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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
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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
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