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