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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1965)
obegon daily Emerald The Oregon Doily Emerald is published five times in September and five days a week during the academic year, except during examination periods, by the Student Publications Board of the University of Oregon. Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of the Emerald and do not represent the opinions of the ASUO or the University. CHARLES BEGGS Editor LOUIE ABRAMSON Advertising Manager KENNETH M. FOBES Business Manager DAVE JORDAN News Editor BOB CARL Managing Editor PHIL SEMAS, ALLEN BAILEY Associate Editors Page 6 University of Oregon, Eugene, Friday, May 21, 1965 Where Competition Is Bad Inter-agency Squabbling Could Impair Federal Aid to Education Programs Education has come to be big business in Washington. If the administration’s new programs make it through this session of Congress unscathed, as they seem likely to. the total of Federal aid to education v ill jump to S8.6 billion for the coming fiscal year. This is nearly a 37 per cent in crease over last year's appropriations. Many persons are not entirely happy v ith this. They see it as meaning mounting -federal control of education. But the fact is that state and local governments are no tanger able to pick up the whole bill of s:hool costs. Enrollments are rising sharply at all levels—in the colleges and univer sities as well as in elementary and secon dary schools. This is particularly true in the institutions of higher learning, where Federal aid is necessary to support needed expansion, both on the physical level and i:.i the growing field of research. But the danger of a giant Federal mono lith assuming control of our educational system is yet a remote fear. Jonathan Spi vak. writing on “Education’s Muddled Bu reaucracy” in a recent issue of The Re porter. points out a more current problem. The people on Capitol Hill are not so v orried about having too much power, he Says, but are concerned with knowing exactly who has the power. As too often t appens in any governmental structure, administration of legislated programs ends up scattered among a dozen different agen cies. Thus, instead of co - ordinating to gether toward a single goal, authority is divided, and duplication and waste some times result. This is the case with Federal education p rogramming. The largest single share of Federal money, about $1.5 billion next year, is administered by the Office of Edu cation, a unit of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. But a dozen or so o'lher agencies also make big contributions. And they are often in conflict with each other's policies. For example, both the National Aero nautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation give fellow ships for graduate study in the sciences. NASA provides grants of $2,400 a year for the student, while it gives the university a negotiated matching fund which averages $2,700 a year per student. The NSF stu dent grants increase gradually from $2,400 to $2,800 a year per student for a three vear period. But the school’s allowance in this case has a ceiling of $2,500 per year. This kind of conflict and inter-agency disagreement on policy makes for a kind of undesirable competition. And NSF’s growing support of the humanities, as well as the sciences, could lead to a situation in which two or more agencies are com peting for the same graduate students. All the while, each body is trying to get itself the fattest possible appropriation. This kind of bickering within the sepa rate bodies will only get worse if the government does not delineate authority more specifically. Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn) has recommended that a Depart ment of Education be created. But chances are that opposition from the affected groups will block this effort. The most reasonable solution is already being implemented. Last year Francis Kep pel, commission of the Office of Education, created an Interagency Committee on Edu cation. This seems the most optomistic plan toward developing more co-ordination of Federal education efforts. Keppel. a former dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Edu cation, has done much to clear out the deadwood that bogged down the efforts of his predecessors. It is only hoped that his new committee will not also suffer from the same internal squabbling that made its creation necessary. Letters to the Editor iiumiimifiiiMHiiiiminiiniiiiiii Millrace a Shock Editor's Note: The following letter was sent to University President Arthur S. Flemming and a copy to the Emerald. Dear Dr. Flemming: Last Friday night I had the pleasure of witnessing my first Canoe Fete since graduating from your Ivy Halls. While it was a most enjoyable experience and the floats were very good, in general, and show ed considerable artistic ability and ingenuity, I was shocked! Oregon Daily Emerald Connie Halverson, Assistant Advertising Manager Joe Hoffmann, Sports Editor Vivian Wilson, Assistant Managing Editor Joe Frazier, Assistant News Editor Steve Brown, Maxine Elliott, Ralph Krumdieck, Associate News Editors Dave Butler, Feature Editor Steve Dimeo, Entertainment Editor Mary Ann Wakasugi, Religious Editor Walt Biddle, Photo Editor Editorial Board: Charles Beggs, Bob Carl, Dave Jordan, Phil Semas, Allen Bailey, Pam Bladine, Mike Gannon, Pat Holt, Karen Winn. Realizing that