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Students call for room service See Page 7 Oregon daily emer Tuesday, October 30, 1984 Eugene, Oregon Vovume 86, Number 43 1 .. »■■. ..— ‘Fritz Blitz’ draws followers, hecklers By Julie Shippen Of (he Emerald PORTLAND — Contrary to rumor, the U.S. presidential election is not over, Walter Mondale declared Monday before a crowd of more than 3,500 people at Portland State University. • ’ "There are a number of pun dits who are saying that the election is over,’.' the Democratic presidential nominee said. ’ "They have decided for you who is going td be the next, president. "I’m here with a little message for them,”' Mondale said. "If they think this election is over, they ought to come here • and just take a look at what Pm .seeing!” •' . Less than a week before Mon dale's visit. Portland students got a look at President Ronald Reagan's following! when the . • president visited the University of Portland campus to deliver . his own pep talk last Tuesday. . In a fashion .similar to'that of " Reagari’s- greeting; band music greeted-Mondale as h'e appeared in the* PSU gymnasium shortly before 9 a m., following the speeches of various state ofr ficials and candidates. The gym’s-walls were lined with banners and • handmade signs, some - of which read "Fritz . Blitz," "Abort Raygun” and - "Yes Virginia, there is life after Reagan." • ' . ' Mondale claimed that Presi: dent Ronald- Reagan’s adr ministration has "assaulted" America’s educational system during the past four .years-and said he wants today’s young people to be the best.-educated in the country's history. . - ’ “America’s future is tied up in this generation,” Mondale said. "If you elect me, I’m going to lead this nation on a renaissance of education.” Highlighting his list of objec tives for the nation, Mondale said he will oppose discrimina tion and promote civil rights and women’s rights. "I want an America that understands that we’re all stranger when we open doors. That's why .1 picked the first woman running mate,” he said. .Mondaie said the Reagan ad ministration has “trashed” the Civil. Rights Commission, has removed justice from the Justice ' Department and has tried to destroy legal assistance for the ‘ poor and elderly. “Thqy now want to. . .use. our government .to intrude into the most personal decisions we ever make in our personal and religious lives,” he said. “This shows an appalling ignorance pf history and a contempt for the good judgment of the American people. ‘‘.There are many reasons for voting against Mr. Reagan, but one clincher is that if he gets four more years, (Rev.) Jerry Falwell gets five more justices of the Supreme Court,” Mon dale said, alluding to the possibility that several of the high courts’ justices may retire soon, leaving the next president to select their replacements. Falwell has said that he hopes to play an influential role in the selection of those justices. Mon dale proudly acknowledged endorsements by the Sierra Club and Friends of the . Earth, environmental groups that he said had no choice but to reject Reagan. In addition. Mondale an Photo by Steven Wall Democratic presidential hopeful Walter Mondale declared Monday that the fight for the White House is not over yet. Mondale addressed about 3,500 people at Portland State University. no.u need the recent en dorsements of his candidacy by The New York Times and The Washington Post and jokingly forgave The Oregonian for en dorsing Reagan. Mondale called the nuclear arms race the most important issue of our time, saying that the country must control “those God-awful weapons" before they destroy us all. "This president has permit ted the most serious runaway arms race since the bomb went off,” Mondale continued. He also condemned Reagan’s "Star Wars” proposal, which he said would delegate to computers the decision of whether or hot a war should be started and ultimately would move the superpowers closer to a nuclear war.' Mondale criticized Reagan’s foreign policy and accused the president of sending a U.N. am bassador to Chile to “clink glasses with thugs,” of publishing an illegal manual on assassination and of abstaining from a U.N. resolution condem ning the South African govern-' ment’s racial policy of apartheid. “This is no way for America to behave. It does not reflect you. It does not reflect us. It does not reflect the pattern of the American people,” he said. “All this is no accident,” Mondale added. “As he reveal ed in our debate, Mr. Reagan believes that our only choice for humanity is between the Soviet dictators on the left and tyrants on the right.” The mostly-student audience reacted to Mondale’s speech with a combination of en thusiastic cheers and boos, both usually in his favor. There were a few who interrupted Mondale, though, and he asked one to ‘‘Please shut up,” followed by “Did I say that?” In addition to the pro-Reagan hecklers at the rally, there also were representatives of the Revolutionary Communist Par ty, USA, who staged a small demonstration outside the gym nasium after the rally. Sacred Heart gives free X-ray checkup of Halloween treats Sacred Heart Hospital’s radiology department is offering .its X-ray facilities to help trick-or-treaters and their parents make sure that Halloween goodies are safe for the little ghosts and ghouls to eat. Hospital radiology personnel will X ray Halloween treats free of charge from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. The radiology department is located on the hospital’s fourth floor. Interested persons should enter the hospital through its main entrance on Hilyard Street near East 13th Avenue and should take Elevator C to the X-ray area. Hazardous foreign objects — needles, razor blades and the like — have been found in Halloween treats with increas ing frequency during the last few years. Parents are recommended to thoroughly examine treats before allowing youngsters to eat them, and Sacred Heart’s Halloween X-ray service is one way to do so. For more information, contact Nancy McMahan, hospital community relations assistant, at 686-6868. Lease misunderstanding main iactor in dispute between fraternity, co-op By Jolayne Houtz Of the Emerald A housing dispute between residents of the Chelsea House and new members of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity may have resulted from a misunderstanding of the lease, says Eric Larsen, an ATO alumnus and attorney for the fraternity. Contrary to information published in an Oct. 23 edition of the Oregon Daily Emerald, the ATOs have no plans to move into the house before 1986, says Jeff Corah, fraternity expansion director for the Interfraternity Council. The house at 1306 E. 18th Ave. is oc cupied by members of the Chelsea House, a Christian co-op and is owned by ATO alumni. The lease on the house runs until July 1986. Then residents of the co-op would have the first option to buy only if the ATO alumni decide to sell it, Larsen says. But Terence McNeal, manager of the Chelsea House, says he thought Larsen told him nine months ago that the co-op has the first option to buy as soon as the lease is up. “We definitely need to get together with the ATOs and talk about this. For a new organization, they’d obviously need a place to hold meetings and everything, and I’d think they probably wouldn’t want to wait two years,’’ McNeal says. But McNeal doesn’t think this will create any problems. “As long as we can keep friendly relations with (the ATOs), there should be no problems,” McNeal says. “I think we’d rather deal with this in 1986.” Larsen says the problem is a misinter pretation of the lease and of his conver sation with McNeal. “(Terence McNeal) is a student, not a lawyer. 1 don’t know if he’s ever read the lease,” Larsen says. About 45 students signed up last week to become new members of the fraternity, which moved off campus last spring and is in the “recolonization” process this year while awaiting a charter from its national organization. National directors, who were here last week to answer questions of the newly signed students, were pleased with the number and quality of the students, Corah says. And depending on how well the fraternity organizes, the new members will probably move into the house for the 1986-87 school year, he says. “By no means will they move in (to the current Chelsea House) in the spring,’’ Corah says. “But the ATOs should have the first option to buy when the lease is up (in July 1986),” Corah says. The house does have a mortgage from the first ATO chapter, which occupied the house until 1981, but that is being paid off with rent from the Chelsea House residents, Larsen says. And it’s possible that if the new chapter decides to move in for the 1986-87 school year, the mortgage will be completely paid off, Larsen says. But it is not certain that the ATOs will move in because they are still in the first phases of restarting their chapter, he says. “It depends on how well the chapter comes back. And (area alumni) would certainly like to see them come back,” Larsen says.