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Vol. I.XVI I NIVERSITV OfOREGON, El GENE, WEIIN ESIIAY. MARCH t, IMS sVn
Faculty Evaluation Forms
Prepared for Distribution
Faculty evaluation forms will
be distributed on Thursday and
Friday of this week and the first
part of next week, according to
the Faculty Evaluation Commit
tee.
Committee personnel will be
stationed at classroom doors to
pass out copies of the evaluation
sheet (Questions will cover the
textbook, assignments, exams, at
tendance, and the instructor.
The questionnaire includes:
Must the student’s answer (on
the exams) follow the thinking of
the instructor? Are the assign
ments stimulating’ Are the lec
tures intelligible to the students?
Booklet Printed
All students who receive the
forms are asked to fill in the
course questionnaire and return
it to their professor by the next
class meeting The teacher will
then collect the completed forms
The data will be tabulated by
computer and will be published
in a booklet being co-ordinated
by Steve Smith.
The booklet, which emphasizes
the fact that the results are
strictly student opinions, will be
available to the professors and
their future students at the earli
est possible date. If at all pos
sible, the booklet will be ready
for Spring registration However,
Fall seems to be the earliest re
lease data, said Chuck Hillestad,
Rights Worker
Arrested, Jailed
In Mississippi
A 1964 graduate of the Uni
versity was among 53 civil rights
demonstrators arrested in Mag
nolia, Mississippi, on Monday.
Miss Karen Pate, from Prairie
City. Oregon, was arrested and
jailed with the other demonstrat
ors Another Oregon civil rights
worker. Dennis Sweeney of Port
land, was jailed at the same time
They are charged with refusing
to obey a court injunction ban
ning picketing in front of the
Pike County courthouse in Mag
nolia.
The injunction was issued only
days prior to the arrests.
Sheriff R It. Warren of Pike
County said both Negro and white
ciul rights workers were arrest
ed
He said the demonstrators were
interrupting the normal course of
courthouse business. They were
reportedly blocking a sidewalk
which leads to the front door of
the courthouse.
The workers were demonstrat
ing against voter registration dis
crimination, according to a
spokesman from the Council of
Federated Organizations (COFO).
Miss Pate has been working on
the voter registration projects in
the South since her graduation
from the University last spring.
Correction
Registration procedures will not
be changed Spring term as report
ed in a headline in Tuesday's edi
tion of The Emerald.
The registrar’s oflice will be
conducting an experiment in con
junction with a program to sim
plify procedures. If it proves suc
cessful, it is likely that one form
could replace the packet of IBM
cards that students must fill out
now, according to Robert Bowlin,
acting registrar.
The experiment will involve the
filling out of one more form dur
ing the registration process.
Faculty Evaluation Co-ordinator
Only 00 professors, mainly from
lower division courses, have been
asked to participate this year
Every professor, however, will be
reached eventually, Hillestad said
Specific Reason
Unless a professor sends a spe
cific request and reason not to be
evaluated, it will be assumed
that he is willing to participate,
said Hillestad.
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Distribution of forms will occur
generally outside of and after the
class.
The Faculty Evaluation Com
mittee needs volunteers to hand
out the forms. Since large num
bers of students will be needed,
members of service groups or any
student willing to help are ask
ed to come to the SU at 1 p m
today The room number will be
posted.
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Alpert Says Ratings
Could be Beneficial
By JERRY A. HANSEN
Emerald Staff Writer
Harry Alpert, dean of faculties, Tuesday commented on the pro
posal to evaluate courses, texts, and instructors suggested by the
ASUO Senate's academic and cultural committee.
According to Alpert. most of the proposals that come through his
office do have merit. Commenting on the evaluation proposal. Al
pert said, "it can be a beneficial and healthy activity on the part of
the students ” He went on to say that he doubted, however, "if the
proposal was thoroughly thought out on the part of those who sug
gesed it If it (the evaluation program) is going to be done, at all
it should be done well, i e with professional techniques and help in
designing and assessing the questionnaire." said Alpert
Without the necessary supervision, according to Alpert, the evalu
ation booklet might be little more than a "systematic gossip sheet."
where the students would rank their courses, texts and instructors
according to their likes or dislikes.
