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Queen Candidates Pages 2, 3 OREGON DAILY EMERALD On Other Campuses Page 6 Vol. LXVII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1965 No. 14 AHMED SHEIK Indicated the areas of Indian Pakistani disputes at the Y Dialogue Tuesday. Sheik is a graduate student in political science at the Universiey and is from Pakistan. Pakistani Sees Kashmir Solution By CAROL LOWERY Staff Writer "There has to be a solution, and let’s talk about it today,” said Ahmed Sheik, concluding hia formal argument at Tuesday's YMCA Dialogue over the India Pakistan dispute Sheik, a Pakistani graduate student in political science, and Pro fessor Earnest Lund, back from a year's sabbatical leave in India,' discussed Pakistan's position in this dialogue series which concludes * next week with a presentation by an Indian student and a professor Referring to the outcome of the current cease-fire, Sheik felt that: it would be an important decision which would affect the world, the! future relations of India and Pakistan, as well as the lives of 4,000,000 Kashmir people. He described the divided area as about the size of Utah with 80 85 per cent of the people Moslem Freed by C.reat Britain Kashmir was freed by Great Britain in 1947 when the country became divided by religious differences. Its leader elected to acceed | to India. When India took this as a legal basis to send in troops to I squelch trouble, Pakistan sent in guerrillas to defend the "tribal territory,” thus dividing the country. Pakistan claimed that the tribal areas were semi autonomous and that India could have no jurisdiction over them The United Nations moved in to stop the fighting, settled on the current cease-fire line, and proposed a plebiscite which has been i delayed by India. Since 1947 the U.N. has issued 12 proposals about the situation, all accepted by Pakistan and rejected by India, Sheik said. He outlined India’s attitude in three points: (1) Might is right, | (2) Kashmir has “decided” to remain in India since its citizens have; voted in the past two general elections, (3) If Kashmir gets a plebis-j cite, other Indian provinces will demand it for themselves. Sheik claims that Kashmir is no ordinary province in India’s secular democracy. He said that Kashmir wants (l)a plebiscite now, (2) a U.N. trusteeship until the plebiscite is possible. Self-Preservation Basic Saying that self-preservation is a basic right undeniable to any people, Sheik asked, “Why can’t the United States understand the importance of a Kashmir plebiscite when they spend $2 million a day to help preserve South Viet Nam’s ’self-determination’?” According to him, India has no legal ground to stand on. “Does the passage of time give legitimacy to a situation: Let’s not appease India anymore, for it will only increase its appetite.” He doesn’t want Pakistan to take sides against India. “Why spend money on weapons when they can’t provide two meals a day in either nation?” Sheik asked. Lund outlined the history of the dispute, explaining Pakistan’s desire for a "union of peoples of its own kind,” though he can’t see much economic advantage to their acquisition of Kashmir. He thought it interesting to contrast the Kashmir situation with that of Junagad, an Indian province. At one time it had been a Pakistan-owned area surrounded by Indian territory. Pakistan was against the plebiscite in which the people voted a return of Indian control. Here as in Kashmir, the issues were ethnology (Junagad was predominantly Hindu), and geography. Independent Nation Lund, speaking "strictly as a geologist,” thinks that Kashmir “should be an independent nation under U.N. surveillance, and accessible to both Pakistan and India.” The question period provoked some heated discussion over Paki stan’s position. When asked if Pakistan was compromising its democratic princi ples by saying the ywill side with Red China, Sheik replied, “Not at all. The U.S. sided with Russia in World War II—was this com promise? When we are backed into a corner, what do you expect?” When asked about treaty agreements, Sheik accused the U.S. of violating their military alliance with Pakistan by not helping when India invaded the border areas. “It seems to me, if India invaded all of Pakistan, the United States still would not help.” Almost Defeated at OSU Merit Pay for Faculty Faced with Difficulties By CHUCK BEGGS Editor PORTLAND (Special)—The 1965 Oregon Legis lature’s "merit awards” program to reward col lege faculty for excellence in undergraduate teaching is running into some knotty problems. The academic affairs committee of the State Hoard of Higher Education spent nearly half its four-hour meeting here Tuesday haggling over how to spend the $250,000 allotted this year to reward the outstanding teachers. A total of $500,000 was set aside out of the 196S67 higher education faculty salary adjust ment fund for the merit pay—with half the funds to be used each year in the biennium. The plan was sponsored by Rep. John Mosser (R-Beaver ton) to encourage and reward good undergradu ate teaching in the state colleges. Under Mosser’s plan, faculty members have to teach a total of six hours of undergraduate courses during each of two terms during the current academic year to be eligible for an award. Students to Have Voice He also provided that students must have a voice in either the nomination or the selection of those who receive the awards; students may participate in both processes. But this provision has caused some rough going for the plan among the faculty at the state institutions. James Jensen, president of Oregon State Uni versity, said Tuesday that OSU nearly rejected the whole idea at a