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Eliminate Grades? Page 3 OREGON DAILY EMERALD Vo I. LXVI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1966 - No. 51 On Top of the World Student* head for (he mountains winter term, to escape the routine of classroom life. Stadium Fund Campaign Reaches Halfway Mark After only six weeks of cam paigning, more than half of the $1 million in private contributions needed to finance the new football stadium has been raised. Lynn McCready, chairman of the campaign, said that he ex pects the rest of the contributions to come in during the next month The private contributions will be combined with $800,000 from athletic department reserves and $425,000 from “special gifts and loans" to be raised by the Uni versity to finance the $2.25 mil lion stadium. Can Raise the Rest A University spokesman told the Emerald in November that President Flemming has not in dicated where the $425,000 will come from but "he feels that with $1 million in hand, he will be able to raise the other $425,000." ' The target date for the open-! ing of the new stadium is the j 1907 football season. The stadium will seat 40,000 to 46,000 and would replace the present Hay ward Stadium which seats 21,500. The stadium will be built on an 89-acre site owned by the Uni versity in the North Bank Park area, adjacent to land owned by Lane County and the City of Eugene. Covered 30 Counties McCready, a retired Eugene banker, has conducted the work in 30 counties in Oregon and Washington in order to raise the necessary funds. The money is given to the St. Johns Teachers May Be Dismissed NEW YORK (UPI)—Twenty • five faculty members of St. John’s University, striking in sympathy with 31 fired colleagues, Thurs day faced possible dismissal if they fail to attend their next scheduled classes. The university sent telegrams to the 25 absent teachers saying that it would “deal promptly and appropriately with any further violations” of contractural com mitments. University Development Fund's Board, which put it into a special fund earmarked for the stadium. Flemming has been working on the stadium plan for more than two years, hoping to build a new stadium so that football games could be played in Eugene in stead of Portland. He said that he felt Portland games take the students away too often from the educational op portunities offered by the Uni versity. Get All the Games In 1967, the proposed comple tion date for the new stadium, three games are scheduled for Portland and only two for Eu gene. If the stadium is completed in time, all of the games will be moved to Eugene. Skidmore, Owens and Merrill, a Portland architecture firm, has been working on the preliminary drawings for the stadium during the last two months. They will show several alternatives includ ing the addition of a running track at the stadium site as was recommended by the Campus Planning Commission in October As yet, no decision has been made concerning the track. Flemming has said that he con siders the new stadium a “must" if the University is to achieve its objective of maintaining inter collegiate athletics at a level where it can compete successfully with other universities in the American Association of West ern Universities.” Milton Rice, senior vice presi dent of U.S. National Bank, was in charge of the Portland area campaign and Eugene radio op erator Carl Fisher directed the state-wide campaign. ... - —«—l Index Editorials . page 6 Classified ..page 7 l Campus Briefs .page 5 I Sports .page 4 Computer Center Parking Revised Revisions in the automobile access and parking plans for the planned computer center were reviewed by the University Plan ning Committee in its meeting Thursday; it was the only busi ness on the agenda. Revisions were made by the center’s architect, James Long wood. The computer center, which will be built during the 1966-67 school year in the area between Kin caid St. and Commonwealth Hall, was to have had a parking lot which took most of the present lawn area on the northeast cor ner of the intersection of 13th Ave. and Kincaid. As plans are now, there will be no parking lot for the com puter center, but only a short, semi-circular driveway, the exit and entry of which will be on Kincaid. Three parking spaces for the center, which will hold the new computer purchased with part of the $4 million National Science Foundation grant received by the University last year, will be pro vided in the driveway. This change was made with the eventual closure of 13th Ave. to traffic in mind, so that the cor ner area may be landscaped then. Before conducting its business, the committee affirmed the desig nation of John Lallas as acting chairman in the absence of chair man J. Orville Lindstrom. Lallas is the director of the Office of Planning and Institutional Re search at the University. Long range planning problems and objectives were also discussed by the committee. An Open Letter To Freshman Class There is something wrong with the way the Freshmen Snoball is financed if 71% of the Freshmen living on campus finance it, when not even half of these students attend, and the 29% living off campus are allowed to come free. Three