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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1963)
UO Resolution Opposes Speaker Ban Committee Hears Hazing Bill Today SALEM The House Education Committee will hold a hearing at i i* rn today to consider a hill to mnkt fraternity hazing at Ore »’ jfV state supported collides and universities a misdemeanor. Hep Hichard Kennedy, D Lane, who sponsored the hill, told the Emerald Thursday that hir legal counsel is preparing sev eral amendments to the bill which he introduced Feb 11 “I KEEL THAT the bill should b redrawn The definition of haz in'.’ for one thing should be more specific," he said Kennedy’s bill would penalize "both those who participate in hazing practices end educators who knowingly per mit it.” Kennedy said his bill is not "a slap in the face of the University of Oregon. It. seeks to cotccI a robicm which exists on the cam pus.” he said THE LEGISLATOR said he was not aware of any persons who will apnea* in opposition to the bill. The committee hearing cam'- up so fast he said, “we didn't have time to extend invitations to per sons to testify.” University Dean of Students Donald M DuShane told the Em erald that the office of Student Af fairs has not been contacted in regard to the bill. DAN O’CONNELL, president of Inter-Fraternity Presidents’ Coun cil said, ‘‘no one in the IFC ha;; !>oen contacted about the hearing. We do not plan to attend." O’Connell said it "is the feeling of the IFC that the bill is not necessary. The problem exists on the campjs and should be taken care of here. We do not want out side forces entering in.” Rep Kennedy said earlier that “the real value of the bill would be that students would recognize that something other than just discipline from the University is involved.” COOP STUDENTS learn their manners the hard \ ay! This Philadelphia House member started his dessert too soon. YD's Finalizing Bridges' Visit University Young Democrats are making arrangements to bring Harry Bridges, president of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen's I'nion, to camp us in late April, according to Jim Teasdale, YD president. TEASDALE said he has re ceived no response from two oth er speakers he had hoped to in elude in a speaking program with the union leader. The two he has written to are Rep. Edmond Durno, R Ore, and Harrison Spangler, author of the book ‘The Record of Wayne Morse." which was critical of Morse’s record in the national congress. The YD president said that his group is interested in bringing the speakers to campus to expose students to the ideas they have to offer. SINCE HE HAS yet to receive answers to his letters to Durno and Spangler, Teasdale said he was not sure who he could put on a program with Bridges. The Young Democrats’ spokes man said he did not know if a bdl recently introduced in the Oregon House of Representatives, which would bar certain classifi cations of controversial speakers, would affect plans to sponsor Bridges. TEASDALE pointed out that Bridges has never been proved to be a member of a political group that advocates the violent overthrow of the national govern ment. lie is a proven Republican, though,” Teasdale said. BA School Future 'Bright' By NNAWA KWALEYELA Emerald Staff Writer The University’s School of Busi ness Administration is looking forward to its 50th anniversary next year with high hopes. On Feb 1, the school's master's degree orogram was accredited b\ the American Association of Schools 01 Business Administra tion This makes the University one of only eight institutions west of the Rocky Mountains to have such an accredited program. Richard W Lindholm, dean of the University’s School of Busi ness Administration said the ac creditation should attract more students and new professors. “The fact that we got accredited even though we had less than the desired number of students, indi cates that we have an excellent program.” he said Having a substantial number of graduate students is one of the re quirements to be accredited Oth er requirements are that the un dergraduate program be already accredited and that the school be well established and in operation for a number of years. Lindholm said the University’s school has been well established for twenty years and that its un i Continued on poor 10) Lang Bill Attacked— Contrary to Ideals' By EVERETTE DENNIS Emerald News Editor Rep. Phillip Lang's bill to bar certain controversial speakers from Oregon’s state-supported college campuses met opposition Thursday. ASUO President Neil Goldschmidt announced that a 1 special meeting of the ASUO Senate will be held Monday to consider a resolution opposing Lang's bill. Mike Burton, student body president at Oregon State Flemming Opposes Any New Limits By NOMI BORENSTEIN Emerald Staff Writer In his Coffee Hour Thursday. University President Arthur Flemming presented his stand on 'he hill introduced at the State Legislature to ban controversial speakers on campus. “I believe," said Flemming, "in the policy which exists in the state of Oregon, namely the pol icy which gives each institution of higher education the right to i decide what its policy is going to be on the use of outside speak ers. I hope that this right will never he taken away from our state institutions.” “AT THE UNIVERSITY of j Oregon we believe that any fac [ ulty group or approved student group should have the right to extend an invitation