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Board Denies Coupon Book Sales In Student Union By NOMI BORENSTE1N Emerald Staff Writer The Student Union Board will not allow the sale of campus cou pon books in the SU. After mak ing this decision Wednesday, the board recommended that the ASUO Senate investigate the sale of the books. A letter to SU Director A L. (Sil Ellingson, asking that the books be sold in the SU prompt ed the Board's action. Ellingson, according to Jack Cross, assis tant SU director, said that the board should decide on the mat ter because he felt he was biased. Guarantees $100 Profit In the letter. Dave Wilcox, one of the book’s promoters, guaran teed the SU a profit of $100 on the sale of the coupon books This amounts to a 50 cent profit on each book. Cross said that three merchants had complained to him about the book and he had referred the complaint to the Student Affairs Office. Roger Grabinski. graduate stu Pub Board ... {Continued from fiaor I) tir.ue to operate with the same average income and expense as they had during the opening month of the school year Benson then outlined possible areas in which publications might make cutbacks if the projected over-spending made them neces sary. Among these proposals was the elimination of the final two issues of the Northwest Review. After hearing the testimony of the magazine's editor. Edw’ard Van Aelstyn, the board vetoed this proposal. Van Aelstyn volun teered suggestions as to how the Northwest Review might cut ex penses. Other Cuts Other proposed cuts included a decrease in the press runs for the Emerald and the Pigger's Guide; a cutback in the photo graphy budget for the Emerald: a decrease in the promotion spending by the Emerald, the Oregana. and the Northwest Re view’; elimination of awards ban quets for Emerald and Oregana staffs; and a cut in contributors payments by the Northwest Re view. The total proposed cut was 57.680. The board has since submitted a letter to the Budget Board voicing its objection to further cuts with the Publication Board budget. The communication suggested that the Budget Board ‘ consider preparing a priority list of activ ities and programs operating un der its jurisdiction in the event that further reductions in the total student activity budget are incurred.” The fear of reductions in the total budget stems from a sug gestion made at the October meet ing of the State Board of Higher Education. The Board considered taking in approximately 10 per cent of the student activity fees to help it meet the financial crisis brought on by the defeat of the state income tax measure on Oct. 15. The letter to the budget board warned that a reduction in the Publications Board budget would “seriously impair and in some cases destroy important Univer sity student publications.” It said that “ultimately reduc ing the size of publications such as the Oregon Daily Emerald will seriously jeopardize all student programs in terms of publicity and coverage so necessary to its success . . . “It is our belief that it is sounder policy to operate good quality publications and some good programs rather than medio cre publications and many mediocre programs.” The University of Utah played host recently to Gov. Nelson Rock efeller and National Young Re publican Federation Chairman D. E. “Buz” Luckens. i dent representative, said he had ! heard complaints from both stu-1 dents and merchants. After the board decided not to allow the sale of books. Cross asked that the board make a motion asking the ASUO Senate to investigate the book sales and make a recommendation to the proper authorities as to the sale of these coupon books in the future. Approve Foreign Student Council The board also approved the formation of a foreign student council. The council would co ordinate the activities of the various 1 groups on campus dealing with foreign students. Selection of its chairman, a board member, was postponed until the next meet ing. The president of Cosmo Club, People - to - People Committee ' Chairman, and representatives of such groups as the Y\1CA, YWCA, International Education Center, ASUO foreign student senator, foreign student advisor and Greater Oregon (orientation pro gram) will be council members. No Status Change The status of the People-to People Committee, now that the Council is in existence, was dis cussed by the board. The board decided that the committee should remain under the spon sorship of the SU Directorate for the present instead of being placed under the council or being made a special Board Commit tee. Phil Peek, People to People Chairman, who attended the meeting, said he had "never been able to see People to People as a committee or the SU directo rate. He said. "Things arc com plicated enough at the moment with the committee acting as a representative for both the na tional and campus levels of Peo ple-to People." He felt that the foreign stu dent council would open a third