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
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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
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