Oregon
DAILY EMERALD
Monday, December 10, 1*W0 _Eugene. OregonVolume *>?. Issue 72
Almanac
Today's Emerald is the
last of the term. Publica
tion will resume )«n. 7.
At its Thursday meet
ing, the Incidental Fee
Committee voted to re
consider a budget request
from Students for the Eth
ical Treatment of Ani
mals.
SETA had been grant
ed $002 for 1991-92 at its
Nov. 30 budget hearing,
but suggestions from the
EMU program consul
tant's office were not tak
en into consideration at
the time the budget was
approved. 1FC Chairman
Mike Colson said.
See story. Page 3
WARSAW; Poland
(API — Inch Walesa, the
shipyard worker who
helped lead his country
out of Communism,
swept to a landslide vic
tory In Poland's first pop
ular presidential vote
Sunday, according to par
tial returns
See story. Page 7
Sports
Dabble Sporrich
The Oregon women's
basketball team evened
iiferecoid to 2-2. alter
beefing Portland State
Friday and New Mexico
State Saturday in McAr
thur Court.
Jennifer Bourn came
off the bench to score 26
points — including six
throe-point baskets — as
the Ducks beat NMS
114-92. Freshman for
ward Debbie Sporcich
pulled down 12 rebounds
and hit an Oregon single
game record 15 of 17 free
throws in the same game.
See story, Page ■
Photo lit \ndrc Riinlrn
Several hundred University students, faculty and stall collet ted in the EMU
Courtvard Friday afternoon to demonstrate against U S. involvement in the
Persian Uulf.
Students protest
gulf intervention
By Brenna Hansen and Kim Ralston
t metaid Ccmifibuiors
Outrage anil concern over the Persian (lull crisis
drew several hundred students, faculty and communi
ty members Friday to one of the largest protest gather
ings on the University campus in years
A symposium that followed the rally drew a stand
ing mom only crowd of more than .100 on the last
weekday before final examinations
Kep Peter DeFazio, D-Fugene. and other speakers
denounced President Hush's military buildup in the
Middle Fast to a large crowd in tin1 FMU Courtyard
“Ex-secretaries of defense and ex-joint i hiefs ot
stuff, many of whom were appointed by and worked
for Reagan, have come before the United States Con
gress anil have urged the United Stales to observe < an
Hon. withhold from entering into a war. and give the
economic and political sanctions time to work. " I)«■
Fazio said
The crowd loudly cheered after DeFazio stated th.it
the president apparently had a copy of the Constitu
tion with a page missing because his top advisers be
lieve Bush needs no authority to launch a first strike
DeFazio has drafted legislation requiring President
Bush to come before Congress to "make his case and
get a majority vote" before engaging in any offensive
military action The bill will lx- introduced when Con
gress reconvenes Jan.
In a vote last week. DeFazio said the House Demo
cratic Caucus supported such an action by a 7 to 1
margin
Ellen Furstner, coordinator for the lame Counts
Chapter of the National Organization for Women, fol
lowed DeFa/.io's speech with a woman's pcrspei live
on the gulf crisis
Furstner said women have been < onditioned not to
speak out. but the “so-called experts are sending us
over the brink of disaster.'"
“It's hard for me to speak here today." Furstner
said, “but it would lie a lot harder to start watt lung
the body bags come home, and it would be impossible
for me to send my own sons to the Middle Fast
“I have three sons and in a few years, two oi them
will lie old enough to go to war Well. I'll tie damned
if I II send my sons to die so some fat cat in I..A. can
ride around in his limousine." Furstner said, with her
arm around her youngest son.
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Picketers gather to protest war toys sales
Shoppers reactions mixed
By June Russell
Emerald Reporter
War toys teach violence and
hatred. PeaceWorks protester*
told shoppers during their an
nual demonstration Saturday
afternoon outside the Toys K
Us store on Valley River Drive.
Waving signs and passing
out fliers, about 15 demonstra
tors fielded remarks from pass
ing toy shoppers and explained
their arguments against toys
promoting violence.
Toy hand grenades. Ul Joe
dolls, water pistols, army fa
tigues, toy airplanes and video
games are among the toys being
protested
'“If we believe that children
are our future, why are we em
ulating war with war toys?"
asked Lora Dolan. Eugene
PeaceWorks volunteer. “War
teaches us to hate It teaches us
racism, sexism and that killing
is OK.
“Why encourage violence by
buying war toys? Pacifist par
ents don’t raise (ds and Ma
rines Peace begins with our
children."
PeaceWorks represents the
local i hapter of the War Resis
ters League and has held its
anti-war toy demonstrations for
about the last 10 years. Dolan
said
The demonstration is to re
mind people about the effects
of war toys and to make them
think before they buy a violent
toy What the demonstators are
hoping for is a decrease in sales
of war toys. Dolan said.
"You never know exactly
what the effect is, but the major
toy manufacturers have had de
creases in sales of war toys."
she said.
Shoppers’ response to the
protesters varied, ranging from
hand signals both for and
against their message to honk
ing and comments from drivers
and shoppers. Mo Adan. gradu
ate teaching fellow in the Eng
Photo bv Altdrv Kamrn
About 15 people /fathered outside the Toys K I Is store to dem
onstrate a/tainst war toys and their influence on children.
lish department and Peace
Works activist, said llie re
sponse they receive is often
ironic.
"It's ironic that we're not out
here protesting consumerism.
Toys K Us or even capitalism."
Adan said "We're simply here
protesting the sale of war toys
And yet we get so much nega*
live reaction when people drive
by
Some of the comments from
shoppers questioned the dem
onstrators' support for tti«■
troops overseas. The individual
soldiers. Dolan said, are simply
a c t i n k on orders. What
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