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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1961)
UO Could Lose Defense Money JANICE NAKATA Junior In Elementary Education FRANCES SOUVENIR Junior in Literature Women to Vote For New Officers Women's elections for AWS, Wit A, and YWCA officers will be Wednesday. Voting will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Common wealth, the SU and the Co-op. Candidates for AWS offices are Frances Souvenir and Janice Nakatu. president: Sharon Lay and Margot Noall, secretary; Sharon Gearhart, Sue Goodnight, and Sharon Raynor, treasurer; Glnny Clark. Sharon Pocras, and Pat McCorkle, editor; Jean Cock tan. Rosalind Randles, and Joan Yaaui, historian. JANICE NAKATA, a junior elementary education major from Portland, is the current AWS treasurer and member of the AWS cabinet and legislature. She has also served AWS as a mem ber of the teference board and as froah secretary. Besides counseling at Schaef fer Hall, she is current secretary of Phi Theta Upsilon, vice-presi dent on the YWCA House Coun cil, and is a member of Pi Lamb da Theta, national education hon orary. She w'as president of Kwama last year, and is current ly one of two student representa tives to the University of Oregon Development Fund. FRANCIS SOUVENIR, Junior literature major from St. Helens, is presently AWS scholarship chairman. She has also served AWS as a cabinet member, as chairman of the Bunion Derby last year, as frosh secretary, and as AWS convention chairman. The is vice president of Phi Theta Upsilon this year, and she is also a member of Kwama. Her other activities include general secretary of Junior Weekend this year, and former YWCA house council chairman. Fall Oreganas Issued Today An error appeared in yester day's Issue of the Kmerald. Fall term Oreganas will he dis tributed for the last time TO DAY from 1-4:30 p.m. in the coat check room of the Student Union for students who have not yet received theirs. Those yearbooks not pieked up will lie resold. AH students must present their student body cards at the time they pick up their yearbook. WRA candidates are Shirlene M('Michael and Marianne Foster, president; Janet Osburn and Sally Jones, secretary; and Caro j lyn Jones and Connie Read, treas i tirer. Shirlene Me Michael, a junior ' from Klamath Falls majoring in 1 music, is currently serving WRA as custodian. Her other activi : ties include YWCA and music ac tivities. Marianne Foster, a junior from Milton-Freewater majoring in i PE, is a member of the Women’s ' Physical Education Club. She is ’ also song leader of her sorority, , Alpha Phi, and was co-chairman i of the Winter Carnival queen sc i lection committee. CANDIDATES for YWCA of fices are Judy Drais and Gladys Kafoury, president; Marilyn Todd : and Lynn Savage, secretary’; | Barbara Head, treasurer; Diane ; Kruggel, Jay Ann Hardey and ! Ginny Clark, chairman of sopho ( Continued mi page S) Kusch to Discuss ScienceLimitations Nobel Prize Winner in 1955, \ I Polykarp Kusch, will speak on i "Limitation of Science” at 8 ■ p.m. today in the SU. Kusch, head of the department i of physics at Columbia Univer j sity, will join the ranks of dis tinglished speakers who come here under the Failing Fund. GERMAN-BORN Kusch moved! to the United States when he was a year old and later became a naturalized citizen. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Case Institute of Technol ogy, and his Masters and Docto- j ral degrees from the University of Illinois. He is the recipient of Honorary Doctor of Science de gree from both Case Institute and Ohio State University. Kusch, who has taught at the University of Illinois, the Uni versity of Minnesota, and at Co lumbia, has also been a member of the technical staff of the Bell Telephone Laboratories. His re search has been in fields of atom ic, molecular, and nuclear phys ics. The physicist is a member of the National Academy of Scien ces and a Fellow of the Ameri can Physics Society. U of 0 May Get Part of Kennedy Education Grant University students may re ceive as much as one-third of the $189,000 that President Ken nedy has allocated for 270 schol arships to Oregon colleges and universities during the 1962 fis cal year. He submitted the figure in his educational proposals to Congress on Monday. Francis Nickerson, Executive Secretary of the High School-Col lege Relations Commission, made •he estimate of the University's dice of the scholarship monies. He emphasized, however, that any estimate would be just "pull ed out of a hat.” NICKERSON said the money may be allocated directly to the state schools proportionately, comparing individual college en rollment to that of the total state college and university population. Another possibility is that the money will be distributed through the State Scholarship Commis sion, allocating the money to students who will later choose the school they will attend. WHICHEVER method is used, the total amount of funds going to the University students will "tend to balance out.” Kenneth Ghent, chairman of the Scholarships and Financial Aid Committee, estimated that the University would receive from 25 to 30 per cent of the $189, 000. The total scholarships for 1962 were based on the assumption that the amount per scholarship in each state would average $700. President Kennedy’s proposals to Congress included $7,094,843 for Oregon during the 1962 fis cal year. This would amount to S20.10 per pupil in average daily at tendance in public schools in the state. The requests for 1963 and 1964 are higher. The President asked $8,356,592 for 1963. or $22.89 per pupil, anil $9,601,681 in 1964, or $24.54 per pupil. AWS to Hear Pressman Today Mrs. Charles Pressman will sneak at the AWS. WRA. YWCA, election assembly today at 4 p.m. in the SU Dad's Room. Her topic will be ‘’Volunteer Service and It's Rewards.” Mis. Pressman is a graduate of the University and was quite ac tive during her years at the Uni versity. She was