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Vol. I.XV UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1864 No. 58 Worthy Wants Third Party In U.S. Peace Corps Speaker Says Workers Aid U.S. Image < editor's Note: Thin Ik the sec ond in a series of four articles about Peace t orps represent* lives on campus for Peace Corps Week.) By DICK RICHARDSON Kmerald Associate editor "Tlie Peace Corps is a major factor in ko< ping more anti American manifestations from oc curring in I.atin America," ac cording to Gregory Simms, spe ciai assistant to the Peace Corps director of public affairs. Simms, who has worked in the Dominican Republic as a staff member for the Peace Corps, said most Latin Americans do not know about Americans and can easily be persuaded about t h e evils ut American capitalism and imperialism. Ally With America Rut once the people know' about Americans and see the work they have done it is not so easy to convince them to turn against the Americans, he said. Simms was speaking of the work of Peace Corps volunteers in Latin Amer ica Simms joined the staff of the Peace Corps in June, 19fi2, and from then until August, 19fi3. served as deputy director in the Dominican Republic. He acted as liaison between the Domini can and American governments and between Peace Corps volun teers in the Dominican Republic and Washington, D. C. Before joining th- Peace Corps. Simms worked as a social worker in Harlem and Brooklyn Agreed with Concepts "I agreed with the Peace Corps concepts and wanted to be a part of the Corps,” he said. “My wife and I were convinced that experience in Latin America would be of value in our profes sional work in New York.” There are many Spanish-speaking peo ple in New York. Both Simms and his wife, who is also in the Peace Corps, intend to return to social work in New York as soon as the) are released from the Corps. “Up until about a year ago it was easy to incite anti-American riots in the Dominican Republic,” Simms said. He went to the Car ibbean country just before the first group of volunteers. For the first few weeks every one had to stay in seclusion be Labor Group Speaker To Talk at SU Today Uavid Blanchard will speak at an assembly in the SU ballroom todaj at 8 p m Blanchard repre sents the International Labor Or ganization as deputy director of the Washington < D.C.) branch Of flee. Mis talk, “The ILO and World Affairs," will be concerned with the organization, which was found ed in 1919 as part of the World War 1 peace settlement. It was first affiliated with the League of Nations. ILO survived the League dissolution during World War II and in 1948 became the first spe Exchange Move Passed at NSA Regional Meet By JANET GOETZE Managing Editor A resolution to explore the pos sibility of student exchanges be tween Southern Negro colleges and National Student Association member schools was passed this week end at the NSA Great North west regional conference. The resolution was introduced by this University's delegation at the conference in Ellensburg, Wash. The conference topic was Civil Rights. The University’s delegates, ap pointed by Jerry Rust, the Uni versity NSA coordinator, were Jim Teasdale, Karen Pate, Mary Elliekson, and Carol McPhaddon. Raul Soto Seelig, a University ju nior who is president of the re gion, went with the elegation. Information Released All information and evaluation about the proposed student ex change program is to be commu nicated to the regional national affairs chairman for a working paper to be prepared for the spring regional conference. A second resolution introduced by the University delegation stat ed encouragement among mem ber schools of the region for Stu (Continued on page 8) ciali/ed agency to join the United Nations family. Today ILO has a membership of 104 countries. It carries on the work of improving labor condi tions and raising living standards everywhere, with a view to achiev ing a universal and lasting peace based on a social justice. Govern ment, employer, and work rep resentatives participate coopera tively in ILO toward the objective of peace, Blanchard, a graduate of the University of Nebraska, has been in the staff of ILO since 1947 He had earlier been an underwriter for marine insurance. His work with ILO, from 1947 59. was at headquarters in Geneva, Switzer land. where he specialized in mari time lal>or problems. In this posi tion he traveled extensively throughout the world, serving as a technical expert at ILO confer ences and as a personal represen tative of the Director-General of ILO. During World War II. Blanch ard served with the Army in North Africa. Before leaving the service in 1945, he was command er of the port of Casablanca with the rank of lieutenant colonel. UO Student Court Suspends Student The student court delivered two decisions on cases concerning University students in an open hearing Monday. Associate Dean of Students Francis Nickerson told the Emer ald that the court suspended , Geoffrey MacRae, freshman in education, for the remainder of the term for plagiarizing an essay for an English class. In other action, Nickerson said, John Basset, a second year law' student, received admonition and warning for •■furnishing false in formation to the University with intent to deceive.” Basset made a false statement in regard to his marital status, signing his name for a spouse ticket for the basketball game j with Oregon State University, while not being married. pause of the strong anti-Amer ican feeling caused by the United States’ announcement of a new sugar quota in the summer of 19«2, Simms explained. Speaks of Press Commenting on the American press coverage of events while he was in the country, he said the few American papers he saw "overstated” happenings on the island. It was never as dangerous as the papers made it appear, Simms commented. American papers, however, "overstated" news of the Domin ican Republic more than the Do minican Republic papers "over stated” American events, such as the occurrences at Birmingham, Simms said. Simms said that while he was in the Dominican Republic there was a fable out that the Domini cans did not like rabbit meat. A Texan volunteer obtained some rabbits and found that the peo ple did like rabbit meat. Many Rabbits The rabbits had once been populous in the country, but a