Student Fees and Student Decisions
Wednesday night we attended our first
Student Union and Educational Activities
Budget Board meeting. It made us wish we
had gone to more.
That board can make more value judg
ments in one night than the ASUO Senate
does in a year, and it makes these judg
ments for students with student monies.
The Budget Board is in name an advisory
board to University President Arthur S.
Flemming. All action the board takes must
finally be approved by the President.
Despite this structural fact, the Budget
Board in theory should be responsive to the
desires of students. For the monies it ap
propriates come from student pockets, and
the programs it supports are beneficial to
students in extra-curricular areas and not
necessarily connected with the classroom
and conventional education.
There are three students on the board,
and two faculty, plus three ex-officio ad
ministrators and the ASUO president in an
ex-officio capicity. The three students are
recommended by the ASUO president and
approved by the University President. In
that sense, the ASUO president is really
the only member of the board who is re
sponsible through electoral process to the
students of this University. He is the only
real representative of the students on the
board.
Yet this board makes the final decisions
on how each student's $6.50 a term of stu
dent activity fees is to be spent.
This year that amounted to over $180,000
of student fees. Vast amounts of student
fees are spent for such activities as Student
Union Board, student speech competition,
Women’s Recreation Association, Model
United Nations, publications, and other
programs. With the exception of the ASUO
budget, none of the monies appropriated
from student fees is ever approved by a
more representative student group than
the Budget Board.
In the past this has not been as great a
problem as it appears to be this year. For
in the past there was always more than
enough money to meet all requests. This
year, it appears as if there will not be
enough money to meet all requests. The
Publications Board is requesting a new
$1000 literary publication, there is a new
$475 Peace Corps budget, there is NSA,
and there is a $1492 International Educa
tion Center request compared to last year’s
$300. There are also large expansions in
several other programs.
According to state law, all state agencies
are prohibited from running a deficit. This
means the Budget Board, for the first time
in recent years, must make some judg
ments as to where to cut budgets. They
have cut budgets in the past, but only be
cause of principle, not out of necessity.
It seems only just that students have
more direct voice in how their student fees
are to be spent. The State Board of Higher
Education is empowered by state law to
impose these fees upon students. The final
authority obviously lies with the State
Board of Higher Education. However, in
theory they are student fees and are not
directly connected with education, students
should be able to decide how they can be
best spent.
We recommend that in the future all
budgets, excluding publications budgets,
pass through the ASUO Senate, the student
representative body, for approval before
going to the Budget Board. We also rec
ommend that the decisions on where to
make reductions in budgets this year also
be referred to the ASUO Senate.
The current budget system does not give
students enough direct voice.
Notable Progress
Browsing through the 1933-34 Emeralds
the other day we came upon an interesting
story in the April 6, 1934 edition relating
to the current discipline code controversy.
The story sheds some light upon the origin
of the current discipline code.
It quotes some rules enumerated in the
minutes of the faculty meeting of Septem
ber 11, 1882. They read as follows:
“A student must not enter the brewery
or a saloon.
“Or drink any intoxicating liquor while
in attendance at the University, or on his
or her way to and from the same, except
on the prescription of a physician.
“Or use any tobacco in any form or way
while on the college campus.
“Or injure the building or property of
the University.
“Or join any college secret society.
“Or stand or sit around the doors or
making disturbing noise in the halls of the
college building.
“Or as a member of a class or of any liter
ary society conspire against the govern
ment and control of the faculty or of any
member of the faculty.
“Or refuse to pay any fine assessed by
the faculty upon himself or upon the liter
ary society of which he is a member for any
misconduct of himself or of any member
of his society.
The story goes on to quote more of the
faculty minutes of that year. “At any social
gathering students in attendance are re
quired to be in their rooms by 11 o’clock
each night.
“Resolved that we regard attendance
upon the skating rink on the part of our
students as injurious to their moral and
intellectual welfare.
And, “It is moved that those who are
known to have been at the theater be
brought before the faculty.
And, “Moved that the president call the
students together and address them upon
the association of the sexes in both public
and private.
And, “Any student carrying deadly wea
pons or found drunk will be expelled from
the University for a first offense.”
Those of us who have been critical of
the current University discipline code
should take heart. The University’s code of
student conduct is progressing—slowly but
surely.
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'•‘ISN'T SCIENCE WONDERFUL?"
