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Vol. LX I
UNIVERSITY OF ORKOON, EUOENK, THURSDAY, JANUARY
21, I960
No. 63
Dean reviews books
By Dl'LEY MORAN
Emerald Staff Writer
During the Wednesday night
Browsing Room lecture, H. W,
Lindholm, dean of the School of
Business Administration, review
ed two hooka in business educa
tion, reporting on the reasons for
their Impact, their findings, and
their recommendations. The
books were "Higher Education
for Business" hy Robert Cordon
and James Howell and "The Ed
ucation of American Business
Men" by Frank C. Iderson. Both
books were published in 19fi9.
INTRODUCING Lindholm.
Scott D. Walton, discussion lead
er. said "As a dean, a leader, he
is obliged to assess serious chang
es suggested in our curriculum.
It is in this capacity he is serving
Atheists, Deists
exchange views
By TED MAHAK
Emerald Asst. News Editor
The Dad's Lounge was not large
enough to holo the crowd attend
ing the "Atheism vs. Theism"
discussion Wednesday at 4 p.m.
and {fie"electric doors to the SU
ballroom had to be opened.
AS OVER HALF the audience
sat on the floor, V. H. Dykstra,
assistant professor of philosophy
doubled as moderator and elder
member of the Atheist team. The
junior Atheist, John Lindstrom, is
a senior in biology.
The Theist team was the Rev
erend Robert Burtner, pastor of
the Trinity Methodist Church in
Eugene, and Ted McRcynolds, a
senior in English and president of
the University Religious Council.
The Reverend Burtner began
the discussion by asking the
Atheists the nature of their be
liefs.
LINDSTROM ANSWERED by
stating his personal position. "I
do not claim to have any final
answer," he suid, "but from my
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us tonight." From t h 1 h point,
I Lindholm went on to introduce
1 the books.
"I have found them* books to be
quite stimulating, but I have also
found it was very difficult to
evaluate them,’’ Lindholm said.
After posing the question of what
j direction higher education in the
I United States will take, Lindholm
also said, “I feel this is just the
beginning of a very laige step
that will take place in U.8. high
er education. On any account, it
will require a great deal of re
thinking.”
LINDHOLM, who has had con
tact with the books for about
three years, including their form
ative stages, reported. "T h e s e
two books were the result of a ra
ther intensive study on the type
of education offered in business
at our institutions of higher edu
cation.” He said, however, that
much of the study in the books
was based on reports dating back
to 1930. Another limitation he
pointed out involved representa
tion, "The books did rtot go into
businesses with less than a thou
sand employees,” he said.
LINDHOLM emphasized that
the scientific base in the studies
; is inadequate to make scientific
recommendations, but he also
added he felt the books were an
intelligent approach to an im
portant area. "The studies, re
commendations and findings are
, not final answers,” he said.
At this point. Lindholm said.
“An intelligent person asks why
did this study take place?" Sum
marizing seven basic reasons, he
.said first The American Fk;onom
ic Association discussions have
brought situations developing in
business schools to the attention
of professional economists.
Secondly he said publications
i by another association were part
ly responsible. Backing this up
came a best seller dealing with
aspects of our business-oriented
society. Lindholm stated. He
mentioned the interest of t h e
Ford Foundation as another fac
tor.
Lindholm said also, that this
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Wengert to retain
vice-presidency
The ASI'O constitution com
mittee has ruled that Vice
President Pete Wengert is still
vice-president, and is not obli
gated to assume the duties of
the presidency.
The committee failed to read
any implication beyond what is
stated in the constitution. The
ruling there is that the vice
president shall assume the tem
porary duties of president In
the absence of the head execu
tive.
'the committee in handing
down the ruling, stated that
the ASI'O vice-presidency is
"unique in its own right” and
does not call for Wengert to
assume another office because
of his own w ell-defined duties.
The ruling leaves the Senate !
with only the presidential post
to lie filled.
1 here will be an ASI'O Sen
ate meeting tonight at 6:30.
Enrollment tallied
lor second week
Women are still outnumbered
by men 3.924 to 2,372 on the Ore- .
1 gon campus according to the fig
ures reported at the end of the
second week. These figures show' i
a 7 and 13 per cent increase over
last year's winter term.
THE FRESHMEN still maintain
j the lead as the largest class with
an enrollment of 1700. This figure
shows an 11 per cent gain over
last year's total with 857 men and
843 women.
Following in size are: sopho
mores, 1287; juniors, 1123; and;
seniors, 1119. The juniors showed |
the largest class increase with '
15 per cent. However, the seniors j
had a decrease of 0.3 per cent j
over last year's total. The sopho- i
mores had a 10 per cent gain.
