jungle I 'm a new kid at a big high school carrying a

card around to receive the initials and

blessings of all my new teachers And I 'm

wondering, will the classes be a drag.'' What

are the kids here like?

Ms Watt, our no-nonsense journalism

teacher, breaks into my reverie with an

assignment for the class "Be honest." she

warns, and writes on the blackboard the

subject we are about to attack with three to

four paragraphs: " W h y are you here?"

Exactly what I was wondering myself. Not

too many years ago I got a degree that told

me I didn't have to do this kind of thing any

more Then I was able to joke with knowing

friends—fellow ex-students—about "high

school,'' and we all would laugh and wonder

how in the world we ever stood it. So why

am I here?

Well if I can get away with it and it's

only for one day, why not? For all the

wisdom I've gained and the pain I've

suffered in my long life—more than 20 years

on this earth—I can still ride Tri Met for a

dime less than adults pay without getting any

suspicious looks I can just as easily walk into

a classroom without anyone mistaking me

for the teacher.

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2 * CI I n lent News 1976

M $ s L For the Week Ending September 20. 1976

ormant: FBI ordered break-in The key charge

From sworn testimony of Alan

Harold Selling:

" . . . I was asked by the FBI to

surreptitiously enter the David Spie-

gel residence, and I was instructed

and did so know ing where they kept

the key, and I entered their residence

and took down addresses and phone

numbers and names of acquaintances,

friends and people they know, and

tried to obtain information that

might lead to the whereabouts of

Michael Lewis Spiegel, who is their

son, who is a federal fugitive."

" . . . once was on a Saturday. The

Spiegels were at the beach and Robby,

their son, was gone. And the other

time was when Robby went on a

retreat and his parents were again at

the coast; and it was between—about

1 and 5 in the morning."

(Question from First Asst. U.S.

Atty. Jack Collins:] "And did you

receive money from the FBI for this

work?"

"Yes, I did."

"I was on my own, but, yes, they

did give me instructions. They said,

"Go in as if, you know, you were a

part of that residence; just kind of

meander on in,' or 'do it during the

daylight hours when no one would

really suspect anything was going

on . ' "

[Question from Collins:] "You used

the word 'they.' Are you referring

collectively to the FBI or this particu-

lar agent or others?"

"Both times it was Special Agent

Tom Durham and Ronald J. Makin-

son."

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Our man penetrates blackboard

By JACK SCOTT

This is the story of Alan Selling, a

Port lander who has worked as an undercover

informant for the Federal Bureau of Investi

gation (FBI), the Portland Police Depart

ment, the Eugene Police Department, the

Internal Revenue Service and the U.S.

Treasury Department's bureau of alcohol,

tobacco and firearms (ATF).

Richard H. Meeker and Ronald A. Buel assisted Jack Scott in compil ing information on the Portland bureau of the FBI. the Portland Police Depart-ment 's Intelligence Divlaion and the U.S. attorney's office.

pretended to be. It was incomplete. It was

one day out of the life of someone who

doesn't really exist, and it ended promptly at

3 pm Thursday.

Still, I can offer impressions from that day.

Almost all of it was spent inside the big,

squarish three-story brick and concrete

structure in Southeast Portland known as

Cleveland High School: in various windowed

and window less classrooms, in big hallways

that would be colorless without the artwork

and murals of students, among more than

1,500different people who spend the majori-

ty of their days during four years of their

lives inside that same tniilding.

I've always had a thing about school

buildings. During vacations in my student

days they seemed to haunt me whenever I

went near them And it's funny, because

this summer I got those same old fierce

willies when I saw the "Back to School" ads

making their annual appearance in the

newspapers Even when I told myself that it

was ridiculous, that I'll never have to go

back again, they wouldn't go away.

So somehow it makes a strange kind of

sense to find myself three days after Labor

Day with the 8:30-in-the morning, 174-

schlnol-days-to-go blues. Only it's no dream.

At the heart of the story are Selling's

charges that local FBI agents instructed him

to break into the residence of Portland

lawyer David Spiegel, whose son Mike is a

member of the Weather Underground, an

activist radical political organization. Selling

says he did the FBI's bidding and entered the

Spiegel household twice in 1974 to try to find

information concerning Mike Spiegel's

whereabouts.

