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Vol. LX1V UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1963 No. 126 Flemming Sends Letter to Out-of-Staters COMPRKIIKNSIVES start Saturday and all the Honor College students are studying intensively. Well, all except these, maybe. Soto-Seelig Elected Prexy At Regional NSA Meeting By RON COH AN Emerald Ntm Editor Haul Soto-Soelig, ASUO Senat or at-large, was elected president of the National Student Associa tion for the Greater Northwest region this weekend at the NSA regional convention in Seattle. Soto Seelig will no longer be a candidate for University delegate to the NSA summer convention due to his election This will leave six candidates for five posi tions in the election next Monday and Tuesday. SOTO-SEELIG and three other candidates, Judie Scrivner, Mike Gannon and Howard Liebreich, attended the convention although all candidates were given the chance to attend The other can didates are I’am I’ashkowski, Mike Ellmaker, and Jerry Rust. Due to Soto-Seelig’s new posi tion, NSA regional affairs will be conducted on the University campus with an office probably in the Student Union. Oregon, Washington, Alaska, western Mon tana, and northwest Idaho com prise the Greater Northwest re gion. THE NSA regional treasury will also be located on campus and all national information for the Greater Northwest region will be transmitted through the cam pus. The office is expected to be established here next fall. Soto-Seelig has appointed Gary Newton as the regional coordi nator Howard Leibreich was elected chairman of the educational af ; fairs committee at the convention and Judi Scrivner was appointed recording secretary. Mike Gan- j non campaigned for the position of chairman of the educational affairs committee, but was not elected. Attention Senators All ASUO Senate members are requested to be in the Em erald office Friday at 2:30 p.m. for photographs. The Emerald will run pictures of senators next week. COMMENTING on his new of fice, SotoSeelig said ‘I believe a lot can be accomplished for USNSA at the campus level and at the regional level with the co operation of other schools." SotoSeelig also commented that opponents of NSA who said the University would take five or six years to become actively in volved in its affairs, were proved wrong. Another delegate, Miss Scriv ncr, commented that, “The stu dents were underestimating Ore gon prematurely They shouldn't be now." IT IS NOT known whether the next regional or national NSA conventions will be held at the University, but Leibrcich said there is a possibility the regional convention will be held here. The delegates also joined in re vising the NSA Constitution for the Greater Northwest Three main revisions were made along with several minor ones. One revision involved changing the basis for votes at the regional convention from a standard basis of two per school to a population proportion on basic policy ques tions. PREVIOUSLY each school had two votes, whereas they will now have two votes each for the first 5,000 students represented, with the amount increasing propor tionally to a limit of four. The change will give the larger schools more power in all areas exeept the area of structure where they will all have two votes each, according to Soto Seelig. He helped sponsor this revision. Another major change is an en abling clause which replaces a ratification clause. This change was proposed by SotoSeelig. ANOTHER proposal resulted in the creation of five committees, one being the educational affairs committee. The committee will be concerned with higher education, according to Leibreich. The new constitution was ap proved by the convention. Any school which wants to vote against the new constitution must indi cale so before the next NSA re gional convention. The delegates also heard two speakers. Deb Daws, former gen eral secretary of the Federation (Continued on page 3) Fee Remissions Program Explained All out-of-state students at the University Monday morn ing received letters from University President Arthur S. P lemming assuring them the University would do every thing it could to meet any financial problems caused by an increase in tuition. By action of the State Board of Higher Education and the Legislature, in the 1963 fall term, tuition for out-of-state students will be increased to $900 a year, compared to a previously scheduled rate of $690. This compares to the Phi Beta Kappa Names Members Forty-four seniors were elected Monday night to Phi Beta Kappa national scholastic honorary for outstanding achievement. THE SENIORS were chosen on ! the basis of their scholastic achievements over their four years at the University. Present ] Phi Beta Kappas chose the new members. Elected to the honorary were: Barrie Learmont,. Peggy Lee Smith. Virginia Peek. Gale Stev ! enson, David Lind, Donna Hea i thorne. Dale Bostad. Carol Ivey. Belva Richins, Steven Hintz. Joan Morrison, Paul Levering. Ken neth Mayer, Keith Miles and Jer ry Martin. OTHERS INCLUDE: Susan Kouffman. Gary Coover, Jeanine Elly, Janet Tracy. Dean na Brown, Alice Dean. Durrel Stevens. Gary Kualhein. Con stance Wilson, Donald Duncan, Judith Mcshatko, Dwight Herr, Laurel Hebert. Steven Cook. Vada Scroggins. Gregory Roduner and John Hansen Joan Herrington, Ann Weick. I Joseph Burns, Mary Ellen Julifs, Aleen A . Crumm. Elizabeth Ann Hust. Jean Alexander. Carol Lin j da Kelly. Bary Ann Dean. Caro-. lyn Behrs. Barbara Jean Sitsman,' and Kirk