Oregon Daily
Emerald
Muscling their way
to a minute of glory
See Sidelines
Wednesday, May 7, 1986
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 87, Number 147
Photo by Mk hoci Wilhelm
Demonstrators construct a shantytown on 13th Avenue to protest living conditions of black
South Africans.'
Shantytown built to protest
South African ‘abomination9
By Michael Rivers
(X I hr t.mrrald
Students built a shantytown on 13th
Avenue following an anti-apartheid rally
Tuesday to demonstrate the living conditions
of black South Africans. About 3(H) students,
faculty and community members attended the
rally in the EMU courtyard to protest the
"abomination of South Africa."
Roscoe Caron. one of the leaders of the ral
ly. told the crowd that students act as the "ac
tive conscience” of the country and that “we
can and must do something" about the South
African abomination.
Besides showing support for the divest
ment process, the rally was meant to provide
education "about the role of institutionalized
racism in the state of Oregon." Caron said.
Rally organizers also wanted to close the gap
between understanding the problem and doing
something about it. he said.
"Sometimes the gap is as big as the Orand
Canyon." Caron said. "But people who do
things make history."
Andries OUphant. a South African native,
told the crowd the May Day strike by black
workers in South Africa should be applauded.
Their actions show they won’t submit to op
pression any longer, he said.
"Workers are resolved to abolish apar
theid. to smash apartheid." Oliphant said.
“They will not live under this insult any
longer."
About 5 million white South Africans live
in fancy homes guarded by dogs who chase
and "devour" black people, Oliphant said,
while 26 million blacks are restricted to 13 per
cent of the land.
They are forced to live in "hovels, dor
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Three varsity sports
to be cut from roster
By Scott Harding
Of the Emerald t,
‘Calling it a “very sad day.”
t) n i vers it y A t h I »;t ic. Director Bill
Byrne announced Tuesday that
more than $430,000 would be
cut from next year's athletic,
program budget. The move will
eliminate three varsity sports in
the 19B6-1987 academic year
andt force reductions in three
others.
The budget cuts, which Byrne
called “drastic," are scheduled
to take effect |une 30.
The men’s and women’s
swimming and women's gym
nastics teams will be eliminated
next year, Byrne said. The
budget for men’s and women’s
track will be cut by 20 percent
and 10 percent respectively,
while the wrestling program
will face a 33 percent budget
reduction, he said. Women’s
sports will add a golf team. Like
the men’s team, it will be re
quired to generate its own
funding.
The director of marketing and
promotions, the assistant sports
information director and the
labor foreman will all lose their
jobs by June 30, Byrne said.
Their duties are expected to be
distributed among existing
employees.
“This is a difficult time,”
Byrne said. “It's a very unusual
day and a very sad day, and I’m
sorry to have to bring the news
to the state of Oregon.”
Several factors contributed to
the budget cuts, Byrne said.
One factor included the failure
of a ballot measure in the ASUO
general election that would
have funded women’s sports by
raising incidental fees 49 per
cent. Of more than 2.000
students voting. 54 percent op
posed the plan.
A decrease in Athletic Depart
ment revenue is expected the
next school year due to decreas
ed television coverage pf Pac-10
events, he said CBS',-he,noted,
will reduce its basketballbroad
casts to one or two games,
costing the University $133,000
next year.
The football team is not
scheduled to appear on televi
sion either. A televised game
against Washington State last
October netted the school
$125,000.
•‘That's $125,000 that we will
not be receiving” next year,
Byrne said.
Attempts to secure additional
Athletic Department funding
from the University, mainly for
maintenance and sports infor
mation. were unsuccessful.
The administration was sym
pathetic to the department’s
problems, he said, but was
unable to help. “The University
has its own budgetary problems
within other divisions, and
state funds may not be used to
support athletic teams.”
’i've sung this song before,
but I will sing it again,” he said.
“We (and Oregon State Univer
sity) are the only school in the
13 western states that does not
get state funding for the
Athletic Department. I think the
state of Oregon has to decide if
(it wants) intercollegiate
sports.”
Although Byrne raised the
idea of securing private funding
for the athletic program, he was
pessimistic about the success of
such a plan.
“We are going to be ap
proaching some people who
have interests in some of these
sports and asking if they would
be interested in helping fund
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Sanctuary supporters deliver statement of complicity
By Chris Norred
Of IIm Kmvrald
More than 280 Lane County
residents share the Rtiilt of con
spiring to smuggle Central
American aliens into the United
States, according to a statement
of complicity delivered to
federal attorneys Tuesday
afternoon.
The statement supports the
eight sanctuary movement ac
tivists who were convicted by a
federal jury May l in Tucson.
Arizona, for conspiring to
smuggle Salvadoran and
Guatemalan aliens into the
United States.
"We declare our complicity
with the actions of love and
concern for refugees from Cen
tral America, which have led to
the convictions. . of our fellow
workers in the sanctuary move
ment," the statement reads.
A book containing the state
ment and more than 280
signatures was delivered to
Assistant IJ.S. Attorney Jim
Sutherland at the Eugene
Federal Building by local
leaders of the Interfaith Sanc
tuary Network. The statement
will be forwarded to the home
office in Portland, Sutherland
said.
The sanctuary movement is a
nationwide operation of chur
ches that aid illegal Central
American refugees entering the
United States.
The Arizona trial pitted the
U.S. government against 11
defendants involved in the
movement, including two
Catholic priests, a nun and a
protestant minister.
Members of the movement
say they have a moral duty to
provide asylum for Central
American refugees fleeing
persecution in their war-torn
homelands. They also claim a
legal responsibility under the
Refugee Act of 19H0 and the
Geneva Accords.
The U.S. government argues
that the majority of Central
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Tom Heger
American refugees come here
merely for economic reasons
and are in excess of their coun
tries' immigration quotas.
The government also con
tends that the Refugee Act and
Geneva Accords do not apply in
these cases because fleeing
general conditions of civil war
differs from the purpose of
those laws — to protect in
dividuals or groups singled out
for persecution.
Locally, the sanctuary move
ment includes three churches
and the Eugene Friends
Meeting group. About 12
refugees are living in sanctuary
currently in Eugene.
By signing the complicity
statement, supporters of the
sanctuary movement face a risk
of prosecution by the U.S.
government, said Bill Cadbury,
a local leader of the Interfaith
Sanctuary Network w h o
delivered 'he statement to
Sutherland.
"But whether we’re at risk or
not is not an issue," said Mary
Giilan. a member of the Eugene
Friends Sanctuary Committee.
"We feel morally obligated to
help these people.”
"The risks for white North
Americans is still tiny com
pared to the risks Central
Americans face every day,’
said Tom Heger. director of the
Campus Interfaith Ministry and
a local sanctuary movement
leader.
Turnout at a sanctuary move
ment rally May 2 and the
number of signatures on the
petition demonstrate that the
Arizona convictions have not
dampened movement sup
porters’ devotion, said Cad
bury, who is also a University
telecommunication and film
professor.
“People are saying. 'Hey —
that’s what we expected to hap
pen. Now let’s get on with it.’
he said.
The government hoped to
quell the sanctuary movement
with the Arizona trial. Heger
said. “They make martyrs out of
a few folks in hopes that the rest
will get frightened and go away.
“It’s not going to happen.
We’re not going away.”