oregon DAiLYEmerald __ _ 3 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. ☆ if 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. ☆ ☆ 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 (Continued on po