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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 10, 1962)
No. 15 Goldschmidt Criticizes Senate Action on NSA ASt.'O President Neil Gold schmidt commented critically on the Mccnt N'SA Senate conlro versy and the dormitory funds at his press conference Tuesday. “The Senate failed to do its job with NSA,” he commented. Last week a bill passed in the Senate stated that the University would not join the national stu dent governmental group this year Goldschmidt added that he had no' nlanncd to interrupt Senate btisinev.s with the discussion lie said that he had not had time to prepare a report to counter the views voiced by Bill Vertrees Street Closure Action Pends A public hearing has been called for November 12 to discuss plans for closing th«- block of E 12th St adjacent to Sacred Heart Hospital This action was taken .Monday evening at a meeting of the Eugene City Council. "The closing of 12th St. for the hospital fits in with our plans for tils closing of 13th,” accord iny to J (). Lindstrom. Univer sity business mana er It is ali part of one coordinated pro gram." Tile hospital seeks to close the street in order to make possible the building of a connecting wing across the right-of-way between the present hospital and a pro posed new addition on the south side of 12th Ave. The hearing is the first step in legal nroccrlures b'-fore the city can vacate a street. condemning the organization. Goldschmidt felt that it would not have been proper for the president to debate an issue any way when he was presiding at the meeting According to Gold schmidt Vertrces made incorrect statements concerning the organi zation but said them so fast that ? reply wouldn’t have been possi ble. HE ANALYZED the situation by stating that too many senators have taken stands on NSA and refuse to change their views. Concerning the current discus sion concerning dormitory funds for the Medical School in Port land, Goldschmidt said, "I think too many value judgements have been made without facts. "If we can give the monf,y with out jeopardizing our plans for future dorms and an infirmary, which is tori on the list, I think we should give the money.” SENATE committees are cur rently trying to get student rep rcsentation on the campus plan ninf committee, the curriculum committee, end the dormitory housing policy committee Gold ••chmidt hon»s to have permanent student members on each com mittee The President urged students to attend Charter Day observanc es Charter Day will be October PV and 16 Lectures are scheduled b\ Simon K SobelofT, Chief Judge of the C S. Court of Appeals, and James Madison Nabrit, president of Howard University An eve ning of opera will also be pre sented Nancy Silvers has been ap po'nted chairman of World Af fairs Week. Goldschmidt urged students to volunteer their aid on this project. The last hose of summer .... Emerald photo by Karl Broom Freedom Rider Farmer Speaks at Assembly Negro Leader Says: Riders Stress Racial Practices By STEVE GREEN Emerald Staff Writer Democracy has never really been democracy for Amer ica’s dark skinned citizens, James Farmer told a Univer sity assembly audience Monday afternoon. Farmer first gained national attention when he led the first fieedom Ride to Jackson, Miss. He is currently pro gram director for the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People. He helped to found CORE, the Congress of Racial Equal ity, and is one of the pioneers in developing non-violent methods for race relations problems. hor his part in leading the Freedom Ride, Farmer spent Enrollment Reaches 9600 Increases 9°fo Over 7967 Fall term enrollment reached 9,600 here Monday when the nor mal registration period ended. Monday was the last day to register without a special peti tion Clifford L. Constance, Uni versity registrar, told the Emer ald Tuesday that the final count should not exceed 9,625. MEANWHILE, registration at Oregon State University in Cor vallis, soared to an all-time high of 10,028 Saturday, the end of registration. This year's enrollment repre sents an increase of 9 per cent compared to last year's 8.788 to tal The Oregon State Legislature has based the University’s budget for this year on a total enroll ment of 8,745 BASED ON Friday’s total en rollment of 9.552, the men out numbered the women on campus 5,717 to 3,835. The greatest in crease in individual classes was the 24 per cent rise in special students. This year there are 159 such students, compared to last year's 128. The number of freshmen this year dropped 4 per cent com pared to the the class of 1961. As of Friday, there were 2,619 fresh men enrolled; last fall term, there were 2,727. The number of sophomores and Condemned Girl Appeals to Court Jeannace Freeman filed a peti tion with the Oregon Supreme Court Tuesday, for a rehearing of her appeal from her death sen tence. University student George