COMMUNITY BRIEFS
New PAC goes after OCA
A new political action committee
has fill'd complaints vsilh Oregon's
mi retarv of stall' alleging lhal the ()re
gon Citizen's Alliance is violating Or
agon olct tion laws
The new group, calling itself Orego
nians United Together I’AC. alleges
that the OCA a spot ml interest
group Irving to prevent homosexuals
from gaining minority group status
violated several laws
OU T I’AC says the OCA has not no
lifted the sis retarv of state of Us offir e
address i tinnge. as Oregon law re
quires and has used petition gathers
who .ire not of legal age
"(It) is our lie lief that at least one ol
the Springfield petition gatherers w.>s
not of legal age Ot I PA< said in a
press release And that, upon learn
mg id this, another petitioner signed
eat h petition sheet for Dim '
Despite the allegations, however
Ol I l’A( said tin \ cannot verify th,e
a< t us.ittons OU I I-At has alsoD ied a
complaintWith the Postal Inspectors
Office and the Oregon Attorney lien
era I alleging the OCA committed mail
fraud when it allegedlv illegally t liar,
nelled funds through the mail
Women host columnist
Political columnist for The Or<f;n
nlnn. Sieve Duin. will tie the featured
sjieiiker a! a League of Women Voters
of lame County luncheon Mart h 1'c
The public is invited to attend the
meeting, which will !*• held at the
Hi.ii k Angus Restaurant in Idigene
from 1 5 -15 n m to 12 4S p m
To make reservations for the lunc h
eon railed 'Open Season on Politics
and Politic tans rail the League of
Women Voters of Hr e al It 1-7’tl 7
Senator files for delegate
A I.ugene stale senator announced
Monday tfi.it he tias filed as a randi
date for the Democratic National Con
ventmn Delegate and wants to put
candidate ferr\ -Brown in the White
House
Slate Se n Cralt.in herans, I) T i
gem- said t ha I former California Cov
ferrs Brown is lire best choice for
pre-adenl In-cause fie wauls pohlii al
reform in Washinglon. DC and v.
throw idf politic s as usual."
People interested in filing to he .I
delegate need to apply by 5 p m at
one of Oregon's Hi t minty elec lion of
fie es
Merchant to try to close Trojan
S t n \ e
SAL L M (A!’)
Lntroproneur Jerrv
Wilson, who s made
millions of dollars
selling exercise
equipment by mail,
on Monday began
using the same ave
nue to Irv to shut
down Oregon s lone nut tear pimer
plant
Wilson, president ol Solnflex 1 nt is
personally Ixankrotllng an effort to semi
petitions to every household in Oregon
m hopes of fort mg ii statewide vole this
full on a ballot measure to ( lose the I ro
jan plant
it’s tlie first time in memory that anv
one has attempted to gather Initiative pc
tiflon signatures solely by direct mail in
stead of collet ting them door-to-door or
in puhlti plat es
'I've made a lot of money in the mail
order business \\ -on said at a leys
i onferem (• ' \% > do that fx st
Ihe first petitions were mailed to
households in the I’ortland area, he said
Within a few months. every voting
household in the stale should have our
mail-order petition drive brochure, he
said
\\ Isotl estimated It would i us! as
much iis S'loo.ooo in s< id petitions to
more ih.ui BOO,000 households at ross
()regon
The Soioflcx founder s.ml he could
easily foresee spending more than 51
million helween now and November on
I he effort to close the Trojan plant, lex .it
ed to miles northwest of Portland
Wilson, who's been active in various
political causes in the past, said he's
confident that the direct mail drive will
produce tile f)7,O0O valid signatures
needed hv |ul\ to put his Trojan measure
on the ballot
liven though Oregonians have soundlv
defeated past measures to close the Tro
ian plant. Wilson said lie's confident that
this year, voters will agree the time has
come to pull the plug on Trojan
He noted that Portland General Klee
tru Go 'recently restarted the Trojan
plant alter a yearlong shutdown prompt
ed by the discovery of t racks in steam
generator tulx s that cam radioactive w a
ter
That problem underst ored the far t that
Trojan is an unsafe plant that shouldn't
he allowed to operate. Wilson sail!
liis ballot measure would close Trojan
until PGI-, meets a variety of safety re
quirt-merits and forte PGK to absorb the
( osts ill i losing the plant
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virn-provost for academic .il
fairs
"The University formed
these regulations to protec t the
academic integrity of the Uni
versity end promote the learn
mg process of students." fie
said
"To my understanding Dead
Week was supposed to he
dead Holfxi said "Dead week
is a time for students to study
If a professor violates Dead
Week polu v, Hollxi talks to tile
the professor's department
head
l-.verv term I’rovost Norm
Wessells sends a memo to fill
ulty and graduate teai lung lei
lows that details the Universi
ty s Dead Week regulations
The number of polii v violators
Inis diminished in recent venrs.
Holbo said
Marlene Dresi het, direr tor of
the Olfice id Student \dvoc.i
11 said that since the Iohh hu
si hool \ ear fewer students
have come to her with com
plaints about professors who
vi ■ : nuersitv's Di-a.i Week
h i rmmsira
linn tins made .1 greater effort to
; n ti a i:, !.n u lly , ■ I Ur,nl Un i
policy.' she said "The mrnsu
goes nut in faculty and il serves
In edui atr them. This is a srn
ous rule that il ls serious conse
quent es
U ishmgton State I'niversitv
doesn't have the equivalent ol a
Iteaij W et k. said Fred (lamp
hell. Washington State s dean
(nr undergraduate i-dut ation
No students have expressed
interest in having a Dead Week,
he said, and Washington's
quarter system would make it
difficult lor administrators to
squeeze one m
W. don't have anything like
that. he salt) "I think it
sounds like an interesting idea
1 hr I hliversltv of Texas at
Austin has a dead period,
where professors can't hold
r ; r max- tests or assign
ments due during tiiat time.
' \ . k. xas ;- e presi
dent ol student affairs '[‘hi
de.id period is one si hold day
■ i ■ wei x immediately
r i ii Week
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