Friends recall OPS
vet’s calming style
By Pat Malach
Emerald Editor
Friends of Oakley Glenn re
member the 20-year Office of
Public Safety veteran as a culm
and stabling Influence on cam
pus during some of the most
volatile years of tho 1970s.
Glenn, a former director of
OPS, Eugene police department
veteran and civil rights activist,
diud Friday after an extended
illness.
Jan Medrano, a management
assistant in the president's of
fice, said she remomlxirs Glenn
as one of the main reasons the
campus never got too out of
control.
"There was a lot going on
during the years Oakley was
here," she said. "Anytime you
felt things were .1 really volatile
situation and tilings were going
to blow up, Oakley was just so
fair and straightforward, he had
a way of calming everybody
down You just watched things
go from a boiling point to a
light simmer "
One of those boiling points
from the 1970s occurred when
anti-war demonstrators threat
ened to destroy the campus
KOTO headquarters Police
were in place as the demonstra
tors approached
Glenn described the incident
to Rcgislrr-tiuard writer Don
Bishoff for .1 toot) .irtu It?
‘'I told the guy w ith the pep
per fog machine to start 'em up
— ami they wouldn't start,"
Glenn said' "And here thes
coifle, hundreds of them, yell
ing and screaming and carrying
placards I didn't know vvluit
the hell to do
"Then I looked over and s.ivy
one of their leaders I told him
'We have a had situation here
There's too many (police) and
if they're Charged, somebody's
going to get hurt . ‘ He r ailed
two of his people together and
came hack and said. 'You move
your people out and we ll move
ours out.' "
They did, and that was where
it ended
Glenn retired from the Uni
versity Sept 20. 1990 He be
gun working with LTD in 19-19
In 1070, he served a dual role
us head of the OPS as well
Glenn began working lull time
ns director ol OPS when lie re
tired from b'PD in 1975 When
Glenn took the lull-time job in
1975, he was asked by then
Gov. Turn McGull to set up anti
revamp the campus security
system
OPS Associate Director Torn
Hicks, who worked with Glenn
from 19H3 until Glenn's retire
ment in 1990. said his fairness
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Former OPS Director Oakley Glenn (right) end Harold Babcock display an emergency call bon used on
campus in the early 1980s Glenn died Friday in Eugene.
und aliillty to treat everyone
equal worn Iiis greatest assets
And his Hon.su of humor didn't
hurt.
Glonn Is bust rumwnhorud for
an Incldont when protester*
staged u sit-in in the OPS office
Ho brought out coffoo and
doughnuts and declared an
open house.
"They ate up sis or eight
dozen doughnuts, decided it
was enough and loft,” lie told
[tishoff
Archivist Keith Kit Ii.irtl re
memliorod (Menn ns "a very un
derstanding person "
"Someone with a slick up Ills
hut k. c:oulil have caused a lot of
problems," Ku hard said
(Menu was also one of the
first t ml rights activists in liu
gone In the early 1‘Mitis He was
the print i{>11* author of the
city's first human rights ordi
nance. said his daughter (Mill
(uirrm, an administrative assis
tant in the Dean ol Students Of
n<»
Ho .ilso work mi for several
ycnrii as chairman of iliu Lino
Comity fellowship for Civic
Unity, <in onrly civil rights
Uroup
A funorul for (Ilenn is schod
ulnl for Uxioy nt 1 |> in in the
first Christian Church, llfJG
o.ik Si Contrihutions in
Cleon's name cun lie mmlo to
llio University foundation for
minoritv m liolursliips
Guatemalan speaks of ongoing human rights fight
By Katy Moeller
Emerald Contributor
Maria dot Rosario, a member
of the Committee for Peasant
Unity (CUC) in Guatemala,
spoke to more than one hun
dred people Tuesday at the
University about the human
rights struggles of the indig
enous people of that country
Del Rosario began her discus
sion with basic information on
the sociul and political situa
tion of Guatemala The indig
enous people comprise t»5 per
cent of the population, she
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said. and represent ltd percent
of tho manual labor in the large
plantation factories that ox port
producis from (iuulomalu Al
though indigenous, people rep
resent u majority in terms of
population und manual work,
del Rosario said they are Ireing
denied representation
"This 05 percent of the popu
lation, the majority obviously,
is not represented by the gov
ernment, is not represented in
the laws nor ure these people
included in the day to day
workings of government,” she
said.
Dol Rosario spoke about the
need for agrarian reform
"Seventy percent of the hind
that Is cuItivable Is in (lie
hands of two percent of the
population," she said While
the [Miopia are dying of hunger,
this is a country that continues
to export agru ullurel prod
ucls."
Del Rosario compared the
current oppression of the indig'
•nous people to the historical
precedent set by Christopher
Columbus,
"When we talk about people
being massacred, about homes
1
being burned, .lboul attacks
against the villages, people who
huve disappeared, we are not
talking about something that
took place rit)() years ago,” she
said "Unfortunately, we are
talking about something lhal
has been taking place in the last
decade "
Del Kosarm uddresseil the re
cent decision by the United Na
lions to declare 1 H'ti the "Year
of the Indigenous Peoples " She
recognized Native Americans
of the United Stales for their ef
fort in achieving this, but sug
gesteil lhat perhaps this was
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merely a symlioltc effort on the
p.irt of the IJ N
Del Kosario wrapped op her
speech with un appraisal of fel
low (llJtl member Kigobeta
Mencho Monrihu, also a
Quir he Maya, won tho 1H92
Nobel I’eace Prize.
Del Kosarlo quipped that
"usually this kind of award is
only given to suit and tie kind
of people The Nobel Peace
Prize was given to a woman
An indigenous woman. A
woman who has been down
trodden This is a significant
event
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