rabbit fever had wiped out the animals and they had never been reintroduced, said Simms. Another volunteer introduced adobe brick making to the peo ple, and another introduced a new hybrid of corn that yields 10 12 times more grain than the na tive corn, Simms continued, ex plaining some of the projects on which volunteers have worked. The Peace Corps program has accomplished what it has prom ised. and more. Simms said. The program has "exceeded every body’s expectations.” he added. Cowin Asks Student Help With Code By CATHY NEVILLE Academic Affairs Editor Ron Cowin, junior class presi dent, called on students to take a nore active interest in the student courts and the discipline code riur ing a speech from the free-speech platform Monday. "We have been given the chance to take more of a hand in gov erning ourselves. We must not, as student government too often does, stand back,” he said. He called upon students to stand behind the policies initiated in the discipline code. Up to Girls “It is up to the girls to decide on closing hours," he declared. While all girls do not agree on the extended closing hours out lined in the code. Cowin said that ill students affected by the change should at least indicate their feel ings. Cowin said. "The (ASl'O) Sen ate never did pass the code. They voted on the philosophy of the code, and yet it is supposed to he representative of the student body.” The junior class council has es tablished a committee to test stu dent reaction to the code and to the delay in extending closing hours. Two Functions "The function of the committee is twofold: to gather information and student opinion on the code and, secondly, to reverse the pro cess by delivering information to the students.” He said that he felt the system of appointing students to the stu (Continued on poor 7) Noted Journalist Talks on Negroes By JUDY WEGNER Emerald Staff Writer "Despite a desire for civil rights to America, it is as incom prehensible to starve a person into conformity as it is to torture him. The basic element of the Negro ‘Freedom Now’ party could be the re-orientation of twisted American think ing," stated foreign correspondent William Worthy in a dis cussion Monday. Worthy, correspondent for the Boston “Afro-American,” was referring to the establishment of a third American party which "must cope with our social system which has no future WILLIAM WORTHY spoke twice Monday in the Dads' Room of the SU. See page 5 for additional pictures. Off-CampusRep. Sets Meeting Parking problems and parking meters are matters that will be brought up in the first meeting of off-campus students with their ASUO Senate representative at 7:00 p in. today in the Student Union. Bill St. John, off-campus Senate rep., said Monday he will schedule meetings with his constituents to maintain contact with as many of them as possible. He said that be cause his Senate visitation assign ment is to dormitories he has no other formal way to meet off-cam pus students. St. John indicated that a possi ble off-campus council will also be discussed. He said this would not be presented in a structured form until he hears the views of off-campus students, i The Senator said many students may be interested in increasing off campus representation on ■ ASUO Senate through the new ASUO constitution being written. “I hope many students with ideas will attend the meeting." St. John said. “Unfortunately, the off-campus and married student senators were left out of the rig ger’s Guide listing, and these stu dents have not other way to con tact their representatives, if they even know who they are.'' at present.'’ Worthy called for formation of the party in June, 1963. Explaining that white men were not yet welcomed in the party, Worthy said, “In this era of black nationalism, whites must take a seat in the back of the bus. He added that Negroes do not occupy a specific status, and thus must be independent in ac tion. “Americans need a historical understanding, in an integration conscious year, of why Negroes are starting something seemingly opposing segregation,” Worthy stated. He described the poorly paid, exploited Negro who does menial tasks for the white man as returning home relieved each day, voicing the sentiment "Oh sweet relief from faces that are white,” 1 from poet Langston Hughes). “This is the cry of Negroes in America and it is resented and resisted by the white man. Realis tically, however, there is an inevi ble interdependency between Ne groes and whites,” Worthy re marked. Integration Is Fad W orthy described integration as a Northern fad, yet as remote as ever from Northerners. To sup port his statement, he quoted from the New York Times sev eral teenagers’ complaints that they were sent by parents te learn about integration, but were not allowed to bring such ideas home. Worthy said he could see only eyinicism, weakness and inade quacy in the accomplishments in foreign affairs of late President John F. Kennedy and new Presi dent Lyndon B. Johnson. He saw a worthless labor movement, with no action among the unemploy ed. "The new’ party must publish articles of poverty. Laid-off em ployees have no realistic plans for a comeback,” he added. The traditional Democratic and Republican parties are in adequate in today’s world, com mented Worthy. "We are the most friendly nation on the face of the earth, and we won't have friends again until we come to grips with the situation.” The Freedom Now’ party plans to challenge US. policies in Cuba. Viet Nam and Africa. As an independent, outspoken party, it will "challenge the mon olithic line of American foreign policy.” Other Groups Commenting on the work of other integrationist groups. Wor thy remar* ed that, while they are influential, they tend to sep arate domestic and foreign pol icy. Drawing an analogy between a foreign situation and the Ameri can liberation struggle from an article by an Australian corre spondent,. Worthy quoted “The visitors came in sans shoes, bear ing machine guns on poles. The vanquished left in tanks.” He ex plained that his party, beginning with a few intellectuals and crude (Continued on paye 5) Tickets on Sale For Jazz Concert Tickets for the Modern Jazz Quartet concert will goon sale at 9 a.m. Wednesday at the Student I'nion and at Maddox Pipe Shop. The concert will be held Feb. 1.
