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VoL 7 No. 13

February 1, 1972

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Sta'le Senator brings
campaign to campus
In whirlwind bid for US
Senate, Willner seeks votesstops include visit to Lane

State Senator Don Willner will
bring his Democratic campaign
for the U.S. Senate to the Lane
Community Co 11 e g e campus today, Feb.I.
Willner is scheduled to speak
to Lane students, faculty and staff
me m be rs in the Staff Lounge,
Cent e r Building, room 221 at
2 p.m.
First elected to the St ate
Legislature at the age of 31 in
1957, Willner has worked for
environmental and consumer protection as well as majority rights for 18 year olds,
inc re as e d educational support
and upgrading of technical and
vocational schools. The 45 year
old Willner is stopping at Lane
Community College in part of a
whirlwind campaign through Euguene, Roseburg and Medford.
As author of the Scenic Rivers System Bill, Willner led
the successful state-wide intiative election to preserve portions of ten Oregon rivers in
their natural scenic state. He

Willner
also authored the state law establishing the Oregon Recreational
Trans.
In recognition of his legislative efforts .and recreational interest the Oregon Wildlife
Federation aw::irded him the Distinguished Conservation Aw a rd
for 1971 and the Oregon Division
of the Izaak Walton League named him their Citizen of the Year
for 1971.
In education, he worked towards development of a graduate
school in Portland. In 1965 he
was influential in establishing
the Masters Degree program at
Portland State and at the next
legislative session inl967 he helped to add the PH.D. program.
In 1969 he was a leader in the
legislature to win approval for the
bill making Portland State a university.
As national president of the
Consumer Federation of America
he advised President Nixon last
fall to include consumer demands

in Phase II of the wage-price
freeze. In 1970 he received the
Oregon Consumer League award
for consumer achievement.
In the State Legislature he
has authored and successfully won
passage for numerous consumer
bills including consumer protection against fraud an d unwanted telephone solicitation, and
disclosure of interest and service charges in retail installment sales.
Laws providing the vote to abolish the death penalty, to extend and improve protection for
migrant farm works, and establishing state labor-management
conciliation service were also
authored by Willner.
While at Harvard University,
• Willner captained the tennis team
and earned Phi Betta Kappa academic honors before entering
Harvard Law School.
A member of a Portland law
firm, Willner continues to combine his legislative career with
outdoor interests, both at the
family retreat at Camp Sherman near Bend, and as one of the
top amateur tennis players in the
Northwest.
A 1so active in c iv i c affairs,
Willner is President of the Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Boys Clubs of America,
Director of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, Director of
the Oregon Mental Health Association, a board member ofthe
Urban League and consultant to
the Oregon Council of Churches.
In a state-wide campaign Willner has called on Oregon residents from all parts of the state
and all different backgrounds to
join with him to "make government more of a 'we' and less
of a 'they'."

Mother nature stalls education

Most Eugene, Springfield and Bethel schools,
as well as LCC, were closed last Thursday and
Friday due to snow and icy roads. While students at LCC got an unexpected vacation, the
U of O continued its normal class sched:ile. Tea-

chers in the area were required to take their
chances on the highways though, in spite of the
"numerous minor accidents" reported by the
Sheriff's office.
(Photo by Barry Hood)
(See photos page 5)

LC C basin escapes plan
The Lane Community College
Basm area sparked discussion
Wednesday, Jan, 26 when members of the Eugene, Springfield
and Lane County planning commissions voted to adopt the revised 1990 Plan.
The document, approved by all
three commissions in a joint
meeting, excluded the LCC basin from the so-called urban service area. It was generally felt
by planners that open sections
within Eugene and Springfield dem and a higher priority than
the undeveloped basin.
L CC OSPIRG President, Dennis Thorpe, submitted a resolution stating that incorporation
of the college region would result in "the deterioration or destruction of the present natural
environment of the basin."
Re a ct in g directly from the
resolution, Thorpe said, "We object to the use of public mo-

nies to provide what amount to a
subsidy for private real estate
developers and speculators."
Representing s eve r a 1 major
landowners in the LCC area, Hugh
Mitchell said in a letter to the
commissions that he is "very
concerned" about the exclusion of
the basin in the revised plan. Mitchell said the new policy "jeopardizes future planning policies
within this area.''
Dorothy Anderson, a local citizens' committee chairman, echoed OSPIRG's objection to the:
inclusion of the basin in immediate plans by stating, "Mr.
Mitchell contends that freedom
of choice in living areas would
be restricted ... We contend that
with an estimated 38 per cent
of the land now zoned for residential use vacant within the
projected urban service area,
including hi 11 side areas, freedom of choice obviously exists

Whether or not to serve in undeclared wars

now."
Res e n t men t towards longrange im;Jlications of the 1990
Plan in the community college
area was summed up by Dennis Thorpe: "There is nothing
to be gained from promiscuous
expansion. We should be inviting disaster to ignore it."
The 75-page document centers
its attention on the 90-squaremile metropolitan area, and is
designed to provide for the
235,000 people expected in 20
years.

The plan is intended as the
official guideline for fut u re
planning decisions.
Changes discussed at the meeting will not be officially incorporated into the plan, but rather will be forwarded for consideration to the Eugene and
Springfield city councils and the
Board of County Commissioners.