Homecoming Queen, a member of the Mortar Board, a Phi Beta Kappa, and an honors graduate in history. Since her graduation Mrs. Pressman has become active in community affairs. In 1954 she was awarded the Eugene Com munity Service Award. Among her present activities are the Fortnight Study Group, the Lane County Art Committee, church work, and PTA. She is current ly president of Junior Women's Service in Eugene. Matching Funds Not Allocated By LARRY LYNCH Emerald Managing Editor The University is in danger of missing out on $250,000 in loan funds it could make available to students next year. As a result, • the Dean of Mon and the student body president have initiated re medial action. The money is offered to the University through the National Defense Education Act. BUT ABOUT $27,000 in match ing funds will have to be put up by the University unless Dean Ray Hawk and Steve Schell suc ceed. The problem is that the University may not be able to al- j locate that amount out of its un-1 restricted loan funds for use as matching funds necessary under ’ the requirements of the National Defense Education Act. The best alternative, according | to Hawk, is to get the money from the state legislature. Hawk has written Acting Pres ident of the University William C. Jones informing him of the crisis in the University loan fund and suggesting alternative cours es of action. SCHELL HAS written the stu dent body presidents at other j Oregon colleges and Universities, suggesting a joint meeting of the student presidents to consider seeking legislation in Salem. There are two other ways of; getting the necessary matching funds that Hawk included in his ! letter to President Jones. One is to apply for loans that the federal government has made provisions for and that can be 1 used to match the NDEA funds. The problem here. Hawk says, is that precedents indicate this sort | of federal loan would come at about six per cent interest. A SECOND alternative would i Baboon Behavior Topic of Lecture By Anthropologist "Baboon Behavior" is the sub ject of a talk to be given today by Dr. Sherwood L. Washburn, professor of anthropology at UCLA at 1 p.m. in the SU Ball- I room. He will illustrate his lec-j ture with a color sound film. Washburn, who has been doing research on comparison of the 1 behavior of primates, and hu mans, has participated in several expeditions abroad in his field; work. He took part in the Asia . tic Primate expedition to Ceylon, Siam and Borneo in 1936-37; F.ast and South Africa in 1948; Rhode sia and South Africa in 1955, and East Africa in 1959. Since 1957 Washburn has com- j pleted six papers for publication. His latest paper, now in the hands of the publisher, is “So I cial Behavior of Baboons and Early Man.” He has served as secretary and president of the American Asso ciation of Physical Anthropolo gists. He has also served as ed itor of two journals on anthropol ogy. Washburn, who received the Viking Fund Medal and Award last year, has been a research as sociate at the Wenner-Oren Foun dation for Anthropological Re search and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Be havorial Sciences. The speaker will be introduced at the assembly by Luther Cress man, head of the anthropology de partment at the University. be to use unrestricted University loan funds. This v.-ould limit other short and long term loans rrade by the University under its own programs to students who are financially hard put. These funds are now loaned without the scholarship restric tions that are placed on the NDKA loans. They are some times used. Hawk says, to tide students over tight spots, say for a trip home on the bus or to pay next month’s house bill when oth erwise the student might have to drop out of school. Though the University is in a tight situation, it isn’t as hard pressed as other Oregon schools, according to Hav.-k. Nonetheless, the University will either have to drop out of the National Defense loan pro gram next year or seriously jeop ardize its own loan funds. SCHELL, has stated that the University loan funds are r.ow depleted and that if all present loans are established the fund will be reduced to $488. Schell has also written state Senator Monroe Sweetland and U.S. Senator from Oregon Wayne Morse asking their help in get ting either state or federal money to set up a revolving fund. This fund would then he used to match NDEA money at the required one to nine ratio. Under the National Defense loan program, each state institu tion can acquire $250,000 for stu dent loans. THE STATE legislature, if asked to act, would be urged to set up enough matching funds to take care of all Oregon institu tions for two years, or until it meets again in 1963. University Business Manager J. O. L nd strom estimates this would mean that the legislature would have to provide about $200,000, mak ing an additional $2 million avail able to students at Oregon col leges and Universities. The University o f Oregon would use about $54,000 of this money to make over half a mil lion dollars in loans available to its students during the next two years. IN 1HS ANSWER to Schell’s •letter, Senator Sweetland asked for suggestions of “dormant state funds which might appropriately be tapped as a revolving fund for student loans.” Morse replied to Schell with a statement that loan program should come up for special con sideration when a U.S. Senate subcommittee on education meets to consider the NDEA. CSC Name Bill Passes Senate The Will to change the name of Oregon State College to Oregon State University be came a step closer to coinple-.. tion .Monday, passing the Ore gon Spite Senate. The hill now goes to the gov ernor for approval. Senator Andrew I. Xaterlin cast the only vote against tue bill, explaining, that because of OSf’s poor basketball showing last weekend, the name should be changed to “Oregon State Prep School.” Senator Monroe Sweetland spoke for the b‘U, saying that it would increase the college’s prestige.
