Monday, May 17, 1982
Eugana, Oragon
Oregon daily
Voluma 83
Numbar 153
Photo by Erich Boekelheide
Protesters wind their way through city streets.
Nuclear freeze
Warm weather rallies
urge weapons freeze
Groups voicing support of a nuclear weapons freeze
gathered at five points in Eugene and Springfield Saturday for
mini-rallies and then marched to a main rally at Alton Baker
Park An estimated 1,500 to 2,000 demonstrators visited the
main protest and a Peace and Social Justice Fair, organized
by Citizens for Lasting Security and co-sponsored by other
local anti-nuclear groups
At the EMU courtyard about 150 people gathered to hear
speakers and sing folk songs in protest of nuclear weapons
before heading to the park
Self-proclaimed ' peacenik” Aaron Novick, head of the
University's biology department, was at the first atomic bomb
test in New Mexico in 1945 Unless a person has seen a blast,
he can have "no conception of what it means,” he said
The English language doesn't contain a word to describe
the destruction, he added
Karen Steingart, president and founder of the Oregon
Physicians for Social Responsibility, told the crowd to "feel in
your guts" the effects of a nuclear bomb Besides deaths from
the initial blast, doctors would have to cope with radiation
sickness, fires, and sunburns due to a depletion of the ozone
layer
The problems would be intensified due to "few doctors,
and no painkillers for the suffering,” she said
Nothing can survive a nuclear war, said U S. Rep. Jim
Weaver, D-4th District. "The only hope is the prevention of
nuclear war Only through awareness and our own action can
we survive,” he said.
There is no such thing as a winnable or limited war,
Weaver said, adding he has voted against all expenditures for
weapons "I did that as an act for national security," he
added
British Sea Harriers hit
Argentine supply vessels
LONDON (AP) — British Sea Harrier war
planes bombed and strafed two Argentine vessels
in the Falkland Sound Sunday and the crew of one
abandoned ship after the attack, the Defense
Ministry announced.
British correspondents with the task force
said Harriers also bombed the airfield at the
capital city of Stanley for the sixth time since May
1 when the shooting began in the Falklands war
zone.
The Argentine military command said one
ship, the Rio Carcarana, "caught fire," and the
Bahia Buen Suceso “was damaged." It said
nothing about the crews but reported they “were
carrying fuel, food and medicine to the people of
the islands,” were unarmed and were attacked
about 2 p.m. Sunday in the San Carlos Strait
between East Falkland and West Falkland islands.
Michael Nicholson of Independent Television
News, one of the reporters with the British fleet,
said the Rio Carcarana, listed by Lloyd’s Register
of Ships as an 8,364-ton general-cargo ship, was
attacked with bombs and 30mm cannon in Port
King Bay on the east-central shore of East Falk
land
At the same time, Nicholson said, jets at
tacked a vessel tied up to the jetty near Fox Bay
Settlement on West Falkland but “the Harrier
pilots did not drop their bombs because it was too
close to the village."
"They came in very close and strafed the ship
with their 30mm cannons," he said “The pilots
could not see the name of the ship but they
have reported that the ship did return fire, hitting
one of the Harriers in the tail.” He said the plane
made it back safely to the aircraft carrier Hermes
and the pilot was not injured.
In another communique, Argentine officials
said they believed the transport vessel Isla de Los
Estados was sunk. The communique said the
3,900-ton ship, reported missing Friday, had a
crew of between 30 and 40 and was used by the
navy to carry supplies between the Falklands and
the Argentine mainland.
The fresh attacks came hours after British
Defense Secretary John Nott warned that Britain
would intensify its military efforts and could
invade the Argentine-held islands in the South
Atlantic if no breakthrough is made in United
Nations peace talks “within the course of the next
week.”
Nott’s warning came as speculation in
creased that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,
pressured by impatient Conservatives, will order
the RoyaJ Navy war fleet to launch a full-scale
invasion.
Britain's domestic news agency Press As
sociation reported Thatcher met with her "War
Cabinet” at her Chequers estate outside London
and there “is now a growing feeling that an
invasion may not be much longer delayed."
In Luxembourg, Britain's nine Common
Market partners were discussing whether to
renew the one-month economic boycott on Ar
gentina that expires today. Britain wants the
punitive action extended.
U S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig and
British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym held a joint
news conference after a private meeting in Lux
embourg. Haig said the United States "stands
ready to make any contribution it can make to
bring about a political solution” and Pym said
“negotiations are very much alive.”
Tuition might be adjusted
according to class levels
By Ann Portal
Of tf» EnwraM
Undergraduate University
students may not pay equal tui
tion in the future, if a proposal
discussed Friday by the State
Board of Higher Education’s
Finance Committee is built into
the 1983-85 biennium budget.
The finance committee met at
the University to review state
system staff proposals to be
used in preparing the 1983-85
budget, which must be given to
the governor by Sept 1. Addi
tional budget material will be
presented to the entire board at
a May 28 meeting.
According to a staff report,
several presidents of higher
education institutions have
suggested that undergraduate
tuition be determined by
whether students take lower
division or upper division
classes
The presidents' suggestion is
a response to pressure from
sinking enrollment caused
partly by lower tuition at public
community colleges. Higher
education officials worry that
high college and university tui
tion may channel incoming
students to community col
leges, where tuition has not in
creased as rapidly.
But Robert MacVicar,
President of Oregon State
University, told finance commit
tee members a more appro
priate solution might be to con
vince community colleges to
charge students a “fair percen
tage” of the cost of instruction.
If the tuition structure for re
sident undergraduates is
changed, tuition for nonres
ident undergraduates also
should be changed, which
couid put nonresident tuition
and fees over $4,000 a year,
MacVicar said.
Nonresident undergraduate
tuition and fees at the University
this year is $3,768. Resident
undergraduate tuition and fees
is $1,190 The resident tuition is
the highest of 11 Western u
niversities, and only the Univer
sity of Colorado has higher
nonresident tuition.
Committee members asked
for a more-detailed proposal on
the effect of different tuition
levels for upper and lower divi
sion students.
According to instructions
from the governor’s office on
how to prepare the 1983-85
budget, the $49-per-term tuition
“surcharge’’ is — at this time —
still included in the budget.
The budget guidelines
require that higher education's
base budget request retain the
same proportion of funds as the
1982-83 budget. That means
money generated by the sur
charge is automatically includ
ed, unless at some point higher
education is allowed to substi
tute state general funds for tui
tion money.
During a Friday public Friday
on the budget proposals, Bob
Watrus, Oregon Student Lobby
executive director, urged the
board to eliminate the tuition
surcharge. Watrus also asked
that the state system return to
an instructional fee policy, such
as limiting tuition to a certain
percentage of the cost of in
struction. That percentage has
steadily increased over the past
two years, Watrus said.
The 1983-85 higher
education budget begins with
the 1982-83 budget as a foun
dation. Packages including
both additions and subtractions
from that budget will be pre
sented to the Legislature as
“decision packages.”
An early draft of those pack
ages discussed Friday places
importance on improving facul
ty salaries and restoring money
for library acquisitions, building
maintenance and rehabilitation,
instructional equipment, com
puting hardware, support staff
. and services and supplies.