Vets to petition for Oregon referendu m

A Lane County veteran's group
plans to solicit local support for
a petition which seeks to end
Oregon participation in undeclared wars of the future.
The Lane County chapter of
the Vietnam Veterans Against the
War (VVAW) discussed their immediate and long-range objec-tives at a meeting on Tuesday,
Jan. 25 (the same night as President Nixon's speech on peacemaking attempts) in the Newman
Center, U of O campus. Adrian
-Vahler, a regional coordinator
and U of O student, led the discussion which also touched on
problems of cu r rent amnesty
proposals, and methods for gaining state and national support during this election year.
Plans were discussed concer-

ning the circulation of a petition
which the group hopes will result
in a referendum for the voters
of Oregon on the Nov. 7 ballot.
The petition "provides that an
Oregon inhabitant may not be required to serve in the military
services outside of the United
States in undeclared wars," and
would bring to a vote the question of just how unpopular the
Vietnam war is.
Rob Williams, head of the
V.VAW at LCC, said tables have
been reserved ddwnstairs and in
the concourse of the LCC Center Building to attract petition
signers. Williams said, "We will
also be going out into the community, looking for peopie to
sign." The group hopes for 2,000
Signatures here at L C C , and
needs 40,000 statewide by July

7.

The organization discussed the
possibility of focusing local attention on "amnesty" proposals.
The group generally agreed
that '' amnesty" is a bad word
where deserters and draft resistors are involved. They objected
to the term because of its implication of wrongdoing. The VV AW
group feels that refusal to par- ·
ticipate in the war is not necessarily wrong, since Vietnam has
been widely admitted by many
Americans to be an immoral and
unjust venture.
"There are perhaps hundreds
of thousands of dissenting men
and women veterans from this
conflict," said Vabler, "and if
they left the country because of
their deep-felt objectio~ to the
war, we should allow them tore-

turn without any penalties or requirements for added service."
Several members felt" repatria.tion" could be a better term for
this movement.
Finally the meeting concerned
itself with possible outside functions that the VVA W might consider for future action. It was
suggested they move toward increased and improved benefits in
the areas of veterans hospitals,
loans and education. Other potential targets mentioned were
''the power of the military war
machine" and the "grossly distorted military budget, in comparison with domestic needs such
as education, housing and medical facilities." In these areas
the group saw itself as having a
meaningful function even after the
war ends.

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Feb. 1
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The innocent bystander • • • • • • • •
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Peace or Politics

President Nixon's disclosure, concerning 30 months of secret negotiations for peace in Vietnam, could be a strong political
move for him.
The timing of this disclosure is blatantly coincidental with
the anti-war feelings that are arising in the Democratic platform.
One wonders what other secrets may come out of the White
House this year.
Thus far we have witnessed the Pentagon Papers, and the
Jack Anderson papers, which are clear indications of the US gov•
ernment's embarrasing policy of diplomatic duplicity. It seems
the Nixon Administratio n is built on a foundation of Executive
Secrecy.
In President Nixon's speech he claims that some Americans
(press people and Congressmen) have been echoing North Vietnamese propaganda. President Nixon says these people were,
"Americans who could not know they were being falsely used by
the enemy to stir up divisiveness in the country.''
On the contrary, it is Mr. Nixon, not an outside influence
that serves to divide this country and ironically he defames the
American people, 79 per cent of whom have shown that they favor
an immediate end to the war.
In his speech, President Nixon cites 12 unsuccessful attempts
at bringing peace to Vietnam and blames the "enemy."
It seems President Nixon is trying to unite the American
people by letting them know his secrets for peace.
Yet his speech lacks the human quality to reach Americans
and explain our need in this country for peace. The need to stop
spending money on an already over-inflation ary military budget,
and a need to face the problem of rebuilding America.

Englan d's Vietna m
England might have taken a lesson from the American experience
in Vietnam, because they find themselves living on the same bitter,
dead-end street on which America has lived for ten long years.
Or England might have taken a lesson from the bloody history
of Southern Ireland in its struggle to become independent of British
rule.
Because we have Vietnam we rarely have the time or inclination
what is going on in the streets of Belfast. We get very
consider
to
simple, easy answers to the few curiosities we have about the Irish
civil war.
Often we pass it off as a religious war, with Protestants fighting Catholics. Certainly the religious element is a part of the strife.
But it goes much deeper into the impoverished life that an Irish
Catholic in Belfast experiences. Until recently not even token representation in government was available for the Catholics in Belfast.
The same slum conditions that the poor of America face are
an everyday experience to the poor person in Belfast.
England's attempts to manage what was a British colony in
a previous century are heavily responsible for the present situation.
And with the killing of unarmed demonstrators this weekend
in Belfast, a new level of violence, an unimaginable level, will undoubtedly enter stage left, as more of the same simplistic, lazy
solutions to a complicated problem.

Gas prices down

Ir wasn't long ago when the Army was planning to transport nerve gas through Oregon. But Oregonians like living as much
as anyone else. So they sent it somewhere else.
Over a year ago, the US announced that it had stopped using
a herbicide known as Agent Orange in its defoliation program in
Angry protests and conclusive proof that the
South Vietnam.
chemical caused severe deformities in human infants forced the
government to make this move.
Now it has been revealed that 1.5 million gallons of the outlawed chemical were turned over to the Saigon government for use
as they saw fit.
The behavior of people (especially Western Man) towards
these weapons of madness seems to be that if you take three paces,
bend over, and bury your head in the sand, then the problem is
solved.

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Hon est y lose s elec tion

by Arthur Hoppe

It was clear from the outset
that the entire 1972 Presidential
cnmpaign would hinge on a single
issue: trust.
After years of deceit and dishonesty over the Vietnam war,
the disillusioned American public desperately wanted a man in
the White House they could, above
all else, trust.

I n t h i s r e s p e c t , M r . Nixo n b e g a n t h e c a m p a i g n with
one seemingly-insurmountable
handicap: he had already been
President for more than three
·years. And if there was one job
designed to destroy a man's credibility, the times being what they
were, it was certainly the Presidency.
So Mr. Nixon went around being perfectly candid about one
thing or another. ''Let me be
perfectly candid about one thing,"
he would say in answer to almost
any question. But people would
arch their eyebrows and ask,
"Just one?"
It was no surprise that the
D e m o c r a t i c front-runner was
Senator Muskie. For the Senator had recognized the basic issue early and did his utmost to
capitalize on it.
"Trust Muskie," said his bumper stickers and billboards. He,
himself, did his best to look
like another Abe Lincoln, poor
but honest. In fact, to convince
the public that here at last was
a poor but honest candidate was

the whole point of his $20 million campaign.
There can be little question that
the Senator's $20 million campaign to prove he was poor but
honest would have whisked him
into the White House on a landslide, but for one thing: His mouth
•
was too small.

