Oregon daily
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iuesaay, bept. 25, 1984
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 86, Number 18
Hendriksen blasts president, Hatfield
By Paul Erteit
Of the Emerald
State Sen. Margie Hendriksen
used the opening of a Eugene
job center Monday as an oppor
tunity to blast the Reagan ad
ministration and U.S. Sen.
Mark Hatfield, her Republican
opponent in the race for the
U.S. Senate seat.
Hendriksen discussed the
future of jobs in Oregon at the
open house for the Lane County
Unemployment Project on Mon
day night. She told an audience
of about 50 that the best way to
ensure employment for Orego
nians was to “vote a straight
Democratic ticket."
She accused the administra
tion of inducing a recession
while also cutting the “safety
net” of social services.
“This creates a labor force
that is desperate, will take
lower pay and accept poor
working conditions,” she said.
“And labor busting will become
easier.”
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State Sen. Margie Hendriksen discussed Oregon’s employment future and blasted current
policies and leadership at a job center open house Monday night.
The Reagan administration
opposes full employment and
wants to keep the unemploy
ment rate from becoming “too
low” in order to maintain a
"disciplined” work force, she
said.
Hendriksen also attacked Hat
field’s votes for cuts in
Medicare, Social Security and
unemployment benefits, as well
as his vote of confidence for
former Secretary of the Interior
James Watt.
“I have asked Sen. Hatfield to
come and debate me,” she said.
“I was hoping he would be able
to come and explain why he did
those things.”
Digressing from purely par
tisan politics, Hendriksen said
she believed the basis for
employment in Oregon would
continue to be natural
resources, especially timber.
“High tech...isn’t going to
be the answer,” she said. “Most
are minimum wage jobs or just
over minimum wage.”
Oregon should exploit the in
ternational lumber shortage,
Hendriksen said, but that
lumber should be milled in
Oregon and not exported as raw
logs. But she also asserted that
the timber industry will con
tinue to be in trouble as long as
the huge federal deficit keeps
interest rates high.
High interest rates have forc
ed the exchange rate of the
dollar up in comparison to other
currencies, which has given
Canada a competitive advantage
in exporting its lumber.
SUAB survives changes
By Julie Shippen
Of I he Emerald
While the beginning of the
term finds the 1984-85 Student
University Affairs Board lack
ing in committee represen
tatives, SUAB officials are ex
pecting this year’s efforts to be
highly successful.
Vice chair Jeff Pennington at
tributes this confidence to the
working relationship of the
board's members, the majority
of whom were recently hired.
“SUAB is very much on its
feet,” Pennington says. “We’re
making strong efforts to make
this a very cohesive group. 1
think we’ll have the strongest
year we’ve ever seen.”
What the board may lack in
experience, Pennington and
SUAB chair Sara Tenney say it
makes up for in enthusiasm.
“I’ve never seen more of an
eagerness to try to work
together as I have this year,” he
says. “We may not have the
continuity, but we still have the
contacts.”
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Jeff Pennington
University Senate Vice Pres.
Larry Sebring is the sole SUAB
member to return to the office
this year, making the other 12
representatives new to the
organization, Pennington says.
After hiring five additional
people, who Pennington hopes
will be found within the next
week, the board will be com
plete, with the 18 members
representing all University
departments.
“We have an entirely new
board this year,” he says.
Several vacancies were created
by members who either finished
their degrees during the sum
mer or who simply resigned for
“bigger and better” oppor
tunities, he says.
Because many of these
members had served only the
first half of their position’s two
year period, SUAB found itself
with a staff shortage entirely
unexpected at this time of year.
“Ideally there are nine posi
tions opening in the fall,” Pen
nington explains. “People
would run for these positions
and then they would
graduate... without giving
notice that they were leaving.
The procedures weren’t very
clear.”
Among SUAB’s functions is
student representation at
University Senate and
Assembly meetings, Tenney
says.
“We represent the student
voice in the Assembly,” she
says. "Student input is very
important.”
But Tenney and Pennington
have discovered not everyone
fully supports this philosophy.
“There is a small number of
faculty that was trying to
decrease student representa
tion,” Tenney says.
The University Task Force on
Sarah Tenney
Governance, which was created
last year, wanted to decrease the
number of student represen
tatives in order to make the
Senate “more effective,” Penn
ington says. “Of course we
were adamantly opposed to
that.”
Another example of SUAB’s
role is handling students’
grievances, particularly those
concerning ‘‘Dead Week”
policies, Pennington says. As a
result of SUAB’s efforts, certain
limitations to exam-taking dur
ing the week prior to finals
week were added to the Univer
sity guidelines.
Pennington says the board
will be working on voter
registration drives and increas
ing the participation of student
groups in the Legislature.
Students interested in joining
SUAB are encouraged to apply
at the office located in EMU.
Deadline for application is
Oct. 3. For more information,
contact Pennington or Tenney
at 686-3720.
Bantu art to feed the hungry
Sunny skies and relaxation prevailed on the
Unii'ersity’s first day of classes Monday, and Tekeba
Bantu Davis took advantage of the laid-back at
mosphere to sell Bantu philosophy posters by Third
World artists in the quadrangle between Chapman and
Condon halls. Davis said that he saw the symbol pic
tured on the poster as ‘ ‘sort of the peace symbol of the
80s.”
The poster sales represent Davis’ efforts at ‘‘ban
ding together for the benefit of mankind. ” Ten percent
of the proceeds from poster sales will be used to help
feed people in Third World countries, he said.
Photo by Julie Biggs