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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
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