*

*

heard-of in American politics,
was adopted. The Senator went
around saying, "To tell the
truth ... '' And he did!
At first, Mr. Nixon was surprised, then concerned, then
panicky. Finally, he went around
saying , "To be perfectly candid .•. " And he was!

*

* * *

By January, his campaign was
going admirably. "Trust" and
"Muskie" were subliminally entwined in every voter's mind. He
had carefully said nothing dishonest, at least nothing that could
be proved dishonest. In fact, he
had carefully not said much of
anything at all. He looked like a
shoo-in.
Thus in February, his staff was
confident as they took a market
research survey: '' Do you trust
Senator Muskie?" Imagine the
consternation when 57 .2 per cent
of the housewives sampled replied, ''No, his mouth's too
small."
"Well, maybe it's not as big
as Hubert's ... " grudgingly conceded the Senator at the emergency staff meeting that followed.
"Senator," said his top strategist somberly, "you're bound to
lose unless you do something
drastic. We recommend that if
you can't look honest, you BE
honest.''
There was a stunned silence.
But in the end this strategy, un-

Who will ever forget their historic election eve television debate?
"To be perfectly candid," said
Mr. Nixon, "I don't want to give
up my three White Houses and
my private jet, but I doubt I'll ever
balance the budget or get us all
the way out of Vietnam."
"To tell the truth," said Senaor Muskie, "I could use
the $200,000 salary, but I can't
think of any better way to curb
inflation, lick poverty or make
friends with the Chinese."
So it went, down to the wire,
with each candidate honestly and
candidly revealing his flaws and
failings and lack of simple solutions to the voters. On election
day, of course, nobody bothered
to vote.
"A politician who's honest and
a politician you can trust," as
a Sioux Falls pizza maker glumly
put it, "are two different things."
(Copyright Chronicle Publishing Co. 1972)

Lette rs to the Edito r
Dear Editor:
A Register-Gu ard critic, Albert Leong, recently reviewed
S a m Peckinpah's latest f il m
"Straw Dogs" and gave what I
consider a very misleading impression of a very welldone,
powerful film.
1n "St raw Dogs" (starring
Dustin Hoffman), Peckinpah utilizes his skill in building a
mood slowly and painstakingly,
interweaving forces together for
a final, violent climax of death
and unbelievable power.
The story is one of increasing violence at a present-day
English farm, where David Sumner (Hoffman) and his wife (Susan George) live. Circumstances
and accidental violence culminate
in one of the longest sequences
of violence ever filmed.
Leong, the Guard citic, reviewed the movie as a "Stylized
Freudian nightmare," complete
with necessary phallic symbols,
"symbolic castration", and a
"repressed" hero (Hoffman).
Leong's preoccupation with supposed symbolism is the focal
point of his entire review. He
makes no comment on what I
consider far more important and
integral parts of the film: the pacing, photography and editing.
Leong says Davis is ''repressed", bookish, and "freaks out
on eight-year-o lds" (a line from
some comic dialogue David has
with his wife - hardly a basis
for serious character analysis).
Again, the critic's preoccupation
with Freudian symbolism has
clouded the reality of the film.
Hoffman plays a serious young
man who has never claimed to be
"one of the involved" and never
had to take a stand before. When
all issues are barred to survival
and protection of his own home,

he refuses to hide anymore. If
a viewer prefers to consider the
final scene as "Symbolic castration," so be it. I prefer to
see it somewhat less replete with
hidden meanings. There is nothing hidden about a human being
finally take a stand.
The catalyst for the final scene
is a town half-wit who finds help
and protection at David's home.
Leong cites David's reason for
defending his home as his
"strange attachment" to the idiot. Again, Leong appears to be
looking at the film through sex-

ually fogged eyes when he construes humanity and compassion
as "something strange."
Peckinpah and his craftsmen
have again combined photography
and superb editing to evoke a
mood of steadily increasing horror. In this process lies the beauty of ''Straw Dogs" (as it did
in " The Wild Bunch"). The audience no longer sits in judgement of the play; there is no
escape from involvement here.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Campbell

Lane Community College

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Man and environment

From •the people who brought you civilization
by Mik-el Kelly
The customary view of A-,
merican history is really something. From the East Coast to
California we elbowed out the Indian, and benevolently provided
him with a reservation. We eliminated the buffalo with little effort. We rounded up Africans by
the shipload for the privilege of
doing our chores. We butchered
the land with railroads and highways. We poked the earth full
of holes and scraped her skin in
search of gold, copper, oil and
silver.
You'd think that politicians, at
least, would look back over some
o f these atrocities and vow to
follow a policy of simple morality, if only in rhetoric.
The truth is, a single remaining spot was discovered, as yet,
unblemished. That spot was Alaska.
Alaska is big, clean and alive.
Clear skies and pure water flourish. Its wild animal life is virtually unAmerican in the freedom it enjoys.
Gr ea t--so what's the problem?
In 1968 Atlantic Richfield hit
oil on the North Slope of the
Brooks Mountain range at Prudhoe Bay. Within six months every
petroleum interest in the country
was in Alaska, hammering stakes, erecting buildings, and setting off dynamite.
A lease auction put the land we
bought from Russia for two cents
an acre, at prices of up to
$28,000 an acre. Maybe Wall
Street could save this poor state
yet.
In a study, "Alaska- The
Ecology of Oil" (Ramparts Magazine Jan. 1970), Barry Weisberg, wrote "in a dramatic preview of the ecological disasters
to come, a winter road was cut
across the Alaskan wilderness to
link Fairbanks with the Slope.
The road, which was open for one
month before it turned into the
longest manmade swamp in the
world, was officially named the
Walter J. Hickel Highway."
Hickel responded to a persistent press with a statement
"S o they've scarred the tundra.'
That's one road, 12 feet wide.,
in an area
big as the state

