POLITICS
Pacific Party offering alternative to Oregon voters
Human rights, environmental
issues will be platform focus
By Rone DeCair
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\ group ut disillusioned Derm* rats .md euvimninen
talists tired of lioth tRepublic .in aiid Demm rule
party platforms base tornied ttn* Pacific Parts to otter
voters ii i lion e m tins 'don e,it dog world
People i house not to vote rather til.ill to vote for the
lesser ol two evils said (Ian hull her tile Par ifir Par
Is s I .me County r oorrtin.ilor c iting figures that about
nil pen ent ol eligible Oregon residents usually do not
vote
huti her said his group will seek its support from
those who have never voted her ause they realize it is
essentially a one-party system
t he Par ilu Parts needs to r ollei t about tH.tMMl signu
lures from registered suters ut order to he considered a
intnor polith al parts and run < undulates in the Oregon
l'l'C elet turns
hull her said the group is not Irving tu organize a nu
tional parts l>ei ause it is too mm It work at least for
miss and her ause the National Organization foi
Women is considering forming .1 like minded national
parts ot its oss n
t in- Pai ifu Parts ssas formed three months ago
huti tier said when It her Mine 1 dear during the Persian
( mil ssar that neither ot the Issu major parties ssas inter
ested 111 working tor pear e although hull her beliese
i it I Zens ss anted the i oufln t tu stop
Pai ifir Parts membership rosters also 1111 lurie sup
porters of the (ueen jiolitiial organization ss ho svero
tired ot listening to 111lelle1lu.il debate foi lie- past
sis seals on whether In form a parts huti tier sard
'(neons m Pcnlland anil uthel slates base derided
U s time to stop talking and -tail a. ting he said
file Pacific Parts s platform sshith stresses euergs
1 misers alum pear e equultts among r.n es and genders
.md an at r essdile eler (oral proi ess is simil.u to tire
(aeens ideologs and shares some I teiuor rain stain es
Hut some people ss under svhethei adding anoltier po
III 11 ,d parts to tlie system < mild do more harm than
good
Margaret W ilson treasurer ot the lame ( omits Demo
1 rat ii Committee tailed the formation ot additional
parties tile dumbest idea Hill everyone lias tile rigtil
she added
she said it ssill lie ddtn tilt tin Pai iln Parts members
In c.ompelu in a tour ssas rare against another minor
group llie I .liter tar la n Parts as ss ell as Republic alls and
Detune rats
(,.u\ Kuti hrt l anr ( ountx (iHtrdinatnr of thr nrnl\ fornwd Pdt ifh f'arlx
i aiuhd>ilt's in thr JMtJ rhi turns
Photo hv \mlif K.ino-n
\surks to lollnt thf siun.iturrs nrrrssarx to run
In fart Wilson Irelieves tin- 1'at ifi« l’.ir!\ m.n I'Vi’ii
hat k fire on its supporters it the group manages to split
the liberal vote along idonlogu a! ln»*s such as the re
i cut split on thr i onsffA.iti\r suit* when independent
i .iluliiiati W Moblev iiin in last Movi-ihIht's elei lion for
governor ami laplured much ol the votr lh.it would
liki'h have go in ‘ to Kepublu an D.im- Frohmnavi'r
Itul others like I niMTSitv polilu ai si ien< i- Hruiessor
lami's klonoski sav the\ adinlri- a group that is willing
to ( hangc tin' status quo
Stun- power to till* people who think We ve stoppl'd
deail-i entei klonoski said Hut he also said thin
might have a ddluult tune attr.u ting constituents be
i ause politu al parties do not mean mui h to people am
more
Hut klonoski said a group like the I’ai ifu I’artv might
hav e more sui i ess on .1 natioinv ide level, rather than in
f begun
kulchei howevei said the Pai it it Party will ha\e
great suu ess m Oregon it they can draw on support
from voters who realize then part\ will work without
compromising on human rights and environmental is
sues
huti her said the non 'Voting t iti/ens will vote lot his
groups when the\ 'see that there are honest lolks out
there to vote for
We re going to makt an at live etlorl to encourage
people to register to vote he said
Moreover. Kutchel said the I'ar tin Party i an draw a
natural base of support trout people who believe that
government does not represent the average person
huti her said an independent candidate from Vermont
hist vear w ho won a se.it in the t' N House ot Represen
tatives running on a platform similar to the Par ilu Par
t\ s
We could have a sigml ii ant el tec I til the next elec
tion huh hei said
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Improved recycling bins
make debut on campus
Student rei \ i I mg w urkers
distributed l_,ri ni'H and im
proved [im yi ling bins to high
Use are,is Saturday in the
hopes oi making eitil ietlt le
( vi lum an easier task for stu
dents, t.K uIt\ and stall
I he new bins are i olor raided
.uni labeled tor easier identifi
ration of each paper type col
i)i ed ledger w lute ledger.
newsprint and computer paper
In addition new Inns for nil
hle.tr lied rei yr led paper were
added tIns weekend
Srlnl heikei a sophomore
I'niversitv strident who has
been working on the rer \t ling
project said that separating
w hite paper and unbleat hed re
i u led paper is more effir ient
" Recycled and non-rervrled
pa|)ers have different weights
and have different fiber con
tent she said
kerker is hoping that i learei
labeling will tun mirage people
lu ret v< It- properly li\ put!mu
different t\|ics ill paper in the
appropriate bins
' People often set aside tile
papei they want to ret vole pill
it in papei bags and just set the
bags next to the bins tin some
one else to sort she said
kerker said although it Is
good that people are making
some eltort to ret v< le. not sort
ing their own paper creates
more work tor an already over
w irked ret yt ling stall
The bin projet I is t ompletelv
student run with much of the
work done In OSl’IRd and the
Student Ket vt ling Task I on e
kel kei an ()SI’IK(. member
said tliat money raised by the
p.issage of the student ballot
measure allocating student let's
to t unipus ret \i ling is helping
make this and future projet ts
possible
JS I 1 C : ll vour dollars
i>\ using i oiijmiis I mm
(hr Oregon I>«iiI\ hmrr.ild