Whipple, Paulus By STEVE FORRESTER

Tuesday after Labor Day After a foggy

morning, it's finally turned into a sunny late

summer afternoon. Norma Paulus is resting

on a makeshift couch in the back of her white

campaign van as it travels down the

Willamette Valley.

She has been up since before 6 am, when

she and her driver left her home in Salem for

Portland, to be at Hyster Corporation's

plant on NE Clackamas Street to greet

workers at a workshift change at 7:30 am.

"H i . My name is Norma Paulus. I 'm a

candidate for secretary of state.''

Paulus is a Republican, running against

Democrat Blaine Whipple.

Downtown for a one-hour newspaper

interview. Then to Cascade Corp., for a

walk through of the entire plant to meet

workers, and on to a noon speech before a

group of assembled Kiwanis Club presidents

at a restaurant in Montavilla.

The interior of the campaign van is

decorated with political bumper stickers

representing a few years of Oregon elections.

The outside sports a large "Norma Paulus

for secretary of state" emblem.

Getting up from the couch, Paulus says,

"Packwood won on the theory that if you

could win Eastern and Southern Oregon and

hold your own in the [Willamette] Valley,

you could win the state.''

The van leaves the freeway, passes

through Salem and heads for Dallas.

In Dallas, Paulus meets a Polk County

Republican party official. They were to greet

a shift change at a Willamette Industries

plant, but the Kiwanis luncheon kept them

too long in Portland. So they will walk

through the Polk County Courthouse, a

marvelous old ivy-covered stone structure

with a chiming clock tower and a picture of

President James K. Polk in the main

reception room.

Paulus will end her campaign day with a

dinner speech to the Professional Mortgage

Women of Marion County in Salem.

Blaine Whipple was up before 5 am

Tuesday. By 5:30 he was on the road to

Grants Pass, logger country. En route he

stopped in Sutherlin to visit with everyone

he could find on its main street and the

publisher of the town's newspaper. He

arrived in Grants Pass at 11 am and spent

the day doing radio and newspaper inter

views, a Kiwanis meeting, two shift changes

at plants and a public coffee. By 7 am on

Wednesday he was addressing the Medford

Chamber of Commerce.

The downstate swing is critical to

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PAULUS AT HYSTF.R

Can she raise the money?

SCRIBBLING A W A Y FOR DEAR LIFE

James Duncan in light jacket, center

By JAMES DUNCAN

Last week I could have begun a new life for

myself at Cleveland High School, with no

strings attached. For a day I posed as

someone six or seven years younger than I

am, a high school student in the first week of

classes. The experiment, as you will see,

worked eerily well.

What I got out of the experience and why I

did it are pretty well mixed up together. We

hear a lot of jargon about the quality of

education, or lack of it, but rarely does

anyone describe how education really feels.

Perhaps more than anything that feeling

should be the beginning of any analysis of

education today People try to describe it,

but they are usually PhDs away from the one

experience that could provide them with the

most insights—their own years in high

school.

Let me provide a quick disclaimer. I 'm not

about to try to let you in on the secrets of

high school life, or even to offer a definitive

account of life and education at Cleveland

High School. I only spent one day there. I

saw the beginnings of patterns, just as I saw

people who with time would probably have

become my friends had I really been what I

Alan Selling's mother. Carolyn, and his

father, John, are both Reed College gradu-

ates. They are now divorced. Carolyn works

as a Portland social worker and John is

president of ESP Properties. In terms of

affluence and social standing, they are one of

Portland's most prominent families. Alan's

relative Ben Selling briefly served as Oregon

governor shortly after the turn of the

century. He is frequently identified as the

first Jewish governor in the history of the

United States.

Talking about his childhood, Alan Selling

told me, " W e never had the money of the

Rockefellers, but I never hurt for bucks."

