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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1961)
Flemming urges action on Board fund request The quality of higher education in Oregon will lessen if the addi tional funds asked by the State Board of Higher Education are not provided. University Presi dent Arthur S. Flemming, said at a press conference Wednesday. “I BELIEVE that anything that can be done should be done. Obviously this is a matter the governor alone can decide. But the Board is doing the right thing in presenting the need as they see it.” The request for additional funds followed an increase in en rollments in the State System of Higher Education over the es timated figures on which the last legislature drew up the budget. “THE LAST legislature work ed out a formula which they felt would provide a good qual ity of higher education in Ore gon,” Flemming said. “It follows that if this formula is not carried out. the quality of education con templated bv the legislature will not be maintained." He added: “It is sometimes assumed that the only students \\ ho will be hurt will be the 2.000 over the budgeted figure, but in fact a large part of the 30.000 enrolling in this biennium will be burt.” AS EXAMPLES, he pointed out that attrition rates can be expected to increase if counsel ing services decline, and that larger English classes will mean students will not be able to get the attention they should get. The proposal by a governor's committee for a graduate school in Portland “could he realized.” Flemming continued. “I think the State System of Higher Edu caiton should move in the direc tion of pooling its resources for graduate work in the Portland area. “WE COI’LD have a fine co operation between the State Insurance Society to meet tonight The University of Oregon In surance Society will convene for an organizational meeting today at 8 p.m. in the SU. according to its president, Jerry Hrabal. Items on the agenda include the election of a secretary and vice-president to fill the positions vacated by graduating seniors, the appointment of committee heads, planning for a dinner and dance, and the arrangement of the year’s program. Membership in the group is open to all business students with some interest in insurance, though this need not be the ma jor field of study of that indivi dual. The main project of the group consists of selling the stu dent insurance during registra tion at the beginning of each term. A nominal commission is received for this, however, which is used to finance the group. Coffee and donuts will be served at the meeting. All in terested students are urged to at tend. The room number will be posted. System and a pirvate institute such as the one recommended by the committee,” he said. The early admissions policy re cently announced by the Univer sity which certifies high school students for admission if they complete seven semesters with a B average, should relieve parents i of anxiety as to whether their i child could enter a university, Flemming said. HE ADDED that at Ohio Wes leyan. where he was formerly president, such certification was given at the end of six semesters. Flemming said he preferred a voluntary rather than a compul sory ROTC program. This is the same position which the Univer j sity of Oregon faculty has tak en on the question, which will be on the agenda of the January meeting of the State Board of Higher Education. HE SAID he was convinced the armed services would get a better quality of officers if they rely on the voluntary approach, and that many military leaders j agree. *T believe it is just a mat ter of time before the whole ROTC program nationally is on a voluntary basis." UN Peace March invites students Interested University students are-invited* to take part In the United Nations Walk for Peace in Portland Saturday. THK MAKCII, which will In clude Oregon college ana univer sity students and adults, is founded on the theory that efforts to solve world problems a r e founded on peaceful demonstra tion. rot violence. The walk will assemble at the North Park Blot ks at N.VV. Park and \V. Burnside and proceed down S.W. Broadway to S.W. Hail and to the South Park Blocks. There, speeches will Ire delivered by Karlin Capper-John son, Lewis and Clark, and other promoters. THK WALK is in support of these ideas: immediate agree ment by all nations on total dis armament with U.N. control: T'.N. agreement to end immedi ately all preparations for biologi fcal and chemical warfare; imme diate resumption by all nations of the moratorium on nuclear test ing: initiative on the part of the United States to reduce world tension: strengthening and amend ing the United Nations Charter to make it a more effective force [ for world peace. New computer unit in University lab A new IBM electronic comput-' ing system that will make the University Statistical Laboratory and Computing Center the larg est institutional computing center in Oregon is being installed this week. THIS SYSTEM includes a $64. 000 IBM 1620 electronic comput er that has 20,000 positions of magnetic core memory, a $30,000 extra module of 20,000 positions of memory and a card read-punch device. With the recent acquisitions, total value of the center's equip ment, located in Deady Hall, will be around $150,000. The electronic computer will re place a computer which uses tran sistor circuits rather than vacuum tube circuits. The extra memory module will double the memory size of the computer and will greatly in crease the computing capacity of the center. THE CARD read-punch reads 80-column cards into the com 1 puter at the rate of 250 a min- j utes and punches cards out at 125 per minute. This is four to ten times as fast as using the paper tape equipment which the cen-: \ ter has been renting from IBM, Increased use of the center’s j new equipment is expected by Director Fred C. Andrews. USE OF THE center fluctu ates throughout the year, An drews said. Summer is the busiest time with many research projects going full swing. In August, for example, the computer was kept running for more than 20 hours a day. Schools and departments throughout the University use the center. At present, computing ! projects are under way by the de partment of biology, physics, chemistry, psychology, mathe matics, sociology, economics, the School of Health, Physical Edu cation, and Recreation, the Hon ors College, Museum of Natural History, Counseling Center, and the Oregon Research Institute. Consultation on programming and initial instruction in equip ment use are given by the Labo ratory and Center staff, including three statisticians, a numerical analyst, a graduate assistant, and a secretary. The University has had a sti tistical laboratory for several years. Last year, the Statistical Laboratory and Computing Cen ter was established, and the com pute!- was obtained in February, 1901. NOW Is the Time for CHRISTMAS PORTRAITS Please Phone Dl 4-3432 the FEHLY STUDIO 1214 Kincaid Street on the Campus I Relax in the Rush Inn For the Finest in Food and Service 854 E. 13th On the Campus Eugeneans quizzed on fallout views Should you huve n fallout shelter? This wns one of ten questions 87 Eugene residents were asked in a recent survey. The research project was con ducted by a group of University students from the advertising class of Max Wales, associate professor of journalism. Telephone calls were made to persons whose names were taken at random from the city direc tory. Of all the respondents, 67 per cent indicated their interest in civil defense had Increased over the past three months. Although 80 per cent of the sample believed the Eugene n,-ea would be affected by fallout in a nuclear attack, only 49 per cent thought they should have a fall out shelter. And, Just 13 per cent had actually made plans for one. while 4 per cent had them al ready. The 51 per cent who thought that they didn't need a shelter were asked to explain why. Four reasons were given: 7 i>er cent believed there would lie 1 no war: 35 per cent thought the world wouldn't he worth living in after an atomic war: 23 per cent wanted government sup _ polled community shelters; and 3 per cent questioned the effec tiveness of shelters or else ob jected to them on the basis of the expense. In regard to what a shelter costs, 44 per cent said they had no idea. Remaining answers varied from $100 to $3,000 with most estimates In the $100-5500 range. Only 21 per cent had base ments, but 66 per cent said they could build on or convert un extra room to a fallout shelter. Approximately one-half of the sample was married, with chil dren, and owned (or were buying * their home, Most were women. JFK meets today WASHINGTON ( UPII Pres ident Kennedy meets with his top advisers today In a series of ; conferences that could go far ' toward determining whether the ITS will resume atmospheric nu clear testing. 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