Vietnam veterans reflect on war
vets taiK on era s
anti-war groups in
class presentation
By Lori Steinhauer
Of the Emerald
“Vietnam is what we had in
stead of happy childhoods,” said
Julian Camp, a Vietnam veteran
and 35-year-old University jour
nalism student. Camp said he
learned how to bomb before he
learned how to love.
He went to Vietnam when he
was 19.
Friday, Camp recollected his
memories from the war years with
Bill Homans, another 35-year-old
Vietnam veteran majoring in jour
nalism at the University. The con
versation followed Homans’
presentation, which at times took
on tones of a proclamation, in Pro
fessor Daniel Pope's American
Radicalism class.
Homans spoke in Pope’s class
about two anti-war collectives of
the early 1970s. The group he
focused on, Vietnam Veterans
Against War, had about 30
chapters and about 2,500 members
throughout the United States. The
other group, seven members of a
Berkeley household, marched to
the center of many of the San Fran
cisco area protests against the Viet
nam War.
Another student in the American
Radicalism class had belonged to
the Berkeley group Homans refer
red to. Dan Suire, a 35-year-old
history major, became involved in
the protests in response to hearing
his brother's horror stories from
the Vietnam War. Suire was never
drafted because he had severe
allergies.
After the class, Suire recalled
how the streets of Berkeley would
quiver as thousands of protesters
would come together and rally
against major escalations of the
war. “During that time, Berkeley
stunk of tear gas quite frequently,”
Suire said.
Homans and Camp also were
Photo by Steven Wall
Vietnam veteran Bill Homans, now studying journalism at the
University, spoke of his war experiences in an American Radicalism
class Friday.
remonstrating the war when they
met in the Cambridge, Mass.,
chapter of WAW. Both feit disillu
sioned by the war and used by the
American government, they said.
“We had done what we were told
to do, but what we were told to do
stunk — was a lie,” Homans said
after his presentation.
The veterans’ group “saw itself
as an ad hoc organization to stop
the war,” Homans told his
classmates Friday. By stirring up
currents that reached the media,
WAW reached the public, he said.
WAW currents swept the world
in 1972 when Homans and other
members discovered at a New
England meeting that large
numbers of war planes had recent
ly flown over New England toward
Vietnam, Homans said.
By contacting anti-war organiza
tions throughout the world,
WAWJ members learned about a
secret escalation leading to the
bombing of Vietnam’s Bach Mai
hospital in April 1972, he said. In a
unified effort, these anti-war
groups uncovered the facts and
figures of the incident for
Associated Press and other
mainstream media, the exposure of
which may have saved many lives,
Homans added.
WAW led protests to cast its
shadow upon America’s outstan
ding symbols but never destroyed
them, Homans said. In one opera
tion the organization spent several
days camped out at the Statue of
Liberty, and in another WAW pro
testers threw their medals over the
White House fence, he said.
They refuted their involvement
in a war they entered as naive
youths, a war they grew to detest
and disagree with, Homans said.
“We went to Vietnam to stop a
blood bath by bombing it as closely
as we could into a parking lot,” he
said.
Homans ended his presentation
singing and playing slide guitar on
a song he wrote during the Iranian
hostage crisis, called "The Foreign
Policy Blues.”
The bell rang with Homans still
playing, but Pope’s students even
tually began to pour out of the
room, and the next class rolled in.
However, Homans kept on wailing
for his cause until he had several
reminders that his time was up.
As Homans told the class, he re
mains a Vietnam veteran working
against .war.
Davis backs raises
in education funds
By Kathy Zook
Of the Emerald
SALEM — Higher education in Oregon is at a
“critical point,” said State System Chancellor Bud
Davis Friday at a Joint Ways and Means education sub
committee meeting.
Davis said Oregon’s colleges and universities are
currently funded 10 to 20 percent below the national
average for student appropriations and faculty salaries.
Davis renewed his $54 million 1985-87 budget re
quest that would raise funding of Oregon’s colleges and
universities to the national average. Gov. Vic Atiyeh
has recommended $40 million.
"I’m disappointed because faculty has had only
one salary increase in four years," Davis told commit
tee members.
To bring faculty salaries up to the national average,
Davis asked for a 6 percent salaries increase, or $30
million. The national average is a 7 percent increase, he
said.
Oregon’s “out of kilter" salary scales allow
teachers at Corvallis High School to make more money
than many professors at Oregon State University, Davis
said.
Faculty members are leaving Oregon for better pay
ing jobs at other institutions, Davis said. Low salaries
are affecting all faculty members, he said, and “it's not
only the all-stars.”
Davis said that without the $30 million increase:
•About 570 faculty members throughout Oregon
will be laid off.
•The state system may have to eliminate space for
8.000 students.
•Faculty load and class sizes may be increased.
"We are being especially hard hit attracting entry
level recruits," Davis said, because “they can make
more money working at Fred Meyers."
Sen. Frank Roberts, D-Portland, said higher educa
tion won’t see any “new money” in the next biennium
to fund the $30 million faculty salary increase. “The
ship will not come in next year.” Roberts said. But he
suggested any future additional general fund dollars be
dedicated to higher education.
Davis also said he and a delegation of state officials
recently met with officials from General Motors Corp.
to pursuade them to locate their planned $3.5 million
state-of-the-art “Saturn" automobile production plant
in Eugene.
“We spent a lot of time discussing educational
levels in Oregon,” Davis said.
“They were concerned with how many engineers
we were producing each year and what we are doing in
computer science,” Davis said.
“To me, the meeting underscored what we already
believe strongly," Davis said. "Strong quality educa
tion is an attractive feature in the state and will draw
industry.”
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