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Friday, January 7, 1983
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 84, Number 74
Soviet dissident raps
U.S. foreign policy
By Michele Matassa
Of the Emerald
Exiled Soviet Valery Chalidze
gave an optimistic outlook for
the human rights movement and
criticized the United States in
consistent foreign policy Thurs
day at a University media con
ference
Chalidze, who will give two
speeches on campus Wednes
day, acknowledged that Yuri
Andropov the successor to the
late Soviet Premier Leonid
Brezhnev is the former head of
the KGB (the Soviet secret
police), but said he was the
most liberal secret police leader
in Soviet history
"Maybe his pragmatism and
his knowledge will lead him to
some liberalization" in human
rights and the economy.
Chalidze said
He called Andropov "the best
choice for Soviet government,"
adding he may not be the best
choice for the Soviet people
Chalidze said he expects
more pluralism and "liberal
spirit" under Andropov, but ad
ded "It's hard to give a predic
tion before one year or two
years
"Generally, I do believe this
country will see its best time,"
Chalidze said
Responding to a question on
Reagan’s treatment of the
Soviet Union, Chalidze said I'm
not sure what you mean
because his (Reagan's) attitude
changes all the time I see no
foreign policy in this country "
Chalidze, who is editor-in
chief of Khronika (Chronicle)
Press in New York City, added
the Soviet dissidents don't look
for an anti-Soviet attitude from
the United States, but U S sta
tements about the Soviet Union
provide support for his cause
"You don't necessarily have
to be antagonistic to show your
strength. And if you show your
weakness, you know what can
happen," Chalidze said
The movement in the Soviet
Union was not a political strug
gle "in the Western sense of the
word." said Chalidze. a former
legal consultant on Soviet civil,
criminal and administrative law
for the human rights
The activists' main goal was
to prepare the country for free
political life by demanding free
speech emigration and other
freedoms, he said
The human rights movement,
started in 1965, "showed people
what they don’t have" in terms
of rights and freedoms,
Chalidze said
He founded Moscow's
Human Rights Committee in
*
Exiled Soviet dissident Valery Chalidze
Photo by Kevin Clark
spoke Thursday at a University media conference.
1970 with Nobel laureate Andrei
Sakharov and published the
unofficial Moscow journal,
"Social Problems" from
I969-72
He said his forced exile in I972
was not due to a specific upris
ing but was a result of general
dissidence
"It's hard to imagine, but it
looked like they didn't like me,"
Chalidze joked
After he visits Oregon State
University, Willamette University
and Lewis and Clark College,
Chalidze will return to the
University Wednesday for two
speeches At 4 p.m. he will dis
cuss “The Human Rights
Movement in the Soviet Union"
in Room 129 of the law school,
and at 7:30 p.m. he will talk
about "The Future of Russia” in
150 Geology.
Legislature debates schemes
on economic development
Associated Prass analysis
SALEM (AP) — Oregonians need
lobs, but philosophies differ on how
the state should handle economic
development
And during the 1983 legislative
session, the different philosophies of
economic development voiced last
fall by Gov Vic Atiyeh and Democratic
challenger Ted Kulongoski will get a
full-scale airing
Atiyeh has been an advocate for
high-technology industry, the envir
onmentally clean companies that are
rooted in scientific and technological
advances He hopes Oregon's repu
tation as a good place to live will lure
more high-tech companies to the
state
A number of Democrats in the
Legislature share Kulongoski s views
that more help should be offered to
existing Oregon companies,
especially small and medium-sized
businesses
The state s economy is tied to
timber When interest rates soared
and the recession hit, new home con
struction fell sharply and the effects
have been readily observable in
Oregon With sawmills shut down and
workers no longer drawing pay
checks, the entire economy has suf
fered Umemployment reached a
record high of 12 5 percent
Last year, Atiyeh launched a drive
to let the world know that “Oregon is
Open for Business." Toward mid
year, the slogan was changed to
“Oregon is Growing, Naturally," to
get away from the smokestack-chas
ing image and to capitalize on the
state's reputation as a natural beauty.
Atiyeh also has urged increased
tourism as a partial answer to
Oregon's economic problems The
AFL-CIO has said neither electronic
assembly plants nor tourist hotels pay
the kinds of salaries sawmill workers
are used to earning.
During his re-election campaign,
Atiyeh stressed his ability to work with
big companies behind the scenes to
bring new plants to Oregon He
claimed two companies told him they
wouldn't come to Oregon if Kulon
goski was elected Both before and
after he won, Atiyeh declined to say
what companies those were or
whether they were going to celebrate
his victory with a move to Oregon.
The governor also worked out a
donation to higher education from
several high-tech companies to help
finance programs of special interest
to the electronics industry. Atiyeh has
said higher education and the state’s
community colleges must meet the
needs of prospective high-tech em
ployers.
Kulongoski said Atiyeh was spend
ing too much time trying to win new
companies and putting out too little
effort to help home-grown industries
He said more jobs are created by
small and medium-sized businesses
than large companies
Most of the patents developed at
the state’s universities are being
leased to out-of-state companies for
commercial development. Kulongoski
said more effort should be made to
match Oregon capital with Oregon
ideas to produce jobs in Oregon
Professors can’t agree
Future of interdisciplinary study unclear
By Sandy Johnstone
Of the Emerald
The future for interdisciplinary studies
is like a yoyo — some professors say it’s
on the upswing and some say it’s sliding
down, at least at this University.
‘‘The world is moving two directions,”
says Mike Fish, director of the Asian
Studies program, ‘‘both toward
specialization and total fragmentation
and toward integration.
we live in an interdis
ciplinary world," says
Robert Berdahl, dean of
arts and sciences college
"But we lack in our socie
ty the ability to see prob
lems from many different
dimensions.” For exam
ple, he says people should
look at inflation not only
economically, but from
political and social per
spectives as well.
Clarence Thurber, dir
ector of the international
studies program, agrees
people are going to need
a more interdisciplinary
education.
society is aemanaing a University
prepare people to fit into (interdisciplin
ary)) roles,” he says. “The more you
study society, the more it appears a
seamless web." He says studying any
societal problem requires knowledge of
more than one discipline.
Trends in interdisciplinary studies fol
low where research leads.
“I think the reason for more interdisci
plinary work has something to do with
the nature of academic research," says
Berdahl. "It seems to me in many areas
of academic research many of the most
exciting kinds of developments are com
ing between fields.
“It's not possible to compartmentalize
fields the way you could a century ago,”
he adds. "The research spills over from
one field to another.”
While many people see the need for
interdisciplinary courses and programs,
the mechanics of the University budget
ing process and a general lack of money
make it difficult for professors now
"The University setup is
in the way — it impedes
interdisciplinary work,"
says Michael Moravcsik, a
professor in the physics
department. "They need
to find the administrative
mechanisms to deal with
this — not just talk about it
— but encourage it. "
But the University sees
the need for a move
toward interdisciplinary
study. The new cluster
system was supposed to
encourage it, but by the
time the legislation was
enacted, that purpose had
been lost, according to
several professors. However, Berdahl
adds that he doesn’t think clusters
discourage interdisciplinary study.
Amit Goswami, a physics professor
who has taught several interdisciplinary
courses and is doing corresponding re
search, disagrees.
“There has been a bit of a trend away
from interdisciplinary,” says Goswami.
“The idea of clusters did not help. They
are most detrimental. You can’t get
cluster credit for interdisciplianry
courses unless they are a very special
kind of arrangement.”