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What is unity?
The oneness of mankind-coming together of all
peoples, races, nations,
classes, and religions in
a spirit of understanding.
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of California."
The North Slope is especially
vulnerable because its tundra is
nothing but a thin covering of
vegetation over a frozen layer of
permafrost. If the vegetation is
removed, the permafrost melts,
leaving precarious holes to drain
and cave away.
A wide-scale litter problem
haunts the area as well. Said
Weisberg, "Orange peels last for
months, paper for years, wood
scraps for decades; metal or
plastic is practically immortal.
The reason for this is that arctic ecosystems are not prone
to bio-grade, i.e., to decompose
matter."
Colonel E.L. Hardin, chief of
the US Army Corps of Engineers
in Alaska, said with glee, "The
fifty-five gallon oil drum is the
new state flower of Alaska."
Eco-systems are fragile in the
tundra. The diversity of species is limited. Specific organisms rely on other specific or•
ganisms to survive. Untouched
by technology until only recently,
Alaska's wildlife is in a delicate balance. If man's conduct
so far is any indication of the
future, nature stands to lose.
Specialized life forms can adapt,
but not fast enough.
The rape of the Slope itself is
only half the story. The industries have inventively created an
equally colossal blunder. This
i s the 800 mile pipeline planned to run from the oU fields
to Valdez, a Pacific coast port.
The actual pipeline trunk will
require 20,000 acres, But since
the oil has to be heated to flow
through the pipe, an additional
seven to nine million acres is
necessary to support the project
when it begins to melt the ice
beneath the ground.
Barry Weisberg said, "Of the
many elements of arctic development, none has as great a potential for gross disturbance of
the entire eco-system as does
this pipeline. The dangers of
erosion, subsidence and stress
to the surrounding environs are
critical. Animals rely upon the
vegetative cover for food and
oxygen. To upset that balance is
to intervene in the life-supporting processes of the entire biological chain of the arctic."
The pipeline would interfere
with the migration of the region's 400,000 caribou, just to
cite one obvious fault. This would
only be the beginning. Plans include heating stations, storage
sheds, settlements, railways and
a string of access roads. All
of this would center around the
pipeline.
W he n environmentalists saw
the crisis developing between
Alaska's virginity and the lecherous intent of the oil industry,

Jieart, beatj

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6T. Harry

Natural living series with

they put up a squawk. But more
American history was unfolding. The same machinery that
walked on the Indian, the black
man and the wilderness of the
Old West now threatens Alaska
and its natives.
An A 1ask a state official
Thomas Kelly, said, "To say that
it is a tundra today and should
be a tundra forever, when tundra
has no economic value, doesn't
make sense.''
Senator Ted Stevens, also from
Alaska, summed up the political
ignorance of many of our leaders
when he said, "Ecology deals with
the relationship between living
organisms. But there are no
living organisms on the North
Slope." This stupidity overlooks
more than the countless varieties
of plant and animal life inhabiting the arctic. He a 1so forgot
about one third of Alaska's population-the Eskimoes.
The oil industry is confident
about getting its hooks into Alaska. Oil runs the country, so it
is politically safe to stand behind it.
It's too late now to stop the
industrial disregard for Alaska.
We could learn something from it,
but we won't.
What have we le a r ne d from
anything else in history?

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will it ward off colds? I can't
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one cold after another.
Help!
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Vitamins occur naturally and
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Most opinions to date of scientific basis say that if you are
eating a balanced nutritious diet
you are obtaining all the vitamins
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Feb. 1

Plan needs Clpproval

In open meetings Jan 20 and
Jan. 26, three members of the
administration described to faculty and staff the proposed Planning Model for LCC.
The Planning Model is basically a suggested guideline for
20 operational steps that will help
the student body, the college staff,
and college district citizens to
evaluate the present instructional
system and establish goals for
future educational programs and
services.
The model was presented at
the hearings to give all individuals a chance to voice their
opinions and suggestions before
the model is presented to the
Board of Education for approval
on Feb. 9. The presentation was
given in three phases; the separ ate phases were discussed by
Lewis Case, Dean of Instruction,
LeRoy Owens, curriculum specialist, and Paul Colvin, research
and program coordinator.
De an Case said that staff
morale has continued to decline
because of the lack of a plan
that would define purposes and
goals for the institution. He stated that several plans had been
suggested in the past but they
"fizzled out" because of a lack
of commitment.

According to Case, past plans
were usually supported by a single administrator and therefore lacked the necessary group
support for action. P.e went on
to say that by presenting the
model in the open hearing situation, the plan could be discussed
by several groups of people,
thereby providing input, confi-

dence, and support for the model.
Leroy Owens, curriculum specialist, spoke about the performance requirements that must
be met before the model could
be put into effect.
Owens stressed the necessity
for input by everyone who will
be affected by the model so that
possible grievances and suggestions can be heard. He also indicated that the model must be
flexible so successful curriculum programs can perpetuate,
and unsuccessful programs can
be eliminated without seriously
affecting the overall plan. He
concluded that the model is just
a "plan for a plan" and only
serves as a guideline for a possible direction to follow.
Paul Colvin, research and program coordinator, continued with
a review and explanation of the
various steps of the model itself.
One faculty member voiced his
disapproval with the method of
adoption of the model outline.
He pointed out after the 20 steps
in the adoption of the outline
were completed, the plan would
have to be approved by President Schafer. He felt it was unwise to begin discussion on the
model before it had presidential
approval.
Case said that the college
president had already seen the
model and had ratified it. He
indicated that the plan only required the presid,;mt's official
presentation and approval at the
upcoming Bo a rd of Education
meeting on Feb. 9.

