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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 19«5
NEXT ISSUE
MONDAY
No. 1
Vol. EXVII
Eugene Welcomes You to the Campus
(See story page 13)
$5 Parking Fee Dropped;
More Campus Lots Opened
.'Muaenui will no longer have
to pay a yearly fee to park their
car* in University lots.
The $5 student parking fee has
been dropped this year but there
is a catch—most student parking
is now located at the outer edges
of campus.
Faculty and staff members
will continue to have free parking
in their designated spaces.
Several new lots have been
opened to help alleviate t h e
shortage of parking spaces on
the campus. The largest lot is
located in the area bounded by
Columbia and Moss streets and
15th and 17th avenues.
The new lots will increase the
total of off-street parking spaces
to 2,317. compared with 1,737
last year.
Of the 580 spaces added this
year, 94 are for student parking.
Even with the increase, though,
parking will be hard to find.
Last year over 7,000 cars were
registered at the University, with
3,500 having stickers to use the
faculty and student lots.
Students must live more than
one half mile from the campus
to qualify for a “P" sticker, good
Emerald Staff
Positions Open
Anyone interested in work
in* for the Emerald during the
coming school year should at
tend the first staff orientation
meeting on Sunday at 2:30 pan.
in the Emerald office, room 301
Allen Hall.
All old and new staff mem
bers are asked to attend the
short meeting.
Emerald staff members will
be In the newspaper office or
in the journalism registration j
room if anyone desires any
more information about the pa
per. The office will be open
front noon to 5 p.m. for the
rest of this week.
Staff positions are open to
all students.
for parking in student lots.
The University is considering
building a multi-level parking
structure on the campus, but the
money for the project won’t be
available at least until 1967.
The University had a $1 mil
; lion, 536-car structure on the
State System of Higher Educa
tion’s priority list during the
1965 session of the Oregon Legis
lature, but the project was
moved to 59th position before
the session was over.
Only 25 building projects were
approved for this biennium, so
the parking facility got left be
hind.
University President Arthur
Flemming indicated last week
that he hoped such a structure
could be built during the next
biennium. He said it would be fi
nanced on a pay-as-you-go basis,
with everyone who used the facil
ity paying a fixed rate.
Flemming added that at some
colleges faculty and students pay
up to $30 or $40 a year to park
on campus.
Frosh Crowding
Upperclassmen
Out of Dorms
If Oregon’s state-operated col-i
leges and universities are build
ing too many dormitories, as was
charged by one legislator last
week in Salem, the University
would like to have a few of the
extra ones.
H. P Barnhart, University
housing director, said last Thurs
day that the dormitories were
"clear full,” and that upperclass
men were being turned away from
dorm rooms.
The University has 3,143 dor
mitory spaces, most of them for
freshmen. Barnhart said that all
freshmen would be housed in
dormitory spaces that requested
them, but that between 200 and
300 upperclass students have
been denied spaces.
The University requires that all
single freshmen under 21 live
either in dormitories, co-opera
tive houses or at home.
Upperclass dormitory applica
tions have been placed on a wait
ing last since Aug. 1, and all but
50 of these have had their $50
deposits refunded and have been
advised to search for off-campus
housing.
About one-fourth of the stu
dent body at the University lives
in dormitories each year.
The overbuilding charge came
from Rep. Stafford Hanseil, R
Hermiston, who was meeting with
the Legislature's Interim Com
mittee on Education last Wed
, nesday.
Wants Investigation
Hanseil said he feels that the
State System of Higher Education
may be building dormitories “be
cause money is available, not be
cause of need,” and urged a com
mittee investigation of housing.
Hanseil said that he visited
Eastern Oregon College, La
Grande, last year and found that
a dormitory there was only half
full.
Jack Hunderup, director of
facilities planning for the state
system, said the EOC unit was
not filled because of recent con-1
struction of two community col-1
leges in the area.
He said that all dormitories on;
the state's other campuses are
expected to be full this fall.
former ASUO President Elected
'NSA Can Benefit Students'
By PHIL SEMAS
Associate Editor
Ever since the ASUO became
a member of the National Stu
dent Association, critics of the
nation wide college organization
have consistently asked one burn
ing question:
"What good does NSA do us?
What docs it accomplish at the
University of Oregon?”
It costs the University about
$1,500 a year to send delegates to
NSA’s national congress, they say.
and so far little has come from
that investment
The answer to that question and
that argument comes fromthe
University’s' delegates to the
NSA congress this summer.
Says Student Union Board
Chairman Dick Lawrence, who
was at the two-week Congress
for only two days but who says
he was "impressed and surprised”
at what he saw:
Approved Plan
“The real value of the whole
thing is going back to the Con
gress and meeting the people.
What will this do? It will create
knowledgeable people to start
good programs here on our own
campus."
Delegate Juli Johnson acknowl
edges that NS A hasn’t accom
plished much at the University
but she sees the reason as a flaw
in past delegates’ approach to
the organization.
