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Oregon daily EMERALD ... The Oregon Daily Emerald published Tuesday through Friday during the college year except Sept. 17 and 19; Nov. 27 through Dec. 1; Dec. 4, 9 and 10; Dec. 12 through Jan. 5; March 5, 10 and 11 ; Mar. 13 through Mar. 30; and May 30 through June 4, with issues on Nov. 8, Feb. 7 and May 9 by the Student Publications Board of the University of Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per school year; $2 per term. Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of the writer and do not pretend to represent the opinions of the ASUO or of the University. Initialed editorials are written by editorial staff members. Unsigned editorials are written by the editor. Larry Hobart, Editor Jim Shea, Business Manager Helen Jones, Bill Gurney, Associate Editors Jim Haycox, Editorial Assistai.t Al Karr, Managing Editor News Editor: Kitty Fraser Nat’l Advertising Manager: Carolyn Silva Sports Editor: Larry Lavelle Advertising Manager: Sally Thurston Asst. News Editors: Laura Sturges, Classified Advertising Manager: Beverly Len Calvert DeMott Asst. Managing Editors: Judy McLoughlin Layout Manager: Jim Solidum Paul Keefe More Harm Than Good The civil service commission has proposed placing; non teaching staff members of state institutions of higher learn ing under the civil service act. Educators have protested, civil service has defended and the governor has warned both to keep their quarreling out of the papers. The situation is this: In February the attorney general ruled that it is the duty of the civil service commission to determine classification of employees of the state system of higher education. Formerly such responsibility had rested with the state board, according to E. B. Lemon, Oregon State college dean of administration. The civil service commission began an investigation of non teaching positions in the state system. Questionnaires were sent to the faculties of both Oregon and OSC. Neither school returned them. Civil Service Director James Clinton said that Chancellor Charles D. Byrne demanded a probe of all non-teaching posi tions. Byrne denied the statement. Civil service’s argument is this: 1. There should be public competition for non-teaching jobs. 2. There should be equal pay for equal jobs. (The commis sion says that non-civil service employees in some positions are getting more than persons doing comparable work.) Education officials have taken a dim view of these argu ~ ments. A. L. Strand, president of Oregon State college issued a statement last week which said in part: 'It the attorney general’s interpretation of the civil service act is put into effect, it will split the staff of Oregon State college wide open. Hundreds of men and women who have held academic tenure for years and years will be classified under civil service. Only those who do ‘face-to-face classroom teaching’ will retain their academic rank.” “We will have,” Strand declared, “people of equal rank and qualification in the same department divided between classified and unclassified services on the basis of whether or not they teach a class. Nothing could be more demoralizing and destructive to the whole program of the institution.” At present 1,100 employes of the board are covered by civil service. The proposed re-classification would add about 500 who now have academic rank, tenure and sabbatical leave privileges. About 100 persons would be affected at Oregon, ac cording to Lyle Nelson, director of public services. Clinton stated Wednesday that “the chancellor, all presi dents, deans, professors, principles, instructors, research assis tants, graduate assistants and teachers” would be exempt from the classification. The OSC faculty issued a resolution to the effect that shifting non-teaching jobs to civil service would have a devas tating effect ’ on faculty morale. The statement voiced unani mous opposition to the proposal, said it showed a lack of under standing of educational organization and objectives. We think that the civil service proposal should be rejected. Here are our reasons: 1. Many administrators in the educational system hold key jobs which are as important in the educational process as those of teachers. Counselors and directors of men and women’s af fairs would fall in this category. 2. Civil service can provide no satisfactory tests to determine the most qualified individuals to fill such jobs; they should be picked by educators who know what qualities are needed. 3. Civil service regulated salaries are not large enough to attract the best persons available. The state system of higher education should be able to obtain the best in personnel with in budget limitations. 4. Civil service rules place the educational system in a poor position as far as control of the faculty goes; the system would would have to deal through a “middle-man”. 5. Civil service recruitment policies are poor; the best men or women might not be contacted. The state board deals in education channels which stretch across the nation. They know who the best people are and where. 6. The desirable unity of faculty and administration would be endangered by a classification split. Applied Psychology i “I’ll continue now, if there are no further irrelevant qucMtionH.” Radio Poi/Zaia/ Stations Offer Pleasure, Money by Don Collin Radio is a medium that is giv ing the listener the pleasure of varied entertainment as well as an opportunity of personal gain. There are a few programs locally received that are offer ing gains to those that will make the ef fort. Collin There's S107 awaiting the person to be called at 10:45 a.m. (KORE) daily who will answer 211 years to the ques tion: ‘‘What is the combined number of years experience the workmen in this business estab lishment have?” Prizes and Experiences Upwards of §25 of product prizes is awarded to the person closest in listing the score and winner of the 10 big football games of the week on ‘‘Pigskin Prediction” on KORE, 0:30 pm. Tuesday. “Kaufman Sunday Theater” (KORE, Sunday, 12:30 and 10:30 