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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1964)
___ UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1%4 anMHi' ■ B S V , i-J =n»* I .5 . . ' gk .•HNSsTr** -: H*r ^ 1 ab^ ^hl ■ H J Conduct Code Power Expanded By KON COWAN Emerald Consulting Editor The .student conduct code will be almost doubled in size as the result of changes already made and those being made tnis year. An enure tmrd section has been added to the code. According to f rank Lacy, chairman of the Faculty-Student Con duct Committee and professor of law. the new "edition” ol the code, which is now being drafted, will be distributed to students with their registration material in the fall. The conduct committee, which lias the power to change anything in the second and third sections of the code, has included dormi tory regulations, criteria for social activities and rules regarding the traffic court in part III. Procedure Hules Added Procedure rules for the student court and the minor courts are being add(*d to the second section, together with other minor changes A change in the policy on records of the student court is also anticipated. Cnanges may also be made by the faculty in the first section of the code, involving general policy and violations and sanctions Lacy said the conduct committee is now preparing a yearly report which will be presented to the faculty in June The report will provide statistics on the progress and work of the courts and committees under the new system. The conduct com mittee will also evaluate the system and members will make their "value judgments” and recommendations, according to Lacy. Drunkeness Penalty Set The conduct committee recently approved a change in the code which would include disorderly conduct resulting from drunkeness as a violation. This will have to be approved by the faculty. Lacy pointed out that this, although not a substantive change, will clarify the policy regarding drunkeness which is not sped Really prohibited by the cotie. The committee is also working on a proposal for handling the special discipline problems involved in the finals week period Lacy said during this period there tend to be more violations of discipline, together with a greater need for immediate and definite action on the part of the court system. Studies Cause Problems This is further complicated by the heavy academic burden on both student and faculty members handling discipline Counselors have been delegated power for discipline in emergency .matters of this sort, however. I.acy said this problem will not require any change in the code Another major difficulty the conduct system is facing now is handling student discipline during the summer session, when the code will continue in effect but most of its administrators will be gone. Out of the five student and three faculty members on the student court, only two students and one of the faculty members will be here Only one member of the conduct committee, a faculty inem ber, will be here this summer. .Minor Courts Inactive I.acy said the minor courts will be discontinued during the sum mer, and probably also the conduct committee. He said the com mittee anticipated few major discipline problems over the summer, with those that do occur being held ever until fall. The student court will continue, however. The committee plans to ask President Arthur Flemming to appoint new students to the court while disbanding the five minor courts. These people would probably continue through the next year since most of the student members at present will not be at the University next fall A subcommittee is now considering people to serve on the courts next year. Petitions are being asked from dormitory residents. Flemming Fnnal Authority The committee’s recommendations will go to the ASUO president for his recommendations, then to President Flemming for the final decision. Another major area under consideration is explanation of the student discipline system in the fall, particularly for freshmen and transfer students. Lacy said the members of the conduct committee are planning to meet separately with groups of about 30 people, during new student week, explaining the system and answering questions. This orientation plan might extend to older students, although Lacy said he is personally "not inclined to go much further since other steps are being taken.” Code in Catalogue The committee also plans to recommend to President Flemming that the code be included in the University catalogue, although this would not be possible until the 1965-66 edition. Part of the code is also printed in the Emerald in the fall. Dormitory counselors will have the code explained to them by dormitory administrators during the regular training program for counselors. The conduct committee is unlikely to play any part in this, according to Lacy. "We might well want to make suggestions to the office of student affairs or the director of University housing,” he said, but “it’s not our function to train them.” Misunderstanding among the counselors was one of the prime sore spots this year. Duties Altered Lacy commented on a change in the role of Francis Nickerson, associate dean of students and disciplinary officer under the code. More of Nickerson’s duties on the courts have been taken over by Phillip Beal, assistant dean of students. Beal serves as a clerk on the student court and has organized the minor courts