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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.
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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
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est marijuana law states in
union, a county grand jury
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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
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