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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1961)
interview 'lAJith J. Orville Lindstrom (The following interview is the second in a project under taken by the Emerald editorial board near the close of fall term. The atm of this project is to present the opinions of prom inent administrators. Ed.) An adept carcature of J. O. Lindstrom, business manager of the University, would picture a smiling man seated on a moun tain of money bags with a fin ger in each of the various sized pots that surround him. LINDSTROM, a graduate of the University, has served un der nine University presidents and during this time has be come involved in practically every phase of University life. His main concerns are with problems of the business of fice, the physical plant, dormi tories, University Press, and various budgets. SPEAKING OF MONEY, Lindstrom remarked that stu dents receive a considerable part of the money that passes through his office. In October some 2,587 names were on the University payroll and over a half a million dollars was paid in wages. Regular students and graduate students receive a fairly large portion of this money. Students also receive money through student loans. The business office makes 3,500 loans a year to a total of $400, 053.00. Of this $200,012 is in the form of National Defense Loans. LINDSTROM remarked that students have voiced some con cern about the rising tuition, and some have questioned how this money is spent. Fifty - six dollars of the $90 paid by resi dent students for tuition goes to the general university pro gram for teaching. Twelve dol lars is budgeted to the building fund for such buildings as dor mitories, the SU, stadiums, and the health service. Six dollars and fifty cents goes to the SU Educational Activities budget where it is apportioned to such things as the Emerald and the general programming of the SU Board. Seven dollars goes to the in firmary for its services. Six dollars and fifty cents pays for University athletic expenses and $2 pays for gym suit serv ice. The additional $85 paid by out-of-state students goes into the general fund of the state board for University teaching. WHEN ASKED if the tui tion would rise again this year Lindstrom stated: “I saw in the Emerald an article calling attention to the fact that the cost of tuition has risen much faster than the cost of living. It seems to me that this is im portant and students should be interested in the increase in tui tion. The purpose of a state in stitution is to make education available to the poor as well as to the rich, and if the tuition keeps rising, and the board and room keeps going up, pretty soon the poor students can’t af ford to go to school. “This may sound like a trite comment, but it is important in a democracy where people rule through the ballot. We must see to it that the people are educated. If the tuition keeps going up it means that the poorer student just can’t afford to go to school. I think every effort should be made to hold down the tuition costs as the University of California has done. But if it seems necessary to raise tuition, then that should be offset by a very, very liberal program of state scholarships so that the talented students, whether they have money or not, can go to school. “IT IS AN economic loss for students with high IQ’s—real brain power—not to avail them selves to the University. It’s short sighted. The new indus tries, such as Minnesota Min ing and Manufacturing Com pany, grew as a result of re search, brain power.” Specific questions were asked: Q. “DO YOU see the rise of tuition costs in the near fu ture?” A. “I see the pressure for it. The population of Oregon is in creasing faster than industry on a tax basis. There will be an effort to hold down the income tax levy at the legislature. You have students clamoring for an education and the only way you can give it to them is by an increase in tuition and fees or a reduction of enrollment by not allowing students to go to college unless they are in the upper 50 per cent of their high school graduation class. “Yes, I do think there will be pressure for increased tuition, but I think there might be enough people interested to de feat it." Q. “AS A MEMBER of vari ous committees where students are represented, would you say students have become more ef fective in governing them selves?" A. “Certainly, the area of Student Union and Educational Activities is much more effec tive now than it was seven or eight years ago. This came about because O. Meredith Wil son believed that the students should participate in education al activities and student gov ernment. In the case of athlet ics, I feel that student partici pation is not desirable where student politics and alumni pol itics can play a terrific part in the program of the University. I have seen situations where students ran the athletic de partment—where student-alum ni-faculty ran it—and where it was made an independent de partment, responsible directly to the president. In my opin ion, the latter is by far the most effective. Here the stu dents can exercise their influ ence in public opinion. They pay fees; they have rights. “I DO NOT FEEL that stu dents should have anything to say about academic require ments. The students should lean very heavily on the faculty for decisions about education and should not trouble the faculty with decisions about other mat ters. But another theory about control is held by the students. Any new student body is con vinced that it can run the insti tution much better than it is being run. Students forget that in a way, they have hired them selves educated, and that having hired an institution, they are well advised to abide by the de cisions of the institution. “The University is a great place to work: and the exciting part of it for me is that stu dents have a right; and I expect them to question anything the University Administrators do. As far as I am concerned, our records, our actions, and the reasons for doing things, are available any time.” Little Man On Campus '0UT VOL1 CANT WBMZ. YOU* OWN CLOTHES TO THIS P*NCG — IT’S FORMAL.0 f 1 Letters to the Editor I Emerald Editor: After reading ‘‘It Could Be Worse,” an editorial in the Jan. 11th issue of your