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OREGON Vol. LXVI daily Emerald UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1965 So. 117 Committee OK's Lower Tuition The Oregon Legislature's Ways and Means Education Subcom mittee approved a request Wed nesday which would allow stu dents who attend college on a winter-spring summer schedule to pay $75, instead of $110 per term tuition. The plan will go into effect only if the University, Oregon State University or Portland State College arc able to get at least 2,000 students to partici pate in the plan. The same measure, if adopted by the Legislature as a whole, will allow $408,000 for moderni zation of engineering instruction at SU, allow $5 0 million for ad justing the pay of the teachers in the state's colleges and allow $500,000 for incentive pay to teachers. Law School (extension The possible extension of the University School of Law to the Portland area was also discussed at the subcommittee meeting Wednesday The group heard tes timony that the State System of Iligncr Kducation is seriously considering buying the North western College of Law in Port land and turning it into a branch of the University School of Law An accredited program of late afternoon and night classes in law studies would be set up there Such a program, if work ed out, would be submitted to the legislature in 1967 Undergraduate Programs Also included in the record $137 4 million higher education operating budget approved Wed nesday was a recommendation that $789,633 be appropriated for the strengthening of seven under graduate programs at PSC. Of th«- amount approved by the subcommittee, $97 2 million will be* taken from the general fund and the rest will come from stu dent fees, federal money, gifts and grants The budget must now be submitted to the full Ways and Means Committee. Basement Now Sports 'That New-Type Look' There are two way# to avoid the bare concrete wails of dorm basement#, either not look at them or paint over them With the blessing# of the dor mitory department students in Hamilton complex consisting of upperclas# dorms, held a 'paint the wall# party" Wednesday night in a cooperative effort to paint both walls of the large recreation rooms and themselves. They both succeeded. The idea for painting the walls began with Haul Fdgecomb dur ing fall term Fdgecomb was concerned over lack of cohesive ness in the dorms "We were fight ing a plague in that dorm — j apathy We needed a project to get people to cooperate,” he said Fdgecomb decided that the students needed a place to func tion together, presumably and either better, or at least improv ed place than the bare has e ments. He began by organizing with UO Russian Club Schedules Party The Russian Club is planning a party featuring a three-piece Ukranian band and slides of the Soviet Union at 8 pm today on the third floor of (Jcrlinger llall Neil Attlig, a University stu dent who has visited the Soviet Union, will show and discuss his slides taken in 1982. The Ukranian band will play traditional Ukranian songs. Rus sian desserts will also be served. The public is invited to the party. The cost is 50 cents per person. Emerald Plans Open House All faculty and students are invited to attend the Emerald's open house celebration today on the third floor of Allen llall from 2-4 p.m. News and advertising staff members will be in attendance to show off their newly remod eled newspaper offices. Coffee and cookies will be served and everyone is wel come. other students in other dorms. After a few setbacks, he ap preached dormitory counselor su pervisor ban Williams and asked for both approval to paint the walls and assistance. Williams cave his approval, plus $50 to pay for paint and supplies. Clutching Williams’ approval, the students then held a contest for a mural design for one of the walls They selected a 27-foot-long University seal designed hy Mike Glover. After the mural was painted, students collectively painted the rest of the basement walls Wed nesday night. No particular de sign was used on the rest of the walls, creating a sense of madness in technicolor Besides the wall paintings. Hedgecomb and the other stu dents also plan to eventually bring in new furniture and pos sibly tile the floor. Stanford Prof Says: People Unconcerned About Drink Problem Bv AI.LEN BAII.KY Assistant New* Editor "People are not interested in alrohol problems in our society.” sai'i Stanford University psychol ogy professor N’evitt Sanford in a lecture at the University at l p m Thursday Sanford, who is currently the director of the Institute for the Study of Human Problem*, seok'1 about “The Keg in the College Culture,” The small audience present testified to the public’s lark of interest in alcohol prob lems. I was betting thal we would not get much of a turnout," he said, but sr>oke of his topic as "enormously controversial" even though few people want to re veal their interest in the prob 1cm. Where alcohol exists in a so defy, methods for its control evolve, according to Sanford. The American society, however, has unusual problems when it comes to control mechanisms, since our drinking customs come from such varied backgrounds. When con trols do break down, drunkenness often results, and it is drunken ness that upsets people, he said. “You don't know what's going to happen when you’re drunk." he said And without the drunk enness, such problems as drunk driving and alcoholism would not have evolved. An "enormous