Reporter stalks campaigns
By Brooks Dareff
Of the Emerald
From Coos Bay to New York
to Philadelphia to Chicago to
the White House, political
writer Steve Neal has penned a
long road.
This year Neal, a University
graduate, is on the campaign
trail following the presidential
candidates for the Chicago
Tribune, for whom he worked
as a White House correspon
dent from 1980-1983. This
week and next he's in Oregon
for the May 15 primary.
On Thursday Neal revisited
the campus as the journalism
school's ninth Ruhl Lecturer.
Neal reports on all the can
didates but says the Tribune
has felt a special obligation to
lesse Jackson because both
call Chicago their home.
“I was the only reporter in
April, 1983 with Jackson in
North Carolina when he kick
ed off his southern crusade,''
Neal says.
Neal says he prefers the ac
tion and movement of a cam
paign to the relative placidity
of White House coverage. And
nothing has been more ex
citing or significant during the
1984 campaign than the
emergence of Jackson.
"Jackson has incredible
vitality. He's by far the best
orator in the race," Neal says.
The national media has
acknowledged Jackson's im
portance by giving him major
exposure — even more than
front-runner Walter Mondale.
"Jackson has been on four
national covers in Newsweek
and Time in the last year. Mon
dale hasn't had one by
himself," he says.
Neal says Jackson's ultimate
purpose in running is not to
win or nab a vice presidential
spot, but to enfranchise blacks
into the power structure of na
tional politics.
And Jackson has earned the
notice of his more establish
ment opponents, who must
respect his pulling power in
the black community.
"He's trying to build a new
base in the Democratic party.
Since the 1930s blacks have
been the most loyal of the con
stituencies of the Democratic
Photo by Steve Crowell
Steve Neal
Party — but have not been
allowed to share in the
power.”
Jackson will try to build on
his national stature by seeking
concessions from Walter Mon
dale, the party's likely
nominee.
"He'll want veto power over
some of the appointments in
the Mondale administration.”
They'll likely be no vice
presidential spot for Jackson,
Neal says. Philadelphia Mayor
Wilson Goode could be Mon
dale's running mate, but the
strongest ticket would be
Mondale and Gary Hart. And
Hart, who could draw cross
over Republicans and In
dependents and strengthen
the ticket in the traditionally
Kepublican West, would pro
bably relish such an offer.
“I think he does," Neal says.
"He can't say it now. But if
Hart still has presidential am
bitions, seven of the last nine
candidates who have either
run for president or become
president are former vice
presidents."
Neal says that while Pres.
)immy Carter was a moderate
conservative, the race bet
ween Reagan and Mondale, a
"traditional, (Hubert)
Humphrey-style liberal.. .will
be one of the most idealogical
in our history."
And while Reagan would win
the election today, "I think he
(Mondale) will give Reagan a
good fight."
Lecture on suffragist Duniway today
Abigail Scott Dumway, a pro
minent journalist of the 1870s
who promoted women's suf
frage in Oregon, will be the sub
ject of the Beekman Lecture to
day at 3:30 p.m. in the Cerlinger
Lounge.
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University History Prof.
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lecture on Duniway, who
started a weekly newspaper in
Portland called "The New
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Saturn's moon needs a city;
students needed to design it
Students who Delieve in ex
traterrestrial existences, thrive
on all-nighters and have Titanic
imaginations should check out
an architecture school
proposition.
Coordinator Mark Lakeman
says all University students may
participate in "Eden of Titan," a
16-hour charrette, or concen
trated design effort in a limited
period of time.
But sign-up closes tonight at 7
and the charrette begins at 8
p.m.
"The program is to design a
society for 10,000 people on the
largest moon of Saturn called
I itan — the only moon in the
solar system with an at
mosphere," Lakeman says.
"It's possible life exists
there," he says.
If that thought doesn't spur
your imagination, maybe the
$100 prize will.
The Southwestern Oregon
Chapter of the American In
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up the $100 for the team that
can draw and create a city
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