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. 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