Lawst Weekend Proclaimed
By Grebe, Clausen
Following is the annual pro
clamation of Lawst Weekend,
traditionally run in the Emer
ald on the date of the event.
Spring speaks to students of
tradition. It has spoken to the
law school students, reminding
them that the time has come to
enact one of the more serious
and reverent of the traditions
observed on and by this cam
pus; Law School Weekend.
Therefore, on behalf of King
Orlando I (may there never be
another) a proclamation must
issue. Be it hereinafter under
stood that; Friday, April 26.
1963. at one o'clock, p in , all
liability, both criminal and civil,
of any law student shall cease
and desist, and any said student
may act with impunity toward
any maiden or other female
Such maiden or female shall
have no cause of action against
said student, nor shall her next
friend have any cause of action
per quod servitium amisit. A
shirt bearing the "Lady of Jus
tice” and a painter's hat shall
be license to commit vile, lech
erous, and violent acts.
Be yc forewarned of the itin
erary of said students. At
twelve thirty o’clock the Torch
of Justice will be lighted at the
Lane County Courthouse by that
defender of justice, that friend
of the poor, that erstwhile Uni
versity law student, that some
times law professor; Mr. Dis
trict Attorney William Frye.
Said aforementioned torch will
be carried by the third year law
students with the speed of the
winded to the front lawn of the
House of Hollis, and thereon or
therein implanted. Promptly
thereafter, towit, at one o’clock
p.m. said students will arise
from their learned ways and
march en masse to a short, no
host seminar on the topic, "Celi
bacy, Moral or Legal; Who
Cares?”, said seminar to be held
Letters to the Editor
Answer to Mongar
Emerald Editor:
In reference to Mr. Mongar’s
“column (?)” of April 24, the
law students involved in the
NSA opposition felt that his
statements were so obviously
not in point that a reply need
not be given. However, the one
statement concerning the appli
cability of the 1st and 14th
amendments to the controversy
has to be corrected lest others,
benefiting(?) from Mr. Mon
gar’s expansive knowledge of
the subject, be deluded into be
lieving that the 1st and 14th
amendments do not apply to
ASUO.
Any reading in depth of Sup
reme Court decisions outlining
the scope of these two amend
ments will show that the 14th
amendment applies to state ac
tion, whether emanating direct
ly from the state, or indirectly
from the state through its agen
cies. The University of Oregon
is a state-supported institution
which, without any question,
makes it a state agency. The
ASUO receives its charter and
owes its existence to the Uni
versity which puts the organiza
tion in the class covered by the
14th amendment. Voluntariness
is irrelevant to the problem.
In conclusion, Mr. Mongar,
the students of Fenton Hall do
not mind being chided as “budd
ing attorneys”—we are rather
proud of our school as should
the University be proud—but
next time would you please
spell “attorneys” correctly, lest
we (sic) you.
Tom Davis
2nd yr. law
Hearing on Tuition
Emerald Editor:
Saturday April 27 offers a
rare opportunity.
At 4 p.m. in the Student
Union, an open forum with state
legislators will be held to dis
cuss the tuition increase.
Everyone concerned and/or
interested should attend and
participate. This is an opportu
nity to express your views and
to hear the legislators on the
matter.
Kenny Lee
Senior in Architecture
at Robinson’s Inn, where that
great common law lawyer, Max,
will pour. Any aforementioned
maidens or other females found
loitering along the way will be
considered to have waived all
rights to protest, and will be
■persuaded” to accompany said
students in the empirical ijuest.
Upon the collision of the l>eali
lie effects of the beverage and
Max's patience said aforemen
tioned students and said afore
mentioned females, absent maid
ens, will march with much anti
cipation and sense of responsi
bility in search of the much
honored, much envied, Queen of
Law School Weekend. Said
queen will be chosen on the
basis of personality, scholarship,
ability to sew, campus activities,
and other outstanding charac
teristics which the judges may
deem important Following such
aforesaid crowning, said law
students, with treasure trove in
hand, will retire to private rev
elry secure from public scruti
ny. Be it understood, however,
that the immunity of said stu
dents is not waived until Sun
day morning.
Leo Harris and Don Kirsch
dissent: such acts are ultra vires
the policy of academic superi
ority, which is the aim of this
administration.
Walter H. firebe,
President, Student
Bar Association
Donald K. Crane,
Vice-President
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