F. N'eavoll has been working to have Miss Freeman's death sentence commuted by Governor Hatfield. According to a story by the Associated Press, the petition was filed by Miss Freeman’s at torneys, Cash Perrine and Wil liam Holmes of Bend. The court turned down Miss Freeman’s ap peal two weeks ago. She was sentenced to death in the Oregon Penitentiary gas chamber for the slaying of a six year old boy last year. The boy, Larry Jackson, was thrown to his loath in the Crooked River Gorge in Central Oregon. If the petition for rehearing is denied, the court's decision will be sent back to Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Robert Foley for the execution date to be set in Madras. juniors each increased 16 per cent this year with a total of 2,759 sophomores and 1,376 juniors. A total of 1,083 seniors have en rolled this term, which repre sents a 5 per cent rise. A SUBSTANTIAL 17 per cent increase was noted this year in the number of graduate students. There are 1.556 graduate students compared to 1,325 last year. i^isicu uv uidjurs, lucre are 7.530 students in liberal arts this term, an 8 per cent increase from last year. The number in other major fields includes architecture and allied arts. 402: business ad ministration, 435; education, 488: health, physical education and recreation, 366; journalism. 81; law. 117; music, 96: and interdis ciplinary studies, 39. I he number of students who have listed music as their pro fessional objective increased 18 per cent this year, and journalism and law students increased 15 and 14 per cent, respectively. TOTAL enrollment by profes sional objective and the percent age of increase or decrease are as follows: architecture and al lied arts, 832. 6 per cent; business administration, 1,174, 10 per cent: dentistry, 165, a 9 per cent drop; education. 1,005, a 3 per cent decrease; health, physical education and recreation, 366, 9 per cent increase; journalism. 265. 15 per cent rise; law, 387, 14 per cent increase; medicine, 312, a 2 per cent drop; music, 203; nursing, 99, a 6 per cent de crease; all others, 4,744, a 13 per cent increase. 40 days in Mississippi jails and penitentiaries. Farmer said •Negroes have al ways been “second-class citizens. Racial prejudice is not innate. Black and white children play together without exercising un reasonable bias. It is only when they grow up that the idea of racial prejudice develops. Racial prejudice is a learned behavior pattern taught by our environ ! ment,” he said. FARMER STATED that it has been 100 years since the Eman cipation Proclamation and many Americans are no longer Killing to accept segregation. More than 7,000 persons have been arrested since Feb. 1, I960, for violation of segregation laws. Me saia that many of these peo ple are “proud of the fact that they went to jail. They have be come accustomed to being yelled at, beaten, and spit upon.” “Freedom Riders,” he said, "have often been accused of be ing agitators who are damaging our prestige abroad. However, the way to prevent this issue from being used as propaganda is to bring it out in the open and ex amine all the factors instead of hiding it under the rug. . . . The Freedom Riders created an is sue to help bring the practices up to the Law.” THE NEGRO leader said the Freedom Rides were highly suc cessful. As a result of them the i Interstate Commerce Commis sion issued an order demanding that the segregation of buses and bus facilities cease. On Nov. 1. , 1961, test teams were sent . throughout the South, and In most : cases, bus facilities had been in : tegrated. "The next step is to end s.eg (Continucd on /-age 7) SU Little Concert Series Features String Quartet I ho appearance ot the V cgh String Quartet today will open the Little Concert Series at the University. The concert will be at 8 n.m in the auditorium of the School of Music. During the season, three cham ber music concerts, three variety ■oncerts, and two bonus concerts will be given. The Series is spon sored by the Student Ihiion Board. THE QUARTET is currently on their fourth tour in America. Some 30 concerts have been scheduled during their six weeks stay. It will be their iirst appear ance at the University. Members of the quartet include Sandor Vegh, Iirst violin; Sandor iZoldy, second violin; Georges Janzer, viola, anu Paul Szabo. cello. They make their home in Switzerland, where each holds a teaching position. The group has been in exist ence since 1940, and the person nel has not changed since that time. SEASON tickets for the scries are still available in combinations that include: three chamber mus ic, one variety and two bonus concerts; three variety, one cham ber music, and two bonus con certs; or two chamber music, two variety and two bonus concerts. Prices of the season tickets are $10.00 for adults and $7.50 for students. Individual tickets purchased at the door are priced at $2.50 for adults and $2.00 for students.