Both the law school and the BA
school showed decreases of 12 ’
per cent and 5 per cent, respec
tively. Out of the 77 students in 1
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BECAUSE I HE ATI LNDANt K of the “Atheism vs. Theism” round table discussion was much
larger than anticipated, about three-fourths of the audience had to sit on the floor. Left to right,
the panelists are assistant professor V. II. Dykstra, biology senior John Lindstrom, the Reverend
Robert Burtncr, and English senior Ted MeReynolds.
(Photo by Ted Mahar, Emerald staff photographer)
Four point plan
stated for dorms
By JIM BOYD
Emerald Asst. Newt* Editor
The University will be at least
150 dormitory spaces short next
fall if the present enrollment in
crease continues. J. O. Lindstrom.
University business manager, said
in an exclusive Emerald interview
Tuesday.
TO MEET this problem, the
Dormitory Policy Committee is
presenting a four-point policy
recommendation to President Wil
son. The purpose of this policy is
to encourage those student groups
who least benefit from dormitory
living to live in cooperatives, so
rorities, fraternities, or in off
campus housing.
THE PROPOSAL which is
tentative and must be approved
by the administration includes:
the following points:
• Graduate students will not
be allowed to live in the dormi
tories.
• All students who desire to
live in a dormitory will be re
quired to sign a one year con
tract.
• Eugene upperclassmen, men
or women, will not be allow’ed to
live in the dormitory. This will
not include Eugene freshmen.
• Any student who sends in
his reservation for housing and
or application for admission to
the University after August 31
will be placed on a waiting list
for dormitory space “which may
or may not be available," Lind
strom said.
WHEN QUESTIONED about
the graduate group which will be
excluded and the possible reper
cussions to fraternity and sorority
rush. Lindstrom replied, "An easy ,
solution to the problem just isn't
possible.
"We are trying to provide a
policy of housing in dormitories
for those students who will bene
fit most from dormitory living,
and at the same time adopt a
policy which also protects the
cooperatives, sororities and fra
ternities as much as possible.”
IN ATTEMPTING to find a
solution, the committee has felt
World News
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Rocket reports received
WASHINGTON <UPI( — Am
erica has received unverified re
ports that Russia has launched
its super space rocket into the
western Pacific, according to De
fense Secretary Thomas Gates.
Gates added that reports are
being checked that an object
which had certain characteristics
of a ballistic missile landed in the
area set aside by Russia to test
its rocket.
Epidemic responsible
LOS ANGELES (UPI > — j
Health officials say that Asian
flu epidemic is responsible for
nine recent fatalities in Los An
geles county.
They warned against self
treatment, and said some of the
deaths could have been prevent
ed. The outbreak has afflicted an
estimated half million persons in
the Los Angeles area.
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that the graduate students, the
Eugene upperclassmen, and the
students who would normally live
in transient dormitories for one
term until they found apartments
or pledged fraternities are the
groups which receive the least
benefit from dormitory living.
The recommendation, if adopt
ed, would require these groups to
seek Greek or off-campus hous
ing and thereby make room for
the expected 150-space shortage.
THIS SHORTAGE WOULD
amount to 270 spaces, if the ad
ditional spaces gained by placing
five gills to a room in Susan
Campbell and Hendricks Halls
and doubling up in Vets Dorms,
are not counted, he said. In effect,
he said that the University is
short one dormitory the size of
Carson Hall.
Dorm proposal
poses problems
Some fraternity and sorority
members have questioned the
benefit that the new dormitory
proposal would have for their or
ganizations. Specifically they ob
ject to the rule which requires all
students to sign a one-year con
tract.
BOTH IFC and Panhellenic are
now studying the effect of the
proposal on their rush. Bunny
Brissenden, Panhellenic presi
dent, said Wednesday night that
the proposal, if adopted, might
cut down on mid-year rush.
However, she felt that there
would be plenty of time for so
rority officers to discuss the pro
posal with administration offi
cials.
HAY HAWK, dean of men, sug
gested an increased summer pub
licity program as a partial an
swer to the rushing problem.
"I don’t think that this recom
mendation will cause any undue
hardship to the fraternities,” he
said.
Ml'CH OF THE conflict of
opinion, it seems, stems from the
fact that this policy is still in the
proposal stage. It is still pure
conjecture whether the adminis
tration will adopt the plan.
J. O. Lindstrom, University
business manager, said there are
two reasons for this proposal.
First, the University will need
the space and second, from a
business point of view, there is
a need to stabilize the amount of
income from dormitories.
THE UNIVERSITY needs
money to pay the bond and prin
ciple on its dormitories since no
tax money is used to build them.
Transient students both take up
space that a permanent student
could use and leave vacancies
after fall term, according to Lind
strom.
As Lindstrom explained it, a
400 student dormitory costs about
$1,600,000. This must be paid at
the rate of $96,000 per year. To
do this, each one of the 400 stu
dents must pay $240 toward the
debt.
If a transient student leaves at
the end of fall term to move into
an apartment or join a house, the
University loses $160 necessary
to pay the debt.