Oregon Daily
MONDAY. DECEMBER 2. 1991
EUGENE. OREGON
VOLUME 93. ISSUE 66
Court calls Colson’s ouster unjust
By Kirsten Lucas
( •' oevn R0ppfl€K
l h «• AMO C.nnsl i tut ion
C.ourt ru I I'd Wednesday l Mill the
Incidental Lee (.ommlttoe viq
lated constitutional procedures
when n removed former li t
member Mike Oolson from his
eler ted off it f I,is! summer
Colson was unfairly denied
the npporluntlV to defend him
self ij^.iilisl .illegations that led
tu Ins ouster-from student gov
eminent, and he may never gel
ill,it opportunity. at cording to
the courts do< ision
I'he court refused to reinstate
(lolson to Ills two-year- li d seat
on the basis that lie would only
he removed again
A controversial ASIA) inves
ligation last spring found bol
son responsible for altering Jan
uarv li t minutes the li t. sub
smpiently voted to remove him
from the committee
Notit e of the meeting to re
move Colson was published in
the i.'miTaltl ns ii general meet
mg At the meeting, Colson
was informed that members
would vote lu remove him from
offite Debate on till’ ISMlr VV.IN
halted In .in official motion
and Colson was voted mil
unanimously
In llii1 court s opinion, "the
'privileges and immunities'
Net tion I! of the \St'() ( on
stituljon ret|uires an elet ted
student officer to he entitled to
adequate liolid' nf .m attempt
tij remove him her from office
Thill oflicrr is also entitled to ,i
reasonable opportunitv in hr
In Mill com erninn his fu r re
IllOV.ll
I hr i uuri found that (lolson
did not have this notin' or op
portunilv and was therefore uh
fairly refnoved
However, the (iourl did not
SIT III to pul ( nlsoll I I.H Ik nil
Turn to COLSON Pago i
Mike Colson
Vc+4 ’ 13^
Power
Clyde Jordan siams home two points n the Ducks
using eftvt against Athletes n Action on Saturday
See story Page 8
Photo Py John Stoops
Librarians sorting returned items
Stolen documents not yet ready for public use
By Carrie Dennett
AS'V : ,|V f '.#(
An eight-das journo v h.i*. safolv returned murr
thiin SUhO.OOO in rare documents .nut books sto
len from llm Knight Library four veers ago, tail il
will hr a law month', before they hi omr .iv.nl
able lor public use
! laser ('oiks curator ol the librars s Spool,il
Colb*< tlor.s. relumed from 1 11! headquarters m
O:i.oIj.i Noli on Nov M Ho also m.ulo the trip
l ist iantiarv to testify .it Stephen Blumberg s tri.tl
In M.inh TWO. I-HI agents louinl Blumberg s
1 rooni Victorian house in Ottumwa, low a, tilled
with 10 tons ol stolen materials He appeared to
have kept .ill the stolen items worth V. in lie n
for his own use
University library stall will thoroughlv insenti
ry tile recovered books and documents Indore re
turning them to t in illation However, ( au ks rs
'll pert ent sure that *tr> pen ent of it is there
The items stolen consisted mainly ol letters and
diaries of ()regon pioneers
Corks said it is nearly Impossible to verify that
all of the stolen items were returned because
some listed as missing after the theft may not
have been stolen
M the same time, some books that the library
did not know were missing surfaced .it Ilium
berg's house which means then- .i;l he mote
stolen items unat i minted tor
Despite the discovery ot items missing from
IJ7 libraries and museums over in sears. Blum
berg < annul In- plac ed at any i nine si enr He w as
convicted ol possession and transportation .>t sto
len materials on Ian 11, however
When ( oi ks arrived on his flight from San Du
go, he met with I HI personnel in tin live room ot
111 e suite where the bixiks w, n- stored, a place
that hail het nine known as the bookstore
We had tu chuck over several hook- that had
been found since the trial." < o< k\ said
The books .uni documents had been hrlii sun e
the trial hei ause the I*III could not positively
identify tin- rightful owners o| gO preen! oi the
books Ibis was i problem bream.. . ’ th«
.‘1)000 s * I ‘ < j bi.ok-- ilia! hii\* *. ;
antiques and collectables belonged to Hiumberg
i hirers li.ur rights, loo, (!ta k'--.o :
Hiumberg spent two months going tin. ugh tin
midentilu-d ni.ilmnU With l‘f i i. v »■: .King what
belonged to him. and what indonged to one of the
i ibrarios