p.m.) presents opportunity for people to get radio and stage ex perience while on the payroll. Bob Eubanks at KORE (4-4214) has places for tenors, baritones and girl singers. Co-Ed and Counselors Helen Jackson Frye is “Co-Ed of the Year” in October’s Amer ican Magazine . . . Freshman dorm counselors are having house meetings at 6:30 p.m. in stead of 10:45 p.m. after the pow er-that-be decided first-w e e k freshmen didn’t have to get any one in by 10:30 p.m. New Programs: World Series starts 9:45 a.m. today on KORE . . . Sunday sees the return of KERG’s “Our Miss Brooks” at 8 p.m. and Bergen and McCarthy at 5 p.m. and rebroadcast at 9 p.m. . . . “Search That Never Ends”—a medical achievement documentary —- starts Tuesday at 11 p.m. over KORE . . . Di rect daily reports from Ike's, Stevenson’s and Truman’s cam paign trains on KORE at 6:15 p.m.' “Onion and Orchid” Football’s “onion and orchid” session (Monday’s Duck club luncheon) is released 8:30 p.m. that night by KORE. Either Casanova or staff will be on car pet or throne telling the alums the why it was. . . . Jim Blue doing “Best on Wax” for KORE at 10:30 p.m. nighty. Merrick I’roud Merrick hall pretty proud of their accomplishments of late . . . first freshman hall to serenade (Carson was on receiving end) . . . first organization to have guts enough to put out a sign like they did for the rally last week. The Idaho game on KORE at 1:45 . . . KEX carrying Notre Dame-Texas and Minnesota-Cal . . . KUGN with Mich.-OSC. Notes to the Editor Daily suspense over each can didate’s l’affaire- baring of soul and checkbook lowers the cam paign to comic strip level. The often put question is: “Will so and so tell all?” W i t h the campaign off on “a checkbook baring tangent,” we are beginning to wonder if can didates want voters to sign them a blank check policy-wise on November fourth? Ike appeals to emotion; Stevenson appeals to thought. Election day will tell which tactic the voter favors. But meanwhile, Adlai is forced to counter in kind if he is to make front page headlines too. Maybe many enjoy this low I. Q. daily fare. But two weeks of It is about enough. How about getting down to issues and hack to the high plane on which the campaign began? If one wishes even sketchy information On is sues, he must turn to about page ten of most editions to find the few paragraphs covering them. With election day only five weeks away, how about concrete answers to basic question, like: What attempts will be made to halt or slow inflation ? What about taxes ? Foreign policy wise, what about Korea? Western Europe, Nato and what our ANZUS agreement will do for us in the Pacific. What about some real and specific answers to the farm policy questions? CVA? MVA ? How about definite Stands on tidelands? And even something about the St. Law rence waterway, with the boom ing development of Canada? Don Wenzl Foreign Students Want Acceptance, Not Conversion By Ted Goh Each yeur about 20,000 stu dents from all parts of the world leave their homes and cross the seas to Join American uni versities. There are about 100 h foreign s t u "dents on the Oregon campus _ this vear. Their interests and their pur poses, their backgrounds and their education, their beliefs and religions are varied as well as, at times, diametrically different. Yet all of them have come with at least one common object in view — to know more ubout America and Americans. Each of these individuals car ries a picture of what they ex pect to find here. The picture varies with their experiences with Americans in their own land, the articles they read about America and the American way of life and the movies they see about America. It is, therefore, natural for some to be shocked by what they see here shocked by the fact that America is not what they have dreamed it to be, whether favorable or unfavor able. Kcprpsfnt The World The foreign students on our campus, both old and new, will no doubt lx- going through this change of view. Too often be cause they are in the minority their voice is unheard, their views unsought, their criticisms drowned. Yet they represent what the rest of the world is thinking about on any particular issue, whether it be the question of American racial prejudice, the November issue, the re-arma nient of Germany or in the light er vein, American customs, both at home and on the campus. It has been often asked and it will be asked again and again in the future "How does the foreign student want us to treat him?” and "What do they ex pect of us?” Human Kdutlons Not Kasy The business of human rela tionships has never, and will never be, one that is easy to handle, oven among men and women of one's own race and creed. It needs patience, under standing tolerance and an open mind to make friends on a cam pus. To make friends with for eign students therefore demands greater skill in human relation ships. But don't let these big words scare you. All they want is to be treated like any ordinary person a person and not an ob ject of curiosity or a source of information to be sought only when in need. They would like to go to your homes, date Americans, learn American customs and learn the American viewpoints (not on the level of forums and discussions but by the fireside). They would like to have you accept them as they are and not to try to con vert them to your point of view. iney want you to disagree with them openly and in dis agreeing, base your disagree ments on facts and not preju dices. They would like you to in clude them as part of "the gang” giving them the privilege of d'e clining when your mode of pleas ure is different from theirs. This column does not and will not purport to represent the to tal view of the countries repre sented on this campus nor all the foreign students. Nor when a student from one particular coun try makes a statement does he or she mean to voice the opinion of his whole country. It only hopes that through the various opinions expressed it will help the stu- ^ dents on the campus have a bet ter understanding of non-Amer ican students on the campus.
