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Oregon Daily
Emerald
Volume 88, Number 81
Legislature declines
to override vetoed hill
By Shawn Wirtz
Of I hr Kmvrald
After a Democratic caucus
Thursday, state legislators
declined to override former
Gov. Victor Atiyeh's veto of a
bill that would have divested
public employee pension funds
invested in South Africa.
Instead, the bill’s sponsor.
Rep. Margaret Carter of
Portland, will introduce a
stronger divestiture bill in late
February, she said.
As a result of compromises
made to get the legislation past
opponents, ‘‘the bill was so
softened it really didn't place
any real demands or risks on
any company,” Carter said.
The new bill will require
divestiture even from com
panies that abide by the
Sullivan Principles, a set of
guidelines ‘‘originally designed
to help (blacks) in the
marketplace.” Carter said.
‘‘The Sullivan Principles
have not been working. They
really have no teeth.” Carter ex
plained. In the face of this
failure, the American Friends
Committee on South Africa has
asked state legislators to
disregard the Sullivan Prin
ciples as a qualification for ex
emption from divestiture, she
said.
Carter will invite supporters
of divestiture to a statewide
meeting Feb. 2 or Feb. 14 to
draft the new bill, she said. The
group will be reviewing a
similar bill passed in California
and ‘‘coming up together with
what is good in our bill and
what is good in their bill." she
said.
I he decision momentarily
pitted Carter against another
strong supporter of divestiture.
Rep. Dave Dix of Eugene, who
wanted an override vote.
"My main argument was we
should try and get it now
because anything can happen in
the legislative pn cess," Dix
said. "The argument was on
procedure and not the bill
itself.”
Both legislators agree a new
divestiture bill can pass the
Legislature. "Some of the peo
ple who took opposition to the
bill took it because they felt as if
Congress should take a stand
before states did,” Carter said.
In October of this year. Con
gress overrode a presidential
veto to impose sanctions on
South Africa.
‘The few Republican
members I’ve talked to have
said that with the few things
that have happened in the.last
two years, they may change
their vote." Dix said.
"Having the kind of momen
tum that came from the college
campuses, .served notice to
legislators that there is support
around the state for it." Carter
said.
While divestiture may 1m;
"more of a social statement"
than a solution, the South
African government's intense
lobbying efforts against
divestiture proves it has some
impact. Dix said.
Goldschmidt won't negotiate
on state corrections funding
By Shawn Wirtz
Of the Kmerald
(tov. Neil Goldschmidt will tolerate few compromises in his
$54 million corrections proposal, he told a gathering of the Oregon
Newspaper Publishers Association Thursday.
“On this subject there isn’t much room for negotiation,”
Goldschmidt said. Goldschmidt is less concerned about insuffi
cient indigent defense funds and prisoners’ civil rights being
violated because of jail overcrowding and more concerned about
criminals being released before serving their full sentences, he
said.
The criminal justice system as it now works is “telling folks
essentially you can call and we can come, but nobody will do
anything about it,” Goldschmidt said. “For telling on the person
who did it you’re probably going to be harassed; that’s the next
step” if the system isn’t changed, he said.
The corrections proposal is one of a number of legislative ac
tions that Goldschmidt wants taken as part of his “60-day plan.”
Goldschmidt also would like to see a referendum on the Hanford
nuclear waste dump site issue on the May ballot, he told reporters
prior to his remarks to the ONPA.
We want to provide our voters with an opportunity to speak
to the subject,” Goldschmidt said. “It’s a fairness issue.”
Goldschmidt has also asked the Legislature to come up with a
short-term plan for halting school closures and admitted his budget
proposal to continue the support level at about 29 percent of
schools’ operating costs is inadequate to solve the problem.
In some respects, it’s out of our control,” Goldschmidt said.
V\hile he supports the concept of mainstreaming children who
need special education into the school system, “the bills are
astronomical, and it’s coming straight through basic (school sup
port).” he said.
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DIC may cease operation soon
if additional funding is not found
By Sarah Kitchen
Of Ihe Kmerald
An emergency request of $2,500 by tin?
Drug Information Center to the incidental Fee
Committee was not approved, and as a result
the DIC will have to close its doors unless more
funds can be found.
"As of this point, we cannot operate after
the end of February," said Jed Kaye, the DIC
administrative assistant and a senior
psychology major.
"We may come hack with. say. a different
name or a different program, hut unless we can
find some miracle funding from somewhere,
the DIC as we know it is finished." he added.
Last year the IFC voted not to approve fun
ding of tin? DIC's 1080-87 budget because the
group said the DIC did not meet all the
eligibility requirements for an IFC-funded
group.
While some changes had been made since
last year, the ASUO Executive and the IFC said
the majority of the problems they believed
were the most important had not been
changed.
Sarah (.achkar. ASUO assistant finance
coordinator, said the IFC-funding inconsisten
cies include the fact that the DIC is still af
filiated with the University’s health depart
ment. Incidental Fees cannot l>e used to sub
sidize academic departments.
’’Because of that reason, and because we
think they are solely an educational depart
ment aftiliated with the University of Oregon,
we still see a problem with them getting the
additional funding they are asking for.”
Lachkar said.
Another reason the DIC is not eligible to
receive IFC funds is because its director is
chosen each year by University Provost
Richard Mill and does not go through evalua
tions as outlined in the ASUO’s green tape
notebook.
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Lori Me lavish prepares her homework using the Visualtek machine in the University library.
Visually impaired students must cope
with the demands of the sighted world
By Frale de Guzman
Of the Kmerald
At the age of nine, a can of Draino exploded
in John Bundy’s face, severely damaging both
eves. During the next 2 l years, doctors performed
70 operations in an attempt to save the vision that
remained in his left eye.
But in October 1980, after his 15th corneal
transplant, an infection robbed Bundy of his
sight.
bight months later, after recovering from the
infection, Bundy took part in a summer program
to qualify for fall enrollment at the University.
Although happy to “get started with his life
again," Bundy worried about his ability to cope
with class demands.
I didn’t know whether I would be able to
handle tin.* work or not," saitl Bundy, who is now
a graduate assistant in clinical psychology.
But like the 15 other visually impaired
students currently enrolled at the University,
Bundy has learned to adapt to the demands of a
sighted world.
“It seems like you’re always running into
new problems that you have to deal with." Bundy
said. “A lot of things that seem very simple and
are very simple for other people aren't very easy
for people who are visually impaired.”
To keep up with class demands, visually im
paired students learn to use the special resources
available to them at the University. These include
a study room in the library complete with record
ed and Braille dictionaries, a Visualtek with
magnified letters, a Brailler that turns regular
type into Braille type, a tape recorder and
microphone, and a talking hook disc-player.
Visually impaired students soon realize that
they must set aside large blocks of time to listen to
recorded texts of class materials or to listen to
readers, students who read the books to them if
a text recording cannot lx; found.
Listening to a recorded text is a time
consuming process. Bundy said.
"It takes much longer to listen to a tape than
to sit down and read a book,” he said. “I can’t
skim a tape like you can skim through a book if
you’re looking fora specific thing. 1 have to listen
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