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Vanguard Banned at PSC ra«c 3 Vol. LXVI daily EME R ALD _UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1966 Loyalty Oath Refused Page 2 No. 50 ASUO Plans Poverty Conference KOHKKT J. LAMPMAN ARTIIt'R PEARL Saul Alinsky, Arthur Pearl, 2 Others to Discuss Problems An ASUO-sponsored poverty conference will bring four top experts together January 27 and 28 to discuss approaches and solutions to the nation’s poverty problems. Heading the list of experts is Saul Alinsky, nationally known organizer of community proj ects. The others are British economist Robert Theo bald; Robert J. Lampman, a member of Presi dent Kennedy's Council of Economic Advisors; and Arthur Pearl, University professor of edu cation and an authority on poverty education. The conference will be held in the Student Union Ballroom with speeches by all four experts, each followed by audience questions and dis cussion The concluding session Friday afternoon will be a debate among the four speakers on possible solutions to poverty. GOLDSCHMIDTS IDEA The conference was the idea of ASUO Presi dent Steve Goldschmidt. He says. "At a time when the government is proposing to spend bil lions of dollars on one of America’s greatest problems—poverty—it is critical that those who are working with this problem now, those who will be working in this field, in the future, and laymen in general receive extensive exposure to the reasons why the problem exists and the diff erent solutions involved.” To create such exposeure Goldschmidt con ceived the idea of the poverty conference. He'll have not only those four experts involved but also University students and faculty who have been involved in this school’s numerous programs in this area — VISTA, toward- -Bound, the Job Corps, CAUSE, and the ASUO-sponsored Migrant Labor Project, and laymen from all over the Northwest. VISTA will also bring a number of poor people from various parts of Oregon as their guests to the conference. Those four experts represent four different views of solutions to the poverty problem. (Thus the conference's title: “Four Approaches. Four Solutions.”) ALINSKY BEST-KNOWN Alinsky, perhaps the best known of the four, represents the community action answer to the poverty question. Harper’s magazine said recently that "Inciting municipal jitters is . . . Alinsky’s trade.” A Kan sas City newspaper called him a "battler for the poor whose ideas have set thousands marching and resulted in . . . screams of rage, moans, and groans. He provokes violent reactions—apparently it is impossible to be neutral in appraising him.” With citizen’s groups composed of such diverse elements as Catholic priests, leftist labor leaders and business men—catalyzed by mass anger di rected against those who create poverty—he has worked great changes in many cities with pickets, boycotts and demonstrations. Appropriately, he’ll discuss "Action for Equal ity” at the University's conference. ECONOMIC APPROACH Lampman represents the economic approach to poverty. "An Economist Looks at Poverty” is his conference topic. He’s a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin, was a research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research. Theobald’s recent work has emphasized cyber netics as an approach to the economics of both (Continued on page S) SAUL ALINSKY ROBERT THEOBALD Winter Term's Bob Hope Show Cancelled Here The* Bob Hope show will not appear at the* University this year, it was announcc-d recently by Student Union program di rector Adell McMillan. Hope was scheduled to appear at the University on March 5, but the cost of having him appear here was "just too expensive,” ac cording to Miss McMillan. "We could not make a con tractual arrangement agreeable to us, Oregon State, and Bob Hope’s agent,” she explained. There will definitely be a re placement for Hope's show, how ever, which will perform on March 5. It will be a well-known group of performers and its name will be released as soon as the contract has been signed and re turned to the SU, probably next week. Glenn Yarbrough is scheduled to appear April 8. His contract has been signed, so his appear ance is certain. Also, negotiations are being conducted now with several other groups for appearances at the University during this year, among which are the Beach Boys and the Ramsey Lewis Trio. Language Classes Offered at YMCA Registration for the Swahili and Hindi language courses will continue through this office in 318 SU. Swahili will be taught at 7 p.m. on Tuesday nights and Hindi will be taught at 7 p.m. Thursdays. The registration fee will be $5. Tom McCall to Make GOP Gubernatorial Bid Secretary of State Tom Mc Call announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for ; governor of Oregon Wednesday at four press conferences in cities around the state. The tall, greying McCall trav elled to each of the four Congres sional districts in the state in a five-hour period, winding up his tour in Eugene. He said he ex pected “as many as 10’’ candi dates for governor from each of the two major parties in the state. McCall announced his candi dacy “with humility and grati tude.” He continued: “I am hum ble because I revere Oregon’s highest elective office and I am awed by its immense responsi bilities.” He said, “There is only one real reason to seek the governor- J ship of Oregon—or for that mat- | ter any public office—and that is to improve the vantage point from which to come to grips with j the issues.” Main Issues In the question and answer period following his announce ment, McCall said that “crime, juvenile delinquency, scholar ships, and air and water pollu tion” are the issues with which he is most concerned. He pointed to his record as Secretary of State during the past year, noting what progress his office has made in these areas. He also intimated that he was running for the governorship be cause the present Governor of Oregon, Mark 0. Hatfield, will probably run for the U.S. Senate next November. Hatfield cannot seek re-election as governor, and many observers have said that he will seek the Senate seat that Maurine Neuberger will vacate at the end of this year. She has announced that she will not seek re-election. McCall said that he thought "serious consideration" ought to be given to calling a special session of the State Legislature to try to ease the financial bur dens of the State System of High- , er Education. “I don't think we should use the special session as a last-ditch effort; we ought to use it when the facts show we need it,” he told the Emerald. “Related to Taxes” He said that higher education’s share of state money in the next biennium “will be closely related to the tax funds available,” but did not say what how much he TOM LAWSON McCALL thought the State System should receive. “We shouldn’t take the great outflow of students in the state as something bad,” he continued, “we should be proud of them.” McCall, when asked about the possibility of another four-year institution of higher education being developed in the state, said: “We should look at the possi bility with a great deal of seri ousness; we have to see how large we want to get. We need a survey of the present situation and a forecast of the future needs.” James Pearson. 34-year old Eu gene attorney, will serve as cam paign director in Lane County for McCall’s campaign. No other candidates have offi cially announced their candidacy for governor yet: however. State Representative F. F. "Monte” Montgomery (R-Eugene) is ex pected to do so. Seattle Campus Dates Aptheker SEATTLE (AP) — Herbert Aptheker. American Communist party theoretician now in North Viet Nam, has been invited to speak on the University of Washington campus Jan. 12. The invitation was extended by Students for Democratic Soci ety, a campus political action group. Aptheker. who is sched uled to return to this country Sunday, has not accepted as yet. Bettina Aptheker, his daughter, was a leader in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. Miss Aptheker, who has since admitted to Communist party membership, spoke on the Universiey of Ore gon campus last year. Dorm Residents VoiceObjections To 'Snoball' Tax For the second year in a row, some freshmen dormitory resi dents are objecting to being "ar bitrarily taxed’’ to support the Frosh Snoball. The Snoball. an annual dance that is ODen only to freshmen, has always been sponsored by the freshman dormitories — although it is supposedly an all class func tion And also for the second year in a row, the Freshman Dormitory Class Council, a group that is not recognized by the University Stu dent Activities Committee, is re sponsible for levying the tax. Last year, two dormitories ob jected to being taxed for the dance and wrote a letter to the Emerald appealing to the ASUO Senate to take action to protect the dormitory residents against the unauthorized taxation. How ever, the letter submitted by res idents of Hawthorne and Dyment Halls, was written after the Sno ball had taken place and after the debts had been incurred. The ASUO Senate failed to take any action and the dissenting dormi tory residents apparently had to pay the 55 cents per person as sessment from their social funds. This year. Hal Kingslien, presi dent of Decou Hall, has raised the issue before the dance has taken place. However, he told fContinucd on page 3) I Index | Editorials .page 6 § 1 Classified ...... page 7 | j Campus Briefs ..... page 5 | 1 Sports .page 4 |