Alan, who is now 23, spent his childhood at

his family's luxurious and secluded home on

the outskirts of Southwest Portland. He and

his family, which also includes an older

brother and sister, regularly worshipped at

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A L A N SELLING AS HE A P P E A R E D O N THE F R O N T PAGE OF THE OREGON1AN War demonstration at this time convinced him to go to the FBI

How FBI, others

responded to

Selling's story

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

is increasingly under attack for using lm

proper and illegal methods of investigating

left leaning and radical political groups. The

FBI has harassed people, secretly infiltrated

their organizations, written them phony

letters, threatened them, broken into their

homes.

These activities, however, have been

associated with places like New York,

Chicago, Detroit and San Francisco—not

Portland. Now that situation should change.

This week Willamette Week is printing a

prof:I-of self-corffsvxl Portland F?U inform-

ant Alan Selling

Selling has told us, among other things,

that in mid-1974 two FBI agents here

instructed him to break into a local resi-

dence. The goal of this surreptitious entry

was to establish the whereabouts of a fugitive

member of the Weather Underground, a

radical offshoot ot Students for a Democratic

'Society (SDS) that takes credit for over 25

bombings that occurred in the early 1970s.

In a similar vein, the New York Times

reported Aug. 18, " A number of burglaries

of friends and associates of the Weather

fugitives were carried out by FBI agents in

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Whipple's strategy, which his cam-paign manager Bill Garrett describes as, "Hold up the bottom of the state and clobber them here in the tri-county area.

Whipple and Paulus are engaged in one of Oregon's toughest physical challenges, trying to woo all of its voters.

An Oregon statewide political cam-paign is an immense undertaking. Most experts say the minimum entry fee is $100,000. Oregon's 96,981 square miles contain a number of distinct geographical political divi sions, and the art of a statewide campaign is to conceptualize the combination of blocs that will lead to victory. A Umatilla County Democrat is not a Coos County Democrat is not a Lane County Democrat is not a Multnomah County Democrat. A Deschutes County Tom McCall Re-publican is not a Polk County Walter Huss Republican.

For the candidate it is a grueling journey on the road or in the air, 12-to 16-hour days, six and a-half-day weeks spent building support, culti-vating people, putting together the winning combination.

The race for Oregon secretary of state between Norma Paulus and Blaine Whipple will probably become the hottest and closest statewide race on our ballot in November.

While it is the first statewide general election race for both candi dates, they are strong, savvy, running hard and playing for keeps. Already they have launched attacks at each other's records. Before election day, most of Oregon will have the opportu nity to see Paulus and Whipple. Several joint appearances are planned, including one on KOIN TV Sept. 20, another on KATU TV OCT. 10 and a debate before the Portland City Club Oct. 15.

While both candidates present well thought out plans for the office of secretary of state, it's not an office that excites the public imagination. It has perhaps more political potential than real power in state government. The governor is much more visible, the treasurer handles more money and the attorney general can flex more muscle.

But Mark Hatfield and Tom Mc Call used the secretary of state's office on the first floor of the Oregon State Capitol as a launching pad for the trip upstairs to the governor's suite on the second floor. With its various respon sibilities, the office provides its occu-pant a full time political platform, and that makes for name familiarity.

" I have no intention of running for governor next time [1978]," says Paulus. "To give credibility to a woman in the office, I'll do a four year term and do it better than anyone else has."

Says Blaine Whipple, "It 's possible that I'd run. Of course, I won't pledge four years. If Straub doesn't run and I've done a good job, I'll run. I'm not placing any limits on my horizon."

If the governor should die or become disabled the secretary of state is first in line of succession under a constitutional amendment Oregon's voters approved in 1972.

It is too early to make odds on the Paulus Whipple race, but several factors that will determine its outcome are already apparent.

The race pits a large, well thought out "Packwood type" organization against a largely volunteer, free-wheeling Democratic grassroots or ganization, a better funded (Paulus) against a well funded (Whipple) cam paign and an appeal based on issues (Whipple) against an appeal based more on person (Paulus).

In addition to name familiarity (which is a small factor because neither candidate crosses the thresh old of high statewide recognition), five distinct factors are critical to deter mining the outcome of a statewide political race: l)the candidates and their personal appeal; 2) money avail

able to their campaigns; 3) their organizations and strategies; 4) ad-vertising and issues; and 5) a group of other factors which are external to the campaign (voter registration and turn out, the candidates' sexes, editorial endorsements by the state's news papers and the influence of the presidential election).

