Green Party backs direct democracy
By Paul Ertelt
Of the Emerald
The upcoming election on the
widening of Sixth and Seventh
avenues represents the type of
direct democracy that West Ger
many's Green Party supports, a
member of this small political
party said Monday.
Andreas Mueller, a student at
Dusseldorf University and
member of the Velbert parlia
ment (city council), talked
about the history and
philosophy of the Greens in
Room 167 EMU. About 60 peo
ple attended.
The Green Party, founded in
1979, considers its main
priorities to be protecting the
environment and preventing
nuclear war. Its unwillingness
to compromise on these issues
has given the party a reputation
for being radical, Mueller said.
“In a sense we are radical,
because we want radical change
in certain areas." he said. But
Mueller said the party is not
socialist or Marxist.
The party’s view of itself,
Mueller said, can best be sum
med up in one of its slogans:
"We are neither left nor right.
We are in front.”
The party has attracted peo
ple from a variety of groups con
cerned with anti-nuclear and
environmental issues, he said.
At first, the party failed to get its
candidates elected, but between
1980 and 1983, six Green can
didates were elected to state
parliaments, he said.
In 1983, the first Green was
elected to the Bundestag (na
tional parliament), and now
there are 27 Greens among
about 500 Bundestag represen
tatives, he said.
Mueller said the Green party
is based on four pillars:
ecology, social consciousness,
non-violence and grassroots
democracy.
"Ecology means all politics
and economics should be in
harmony with the environ
ment,” he said. Although he
admitted that such a philosophy
sounds romantic, Mueller said
society must be subject to en
vironmental laws in order to
survive.
Social consciousness means
protecting those in society who
need protecting, particularly
minorities, he said. The princi
ple of non-violence pits the
Greens against the nuclear arms
race but limits them to peaceful
methods of combating it, he
said.
Green party members believe
that West Germany should
withdraw from NATO. Instead
of offering protection to the Ger
mans, the alliance has made
West Germany and its many
U.S. military installations a
focal point of the conflict bet
ween the United States and the
Soviet Union, Mueller said.
Another goal of the party is to
shift political power from cen
tralized governments to a more
localized system, with more
people directly involved in the
political process, Mueller said.
“We want to delegate more
responsibility to the individual
citizen,” he said.
Green members tend to be in
tellectual, he said, and many
are students and teachers. This
has made it difficult to attract
working-class members,
Mueller said.
“It is hard to tell them why
certain factories must be closed
because they hurt the environ
ment, when closing the factory
would cause this person to lose
his or her job,” he said.
The party has sorted a fund
to develop alternative jobs for
displaced workers, but this
fund is not yet large enough to
help all workers who would be
layed off if the Greens ac
complish their goal of shutting
down all nuclear power plants
in West Germany, he said.
Since the Greens are unwill
ing to compromise their stands
on nuclear weapons and the en
vironment, Mueller said, they
often have difficulty working
with political parties that other
wise might be sympathetic with
their goals. Despite the dif
ficulties the party faces, it has
been emulated in other coun
tries, and Greens have been
elected to parliaments in
Belgium and Austria, he said.
Mueller told those wishing to
organize a Green Party to focus
on local issues before tackling
national politics. Scott Leckie, a
Eugenean helping to organize a
local Green Party, said his
group plans to focus on oppos
ing the street widening, burn
ing PCBs in Lakeview, Ore.,
and logging in the Hardesty
Mountain area.
Mueller, who said he came to
Andreas Mueller
Eugene to visit friends and not
as an official spokesperson for
the Greens, also spoke to a
University political science
class. His talk was sponsored by
the Student Campaign for Disar
mament and local Green Party
organizers.
Sociology professor
found dead in home
By Jolayne Houtz
Of the Emerald
Sociology Professor Albert Szymanski, 43,
died of a self-inflicted gunshot.wound sometime
during the weekend, said Sergeant Tim McCarthy
of the Eugene Police Department.
Szymanski’s body was discovered Monday
morning at his home, 3550 Willamette St., by a
friend who is also a teaching assistant in'.the
sociology department, according to' the police
report.
Szymanski. an associate sociology professor,,
had apparently been extremely depressed recent
ly and had talked aboui suicide to his friends,-Mc
Carthy said. '•
He had also been taking anti-depressant .
prescription djrugs for about five years,-the police
report said; .
“We feel quite bad about the situation and
abou.t losing a member of the" academic communi
ty.” said Paul Holbo; vice-provost for academic
affairs. .
“He was extremely hard working and a very .
productive scholar,” Holbo said..
Szymanski, a University faculty member
since 1970, wrote seven books and was in the pro
cess of writing an eighth.
