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Volume 86, Number 28
Dole: Mondale didn’t deliver knockout
By Paul Ertelt
Of tJ»« Emerald
Transportation Secretary Elizabeth
Dole defended Pres. Ronald Reagan’s
record on women’s issues Monday and
said Walter Mondale failed to deliver a
“knockout punch” in the presidential
debate Sunday night.
Dole attended a fund-raising luncheon
at Eugene's Hilton Hotel before heading
to the newly opened Reagan-Bush head
quarters for a press conference.
She said Mondale failed Monday in
his attempt to change his image and look
like a leader in the debate. “Americans
are interested in policies and not per
sonalites, in substance and not style,”
Dole said.
The debate showed the two can
didates' views and gave the voters a clear
choice, she said. • ...
“1 don’t think what the president has
done for women has been clearly heard
yet,” she said.
Reagan is the first president to name
three women to cabinet-level positions
and the first to name women to the
Supreme Court and as ambassador to the
United Nations, Dole sajd.
Dole also lauded Reagan for his
economic policies, especially in bring
ing down inflation, interest rates and
unemployment.
Because of Reagan’s tax cuts, $300
billion have been returned to the
American people, she said.
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When pressed by one reporter about a
recent report that shows poorer
Americans have suffered the greatest
loss of income during the Reagan ad
ministration, Dole responded that the
president’s policies are "designed to
help all Americans."
According to a Census Bureau survey
done in March, the poorer half of the
population lost 7 percent of its real in
come, after adjustment for inflation, dur
ing the Reagan administration. Income
for the wealthier half stayed about the
same during the same period.
But Reagan is committed to providing
jobs for everyone willing to work, Dole
said, and should be given a chance to
finish the job.
"That’s compassion you can take to
the bank,” she said.
Dole predicted that Vice Pres. George
Bush will do well in his debate Thursday
with Democratic challenger Geraldine
Ferraro.
“1 clearly feel that no one is going to
flock to a ticket because a woman is on
it," she said. “Women in this country
are voting on issues, not gender.”
Several people from the National
Organization for Women picketed Dole’s
luncheon appearance at the Hilton, but
the protest was against Reagan and his
policies and not Dole, said Marie Jackson
of NOW.
"She’s a competent woman and I’m
happy to see a woman on Reagan’s
Pfcoto by Bill Harpole
Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole spoke at a Republician fund-raiser at
Eugene’s Hilton Hotel Monday.
cabinet,” Jackson said. “But I find it sad
that she defends Reagan’s record and
doesn’t see it as it is.”
Since 1980, five million people have
slipped below the poverty level, most of
them women and children, Jackson said.
NOW also protested Reagan’s opposition
to abortion and the Equal Rights
Amendment.
Dole was nominated in 1983 as the
eighth Secretary of Transportation. She
also served on the Federal Trade Com
mission during the Nixon administra
tion. In 1974, she was named by Time
magazine as one of 200 “faces of the
future.”
Asked whether she would seek the
Republican nomination for president in
1988, Dole said she had no “blueprint to
run,” but she did not rule out the
possibility.
Swinging in the rain
Members of the University’s Fighting
Duck Marching Band practice Monday
despite the outburst of rain that signaled
the coming of winter.
The band is busy preparing for its
performance at Saturday’s football game,
which pits the Ducks against the Univer
sity of Southern California Trojans at
3:50 p.m.
_
Band members are currently working
to raise money for new uniforms. Dona
tions are the group’s main revenue source
for the purchase.
Duck fans will be happy if Saturday’s
weather is better than Monday’s, but if it
isn't, band members will be prepared.
Photo by Michael Clapp
Property rights pondered
in convocation address
By Michael Doke
Of the Emerald
Radical revisions of property
rights occurring in this country
are both very new and very old,
a University of Michigan law
professor said at Monday’s third
annual convocation, or celebra
tion of the new academic year.
Prof. Joseph Sax delivered the
keynote address titled “Reviv
ing the Law of the Good Old
Days.”
Speaking to a large McArthur
Court audience, Sax said the
transformation character of pro
perty law is strongly influenced
by the theory of public trust.
Deeds from the original 18th
century land allocations did not
carry absolute rights to that
land, Sax said. And this was a
shock to land owners.
“Owners of land could not
own what they had been
given,” Sax said. Land must be
used for what is best for the
community and not the in
dividual, he said. And the legal
field must be able to make laws
to assure this.
“The law should have the
power to pass laws for necessi
ty, but what kind of necessity
does our time beget?” he asked.
“There are new rights. There
must be access to our oceans,
waterways and estuaries. We
must have the opportunity to
preserve our mountains and
forests. We must use our bounty
without waste,” Sax said.
Necessity is decided with
“beneficial use as the basis,
limit and measure of public
rights,” he said.
This basic reform in the view
of property ownership is occurr
ing for many reasons, Sax said.
One reason is concern with
the fate of natural resources.
How the law conceives these
resources and how the profes
sion determines property also is
important, and the radical
change in the land ethic occurr
ing today is based on some very
old principles, he said.
“The conventional property
notion is that just about
everything should be privately
owned to be effective,” Sax
said.
But before this idea, was the
school of thought that said “All
things which relate peculiarly
to the public good cannot be
given over or transferred.” It is
this 13th century theory which
has been revived in the changes
in property uses today, Sax
said.
The current policy of proper
ty rights is one of retention
rather then creation, conserva
tion rather than exploitation, he
said. And public heritage is the
keystone to property rights.
With increased resource scar
city and a growing sense of
community and shared-uses,
self-interest is declining in
favor of social obligation, Sax
said.
“It is now a social obliga
tion” to explain the use of land
to the community at large. The
owner of property is the agent of
a social benefit, he added.
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