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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 29, 1963)
Summer Planning Early Platts Will Facilitate Discipline; Constitution, NSA Action by Fall After experiencing final examinations and beginning a summer vacation, students are likely to overlook the fact that several summer projects may have important con sequences and impacts on the University. First on the summer priority list is the discipline code revision, which will begin after President Flemming makes his report at the June meeting of the University facul ty. The president will present his procedur al outline, which will be in keeping with the intentions of the faculty outlined in their motion on student discipline recently. The discipline code revision will allow for a new philosophical basis under which stu dents will be treated as independent ma ture adults. An ad hoc committee com posed of both students and faculty mem bers will have a new code ready to go into effect during the fall. ASUO President Phil Sherburne will be working on a new student constitution dur ing the summer also. A new document to replace the long outdated present model will be ready for student body approval in the fall. The present constitution has long been under fire for its inadequacies. The University will send a delegation to the National Student Association summer congress at the University of Indiana. We are hopeful that our delegates participate fully in the congress activities and bring back useful information and ideas to better facilitate programs on this campus. We hope that our delegates take an active part in drafting resolutions, which will be viewed as the voice of American collegians throughout the world. The delegates will return in the fall to begin setting up programs on the campus. The NSA officers chief work will be on the campus. One proposed NSA program is a conference on “Voter Registration in the South” centered around Negro leader Rev. Martin Luther King. The conference might also include restrictive housing covenants in the Northwest and other types of local housing discrimination. A decision will also be released some time next year on a proposed new athletic stadium which was the subject of consider able controversy last year. The question of whether or not student fees or the student building fee will be used in the construc tion of the project will provide an interest ing and stimulating discussion next fall. President Flemming has put the plans for the project in the hands of an architectural firm, which will make recommendations on structural proposals. The president has in dicated that he wants a multiple-purpose facility, which will be used for more than football. We can expect the next academic year to be both stimulating and exciting. Footnote Strange people come in to see the editor. Thursday an old fellow of indeterminable age came in “from up the Columbia” and explained that M.D. means moderately dumb and PhD. means phenomenally dumb. The main purpose of his visit, how ever, was to contribute a poem. It goes like this: The wonderful love of a beautiful maid The love of a staunch, true man; The love of a baby unafraid, have existed since time began. But the finest, tenderest, sweetest love Even greater than that of a mother, Is the beautiful, passionate, infinite love of one drunken bum for another. Having left those tender sentiments with us, he put his baseball cap back on and walked out into the spring sunshine. ‘College Side Destruction Never Should Have Become An Issue’ Vic Sabin, former architecture student, has been conducting a one-man campaign to save the Willcox Building which houses College Side Inn. It is a fantastic thing that the destruction of the College Side Inn Building has ever been al lowed to become an issue. One would think that the question of its destruction would never have risen. The manager of the Co-op attended the University here. The board of directors is composed of two faculty mem bers, Mr. Burrell and Dr. Wash ke, and five students. One would easily believe that such an imposing group would certainly be enlightened and have great social conscience. Certainly they would not be a body easily fooled into believ ing that real progress is actually achieved by erecting new build ings. Certainly this group could see the beauty and potential of the existing building, dramatically contrasted to the increasingly ugly and mundane townscape around it. In a town where Man has created so little to beautify and to enrich the culture of the community, we would certainly expect these people to hold fiercely to this structure which has both beautified the town scape and enriched human cul ture here. CERTAINLY WE would ex pect this group not only to possess it with an intense pride, but to exploit the structure to its maximum human use in an environment of increasing de humanization and dullness. What an ace that would be—a pat hand at that! WE CAN look to the two faculty members of the board for a more mature social con science. Will we find it though? When Dr. Washke was told that the correlation of the petition signatures with the Co-op roster was not yet completed, but that this didn’t seem too important now, he was quick to point out that this was very important. Did he mean to imply that the corporation’s only responsibility this destruction issue so clearly was to its shareholders when affects everyone? Effects even those who have not yet arrived on the scene. I HAVE not yet heard Mr. Burrell’s comments on the issue. Are we terribly naive to expect responsible action from the board? Pam Pashkowski is cer tainly one board member who has had the courage to question the validity of the building’s destruction. Is she the only board member with a conscience and the forti tude to follow that conscience? JUST FOR the record here are some alternatives open to the board. They could quite handsomely use part of the Willcox Building for books only. (The present dress shop used to be the book store and Co-op lending library.) This could be unobtrusively tied in with the existing sterilq book dispensary, giving the whole book operation some variety and life. Such a move would also continue to locate books near the class rooms which is a sensible thing. For example, a student be comes keenly interested in cy bernetics following a class lec ture, so he goes directly to the book store from class to pick out a paper-back about cyber netics. Supplies might sensibly be located in the east of campus giving some life and service to the dormitory complex. The arguments against this proposal I have heard are: 1) We do most of our business during the class breaks. Of course they do! That’s where they are located now. 2) Accounting and management problems arise from two sep a r a t e operations increasing costs. I wonder. Certainly the Co-op could serve the community better if its locations had planning and meaning behind them. The Co-op (Continued on page 3) .Maxima "bONT LOCK BAjCK -SOMETHING IMV BE OWNING OH YOU. CS«1ch«\ Pai'^O Letters to tbe Editor ‘Students Were Not Aware Of Civil Defense Sirens’ Emerald Editor: What is the point of having air raid system* that mean nothing when they are sounded'7 What happened yesterday was described as an “announced” test. It was in the R.G. and on the air Tuesday, so the fact that I didn’t know it was going to take place is at least partially my fault. But I hod lots of com pany. . . it came as a sur prise to many students and ad ministrators.” Consequently, in my view, it was also the fault of the people whose business it is to get in formation to the public. I gather from reading this morning's Em erald that the Editor wasn’t notified, and that people in key administration in the Univer sity didn't make a general an nouncement to all staff person nel. I think this is serious. It is also ridiculous. It is also poten tially catastrophic. The Civil Defense director is reported to have told the Emerald that it was "merely a routine test . . . If we are going to have air raid sirens, and l suppose we have to have them, of course they have to be tested. But the whole thing becomes a confusing farce unless a major effort has been made to an nounce the test in ways that are reasonably certain to be seen and heard before it is run. This is a major responsibility and ought to be treated as such. If this can’t be done, let's get rid of the sirens, because they'll do more harm than good. I can understand why stu dents would be casual about a general alarm. But how people in positions of responsibility who were adults during the years ’41 to ’45 could share an inexperienced attitude is more than I can fathom. W. Robert Ellis Episcopal Chaplain University of Oregon JOHNNY APPLE SEEC> £'«'•> <*",w /V\AO(J£i(i4 ch'wvi
