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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 26, 1963)
-Development Fund Students Will Buy Recreational Area By tei> mahaic Emerald Managing Editor The Student Development Fund Drive, the first in Uni versity history, will begin Monday. Its purpose is to provide| recreational facilities for students through funds provided directly by students. The goal of the drive is the purchase of a site to be used for a University camp. Several sites are now under consider ation. The site will be purchased from funds provided by students who donate their breakage fees to the drive next week. THE SITE must meet certain requirements It must be within an hour and a half’s travel from the University, there must he year-round access to the location, and it must be adjacent to Federal land so that no building can be done in the vicinity. There must also be water suitable for swimming, water skiing fishing, canoeing, rowing and sailing Moreover, there must be sufficient land suitable for picnicking, an archery range, a rifle range, and playing fields. Money collected jn the drive will be used exclusively for the; purchase of the site (unless the student elects to donate his breakage fee to unrestricted funds) and the operation and expenses of the recreational facilities will be paid by the users IF THE drive is successful, it is anticipated that some of the recreational facilities will be available for student use during the 198304 school year The camp will ultimately provide 100 acres of recreational area for University groups, both on land and water. Eventually, too, the facilities will have overnight sleeping facilities. The area will be used for meetings, retreats, and conferences by students, administra tion and faculty. Recreational area on campus is becoming increasingly hard to provide as the student body grows The camp will supplement not only recreational activities, but educational facilities as well Each student will receive a card on which he can designate whether he wants to donate his breakage fee to the drive. The drive will end Monday. May 8 Senate Passes NSA; OK s Mexico Project By JANET GOETZE Assistant News Editor ASUO Senate voted Thursday to join National Students' Asso ciation and to approve the Mex ico Committee's plans to provide educational and travel opportun ity in Mexico for University stu dents. THE VOTE to join NSA was passed 20-4 to make the Univer sity’s request for membership in the organization official The ref erendum approved by students in the April 17 general election was the basis of the decision. The approved Mexico Commit tee project will be at a Y.MCA camp near Cuernavaca, a town 70 miles south of Mexico City. Stu dents applying for the Mexico travel would be required to sub mit an outline of proposed study and write a paper on the educa tional interest pursued while in Mexico The cost for the stay, including round-trip transportation, will be $385 Students will be selected for the project by an interview ing board. IN OTHER business. Bill St John, off-campus students' rep , reported that the committee form ed to investigate costs of joining NSA raised the travel allotment for delegates that was included in the budget submitted to the Senate last week. With revised travel allotments, the proposed budget, which still must be ap proved by the Student Union and Fire Guts ROTC Building; Cause Still Undetermined By PHIL COGSWELL Editorial Page- Editor The cause of a three alarm fire which destroyed the University's ROTC building early Thursday morning is still undetermined but under investigation, according to officials of the Eugene fire depart ment. THE LOSS of the building and its contents was estimated at $142,000 I. I. Wright, director of the physical plant, said that the losses are covered under state restoration funds. The two-story frame building contained the offices of the Air Science and Military Science ROTC departments, two class rooms and a shooting range Fire men said the second floor shoot ing range, because of heavy wood en and metal paneling, hamp ered them in their attempts to break through the building’s walls to get to the flames. Also destroyed by the blaze were cameras, projectors and oth er teaching aids, as well as office equipment and many records. THE EXTENT of damage to personal records was not deter mined Thursday while the ItOTC staff was waiting for the fire de partment to conclude its investi gations of the building. Staff Petitions Due Petitions are due this week for the editorship of the new proposed under graduate liter ary publication. Petitions are available in M101 Student Union. The literary publication will come out twice next year if the Student Union and Educational Activities Budget Board passes the Publications Board pro posed $1000 budget. members believed, however, that many of the records will be legi ble. ROTC offices will be moved temporarily to the two prefabri cated metal huts which are locat ed near the ROTC building. Four classrooms in the two buildings will be utilized for offices, and the classes meeting in those rooms and in the destroyed building will (Continued on /■one 7) Hawaiins, Alaskans Must Pay Out-of-State Tuition SALEM (Special) — A recom mendation calling for full out-of state tuition for University stu dents from Alaska and Hawaii got tentative legislative approval this week. THE JOINT Ways and Means Educational Sub-Committee in ap proving the tuition increase also provided for “generous tuition remissions for the Alaskan and Hawaiian students,” Chancellor Roy E. Lieuallen said. The remission fund will include $300 of the total $900 tuition fee. Richard Collins, budget director for the State System of Higher Education, said, “Individual schools will work with students before school is out in order to determine their need.” “I believe that these will be granted primarily on need,” Col lins said. CHANCELLOR Roy E. Lieual len told the Emerald “the gener ous fee remission was established because the increase is substan tially greater than other non-resi dents.” Alaskan and Hawaiian students presently pay only the $300 resi dent tuition. The students from the former U. S. territories have received out-of-state tuition waiv ers since 1949 when the legisla ture passed a special act. Lieuallen told the Emerald he “appreciated the cooperation he has received from Alaskan and Hawaiian students in making their situation clear.” THE CHANCELLOR testified before the committee