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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1963)
Financial Crossroads Legislature Must Give Adequate Attention To Problems of Higher Education The State of Oregon is at a financial crossroads.. So the Legislature considers levying ap propriation reductions upon higher educa tion out of all proportion to those sustained by other departments. Ruthlessly and methodically, the Ways and Means Commit tee deliberates as to whether the cultural foundation of the commonwealth shall suf fer a cut of $350,000. $500,000 or the im possible sum of $1,000,000. Ever since the current legislative session began, higher education has been the tar get at which all reduction ammunition has been aimed. Evidently those representing the commonwealth at Salem either do not realize or completely ignore the fact that higher learning is the very cultural and educational roots of the commonwealth. It more vitally concerns the youth of the state than any other measure confronting the legislature. Perhaps such drastic economics as the Ways and Means Committee contemplates are imperative to keep the state solvent. But higher education should not be forced to accept these unreasonable reductions if other state departments do not have to do the same. There are asylums, the pris ons, the state police, the high schools, the state administration, the highway commis sion and a multitude of other departments. They have not had to sustain the economies being forced on higher learning. The sort of legislation that is taking place at Salem is unfair. All other branches of the state should absorb equal reductions. Let the national guardsmen curtail their summer seashore rest at Camp Clatsop this summer to the extent that the state board has had to curtail the educational curriculum. There is also this to consider. The faculty should not be forced to bear the brunt of every budget cut. If the higher education appropriation has to be reduced, why auto matically construe that such action neces sarily means faculty wage cuts? Far better it is to eliminate the buildings, drop out side activities and curtail administration costs than to impose tremendous salary reductions upon the entire faculty. A college is only as good as its personnel, and the wage cuts which the legislature contemplates are going to drive competent men away from Oregon. Rather than bear such humiliating reductions, the outstand ing instructors will seek employment else where. We don’t want any of our note worthy professors to follow the trail blazed by others who have left. Further faculty salary cuts must be opposed if we are to maintain a representative faculty. Higher education faces a more perplex ing crossroads than state finances. Let the legislature and the state consider carefully before irreparable damage is inflicted upon higher learning in Oregon. It has taken years of struggling and planning to get the system upon its present high plane. Once shattered, it will be decades in recovering. Our children might not even realize the benefits of that recovery. Sound familiar . .. Emerald Editor Richard L. Neuberger wrote this on February 2, 1933. i 114^ cluani ‘College Side Building Must Go To Provide Room for New Co-op Walt Evans is a member of the University Co-operative Store Board and a senior in political science. In this col umn he explains why he be lieves the College Side Inn structure must be razed to make way for the proposed new bookstore. The views ex pressed in this column are not necessarily those of the Em emald Editorial Board or the Emerald editors. There has been a great deal of discussion in the last week concerning the Co-op Board’s decision to raze the Willcox building and erect a new build ing housing a new Co-op book store in its place. Vic Sabin has circulated a petition calling upon us to reconsider our ear lier decision. The Emerald has called on us to investigate the possibility of utilizing the pres ent structure for our store. The ASUO Senate has also discussed the matter. I hope the students realize that we of the Co-op Board did not rush blindly into this decis ion to build our new store. Neither are we hard hearted vil lians who delight in destroying campus traditions. We bought the property in 1955 with the ultimate goal of erecting a new Co-op building on this site. Five years ago the board discontinued the option to renew the leases given the lessers which expire next month. When the present lessee of the College Side Inn bought it, he Letters to the Editor Supports Pashkowski Emerald Editor: Our experience with the USNSA this summer will be a unique one for it is understood that we are entering it on a trial basis. This should not hin der us from trying to get the best out of the programs and services proposed by the nation al association. It is, therefore, very neces sary to choose for our delega tion people who are well ac quainted with the needs of the University. The knowledge of these needs is naturally acquir ed through participation and in terest in the activities and pro grams we have here. In the case of Pam Pashkowski, the parti cipation is extensive and the interest is keen. The record of service that this candidate has accumulated in the two years she has been here is something to be proud of and it would take more space than this to enumerate her qualifications. It is worthy to note, however, that she served as Kwama pres ident, as a member of the Co-op Board and as a member of the controversial Discipline Com mittee and many, many others. At all the Senate meetings that I have attended, Pam was there. This combination of good judgment and the thorough background in campus affairs, I believe, makes her a qualified person for this mission. Maher F. Qaddumi