Emerald
Vol. 82, No. 139
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Thursday, April 23, 1981
Andrus: Man. nature must harmonize
By MIKE RUST
Of the Emerald
Mankind “must move in harmony with
nature,” former interior secretary Cecil
Andrus told an appreciative University
audience Wednesday night.
The one-time Carter Cabinet member
combined friendly banter with the crowd
with warnings that ‘‘our gluttonous
appetite for our resources" endangers
future generations.
“Earth does not belong to man — man
belongs to the Earth,” Andrus said.
Andrus stressed that he didn’t object
to increased production and economic
growth. Some coal and hard-rock min
eral resources must be used for produc
tion, some off-shore petroleum re
sources must be developed and the
timber industry should enjoy a sustained
yield, he said.
However, these things must be done
“in a sound and responsible manner,”
he added.
“We’ve all got to make a living, but
after you make that living you've got to
have a living that's worthwhile.”
Andrus, governor of Idaho before his
stint in the Cabinet, said a broader un
derstanding of economics fs needed,
particularly in regard to the way natural
resources effect our economic well-be
ing. This leads to people working with
nature, rather than against it, he said.
“There’s plenty there, if we take care
of it,” Andrus said.
The conservation movement has made
more progress during the last decade
than it had in the last three, which is "a
good start, but only a start,” he said.
“Without a real conservation ethic and
without a sustained dedication to quality
as well as quantity, we will not meet the
challenge placed before us.”
While James Watt — Andrus’ succes
sor at the interior department — has
come under fire from numerous envir
onmental groups, Andrus declined to
criticize him at a Wednesday afternoon
press conference.
While “bombastic statements” have
been made, no action has been taken by
Watt, Andrus told reporters, adding it is
"unfair” that the Sierra Club is already
distributing petitions calling for Watt’s
removal from the interior position.
“The Sierra Club should wait until they
see attempts made before they prejudge
the man.”
Andrus said that the interior secretary
is limited in what he can do by the
number of statutes and bills that exist, as
well as the possibility of legal action.
Every act he made as interior secretary
was greeted by litigation, he said.
Still, the Carter administration brought
to government an environmental cons
ciousness “greater than any administra
tion in history, including Teddy Roo
sevelt’s,” he said.
The Alaska Lands legislation, which
protected much of that state’s scenic
and wildlife resources, control of off
shore oil drilling, and strip-mine legisla
tion were all cited as accomplishments of
the Carter Administration.
Andrus concluded his evening speech
— the keynote of Earthweek at the
University — with a combination of
advice and warning concerning the
Earth: “Use it, but don’t abuse it, bec
ause your destiny and mine are in your
hands.
“As Will Rogers said, ‘They just ain’t
making it no more.”
Cecil Andrus
Racist letter angers
University blacks
The University’s Black Student Union has fallen victim to
the latest incident of racial harassment in Eugene.
The BSU received an anonymous letter Wednesday
wondering "why there are so many male negroes here and
why they all have our women to interbreed with.”
Postmarked in Eugene earlier this week, the letter went
on to say “99.44 percent of all negro females are poorly built
and very unfeminine and not the least bit appealing in the first
place and there being few here encourages the male to out of
their breed to seek fine Caucasions (sic).
"This satisfies another goal, that being hate by a minority
for the superior majority.”
The letter is the first incident of racial harassment on
campus, says BSU Pres. Vincent Green.
The incident is the third of its kind to be publicized in the
Eugene area this year.
Similar incidents have occurred in Portland this year.
However, Green says the incidents made public are a
small proportion of those occurring in the area.
"It's happening more and more,” he says. "Oregon is a
racist state.”
Despite the letter s illiterate Style, Green and BSU
member Patricia Stuart suggest it may have been written by a
student because of its reference to black separatist Marcus
Garvey.
The letter’s author supports Garvey's position that blacks
should be sent back to Africa and applauds Africans for
“eating” white slave traders.
"You guys ate a lot of them. I wish you had eaten them
all,” the letter says
The references to Garvey are evidence the letter was
written by a student because few outside the academic
community know about Garvey's separatist politics, Green
and Stuart say.
$30,000 chopped
IFC pares EMU budget
Dy rMUL I CLLCO
Of the Emerald
The EMU might have a smaller incidental fee
budget to work with next year.
The Incidental Fee Committee voted 4-1
Wednesday to slash $30,000 from the EMU bud
get approved last week by the EMU Board. The
IFC earlier cut $50,000 from the EMU budget to
fund the new childcare voucher system. Under
the new plan, the money will go directly to student
parents instead of to the University’s two
childcare centers.
All IFC decisions are contingent upon
University administration approval when the in
cidental fee budget is submitted later this quarter.
The four committee members who voted for
the cuts said they were interested in continuing
their efforts to reduce the incidental fee charged
to students for the support of student programs.
The IFC already has cut 9 percent from ASUO
program budgets, which will reduce the fee by
about $1.
“All year I’ve worked to cut $10 here and $10
there just to keep the fee down,” said IFC member
Kathy Stebner. “I think it should be lower "
However, few of the people who attended the
meeting agreed with Stebner and the others on
the importance of holding down the fee
EMU Board Budget Committee chairer
Karsten Rasmussen said he supported the budget
submitted by the board, which called for a
5 4-percent increase in incidental fee subsidies to
the EMU
“A 5.4-percent increase isn't unreasonable
even in these times,” Rasmussen said
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EMU budget is very difficult to trim because most
of it goes to fixed costs like utilities.
“If the fee continues at zero for very long,
we’ll have a major decrease in programs," said
Bruce Mason, coordinator of the EMU outdoor
program.
EMU director Adell McMillan suggested the
IFC was overreacting to last year’s athletic
department fee increase.
"I don’t much like us taking the rap for
another department, which is, in effect, what’s
happening," McMillan said.
But the committee held the line at a
2.7-percent increase, which is the expected in
crease in next year’s enrollment.
“We do everything we can to put the admin
istration in the position where they are forced to
cut the athletic department," IFC chairer Jon
Neiderbach said in response to McMillan’s ob
jection
Neiderbach says the decreases in the ASUO
and EMU budgets will put the ASUO in good
bargaining position when it negotiates the athletic
fee with the administration. University Pres. Paul
Olum has said he favors a plan to reduce the fee
by $5.
Ann Alexander, the dissenting committee
member, said she felt the EMU Board had cut
enough from student union's budget
The committee didn't mandate specific areas
for the cuts, but forwarded the $1,056,427 budget
to the EMU Board’s budget committee, which will
decide what to cut