Who they are

1. The Candidates. Paulus and Whipple are unusual people—intelli-gent, bold, tough and hard working. They are also both thorough-going politicians.

Paulus' family came to Burns, Ore., from Nebraska during the De-pression. Two details from Paulus' life reveal her toughness. She had a bout with polio as a young woman, and she won admission to Willamette Univer-sity's College of Law having only a Burns high school diploma. After working for the Harney County dis-trict attorney, a Salem law firm and the Oregon Supreme Court chief justice, she had absorbed enough law to petition Willamette and be admitted to law school.

She has practiced law since admis-sion to the state bar in 1962. Her husband. Bill, is also a lawyer. She was elected to the 1971, 1973 and 1975 Oregon legislatures as representative of a Salem district.

Blaine Whipple came to Oregon in 1957 to be a graduate assisttnt at the University of Oregon Journalism School. He began his long association with Oregon Democratic Party poli-tics in 1958, managing the successful Charles Porter campaign for Con-gress. Whipple has been associated with the liberal wing of the Demo-cratic Party. He ran unsuccessfully for the First District congressional seat in 1962 against Walter Norblad and in 1964 against Wendell Wyatt, losing narrowly the second time. He ran unsuccessfully for a Washington County state senate seat in 1966. But Whipple's association with the anti war movement of the '60s brought him media exposure and prominence and election as the Democratic state committee an in 1968 and 1972. He headed both the McCarthy and Mc Govern campaigns in Oregon.

Whipple finally won legislative of-fice in 1974, defeating incumbent Washington County state Sen. Tom Hartung. considered as upset victory.

While Whipple's profession is poli tics, his vocation is real estate proper ty counselor. He is president of his own company, Whipple Development Corporation. "It meets my family's needs," says Whipple. "It also offers me the flexibility necessary for poli-tics. In 1975,1 spent no more than five months at it during the legislative session."

Paulus, 43, is clearly the more colorful candidate, and she gains visibility because she is a woman. Whipple, 46, gives a solid but some what gray appearance. During their first joint appearance Aug. 3 in Tigard, Paulus presented a more relaxed platform manner; Whipple's speech was without much inflection, speaking at the audience rather than to it.

Both candidates bogged down in addressing the details of the secretary of state's responsibilities, but Paulus got off a good opener. Announcing she had a new slogan, based on the Charmin tissue television commercial, she warned: "Don't let Mr. Whipple put the squeeze on you." Whipple opened his speech with a Polish joke.

The appeal of Oregon's last state-wide woman candidate. Betty Roberts, suffered from a hard edge in her appearance, which was reinforced by a hard edge in her speech. Paulus projects a soft edged appearance, but her speaking manner is more hard edged It is probably a more salable combination.

In another way, candidates must show themselves in order to attract loyalty among workers and support among voters. It's well known that non verbal messages generally carry more information to people than verbal. In this area, Whipple's basical ly gray appearance is augmented by somewhat stiff body language, while Paulus' looser, hip body language is more ingratiating It must be ob-

served, also, that while placing a hand on the arm of the listener is an ancient politician's move, it does achieve a new dimension when the politician is a woman and the listener a man.

The dollars

2. Money. While most experts say that $100,000 is the minimum neces-sary for a high-gear statewide cam-paign in Oregon, political fund-raising is slow for all candidates this year. Republican candidates are generally able to raise more money than Demo-crats, and this race is no exception.

Paulus spent more in her primary campaign ($40,000) than Whipple did in his ($26,000), and she plans to spend more in the general election ($120,000) than Whipple ($44,000).

Primary election campaign contri-bution and expenditure reports filed with the secretary of state's office showed Paulus' largest contributors were from the lumber industry. She received $500 from Weyerhaeuser. $200 from Crown Zellerbach, $400 from Boise Cascade, $300 from Georgia Pacific and $1,000 from two officials of Willamette Industries. Paulus also raised $1,000 from the Oregon Committee for Action, the political fund of the Associated Gener al Contractors. Paulus' $8,000 deficit in the primary was covered by a loan from her husband.

