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
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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
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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.
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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.