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
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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
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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
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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.