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Wednesday, May 1, 1985
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 86, Number 144
A day to remember and reflect
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On the 10th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, with
reminders of that era very much in evidence, an EMU Courtyard crowd
gathered Tuesday to hear musicians Liv and Ian remind their audience
that war and repression are still realities — as are the dreams of justice
and peace.
Photo by James Marks
ODE names new editor
Julie Shippen was chosen the
1985-86 editor of the Oregon Daily
Emerald, announced the Emerald
board of directors Tuesday night.
Shippen, this year’s ASUO
associate editor, will begin training
for the position immediately and will
take over full responsibility June 3.
Next year’s Emerald will have a
bolder look, and writers will be en
couraged to be more creative, Ship
pen said. Although the paper’s struc
ture will remain similar, more em
phasis will be given to investigative
articles and personality profiles, she
said.
“1 want to give the Emerald more
personality,” Shippen said. "1 think
the paper could be more in touch with
what students think and what they’re
interested in.”
Relations with the School of Jour
nalism need to be improved, and a
greater effort should be made to en
courage journalism students to
become involved with the Emerald,
Shippen said.
“There are a lot of students at the
School of Journalism that don’t
realize this paper is here for them,”
Shippen said. "It’s not a soap box for
a selected few.”
Current Emerald Editor Michele
Matassa said she is excited for next
year’s staff and believes Shippen’s ex
perience with the news staff made her
the best choice for editor. Matassa
will remain editor through spring
term.
Shippen said she is considering
changing several staff positions but
plans to continue the Emerald’s cur
rent focus on campus issues. Because
the Emerald has so little space,
routine stories should be abreviated
as much as possible, she said.
“I think it’s going to be a good lear
ning experience for me,” Shippen
said. “The Emerald still has a lot to
offer me, and I think I’ve learned
enough about reporting so that
I. . .will have a lot to offer it.”
Moth spraying to begin
today near Pleasant Hill
PLEASANT HILL (AP) — A helicopter
loaded with almost 1,400 gallons of the
biological insecticide B.t. is scheduled
to take off at dawn today, launching this
year’s battle against the gypsy moth.
The helicopter will spray 1,650 acres
about five miles south of Pleasant Hill, in
the heart of the last year’s Lane County
infestation — the largest west of the
Rocky Mountains.
The forested area was chosen for the
first spraying because the moth larva
have reached their second stage of
development there and “they’re already
eating foliage,” said state Agriculture
Department spokesman David Wells.
He said the spraying would begin at
5:45 a.m. and last about an hour.
The $11.4 million spray program will
cover about 227,000 acres of Lane Coun
ty three times over the next six weeks.
Sprayers will wait seven to 10 days bet
ween applications, but part of the
acreage is scheduled to be sprayed each
day, weather permitting.
Rain, fog or winds of more than 10
mph can postpone spraying on any given
day.
No harmful health effects have been
reported from B.t., but state officials ad
vise residents to keep children and pets
indoors while helicopters are spraying
and to avoid contact with the spray
while it’s wet.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary John Block
last week declared an emergency in Lane
County, releasing $6.7 million in federal
funds to help battle the gypsy moth
infestation.
The federal funds will pay for all
spraying on 66,000 acres of federal forest
lands and about half the spraying costs
on 161.000 acres of state-protected land.
Gypsy moths are highly destructive in
sects that strip trees of their leaves.
B.t., or Bacillus thuringiensis, causes
a fatal disease in the insects.
Last year, 1,100 square miles of Lane
County were quarantined after 19,000
male gypsy moths were trapped there
during the summer. Special precautions
were taken to slow the spread of the in
sect outside the quarantined area on
forest products and other goods moved
from the area.
A federal judge in Portland has banned
state use of chemicals to fight the gypsy
moths in a lawsuit filed by
environmentalists.
U.S. District Judge James Redden first
issued the ban two years ago pending a
federal report on potential risks of the in
secticides. Last week, he continued the
ban in Oregon, saying the federal en
vironmental impact statement was too
hard to understand.
He said he would extend the ban na
tionwide effective Jan. 1.