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Oregon daily
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Thursday, May 10, 1984
fcugene, Oregon
Volume 85, Number I52
Russian boycott
to affect Eueene
EUGENE (AP) — If the Soviet
Union upholds its announced
boycott of the 1984 summer
Olympic Games, it probably will
prohibit its representatives from
the Olympic Scientific Congress
in Eugene, an organizer of the
sports congress says.
"It seems likely that if they
don't come to the Olympic
Games, they won't come to the
Congress as well," said |an
Broekhoff, a University pro
fessor who is the chairman of
the scientific portion of the
conference.
Broekhotf said Tuesday after
noon that organizers of the
Scientific Congress had receiv
ed no word from the Soviets
after the announcement, earlier
Tuesday, that the nation would
not participate in the Olympic
Games.
However, Broekhoff noted
that the Soviets have until May
15 — next Tuesday — to send in
registration fees and forms.
Congress organizers probably
won't press the Soviets for a
clarification of their status until
the deadline arrives, he said.
Dan Tripps, executive director
of the Congress, said he spoke
with U.S. Olympic Committee
officials by telephone Tuesday
and said that "the USOC
believes that this is a very real
situation."
Tripps, who visited the Soviet
Union last year to help lay the
foundation for the Congress,
said he believes that Soviet
sport scientists very much want
to participate in the Congress
for the contacts and technical
knowledge it will provide.
However, if the decision not to
participate in the Games is a
political decision emanating
from the Kremlin, the sports
scientists undoubtedly will be
overruled, Tripps said.
Vignoul: don't sign
By Doug Nash
Of the (ilHT.lkf
Students do not not'd to
sign a selective service tor in
included in their federal stu
dent aid report eligibility let
ter, according to the Univer
sity's financ ial aid direc tor.
Instead, the University has
its own lorm to signal com
pliance with selec live service*
registration, I inane ial Aid
Direc tor Ed Vignoul says.
The federal lorm is more
intrusive this year than last,
Student Atlvoe ate Hill kit
tredge says. I his year, the*
Department oi I due at ion in
cluded all the* student's
(inane ial and personal infor
mation on the same page as
the compliance statement,
he says.
One student, line arts ma
jor |ill Dustrud, has already
complained about having to
sign the tederal form.
"I don't want to sign it, but
I need my education,'' she
says. "It would be nice if
there was something people
could do about it."
There is — at least as tar as
signing the federal form
goes, Vignoul says.
"As far as I'm concerned,
the student doesn't even
have to sign the student aid
report," he says.
The University includes in
its own financial aid accep
tance letters a plac e to certify
compliance wifh selective
service registration, he says.
Therefore, signing the
tederal form is unnecessary,
he says. The University will
not submit its compliance
statement, which only in
cludes the student's
signature, unless the govern
morn requests it, ho adds.
Vignoul says the education
department has its own
selective service compliance
form because different
universities have different
prot educes.
but kittredge disagrees.
I he government has design
ed its own form, kittredge
says, because many univer
sities around the country
refuse* to include other infor
mation — such as the stu
dent's sot ial set urity number
— on their own compliance
forms.
I his is obviously a reac
tion on the part ol the federal
government to the univer
sities adopting less-intrusive
forms," Kittredge says. "It
gets them what they want
and avoids the issue ol
t ooper a I ion with t h e
universities."
Oustrud says she is con
sidering becoming a to
plaintitt in a suit against the
Solomon Amendment, whit h
is the law requiring students
seeking financial aid to cer
tify compliance with the
selective service system.
l ast month, the c ase took a
first step when the U.S.
District Court in Boston rul
ed that the government's
regulations implementing
the amendment are illegal.
As yet, the decision does
not affect the compliance
forms, but it could in the
future if the court allows the
case to become a class ac
tion, Kittredge says.
"Students should decide if
they find this form objec
tionable," he says. "And if
they do, they should join in
the suit."
Hurdler Hurd & the Herd
LaMar Mura, university tracx ream
hurdler, wails on the saxophone for the
Beerbarians, the performing name for Jazz
Lab Band II. The Beerbarians performed in
Beall Concert Hall last night. The Beer
barians were under the direction of David
Bledsoe.
About 100 people attended the informal
performance that started at 8 p.m.. The band
piayea two sers ana piayea unw me wee
wee hours.
Guests artists sitting in with the band in
cluded John Dulaney on trumpet, Ed Kam
merer on horn and piano, Paul Schimming
on trumpet and left Homan on tenor
saxophone.
Photo by Kirk Hirota
Profs plav presidential politics
By Paul Ertelt
Of the Emerald
Though they have ideological differences, the
Democratic presidential candidates must
recognize their real enemy is Pres. Ronald
Reagan, political science Prof. Jim Klonoski said in
a political forum Wednesday.
Klonoski defended the policies and views of
former Vice President Walter Mondale against
two other professors in a forum in 167 EMU.
Education Management Prof. Max Abbott
represented Colorado Sen. Gary Hart, and
Sociology Prof. David Milton represented the Rev.
Jesse Jackson.
The three Democratic candidates agree on
most issues, Klonoski said. For example, they op
posed the MX missile, mining of Nicaraguan har
bors, school prayer and bans on abortion, all of
which Reagan supports.
But there are differences, insisted Milton, and
those differences represent a division in the party.
"What we represent at this table is the old
coalition of the Democratic party that is coming
apart," Milton said.
One difference in the candidates is Jackson's
call for a 20 percent decrease in military spending,
while both Hart and Mondale have called for a
four percent increase in defense. Though this is
smaller then Reagan's proposed 13 percent in
crease, only a military cut will divert the funds
needed to build America's infrastructure and put
Americans back to work, Milton said.
"We can no longer live on guns and butter
and Jackson is the only candidate that is .saying
this," he said.
A main contention between Hart and Mon
dale has been the Chrysler bailout loan. As vice
president, Mondale was a main architect of the
loan, but Hart voted against it in the Senate.
Abbott defended Hart's vote, saying that in
stead of propping up dying industries, our
resources should go to developing the new
technology to compete with foreign industry.
Mondale, on the other hand, saw the immediate
need of his constituency and responded to that
need, Klonoski countered.
Klonoski warned that Democrats can go to far
in cutting down their opponents, but Abbott said
the open debate was good for the party.
I'm not worried that the Democrats wash their
dirty laundry out in public," he said.
But the debate often returned to Reagan and
the need to nominate the candidate who can beat
him in November. Both Klonoski and Abbott feel
it is their candidate who can do it.
Mondale has broad appeal among voters and
his successes in the primaries show that Mondale
is the man, Klonoski said. But Abbott countered
that Hart is the candidate who does best in polls
when pitted against Reagan.
Though Jackson has no chance of winning the
nomination, his candidacy will give him leverage
at the national convention which he can use to
help form a Democratic party that can win, Milton
said.
But victory for the Democrats will be tough
unless they can get millions of non-voters register
and vote, Klonoski said.
"If the election were held today, Reagan
would win," he said.
Reagan's political assets include the recent
upturn in the economy and his effective image on
television, Klonoski said.
"He comes across like your loving uncle, in
stead of the right wing fanatic he really is,"
Klonoski said.