Eliminate
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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.
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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.