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Tuesday, October 30, 1984
Eugene, Oregon
Vovume 86, Number 43
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‘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.