SNuFFing out ignorance about nuclear weapons
By Pete Malliris
Of the Emerald
A group of University students
opposing nuclear weapons wages
its war against the arms race with
only one weapon — knowledge.
Students for a Nuclear Free
Future works to educate people
about the nuclear arms race and
its alternatives, and SNuFF
member Sherri Schultz says stu
dent ignorance on the subject is
shocking.
"People know almost nothing at
all," she says.
And the blame for student ig
norance about current govern
ment policies lies on the Univer
sity's shoulders. "There aren’t
many courses on the issue,"
Schultz says. "The University
needs to deal with that."
Croup member Bill Hallmark
says the main issue in the arms
race today is what he calls "alarm
ing rhetoric” coming from
Washington.
Statements from people like
Lawrence Beilenson, a personal
friend of Pres. Ronald Reagan, are
an example. Beilenson said the
United States should overthrow
all communist countries, and he
advocated preparing to fight and
win a nuclear war.
This kind of rhetoric is
dangerous because it comes from
intelligent people who have
power. Hallmark says.
Students need to know about
this kind of rhetoric so they can
get motivated to "change our
society's mode of thinking" about
the arms race, he says.
But there is more than just
rhetoric involved in American
foreign policy, Schultz says.
"Were planning to fight a
nuclear war," she says. "College
students need to be able to make
informed decisions.”
Fall term, SNuFF is fighting the
lack of knowledge they see at the
University through a class in the
Search program called "Alter
natives to the Nuclear Arms
Race."
And on Nov. 1, Robert Scheer,
author of "With Enough Shovels,"
will speak on campus about some
presidential advisors' viewpoints
on nuclear war. SNuFF is sponsor
ing the event.
Ten days later (on Veteran's
Day) the group will participate in a
nationwide convocation involving
Photo by Dave Kao
Students for a Nuclear Free Future (SNuFF), works to educate people about nuclear arm:,.
about 150 campuses. The con
vocation is SNuFF's main focus for
the term and will feature their
third annual "Die In."
The "Die In" is a simulation of a
nuclear holocaust and is designed
to show what the aftereffects of
nuclear War would be like.
Schultz says she thinks the
group has been at least partially
successful in their efforts to
educate people. "I know we've
educated people who wouldn't
have otherwise been educated,''
she savs.
National women politicians schedule Nicaragua tour
Women working in state
governments were contacted na
tionwide yesterday about touring
Nicaragua from Nov. 5-14, says
spokesperson Pat Wasp of the
Eugene Council for Human Rights
in Latin America, the organization
sponsoring the tour.
The women's tour will be the se
cond co-sponsored by ECHRLA
and AMNLAE, a Nicaraguan
womens group. The first tour
group, which consisted of
educators, professionals and
businesswomen, visited
Nicaragua from Sept. 10-20.
ECHRLA had hoped to involve
federal legislators in the
November tour, but the current
session of Congress doesn't end
until Nov. 15.
ECHRLA has shifted gears from
the federal to the state level, but is
still aiming for a future tour for
legislators working in
Washington, D.C., Wasp says.
Plans to have Oregon state
legislators participate in the first
tour were dashed by the special
session.
There is room for 14 women on
the November tour, and ECHRLA
plans to contact every woman
state legislator in the U.S. about
participating. The women who go
to Nicaragua will meet in Miami,
then fly to Managua, Nicaragua's
capitol.
Oregon Senators Jeannette
Hamby, R-Woodburn and Barbara
Roberts, D-Portland, had already
expressed interest as of yesterday
afternoon, Wasp says, as has
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The November tour will differ
slightly from September's tour.
The itinerary, which Wasp says
was very hectic for the September
group, will be shaved a little. The
November tour "will have more of
a professional edge." The
Nicaraguans, she says, "want
more people (involved) who make
decisions."
Since the first tour, many peo
ple have contacted ECHRLA and
expressed interest in participating
in future tours, inc luding "20 to 25
women doctors."
ECHRLA is one of the few
groups AMNLAE works with to set
up tours. Wasp says.
Wasp stresses the non-partisan
orientation of the Nicaragua
tours.
"Our job is not to change peo
ple's minds,” but rather to pro
vide "a positive environment for
people to learn.”
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