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
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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
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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
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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.