in dormitory complexes. Lacy said Nickerson was often put in the "impossible position" of being a prosecutor due to his duties in presenting the case to the court and gathering information. Now some of these duties are being taken over by Beal, since Nickerson has had to devote a con siderable amount of his time to other duties. Liberal Sex Morality Evolving, Judge Claims ☆ ☆ Judge Doubts Student Code Effectiveness By CHUCK BEGGS editorial Page Editor A judge and a psychology pro fessor discussed topics ranging from changing moral standards among youth to the University’s Student Conduct Code in a YMCA Dialogue in the Bottom of the Bowl Tuesday afternoon Dr Leona Tyler, professor of psychology at the University, said "the modern situation we are in involves many types of decisions before moral standards can be determined." Dr Tyler pointed out the fact that sexual encounters between young men and women can more readily occur today than in the past because of the more free mo bility afforded to young persons. Not First Time She questioned whether the moral standards themselves had changed "or have the opportuni i Continued on page 3) By NOMI BORENSTEIN Associate News Editor Judge Virgil Langtry told a University assembly audience Tuesday "if America is to grow great, we must stop gagging at the word "spiritual ’ ” Speaking on "Changing Sex Morality” Langtry said he has seen a loosening of sexual mo rality during the last 30 years and many American universities are "undergoing serious criticism and self-analysis because what marks an evolution of liberal, or. depending on who is talking, loose sex morality in our popu lation has arrived with full force on the campus.” Morality Loosened Langtry said this evolution, which started tw o or three gener ations ago, is not limited to the campus but pervades society as a whole. “The conduct code.” he has not found an easy way. "Determined efforts are made on the one hand to put it into effect, and on the other hand, determined efforts are made to remove the parts that would have been found so generally objectionable as to have been impossible to serious ly propose during my college days.” AN ORIGINAL COMEDY, “And You Shall Milk the Cow, Sir,“ premieres Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Arena Theatre, Villard Hall. Above, Priscilla Lauris, playing a London housewife, offers drinks to her husband (Gary Lee Stevens) and an artist friend, played by Barbara Chatas. Tickets for the student-written and produced comedy are available for $1 each at the University Theatre box office for Thursday, Friday and Saturday performances. Photo: Bigham Langtry said the University is not the only school where stu dent discipline has an air of con troversy. Harvard’s parietal pol icy permits students to have girls in their rooms for 34 hours a week. It started with such a rumble that it shoow the founda tions of the venerable institution and the nearby women’s colleges. The University of Chicago health service will give Enovid, a birth control pill, to any girl student who requests it. Frosh Need Supervision Coming back to the Univer sity’s conduct code, Langtry said he felt students need some super vision before they can be treated as adults. ... “I road in The Emerald that a freshman girl should be treated as a fufl fledged adult, and that thus there should be not restrictions except those generally applying under lav/ to all adults. “This does not take into ac count the background of substan tial numbers of students who come sheltered, inexperi enced, fresh out of high school; and mixed with other students who are mature adults. Mature acting as a high school graduate may be, many or most of them are not worldly-wise or experi enced. “The immature and the mature are going to meet each other, and a loosening of the rules can make for easy exploitation of the inexperienced by the sophis ticated By the time the naive ones catch up. the damage has been done. It is all well and good to talk about young people learn inc to take responsibility, but do ing so under ideal situations, it is a gradual process.” Likes Court System At a coffee hour discussion immediately following his lecture, Langtry said he liked the idea of the student courts but empha sized his feelings that President Flemming must have a final judgment on all decisions made by them. Langtry said that "the girl student who subscribes to the new sex morality’ and becomes pregnant, is confronted not with the 20th century attitude toward sex. but the 19th century cen tury opinion. “Not even Playboy, the four color exponent of the new mo rality, has a real answer when (Continued on Page 7) Phi Beta Kappa Names Members Forty-eight seniors in libe-al arts were selected for member ship in Phi Beta Kappa, national scholastic honorary, when pres ent members met Tuesday. The University of Oregon chap ter selected students with four year grade point averages be tween a 3.42 and 3:95. Initiation for the new mem bers of the liberal arts honorary will be on Tuesday, May 26. The 5 p in. ceremony-will be in Ger linger hall. New members include: Bonnie Muchiko Arai. Linda Lee Bancke. Mary Margaret Bark er, Bruce Robert Bayles, Kirk Wayne Battleson. Barbara Ann Beilin. Mary Bowen, Linda Caro lyn Brown, Joan Elizabeth Bus kett, Gayle Kathryn Brothers. Nancy Jean Chapman, Darryl Lee Chinn, Virginia Ruth Clark, Marjorie Wilkinson Eaton, Mar lon Gale Fletchall, Ronda Rae (Continued cn page 7)