“You should go back there
with some idea of programs you
want to accomplish. There are a
lot of ideas tossed around back
there and unless you have some
idea you want to accomplish you
will be swamped.”
Neither, agree Lawrence and
Miss Johnson, can NSA attempt to
operate separately without work
ing through established .groups
like the ASUO and the Student
Union Board.
“You have to contact the right
people to accomplish your pro
grams,” says Miss Johnson. “You
can’t work alone.”
“There are two ways to ap
proach NSA,” adds Lawrence,
“either it operates as a third
force or works with the SU Board
and the ASUO. If it attempts to
complement these two, then it
can accomplish something.”
What specifically are the possi
bilities for this campus?
Miss Johnson went back with
a couple of specifics in mind to
keep herself from “getting
swamped, came Dack witn possi
bilities:
• A Tutorial program that will
enable students to get help in
classes they find tough “without
having to pay a $2.50 fee.” She
says she contacted delegates
from other schools who have tu
torials, will attempt to apply
those ideas to the University.
“For example,” she explains,
“should you have a study hall sit
uation with a person in the room
who can help if you run into a
bind, should you have a one-to
one situation,” or another alterna
tive?
• A mental health symposium
similar to last year’s symposium
on the population explosion.
“There weren’t any resource peo
ple back there on that so I’ll have
to check with some now,” she
says.
• A general information serv
ice for almost all campus stu
dent groups. “I picked up infor
mation for a lot of different peo
ple that NSA could never use
here, but that others might be
able to benefit from—just heaps
and heaps of good information,”
she says.
She hopes to put this material
in the resource section of the li
Drary. utnerwise it win De Kept
in the NSA office on the third
floor of the Student Union.
Lynn Mauser, the other dele
gate with Miss Johnson, plans to
concentrate in the civil rights
area, may try to bring speakers
on the subject here, set up sym
posiums, etc.
Co-ordination Conference
Miss Johnson said the main pro
gramming benefits come from the
NSA Co-ordinator’s Conference
which was held before the Con
gress began. "What was where
you really find out what kinds of
programs are available,” she
says, “Once the Congress starts,
your business is mainly legisla
tive.”
Lawrence went back to the
Congress skeptical of what he’d
find, came back “very surprised.
There were no demonstrations.
The delegates had a job to do
and they were very businesslike
about getting it done.”
"It’s really a Congress,” ex
plains Miss Johnson. “You work
through committees and your
main job once the full session is
started is tompass legislation.”
Among that legislation that
was passed:
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Barnhart also said that married
housing demand is exceeding
supply, and that only graduate
applications are being accepted.
A spokesman in the off-campus
housing office said that "not very
many” approved ofT-campus quar
ters remain on the office’s list.
In order for rentals to be list
ed as approved by the University,
the owners must sign non-dis
crimination pledges and submit
to an inspection of health and
safety standards.
The spokesman also said that
evidence of off-campus rent in
creases of as high as 30 per cent
over last year had come to the
office’s attention.
No new dormitories have been
authorized for the University dur
ing the current 1965-67 biennium.
The University has one dormi
tory on the current priority list
of state system construction, a
$600,000 unit to accommodate 162
students. The project wasn’t ap
proved by the 1965 Legislature,
though, and the only way it
could be built before 1967 would
be to have it approved by the
State Emergency Board.
New Student
Week Starts
What will probably be the larg
j est student body in University
I history begins orientation and
registration activities this week.
University officials predict an
enrollment of 11,300, including
about 3,800 new students.
The University listed these
orientation and registration week
activities:
President Arthur S. Flemming’s
convocation will be Wednesday
at 7:30 p.m. in McArthur Court,
followed by the president’s recep
tion in the Student Union at 9
p.m.
Registration material is avail
able for all students in the base
ment of the Student Union, start
ing at 10 a.m. today. Students
begin to meet with faculty ad
visors at 10 a.m. today. Course
enrollment and registration starts
Thursday. Physical fitness tests
for new students will go on
through the week.
At 8 p.m. today each profes
sional school and liberal arts de
partment will hold orientation
meetings. An orientation assem
bly for Honors College students
and another for foreign students
will be held at 8a.m. today.
The traditional Hello dance is
scheduled for Saturday from 9
p.m. to midnight in the SU.
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Inside Todayj
SECTION ONE
Stanford fraternity in
trouble. 2 |
Sports _ 5 |
Conduct code_ T j
New-dean_ * 1
Theatre opens.._ 9 i
Religious events . 10 i
Student government. 12 |
Editorials . 14 j
SECTION TWO
Berkeley’s future . 2 |
State Board of Higher
Education . 3 |
Co-op store. 4 |
University President
Flemming . 5 |
Greek houses. 10 I
Infirmary. 13 1
City of Eugene. 14 |
Faculty sabbaticals. 15 a
Student Union... 16 |
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