Alpert said. "As far as I know the program will be a voluntary
procedure for the professor " Alpert stated "We have a teacher-con
scious faculty, rather than research oriented faculty On the whole,"
Alpert said, "the whole faculty appears to be available to the stu
dents "
By Ways and Meows Committee
Portland Grad
Center Viewed
By STEVE GREEN
Emerald News Editor
SALEM-(Special) An assort
ment of business leaders, educa
tors. and spokesmen for the State
System of Higher Education testi
fied before a sub-committee hear
ing of the Oregon Legislature’s
Joint Ways and Means Committee
on a graduate research program
for the Portland area.
The testimony centered around
Senate Bill 58, sponsored by Sen i
Don Willner (D-Portland) and |
over 50 other legislators. The bill!
asks for an appropriation of $2.3
million above the budgetary rec-'
ommendations of Gov Mark
Hatfield to strengthen graduate
facilities in the Portland area.
During the last session of the j
legislature, a resolution entitled j
SJRH was passed, charging the
State System of Higher Education
with the responsibility of formu
lating a proposal for strengthen
ing graduate facilities in Portland
The State System’s proposal, sub-1
mitted to the governor, called for
basically three things:
Three Proposals
• strengthening Portland State
College's basic educational pro-j
gram.
• increasing OSU’s extension
program in engineering in the
Portland area.
• strengthening the Univer
sity’s extension program in busi
Flemming Asks Senate
For Soliciting Suggestions
By BOB CAR I,
Assistant Managing Editor
Arthur S. Flemming, Univer
sity president, has requested the
ASUO Senate to offer some rec
ommendations concerning the so
liciting of funds by groups on
campus.
Jarold Kieffer. assistant to the
president, said Monday that any
group that wants to solicit funds
on campus needs Flemming’s ap
proval "The State Board of
Higher Education's administra
tive code delegates this authority
to the institution’s executive,” he
said.
"The president wants the
ASUO Senate to make some rec
ommendations for a policy state
ment on the issue,” Kieffer said.
Flemming has asked ASUO pres
Browsing Room
Slates Benson
Following last week’s highly
successful discussion of Michel
angelo's architecture, the Brow
sing Room will present another
color slide lecture tonight at 7:30.
Gilbert T. Benson, assistant pro
fessor of geology, will speak on
“The Apennines: The Backbone
of Italy.”
Benson will base his lectures
on observations made during the
International Field Institute held
in Italy in 1964, in which he
toured geological localities cover
ing some 4,000 miles in the Apen
nine Mountains.
Structural geology, dealing with
the development of mountains
and the deformation of rocks and
crust of the earth is Benson’s
specialty.
Earl Pomeroy, professor of his
tory, will lead the discussion.
ident John Luvaas to take the
lead in the affair, according to
Kieffer.
Two Different Groups
Kieffer said that there is a
difference between campus-wide
and special-interest groups Lu
vaas clarified this statement by
saying that Flemming might be
willing to delegate a "certain
amount of his authority to allow
the ASUO Senate to determine
when any small fund drive can
be held.”
Luvaas said that Flemming
would still make the decisions
concerning campus-wide solicita
tions, “under the program I would
favor." There is never more than
one all-campus drive a term, ac
cording to Luvaas.
“Completely Objective"
“I want an over-all policy that
is completely objective,” Luvaas
said, “one that is quite liberal
and open.” He said that with
such a policy, “we may determine
upon requests which groups will
be allowed to solicit funds on cam
pus."
A. L. (Si) Ellineson, director
of the Student Union, said that
any group can reserve a room with
the intent of soliciting funds. He
stipulated that only groups who
were recognized by the Student
Activities Committee were actual
ly able to solicit funds in the
Student Union.
