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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1964)
Model GOP Convention to Open Todav By STEVE GREEN I'olilIc*mI Affairs Editor .M< Arthur Court will he the final battlefield of a five-month power struggle this weekend with the advent of the GOP Mod el Convention. The University's largest aca demic activity for this year will be called to order at 7 pm today. Over 950 students will participate. The purposes of the convention are to acquaint students with some of the political procedures involved In a presidential nomin ating convention and to stimu late interest in political activity. Students have been encouraged to participate regardless of poli tical ideology or party affiliation Jones Optimistic State delegations have been as signed to the various living units, and political analysts from each supposedly researched the cur rent political feelings in each state so that the delegations can vote accordingly. Jim Jones, general chairman, told The Emerald Thursday that he believes the convention will be a success in spite of earlier foreboding. "Things are going fairly well right now,” said Jones. “1 am very pleased with our speakers program and the platform reso lutions committee. They have had a number of excellent dix cussions.” Goldwater Stand-in Preconvention activity today will bring the descendant of a GOP Convention Schedule Page 3 itmmnimitmimtiimmmimtnniimmtnNmiiiiimmiimimiiiHitiimf former President, Governor Nel son Rockefeller's nephew and a Washington state congressman to the campus. Theodore Roosevelt IV, a law yer from New York, and Law rence Rockefeller, a 19-year-old Harvard student, will be speak-i ing to students in the SU from 10 a m. to 2:30 p m. today in support of Governor Rockefeller. At 3:30 p.m., Representative Jack Westland of Washington's second district will speak on be half of Sen. Harry Goldwater in the SU ballroom. All activities, including the convention, are open to the general public. Forest of signs greeted students Thursday morning, official start ol campaigns for primary election April 29. These are opposite Commonwealth Hall. Photo: Sands Architecture Lecturer To Discuss Planning "The Crisis of Professionaliza tion in Planning” will be dis cussed by a guest lecturer of the School ot Architecture and Al lied Arts at 4 p.m. today in 123 Science. John W. Dyckman, an author ity on land development and urbanization, will be the speaker at the public lecture. He is chair man of the Center for Planning and Development Research and professor of city and regional planning at the University of California at Berkeley. DST to Begin This Weekend Oregon and much of the na tion will go on Daylight Sav ing Time this weekend. The time change will begin at mid night Saturday. Clocks should bo mover forward one hour. He is also a consultant to the Arthur I). Little Co. in San Fran cisco, the California State Devel opment Plan, and the Division of State and Local Planning of the State of Illinois Board of Eco nomic Development. Dyckman was on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania before accepting his present posi tion at Berkeley. He was also a visiting professor at Berkeley and Stanford and has lectured and given short courses at Harvard, MIT, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the University of Oregon and Dartmouth. He has been a consultant to agencies including the New York City Planning Department, Mi chael Reese Hospital in Chicago, National Park Service, and Amer ican Council to Improve Our Neighborhoods (ACTION). He is co-author of “Capital Re quirements for Urban Develop ment and Renewal,” a volume in the ACTION series in Housing and Community Development. Permanent chairman for the convention is William C. Jones, dean of administration. The par liamentarian will be David N. Andrews, candidate for the Ore gon Mouse of Representatives from Dane County. Tom L. McCall, candidate for state Secretary of State, will in troduce the keynote speaker for tne convention. Representative John V. Lindsay of New York. Lindsay is serving his third term and is a member of the Mouse Judiciary committee. He is considered a liberal Republi can, and Life magazine has plac ed him among the one-hundred most outstanding young men in the United States. Minority Reports The entire platform is to be voted upon tonight before the first session ends. Thursday a resolution on civil rights spon sored by the Southern states was rescinded after heated de bate in the- platform resolutions committee. A compromise resolu tion was drawn up, but the Southerners promised that there will be a minority report. Other minority reports are ex pected, especially in the area of foreign affairs, labor, and wel fare. Special resolutions covering other areas are also expected. balloting for the presidential candidates will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday and continue as long as necessary after lunch. Rocky First A vice presidential candidate will also be chosen as soon as the presidential candidate is se , lected. -• All the major candidates are represented for the presidential nomination. The “College Stu dents for Rockefeller'’ under the leadership of Bill Pollock were the first to organize, followed by Senator Barry Goldwater’s or ganization, chaired by Dave Wil i iams. Steve McLaughlin is in charge of the Scranton drive, and the "Draft Lodge" movement got underway a few weeks ago under the direction of Bob Reid. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith has had very little support outside the Maine delegation. Hatfield “Favorite Son’’ It is expected that there will be several “favorite son” can didates. Late Thursday, the Louisiana delegation announced it would nominate once-defeated gubernatorial candidate Charle ton Lyons. The Oregon delegation will nominate Governor Mark O. Hat field as a "favorite son” for vice president. The “Mock Rock,” an informal dance, will follow the convention from 9 to 12 p.m. Saturday. And Struggles for Quorum Senate Reconsiders NSA By THOR A WILLIAMS Emerald Feature Editor The ASUO Senate, struggling to maintain a quorum, discussed, approved, re-discussed, amended, re-discussed and re-amended measures regarding the National Student Association delegation Thursday night at a meeting starting 45 minutes late and last ing three and one-half hours. The Senate took action in sev eral other areas: • Approved constitutional amendments that will appear on the May 6 ballot. • Adopted motions for two new programs—a Freshman .Sem inar Program and Student Gov ernment Seminar Program. • Voted to put questions re garding the Student Conduct Code on the May 6 ballot. • Elected a new Rally Board chairman, Greg Reed. • Unanimously passed a mo tion for support of the State Bal lot (Bond) Measure No. 1 in the May 15 primary election. • Approved a cancer educa tional campaign for the week of April 27 through May 1. • Tabled discussion on a Stu dent-Faculty Committee on Stu dent-Faculty Relations. • Approved suggestions from the ASUO Academic and Cultur al Committee for presentation to orientation (new student) week officials. John Luvaas, senator-at large, moved that the University’s NSA delegation be limited to three for the summer session of 1964. UO Student Member Proposed for Council A proposal to place a student representative on the Eugene City Council as a non-voting member was presented to coun cil members Thursday. The proposal, submitted by ASUO Senator-at-large John Lu vaas, was referred to a commit tee after being favorably receiv ed by the councilmen. Dean of Men Ray Hawk, also a Eugene city councilman, com mented that he was favorably impressed with such student in terest in city government. He repeated, however, the caution of City Manager Hugh McKin ley who warned the council that it might get caught in disagree ments between students and fac ulty or administrators if a stu dent seat were opened. Difference of Interests “We must clearly define just whom the student would be rep resenting," said Hawk. He added that difference between the in terests of the ASUO and the ad ministration should be clearly defined. Hawk used the example of a hypothetical stand on parking meters. He pointed out that a senate stand on parking meters might be in direct opposition to policies of the Campus Planning Commission. Luvaas said that although the idea of a student representative on the council had been suggest ed to the senate several times in the past it had never been taken to the council. He said he favors having the representative appointed by the student body president but said such procedure would have to be decided upon later. Hawk commented that in the past he has seen Emerald stall members and senators at council meetings front time to time. Students have gone to the City Council in the past to discuss a proposed bridge over the mill race, the "O” on Skinner’s Butte, the removal of trees on Patterson street and placing parking meters on Kincaid street between 13th and 14th streets. Luvaas said that since one sixth of the population of Eugene is students, student representa tion seems logical. He said he feels the flow of information be tween the council and students would be beneficial to both groups. Final 'Consul' Tickets on Sale Tickets for the final two per formances of "The Consul,” the Giano-Carlo Menotti opera now at the University Theater, will be on sale at the UT box office today and Saturday. Proceeds from the tickets will go to the Kennedy Memorial Fund, established by the ASUO Senate. Tickets are $2 each. Some parts in the modern mus ical drama have been double cast. Tonight’s cast consists of Robert Cotnpbell, Martha Hill, Margaret Gates, Sandra Olsen, Carol Hansen and Sally Benson. Saturday night’s cast will be Don Lev, Sabine Phelps, Nina Cutler, Dennis Barger and Sally Benson. Both performances are at 8 p.m. This was amended to four dele gates when it was brought up by Jerry Rust, campus NS A co ordinator, that four could be fin anced within the $1250 approved for the budget request by the Senate at its last meeting. But later, after considerable debate, the Senate decided to raise the budget request to $1656 (which it had been before the re duction last week). The number in the delegation was then in creased to six. and then it was decided to include six "or more”, as finances permit. The NSA delegation will in clude the ASUO president, one senator recommended by the president and approved by the senate, and four others elected by the student body. Necessary to Change Because fewer than 25 per cent of the student body voted on the proposed constitutional amendments in the April 15 elec tions, it was necessary to change (Continued on face 5) Prexy Hopefuls To Clash Today ASrO presidential hopefuls John Luvaas and Ron Cowin will debate at 4 p.m. today at the Free Speech Platform in front of the Student Union. Luvaas issued the debate chal lenge to Cowin Thursday after noon. He described the debate as "an opportunity to bring my own as well as Mr. Cowin’s past posi tions and views into the open.” In accepting the challenge Cowin called the debate “* chance to air our views and ac curately interpret them to the student body. I challenged John j (Luvaas) to a debate some tine ago and I am very happy that he ; is accepting.” Luvaas said he was prompted j to issue the challenge because of | "numerous charges which are I very unfavorable to my position ■ as a candidate.” lie said that i several people had accused him [ of “being against' the student i conduct code, against the Na tional Student Association (NSA) i and against ‘anything generally l progressive’.” These charges "are absolutely false,” Luvaas said. The debate offers a chance to correct mis statements "on my positions as well as bringing Mr. Cowin's into the open,” Luvaas said. Cowin said he has made “no charges against Luvaas. My cam paign is based on issues and my concept of the direction student government should take during the next year.”