While Paulus is generally consid ered a liberal Republican, Whipple thinks he has found a soft spot in her lumber industry support. He points to her vote against the timber yield tax bill in the 1975 legislature and notes that she has been flown about the state in a Louisiana-Pacific Corp. Lear Jet. Paulus says she did fly in the jet once, and that the in-kind contribution by Louisiana-Pacific will be reported.

Whipple's soft spot is land use issues. Based on 1975 legislative votes, Paulus got a higher rating from the Oregon Environmental Council (87 per cent) on her 1975 legislative voting record than Whipple (74 per cent).

Whipple's primary campaign con-tributions were mainly in small amounts, but he did receive $1,000 from Robert Randall Co. (construction and rentals). Whipple ended the cam-paign with a $3,000 deficit, which is still outstanding.

As of last week, Paulus' campaign had raised $15,000 and just kicked off its major fund raising drive.

Whipple's campaign projects that it will have between $10,000 and $13,000 raised by this week and is kicking off its grassroots fund raising campaign with an advertisement in the Oregon Labor Press, headlined, "Good government starts with hon est, straightforward campaigning. This kind of campaigning must be paid for by you not by the giant special interest groups or multinational cor-porations."

Organizing the campaign

3. Organization and strategy "We made a very serious error in the primary campaign," says Paulus. "They just scheduled me for speak ing. There were no lawn signs. Polls indicated that a serious obstacle for me would be conservative Republicans Where they didn't know either of us [Paulus or her Republican primary opponent, John Kelting], they chose the man Also, we had no ballot slogan."

After the primary election Paulus hired Karen Whitman to run her general election campaign. Whitman ran Lee Johnson's reelection cam paign in 1972 and Bob Packwood's re-election campaign in 1974. Her first major action was to move the campaign headquarters to Portland, renaming the Salem office the Home Office. " I felt I couldn' t disturo the Salem following and family, but I moved the leadership up here," says Whitman. Portland headquarters is on the SW Front Avenue level of the Benjamin Franklin Bldg. "I've been knocking around politics for I long time, and the level of commitment in this campaign is high—it has not been hard to find leadership," says Whit man. "The reservoir of what was left after the primary wasn't sufficient, in

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A day at high school CoHtmutd from 1

I ' m vaguely aware that tomorrow l 'U be all grown up again, but today I ' m looking at the girl in the next row. For Ms Wat t ' s information I have jus t w r i t t e n t h e s e i l l u m i n s t i n g thoughts ; " 1 d o n ' t really know what exactly I expect to learn It's a new experience for me, though sometimes I feel like I 've been through it b e f o r e . " I guess I ' m trying to be honest .

" H o w come everyone ' s copying their paper o v e r ? " I ask the girl in the next row as she copies her paper over . Stupid question.

" I don ' t know they made some mistakes so they ' r e doing a good copy to tu rn i n , " she says. I look at mine and decide I 'd better do the same. When the hands from the back desks start passing papers forward on me I nearly panic. My own hand frantically scribbles the last sentences.

O u t fo r l u n c h

I t ' s a lew hours later. Luncht ime in the cafeteria, a big gray room with tables scattered throughout and a food counter along one ent i re wall. I buy a sad looking cheese and baloney sand wich plus milk for 55 cents and look around for a place to sit .

1 try to strike up a conversation with a guy who ' s shared a couple of morn ing classes with me, but he isn ' t too friendly. Walking between the tables loaded with people who know each o ther , I ' m hit with a genuinely lonely feeling. As though I really did just t ransfer up from Medford High.

This school lets you go outside and roam around during your free t ime, a kid at the lunch table tells me. " W h y n o t ? " I think as I get up and chuck my empty milk carton into a trash can.

Outs ide is the place where you can relax, light your cigarette and shoot the bull with your buddies. A girl and two guys gett ing some sun in a front yard across the street spot a friend walking just behind me.

