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Sound and Fury A New Lease on tlx Conduct Code as a New Year Begins The entire area of student conduct has been a major topic of debate and disagree ment during the past year. This debate has been healthy, strengthening the code be cause weaknesses have been pointed out, discussed, and often corrected. We are hopeful, however, that the picture of the Code presented to new students next fall will not be as jumbled and critical as much of the debate during the past year. Many areas of contention have been clarified during past months, although sometimes not to the satisfaction of all involved. Fric tion between administrators and counsel ors and those instrumental in the admin istration of the Code should be settled be fore new students arrive on campus next fall. Some specific areas of disagreement have been clarified through the Conduct Com mittee, the Student Activities committee, or other authorative bodies. Much of the friction that remains is caused by person alities, informal procedures, precedents, or other factors not stemming directly from the written Code. Conflicts in the interpre tation of the Code should not be allowed to confuse the area of student discipline next falL A clear program for counselor orientation and for the orientation of new students to the Code should be worked out before these people are contacted. Admin istrators responsible for dormitory coun selors and all other groups who will be explaining the Code to incoming students should meet with the Conduct Committee this year to smooth over remaining areas of disagreement or misunderstanding. It would also be helpful if members of the Student Court or Conduct Committee par ticipated in the explanation of the disci pline procedure. Areas of the Code which were originally hazy, allowing room for individual inter pretation and disagreement have been clar ified. The duties of counselors have been explained, minor court procedure has been improved, rules have been clarified con cerning sanctionable dormitory and social behavior, closing most of the original gaps in the Code. Students and administrators alike must stop fighting the Code and try to work within its limits. While we do not ask that logical disagreement over the Code stop or that all criticism cease, we do ask that unnecessary conflict not be carried on through another year. Discus sion is desirable as long as it has a con structive end. Prolonged debate by die-hard protestors is destructive and unnecessary. Necessary and Important The Community Colleges—II Ed. Note: This is the second article in a two-part series on Oregon’s community college sys tem. Last Friday the voters of Ore gon passed Ballot Measure No. 1, a move which officially auth orized higher education in Ore gon to borrow on bonds up to $30 million. Of this amount, $5 million will eventually be avail able for community colleges in the state, and $1.4 million i6 immediately authorized for the next biennium. The growth of higher educa tion in the nation has shown tre mendous increases during the last two decades. Total enroll ment in institutions of higher education in 1940 was 1,494,000; in 1862 the figure was 4,207,000 according to the U. S. Office of Education. Graduates Increase The number of high school graduates entering colleges in the fall following graduation has also risen sharply, particularly since the post-war babies have reached college age. In 1940 only 15 per cent of all college students were between 18 and 21 years of age; by 1962 the figure had risen to 39 per centr Nearly all colleges and univer sities have felt the pressure of this influx of students, many having doubled or tripled in size during the last 20 years. James W. Thornton, secretary of the American Association of Junior Colleges, has studied this trend in higher education and feels that the two-year junior and community colleges will play an important part in alle viating some of the inevitable burdens placed on four-year schools. In a recent visit to the Uni versity, Thornton estimated that by 1975 85 per cent of all high school graduates will continue on to some type of post-second ary education. In addition, he estimated that three-quarters of these persons will be attending community colleges. Programs Expanded As the roles of community colleges in higher education be come more clearly defined, pro grams are being expanded and revised and gaps are being filled. One of these gaps is the lack of training in specialized fields, of ten sacrificed in favor of pre college transfer programs in lib eral arts. The community colleges in Oregon are financed largely w*fh local money. This fact presents a strong argument in favor of specialized courses geared to the needs of the particular com munity, the citizens of which often feel that liberal arts train ing can be left up to the four year schools. Professor Hugh Wood of the University’s School of Education sees two sides to the argument, however. “The four-year schools often refuse to prepare some youths in the liberal arts, and thus this duty is left up to the community college.” Community Needs Wood stressed the importance of the two-year schools in pro viding “training in the 13th and 14th years of schooling,” wheth er for vocational or college pre paration. In a study of Oregon’s two year institutions. Wood found that many schools are offering few or no courses in areas in which the community has a need for trained personnel. In agri culture, for example, while the labor demands of the various regions served by community colleges ranged from 3 per cent to 29 per cent, only one of the schools offered any courses in that area. In contrast, it was found that Central Oregon College offers 17 per cent of all courses in en gineering, while the engineering labor demands of its area are only .4 per cent. It is this dupli cation and inclusion of courses in fields already heavily empha sized and neglect of other vital areas that is being studied and revised to furnish the communi ty colleges with more well rounded curricula. Ideas Develop Since the development of the community college function, sev eral ideas have arisen concern ing additional roles which these institutions