SAC offers services

The Student Awareness Center
(SAC) continues to be the chief
student oriented information and
referral agency at LCC. Located on the second floor of the Center Building, near the student
activities area, SAC offers information and services free of
charge to LCC students.
SAC is divided into various
service functions. Each of the
present eight functions is headed
by a student coordinator.
Because of LCC's isolated location, a Transportation Section
is a must. Students can find how,
when, and where a person can get
a ride to and from the Lane campus. This section is also responsible for the bike rack at the
bottom of 30th Street hill.
The coordinator of the Housing
and Child Care Section keeps
a list of available housing in
the Eugene-Springfield area. Agencies outside the campus which
can help a person find housing
are also listed. Up-tp-date information about child care services at LCC and in the community is available. A baby-sitreferral service is also
ting
maintained.
Health Services is anomer important section of SAC. It has information concerning reducedcost dental help, along with inform at ion on abortion laws,
drugs, and alcohol, besides information on routine health services.
Minority Relations, and an In-

17th century play of mistak_e~
"Miser" is 300 years old,
(or misplaced) identity and love tnangles (or quadrangles). Laur1s
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production proves that good comedy is timeless.
The "Miser" of the title is Harpagon, an old man who pamcs
when a dog barks for fear someone is prowling about his garden
to steal his money. Jim Bradford, masterfully aged and stooped,
dominates the play with his crafty, fearful, strutting portrayal of
the tightwad. He totally commands the audience in the beautiful
scene when he discovers his money has been stolen. It is a fairly
long scene for one actor to carry, and Bradford comes off exceedingly well.
Marcia Callas as Elsie, and Mike McCormack as Valere, twu
of the lovers, fit wel\ into their roles and reap their share of laughs.
In fact, all the major characters bring a fine sense of the manners,
splendor and snobbishness of the 17th century to their roles.
Jim Maguire as the miser's petulant son, Cleante, swoons
admirably when speaking of his love, but doesn't seem at ease
with his role. He has a clipped style of speaking his lines, and
accenting each syllable, which has an annoying effect. Judy Perkkins also does a fine job as the "sweet young thing," Marianne,
Cleante's love.
Byard Pidgeon and Jocelyn Hardin provide excellent balances
as practical, down-to-earth "designers,'' out to get whatever they
can from the miser. While Pidgeon is at times a little irritating as
a major annoyance in Harpagon's life, Miss Hardin as Frosine, the
matchmaker, displays an elegance and cool.distance that proves her
characterization well-executed.
There is a fine and funny rhythm to this play, with the ac- ,
tors a_nd actresses perfectly timed, the sets and costumes perfect
co_mph~ents. The contrasts of elegance and silliness, of luxury and
m1serlmess are excellently created and well sustained.
Make no mistake, "The Miser" keeps all its promises.

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LCC's "strictly for laughs" production of Moliere's ''The
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Director George Lauris and his crew have kept their promises
too. The three-way contest between costume (Woody Crocker), set
(Dave Sherman) and actors must be called a draw. The lavish,
elegant splendor and silly frivolity of the comedy are spotlighted
by the dexterity of these three departments.

Student Activities and St a ff Advisor to SAC states that the
primary attribute of SAC is that
Lane students saw a need for
this type of center, then initiated
the program and found a way to
keep it running.
LCC student Pat Davis, Assistant manager of the center
says, "the Student Awareness
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Since its beginning over a year
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USED FURNITURE: Buy, sell
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mattresses, springs, etc. REASONABLE PRICES.
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FOR SALE: Actjusto-matic dress
form. New .. $5.00. Phone 3435421. Evelyn.
FOR SALE: One Hoover spin-dry
washer. Three years old, reasonably priced. Call 747-4737, 9 am
to 1 pm.
STUDENT TO SHARE three
bedroom house. Kitchen privileges, utilities paid, $60 per
month. a.LSO, for sale, Toshiba
stereo speaker. Call 426-7542.

FOR SALE: Remington portable
typewriter, $30. Kodak 500 slide -~
projector, $40, girls 3-speed
Schwinn bicycle with baskets,
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Deseret Club, 11 a.m. in Hea.
102/3
Ca"mpus Crusade for Christ,
12 noon in Cen. 403 Moaday,
Feb. 7:
Mature Women on Campus
meeting, 2 p.m. in Cen. 124

Tuesday, Feb. 1:
Vietnam Veterans Against the
War, 12 noon in Mth 205
Bahai Club, 12 noon in Cen.420
Christian Science Club, 3 p.m.
in Cen. 401
W.C.Fields film, 11:30 a.m.
in For. 309, lOy contribution
Wednesday, Feb.2:
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film, "Carry It On," 12 noon
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"The Miser/' 8 p.m. in the
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OSU has lengthened the number
of term hours credit accepted
from two-year accredited colleges. Students may now receive
credit for up to 108 term hours.
Formerly 93 term hours was the
cutoff. This revision is effective
beginning Winter Term 1972.

Plant responses probed at LCC
Plants may be used to identify murderers.
Cleve Backster, a retired Cl.A
expert in polygraph (lie detector)
operations is involved in research which may demonstrate
that plants respond in much the
same way as human beings. Backster has recorded polygraph responses in plants which indicate
this similiarity.
Backster's research began
with an accidental discovery in
February of 1966. He was attempting to determine how long
it would take the water to rise
from the roots to the leaves of
his office phiodendron plant. By
attaching the electrodes to the
leaves, he could measure the
moisture content. Expecting the
graph to record an upward movement, Backster was surprised
when the plant gave an "emotional" response to a- stress
situation.
After further study of his 1966
discovery, Backster became convinced that plants are responsive
to human thoughts and actions.
Experimenting with this premise,
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separate rooms, then had seven
students walk through one of the
rooms alone. While walking
through, one of the students killed one of the plants. Later,
hooked to the polygraph, the second plant identified the "murderer" in its reaction on the
polygraph.
Related research at LCC has
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central purpose of LCC's research is to generate interest
from the students," s aid Jay
Marston, LCC biology instructor.
LCC researchers hope to separate plant responses between
physical changes in the environment and human thought waves.

