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.
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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.
The President will hold a
morning conference with the Na
tional Security Council, then will
fly to New York City to confer
with chief US Nuclear Negotia
tor Arthur Dean.
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