed solidarity with
Third World movements.
"We’re here to join with people in El
Salvador and Guatamala, Korea and the
Philipines. We must continue the strug
gle!”
Despite the rhetoric, the young men
registering for the draft seemed un
moved.
“That’s their business, I guess," said
one registrant. “I don’t know how many
of them have ever actually been in the
service.”
CORD members announced at the
rally that the government was not follow
ing through with prosecutions of those
men who did not register last summer.
Draft counseling sessions are being
held daily at 10 a m. and 2 p.m. this week
at the CORD office in the Koinonia
Center at 1414 Kincaid Street. With the
resumption of school, counseling activity
is picking up, says CORD director Alan
Siporin.
"Because of the lag of school being
out, we weren’t inundated,” Siporin
says "But we're expecting a pretty
steady flow ”
CORD will hold a teach-in for Univer
sity students in the Adams residence hall
lounge Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. A similar
teach-in will be held at Lane Community
College earlier the same day.
Siporin says CORD hopes to devote
more time to activities directed to high
school students because registration is
now required of all men on their 18th
birthday. The organization has been
encountering "roadblocks" in dealing
with high schools because administra
tors say military recruiters must be heard
to have a balanced discussion of the
draft issue, he says.
"Right when we’re walking out the
door, the recruiter is walking in,” Siporin
says.
The Selective Service System says the
purpose of registration is to build a pool
of names and addresses which could be
used in an emergency.
"Registration directly improves our
capability to respond reducing lead
time by at least four weeks," says Direc
tor Bernard Rostker. We think that
provides a significant advantage,
especially when matched with the very
low cost of the registration effort,"
The selective service says the direct
costs of registration are less than $2 per
registrant.
Graphic by Sioux Anderson
Neon highlights $167,000 Fishbowl remodeling
Photo by Erich Boekelheide
Acting University Pres. Paul Olum strolls through the remodeled EMU Fishbowl
By PAUL TELLES
Of the Emerald
As the University plunged into 1981,
students returning from Christmas vaca
tion found that one of their favorite
haunts — the EMU Fishbowl — has finally
reopened.
The Fishbowl officially opened its
newly remodeled doors Monday at 7:30
a m. when EMU Director Adell McMillan,
helped by EMU Board Chairer Greg Rut
ten and board member Kyle McGuinn,
cut a ribbon hung across the main en
trance.
Students and administration officials
generally reacted favorably — if condi
tionally — to the Fishbowl renovation,
which began in August.
*'l like it except for the neonlight," said
ASUO Pres. Dave Eaton of the light bor
dering the ceiling around the main eating
area. “It makes it look like a disco."
“It looks real modern, except that the
chairs are old," said NancyAnn Lofgren.
She said the booths' cloth seat covers
look good but might not withstand heavy
student use.
“Unless people are real careful,
they’re going to get ripped up real
quick."
Lofgren also said it appeared no ar
rangements had been made for allowing
live bands in the Fishbowl.
I like the fact that it’s lighter and
airier,” said Acting University Pres Paul
Olum.
Despite Lofgren's misgivings, the ad
ministration doesn’t expect students to
abuse the Fishbowl, according to Jim
Covington, EMU food service director.
“The area looks nice, and I believe the
students will keep it that way,” Covington
said. "They realize what things cost."
Once students and food service em
ployees get used to the new arrange
ment, service will probably improve.
The double-winged service counters
and central cashiers will improve the flow
of traffic and not require employees to
prepare food and count money, he ex
plained.
Although most students said they felt
the new Fishbowl is worth the $167,000
spent on the renovation, not everybody
agreed.
“I don’t really know why they changed
it,” said Lisa Lindley. "Why couldn't it
(the money) go to the library or
something?”
Initial planning for the project began
almost two years ago after the State
Board of Higher Education and the
Legislature granted money from a
student building fund The funds could
be used only for Fishbowl rennovation.