to anyone the group desires to hear ” “We believe that such a policy is consistent with the concept of freedom of inquiry which should prevail in a true University.” Commenting on the relation of the Gus Hall incident to the bill, Flemming said, "apparently this (the Gus Hall incident) is what triggered it.” On his stand concerning Hall. Flemming said. “The position was a credit to the state of Ore gon It brought us a great deal of favorable comment in the edu cational community as a whole." COMMENTING ON the ques tion of student discipline, Flem ming said that although the State Board of Higher Education in its 1954 ruling gave the presidents of the various state institutions the final responsibiliey fo- camp us discipline, he believes in del i Continued on paqc °) Greatest Joy In Writing Is Knowing Notables-Bowen By PHY! LIS ELVING Emerald Staff Writer "The greatest joy of my profes sion is the opportunity to know gr< at men,” Failing Distinguished Lecturer Catherine Drinker Bow <>n told a University audience Thursday night. "I have sp« nt years in the pres ence ol such men as Sir Edward Coke, John Adams, Sir Francis Bacon " she said. "How could a women better use her time?" AMONG THE "occupational hazards" of a biographer is the fact that "there are so many ways to say a thing,” Mrs. Bowen told her audience. In addition, spoken words when they reach the printed page "have an altogether different connota tion,” she said. There are, how ever, tools of narration for the writer, such as indirect conversa tion—a technique she learned by reading it. A biographer must have a rea son for writing, she said, and the “frightening question" of “why am I writing this book?” confronts him as he sits in the research li brary surrounded by the volumes already written on his subject. Another of the burdens the bi ographer has to carry is what Mrs. Bowen termed the “burden of the whole. From the beginning the biographer must keep the end in mind. The beginning must match the end, or else the reader feels cheated, unconvinced, left up in the air.” BECAUSE of the “burden of; the whole” the biographer—or the novelist—“dares not lose himself in any one piece of action,” she j said. Many people ask her. she said, why she switched from writing two biographies on great musical figures to writing four on law. "I wanted to write my own country,” she said in answer to the question. She had become much more familiar, in writing about Tchaikovsky, with a coun try other than her own. and in a srnse was “homesick.” So she looked for, instead of an artistic figure, an “intellectual man" who was active in government, and picked Oliver Wendell Holmes. EVEN THE hazards involved in the work of the biographer are rewarding, she said, for they make it an “exciting business.” The challenges are stimulating, and “far from discouraging to bear.” . tnivcrsitv told the Lmerald he al>o will attempt to call a special senate meeting. THE RESOLUTION in opposi tion to the bill was drafted by Gary Newton and Scott Carlin, co chairmcn of the ASUO President’s Civil Rights Committee. The pro posal calls on the Oregon State Legislature to reject House Bill 1618 and any legislation of this nature that may be proposed in the future.” The resolution states that ‘‘the bill is contrary to the expressed ideals of a free society. A free society must constantly be on the alert against governmental inter vention in. or censorship of, the exposition of ideas.” Goldschmidt said. ‘‘I would en courage every student who is concerned about the nature of this legislation and its implica : lions upon the educational process | specifically at the University of Oregon to indicate his feelings to his student senator or representa tive.” The OSU student body presi dent said, ‘it is about time that student government organizations take a more affirmative stand that affects student bodies. We should have an opportunity to discern right from wrong. It is not the legislature’s position to infringe on the educational processes.” Rep. Lang, D-Fortland. who could not he reached for com ment Wednesday, told the Emer ald Thursday he introduced the bill as a legislative courtesy to the Oregon Veterans Legislative Affairs Committee. THE VETERANS committee is made up of representatives of five veterans groups. "I do not feel strongly about the bill. I don't think it will com pletely accomplish what these people want. It is particularly aimed at the Gus Hall situation,” he said. The Portland legislator said I am sympathetic to the Veterans Committee's problem to a degree. But these people should remem ber that if speakers like Ilall are allowed to take their natural course, they will kill themselves faster than you can control them.” TI1E RILL AI.SO might be "clearly unconstitutional." If a speaker were arranged^who was covered under the two acts of the bill and sponsored by a camp us group couldn't have his appear ance prohibited without the law being unconstitutional." Chancellor Roy E. Lieuallen and President James H. Jensen of Oregon State University both de clined to comment until they have time to study the bill. Lieuallen said. "It is generally unwise to legislate along these lines. Institutional executives should be allowed to reach a de cision on individual speakers aft ( Continued on ptuic Q) Next-fo-Last Today’s paper will be the last issue until the Friday, March 8 paper which will be the final is sue of this term.