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Oregon daily
emerald
Friday, October 28, 1983
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 85, Number 40
Says he never agreed
Olum fends off ROTC issue
By Doug Nash
Of the Emerald
The ASUO president and last year's campus
ACLU director reacted with disbelief Thursday to
University Pres. Paul Olum's statement that he
“never agreed" to the proposed makeup of a fact
finding committee on the ROTC program.
Olum said at a press conference that he is oppos
ed to the planned selection process of committee
members, in which he would appoint two ad
ministration officials, Philosophy Prof. Cheyney Ryan
would appoint two faculty members, and ASUO Pres.
Mary Hotchkiss would choose two students. Ap
pointments by representatives of different political
views is unnecessary, Olum said, because the com
mittee's mission is purely a fact-finding one.
"The last thing we need is a highly political com
mittee with lots of political pronouncements," he
said.
Olum said he had never agreed to the initial com
mittee plan, which arose last spring after months of
debate in which Ryan claimed the military science
department violates University affirmative action
guidelines by preventing homosexuals from par
ticipating in the ROTC program.
"I never agreed to that — never agreed I would
do any such thing," Olum said of the committee
makeup. "In fact, this is an inappropriate way to ap
point an objective committee for this purpose."
But Doug Marker, director of the campus ACLU
at the time, said Olum agreed to the idea after a
debate on the ROTC issue last spring.
"After the debate, I approached Olum and said
'Why don't we put together a committee of students
appointed by the ASUO, faculty appointed by Ryan
and two from the administration appointed by you?'
And he said it was fine. He did agree to it that night."
Marker said he followed the conversation with a
letter, but "never got a response.”
Hotchkiss did not recall Olum expressing
disagreement with the committee makeup in
meetings between the two last summer. At one
point, Hotchkiss added, Olum said he approved of
her student selections — law student Alan Contreras
and ASUO Executive Assistant Scherri Shultz — and
indicated he would make his appointments within a
month.
"He said he was really busy and that he would
get the committee together," Hotchkiss said. "I kind
of pressed (him on when he would make the appoint
ments) and he said 'Well.. .in about a month.' "
She could not remember the exact date of the
meeting.
"There will be a committee all right,” Olum said,
but he was not sure what form it would take.
"We'll have to decide hovy that committee will be
appointed,” he added, expressing concern that it re
main exclusively a fact-finding body. The committee
should not discuss questions involving possible
ROTG violations of University policy, he said.
"Those are questions of judgment that the whole
University and the assembly have to decide,” he
added.
Last March, the University Assembly voted to
"indefinitely postpone" Ryan's motion to terminate
the department unless it ends its discriminatory
practices.
The ASUO sent a letter to Olum Oct. 20, express
ing its "impatience” with Olum's failure to set up the
committee.
U.S. forces capture
prison, secure island
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada (AP) — American forces crushed a
final stronghold of Grenada's defenders Thursday, but the Carib
bean island's diehard Marxist leader was reported still resisting
the invaders and holding a woman hostage.
An unknown number of Cubans were reported still resisting
as well, and American forces pounded the Cuban positions with
artillery and air strikes. Heavy black smoke billowed from the hills
east of the unfinished airport of Point Salines near Grenada's
southern tip.
The casualty toll among the almost 3,000 U.S. troops stood at
eight dead, eight missing and 39 wounded, U.S. officials said.
Meanwhile, the United States continued pouring hundreds of
fresh paratroopers into the fight for the tiny nation Thursday.
Pres. Reagan said a fully equipped Cuban base was found and
that the operation thwarted a planned Cuban takeover of the
island.
The Voice of Barbados said resistance continued at Calivigny
Point, an area of military barracks on the east coast just north of
the island's new airport construction site, whose Cuban
defenders were overrun Wednesday by the U.S. troops.
New anti-U.S. protests were reported around the world, in
cluding the ransacking of a U.S. consulate in Bolivia.
In Washington, the House Foreign Affairs Committee approv
ed 32-2 on Thursday a war powers resolution requiring the
withdrawal of American troops from Grenada within two months.
Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam, insisting the inva
sion of the island was necessary, declined to say if Pres. Reagan
would honor the deadline. But he said it was "extraordinarily
unlikely'' the troops would remain that long.
Reagan administration officials said, meanwhile, that
American forces discovered "upwards of 1,000" Cubans on the
island, some 400 more than claimed by the Cuban government,
and that they were more heavily armed than expected.
Continued on Page 8A
High speed chase ends in campus capture
A University student tackled a
buglary suspect outside the
Robinson Theatre Thursday after
noon after the suspect eluded
Eugene police officers in a high
speed car chase down University
Street.
Police arrested Anthony Sung
Kim, whose address and age were
unavailable, and charged him with
burglary, attempting to elude
police, reckless driving and driv
ing with a suspended license. Kim
was in custody at the Lane County
jail Thursday night with bail for
the three traffic charges set at
$3,000. No bail had been set for
the burglary charge.
With sirens blaring, police pur
sued the blue Pontiac Le Mans,
which reached speeds of more
than 65 miles per hour, down the
crowded street. The chase ended
in the parking lot on the south
side of Allen Hall, where police
surrounded the car at about 1:25
p.m., said Sgt. Rick Allison of the
Eugene police.
Allison said the suspect aban
doned the car and headed west on
foot behind Allen Hall, in the
direction of Villard Hall, where
Robinson Theatre is located.
A University student, who asked
not to be identified, ran past a
Eugene Police officer and tackled
Kim on the lawn in front of the law
school. Kim then got up and ran a
few steps toward Robinson
Theatre when a Eugene police of
ficer pulled his revolver and
ordered Kim to halt.
After Kim stopped, the officer
repeatedly yelled “get on your
face." Three other officers arrived
as Kim knelt down to lay on the
ground. Police then put Kim in
handcuffs.
The entire episode took about
four minutes.
“I just saw him gunning so I
chased him,” the student said. "I
just don't want to get involved,"
he said when asked for his name.
The incident began shortly after
1 p.m. when Springfield police
received a call from a witness who
reported a possible burglary in
progress at a residence in the 2300
block of Beverly Street in North
Springfield.
When Springfield police arrived
at the residence, the burglary
suspect was gone. A witness gave
police a description of the suspect
and his car, which was then
relayed to other law enforcement
agencies.
Eugene police became involved
when they spotted the suspect
vehicle near the Oakway Mall on
Coburg Road. They followed the
car over the Ferry Street Bridge
south toward the campus area. At
21st Avenue and Onyx Street, the
suspect's car passed another
police car, which happened to be
in the area, Allison said. Police
said they flashed their lights as a
signal for the suspect to pull over.
Instead, police said, the suspect
attempted to elude them and
sped off toward campus.
Allison said the suspect's car
was able to elude police because
police deliberately slowed down
while moving through the crowd
ed campus neighborhood.
'I was not concerned with our
officers. Our oncern was that the
suspect would drive over the
lawns and onto the sidewalks,"
and hit someone, Allison said.
"If that officer (Christian
Costanza, whose car was directly
behind the suspect's) had not had
on his electric sirens, there might
have been some fatalities. Thank
God the officer put his sirens on,"
said Allison, who described the
suspect's car as a "low flying jet."
The suspect's car "almost hit a
Photo by Mari Pynes
Sirens and converging Eugene police cars brought out student spectators to the dramatic car
chase and capture of a burglary suspect Thursday.
guy on a moped," said University
employee Chet Kasmarski.
"I heard sirens from my fourth
floor office (in Friendly Hall)," said
Randall Harbour, graduate
teaching fellow who teaches
French. "I saw the guy run around
the corner (of Allen Hall) and he
looked scared. He was running
fast."
Large stereo speakers, an
unhooked radio, a motorcycle
helmet and a map of Eugene were
found in the suspect's car.
Kim will be arraigned today at 1
p.m. in Eugene Municipal Court
for the traffic charges and at 1:30
p.m. in Lane County District Court
for the burglary charge.
Photo by Dove Kjto