you are rela tively new on your job and not to blame personally, I still have to write to you as the president of the University. What has the University and/ or the city done to the Millrace? What I remember so well as an idyllic pastoral stream, with grassy banks and weeping wil low trees overhanging the wa ters, has become, at least in ap pearance, an irrigation ditch or a sewage canal, with raw mud banks, no trees, and to cap it off, a monster of a heating plant, efficient, no doubt, but furnish ing just about the crummiest, brutal, backdrop for a carefree, happy, undergraduate activity like a Canoe Fete that anyone could possibly imagine. The only show that could seem in har mony with that natural stage setting would be “The Nurem berg Trial.” The engineer that designed the heating plant ob viously gave its setting no con sideration at all. Can’t you do something dras tic to: a. Landscape the banks of the millrace, get it looking like something that will be an asset to the University and to Eugene? b. Remodel the west elevation of the heating plant to provide a paramount, attractive back ground for future canoe fetes and water spectacles? It seems ironic that, directly west of this horrible heating plant, is the School of Archi tecture, whose faculty appar ently sat idly by as their best view was loused up by alleged progress. Why not a competi tion among the upper division students, a “sketch problem” on what to do with the West ele vation of the heating plant? Then let’s do it!! Stuart B. Mockford Architect, A.I.A. * * * Reply to Allegation Emerald Editor: Concerning his recent alle gation that Americans are the most ethnocentric and least self perceptive of the world’s people, Prof. Barclay should put his research where his mouth is. John Nylander Graduate Assistant, Education Camerons Comment'1 Our Contemponirit*» Beer Minus Alcohol Sold at Louisiana State By LINDA CHENEY Exchange Editor At Louisiana State Univer sity legislation is being enacted to legalize campus drinking. But there is one drawback to this golden opportunity pre sented by the Union Food Sen - ice, one vital ingredient is miss ing from the cold, foamy beer— alcohol An editorial in the campus newspaper said, “But since most suave college men and their campus Janes drink for the in vigorating taste of the beverage, the lack of alcohol (which has been removed from the product by a “vacuum heat" process) will detract negligibly from the consumption of the beer.” At UCLA a committee has pro posed a seven per cent scrip dis count to be initiated on all books in the SU Bookstore. It is felt that a strong discount program would be of more last ing benefit than other items that could be invested in. Speaking of books, an article in the University of Washing ton Daily cited a recent incident in book censorship. It seems that the book, ‘‘Fanny Hill” was recently resurrected from a le gal closet at the University Book Store, while on the same day, it was buried under the counter at a bookstore across the street. The University bookstore tem porarily removed Fanny, due to a misunderstanding about some N.Y. court rulings. The book was restocked when research in dicated there was no legal rea son not to sell the book. Across the street Fanny was on the new arrivals table. Yet, when a Daily reporter in quired if the store had been pressured to remove the book and mentioned that the U Book store had closeted Fanny, tjie store executive began to worry. In fact they had to be remind ed that there were copies of the book in the store. Originally, when the reporter walked in as a potential custom er, the executive knew exactly where it was. Twenty minutes later the book was removed from the table. The hook shop next door, when questioned, saw no rea son not to sell Fanny. The Daily final comment, "AH the while, the hook Candy lay innocently on shelves of all three stores," Using pep pills for one or two days around exam week does not seriously impair health or performance, according to a Food and Drug Administration expert On the other hand, the use of sedatives to augment t h e pleasure producing effects of alcohol, as could occur at certain social gatherings, can lead to car accidents or sexual assaults. Stimulants include the ampheta mine drugs, also known as ben nies, hearts, footballs, and pi lots. They are prescribed chiefly to cut appetite and relieve de pression. Generally a normal dose produces wakefulness, alertness, elevation of mood and increased motor activity. Sedatives include the barbit urates and are also referred to as red birds, goof balls and blue havens. These are prescribed to induce sleep or a calming ef fect. Taking these the night before an exam would not be wise, be cause there is impairment of psychomotor performance sev eral hours after awakening. Col lege students are discouraged from taking doses of sedative or stimulant drugs for longer than 2 3 day periods. At the University of Califor nia, Santa Barbara, the surfing cluh is forming a patrol to help police the beach and combat campus beach vandalism, which is getting out of hand, due to mobs of high school students. * * * Michigan State University has been considering a propo sal to allow students 20 minutes in between classes, instead of 10. Morning classes would be from 8-12:20 and afternoon classes would be from I 5:20, This ac tion would be taken to eliminate difficulties in getting across the campus rapidly.
