To Each His Own
The Oregon State College Faculty Sen
ate voted 38 to 26 last Thursday against in
stituting a policy of voluntary enrollment
in OSC’s basic ROTC program. Although
the University of Oregon faculty, the ASUO
Senate, and the Emerald have all opposed
compulsory ROTC on the University cam
pus, this does not necessarily mean that the
OSC decision is wrong. But the OSC de
cision does pose a serious problem for the
State Board of Higher Education.
NEXT WEEK the State Board will meet
to discuss curriculum changes for the
coming year. Representatives from both the
University and OSC will present their fac
ulty’s decisions and the University will ask
that it be allowed to switch to a voluntary
program. Since Oregon’s institutions of
higher education are administered under a
unified system, the State Board may feel
that it is necessary to establish a single
policy for ROl C. This can only lead to dis
satisfaction at the institution whose policy
is not adopted.
It would he far better for the State Board
to follow the policy of the Department of
Defense. Charles C. Fiucane, assistant secre
tary of defense, has stated this as a policy
of “freedom of choice.”
“IN OTHER WORDS” Fiucane said,
“the determination of policy will continue
to be left up to the authorities at the educa
tional institution concerned.”
If, in the future, the OSC administration
feels that the University’s voluntary ROTC
policy is detrimental to their own. then they
may wish to review the matter and adopt
a voluntary propram themselves. Until the
Department of Defense changes its policy
of “freedom of choice,” the question of com
pulsory vs. voluntary ROTC is a moral and
administrative question which must be an
swered by each individual institution.
JNew Proposal Brewing
Although the question of compulsory vs.
voluntary ROTC is still quite controversial,
proposed action by the Air Force ROTC
may soon settle it.
A PROPOSAL to compress the four-year
AFROTC course into two years was dis
cussed by the Air Force ROTC Advisory
Panel Dec. 8 at the Pentagon. As part of the
proposal, the Air Force is considering a two
year scholarship program for candidates se
lected to take the course.
This proposal, if adopted, would affect not
only the AFROTC but the Navy and Army
ROTC programs as well. The Navy is pres
entlv offering scholarship aid for those stu
dents who are potential career officers and
the Air Force has tended to adopt this con
cept. But the Army, with annual ROTC
officer needs three to four times greater
than either the Navy or Air Force, has
taken a much more conservative approach.
NOW IF THE AIR FORCE gets its
way, the Air Force and Navy courses may
prove so attractive that the Army will he
forced to modify its program. One such
modification could be a switch to voluntary
ROTC or a compressed two-year course.
Letters to the Editor
Emerald Editor:
Where-o-where has my text
book gone? At Lewis and Clark
College (Portland) it was not
unusual for a student in a mo
ment of hurry to leave a text
book or something behind as he
left a classroom, nils was
nothing to worry about, for
the student could be fairly cer
tain that the article would still
be where he left it — even after
a whole weekend!
HERE AT THE University
(where there has been some
nasty rumors of delinquency in
respecting book rights of oth
ers) the same standards should
be observed concerning mis
placed articles. However, this
may not be true, for just the
other day (Friday) a text book
was left in a certain classroom
in Commonwealth Hall and
could not be found one hour
later (maybe there is some
thing to the rumor).
Are we students, or are we
crooks? Let's be students and
return articles we find that do
not belong to us. Just in case
you happen to have borrowed a
criminology text, cleverly con
cealed behind a book jacket en
titled “Therapeutic Psychology,”
please return it to its rightful
owner—he can be reached at ext.
220 or DI 3-S065.
ALLEN M. PARELIUS,
Graduate Student,
Educational-Psychology.
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Emerald Editor:
In recent months the Ameri
can public has become more fa
miliarized with the idea of a
Peace Corps. It is particularly
on this occasion that I find
your editorial (“University in
World Affairs,” Jan. 12) inter
esting, stimulating, and thought
provoking. The quotations that
"the universities’ response (to
the events of post war years) so
far . . . has been largely spor
adic and unplanned” certainly
deserves special attention from
the students on this campus.
IN THE editorial you have
written these words with much
insight and eloquence: "Our
world is growing technologically
and ideologically. This growth
often causes stress, particularly
in very young nations such as
Laos, The Congo, and Cuba. To
continue a foreign policy of
world leadership, the United
States must be prepared to send
the world people with imagina
tion trained to handle our af
fairs in those areas.” On the
whole I tend to agree with your
statement. However, I wish to
take this opportunity to add a
few footnotes to the problem of
sending able young men abroad.
(1) After making a “fact
finding” tour to Africa and Asia
in 1959, Prof. N. D. Palmer, of
the University of Pennsylvania,
wrote a series of articles in The
New Leader about the politi
cal situations in most of these
newly emergent countries. In
Guinea, an under-developed
country plagued by poverty and
illiteracy, he found many young
Guineans who expressed the
view that, apart from offering
massive economic aid, the Rus
sians in Guinea do not forget
to give them a sense of self-re
spect. Listen, please I want to
stress the word self-respect.
