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Vol. I,XV UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 19G4 No. 102 Lussier: Enrollment Linked With Greater Oregon Efforts By RON COWAN Emerald News Editor The University is "slipping in identity with prospective stu dents" and is showing signs of faltering student enrollment due to a limited public relations pro gram. according to Jim Lussier, 1963-64 Greater Oregon director. Lussier and Taylor Kithian, the new Greater Oregon director cho sen Thursday, discussed prob lems and prospects of the Uni versity's public relations program in the high schools with The Emerald Sunday . Greater Oregon, a University student organization which works to bring outstanding high school students to the University, is currently operating under a small budget A part of the University's Office of Public Relations, Greater Ore gon was one of the first Univer sity groups to lose its budget with defeat of the legislative tax pro gram last fall Now operating with $300 from the ASUO Senate, the group hopes to receive $2,600 this spring to reinstate its programs This decision will be made by the Student Union Educational Acti vities budget committee today. Enrollment Down I.ussier said Jim Shea, director of University relations, indicated that the University’s increase in total enrollment for next fall will only be one per cent, whereas other state system schools have indications of 10 per cent in creases. Dormitory reservations are also down This is "largely attributable to a lack of pro gram," said I.ussier since Greater Oregon is the University group with a concentrated program for high school students. Lussier said, "The greatest ac complishment this year has been just to keep the Greater Oregon program going. I think now the University needs the Greater Oregon program more than ever before.” He said the University has been having difficulty with parents' groups and alumni misunder standing the new student conduct code because no public relations were effected in this area. Lussier said difficulties of this sort can be countered through di rect contact of Greater Oregon representatives with prospective high school students who can exert influence on their parents. Persuading Parents The University has to light the conservatism of high school stu dents' parents in Oregon, explain ed I,ussier, because more parents will send their children to tech nical schools where the can be more sure of future jobs, than will send them to liberal arts in stitutions. Higher tuition and academic standards at state sys tems are also keeping students away, he said. Fithian, a junior in chemistry, has worked on the Greater Ore gon program for the last two years and was recently on the group's central board He plans to try some of the programs of Lus sier’s which were not used this year because of insufficient funds The only activities in operation since the cut have been the spe cial events program and Duck Preview, which requires little money. Fussier said he has used little of the $300 appropriated by the Senate this year with the hope it would aid Fithian's program Currently Fithian is reinstating all the regular programs, but these will have to be dropped if the budget is not accepted. Some Programs Stay Speech teams which visit high schools and mailing to high school students had to be dropped this year. Duck Preview and vis its to high schools by students who now attend the University, were continued. Fithian explained Greater Ore C of C President To Address GOPs Carl Fisher, president of the Eugene Chamber of Commerce, will speak on campus at 4 pm today in the SU in conjunction with the Republican Model Con vention. Fisher is owner of radio sta tion KUGN. In 1062 he was the Republican candidate for Con gressman for Oregon’s Fourth district. Fisher will present the busi nessman’s feelings toward various issues of the 1964 election year gon tries to contact the top 10 per cent of the hi”h school se nior dav and those showing lead ership ability. Attracting the better students requires special work, said Fus sier, because these students will often choose the institution they are most familiar with. "In the past year this hasn’t been the University,” he said Budget Essential Fithian, who has participated in various University activities, is already working on Greater Oregon programs for this sum mer and next year, including ori entation week fall term He is working on unsteady ground, how ever, because he is still unsure of finances. Fuzzier said 250 students work ed on the program last year, in eluding high school chairmen. At trading people, however, requires the "image of a worthwhile pro gram ” which he said Greater Oregon is losing due to its budg et losses. 3V2 Planks Nailed In GOP Platform r.y STEVE GREEN Political Affairs Editor Thirty students represented the I Diversity at the Oregon Repub lican College League convention held in Portland at the Park Haviland Hotel this weekend. Th<- purpose of the convention, which was attended by over 250 college students from all parts of the state, was to draft a plat form, vote on a revised consti tution, and elect new officers for the coming year. New officers were elected and the revised constitution was ap proved. However, only three and one half of the ten planks in the platform were adopted by the convention due to the lack of time scheduled for consideration of the respective planks. All planks were reported out of com mittee. It was decided that the rest of the platform will be consid ered at the next executive board meeting to be held in Corvallis on May 3. Those planks that gained ap proval were Party Affairs, Nat ural Resources. Economic Growth and Taxation, and approximately half of the Foreign Affairs plank. Those yet to be considered include Civil Rights. Urban Growth. Edu cation. Labor, Business and Agri culture, Health and Welfare, and Government Administration. Service Group Stops Plans for Butte Cross Alpha l’hi Omega. University service fraternity, has withdrawn plans for the construction of a cross on top of Skinner Putte. Thursday night following a closed meeting the service or ganization issued the following statement "It was the intent of : Alpha Phi Omega in undertaking this project to provide a service to the community in replacing a j dilapidated structure. “At the time, however, the group was not aware of the full implications of this service proj ■ ect Alpha Phi Omega shall be willing to transfer the handling of the project to a private group interested in continuing this proj ect to completion.” Collects S600 The service