Hr was cooperative in bo own wav. U»*:ks
said I think he took pleasure in telling the 1 HI
agents they were wrong about who .1 book b«
lunged to
. hr dal alter (.0 * . arrived 111 Ornah . h< spent
th.o. hours going lluough the in.; o! hooks ami
manuscripts missing Irom the University. item by
item, w ith 1 11} agents
() r; 1 in signed th» n r 1 . • 1 r 1 . 1 j 1 w ■ r k
< o< ks loaded up the hosts ol books and dot u
ments into a rented trui k and drove ha; k to i’u
gene The 1 Hi told the University m mid OctoUr
that the hooks were ready for release
ii aft l \n ai \ \ going to land them m ,i ditch af
ter all this time, it s going to 1m me. not an airline
or a mm mg « ompam < o ks aid of h. . d« isjon
to drive the true k himsell
Ni.-w that the hi e-ks .are safely ha » at tlu ■ n;
Vrfsitv. ( . ► ■ said there ivouhl ha\e tier:; *1.411
g«■ fs no matter how the books were transported
lie S lid he thougilt It was ties! to hilVr a library
empioiee with the hooks .’-I hours a day
Fortunately, the boxes of rare letters and dot u
merits from Oregon’s pioneer history were treated
with a relative amount of care Hlumberg wrote in
some of the books, hut (ax ks said it would have
Turn to BOOKS Pago 7
Study says Oregon’s environment the nation’s best
By Michael Sears
Ert .CK.l d C: ■ tflt >'
(iregon h.is the healthiest ***»•
vlronment of anv state In the
null o n u c.c.onl i ng to t ho
1HH1-H2 (.rei'ii Index pu! out hv
tile Institute for Southern Stud
tes tn North ( larolmu
The index runted Oregon
best overall in Jfm categories
levering everything from the
voting records of state represen
tatives to the amount of toxic
waste pumped into rivers
This is the first veer the in
dex has been published, but the
;ss now hopes put out the
reference on a yearly basis
: fu index will be used as i
tool lor environmentalists and
state governments to see w here
their state stands on environ
mental health issues, co-author
Despite some low scores, state
ranked high in Green Index study
Stars Lit ht-rr saiti
Aiiording to tin- index. Ore
mm slate anil i ongressionuI
representatives have the sei ond
hesi voting record on environ
mental issues Not onh do Ore
gull slate and federal represen
tatives work lor laws that pro
tect the environment, they also
< (insistent Iv vote to provide
money lor those laws. Kerr
said
duidornui was ranked first
for hasing env ironrnenlallv
. :,m us i.o\ makers
Oregon isas one ol the worst
re: ofds n . ! spills, w ith near
iy million gallons ol oil pol
luting '.he state's waterways last
year I’he index put -17 oilier
states Iiefore Oregon in llnx cat
•'gory
Iorest conservation polu iex
also [in' Oregon in -IHth place,
.Hcording lo the index I'he
state's reliance on the llmlier
industrv resnlteri in the loss of
nearly M peri enl of Oregon's
forests lietvveen 1'tflJ .mil l'lHl",
Kerr said
Aside from categories that are
considered standard environ
mental issues, the 1SS also in
I lulled public and wotk.pl.ii e
safety in the studs Kerr said
We have a lairlv broad deli
nition ol environmental health
that me hides humans and their
environments, Kerr said
Under this category. Oregon
ranked worst in the nation (or
providing state funding for
putilli health
Despite <i lew pixir rankings.
Oregon did well enough in a
large enough number of catego
ries to earn itself the top spot in
the nation, Kerr said
Other st.lies that received top
listings in separate categories
were Nevada for water cleanli
ness, New Jersey for curbside
rei vcllng New York lor lowest
per capita energy consumption;
and South Dakota for lowest
level of hazardous waste gener
ated
Alabama was given the worst
overall environmental health
na on) by the index
INDEX
Housing_
Six months after luting de
nied access to family hous
ing because of their sexual
orientation, Aim Pia/v.u ami
Pamela Harbointnur art* still
In the "pushing papers"
stage of their lawsuit against
the Oregon State Hoard of
Higher Induration
See story, Page 3
Winners_
The Oregon women's lias
ketball team Sunday held off
a late i barge bv Northwest
ern and emerged vie iorious.
7U-ti9 I he Wildcats ore
ranked Kith in the nation
See story. Page 8