(2) ATTENTION must be
paid to the problems caused by
difference of living standard. It
is known that the discrepancy
has been so great that the in
digenous people are sometimes
jealous about it. Moreover,
very often many of the techni
cians sent by the Western coun
tries set themselves aloof and
do not come to close contact
with the masses. Hence, some
drastic adjustment and action
ought to be made in this re
spect.
(3) As I recall, there is a
Committee for World Respon
sibility at the University of
Michigan (it has more than
1,000 members). However, in
a world with almost 135 polit
ical entities. It is perhaps diffi
cult to elude the conclusion that
the able young men to the pro
posed Peace Corps should work
with dedication — and even
“sacrifice”—for national inter
est. In the meantime, I confi
dently think that world respon
sibility is implicitly involved in
their task.
MY REACTIONS to your
statement may seem extremely
trite, but I think they are very
important in gaining the friend
ship of the peoples of Africa,
Latin America, and Asia.
JOHN KOE,
Graduate in
Political Science.
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Emerald Editor:
I feel that the letter to the
editor by Barry Goldwater’s
friends . . . er, the members of
Phi Sigma Kappa, concerning
the Washington Post editorial
you printed Jan. 10, deserves
some comment.
CERTAINLY, the august
members of said fraternity have
assumed many motives for ,
your reprinting of the edito- (
rial. Personally I think it is a
splendid editorial and deserves
reprinting a few more times, but
to flatly state that the only
reason for your reprinting it
was to draw reader interest is
absurd, if not to say somewhat
silly. As for the statement
that you were trying to stir up
unwarranted criticism, I can’t
feel that the criticism is en
tirely unwarranted, nor do I be
lieve that this was your mo
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Faculty Refuses to Recognize
That A Traffic Problem Exists
By JACK SIMPSON
Graduate in Journalism
(Jim Boyd, the new editor
of the Emerald, rame to me the
other day with the HUgge«tion
that he would welcome contribu
tions from me nnd other grad
uates. 1 protested that 1 was
somewhat strapped for cash,
having just had a haircut. No,
he didn’t want money this time,
he wanted us to write some col
umns for the paper. Let me get
in a free plug for the gentle
man right now—he is serious
about the whole business. Call
him up if you don’t believe me.
—Author's Note.)
It often takes a considerable
time for institutions and people
to change—this is a sociologi
cal truism. Among the slowest
things to change are those con
cerned with academia — insti
tutions and people. Students
still contend with grading sys
tems which have been openly ac
knowledged to be harmful and
outmoded. Some seniors and
most master’s candidates still
sweat out a thesis, although its
value has also been questioned
in faculty circles.
THIS IS a roundabout intro
duction to the topic at hand to
day but I am seeking to make a
point. The point is that while
the outside world has become
increasingly dependent on the
automobile, the academic com
munity tries to ignore this de
pendence.
Virtually every faculty mem
ber at the University of Oregon
arrives on campus in an auto
mobile. It’s not too far off to
suppose that most of those vehi
cles remain here during the
day. Yet despite the fact that
these people must search for
many valuable minutes each
morning and afternoon for a
larking spot, they refuse to rec
ignize that a traffic problem
ixists.
I’VE KNOWN Wilbur Weed
for about two years. Weed is
the man in the Physical Plant
ivho is concerned with campus
traffic. He wants to do a good
job. Last summer the Univer
sity demolished several houses
ind a grocery store to create
more parking space. I talked
ivith Weed one day, just as the
ivork on the new lot was being
completed. I asked him how
many more spaces this lot would
provide. "Eight,” he replied in
a discouraged voice. There
must be about three acres in the
lot, yet all that work netted
only eight new spaces. Why?—
the dormitories department de
cided it would be nice to keep
the cars off of a couple of
streets along the front of dorms.
Eight ne& spares and how
many more cars did we get on
campus this year? We probab
ly got enough new^aci
bers to th^k^
Long before the University
started work on the new lot, I
broached a proposal to Mr.
Weed. The proposal: build a
self-liquidating, multi - storied
parking structure near the cen
ter of campus one on which
more levels could be built, if
needed. Pay for the structure
the same way the University
pays for its dormitories. Let
each student and faculty mem
ber pay for on assigned space in
the structure if he desires to
park there. Transient parking
could be assessed a nominal
hourly fee. Limit assigned park
ing to a bona fide commuters, if
necessary. Weed replied that it
couldn’t be done and that, fur
thermore, the existing parking
spaces cost the University about
$80 a year for the initial pro
curement and continued mainte
nance.
acuity mem
in.
IT SEEMS to me that a mod
em parking structure would
lower maintainance costs by
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