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Wilson, Barber Take Other Top Posts (Continued from page one) tions by students have been at a minimum. Selective Service Cooperates Hawk talked briefly on student relation to the military situation. "The University has secured mar velous cooperation from selective service boards throughout the state and in adjoining states,” he declared. The boards have taken national directives, suggesting de ferment of college students until completion of their education, to heart, he said. "Practically all men now in col lege will have an opportunity to complete school." Hawk asserted. The ROTC program and the stand ards set up by selecitve service for temporary deferment on the basis of grade standings will allow most students to escape the draft, he explained. These programs will not aid the approximately 20 per cent of fresh man men who flunked out of school during their first year, Hawk said. Jones Stresses Difficulty W. C. Jones, dean of adminis tration, told the dads that the sit uation in higher education is going to become more difficult in the coming year, due to decreasing en rollment and budget cuts. Jones predicted $300,000 less in come from student fees in the next academic year and a budget cut of about $100,000 for the University of Oregon. Oregon’s faculty will not be reduced by the budget cut, Jones said earlier. Parent-faculty advisor meetings during Dad s Day weekend to dis cuss scholastic progress of indi vidual students was suggested to the group by one dad and referred to the executive committee for in vestigation. Onthank said the plan had been tried before with no great demand, hut that the office of student af fairs would aid in directing par ents to faculty advisors for such discussions. Mac Court Booing Criticized Booing at McArthur court came in for criticism by another dad. He stated that since the Oregon Proposed Council (Continued from pane one) known." He said that legal viola or be an official of a campus po litical party. Petitions for council positions would be submitted to the deans of the students’ schools. The deans would make recommendations on the petitioners and submit names cf non-petitioners if they so de sired. The honor committee would then select members from the petitions and recommendations. Representation from the college of liberal arts and at least two professional schools would be man datory. President Appoints Faculty The two faculty members on the council would be appointed by the University president. Students could be removed from council positions for (1) scholastic deficiencies. (2) violations of the University discipline code or (3) malpractice in performance of du ties. Also discussed in the Saturday afternoon meeting was punishment for cheating. Suggestions ranged from just a warning for first vio lators to a flunk in the examina tion involved. Prevention Emphasized tjowever, committee members agreed that an honor system, if established her.e should emphasize preventive rather than punitive ac tion. The senate committee members have been talking with other groups concerning their proposed system. The two faculty commit tee members, E. G. Ebbighausen, chairman, and E. R. Bingham, talk ed with members of the faculty senate last Wednesday on an “ex ploratory level.” Four committee members also met with the student discipline committee last week. Today the proposed plan will be brought before the University board of deans. The committee—appointed fall term by the ASUO president to in vestigate the possibility of an hon or system at Oregon—will soon begin to write its final report for the ASUO senate. basketball games are carried over the state by radio, student leaders should make an effort to control the booing in the interests of the University reputation. He was answered by a dad who declared that most of the booing came from persons other than stu dents. and the matter was dropped. The Dad's Day club approved three minor revisions in the club’s constitution. Approved were meas ures for electing five dads to the executive committee each year, al lowing heads of local Dad's clubs to serve on the executive commit tee, and raising the annual mem bership fee from $1 to $2. The group also accepted a pro vision stating that any man whose grandchild is a student at the Uni versity is automatically an honor ary member of the Oregon Dad's. Oregon Grad, Ph.D., Teaches at Wayne U. Chia-Kuei Tsao, graduate stu dent in mathematics, has received an appointment as instructor in statistical mathematics at Wayne university in Detroit, Mi,ch. He re ceived his doctorate from the Uni-, versity of Oregon last month arrd his appointment becomes effective at the beginning of the next semes ter at Wayne. t Students, Faculty of Highest Quality (Commut'd from foye one) crease, Oregon has been able to correct a poor faculty-student ra tio that existed after the war. Due to a decrease in enrollment and no major staff eliminations, the ratio is now very good, Byrne said. In commenting on the decrease in enrollment, Byrne stated that even now the number of students is 25 per cent greater than the highest enrollment before the war. He predicted that about 1956 en rollment will probably be double the present number of students. Opportunities for Students Byrne commented on the fact that college students who gradu ate within the next ten years are graduating at a fortunate time. Since there is a serious shortage in professional areas and that in the fields of engineering and sci ence, the country faces a deficit of 100,000 a year. Following Chancellor Byrne’s address, Wil.iam Jones, dean of ad ministration, gave the assembled students and dads greetings from University president H. K. New bum who is in Europe studying education systems. Johnson Concludes Program Concluding the luncheon pro gram was Eldon Johnson, dean of the college of liberal arts, who gave the assembly a brief sketch , f the University's new science building which is to be dedicated April 25. During the luncheon, the stu dents and dads heard Bill Carey, ASUO president, give the dads of ficial welcome on behalf of the stu dents. Greetings to the dads were also expressed by Mrs. Glen Por ter on behalf of the Oregon Moth er's club. Bently Introduced Mrs. Cy New man Dads Day hostess and the other two finalists, Mrs. Arthur Ingham and Mrs. Jerry Moshof sky. NIGHT STAFF Editor: Don Mickelwait. Staff: Norma Hamilton, Bob bette Gilmore, Paul Keefe. Kriu! nml urn; Kmi-rnWI c'jmwI-^ flCllH. 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