fraternity has col lected S600 in donations for the project and had asked the Eugene I City Council for permission to construct the cross. The council voted 5-2 in favor of the request at a meeting last week They were to give their official decis ion tonight. Before making a final decision on the controversy, the members of Alpha Phi Omega conducted a public discussion on campus. City Council president. Catherine Lau ris, spoke to the group. i am dismayed that a public controversy ever had to develop.” she stated. "Adults and teachers, to some extent, have failed you and a lot of people . . We have become careless in this free coun try where liberty prevails. Under this freedom, the Christian Church has been free to flourish . . . But the cross shouldn't be on Skinner Butte.” She continued. "We all own the land, but we don't all belong to an organized religion. The Church has survived for 2.000 years. It doesn’t need government to give it a crutch.” Mrs. Lauris voted against the construction of the cross, as did (Continued on page 7) Dormitory Dedicated to 1878 Grad By RICH BABOW Emerald Staff Writer Robert S. Bean Dormitory Com-1 plex, which University Dean of Administration William C Jones said is both "beautiful and use ful" and also "acknowledges the; goodly heritage of the Univer sity,” was dedicated at ceremon ies Sunday afternoon in the court yard of the dorm complex. Jones, who introduced the guests presenting plaques to the presidents of the units, said that the "legal title of this building is vested in the governing board established by the Commonwealth of Oregon.” In another sense,” Jones said, “this building belongs to every one who has made a contribution to the University." University President Arthur h. Flemming accepted the plaque Voter Registration Closes Tuesday Tuesday is the last day for Oregon residents to register to vote in the May 15 primary election. Voters may register at the county court house down town or at any fire station. The fire station closest to the University is at the corner of 16th Avenue and Agate Street. presented by a son of Robert S. Bean. Flemming told the audience of over 200 guests and students that "it is clear that Judge Bean made outstanding contributions to the development of the Oregon spirit.” Bean was a member of the first graduating class of the Uni versity in 1878 He was the first Oregon graduate to serve on the University’s Board of Regents. He served as judge of the Fed eral Court of Oregon from 1909. when he was appointed to the newly created court by President Taft, until his death in 1931. Present at the ceremonies were Cheryl Bean and King Martin, grandchildren of Bean. Both are students at the University. Miss Bean, a sophomore in edu cation from Moonpark, Calif., told The Emerald that she was sur prised to find a dorm named for her relative. The units in the complex are named for Albert Caswell, head of the Physics Department; Bur chard DeBusk, instructor of edu cational psychology; John Ganoe, historian; Louis Henderson, nat ural scientist;. Elon Moore, head of the Department of Sociology; Philip Parsons, social scientist; Richard Thornton, first dean of the University Law School; and Walter Willeox, head of the De partment of Architecture. UNIVERSITY President Arthur Flenuning and a son of Robert S. Bean exchange the Bean Hall plaque during dedication cere monies Sunday. The* plank on Economic Growth and Taxation under the direction ot Jim Jones of the University embodied proposals calling for a state cigarette tax to he used for support of education and recom mended the deduction of college tuition from taxable income or that a tax credit for college tui tion be granted. It also urged President Johnson to "stop turn ing off his lights . . . and advise his various administrative heads to quit working in the dark.” In the Natural Resources plank, the convention went on record as opposing the proposed federally sponsored national seashore or park on the Oregon coast between Florence and Coos Bay. In the part of the Foreign Af fairs plank that was passed, the convention recommended "ex tending offensive action in the nature of encouragement of guer illa warfare into North Viet Nam, while continuing present levels of action in South Viet Nam, thereby gaining the initiative on this new* front.” Platform resolutions support ing the I nited Nations, asking for a re-examination of the United States policy to -.ard Communtst t hina, and endorsing nuclear dis armament had not come to the floor by the time the assembly aajourned. Candidates Not Endorsed ftie major controversy in the party affairs committee was over whether or not the convention would endorse candidates. A res olution to endorse Barry Gold water for the GOP Presidential nomination was defeated, and it was decided that candidates would not be endorsed. In addition, several indepen dent resolutions were passed in cluding one calling for single member subdistricting within tha state. The resolution stated that every county which elects more than one state senator or repre sentative should be divided :nto single member election districts. A resolution was passed direct ing the executive board to seek a reunification of the College League and the Oregon Young (C on tinned on page 6) Jim Barnett Wins Ugly Man Crown ^im Barnett, sponsored bv Clor an Hall, is this year's WUS Ugly Man. This is the second year^in a row that candidates sponsored by the women of Cloran has been named Ugly Man. ( loran employed a variety of methods to raise their winning total of S503. 6 They "sold" themselves to Wat son Hall for a two-week period. For the next two weeks Cloran will wait on Watson’s table at meal time and iron shirts. The girls "sold"’ themselves in dividually and in groups to do various jobs in order to raise the winning amount. They also auc tioned their counselors, sold doughnuts and contributed to the WUS Week fund. They also maintained a toll gate and charged people who were not living in the dorm to enter. Anyone displaying bad manners at the meal table was lined. Dick Imwalle, sponsored by McAlister and Schafer Halls, was the runner-up. The two fresh men dorms raised approximately $470. Sherry Lucas, WUS Week co chairman. said that the total amount raised was $2,880 84. She estimated that the final total will be between $2,400 and $2,500 after expenses are deducted. Luvaas to Speak On Discipline Code John Luvaas, ASUO Senator at Large, will speak from 12:30 1 p.m. at the Free Speech Plat form today. He will give an evaluation of the discipline code, what it has done for the University, and what it can do.