" H e y , M a r k , " they yell, and motion him over. H e ambles across in no particular hur ry .

A week ago at this hour , who knows what this guy was doing? Working on his car , swimming and drinking beer out by the Sandy River, messing around on his guitar. Next week and for a lot of weeks to follow he ' l l probably be out here smoking with his friends and wishing his way through the next three classes.

In the narrow school courtyard a knot of five boys has formed, their voices occasionally carrying across to me.

" S o I said screw i t . " A couple of laughs.

Ano the r voice: " H e goes, ' I ' m going to retire in seven years . ' I felt like saying, 'You bastard, why d o n ' t you retire n o w ? ' "

They turn and scratch some graffiti on the school wall, then break up and go different directions. Ano the r group comes running through at the o ther end of the courtyard. A huge black-muzzled German shepherd is lying down in the sun close to me. T h e last

" T H E Y U S E A L L T H E I R R E S O U R C E F U L N E S S T O S T R A I N A G A I N S T T H E T R A P " C o n f u s i o n o v e r t h e p u r p o s e of it all can eas i ly set in

boy of the group sees an opportuni ty for a little h u m o r .

" H e y , " he yells to me. " T h a t ' s my personal fr iend. H e ' s guarding that door for me. Watch o u t . " T h e boy starts to go back into the building, but pauses a momen t to add on to his joke. " J u s t blow in his ear and he won ' t give you any t r o u b l e . "

T r a p p e d r e s o u r c e f u l n e s s

I have to admire these people. T h e y ' r e using all their resourceful-ness to strain against the t rap—curs-ing it , joking about it , f launting it , ignoring it.

I t ' s like what M r . Henderson , ou r government systems teacher , is saying later on in the af ternoon: " Y o u ' v e had to go to school whether you want to or not .

" N o w we have tried to ameliorate that situation by giving you more a l t e rna t ives , " he adds. "S t i l l , you do not have absolute, complete freedom of choice. But can we all drive 80 miles an hour up Powell Boulevard if we want t o ? "

T h a t ' s the kind of question that gets its best answer f rom a Yossarian (in Joseph Hel le r ' s Calch-22), and believe me a high school is loaded with Yossarians. Only their answers usual-ly come under their brea th , and all that the teacher can hear is stifled laughter.

High school is a funny place. I t ' s the climax of compulsory education. By the t ime s tudents arrive there , they are already eight-year veterans of the educational system. Along the way they have encountered good and bad teachers as well as an uneven mixture of good and stupid rules.

Confusion over the purpose of it all can easily set in. I t ' s easier to question the system now because t h e y ' r e older and they know more about it. But I keep forgetting myself. I should be saying " w e . "

T h e kind of class that appeals to us most is the kind that lets us open our mou ths and say what we feel. About anything. In Ms . M a s o n ' s sociology

class it looks like maybe we can. Twenty-f ive of us sit along the walls and look in at the center . Most people seem to be in this classroom because they chose to be here.

M s . Mason doesn ' t waste any t ime. She ' s full of energy. Clearly, she ' s t rying to set sparks to her s tudents .

"Think H o w many conversat ional balls can you keep away f rom M a s o n ? 'Cause she ' l l talk you to d e a t h . " She presses us to consider what things like roles and status are all about .

" S t a t u s is your station in l i f e , " a girl suggests. " I f y o u ' r e a lawyer and you wear nice clothes, people might look at you and say, ' W o w — h e ' s making the bucks . ' But if y o u ' r e a bum down on Burnside they might say, ' W o w , h e ' s pretty low. ' T h o u g h he could have been a doctor first before he became a b u m . "

M s . Mason advises us to look at s ta tus on a scale: " T h e most impor tant th ing to consider may be the esteem of someone ' s fellow workers. How the lawyer looks to o ther law-yers. How the b u m looks to o ther b u m s . "

H o r r i f i e d r e a l i z a t i o n

She steers the discussion around to the whole animal. I realize to my horror that we are being assigned a long-term expository paper to write.

" W h a t is a h u m a n b e i n g ? " M s . Mason writes the topic on the over-head projector , and like many teachers looking for emphasis she underl ines " i s " several t imes.

