Forum hits right-wing _
Minority policies probed
By DANE CLAUSSEN
and ALISON HODGE
Ofttw Emerald
The Reagan Administration's
social and economic policies
got another tongue-lashing at
the fourth annual Willamette
Valley Racial Minorities Con
sortium held at the University
this weekend
Eugene Newport, mayor of
Berkeley. Calif., said the admin
istration marks the "beginning
of a new era" and that Amer
icans should examine alterna
tives to its policies
The theme of the conference
was "Minority Concerns in a
Conservative Era "
"Conservatives," Newport
said, "are in a vacuum tube "
Newport called for changes in
government, education and
social programs, and noted the
return of emotionalism
“We are all capable of these
Oregon State University, crit
icized the American media's
Klux Klan in northern California
as an example
Unemployment has been
twice as high among blacks as
among whites, said Ze'ev Or
zech, an economics professor
at Oregon State University
Racism, less education, less
seniority, and other factors
contribute to how the "burden
falls disproportionately to min
orities,” he said
The contention that blacks in
a community force property
values to decrease is a myth,
said Rick Rencher, a consultant
on affirmative action and equal
employment opportunity with
Eugene s Gossard-Pyron As
sociates
Olum calls meetings
University Pres. Paul Olum will meet with students and
classified staff members at two convocations to be held this
week
Olum will meet with students Wednesday at 3:30 p.m in
Geology Room 150 He will begin the meeting with a discus
sion of the University's budget situation before opening the
floor to students' questions The convocation is open to all
students.
On Thursday, all classified staff and management service
personnel are invited to a meeting with Olum at 3 30 p.m in
PLC Room 180 Olum has no specific agenda for the meeting
but will discuss staff concerns and interests
“The lines of communication are so long in the University
that there may well be important concerns and interests in the
University community that we never hear about," Olum wrote
in a memo to classified staff members
“it seems to me that we should get together a couple of
times a year to consider these matters
The convocation is Olum's third since he became pre
sident in 1980. and will be the first convocation to include
classified employees and managers
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Segregation in housing is
neither a result of simple eco
nomic theory nor self-imposed
segregation by blacks, Rencher
said.
Both ideas can be proved at
least partially wrong since "all
black neighborhoods I know of
were formerly white neighbor
hoods,” he said
After crossing the point at
which whites feel they are
becoming a minority in integrat
ed neighborhoods, a mass ex
odus results, Rencher said
Since housing discrimination
cases are handled individually,
"institutional change” will be
difficult,
The proposed New Interna
tional Economic Order - passed
by the U N to bridge the gap of
"glaring inequalities” between
developed and developing
countries - is necessary, despite
its limitations, said Melaku La
kew, a black studies and econ
omics professor at Portland
State University Despite objec
tion from the US, the order was
passed in 1974
The condition of the world’s
poor is deteriorating, Lakew
said Countries that once were
self-sufficient in food, such as
Zaire, no longer are, as "ex
penditures on arms are replac
ing expenditures on food and
development," he explained
Eric Swenson, an internation
al agriculture professor at
Oregon State University, cri
ticized the American media's
coverage and analysis of the
proposed New World Informa
tion Order
“I’d like to think thsit the com
munication revolution isn't one
we could lose,” he said, adding
that the revolution in commu
nications has widened the gap
between countries
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