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I McCall’s messages ' God, I've worked hard all my life I really have," said Tom McCall in a 1977 interview Saturday the former gover nor began his deserved eternal rest McCall’s lengthy list of achievement's include Oregon's leading piece of enviromental legislation — the bottle bill, land-use planning, lowering the penalties for smoking pot, and putting two students on the state board of higher education McCall, a two-term governor, was the quintessential Oregon politician: deeply concerned with the environment, conservative on national and fiscal matters, loyal to the state and to the West The Maverick McCall was never short of words or ideas in his career Words, which for the most part, portray this usually liberal Republican's constant concern for the state. Some are still valuable messages for the current governor and citizens of the state; some are only reflections of this Oregon personality At the opening of the 1971 Legislature: "I may be the first governor in recent history to stand before you and concede — not with shame, but with candor — we just can t get all the way from here to there in one biennium," he said "We aren’t likely to solve all our state's problems in a single stroke ” Listening, Vic? While considering a bid for U S presidency: "It'd be great if you could beat this $50-million system. It'd return politics to the hands of the people.” More on the environment: “I think you'd all be as sick as I would be if Oregon becomes a hungry hussy throwing herself at every stinking smokestack that's offered " On 1.5 million more visitors to Oregon in 1972 over 1971: "This means 21 million feet trampling over our flora and fauna This tends to destroy what the visitor came to see ” On the bottle bill: "I don’t suppose anyone here remembers how Vic voted on the bill." (Atiyeh voted no on the first bill.) On "new federalism" and local control: "More than ever, those who call for local control must make sure it is accoun table, responsible local controls, not some smokescreen for slamming school doors in children's faces, impairing ethnic rights or gobbling up prime farmland in the name of pro gress.” On student participation on the State Board of Higher Education: "Who is the most important citizen in higher education?” Oregon: "Now, the pursuit of excellence must continue The things that started in Oregon — the preservation of our beaches, the bottle bill, the clean-up of the Willamette River — have spread around the country We made them click here in the number-one state laboratory in the nation Our state is the model of the future We will have progress Oregon-style by planning for the future instead of letting the future plan for us.” opinion Kaiser remembered The sudden death of campus activist John Kaiser took many by surprise He had become a kind of institution at the University Year after year, students either listened to or ignored his rhetoric as they walked past his station on EMU patio He was a fixture Most will remember him as the radical who was convict ed for throwing a burning yellow ribbon during a campus vist by ex-hostage Victor Tomseth His comrades in the Revoloutionary Communist Youth Brigade will think of him as a hard-working activist, dedicated to social reform through Communist revolution To his family he was a man who did what he wanted to do with his life, and believed strongly in what he was doing Kaiser found his way onto the pages of the Emerald more than once We published photos of Kaiser angrily preaching his revolutionary doctrine, of Kaiser being led away in handcuffs by police, of Kaiser posed thoughtfully, answering a reporter’s questions on why he did what he did In personal conversation Kaiser was quiet, even shy He spoke his beliefs softly, in a rehearsed manner Outside the EMU, his voice took on a megaphone quality and his manner became more aggressive He wanted students to stop and argue with him He wanted them to read the blaring red headlines of the "Revolutionary Worker," which he held up to each passerby and tried to sell for 50 cents. Kaiser's importance may not lie directly in what he said to the students who passed him by, but in his unflagging determination to say it and be heard The other mourners \ Tom McCall: 1913-1983 letters Prowess Prof. Shmuel Avital of the math dept phoned me last week to ask me to draft a joint letter regarding the five-column story you wrote on sophomore Sue Harbour, a varsity volleyball player He was concerned that in that entire story, no mention was made of her academic prowess, except to say that she was a math and physical education double major I delayed writing because I'm pretty much aware that academic feats of athletes aren't exactly headline grab bers However, I'm inspired to fol low through now, because Sue has just been named to the NCAA's Academic All-American second team Sue has a 3 9 grade point average All of her classes are difficult; they in clude Math 411 (during her freshman year) and the biology lab courses required for P E as well as comparative literature. r calculus and honors econ omics Sue was selected from a field of 80 candidates in the first academic All-American voting ever held in a woman's sport Prof Avital told me that he could understand the academic side being ignored at a lesser university, but not at this University I must say that I agree Something about the academic side of this fine student athlete might have been squeezed in Prot. Shmuel Avital. math Barbara Nlcholls, counselor, stud. athl. Bum room Well, I think everyone would agree that the Ban the Bums" campaign has cleared out the old EMU television room, but now the question is what do we do with the space? What would be a suitable purpose for the little nook off the southwest corner of the fishbowl? Certainly we can come up with something better than the present empty space that serves as an ante-room for the restrooms How about a television you say? No How about turning it into a museum dedicated to the former transient tenants! Pic ture this; the east wall a gallery full of paintings of the Who's Who of the glory days Gilbert the Spider, Uncle Ray, the in famous jugglers. Clint, the wan dering minstrels, et al A coin fountain with a sculp ture might be nice, and think of the money! Another possibility would be to white wash the walls and sell students space to scribble graf fitti for all to see Each term of course the walls could be cleaned to allow everybody a chance It is a tiny room but the pos sibilities are immense Let s hear some other suggestions Jim Brice senior Oregon daily emerald Th« Oregon Daily tmerald is published Monday through Friday encept during mam week and vac ation* by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co at the University ot Oregon I ugene OR 9?403 The I mm aid operates independently Ot the University «yilh oftices on the third floor of the Erb Memorial Union and ts a member of the Associated Press News and editorial USSS11 Display Advertising and ■ualneee SIS i! y J Classified Advertising US 4343 Production IM4»1 Circulation U« IM1 t dllor Managing t itiloi News Eclitot Assistant New* t ditor (ditonai Page Editor Photo Editor Sport* E ditor Associate Spoil* Ednoi Entertainment Edthv Night Fdiloi Associate Editor* Higher Education Oeperlmenf* end School* Student Government ( natures Poltltc* General SUN Advertising Manager Classified Advertising Ptoduction Manage' Controller Harry Esteve John Heaty Marian Green Corl Eernald Joan Nyland Bob BaKer Mike Rtplinger Paul Danjer Jonathan Siegte John Heaty Sandy Johnstone Frank Shaw Richard Burr Sean Meyers Michele Matassa Darlene Gore Sally OI|ar Victoria Koch Jean Ownbey
