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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1981)
Watts makes waves in coast management By GABRIEL BOEHMER Of the Emerald Government, industry and public in terest group representatives gathered at the University law school Saturday to discuss the fate of Oregon’s coastal resources. “The Oregon Coast in the 1980s” conference took place just one day after the U S. interior department proposed an accelerated offshore oil and gas leasing program. The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act gives the federal government the power to obtain offshore oil and gas resources. Delivering the keynote address, Rep. Jim Weaver, D-Ore., said he opposed offshore drilling along California’s coast, calling Secretary of the Interior James Watt a “fast-buck man” for examining the possibility. Watt had announced Friday that federally owned gas and oil tracts in the Santa Maria Basin, three miles off cen tral California’s coast, will be leased in May for drilling. Black arts fete features pianist A lecture, workshop and mu sical performance today by in ternationally acclaimed pianist Ingram Fox Black kicks off the three-day Black Arts Festival. Fox, who has composed several black operas, spec ializes in translating tradi tional African rhythms into piano music, says Donavan Guy, vice president of the Black Student Union (BSU). The BSU — the sponsors — says the festival will focus on the struggles of blacks in the 1980s. “There has been a lot of con cern about the new administra tion and its new focus — its new social order,” Guy says. “We see certain problems resurfac ing, such as unemployment, quality housing denial, racial harassment and a resurgence of the KKK.” The festival is partly a re sponse to those problems, Guy says. Although most people are aware of the problems, they are still reluctant to participate, he adds. Fox will hold a workshop at 10:30 a.m. in Room 167 EMU. At 7:30 p.m., he will give a lecture and performance in the EMU Ballroom. Admission for the lecture and performance is $2 for students, $3 for general public. A free panel discussion of black issues is scheduled for Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the ball room. The festival ends Wednesday with an African-derived dance at 7:30 p.m. at South Eugene High School. The dance will be performed by the Dance Dimensions Theater Company. Admission is $3.50 for students, $5 for general public and $6 for reserved seats. Tickets are available at the EMU Main Desk, Meier and Frank, Toad Hall and Back stage. jzmu Cultural Forum and Concerts West Now that it's Spring get ready to set sail with that Margarita Man himself jirnmn BUfffTT for an evening of great music and Caribbean tales Wed. April 15 8 p.m. McArthur Court U ot O Campus Ticket prices $7.50/$6.50 UO Students $8.50/$7.50 General Public Ticket sales at EMU Mam Desk (campus). Toad Hall Hi-Fi (downtown mall). Bremen Town Records (Valley River). Everybody s Records (Eugene-Corvallis-Albany) Phone orders (Visa and Master Card) 686-4363 Mail orders to EMU Mam Desk. UO. Eugene. OR 97403 Please enclose stamped, self-addressed envelope and check or money order payable to EMU tJtB.WiW Weaver warns against oil development Santa Maria is one of four California basins included in OCS Sale 53. Also included are areas off the northern California coast. The condition of northern California’s coast is critical to the well being of southern Oregon’s fishing industry, Weaver said. “There is no question those vital areas would be threatened by offshore oil drilling,” he said. "I’m not trying to say we shouldn’t grow and use these resources — but use and exploit them wisely.” Weaver also cautioned that the production of oil should not be an end in itself. “The issue is short-term profits ver sus long-term wise planning,” he said. “We want to insure future generations will be able to enjoy the great resources of Oregon.” However, funding for Oregon’s coastal management program may be in jeopardy, said Robert Knecht, acting director of the coastal zone man agement office. The Reagan Administration wants to cut coastal management almost entire ly amd terminate the federal coastal program by 1985, Knecht said. Admin istrative grants for states with approved coastal programs would end this year, he said. Of the 25 states with approved coast al management programs, only five — including California’s — would contin ue to function at reduced levels. Oregon’s program would all but disap pear, Knecht said. If coastal funding is reduced, not all states will have a chance to re-budget and cover the reductions, he said. Even if they did, coastal programs would have to compete for state funds with other programs suffering from federal cutbacks. Industrial interests will be out to kill zm McKenzie Coffee Co. World’s finest coffees Mexican and Swiss Chocolate Rare and Exotic Teas Steamed Bagels Mayflower Building Y 782 E. 11th 342-2071 coastal management programs as wen, Knecht warned. “Coastal states are going to have to take a hard look at the value a coastal zone management program has to them," he said. Knecht also warned that the estuary sanctuaries program may be threat ened by federal cuts. The South Slough Estuarine Sanctuary project in Coos Bay — the first sanctuary to be funded by the CZMA — may not be completed with reduced federal sup port During a panel discussion of off shore gas and mineral development, Reagan Administration consultant Hollis Dole responded to Knecht's as sessment of the funding reductions. “It was obvious to me that the world hadn’t ended there for (federal) fund ing," Dole said. Dole predicted that southern Oregon's Curry County would be the future site of a major coal port and that the Coos basin was the most likely spot for offshore gas and oil drilling. INTERFAITH DIALOGUE Reza Benham (Muslim), Alice’ Kinberg (Jewish), Richard Beswick (Restoration), and Norman Metzler (Lutheran). The dialogue this term will continue with specific questions/issues/concerns raised by the participants and resource persons on the relationship of these three major western faiths A good opportunity to discover both the similarities and the distinctions of these faiths today bring your questions and ideas; you may wish to formulate these in a brief, coherent form for presentation if you choose Session I: Tuesday, April 14, 7-8:30 p.m. 1414 Kincaid Koinonia Center Call 484-1707 Sponsored by Campus Interfaith Ministry - w W - W w . w M THE 25 HOUR CONTACT LENS IS HERE '6' After years of waiting, the extended-wear contact lens is on the market. And we have it. In stock, ready for you. Work, play, sleep. Do it all in the 25-Hour Lens. At the Contact Lens Clinic of Eugene our only business is contact lenses. 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