Blackerby. Press Conference Flemming Discipline. Discusses President Arthur S. Flemming indicated at his Monday press conference that he would release today a policy statement on the amended motion of the faculty committee on student discipline concerning a code governing stu dent conduct. The motion was made at the May 8 faculty meeting and was referred to an editing committee for wording. Flemming said three faculty members and two students will devise a code this summer in ac cordance with the new discipline policy. He said this code would be referred to the faculty in Oc tober for possible further revi sions. Flemming also said. "The pic ture on the situation of academic buildings is beginning to clear ! up.” He said that it seems likely that the state legislature may propose using both state general funds and state obligation bonds | to pay for State System of Higher Education academic buildings in the 1963-05 biennium. Although this would mean a : six to eight months’ delay in | starting such construction as the i library and science building addi tions. the president said the delay would make clear ‘‘how the State of Oregon is going to finance aca demic buildings.” UNTIL NOW such construc tion has been paid from state general funds. The general fund has money to cover only about $10 to $12 million worth of such buildings in the coming bienni urn The State Board of Higher Education has submitted requests for a S47 million building pro gram. Flemming said that it appears that the Joint Ways and Means subcommittee on education may choose to allocate S10 to S12 mil lion from general funds, then put the rest of the system's academic building program up to a bond vote in the May, 1964 primary election. THE VOTE would be on a con stitutional provision authorizing the State Board to issue general obligation bonds for a specified amount to finance academic buildings. Under such a combined general fund-bonding program, the presi dent said, the University could expect to start in the 1963-65 bi ennium an addition to the libra ry, a second addition to the sci ence complex and perhaps a third addition to the science building if federal matching money is made available. Distribution Slated By Oregana Staff Housing and winter term sections of the Oregana will be distributed from 2 to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday in the ping pong room of the Student Union. Only per sons with receipts will be able to pick up their Oreganas on Wednesday and Thursday. present rate in the current aca demic year of $630, and for Alas ka Hawaii students $300 a year. WITH HIS letter, President Flemming enclosed a statement concerning a fee remission pro gram for undergraduate students from other states who need finan cial assistance. Under the program, out-of-state undergraduates may apply on or after today for fee remission, and if a faculty committee determines that the applicant is making nor mal progress toward graduation and if it concludes that he is in need of financial assistance, it will approve a fee remission in an amount related to demonstrat ed need Students may continue to file until the time school starts next fall, but if the funds available should be depleted, those with applications made before Sep tember may have a better chance than later ones. “IF YOU need financial assist ance because of the increase in tuition for students from other states, I hope that you will pick up an application blank at the Office of Student Affairs on or im mediately after Tuesday after noon. May 14,” President Flem ming wrote. The University will do every thing it can to process apphea tions quickly, and hopes to be able to inform applicants of its action on individual cases be fore the end of the current spring term. “I HOPE that you will with hold any decision based on finan cial considerations until you hear from us," President Flemming continued. "If you have any questions rel ative to the procedure or criteria that are to be applied in connec tion with the fee remission pro gram for out-of-state students. I hope you will plan to attend a meeting that I am calling for 4 p m.. Wednesday, May 15, in 150 Science. At that time I will do my best to respond to any ques tions that you or others may de sire to address to me.” he said. Under the fee remission pro gram. ordinarily the maximum fee remission will be S90 a term, which is the amount of the in crease over the fee charged for the 1962-63 academic year. BUT IN' the case of students from Hawaii and Alaska, ordin arily the maximum foe remission will be S200 per term, which is the amount of the increase over the fee charged students from those two states during the 1562 63 academic year. Fee remissions above these maximum amounts, however, may be authorized in hardship cases. Continuation of fee remissions from one term to the next within an academic year will depend on students making normal progress toward graduation. Priority consideration for fee remission will be given to present undergraduate students. If at my point it is determined that the total amount available for fee re missions is not adequate for . all the undergraduate students who have applied, priority considera tion will be given to students whose cumulative grade average is 2.5 (half way between a C and a B) or above. PROSPECTIVE undergraduates from other states will also be given consideration for fee remis sion, provided that those students entering as freshmen have a cum (Continual on page 8)