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LCC increased its season record to 11-4 and it's conference
record to 5-2 with a 88-65 victory over Linn-Benton Community College Saturday, Dec.
28. Lane played it's usual strong
game in the first half, leading
by seven at the buzzer.
Extensive use of a zone defense in the second half contributed to Lane's rebound total.
Gr e g Taylor drilled in 27
points, hitting over half of his
shots from the field. As a team
the Titans shot 39 of 86 from
the field, a hot 46 per cent, while
holding Linn-Benton to only 26 of
81 field goals attempted.
Lane is f!.~W i!l the third place

position in OCCAA standings l l/2
games behind Central Oregon ..
The Titans entertain SWOCC
tonight at 7:00 p.m.
OCCAA Standings,
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7
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Southwestern
6
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LCC
5
2
Linn-Benton
5
3
Umpqua
5
3
Clackamas
2
6
Clatsop
2
6
Judson Baptist
2
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.Chemeketa
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Saturday's Results:
LCC 88, Linn-Benton 65,
Judson Baptist 93, Chemeketa 87,
Umpqua 93, Clackamas 82,
Central Oregon 110, Clatsop 97

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Oregon Gossip

Watch out for the University
of Washington Huskie Basketball
Team for the remainder of the
season, friends. Coach Marv
Harshman really has them together now. The U of W is 12-3
for the season after their surprising win over the Oregon State
University Beavers by ·an 86 to
73 count, Monday, Jan.24.
If your'e having trouble remembering who Marv Harshman
is, well, think back to the last
five years; he finished second to
UCLA four out of those five
years. When he was coaching
at Washington State University.
He had very little talent then,
but molded them into winners.
Now he has talent, friends. It
might be a good idea for UCLA
and Southern Cal to take note of
this. They haven't played the Huskies yet. Remember the Beavers
were the ones who lost to UCLA
by only a 78-72 score. And look
what the Huskies did to OSU.
The Huskies are 3-1 in Pac:8

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play now, having lost an overtime game to a very good Stanford team, and this was on Stanford's home floor. The U of W
could very well be a factor in
the chase to win the league title. A great season for Coach
Harshman is in order.
He has been a top coach over
the years, recording a fine 396302 win-loss record in 26 seasons at Pacfic Lutheran and WSU.
Now if we add the 12-3 of this
season to that, Mr. Harshman records a 408-305 record. Not too
shabby, coach!
So in his first season at the
u of W, things are looking better than ever for Coach Harshman. He came to the U of
W with a high recommendation
from none other than UCLA's
class coach, Mr. John Wooden.
Harshman's next step may just be
to beat Mr. Wooden's dynastic
UCLA Bruins. This is Harshman's best chance ever to
succeed with that step.
What? Bob Devaney, Nebraska's Football Coach, was not
named Coach of the Year by his
fellow coaches? I wonder what
they want a coach to do? Mr. Devaney has won two national championships in a row, and in the
Orange Bowl his team demolished
the Alabama team of "Bear"
Bryant, who was named Coach of
the Year. The amazing thing is
that Devaney has never been
named Coach of the Year, and
his overall coaching record is
127 wins, only 28 losses, and
six ties. Mr. Devaney says he

will coach one more year, then
retire. Perhaps his fellow
coaches will give him a retirement present; the Coach of the
Year award.
H o w ab o u t the outstanding
young coach from the Palouse,
Jim Sweeney, as Oregon's new
head football coach. He's a fine
coach , friends. He had an outstanding record at Montana State,
and if he continues at Washington
State University, look for some
even tougher teams from WSU
in the future.
Sweeney was named Western
Coach of the Year recently after turning Cougar fortunes around from bad to good. Sweeney's team defeated an excellent Rose Bowl bound Stanford
team this -year, and they also dP.feated a find Duck team. The
Cougars are really competing
now, and it's because of Jim
Sweeney.

Sports Calendar

TUESDAY, Feb. 1, Basketball,
SWOCC here 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, Feb.2, Women's
Basketball, Mount Hood - there
6:30 p.m.
FRIDAY, Feb. 4, Gymnastics
Portland State U, - here 7 p.m.
Basketball, Central Oregon CC,
here 8 o.m.
Wrestling,
Clatsop CC -here
4p.m.
SATURDAY, Feb. 5, Basketball
Columbia Christian - there 7 p.m.
Wrestling, University of Oregon ·
Tourney, at Eugene 10 a.m.

Bah'a'u'lla'h
What does it mean?

LCC

Titan

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Row 1, left to right: Ken Kime, 158; Richard
Bucholtz, 167; Dennis Grauer, 190; Mark Booth
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Row 2, left to right: Al McKay, 118; Pete Faust,
126; Terry Payne, 126; Bob Stearns, 142; Dave
Perkins, Mgr.; Curt Crone, 142; Henry LaClair, 177. (Photo by Manuel Rodriguez).

Matmen downed by Cougars

The LCC Matmen met a challenge head on from the Clackamas Community College Cougars
Saturday, Jan. 29. The Cougars
will probably enjoy coming back
to Lane in the future considering
that they annihilated Coach Bob
Creed's charges by a 40 to 3
score.

