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Senate votes on ROTC SAVORY I’ASTRIMS ARM Till! I‘MR MX T LL'XCII OR S\A( K: ( ROISSAXTS K DAM SI I I'M.I,MI) WITH HAM & < HMMSM, SI*1XA< II I'OmSMMI)^ ( IIMKSM M MSI I ROOMS - TI RKI-YK ( IIHMSK 881 Ivusl 18th ncur campus 484-1882 Mon-I'ri 8-8 Sat 8-8 By Doug Nash Of the Emerald The University Senate over whelmingly approved a motion Wednesday to eliminate the campus ROTC program if it re mains in contradiction with University affirmative action guidelines. The resolution, presented by Philosophy Prof. Cheyney Ryan states, "If the military Science Department cannot comply with University of Oregon policies on equal op portunity by June 1984, it is resolved that the Military Science Department be terminated.” Although the Senate serves a purely advisory role, the 22-6 vote sends a message of sup port for the measure to the University Assembly, which meets Wednesday. Senate members supported Ryan’s assertion that the Military Science Department discriminates against homosexuals. This policy violates Univer sity equal opportunity guidelines by not awarding ROTC scholarships to gay students, by not admitting them into the upper-division program and by not allowing the appointment of gay faculty members. Col. Steven Wolfgram, head r of the University ROTC pro gram, said Ryan had "pretty well enunciated” the army’s policy toward homosexuals. ‘‘Homosexuals are not allowed to serve in the armed forces.” he said. "Where it (the law) came from I haven’t got the vaguest idea." Wolfgram said he could en vision a situation where admit ting homosexuals into the armed forces could affect combat efficiency. One homosexual may not cope well within a platoon of heterosexuals, he said. “Would that platoon treat that one individual with the same fairness that they would treat everyone else* No, he might be treated considerably different," Wolfgram said. Ryan estimated 2,000 to 3,000 gay people a year are thrown out of the military. Op position to the practice, both in court and on other cam puses, is mounting, he said. "It seems to me we have a chance now to join that op position,” he said. Senate members did not question Ryan’s assertion that the ROTC is discriminatory. Instead, a few faculty members moved to table the motion until pending court cases are resolved. Led by Economics Prof. Robert Smith, they felt Ryan's motion could be moot by fall term. "It might well be that the decision is going to be made by the federal district court,” Smith said. The senate defeated Smith's motion 26-8. The decision reflects a reversal of senate feeling on the issue last month, when it soundly defeated Biology Prof. Bayard McConnaughey's resolution to terminate ROTC. Whereas Ryan's motion centered on the legal aspect of University policy, McCon naughey’s motion was made on more moralistic, anti-war grounds. This difference was decisive, Ryan said. “The reason they acted so convincingly today is because they were voting on a question of equal opportunity," he said. Although it is only an ad visory vote, the senate action still has impact on the assembly’s final decision, Ryan said. With the large packet of RQTC material he gave senate members, Ryan said the senate made Wednesday’s decision with more informa tion than assembly or senate members had previously. Talk addresses aspects of city Kenneth Frampton, a Col umbia University professor of architecture history, will give a slide-illustrated lecture titled “The City: Place, Form and Regional Culture” Friday at 8 p.m. in Room 123 Science. The third and last of the lec ture series will take place May 12 at 8 p.m. in Room 177 Lawrence and is titled “Reading the Fragment: The Post Historial City from Schinkel to Rossi." Anthony Vidler, a Princeton University professor of ar chitectural theory, will give the lecture and will analyze selected urban proposals of 19th and 20th century architects. State accused of pay bias SALEM (AP) — State government may be one of the worst offenders when it comes to unequal pay for men and women, a state senator says. L.B. Day (R-Salem) made the comment Wednesday as the Oregon House Labor Committee began hearings on a “comparable worth" bill to promote equal pay among men and women who work for the state. Some opponents of the bill say it's not needed because state government has been working to make its pay scales more equitable. But Day called those arguments ‘'nonsense"'and said the state needs to catch up with private employers in the area of pay equity and promotions for men and women. “I think the state is pro bably the worst employer I know as its treatment toward women and its pro motion of them," Day told the House panel. 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