Senator-at-large knew his business would have a short life there. When we built our new book store section in 1961 we planned the building so that it and the future new building on the cor ner could connect. This building was built with a minimum of funds and a maximum of space utilization. I understand one of the reasons that some people wish the Willcox building pre served is that they fear another building similar to the present bookstore will be built on the corner. Let me put those fears at rest. We want our new build ing to be one of architectural beauty, one that will be a com pliment both to the University and to the business community. I am sure that not many of the University students realize that we are behind other schools on the coast in our building pro gram for the future. Oregon State has a new store adequate to care for its needs for many years. Washington State is enlarging to twice their present size. Portland State is planning a new building. Idaho is also building a new store. UCLA, Stanford, and California all have new stores. With the rapid rise in enrollment, we see the need for a larger store. Our space in Chapman Hall is lim ited, and this space is rented from the University. They may declare they need the space and ask us to vacate Chapman Hall. What we want to give the stu dents is a well-run, efficient store than can provide the ser vices that the students desire. As you know, we cash over two million dollars worth of checks (Continued on page 10) SUTURE if /V>AO|_Nm f ^atricia - lluft Campsite Project Had Academic Aspects Too Patricia Holt is a member of the Emerald Editorial Board. One of the difficulties which doomed the Development Fund Drive for a recreational and aca demic campsite came in a lack of emphasis on the academic advantages of the camp. It was left unexplained that the psy chology, education and sociology departments could use the camp in their work with maladjusted, retarded, or normal school children. In working with these child ren in a new environment with out limitations as to space and time, these departments could well have benefited from the camp. SCIENCE MAJORS could have completed their practicurn requirement with greater facil ity and practical experience along educational lines. The Music School could have used it for a two-day rather than one afternoon band or or chestra workout without the lim itations existing here of space and time. The athletic depart ment could have used it for its summer coaching camp and or workout center in its various programs. The academic retreat program would have found less difficulties in both practical and financial problems. NONE OF these aspects were explained, since the Senate and SU Board were the original in stigators behind the drive and it was felt that these students were only responsible for the social and recreational aspects of the Camp. But whatever the reason, it seems to me that the recrea tional reasoas, coupled with the academic necessity for the camp, present an impregnable justifi cation for the project. A few questions were left un answered: for instance, some felt that an hour’s drive from campus would limit the camp to weekend use. Perhaps this is true, but although such places as Fern Ridge, Albert’s Lodge, Village Green, and Armitage Parle are more accessible, which of these offer the camp’s poten tial facilities at a more inex pensive cost, available only to the University family? SOME FEEL the money ac quired from the drive should, be spent in scholarships. Say we had $10,000; this would be enough to give approximately 34 students scholarships of $300 each. The actual working mechanics used in presenting the drive constituted a perfect program on paper. Let's consider for a mom ent one living organization, from which a member was chosen to represent his peers for the drive. This member heard a one-hour talk on the camp, and was expected to walk out of that meeting as well informed, en thusiastic, and involved in the drive as people who had spent two years in investigating the possibilities of the Camp Ob viously few representatives were capable of presenting the drive effectively. IF THE drive had been effec tively conducted so that every student knew the full value of the camp, then and only then could we judge student interest on the money received. But since mechanical problems and errors in judgment prevented a total understanding for each student, I feel that the SU Board is justifiably compelled in attempting to proceed with the camp program, using money from other areas to supplement student expenditure. OREGON DAILY EMERALD The Oregon Daily Emerald is publilhrd •even time* in September and five day» a week during the school year, except dur ing examination and vacation period* by the Student Publication* Board of the University of Oregon. Entered an second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: $S per year; $2 per term. Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of The Emerald and do not pre tend to represent the opinions of the ASUO or the University. EVERETTE DENNIS, Editor LARRY WILLIAMS Business Manager JANET GOETZE, Managing Editor RON COWAN, News Editor DOUG RAGEN, Editorial Page Editor JIM SPEER, Advertising Manager DICK RICHARDSON, Associate Editor JIM FRAKE, Assistant Managing Editor RAY MAST, Sports Editor CATHY NEVILLE. Assistant News Editor GEORGE BI GUAM, Photo Editor JO GRISWOLD, Women’s Editor CHUCK BKGGS, JOE BERGER, PHYLLIS ELVING, SHERRY LUCAS Associate News Editors NOMI BORKNSTEIN, Exchange Editor EDITORIAL BOARD: Everette Dennis, Ron Cowan, Janet Goet/.e, Doug Ragen, Dick Richardson Jim Frake, Jerry Utti, Kay Mast, Larry Williams, Pam Pashkowski, Doug Combs, Linda Brown, Cathy Neville. Pat Holt, Simeon Crowthcr, Candy Hemming.
