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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1981)
PO«ce f^gCT^6’ inr ‘disturb'0^ By MARIAN GREEN Of ftm Emerald Eugene police arrested a member of the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade on charges of "loud and raucous noise" and unauthorized use of a bull horn Thursday at the University RCYB member Edmund Smith, from Eugene, was ad dressing passersby with a bull horn at the corner of University Street and 13th Avenue when a Eugene police officer arrested him Smith is not a University student The police department report edly had received complaints of loud noise, but a student on the scene said the RCYB member's speech wasn't a dis turbance Calling it a very mellow sit uation ,” Jeff Vetterick. a broadcast freshman, said Smith was "expressing his ideas with little, If any, vocal or physical disturbance That was my observation — unbiased " However, after Smith was driven away in a police car, the busy streetcorner became a hubbub of confusion About 100 students gathered on the EMU lawn as two other RYCB members and a graduate student vied for the crowd’s at tention As students shouted slogans such as “We like our freedom," RYCB member Nancy Whitley responded by tossing yellow ribbons attached to match books into the crowd and shouting "Bum a yellow ribbon Take a stand with the Iranian people " Physics graduate student Art Noxon meandered among the onlookers, loudly quoting theorems and equations from a quantum mechanics textbook Spectators applauded and cheered "People can say whatever they want I was just walking by and stopped to see what was going on," said Joel Thornburg, a senior business major. After more than three years on campus, Thornburg said in cidents like Thursday s are “pretty normal." "I think they’re equally foolish," undeclared freshman Chris Anderson said of the RCYB members and other par ticipants "It’s interesting because I haven’t been exposed to it." After his release, Smith re turned to campus and said the charges of "ioud and raucous" behavior were only a “legal pretext ” “Fundamentally, it was for taking a political stand for these revolutionaries," Smith said SUAB: No tests deadweek Students won't have to worry about tests or homework during deadweek if the Student University Affairs Board has its way SUAB unanimously decided Thursday to present to the University Senate a proposal that would prohibit professors from making new assignments or giving tests during dead week If approved by the Sen ate. the proposal then would go to the University Assembly Considered the week prior to final exams, deadweek’s origin al intent was to insure that no major assignments and student activities would interfere with study time Under the proposal, class periods would be unchanged and instructors would not be prohibited from introducing new material, said Kathy Stebner, ASUO vice president for university and academic affairs "We don't want to shoot our selves down by making it too restrictive.’’ board member Keith Johnson said, arguing against inclusion of a new ma terials prohibition clause Stebner, who proposed the new rule, said Academic Provost Richard Hill said such a prohibition clause could prevent passage of the dead week guidelines Stebner said cutting instruc tion time is a concern, but predicted that concern will diminish when the University switches to a semester system German seminar site chosen The German Academic Ex change, an agency of the West German government, has granted the University's Ger manic languages department $5,000 to host a studies semin ar. The University is one of four universities chosen to host the seminar The choice is "a sign to the reputation the University holds nationally," says German professor Walther Hahn, the seminar's organizer The seminar, which is meant to acquaint participating students with German culture, will include lectures on German art, economics, history, mass media, military, music, philos ophy and politics. Another aspect of the seminar is a German film festival, with the film Wozzeck' playing this Friday and ‘Stroszek,’ playing Saturday Both films will be shown at 8 p m. in Room 107, Lawrence Hall The films as well as the lec tures are open to the public without charge For more infor mation, call 686-4051 SUNDAY ONLY 20% Off Any Spaghetti Dinner with student ID Includes golden french Bread, All the fresh crispy salad you can eat and ice cream for dessert! Open 7 days/week 5-10 pm 725 W. 1st Av*. 484-1919 Famous Brand-Name Jeans: SAVE 25‘<160 ‘i Guaranteed Savings on Factory Seconds and Closeouts! 8,000 pairs in stock! (Near corner of 11th & High St.), Eugene Open Sunday 12-5 rgsm Cultural Forum and Laserium Presents THE DOS EQUIS LASEf Featuring the mus> Pink Floyd Pretenders The Cars The Tubes Led Zeppelin The Police «' and many more Thursday.November TtHfpKTEMU Bdliro; Showtimev 7*00^8:30and 10:00 pm Tickets availableietjr EMU Main D?sk ana Everybody i^RecofSs S3 00 tor students. $3.50 general public* Journey through th r return \