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Curt Crone, LCC, 18-2; 150=
Dan Steffin, CCC, won by forfeit;
158-Ken Kime, LCC, d Kurt Fritz,

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decisioned Kurt Fritz. Kime remains undefeated with six wins.
Lane's match with Southwestern Oregon Community College
Friday, Jan. 28 was cancelled
due to icy conditions. There has
been no word as to when it will

Res u 1ts: 118-Mike Curfman,
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Feb. 1

On January 25, President Nixon disclosed his
eight point program for peace in Vietnam. The proposal is his thirteenth attempt in the last 30 months.
The President sees this proposal as being "generous
and far reaching."
The following is an outline of the two main disclosures in Nixon's speech; his eight-point peace
package, and an explanation of the secret deliberations.
''Here is the essence of our peace plan;
public disclosure may gain it the attention it
deserves in Hanoi.
Within six months of an agreement:
-We shall withdraw all U.S. and allied forces
from South Vietnam.
-We shall exchange all prisoners.
-There shall be a ceasefire throughout Indochina.
-There shall be a new presidential election
in South Vietnam.
President Thieu will announce the elements of
this election. These include international supervision; and an independent body to organize and
run the election, representing all political forces in South Vietnam, including the National
Liberation Front.
Furthermore, President Thieu has informed
me that within the framework of the agreement
outlined above he makes the following offer.
He and Vice President Huong would be ready to
resign one month before the new election. The
chairman of the Senate, as caretake head of the
government, would assume administrative responsibilities, but the election would be the sole
r esponsibility of the independent election body.
Ther e are several other proposals in our new
peace plan; for example, as we offered privately on July 26 of last year, we remain prepared to undertake a maJor reconstruction program thoughout Indochina, including North Vietnam, to help all those peoples to recover from
the ravages of a generation of war.
We will pursue any approach that will speed
negotiati ons.
We are ready to negotiate the plan I have
outlined tonight and conclude a comprehensive
agreement on all military and political issues.
Because some parts of this agreement could prove
more difficult to negotiate than others, we would
be willing to begin implementing certain military
aspects while negotiations continue on · the implementation of other issues, just as we suggested in our private proposal in October.
Or, as we proposed privately last May, we
remain willing to settle only the military issues and leave the political issues to the Vietnamese alone. Under this approach, we would
withdraw all U.S. and allied forces within six
months in exchange for an Indochina cease-fire
and the release of all prisoners.
The choice is up to the enemy.
President Nixon made public the fact that he and
Henry Kissinger have been negotiating in secret with
North Vietnam.
After consultation with Secretar

Two talent agencies were firebombed in New York City Wednesday, Jan. 26. In one blast
a woman was killedandSoHurok,
the concert impressario was injured. Both booking offices import talent from the Soviet Union.
Both devices exploded after a
caller warned news media of the
The caller used the
bombs.
"Never Again" slogan of · the
Jewish Defense League, but the
League said it hadn't anything to
do with the blasts.

***
Seizures of illegal drugs last
year totaled an estimated street
value of 920.2 million dollars,
up sharply from the 383 million
dollars of 1970. The number
of domestic arrests by the Bureau
of Narcotics and Dangerous
Drugs rose 98 per cent. Those
made in cooperation with state
officials jumped 71 per cent, and
those made with foreign agencies
increased 110 per cent.

***

Black r evolutionary Angela
Davis will appear in court in
San Jose this we ek for arguments

Rogers, our Ambassador in Saigon and our chief
lated since Christmas under the guise of "protective
negotiator in Paris, and with the full knowreaction" has proved fruitless in stopping enemy supledge and approval of President Theiu, I sent
ply lines and the use of infiltration -routes throughout
Dr. Kissinger to Paris as my personal repIndochina.
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resentative on-.-4u~~~t 4, 1969, to begin the_
What seems to be a soft-line approach becomes
secret peace neg6tiah~ns.
simply a more subtle yet firm position for this adSince that tim~ •"r,r. f<"iesinger has traveled to
ministration. The prisoner crisis, long a political isParis 12 times • on these. secret missions. He
sue for Nixon, has been virtually milked dry of any
has met seven times with9. J.,e Due Tho, one of
meaning. While POW's rot in camps, the US, by its
Hanoi's top poli~cal leaders,•~d Minister Xuan
actions of increased bombing and insistance on the
Thuy, head of tlte North Vietnarite'5"'e delegation
prisoners' release, can only be seen as a failure to
to the Paris talks. He has met with Mi.JJJ.ster
negotiate, despite administration allegations to the
Xuan Thuy alone five times. I would .likf to"take
contrary.
this opportunity •h>. thank President Pompu.iou
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for his pers~n;u, ,oosoistance in helping tc> tnake
. What emerges ~rom t~e Nixo~ pr?posal is _a ne,w
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arrangemE;Dt~tbr these talks.
lm~ .of how t_o achieve victory. m Vi~tn~m. N_i~on s
This is•. why I initiated these private negbtiations: Pr;viately both sides can be more•··•··•.. p~htical survival_ ?epe nd s. on hi_s ~chievi~g m1ll~ary
••• w~ th dra~al. If_ mihtary vi~t?ry is impossib_le, Nixon
flexible in offerit1£ new approaches. Also priwiJ.J. achieve _victory by polltical and economic means.
both sides J.o.talkfrankly
vate discussions a..1
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The • result
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f~m• the pressures'
and to make positions••fr~
y1etnam_ ·irn.d all of . Indochm~, pohhcal leverage m
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of public debate.
m_fluencmg •the future of Vietnam, and the use of
In seeking peace in Vietnaqi with so many
Vietnam's abtmd~t natural resources.
lives at stake, I felt we could.. ~ot afford to let
•• •.
any opportunity go by-private or public-to
The National Li~e;ation Front seven point plan
negotiate a settlement. As I h~ve . itatied on a
of a few years ago· \'as quite similiar to Nixon's
number of occasions I was prepared••and rerecent plan. Both sideti•• insist on their peace plan
main prepared to ex~lore any avenue •ptihl~ or
being the one accepte~. There is a tremendous aprivate to speed negotiations to end the w;t'..
For 30 months, whenever Secretary Hogers, ··.••• • mount of political leverige available to the diplomatic
••. winner. Mr. Nixon wanti.tQ be that winner.
Dr. Kissinger or I were asked about secret neHad Mr. Nixon inta.flded to bring home the pri:
gotiations we would only say we were pursuing
: soners, he would never tt'ave allowed the commando
every possible channel in our search for peace.
: raid into North Vietnam . •'The lives of prisoners were
There was never a leak, because we were de•: made much shakier by tha't act. To ' ' rescue" a handtermined not to jeopardize the secret ne•. Iul of men, he was wil}ing to possibl y sacrifice the
gotiations. Until recently, this course showed
: thousands that would r~main. And all this was done
signs of yielding some progress.
/ to show that he really c~red.
Now, however, it is my judgment that the pur.
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poses of peace will best be served by bringFmal_ly, ~is willm;ness to fmancially rebmld all
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ing out publicly the proposals we have been
of Indochina 1s an ob~rous attempt to master the eco•.
making in private.
onomy of those natioQ'S·. To further the supremacy of
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the dollar in Asia, ttfis administration has created a
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new theatre -- a ttreatre of compassion. It is not
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very reassuring to: know that the US will rebuild
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what it destroys. The Asian experience of being re•:
by Bill Dwyer
•• built is exemplifiea by Tokyo, today. What the Mar,
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Mr. Nixon s n~w. peace propo~al, _when taken at •. •. shall plan of poi World War II did for Japan the
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coming elections here. The Democratic aspirants. for
It w.U1.• be a surprise if Nixon's peace plan is
the presidency have hammered hard at Nixoi?'.s.
accepted" by Hanoi. Their l:!xperience with American
Vietnamization, at his steadily increasing bombiqg:.
design/does not lend itself to such an acceptance.
of the North, and the shambles that has resq_lted•at •
The.)iixon plan will go the way of the Nixon bombing,
••·•
i10me from participation in the war.
,•~--f>rotective reaction") and Vietnamization.
Though Mr. Nixon continues to insist9·th?}.t the
To publicly announce what was a secret negotiA.RVN forces are now capable of holdiqt;• their own •• •'
ation is to destroy that negotiation. Hanoi has no other
against the communists, the hard facts of ~ho contro:i.s ••
choice but to reject. There would be too much pride
most of the South Vietnamese countrysi<iQ . jndk'ate
to swallow otherwise.
just the opposite. The ARYN is only effective··ilJ the
There will be much more compromise before this
small urban enclaves like Saigon, and their operat"ions
war ends. And victory will !lo to the one who puts
in the countryside have kept them continually on the
his vested interests -- economic and political - defensive for the last ten years.
secondary to the wefare of a war-torn Indochi na.
The bombing of North Vietnam, which has esca-

