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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1964)
No. 19 Death Penalty Doesn't Reduce Crime Rates' By STEVE BROWN Emerald Staff Writer Oregon's ballot measure No. 4 came under the scrutiny of the YMCA Dialogue held Tuesday in the Hottom of the Bowl. Kntitled "An Eye for an Eye?”, * the discussion presented Chapin Clark, associate professor of law, speaking for abolishing capital punishment and Daniel Pollitt, visiting professor of law, speak ing for capital punishment, even though he does not personally support it Pollit has defended several Eastern capital punishment cases, and Clark has, in the past, spok en against the issue Panel mod erator was Phil Zahn, Dialogue student chairman Pro and Con In beginning the discussion, Clark summarized several pro ami con arguments about the death penalty. Both speakers agreed that statistics on capital punish ment’s value as a crime deterrent were inconclusive. To prove this point, Georgia was presented as a case where capital punishment exists and the homicide death rate ties for first in the nation In Michigan, a state without the death penalty, the homicide death rate is 15 to 20 times lower. Clark added that studies do not indicate the death penalty gives police more protection from crim inals It was also pointed out that capital punishment cases are harmful to justice administration because of the "circus atmos pherc" which exists in the court room and that they are expen-I sue for the state to prosecute. Discrimination of Poor Discrimination by the death penalty of the poor, friendless minority who cannot provide ade quate defense counsel was also mentioned . Pollit, in defending capital pun ishment, emphasized that a crim inal had "plenty of protection” from the death penalty, as based on the North Carolina legal sys tem. Using a murder case as an ex ample, he first stated that a crim Frosh Petition Deadline Today Petitions for freshman class offices, graduate student repre sentative and foreign student rep resentative are due at 5 p m to day in the Student Union The deadline has been extended to this time. So far Denny Dodge, Michael M. Donahue and David G. Itzen, are the only students to petition for frosh president. Those petitioning for frosh vice president so far are Gayle Doun ing. Perry Owens, Paul Tuttle, Dick Jones, Ronny Terpening, Dave Bohlman, Paul Crogan, Sid Christie, Rich Eymann and Len nie Sernas. Stephen Marks has petitioned for graduate student representa tive. Peter Majne has petitioned for foreign student representative. Petitioning for men’s dorm rep resentative are Enno Poersch and Robert Repp. Patty Soule, Lauri Saunders, Penny McLaughlan and Shary Potter have petitioned for wom en’s dorm representative. Petitioning for frosh senate representative are Tom Ayrea, Jack Ferguson and Lee Neuman. Petitions may be obtained on the third floor of the Student Union. A $15 filing fee must ac company all petitions. A meeting for all candidates will be held at 7 p.m. today. Campaigning will begin at mid night today. inal who pleads guilty to a capi tal offense cannot lie executed. If he enters a not guilty plea, the jury then determines whether the person is guilty of first degree murder, and if so, is authorized to recommend life imprisonment. Ii the jury recommends death, the judge can reject the deci sion. If the death penalty is ac cepted, appeals can be made to (Continual on ftn/c H) FOREIGN' STUDENTS and their ‘friendship families' gathered in the SU Ballroom Tuesday night for a faculty-student reception in their honor. Malik Speaks At Charter Day The eighty-eighth anniversary of the University’s legal recognition as an educational institution will be observed today, culminating with a revised edition of the annual Charter Day Convocation this evening. Charles H. Halik, former president of the United Nations General Assembly and ex-Foreign Minister of I,ebanon. will be the featured speaker at the 8 p.m. convocation in the Student Union Ballroom. Several changes have been made in the eleventh annual observances of the day on which the State Legislature voted the University into being. One of the major changes is the addition of a requirement ☆ ☆ Distinguished Service Awards Given Today By JOHN DAY Emerald Staff Writer As part of the University’s an nual Charter Day ceremonies, three outstanding Oregon citi zens will receive the Disting uished Service Award. This year the recipients arc Tom Hardy, noted sculptor: Dr. William Kenneth Livingston, re tired professor of surgery at the University Medical School; and Professor Charles McKinley, poli tical science instructor at Reed College. The Distinguished Service Award program began 11 years ago, and has honored three not- j able Oregonians each year. A committee, consisting of the University president, the chair man of the Faculty Senate, the chairman of the Advisory Coun cil, the Director of Alumni Af fairs, the ASUO President, the Director of Public Service, the Dean of Administration and two faculty members chosen at large, accepts recommendations for re cipients. After careful consideration, three persons are nominated, and I Continued on page 3) Miller Analogies Test Announced Graduate student* wishing to satisfy the Miller Analogies Test requirement may do so on Thursday, Oct. 22, at 3:30 p.m. Registration may be made at the Counseling