My friend f rom luncht ime is asking M s . Mason some pointed questions. H e wants to unders tand why sh e ' s demanding research on this paper

" D o you want my opinion, or do you want it out of a book? W e ' v e gone th rough 11 grades by now. W e ought to know someth ing about what a h u m a n being i s . "

" J o r g e n s o n says he has an opinion. H e wants to tell what he th inks . I say go out and find out if other authori t ies agree with your hypothesis. Use the research to back you u p . "

But this mokes me nervous. Home-work. I go th rough my pockets anxiously looking for the re tu rn half of my ticket. This ent i re fraud of being a student is going much too smooth ly . Suppose the school annexes me as a permanent teenager?

After a day full of classes i t ' s beginning to look like a very distinct possibility. By my last class I ' m antsy as hell. I have to wait unti l I ' m assigned a desk before I can sit down , and that irritates me .

I pick the lint off my shirt sleeve and let my mind wander while the teacher talks. When an over eager kid asks if he can read two books instead of just one and do reports on both to boot , I sneer along with everyone else. What a brown noser.

In my notes I write: " 2 0 minu tes to go 13 minutes to go .5 minu tes to g o . " I have a headache f rom sitting in too many stuffy classrooms.

" B r r r i n g g g . " A beautiful sound. I mus t have

heard 50 bells just like it ring dur ing this day, but this one is the Liberty Bell. T h e halls and stairways are full of people. Locker doors slam in celebration.

I walk out the door and head up the sidewalk. Plenty of people are out ahead of me , waiting for t he bus , making a phone call, or talking things over. I see a few people I recognize f rom classes as I walk by. Some say hello, some d o n ' t . It would take a while to know them better . Maybe t h a t ' s how deep this one day really goes.

I cross the street and take a look back. T h e high school building is saying something to me:

" W H A T Y O U A R E T O BE Y O U A R E N O W B E C O M I N G . "

T h e letters are set in concrete above an entranceway. I find them a little disturbing. •

Willamette Week would like to thank the administration and fac-ulty of Cleveland High School for their full and generous coopera-tion on this story.

Whipple-Paulus Continued from 6

our opinion, so it was like start ing f rom scratch. W e got 60 people together f rom all over the state in Salem for an organizational meet ing on a day in July. We have about 4,000 names in the card file. We have a couple of geographic holes, but other-wise the leadership is f i l l e d . "

Pau lus ' organization plans to get 12,000 lawn signs out next weekend. It is doing precinct analysis of the state in preparation for canvassing. " W e want to get to 60 per cent of the homes in the s t a t e , " says W h i t m a n , " g o i n g first to swing voters while holding the Repub l i cans . " T h e campaign plans to do telephoning in conjunct ion with the Republican Nat ional Commit tee

Whi tman plans to put $90,000 of the $120,000 finance goal into heavy media—television, outdoor boards, radio and perhaps a newspaper tabloid supplement .

Eight serve on the Paulus strategy commit tee: W h i t m a n , public relations man John Fencsak, lawyer Jack Faust, former legislative candidate Mari lyn Ridgely. Equitable Savings & Loan Chai rman of the Board Bill Love, lawyer J im Peterson. Salem state Rep. Wally Carson, Salem lawyer Dave Rhoten and Gerber Advert is ing ex ecutive Ralph Davis. Love and Ridgely are state finance cha i rmen . Jerry Whipple, a l umberman , is downstate finance chairman Davis will do the ad campaign, and Fencsak is the cam paign public relations man .

Whipple ' s campaign manager is Bill Garre t t , who ran Morr is Udall 's campaign in Oregon and then became Udal l ' s national field director He has also consulted on campaigns in other states and worked for the Oregon Bureau of Labor 's Civil Rights Divi-sion. His headquarters is located at 3524 SE 52nd Ave.

" I met Blaine th rough the antiwar m o v e m e n t , " says Garre t t . " H e ' s been around on the right sides of issues I 've been interested in for a long t i m e . "

Whipple ' s will be a grassroots, ra ther than an organizational cam-paign. " W e w o n ' t do a solid organi-zational c a m p a i g n , " says Garre t t . T h e r e will be no lawn signs or canvassing, but Garre t t is doing analy-sis to target precincts around Oregon for radio advertising and a l i terature drop or two.