and ex plained the hardship which the students would face if a 200 per cent tuition increase were estab lished. ASUO President Phil Sher burne said, "It's a good deal more of a drastic step for these stu dents than for most out-of-state students and I am sure it will have definite effect on enroll ment.” Sherburne said he forsees "no tremendous drop during the next two years due to the remissions system.” Spokesmen for the Hawaiian and Alaskan students were not available for comment Thursday. Time Change To Give No More Confusion This Sunday students will not get up at 6 a m. to go to 8 a.m. classes at 7 a m. Instead students and their clocks, schedules and dispositions will be in harmony with the rest of the Pacific North west. Daylight savings time will go into effect 2 a.m. Sunday at the University and throughout the rest of the state. Any ambitious students are ad vised to set their clocks ahead one hour Sunday morning. Educational Activities Budget Board, was raised from $1,340 to $1,490. Debate on two matters cons'im ed the remainder of the meeting, during which three law school students presented opposing views on the legality of NS A membership and senators asked questions on the Discipline Code reports presented to University faculty recently. In the opinions presented by the law school students. Phil Cass and Walt Grebe expressed the view that student rights would be infringed upon if compulsory fees are used to pay for NS A member ship. GREBE SAID, “We are very serious and sincere in bringing Profs Discuss Discipline Code By DICK RICHARDSON Emerald Feature Editor Jack Wilkinson, professor of art. and Richard Kelley, associate professor of law, discussed the majority and minority reports of the Discipline Code at a YMCA Dialogue in the Bottom of the Bowl Thursday. WILKINSON defended the ma jority report, and Kelley, a mem ber of the Faculty-Student Discip line Committee, defended the minority report. “Discipline has quite a wide range of interpretations." Wilkin son. who opened the discussion said It can mean chastening, teaching, punishing or governing, he said. “I don’t think all who support the majority report are interested in punishing and chastening. I think the University wishes to put more emphasis on learning and teaching.” KELLEY said that a certain amount of undercurrent from stu dents and faculty concerning the discipline code may come from (1) the method of administration of the present code. (2) the fact that the code is archaic, and (3) different philosophies on discip line. Kelley said a philosophical dif ference arose in the committee on what the goals of the University are and how a code could be af fected to bring about these goals. ‘‘The minority members of the committee recommend the code be looked at again and an ad hoc committee be formed to look at the code and redraft it unbound by any philosophy,” Kelley said. Wilkinson said he felt that the student’s advisor might be the person to see when a student commits a breach of University disciplinary rules, instead of let ting the Student Affairs Office handle the situation, because the advisor knows the student or can talk with other faculty members about the student. Kelley disagreed and said stu dents who violate disciplinary rules should have their case pre sented before an independent dis ciplinary officer and that such students would have available to them the services of a public de fender. Petitions Due Freshmen wishing to work on Greater Oregon program as high school representatives for next year are reminded that petitions are due today. They can be left on the third floor of the SU. this point before you . . . We are bringing this up for more than 20 law students. It is my belief there are 3,000 or 4 000 students who do not want N'SA member ship and whose rights will be vio lated by joining/’ Bob Ackerman, who took an op posing view, said that if the legal ity of membership is to be ques tioned. the ultimate decision should be made in a court of law. IN HIS concluding statements Ackerman said that every student had had a chance to express an opinion on the NSA question through the referendum during the recent general election. He continued. “There is also an opportunity for every student to run for NSA delegate, to ar ticulate his own ideas and express his own opinions. 1 don’t agree that anyone would be denied an opportunity to participate in NSA.” THE SENATE voted down a motion by Vertrees that a letter be sent to the state Attorney General requesting a ruling on the legal question. In the discipline code matter, the Senate took no definite action, but asked questions of Herbert Bisno, a faculty member who signed the majority report sub mitted to faculty senate, and Richard Kelly, who signed the minority report. The faculty members explained the opinions expressed in the reports so that senate members can elicit response from constitu ents and channel those opinions to the faculty before final action is taken toward formulating a new- discipline code when the fac ulty senate votes May 8. Reed, UO Policy Are Contrasted Bv NOMI BORENSTEIN Emerald Staff Writer Miss Hilda Yee. head resident of Hamilton Hall, and Mrs. Susan Demitroff. a graduate of Reed College, contrasted the Univer sity's and Reed's discipline phil osophies at the YWCA Hotspot Thursday afternoon. Miss Yee said the dormitories were constructed in a way "con ducive to group living.” Since these small units are expensive to run, she said, there are cen tralized kitchens to help cut down expenses. "We try.” said Miss Yee, "to provide for students to meet whatever needs they have.” At Reed. Mrs. DermitrofT said, "The students are considered to be mature enough to make their own decisions. The college is also run on the honor system.” Mrs. DermitrofT felt, however, that Reed had certain advantages which the University lacks in re spect to discipline. "At Reed, the discipline code does not need to be politically acceptable to the legislature. "Also. Reed can select its stu dent body while the University must admit all students who have the required GPA.” When asked if Reed's dormi tory policies such as intervisita tion—when boys can enter girls’ living organizations during speci fied hours—would work at the University, Mrs. DermitrofT said, "impossible.” "Not all people are able to benefit from the Reed situation. Many can t take this kind of re sponsibility. At Reed, the student body is highly selective, out the student body of the University is not.”