Center, Room 150, Susan Campbell Hall, at least one day prior to the testing date. Upon registration the fee of $2.50 may be paid. UO Receives NSF Grants Two grants totaling $223,700 from the National Science Foun dation will be made today to the University. The funds will be used to help high school teachers improve the quality of their teaching by spend ing an academic year in the full time study of their field. The University mathematics de partment will receive $118,400, and the biology department will receive $105,300. The mathematics grant will es tablish a new academic year in stitute, under A F. Moursund, to provide advanced training for ap proximately 20 high school teach ers. The money will provide scholarships, including living al lowances for dependents, while the teachers, in most cases, work toward master’s degrees. The biology grant, to Sanford S. Tepfer, is to continue an ex isting institute program which prrvides similar training for sci ence teachers. Lived In Oregon Work Ends For Herbert Hoover By IRMA DAWN MOAR Emerald Managing Editor His “Magnum Opus” won’t ever bo finished. Herbert Clark Hoover died Tuesday before his book—a his tory of the years since 1930—was complete. The nation's thirty-first chief HERBERT C. HOOVER executive died in his New York Waldorf-Astoria suite after a long illness. In Deep Coma His condition took a turn for the worse Saturday and two hours before his death a medi cal bulletin said he had lapsed into a “deep coma.” He was stricken with a massive internal hemorrhage of the upper gastro intestinal tract. Hoover’s two sons—Herbert Jr and Allan Henry—were with him in his 31st floor apartment when he died. Service in Rotunda The former President’s body will lie in state for two days in Saint Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church on Park avenue, then after memorial services will be taken to Washington for a serv ice in the Capitol rotunda. Hoover will be buried in a na tional park at the site of a small cottage in West Branch, la., where he was born in 1874. Born of Quaker parents on Aug. 10 of that year, he was orphaned at age ten. For the next seven years he lived with Quaker relatives in Iowa and then in Oregon. He worked his way through Stanford University, holding vari ous jobs on the campus, and be came a top-flight mining engineer and a wealthy man at 28. Lived in Oregon While at Stanford he met and married Lou Henry. She died in 1944. The former chief executive was the only United States President (Continued on page 3) that persons attending the convo cation obtain tickets beforehand Tickets may be obtained at the •Student Union main desk by stu dents, faculty, or others interest ed in attending. Problems with attendance ne cessitated both the addition of the ticket requirement and mov ing the convocation from McAr thur Court, where it has been held in recent years. Slated for Ballroom University officials said earlier this month that the program was slated for the ballroom, which scats 1,100, instead of 10,000-seat McArthur Court because recent ceremones in the huge basketball court had been marred by poor attendance. If you have only 2.000 people turn out at Mac Court you can hardly make a dent on the place,” I>ean of Administration William C Jones said. "It’s embarrassing to import a big speaker and then have all those empty seats star ing him in the face.” The allotment of tickets was added to enable the administra tion to judge the response to this year's convocation If all the tick ets to the ballroom are given out and a demand still exists, the program will be moved back to McArthur Court to allow every one to attend. Moving to Evening Another change has been the moving of the convocation from a morning to an evening time slot. One reason for this change was the fact that Malik was pre viously scheduled to speak at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., Tuesday night, and was therefore unable to make it to Eugene for a morning speech. Also, the processional of facul ty members in academic regalia, which had been a part of the cere monies since Charter Day’s con ception eleven years ago, has been eliminated. Malik’s address on "The Strug gle for Peace” will highlight the convocation. Others taking part in the pro gram will be Rabbi Joshua Stamp fer of Portland, who will give the invocation; the University’s Sym phonic Orchestra, which will pro vide musical entertainment; and KWAX, 91.1 me., will broad cast the Charter Day Ceremo nies live from the Student Un ion Ballroom beginning at 7:50 p.m, tonight. The broadcast will continue until the conclu sion of the presentation of the Distinguished Service Awards. Dave Jordan, Emerald associ ate editor, will be the commen tator. University President Arthur S. Flemming, who will present the Distinguished Service Awards (see story on page one of today’s Emerald). Long Record Malik has a long record of par ticipation in international affairs. He was chairman of the Lebanon delegation to the United Nations from 1946 through 1955, and served on the United Nations Commission on Civil Rights for two years. He also served as Lebanon’s ambassador to the United States from 1953 to 1955. In the course of his career in international politics he has been decorated by more than a dozen governments, and lias been awarded honorary degrees by 40 colleges and uni versities around the world.
