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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.