newspaper, I have been totally pacified. My ulcers have cleared up. and I have flushed my bottle of tranquilizers down the laundry chute. Yes, things could be worse- I could be dead. TO I*OINT out the misfortune of another is probably the old est and most backward way of assuring the miserable man that he is not miserable. Certainly, you can go tell Aunt Rhody that things could be worse. For in stance. she could have been among the gas-ovened Jews at Auschwitz; however, this does not bring back the old gray goose. After we have thus con soled Aunt Rhody we can sit back, relax, and look satisfied Traditional Old American Football Game: Do We Know Just How Sick It Is? (Editor’s note: Hercules Marsh is the nom de plume cou sin of our recent correspondent, pseudonym Fortissimo Marsh.) Dear Cousin Fortissimo: We hear that Denver Univer sity, like Marquette, has decid ed to drop intercollegiate foot ball. What’s the world coming to? COLLEGE FOOTBALL, like ’Lil Abner and bongo drums, is a red blooded American tra dition, but maybe it’s sick and we don’t know it. Maybe it should be returned to the stu dents, but more of that later. Anyway, both D.U. and Mar quette had long, honorable foot ball traditions. Now they have nothing. Football, they said, costs too much to maintain. Why and since when, we ask? APPARENTLY a university must be either “big time” or nothing, and there is no room for football as an amateur sport. Well, Cousin Fort, we disagree. Why can’t football be returned to the students and to the realm of sport ? Each year more institutions of higher learning decide to drop the game rather than oper ate at a deficit, but football should have a place on the cam pus. It is an important part of American life. Does it have to be professional? RECENTLY the “Fat Boy in the Canoe!!* gave huge aca demic grants to five schools (Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, No tre Dame, D.U., and Stanford). J. H. is known for lacrosse, which is assault with a warped type tennis racquet. Vandy’s still big on football, N.D. and the Farm are hurting on the gridiron and D.U. gave up. Maybe Notre Dame found it couldn’t get good monsters from the coal fields any more, and decided to go intellectual instead. Does this mean the end of minor league football? THE BIG SCHOOL tub thumpers will cart out the old argument that football pays for intramural programs and mi nor sports, although they never cite figures to back it up. Maybe it does pay when a team is winner or a champion, and this may explain the in crease in the number of tradi tionless bowl games—for exam ple the Liberty Bowl. But what did Oregon gain besides a little money at the Liberty Bowl ? Not much. Next year there’ll be four new bowls. WELL, COLLEGE pro foot ball does help a lot of fellows get to college on athletic schol arships, and a few of them can maintain good grades in genu ine courses—we don’t include as genuine either typing or bowl ing which are given here. It also helps some musicians get in under band scholarships, and competition is often just as great for a good trombone play er as for a big tackle. A number of years ago in the East we watched the annual game between two academy leaders, Haverford and Swarth more (it’s not a girls’ Bchool). The thousand or so who watched got just as much enjoyment as do fans at any of the big schools, and there wasn't a single ath letic scholarship within miles. Neither school makes money from football, it’s part of their campus life, and not too much money is lost. INSTEAD of joining a new league, building a big expensive stadium that will rarely be used and very rarely filled, and spending lots of money train ing athletes for the big leagues, maybe we should go amateur. What do you think, Cousin Fort? As you say, the money for the stadium could be used instead for a decent auditorium, schol arships could go to academic students, and other savings could be used for educational and cultural puiposes. WE COULD still have teams and they could play Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Notre Dame, Denver, Swarthmore, Haver (Contimied on page 3) I with the statu* quo, confident that we've gone about a* far a* we can go. Kalderdnah ! ! Yea, the reatrlctlona at the University of Oregon do “seem a bit stringent,” anti "there should be consolation in the fact that they could get tough er”; nevertheless, they might become a little less stringent and a little more realistic If a few more people began to realize that the possession of a self-sat isfied feeling of comparative su periority is a one-way ticket to stagnation. Chuck Weller, Senior In Kngllnh. • • ' Emerald Editor: I think Jack Gjovaag's let ter to the editor of Jan. 12 missed or ignored the more important implication of the editorial. "Sweetheart of Sig ma Chi,” which appeared in Tuesday’s Emerald. The article did not maintain that fraterni ties were devoid of value and use; it was aimed more against what Senator Goidwater said. I restate that absurd quota tion; "where fraternities arc not allowed, communism flour ishes!” I would agree with the article that it would indeed be a sad situation if the Ameri can way of life—may I use that phrase would fall to the communist ideology for lack of fraternities. Jerry Simpson, Soph, in Education. • • Emerald Editor It was with great sorrow that we learned of the abolition of another Oregon tradition, the annual quartet contest in con nection with Dad’s Weekend. However, a far greater regret becomes apparent when we con sider the proposed replacement ... a “combo” contest. CREATIVE endeavor in t h e field of modern jazz, when left to the ability of rank amateurs, a species which abound on this campus, is most certainly an ill considered substitute for the male quartet which is primar (Contimied on page 3) OREGON DAILY EMERALD The Oregon Daily Emerald is published f°ur times in September and five days a week during the school year, except dur ing examination and vacation periods, by the Student Publications Hoard of the University of Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per year, $2 per term. Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of The Emerald and do not pre tend to represent the opinion of the ASUO or the University. JIM HOYD, Editor STEVE MILL1KIN, Business Manager