Write Letter
“At the present time we ask
any group that plans to solicit
funds to write a letter to Pres
ident Flemming, asking his per
mission to do so,” he said.
Office Hours Set
University President Arthur
Flemming will hold student
hours from 1:30 to 3:30 today.
Students may see Flemming at
this time without an appoint*
ment.
Ellingson explained that the
Student Union would not allow
groups to solicit funds for pri
vate gain. “You cannot use state
facilities for private means,” he
said
Kieffer said that in the past
no group has been refused per
mission to solicit funds on cam
pus. He said the reason Flem
ming wanted such a statement
was that problems concerning the
issue could develop.
ness administration in the Port
land area.
Prior to the passage of SJRH,
the governor created the Oregon
Graduate Center Corp., under the
direction of Sam Diack of Port
land. The purpose of Diack’s or
ganization is to encourage invest
ment by business and Federal
sources in a graduate center that
would not be financed by state
funds.
Grad Center Corp.
When Governor Hatfield’s budg
et was released last December, the
State System’s proposal was not
included in the budget recom
mendations; however, $1.5 million
was allocated for the Oregon
Graduate Center Corp.
While members of the State
Board of Higher Education do
not oppose the creation of an in
dependent graduate center in the
Portland area, they have gone
on record as opposing any ap
propriation of state funds for
educational purposes to be used
by any agency independent of
the State System.
To Finance Program
Senator Willner’s bill is a pro
posal to finance the state sys
tem's program for development
of graduate facilities in Portland.
All those who testified before
the joint hearing emphasized the
immediate need for the program
and the role that the increased
! graduate facilities conld play in
attracting new industry to Ore
gon
Senator Willner said "It wot.ld
benefit the entire state in attract
ing science-based industry to the
IVPKt ”
No Disagreement
Testifying on behalf of the pro
posal. Sam Diack said that he and
his organization have no disagree
ment on the essential goal of
increasing graduate facilities in
the Portland area. "The logical
place to start such a program is
under Portland State College and
the State Board of Higher Edu
cation.
". . . The graduate center
which we are working on can
further help this goal by helping
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Luvaas Warns NSA
Delegates to Organize
By RICH BABOW
Associate News Editor
ASUO President John Luvaas
said Tuesday night. “We’d better
get to work” on the NSA pro
gram.
“The work done the rest of the
year will receive a grade of one
to six.”
The number of students who
attend the national NSA congress
at Notre Dame University this
summer will depend on the grade.
Luvaas spoke to a group of
students “who have been involv
ed with NSA and will be involved
the coming year.”
He said one of the criticisms of
NSA at the University has been
that “it has done nothing on this
campus.”
Present at the meeting were
the newly elected NSA delegates,
last year's delegates, the NSA co
ordinator and a small number of
other students who have been.
strongly interested in NSA.
“Delegates have been interest
ed primarily in representing the.
University at a congress—not in
programs,” Luvaas said.
NSA at the University "has
had no central organization, con-,
i trol or leadership.”
University NSA co-ordinator
Dean Franciskovich agreed with
Luvaas: 'The people at the con
gress were not program orient
ed.”
Wally Kuribara, delegate to
last summer’s congress, said mem
bers of the ASUO Senate shouldn’t
be working on NSA.
Franciskovich is a senator -
at-large.
Luvaas said money won’t be
spent on NSA if all it does is
educate the students who go to a
congress.
NSA is budgeted for $1,600
this year. This includes dues and
operating expenses at the Uni
versity .
"Unless there is some means
to reorganize, or I should say or
ganize,” the University NSA, only
the NSA co-ordinator and the
ASUO president should go to the
congress, Luvaas said.
Speaking to the three newly
elected delegates, Luvaas add
ed. "You three were elected to
go.” He added that the ASUO
has no commitment to send them.
"Those that go back (to the
congress) must have in mind a
program with an organized struc
ture on paper with a staff ready
to go into action,” Luvaas said.