field for the committee. He ask ed that the committee be placed under the council. He emphasized that this change in status will not harm either the national or cam pus programs. The council’s funds, which come from the board, were also discussed. Adelle McMillan, pro gram director, said, "The coun cil should decide what its own budget might be rather than the board setting a hypothetical amount.” Chairman Selected It also named Dick Lawrence as Movie Committee Chairman. The board discussed the use of the public address system in the SU to publicize Student Un ion-sponsored programs or events taking place in the SU. The re strictions on the use of the inter com were discussed and referred to the executive committee The board also decided to al low groups, including living or ganizations, to reserve eight of the SU’s 10 bowling alleys at the price of $10 an hour in the eve ning for the rest of the term Ortega y Gasset Kerr Talk Explains Mission of University By NANCY GRUBB Emerald Staff Writer The relation of the individual to his historic context should be of prime importance to the teach ing in a university, according to Jose Ortegay Gasset’s essay, i ‘ Mission of a University.” Richard J. A Kerr, visiting pro fessor of Spanish and compara tive literature from the University of Southampton, England, expli cated the Ortega essay in a Brow sing Room lecture Wednesday night. Ortega, a twentieth century Spanish philosopher, developed the essay from a lecture he deliv ered to students in Madrid in I 1930. In the essay Ortega said the student must be the starting point in the planning of a university. Institutions exist because the or dinary man exists, and should teach not what ought to be : taught, but what can be taught, I he said. Two Points Ortega’s two considerations about students were that the stu dent has a limited capacity for i learning and that he needs to know only what is strictly neees i sary for his own life. Knowledge taught at universi ties, according to Ortega, should therefore be reduced to what the | student can learn in an unhur ! ried way and can master in its depths. Specialization Questioned Teaching physics, biology, his ! tory, sociology, and philosophi i cal disciplines should be the func ! tion of a university, according to ! Ortega’s plan. Ortega criticized temporary ' European universities for compli cating the task of teaching by taking on the burden of research and its applications. Specializa tion has created many educated European men who are uncultur ed barbarians, according to Or tega’s view. Noted Existentialism Culture is related to life; it is what saves man from being a mere castaway in the world. Life is chaos, man is easily lost, and he seeks paths to follow. These paths are strong ideas about the universe, and the totality of these , ideas is culture, wrote Ortega Kerr noted the flavor of existen tialism in Ortega's writing, and offered possible criticisms of his j “utopian'’ expectations of uni versities. Kerr pointed out that educa tion is continuous, and universi ties, therefore, must rely heavily on training given by the family and by schools which the student attended before the university Also, Kerr added that liberal arts colleges offer little special ized training, and students now choose what subjects they take and are not forced to learn techniques of research, which Ortega considers unnecessary. Ortega also ignored the large numbers of students in universi ties, a factor which Kerr consid ered important. Negroes Incensed By 'Pelican' Ad BERKELEY (AIM -Some No mo students at the University of California incensed over what was meant as a satirical adver tisement in the school's humor magazine, the Pelican. The ad showed a picture of a Negro lighting a liIter tip ciga rette with the caption: "Only pure white touches your lips." It ran as a full page ad in the Oc j tober issue. Four Negro students complain i ed to school authorities. They told vice chancellor Alex Sher iffs the ad had "racist over tones." Pelican Editor Dexter Waugh, a senior in journalism, and seven staff members met the Negroes in Sheriffs’ office, Waugh explain ed. “We tried in good faith to sa time the concept of pure white People-to-People Deadline Friday Deadline for purchasing mem berships in the National People to People program has been ex tended to Friday. Memberships may be purchased in Hoorn 301 of the SU. as being tin- greatest good — ot white being pure and black be ing evil. There was no malice— this is being misinterpreted The student senate called a special meeting to discuss the matter. Akin Adupifa. 21, a senior from Nigeria, who posed for the ad. "I didn’t lind anything wrong with it.” Poet Will Speak In SU Today A Wilbur Stevens, chairman of the Idaho State University English department, will read and lecture on his poetry at 4 pm. today in the Student Un ion. The program is open to the public. 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