recent faculty meeting be cause of opposition to the judging criteria. He said that OSU’s plan for distribution of the awards passed the faculty senate by only four voles, and that it probably would have failed ex cept for fears among some faculty that this might be taken to mean an endorsement against undergraduate teaching. Faculty Vote in November The University has not yet presented its plan to the committee. President Arthur S. Flemming said that the question cannot come to a general faculty vote until November because of a faculty policy here that requires notice of an agenda item at the meeting prior to the one in which the item will be considered. The University gen eral faculty meets once a month. Flemming said that a special three-member subcommittee of the Faculty Advisory Council is now considering the proposals for a plan, and that the conclusions woll go to the Faculty Sen ate later this month. The subcommittee members are Bernard Crase mann, professor of physics, Donald Truax, and Roland Bartel. Students Ready with Plan ASUO President Steve Goldschmidt has been working with a five-member student committee to draw up the student plan. Goldschmidt told the Emerald Tuesday that the committee is ready to present its plan to the advisory council. Members of the student committee include Goldschmidt, Linda Stur, Cliff Kaufman, Ken Mackintosh, and John McArthy. The University’s share of the funds for this year will be S72,000—enough for 72 awards the size of the $1,000 Ersted awards. The allotments are based on the student full time equivalent (FTE) at each institution. This figure is arrived at by dividing the total course hours of all students by 15, an average course load per term. OSU Given More OSU will get more—$78,000—because they have fewer students taking under 15 hours than does the University, although the former’s total head count enrollment is smaller. Besides the University, Oregon Technical Insti tute is the only other school which did not sub mit a plan Tuesday. Each institution is left to work out its own plan, within the guidelines speci fied by the Legislature. Thus, each plan differs from the others. Spokesmen from other schools expressed some opposition to the awards among their faculties, besides at OSU. Branford Millar, president of Portland State College, said that one PSC fac ulty member had written him asking that bis name be withdrawn from the eligible list. Jen sen said that he expected some of the same re action eventually at OSU. Two schools, PSC and Southern Oregon Col lege, are using a checklist of items by which stu dents will grade their teachers’ performances. Other institutions are calling for students nom inations of faculty for the awards, with written (Continued on page 3) Candidate Filing Deadline Today Today is the last day to file for ASUO offices. The deadline is 5 p.m. There will be a meeting at 7 p.m. for all candidates and their campaign managers in the SU. Room numbers will be posted. Petitions may be picked up outside room 301 SU and should be turned into the ASUO vice president’s office, room 306 SU. Those signing up so far: Senator-at-large — Darryl Eng, Chuck Pruitt, Mary Ann Holla day, Chris Lassen, Frank Mc Cullar, Sharon Brunsman, Rich ard A. Malone, Lee Bollinger, Ron Jackson, Skip Clemens, Chuck Stout. Foreign student representative —lima Marie Lynton. Freshman class president — J. Bruce Moody, Tom Westbrook, Paul W. Grant. Freshman class vice-president —Roger B. Rutan, Christopher Durham. Freshman Senate representa tive—Gunnar Lundeburg, Howard Emerald Staff Meeting There will be a mandatory meeting for all Emerald staff members today at 7 p. m. in the Emerald Office, 301 Al len Hall. Harrison, Ralph Bradley, Austin Buffum, Margaret Coates. Freshman women’s dormitory representative — Barbara Ann Jones. Freshmen men’s dormitory mitory representative — Maurice Denner. Graduate student representa tive—Rhody J. Rodolico, Rod Roth. Off campus women’s represen tative—Joan Young. No one has petitioned for mar ried student representative. Queen Selection Enters Last Phase University students will vote today to determine the 1965 Homecoming court and queen Announcement of the queen will take place Oct. 29. Five women will be selected from a field of ten for the court. The ten are: Judi Johnson, Linda Jackson, Julie Levin, Gretchen Young, Mary Lou Sievers, Mavis Kliewer, Bobbi Baker, Roberta Wagner, Midge Carter, and Jan Story. Polls will be open from 8 a m. until 5 p.m. Booths will be at the Student Union, Commonwealth, Carson, the library, Susan Camp bell and Hawthorne. Browsing Room Schedules Stern Anthropology professor Theo dore Stern will speak on “The Karen of the Burma-Thailand Bor der” at the Browsing Room to night. Time for the lecture is 7:30 pm. Stern has done considerable research on the Burmese and Thai people in the last ten years as well as on the American In dian in several areas. National Science-Foundation grants have allowed him to carry on much of this research. He has been at the University for 17 years. He did his under graduate work at Bowdoin and received advanced degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. John Gange, director of the In stitute of International Studies and Overseas Administration and political science professor, will lead the discussion following the lecture. Stern will answer ques tions from the audience at this time. The public is invited to the lec ture. No admission will be* charged. Index Editorials .page 6 | | Campus Briefs.page 2 i | Sports .page 4 | | Classified Ads .page 7 1 ^iiiitiiHiiiiHiiiiiiiiHiriiniiimiimiiwiininmiiiiDiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuniiiiiiiiiiiiiiuuiiBuS