should serve. One service of the community col lege has been suggested, that of screening students as prospec tive candidates for entrance in to four-year institutions. While the nature of the two-year schools requires that their col lege transfer courses will auto matically “weed out” certain students, this function has often caused the opinion to form that the community colleges are of lower status or inferior to the four-year schools. Another proposal is that com munity colleges should maintain lower standards than four-year colleges and universities in or der to insure admittance of vir tually all who can afford it. Pro fessor Wood finds this proposal ‘insulting and snobbish,” say ing that “differences should lie in the (course) offerings, not in quality of acceptable perform ance.” This idea has slowly be gun to transform the image of the junior college from that of a retreat for the flunk-outs from the four-year schools to an in stitution offering necessary training in areas often not served by universities. Rehabilitation Offered Another service of the com munity college, and one which has been developed only recent ly, is that of rehabilitating the high-school dropouts. Programs are being increased which offer sufficient training in themselves for semi-skilled jobs. Often per sons entering this field after having dropped out of high school find themselves un trained or inadequately trained to competently enter the voca tions. To meet the growing needs for community colleges in Ore gon, several new institutions are planned for the near future. On March 18, Douglas County vot ers authorized construction of the Umpqua Community College in Roseburg. A fall 1964 vote is planned on a community col lege for the Eugene area, and studies are underway on a pro posed college in Washington County, near Portland. Also being discussed current ly are community colleges to serve the Rogue River area, Clackamas County, and east Multnomah County. Estimates Given William Thornton has esti mated that 28,200 persons will be attending community colleg es in Oregon in 1974. The Ore gon Department of Education has set the figure at 22,000. An average of the two estimates would bring the total about equal to the present enrollment of the state’s three largest four year institutions. (Continued on page 3) Herblock Ten. “I’m fiigWSr I Wan Born On Tin* Day Of The $ii|>r<:iii(* Court DrrUion h* Firtt appeared May, IV02 Letters to the Editor Criticizes Jury Emerald Editor: Recently a Lane County Grand Jury informally accused 30 unnamed University students of involvement in sexual mis conduct with a thirteen-year-old girl. Many questions about the Grand Jury’s "action” and fail ure to make actual criminal charges can and have been rais ed. There is one other question we should be pondering. What would the Grand Jury have done if they believed thirty local policemen had been so involved? Maybe that question is too easy. What would the Grand Jury have done if it had been thirty mill workers? Sincerely yours, Edward N. Fadeley * • • Student Assaulted Emerald Editor: On Saturday the 2nd of May at 10:30 in the evening one of the African Students at the University was assaulted on the campus by three youths who were presumably fellow stu dents. We wish to protest that such a deplorable incident could take place on the campus at any time. We thought you should be informed thaj this has not been the first incident and many of our members have had perturb ing experiences though of a more minor nature. This case of assault suggests that the situa tion may be growing worse and we feel our security is being severely threatened. We would like some reassurance from your office that our security can be guaranteed as long as we are members of this University. Yours sincerely, Herbert Knott Kayondo J. Send! Capital Punishment Emerald Editor: The first engagement in the political wars is over, mid terms are past, the many fund drives have reached comple tion, and “the voice of the turtle is heard in the land.” Now, however, I address my self to the student body and faculty of this University to give of their last full measure to a campaign which is just now taking shape, the effort to abolish capital punishment in this state through voter approv al in November of a referendum removing all mention of the death penalty from the Consti tution. In these formative stages, sup port from those sympathetic to this cause is essential. I have learned from the Oregon Com mittee to Abolish the Death Penalty that use of the facili ties of a good advertising and publishing firm has been pledg ed. and that billboards and bus fronts have been reserved. Be tween six and ten thousand dol lars must be raised, however, to bring these and other cam paign plans into reality. A Com mittee member told me recently that “50 cents from every stu dent would change tf lot of things." The chemicals for a gassing cost $167. It would be signifi cant if every student and fac ulty member who feel* that the "eye for an eye” philosophy of capital punishment has no place in an enlightened society, would donate this amount to the crusade to throw the gas cham ber on the same scrap heap of history as the thumbscrew and the wheel Contributions of any amount whatsoever, or signed pledges of the remainder of one’s breakage fees to the above-named committee, may be sent to me at 241 East Broadway for transference to that body, or to 8026 S.E 29th Avenue, Portland. Sincerely yours, George F. Neavoll Senior in Political Science * * * Wrestling Publicity Emerald Editor: I would like to know why the Emerald doesn’t give the sport (Continued on page 3) OREGON DAILY EMERALD The Oregon Daily Emerald U published twice in September and five day* a week during the academic year, except during examination and vacation period* by the Student Publication* Hoard of the Uni* versify of Oregon. Entered a* second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rate# (5 per year; $2 per term. Opinion* exprensed on the editorial page are those of the Kmerald and do not pre tend to represent the opinions of the ASUO or the University. CATHY NEVILLE* Editor J. CRAIG MATHIKSEN. 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