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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1946)
Newsmen Name UO Faults •New Signing Up Plan Set for 5000 Fall Term Registration Crowds Move On Schedules To facilitate the enrollment of the 5000 students expected to en ter the University next year, regis tration procedure will he changed, according to Clifford L. Constance, assistant registrar. Cards listing registration ap pointment times for next fall will he issued at 12:30 o’clock June 1 at McArthur court. These cards ^^re in two parts, one of which is to he filled out hy the student and filed immediately as a statement of intention to register next fall. The other is a stub which is to be presented by the student when he registers. Period Plan According to present plans, about 100 students will be assigned to eaoh 15-minute period beginning at S o’clock on the morning of Sep tember 18 for old students. New students may not begin registra tion procedure until the next day. The card must be filed in advance or the appointment will not be val id, Constance said. He also pointed out that students who do not use their appointment may register at any later time but not earlier. Students who do not expect to return fall term should not fill out appointment cards, he said, since lists compiled from the cards will Mortar Board Ducats All Mortar Board tickets and money must be turned in be tween 3 and 5 p.m. today to Charlotte Sabin at Westmin ster house. be used to assign housing and plan classes more exactly. Distribute Cards At least 1500 registration ap pointment cards will be distributed on June 1. Constance warned that the first students to register are more like ly to get the classes they want, although there will probably be some regulations restricting class hours. Among other changes which are to be made is a class schedule from 8 to 5 on weekdays and from 8 to 12 on Saturday mornings. Plans are also being made for assemblies and, possibly, laboratory courses, to be held in the evenings. Full WTeek “Students will be required to dis tribute their hours as well as pos sible over the full 44-hour week, and may even run classes from 12 to 1 o’clock necessitating two lunch hours,’’ Constance said. These changes in the class sched ules have been made rather than to refuse admittance to a larger number of students or to spend (Please 7 urn to Pape Eight) Faculty Salaries Hiked The Oregon State Board of Higher Education has recently ap proved a new budget dedicating over $100,000 to the improvement of University faculty salaries. Broken down, this will mean an average increase in salaries next year of almost $400. This is the first step up the economic ladder which the state board must climb if top-flight professors are kept at the University. According to Professor Leo Friedman of the Oregon State college faculty, living costs have gone up 35% since 1940-41. Even with the increase next year, faculty salaries will not have kept pace. Two Deficits Although somewhat modified by the new budget, two principal de fects still stand out in the present salary system. First, there is still too little r range in the salaries of each of the several ranks. All the salaries of associate professors, for in stance, still are grouped too closely around the median. A man enter ing as an associate professor can work only a small way up the salary scale before reaching the maximum wage for that rank. The maximum pay for each rank should be raised far enough from the medium that incentive to work for advancement and the chance for that advancement are constant ly before the faculty‘member. The second defect is in the size of the salaries paid. While the new budget will partially patch this hole, the glaring light of compari son with other universities still leaks through around the edges. The deficiency has been and is most evident in the higher pay brackets here. Pay Less In a comparison made of the mean salaries of the low 1939-40 year at the Universities of Cali fornia, Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio State, and Wisconsin, all state uni versities, and the 1945-46 salaries at Oregon, it was learned that the University paid $2,609 less per school year than the other schools (Please Turn to Page Plight) AlIenTalk Hits Spain Correspondent Blames Western Head-Hiders Citing Spain as a country where “Fascism still runs rampant” Jay Allen, war correspondent and au thor, proceeded to explain this statement in Thursday's assembly. Allen used Spain as a symbol of what had happened and will hap pen again unless “we make up our minds as to what we want to be and be it.” He declared that democracy is not a perfect instrument, but that anything is better than fascism. Allen’s solution for the ills of de mocracy was more democracy. Too Late "The republic which was set up in Spain in 1931 came too late,” Allen said. “The democracies in the western world were growing old, and the United States, France, and England were not sympathetic with the new republic,” he told his au dience. When Allen arrived in Spain be fore the Spanish civil war, he found common Americans “like the Fuller brush man” upholding the aristocracy of Spain. “This was the aristocracy that had been in power for generations, and which the new republic was attempting to stop,” Allen declared1. Throughout the civil war, Allen saw Franco being backed by Mus (Please Turn to Page Eight) JAY ALLEN Relates experiences. Air School Ills, Needs After Interviewing More than ever before, miscellaneous and carelessly- -4 directed criticisms are being leveled against the University by its students, * Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity takes the occasion of its annual Emerald edition to examine and air these criticisms. Presented herewith is a fair sum- > mary of the state of affairs disclosed by two weeks of re- * search and interviews, ’ While ,.the approach of these articles doesn’t fit the concept of straight news, they have been kept as objective t as possible. Sigma Delta Chi’s intention in publishing the j constructive criticism edition is to air the legitimate com plaints and by-pass the ill-humored gripes. It is thus hoped ’ to offer a fair picture of what those outside the adminis- ■«, tration feel is wrong with the University. Dorm System Assailed Criticisms of the University dor mitory system! are no different today than they were before the war. The food in all the dorms is regarded at best, as fair. The $46 a-month room and board bill is standardized for all of the women's dormitories and the men's halls. In Hendricks hall, five or six girls are crowded into each room. The Susan Campbell quota is five to a room. Thirty girls live bar racks-style in Gerlinger, with no privacy possible for dressing and studying. Meal' Tickets Sharp criticism is attached to the present dormitory meal ticket pol icy. Rules require that students who have misplaced tickets must pay the following month’s bill be- j fore being issued another ticket, j Girls in Susan Campbell can't. undertsand why that hall possess es no dining room, considering it houses 130 students. More criticism was hurled upon the manner in which deductions are being made from breakage fees. It is contend ed that no itemized lists of deduc tions have been included in partial refunds. Telephone Trouble Hendricks hall's 170 girls share only one telephone. The same is true of the 130 girls in Susan, Campbell. Parents and students calling these halls on Friday and Saturday nights suffer undue de lays and often can't place their calls at all. The men living in dormitories complain about the long food lines. Some feel that staggered meal hours for the different groups would solve the problem. Library Overcrowded The University library is one of the main targets for campus bou quets and brickbats. The balance often swings toward the latter. It is presently suffering from three main shortages: books, help, and room. 1. Books. For all students or faculty members who have attempt ed serious research, this section is superfluous. The same is true for students waging a contant battle to get that one copy containing the assignment for tomorrow’s exam. The first group has the edge by having recourse to the inter-li brary loan. The solution is money ; and fewer copies of short-duration j best-sellers. 2. Help. Although the staff is to ; be commended for doing its best' with what it has, this best is often pitiably poor. A salary increase! from the half-dollar per hour level { could result in giving the good1 members a much-needed hand and j getting- rid of the deadwood. The stock answer for a book request. "Well, I .iiist don't know what’s happened to it,’’ is becoming- mo notonous. 3. Room. We might be inclined to laugh at a student staggering around seeking a spot to drop and study an armful of books if we weren’t too often caught in the same position. Some day for exer cise try finding a place to study a bound periodical. Considerable criticism has been . leveled at the library’s organiza tion. A search for material often becomes a marathon. Some works require up to three days to find. The answer, “Go to the card cata log,” is far from valid; that facility would try the patience of a Job. One faculty member, when ashed what most needed to be done to improve the library, replied, “make* it usable.”