hypocricy" sur rounds attempts to control the consumption of alcohol in Ainer icsn society, Sanford continued. Schools ignore their responsibil ity to teach the students the dan gers in too much drinking at too early an age Parents not teaching their chil dren to drink for the taste of the drinks and their family’s com pany, instead of forcing them to go out with other under-age peo ple and drink under increased so cial pressures, is a major prob lem. “Is it possible to arrive at a conception of what would be a suitable way of drinking?" the psychologist asked He attempted to answer by first saying that drinking is a source of pleasure that is badly neglected. In America, many people when they don’t want to, or they just drink to get along with a group, thereby missing the pleasure and benefit derived from drinking for certain other reasons, he said. There are different patterns of drinking, according to the speak er, and some of these are suit able and worthwhile. "Drinking itself cannot rtally be evaluated morally or social ly,” Sanford stated. "If you re gard alcohol as a food, it must be evaluated differently than if it were used to relieve tension,” he continued. Three types of drinking pat terns exist, according to the Stan ford professor, and they are based on drinking because of (lj the purpose it might accomplish. (2) the comfort it might facilitate or (3) to escape from problems. In the first, or "integrative,” type- of pattern, drinking may be meaningful because it stimulates a closer bond among members of a particular group; even then, drinking would merely celebrate the solidarity of the group, and should not be necessary to it. “Moderation alone is not the key mark for integrative drink ing,” he said, but “the occasion, meaning or context” of the drink ing. “For instance," Sanford chid ed, “if jou at Oregon were to suc ceed tin beating us at Stanford in football, then that would be an occasion for drinking.” The second, or “facilitative” type of drinking may help a per son to get acquainted with others or to break down social barriers, said the speaker. i Cvntimud cn fc<;c 9) ** >1 Sanford Doubts Zone Usefulness LINDA CHENEY Emerald Staff Writer “Dry zones, such as those em ployed within one-half mile of the Oregon campus, do not really sene a useful purpose." This remark was made by Stanford Professor Nevitt San ford in a YMCA-sponsored, Bot tom-of-the-B o w 1 dialogue con cerning "The Keg in the College Culture.” at 4 p.m. Thursday. Sanford said this may dis courage some students from drinking hv making alcohol in convenient or difficult to obtain. Yet if the advantages and dis advantages of the dry zone are weighed, the balance will be in the favor of removing dry zones. Many campuses have shown that legal drinking does not cause additional problems. By abolish ing the dry zone, more oppor tunities for students to drink openly with their professors would arise. Sanford stated. THE DISADVANTAGES of a “Dry Zone” out weigh their advantages, according to psychology and English professor Nevitt Sanford, of Stanford University. Sanford spoke Thursday afternoon at the Bottom-of-the-Bowl Dialogue sponsored by the Y MCA in the 8U. The dialogue concerned “The Keg in College Culture.” Sanford is currently conducting research on the social drinking patterns among college students. Sanford is at right, John Hanson, Assistant Dean of Men, is at left. If legalized places to drink could be established where both faculty and students would be bound to go. there would be definite advantages. After lec tures. both factions would come to one place and exchange ideas on what they have just learned. "This greater interaction be tween professors and students could provide an enormous edu cational opportunity,” Sanford stated. An example cited con cerned faculty cocktail parties, sponsored by certain Eastern fra ternities, almost weekly He said such affairs provide for greater mingling of students and profes sors. Drunk Driving The drinking-driving idea was also brought up If alcohol were served on campus, there would be less need to drive and drink: perhaps lessening the risk of traffic accidents caused by intoxi cation. Sanford went on to say that there was too much of a definite attempt to hush up the connection of intoxication with several accidents. Also jurors tend to sympathize with drunken drivers because they are too often involved in drinking-driving situations. San ford claims. Drinking Limits It was suggested that insti-ad of prohibiting drinking, the indi vidual could put limits on his drinking in accordance with his behavior type. Some introverts become more cautious the more they drink, for fear of making fools of themselves. The extro vert types, who drink and feci a need for action and release, pro vide the greatest danger accord ing to Sanford. It was added that the dry zone removal should take place in a framework to protect the per son who wishes to abstain, where by those who criticize the non drinkers will only be ridiculing themselves.” There should be measures to prevent any pres sures put upon non-drinkers to drink," asserted Sanford. The possibility of giving stu dents a more liberal involvement in deciding governing policies and more regulations was sug gested. The dialogue concluded • on the note that if Universities could provide the leadership for . more liberal standards in drink ing. as opposed to the alcohol manufacturers pleas, perhaps ac tion could eventually be taken.