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IFC funds campus ACLU; Eaton threatens veto By STEPHEN KNIGHT Of the Emerald Defunct for two years, a campus branch of the American Civil Liberties Union was revived Thursday when the Incidental Fee Committee voted 4-0 with one abstention to allocate $375 to a “start-up” fund for the organization. However, ASUO Pres. Dave Eaton said he might veto the appropriation because the group didn't submit a de tailed budget. ACLU campus organizer Steve Schneider said the revived group has never “experienced a yearly budget” and could provide only an “estimated budget plan.” Schneider said he based his budget request on the budgets of groups of similar size. Eaton and IFC chairer Jon Neider bach, who abstained from the vote, also were concerned that the group has no previous incidental fee record. "Groups are supposed to be on campus for a year before being con sidered for funding," Eaton said. Schneider argued that the ACLU was on campus for several years before disbanding two years ago and should be judged on its past merits. The group dissolved in 1979 because no one had time to administer it, he said. Even without Neiderbach's vote, Schneider said he believes he has the five IFC votes needed to override the veto. Committee member Richard Son tag — who was absent from the Thurs day meeting — said later he would vote for the ACLU budget. The ACLU tries to protect freedom of speech and other constitutional rights, Schneider said. Schneider said he decided to re-es tablish the group on campus as a reac tion to the conservative movement evident in Pres. Ronald Reagan’s landslide victory last fall. The campus ACLU also will try to fight efforts to broaden the FBI and CIA’s power to monitor radical activi ties, he said. Although the Lane County chapter of the ACLU is located in the Wesley Center near the University, Schneider said students need a campus branch ’’solely devoted” to their interests. Ea ton has said he doubts the need for two ACLU groups near the University. The campus ACLU plans to hold a symposium on racial harassment and abortion at the end of the month, Schneider said. In other business, the YWCA was allotted $384 from unallocated reserves for the group’s Racial Justice and Ex ceptional Friendship programs. Exceptional Friendship matches special education majors with physically or mentally handicapped children from the community. The Racial Justice program sponsors a series of panel discussions and work shops on racial harassment and violence. The YWCA asked for $782 for these programs, but Neiderbach said the unallocated reserves could not fund the full amount. May Day speakers warn of coming World War III By PAUL TELLES Of the Emerald Revolutionary rhetoric rang through the EMU Breezeway Friday in celebration of May Day, a traditional workers’ holiday since the 19th century struggle for the eight-hour workday. Representatives from the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, the Iranian Students’ Association, the Graduate Teaching Fellows’ Federation and several unaf filiated speakers warned about 200 onlookers of the dangers of international capitalism and the possibility of World War III. "We’re fighting for the future today,” RCYB member John Kaiser told the crowd after ex plaining the meaning of the red flags being waved at the cele bration. "The red flag must fly in the face of the preparations for World War III,” Kaiser said. The red flag is a traditional symbol of worker solidarity, and a symbol of "the day we can launch an armed revolution,” Kaiser said. "The red, white and blue has been exposed the world over, while the red flag has been drug through the mud.” “Today is a day of reckon ing,” said a man introduced as a “little Frenchman." Saying he was orphaned in World War II, the man claimed the Soviet Union and the United States are preparing for another “holocaust. "We are scared shitless in Europe, we are scared shitless in Asia,” said the man, who would identify himself only by his "pen name” John McKay. He challenged the crowd to join the effort to prevent the coming war, but the student audience was unenthusiastic. When he asked if “we are going to work together," one student shouted, “We’re going to make money.” The response was greeted by applause. Ismet Guchan, one of two former students facing possible deportation at an immigration hearing in Portland on Tuesday, said the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union are trying to “whip up nationalistic chauvinism” to goad their people into war. ‘‘They’re getting ready for World War III because the goddamned capitalist class around the world is in a profit crisis,” Guchan said. “The only thing open to them now is World Warlll.” He cited the space shuttle and the hostage crisis as examples of this chauvinistic movement. When Guchan mentioned his possible deportation as an ex CASH For Textbooks Mon.-Fri. Smith Family Bookstore 768 E. 13th 1 Bl. 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