on 10ur aerense monons attacAing jury selection and asking the
state to pay her defense costs.
Her attorney said that Ms. Davis'
defense fund is nearly empty and
expenses are running between
$5,000 and $15,000 a month. The
defense attorney also said that the
motions about jury selection
come from possible discrimination in the selection process by
sex, race, and age.

***

The American Indian Association has begun legal proceedings
against the Cleveland Indians
Baseball Team for 9 million
The suit involves the
dollars.
symbol of the baseball team,
a grinning, toothy Indian emblazoned on the team's shirts.
A spokesman for the group said
that this action was just the beginning.

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Shirly Chisholm, a black Democratic Congresswoman from New
York, formerly announced her entry into the presidential race and
said she would run in primaries
in Florida, North Carolina, and
New York.

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Northern Ireland faced its bloodiest day in years. Against the
police order of no demonstrations
several thousand men, women and
marched through the
children
Catholic district of Belfast. Some
rock throwing began and police and
army troops fired rubber bullets
to disperse the crowd. Then live
ammunition was used----leaving
13 dead and scores wounded.
Northern Ireland reacted to the
killings with widespread violence.
Ten persons were injured in a
bomb explosion at a Belfast Department store and a Roman Catholic General Strike is underway.
Bernadette Devlin, the independent member of the British
Parliament from Northern Ireland, attacked Home Secretary
Reginald Maudling in the House
of Commons and she was dragged out of the chamber, kicking.
Maudling had said that the British
troops were justified in killing•
13 persons in Belfast.
In Dublin, Prime Minister Jack
Lynch recalled the Ambassador
to Britain to emphasize the
seriousness of the killings.

Harrisburg Pa. is the scene this
week of the opening of the trial
of the "Harrisburg Eight." 125
prospective jurors were present
for the judges opening comments.
The judge said that the jury would
probably be sequestered for the
duration of the trial, which is
due to last several months. The
eight, including Rev. Phillip Berrigan and an assortment of priests
nuns, and scholars, are accused
of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger, of plotting to blow up
heating ducts under Washington,
D. c. government building~. and of'
plotting to destroy draft files in
the Washington area.

***
·,The Board of Trustees of Stanfordt
University upheld the firing of
radical associate professor H.
Bruce Franklin for encouraging
and participating in disruptions.
Franklin said it had been his endeavor to '' rehabilitate Stanford
and society."

Carole Feraci, who ' 'was" a member of the Ray Coniff Singers, unfurled a banner reading "stop
the killing" and made a short
speech to that effect, while entertaining President Nixon and invited
guests at the White House. Nixon just continued smiling, but most
of the audience jeered and shouted
at the young girl. Among the audience was Bob Hope and Billy
Graham.

***

In Vietnam this week, US military
sources say that the enemy is planning to mount a Tet offensive for
their New Year which begins on
Feb. 15.

***

A new survey for the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug
Abuse announced that statistics
show the number of people who
have used marijuana is far more
than was previously thought. Ac cording to the report, 15 per cent
of the population over twelve have
tried the drug. Those 18-25 years
old who used the dr ug amounted
to more than 40 per cent of that
age group.