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replace the long outdated present model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
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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
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