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About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1978)
opinion DIGGS Vice President We had a very difficult time making a choice for vice president, but, since we promised we would and as voters we can only vote for one candidate, we, the editorial board, finally came to a consensus. For vice president the candidate we are endors ing is Dave Riggs. Now, lest the other candidates feel picked upon, let us reiterate that we found all the candidates to be very qualified and they all have many things to recommend them. Denise Kline has a lot of experience; first as par liamentarian in high school and then as an ASG sen ator this year. She knows parliamentary procedure and has worked hard this year, only narrowly mis sing being named senator-of-the-term. John Harlan, too, has much to recommend him. He was involved in projects that will prove to be of great benefit to all the students on this campus and he, too, has good ideas for next year's ASG. However, we did choose Riggs and for these reasons: He has a lot of experience as vice presi dent of student government in high school. While there, he developed a program that brought 98 per cent of the students in that school out to vote. We feel that anyone with ideas for implementing student involvement like that has a place on this College's executive student cabinet. We found him to be enthusiastic and ready to learn about student government at this school. He is also exceptionally well-informed about this year's ASG and its workings for someone who has just become senator. We also found his personality to be a major fact or in our choice. Since the job of vice president is very much one of a personnel manager, in that it is the vice president who hears and deals with many of the day-to-day problems of senators, we feel that it is very important to have someone in that office who can deal with people in a positive, friendly, yet business-like manner. During our interview with him, Riggs exhibited all of these qualities in a very satisfactory manner, and left all of us with a positive feeling about him as vice president of next year's ASG. Business Manager We found making a choice for business manager almost as hard as making a choice for vice president. Almost, because we only had two qualified candi dates to choose from instead of three. Again, though, we had to reach a consensus and so we have chosen to endorse Sherrie Montgomery for ASG business manager. We found Maureen Kearney, the other candidate, to be very qualified for the position as business manager, especially in view of the fact that she held the office this year. The main reason for not endorsing Kearney is that we felt that her involve ment in other activities -- CCOSAC for example -■ is of great benefit to the students and that she would better serve both ASG and the students in some capacity other than business manager. Sherrie Montgomery, on the other hand, is in terested in being business manager simply for its own sake. We feel that any job that is directly in volved with student money, its handling and its dis bursement deserves full attention. Montgomery's experience with handling large budgets, both in disbursing funds and drawing up budget proposals, makes her perhaps over-qualified for the tasks assigned to the ASG business mana ger. However, she gave every indication that if she found the job to be less than challenging, she would being seeking ways to improve the system that now stands. In our opinion, any business can benefit from improvement. Although Kearney did a fine job this year, she indicated that she intends to maintain tha status quo if elected for next year. For this reason, we chose to endorse Sherrie Montgomery for business manager. weather station By Jim McCaffrey Of The Print THE SCORE IS FOUR AND NEXT TIME MORE. 1970, the year of hate. Feb ruary 20: the Chicago seven, a group which included former University of Oregon Chemistry Professor John Froines is con victed of conspiracy to cross s ate lines and incite a riot. Judge Julius Hoffman orders Black panther leader Bobby Seale bound with chains and gagged in the courtroom. April 30: American troops be gin on this Thursday, what Presi dent Nixon is calling an "incur sion" into Cambodia. The inva sions are clearly illegal. May 1: Friday night.Protesters at Kent State march through downtown Kent throwing rocks and bottles. Eventually meeting at a designated area, the stu dents, following an old college tradition, light an enthusiastic bon fire. Unfortunately for the government, the students use the ROTC build ngs as kindling. The ROTC buildings as kindling. The protesting is heated and town reaction against it is just as fervent. May 4: Monday finds classes in an uproar. Many students have gathered in front of the commons to help protest the illegal government invasions of Cambodia. At the top of the hill over looking the commons stood a troop of about 100 armed nat ional guardsmen sent by Gover nor James Rhodes to quiet the campus disorders. The guards men were stationed quite near the recently burned ROTC build ing and were commanded by Brigadeer General Corso. Guardsmen ordered the stu dents to dispurse. The students did not respond. The guards formed a single file line and started marching towards the students firing cannisters of tear gas. Scattering many of the stu dents, some of the most vocal of whom went to the left of the guard and began to throw rocks and shout obscenities. More gas was fired. People began successfully picking up cannis ters and throwing them back. The guardsmen were ordered to drop to their knees and aim their rifles. Protestors rushed the guard with rocks and swear words, falling back two and three times for more ammuni tion. Thirteen seconds and 32 rounds -later four students lay dead on Blanket Hill, the blindly chosen victims of a system which had demanded capital punish ment for crimes against the state. Across the country, the spec tre of the picture of Mary Vec chio kneeling over the body of the slain 19-year-old victim Jef frey Miller, was burned into the American memory along with the thousand other media hor rors one easily brings to mind. But the story does not end with the killings of 19-year-old Allison Krause or 20-year-old Sandy Lee Schauer or 19-year- old William Shroeder. President Nixon responded to the tragedy by calling the stu dents "bums" and said that "when dissent turns to violence it invites tragedy." The Kent State killings brought massive campus pro tests to the forefront of the nation. Both Portland State and Oregon decided to shut down for two days in sympathy. began holding up four finge a symbol of the slogan' score is four and next! In the town of Kent, the feelings were different than a- round the rest of the country. The paper was weeks printing full pages of letters from the citizens supporting the actions of the National Guard. The citizens In Florida, one of the to est marijuana law states in union, a county grand jury Page 4 more." Rumors circulate the media that radical Chii Seven defendent and yi| Jerry Rubin, was leading a I of snipers into Kent in.ret tion. Citizens took to art themselves. Parents of the] students began to receive] mail. The end result? Twenty-five people frorr University Were indicted fori originally. Not one Nau Guardsman was indicted. 8 the guard finally was indil not a single person was i victed of so much as a mi meanor. One of the spi prosecutors was oven hear] say that he thought that | should have shot all" the fra makers. A group of civic leaders! out a full page ad thanking National Guard for a job] done. What Kent State must what those deaths mustjalt point to if they are to I meaning is the serious attit problems we face in the sot we live in. I believe thaw lousness and insensitivity] which the present gymns 1 which the present gy mnasit being built is a reflection^ these same attitudes of ig No amount of ra ance. sweat will ever wash the bl from Blanket Hill or replace acrid smell of tear gas and powder. No amount. Age Discrimination refused to indict a 90-yeai farmer who was bustea on c ges of selling marijuanas11 Cont. on Pai Clackamas D50 Illuminant, 2 degree observer Density . ]