Rather than s t rong organizat ion, Whipple ' s s t rength always has been the ability to build issues into visibility and name familiarity, an area where he leads Pau lus by 7 2 per cent to 5 9 per c e n t , a c c o r d i n g t o a r e c e n t statewide poll.

T h e question tor Paulus will be whether her organization can raise the large amount of money she had budgeted and execute the large-scale canvass and lawn sign efforts. T h e question for Whipple will be whether his grassroots effort at raising money will succeed; whether his appeal based o n issues will kindle loyalty among Democrats .

Issues a n d ads

4. Advertising and issues While Whipple ' s promotional material is more value laden ( " S t a n d up for the candidate who stands up for y o u . " ) than Pau lus ' ( " G i v e Oregon our best: Norma P a u l u s " ) , both candidates have developed issues to use against each o ther .

T h e main issue that Paulus is working against Whipple is his vote in favor of the addition to the state Capitol, which she voted against That issue gained new life last week when the Oregon Supreme Court ruled the revenue bond financing scheme cre-ated by the legislature was unconst i tu-tional and the $11.5 million for it would have to come out of the general fund.

Other issues Paulus will use against Whipple are his vote on the open pr imary —she voted for it and he against , and his 1975 vote for a pay increase for legislators, while she voted against it.

In addition to his attack on Paulus ' t imber yield tax vote, Whipple scores Paulus for her opposition to Ballot Measure 7, which would allow public funding for general election campaigns

in Oregon . In her Voters Pamphlet s ta tement , Paulus says the measure would allow " f i nanc ing expensive unrestr icted personal political cam-paigns . . "

Last Friday in La Grande , Whipple said Pau lus ' s ta tement was " . de-ceptive and intellectually dishonest . T h e f inancing is restricted in several ways. Anybody seeking this office should be above reproach. A state-ment like this disqualifies her for the o f f i c e . "

II Whipple mainta ins the kind of sharp attack he launched at Paulus in that La Grande speech, a major factor will be how well Paulus can counter punch and whether she can lay into Whipple effectively.

S o u r c e s of s u p p o r t

5. External factors. " T h e r e is sup-port for a woman candidate in this state, but it is in the Democrat ic P a r t y , " says Paulus. There in lies her campaign ' s essential task, to bite in to Independent and Democrat ic voters, not just because a woman candidate might fare better among Democra t s , but because Paulus is of the Republi-can left wing, and because Democra ts greatly ou tnumber Republicans.

Whipple must keep Democra ts away from Paulus by appealing to their recognition of issues he has fought for.

Paulus will have the endorsement of the most visible bipartisan political w o m e n ' s group in the state, the

Oregon W o m e n ' s Political Caucus . A n n e Feeney, chairperson of the Portland steering commit tee , says, " Y e s , we will endorse Paulus , based on her answers to our quest ionnaire and her good record. Whipple was the only candidate for a major office that d idn ' t answer our questionnaire in the p r i m a r y . "

Ano the r card in Paulus ' favor is the state AFL C I O ' s decision not to en-dorse Whipple Tha t decision s tems from Whipple ' s attacks on state Sen. Dick Groener , his opponent dur ing the primary election. Groener is known as labor ' s closest political ally in the legislature. " I ' m going to sit it out on this o n e , " says Groener . " I wouldn ' t endorse h i m . "

T h e newspapers around Oregon are generally a strong influence on elec t ions, with news coverage and espe-cially their editorial endorsements . Ano the r factor will be how long the coattails of the presidential candidates become on election day, helping Democratic or Republican candidates down the ballot.

Th i s race shows every sign of going right down to the wire, generat ing a lot of emotion and bit terness. T h e key quest ions will be: Can Paulus raise t he big money she needs for her strategy? Will Whipple ' s free wheel ing grassroots campaign catch fire? Which candidate will come out ahead in the attacks and countera t tacks that are likely and in the many joint appearances that are scheduled? e

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