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Vol. 82, No. 149
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Thursday, April 7, 1981
Ex-student Guchan given
30 days to leave country
By PAUL TELLES
Of the Emerald
A former University student was given 30
days to leave the United States at an immigration
hearing in Portland Wednesday.
Immigration Judge Newton Jones ruled that
Ismet Guchan, a Turkish national and former
architecture student, is “deportable” on the
grounds that he overstayed his visa and failed to
maintain student status.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service
said Guchan entered the United States in Jan
uary, 1979, with permission to stay until March,
1979. He never attempted to have the permission
extended, the INS said.
The INS also said Guchan hasn't been regis
tered as a student since 1979.
Guchan says he dropped out of school
because he was unable to meet deferred tuition
payments. He claims he wasn’t able to apply for
permission to extend his visa because the
University wouldn’t certify he was a student until
he paid tuition.
The money he intended to use to pay his
tuition was tied up in a civil case in Wisconsin, he
says.
Jones granted Guchan permission to leave
the United States voluntarily by June 6, 1981.
Guchan's wife, Turkan Erden, a Fulbright scholar
who recently received a master’s degree in psy
chology from the University, was given 90 days to
leave the United States on Tuesday.
Guchan and Erden were arrested in their
home April 10 by INS officers and Eugene police.
Erden also is from Turkey.
Portland lawyer Ann Witte, who represented
the two, says she plans to appeal the decisions on
the grounds that Jones had the power to grant
Guchan and Erden retroactive extensions of their
visas.
Jones said at both hearings he doesn’t have
the power to grant the extensions. Witte says she
also will appeal the decision in Guchan's case on
the grounds she was not allowed to present
evidence that his prosecution was politically
motivated.
The INS usually grants retroactive extensions
to foreign students found deportable because of
■‘technicalities,’’ Witte says.
She says the INS plans to appeal Guchan’s
grant of voluntary departure on the grounds that
he has advocated the violent overthrow of the
U S. government and should be deported im
mediately. Witte's statements could not be con
firmed with the INS before presstime.
During the hearing, Eugene police officers
Vern Hoyer and Paul Schwarz testified that it is
common knowledge that Guchan is affiliated with
the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade and
that they had heard him advocating the overthrow
of the U S. government, Witte says.
He says he isn’t a member of any communist
organization here or in Turkey.
Guchan was arrested on the terrace Feb. 11
and charged with hindering prosecution by al
legedly interfering with police officers as they
attempted to apprehend RCYB members John
Kaiser and Nancy Whitley. The two were charged
with arson after Kaiser burned a yellow ribbon
during ex-hostage Victor Tomseth’s Feb 9 ap
pearance at the University.
All three later were released on bail
At that time, the Emerald identified Guchan
as an RCYB member in a Feb 12 photo-caption
concerning his arrest.
Guchan is considering filing a libel suit
against the Emerald. If his appeal fails, Guchan
also may sue the federal government for repre
senting him as a communist, Witte says.
Students may take brunt
of higher ed budget cuts
By GREG WASSON
Ol the Emerald
Gov. Vic Atiyeh has proposed a budget that
can only be balanced if the Legislature approves
additional taxes of some $240 million — an ap
proval that is confronting difficulty with legisla
tors.
Legislative leaders have instructed the Ways
and Means subcommittees to identify an addi
tional 10 percent of the budget to be cut.
Both the Department of Higher Education
and the Educational Coordinating Council have
submitted proposals to the education subcom
mittee identifying where they think the money
should come from
Both proposals, aimed at cutting an addi
tional $33 million from the higher education
budget, are pretty compatible, according to T.K.
Olson, ECC executive director.
"The commission accepts most of the
board s proposals," says Olsen. "But we took out
one large item calling for cuts in excess of $7
million which is a 4-percent reduction in the
proposed salaries for all the faculty and support
staff in year one of the 1981-82 biennium
"We've also not endorsed some of the en
rollment reductions that the chancellor is
proposing "
Chancellor Roy Lieuallen and the State
Board of Higher Eduction have called for a
reduction of 1,300 students each year of the
biennium to save funds appropriated for neces
sary faculty and support staff. However, Olsen
believes the money can come from other places.
“For example, the commission proposes
elimination of the service physical education
classes — the ping pong, the sky diving, the flag
football, that kind of thing. You don’t have to cut
off students to get rid of those That’s $4.8 million
right there,” Olson said
During the ECC sub-committee presenta
tions Monday, Rep. Tony VanVIiet, R-Corvallis,
said he wasn’t enamored with that portion of the
plan.
“When you’re carrying 18 hours of engineer
ing, you maybe look at that hour as a break where
you can get out and do something else, get
physically active," VanVIiet said.
Panel member Rep. Vera Katz, D-Portland,
suggested that cutting off state support wouldn't
mean closing the programs. According to Katz,
students would simply have to pay for the classes.
“I have to point out that we’re shifting a lot of
costs besides the higher tuition onto the
students,” VanVIiet said. “What you’ll do is shove
all of these things — higher application fees,
higher transcript fees, gym suits, physical educa
tion courses and a 30-percent tuition increase —
on them Students are going to get zapped."
Another major difference between the two
proposals is that the commission has suggested
that $1.1 million be saved over the next two years
by using videotapes instead of actual instructors
for at least three introductory, lower-division
courses.
Philip Klutznick
Klutznick says U. S.
must boost exports
By JANE DE VIRGILIO
Of the Emerald
America must support its export industry to maintain its
lead in international production, former commerce secretary
Philip Klutznick said Wednesday.
“We are undoubtedly in a turning point in international
trade," Klutznick said, “and the destiny of our nation depends
on our ability to open our borders. Free trade is the only
answer.”
Klutznick spoke about American international trade
prospects to about 50 people in the EMU. He is in his last
week of filling the Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics.
“Increasing productivity and selling abroad will balance
the federal budget more quickly than all the moving around
that's going on now,” Klutznick said. “I hope this will become
the Bible in the White House."
Until about 1974, America had favorable international
trade balances and no deficits, Klutznick said But growing
international competition and the need to import oil started a
trade deficit that now totals about $25 billion
While American productivity has declined, some coun
tries receiving aid after World War II have surpassed the U S.
in industrial growth, Klutznick said
“Whether we slept or thought we were invulnerable,
much of our technology was being expanded and improved
by other countries," he said. “And while our research and
development expenditures were declining, those of Japan
and West Germany were increasing."
Klutznick spoke against any attempts to restrain Japan
ese auto imports, saying “protectionism makes the U S more
vulnerable than any other country
"Free trade is a two-way street. The U S. can only
dominate by producing what the world wants We can't be a
paragon of virtue in free trade and then violate this,” he said
The Economic Council, developed during the Carter
administration when Klutznick served as commerce secre
tary, recommended "the closest collaboration between
government, labor and industry to succeed in international
trade.”
The council also suggested eliminating export disincen
tives including taxation of Americans working overseas and
promoting trading company legislation to benefit small and
medium-sized businesses
Klutznick said small and medium-sized businesses have
been the most productive sector of manufacturing in the past
four years and would greatly benefit from access to interna
tional trade He also promoted increased availability of credit
for businesses through export-import banks