Oregon daily _ .
emerald
Monday, October 29, 1984
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 86, Number 42
Fans flock for Ferraro
despite rain
By Paul Ertelt
Of thr Kniertild
The sun shone for Gerry Friday.
After a bout of Oregon weather, the
rain clouds broke long enough for
Democratic vice presidential candidate
Geraldine Ferraro to address an en
thusiatic crowd of several thousand on
the EMU’s east lawn.
“With the risk of mixing religion and
politics,” she said looking at the blue
sky, “look at'what happened today.”
In her 20-minute speech, Ferraro said'
■ the presidential race was not over and
that Walter Mondale could still, beat
• President Ronald Reagan. Recent polls
have shown Mondale trailing Reagan by
between 12 and 20 percentage points.
"Ronald Reagan arid George Bush
have said this election offers votefs the
clearest choice in 50 years,” she said.
“And for once they're right..".
Ferraro called the election a referen
dum on the economy and attacked the
economic policies of the Reagan
. administration.
“America is hot back and standing tail
: * until the loggers of Oregon, the steel
workers of Ohio and the farmers of our
country are also standing tall,” she said.
Ferraro also said that she and Mondale
are committed to ending the arms race
and support a mutual, verifiable nuclear
freeze.
“Mr. Reagan is the first president
since Herbert Hoover who has not met
with his Soviet counterpart,” she said.
Quoting late Republican President
Dwight Eisenhower. Ferraro called the
arms race “theft from those who are
hungry and not fed and from tho'se'who
are cold and not clothed.’.’ .
“And no one ever questioned Presi
dent Eisenhower’s commitment to a
strong defense,” she said.
Ferraro aisp assailed Reagan's plan to
develop a space-based* nuclear defense
system, the so-called “Star Wars”
defense-, and.his proposal to share the
technology for such a defense with the
Soviet Union. :
‘.’Enough is' enough. The sky is the
limit.’.’ she said. “Instead of sending the
arms race .into space, we should put a
stop to it here on earth.” .
Attacking Reagan’s human rights
"record. Ferraro said his assertion.that the
United States must back President Ferdi
nand Marcos to prevent a communist
takeover in the . Philippines only • en
courages Mateos to violate human rights
in that country^ ...
“I want the president to understand
the effects of his words,” she said.
Ferraro also' criticized Reagan for the
U.S. decision Tuesday to abstain from a
U.N. Security Council vote, condemning
apartheid policies in South Africa. The
council voted 14-0 for a resolution call
ing for an immediate end to that coun
try’s official policy of racial segregation.
“The United States was the only na
tion to abstain from that vote,” Ferraro
said. “I want a president who will tell
the government of South Africa that the
racist system of apartheid must finally
Photo by Steven Wall
During a brief dry spell Friday, Geraldine Ferraro told Eugeneans, “With the
risk of mixing religion and politics, look at what happened todav. ”
end.”
Ferraro said Social Security benefits
must be defended, and crticized Reagan
for his civil rights policies and his op
position to the Equal Rights Amend
ment. She also accused the Reagan ad
ministration of selling off our natural
resources to the highest bidder.
“I want a president who takes
polluters to court and not to lunch," she
said.
Ferraro was interrupted several times
in her speech by chants of “Gerry,
Gerry.”
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Pumkin carving
Some 20 handicapped and mentally retarded
children from Eugene schools turned out Sunday at the
Gamma Phi Beta sorrority to celebrate Halloween at a
party sponsored by the sorrority and Chi Psi fraternity.
Photo by Steven Wall
Use of animals in research
raises questions of ethics
By Steven Van Hook
' * Of the Kmerald
An old. advertising adage
asserts that nothing catches the
public eye like children, pretty
women and furry animals.
Well many eyes were focused
on the University this summer
as more than 100 supporters of
People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals flocked to campus
from around the state to picket
the experimentation on animals
in University laboratories.
PETA is a national activist
group opposed to all forms of
animal oppression and
exploitation.
Research involving animals is
a multibillion dollar industry',
and research institutions have a
vested interest in continuing
torturous experimentation on
animals — even when the tests
are uncalled for. say local PETA
representatives Ian Golick and
Shoshana Thielle.
Greg Stickrod, director of
Animal Lab Services on cam
pus, says he did not mind
PETA’s presence when it first
surfaced two years ago. “It
makes us question things — If
you're functioning correctly,
you can always stand up to
scrutiny."
The direction of the animal
rights group has since changed,
.Stickrod says, and he now ex
presses strong objections to
what they’re doing.
"They’re purposefully misin
forming the public, saying that
no animal research has ever
done any good for
mankind. ... That’s so in
credibly absurd, it’s
malicious,” he says.
Stickrod observes that
“animals had rights in this
country before children did.
Parents could work their
children 18 hours a day but not
their horse.”
He adds, "It makes me
wonder: What are the priorities
of the animal rights people?”
Stickrod is responsible for
overseeing the care and in
vasive use of all animals (such
as surgery, injections and blood
withdrawal) on campus.
There are 20 labs on campus
doing animal research on warm
blooded animals. The majority
of animal research programs
here are funded through such
federal granting agencies as the
National Institute of Health. Ex
periments are currently per
formed in areas including gene,
brain and vision research.
Though the long-term goal of
PETA is complete abolition of
• all forms of animal experimen
tation. the short-term aims are
for a reduction in the number
and redundancy of ex
periments, better facilities
where the lab animals can in
teract and play, and community
representation on the commit
tee that review's animal ex
periments. Thielle says.
“It’s not comfortable for us to
live in a community where we
feel something so cruel and
unethical is going on. The
scientific community needs to
realize it’s responsible to the
greater communtiy for what it
does. Right now they have a tree
license with no checks and
balances.... We’re not even
allowed into the labs to see
what’s going on,’’ she says.
Stickrod responds that an
animal welfare committee
screens all grant proposals and
intended use of animals. The
committee is comprised of
Stickrod. animal researchers,
other University staff and a
veterinarian. He says all animal
researches regulated by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture and
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