Two of his most recent books were published
in 1984 — "Human Rights in the Soviet Union”
and “Class Struggles in Socialist Poland (With
Comparisons to Yugoslavia).”
He also published many articles and gave fre
quent lectures throughout the United States and
Canada on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Retiring after 35 years of work
won’t be easy for vice chancellor
By. .Marianne Chin
. . Of the Emerald
' She’s mentally preparing herself .for retirement this
June.- ••• . ". ' .
• ' Clarethel Kahananui, 'acting vice chancellor for
academic affairs, said preparation is the necessary step
for leaving the Oregon State System of Higher Educa
tion, which .has employed her for nearly 35 years.
. “.I loVe the job. Ilm-going to miss it,” she said- * •
Kahananui.. a 1943 University graduate, first work
ed for the State System in 1950 as private secretary for
the head of the Office of Correspondence Study. She
was transferred to the. Chanceflbr’s office three years
later as an editorial assistant and si nee. has been an
assistant in. curriculum planning, an information
.representative," and . the editor and. director of sfate
system, publications.- • - ‘ \ ■
• When the previous-vice chancellor retired sudden
ly in 1980, Kahananui was asked to take over the posi:
tion while a. search was conducted for a suitable
replacement. Nearly five years and two unsuccessful
searches later, Kahananui said ^he is still filling a role
she is pleased to be in, especially since she is not
technically qualified, for the position.
“They expected me to act and that’s what I’ve been
doing,” she said- ’
In its June, 1981, issue, Oregon Magazine listed
Kahananui as one of “Oregon’s Most Powerful
Women.”
“I was very flattered to be in their company,”
Kahananui said of the other women listed, including
former Secretary of State Norma Paulus and present
House Speaker Vera Katz.
“I’m pleased that women are moving up,”
Kahananui said. “There was no problem about me be
ing a woman (in this position).”
“1-hope they replace me with a woman.”
. . The search for a new vice chancellor will begin
soon, said Bud Davis, state system chancellor.
“She’s done a tremendous job,” Davis said about
Kahananui. “She’s been a' tremendous strength and
support during the transition period while I’ve been
breaking in.”
• Davis, the third chancellor Kahananui has worked
with irt the state system, took over the post in 1982.
“I don’t know what I would have done without
her,’.’Davis added. .
'. Her first two years in the vice chancellor position
were difficult ones because of the extreme budget cuts
that were implemented in the state system, Kahananui .
said. She helped make decisions affecting which pro
grams were to be cut and how to reduce enrollment at
some institutions to increase the faculty-student ratio
while preserving the quality of education, she said.
. “We tried to go in with a paring knife,” she said.
“For two years it was cut, cut, cut, and try and
protect.”
She is happy that the budget has stabilized since
those first two crucial years.
Kahananui said majoring in journalism provided a
good background for the positions she has held. As ac
ting vice chancellor, she coordinates curriculum plann
ing, teacher education, personnel policies and libraries
at Oregon’s eight state-funded colleges and univer
sities. Her first priority, however, is to prepare material
to be discussed at the monthly higher education board
meetings.
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“They made it appear that
they were doing me a favor, but
$150 is no favor, not at my no
income level,” Reiling says. “I
wish they would have called the
police. To me, it was that I was
paying them $150 under the
table.
“It wasn’t just. They never
even gave me a chance to tell
my story,” she adds in
retrospect.
Kittredge says false imprison
ment is defined as a person held
against his or her will by
another who has no legal
authority to do so. In these
cases, false imprisonment oc
curs when a suspect is removed
by security from the general
store area and taken to an office,
he says.
“False imprisonment is a ma
jor tort,” Kittredge says. “You
don't go hauling people off into
back rooms and insisting they
sign forms. My impression from
talking to people is that they
were told they could not leave
until they signed the form.”
Ladlow says, however, that it
is entirely the suspects' choice
whether or not to sign the state
ment. In the event that the
suspect refuses, the police are
brought in, she adds.
Extortion, or taking money
from a person under implied or
actual physical or emotional
threat, enters the picture here
when security personnel de
mand money, such as the $150,
without an order from the court,
Kittredge says.
Nicaraguan Educator and Political Leader from Miskito Region
RAY HOOKER
speaking on
“Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast
Peoples and the Question
of Regional Autonomy’’
7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 12
Room 167 EMU
FREE ADMISSION
Director of the Institute of the Atlantic Coast and recently
elected member of Nicaragua's National Assembly. Mr. Hooker
was kidnapped by counterrevolutionary guerillas last
September and held for two months before being released.
Presented by the Council for Human Rights in Latin America and the (JO Latin America Support Lommittee.
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