proposals to finance the Snoball were given to the fresh men Dormitory Class Council. These were: 1) to have complete deficit spending and not charge the Fresh men anything now, but make it up in later years, 2) to charge, out of each dormitories social fund, 50 cents per person planning to go to the dance, 3) to take 50 cents per person out of the dorm’s social fund, whether they go or not. The last was accepted. But then in early November a fourth proposal was offered to the council The proposal was to sell tickets to those who wished to attend the dance. The dance could be financed by the money from these tickets In this way those that attend would pay for their entertainment and those not wishing to attend would not have to pay for something they do not care to participate in. Roger Gould, Freshmen Class President, stated that the ticket price would have to exceed 50 cents-per-person because not enough people will pay as individuals and there would not be enough money to finance the dance. Perhaps the Snoball is not imporant enough to students and is instead a tradition carried on by a few freshmen while many others sit back, uninterested because the dance is not even worth a dollar. It is doubtful that this is the case. Students will pay one dollar to go to a show. Surely they will pay a dollar to go to their own class dance. $1,000 is spent on the Snoball. A dance where only a little over a third of the Freshmen attend. The amount of money spent should be proportional to the attendance. Gould said it was almost impossible to finance the Snoball an other way because of the time limitations. The fourth proposal was submitted in November, surely three months is enough time to sell tickets. There is still time to change and do things the right way instead of unfairly taxing all Freshmen on campus. There is no reason for the Freshmen of this campus to accept an inferior decision made by the unrecognized Freshmen Dorm Class Council. Hal Kingslien President, DeCou Hall Code Revision Discussed Again Whether or not the University should take upon itself the pun ishing of students who break laws while not on University property was discussed again by the Conduct Committee in its meeting Thursday. This was with regard to the committee’s proposed amendment to the Student Conduct Code, which would delete the word "law” from Section I.D., para graph of the Code. The section presently reads: “Upon satisfactory proof that the group has encouraged or did not take reasonable steps, as a group, to prevent violations of law or University regulations, the group may be subjected to per manent or temporary suspension of charter, social probation, de nial or use of University facili ties, or other like sanctions.” Approval of the faculty will be needed to effect this change in the Code. It is known that some faculty members object to the amendment on the grounds that it would remove the teeth from the University’s enforcement of the group offense provisions of the Code. Particularly affected by this section of the Code have been fra ternity pre-functions, which are held off campus, but have in the past broken laws against drinking by minors, according to members of the conduct committee. Discussion in the meeting cen tered around whether or not an other section would be added to the Code, in the event the amend ment is passed by the faculty. The addition would provide for the punishment of certain group offenses by the student courts which are now covered by sec tion I.D. Any group which gives i t s "tacit approval of illegal action” may under present policy be pros ecuted under the Student Con duct Code. “I feel we should divorce the force civil laws; it’s not the University from having to en versity’s job,” said committee member Bob Carl. Carl later suggested that sec tion I.E., paragraph 4 of the Code be amended, so that dormi tories, as well as fraternities, sor orities and co-ops may adopt their own "housekeeping” rules. He said that such a change would allow dormitory students i to have more responsibility in their groups. He said it might also place a lighter load on the mi I nor court system. t However, discussion on the is | sue was tabled until the next meeting when Committee Chair man Wendell Basye said thatsuch a change wouldn’t affect the mi nor courts, since fraternities, sor orities and co-ops may even now send violators of housekeeping rules to minor courts for prose cution. At next week's meeting, the committee will discuss the pos sibility of amending the Code to bring sanctioning power for dor mitory housekeeping rules in the Code. Minor court advisor Dick Rapp presented the committee with an index he had made of the areas in which the conduct committee has made decisions in the past. It is the first step in developing a ‘‘systematized policy index,” ac cording to Francis B. Nickerson, associate dean of students. Richard Siefke, junior in psy chology. was introduced to the committee as the committee re placement for Mark Fritzler, whose term on the committee has expired. Flemming Holds Office Hours President Flemming will hold open hours for students from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. today.
