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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1966)
UC Sigma Chi Charges Rights Violation IIOUUDKH, Colo (CPS) The regents of the University of Colo rado have been charged with vio latiru; the U S Constitution by placing the Boulder chapter of Sigma Chi fraternity on proba tion. The change was made in a suit filed in the U.S. Uistrict Court of lienver by a Denver attorney on behalf of the National Sigma (,'lu Fraternity, its Boulder chap ter, and their respective corporate strucures. According to Fred Winner, the attorney who bled the suit, there is no money involved The suit, Winner said, request* an injunr tion against any punitive action the regents might take against the Boulder chapter Tin- suit also requests that the probation status of the chapter be ruled "to be in excess of the defendant's jurisdiction, arbi trary and capricious, unconstitu tional and void, and of no force anil affect.” Violations Alleged The suit lists the following al leged violations of the Constitu tion • Denial of the right of associ ation, freedom of choice, freedom of religion, freedom of speech as guaranteed by the First Amendment • Denial of freedom of con tract under the Fifth Amend ment. • Denial of equal protection of the law under the 14th Amend ment • Denial of due process of law under the 14th Amendment. • Impairment of the obliga lions of contracts contrary to Sec tion 10 of the Constitution Sigma Chi also claim* that the probation lowered the value of Grant Finances French Institute The University will conduct one of five overseas institutes for sec ondary school French teaeiiers in France this summer under a $151,211 National Defense Edu cation Act grant from the U.S. Office of Education Eighty teachers from through out the United States will partici pate in the University's nine - week Institute for Advanced Study in the Teaching of French, to he held in Tours, France David M Dougherty, head of the University's modern and clas sical language division, will be director of the institute The re cently elected president of t h e American Association of Teach ers of French, Dougherty has di reeled the institute since its founding six years ago Objective of the institute is to upgrade the teachers’ knowledge of the language, methods, and materials for teaching. Curricu lum will focus on four areas — civilization, methods, linguistics, and language drill Oregon French teachers have been especially encouraged to ap ply for the program, which awards a $75 weekly stipend, a travel allowance, and a $15 per week allowance for each depen dent to participants To he eligible for admission, a teacher must have ranged in the upper third of one of the first-level institutes held in t h e United States during the past seven summers or have had equiv alent training, and have had a minimum of two years teaching experience in French. LIKE PLAYBOY? Of course you do you sly devil! Get an exciting, informative, titilating issue every month. $6.50 — 1 year $12.00 — 2 years $16.50 — 3 years Contact Louie Abramson, Campus Representative 345-4860 1 10 E. 15th tl>«- houfX' by $10,000 and reduc ed the chapter’s yearly income by I another $10,000 Questions Authority, Aside from testing the issues j Involved directly in the probation case, the suit raises a question | seldom litigated—the exact scope of authority of the governing1 body of a state supported institu-1 tion of higher learning. Observers feel that more is at ] stake for the Colorado regents in this suit than mere ability to reg ulate fraternity membership pol icies If Sigma Chi, they say, has ! rights to freedom of association ; and action which cannot be reg-' ulated by the regents, do all stu- ■ dents have similar rights? If a federal court finds that the j regents cannot regulate Sigma Chi, it would seem logical, these 1 same observers say, that the re-1 gents are without power to reg ulate any aspect of the university i community except academic de- - partments and the use of the I physical plant. Many Implications The implications of a Sigma Chi victory might be broader still. For currently Sigma Chi, and oth er campus social organizations, have access to myriad facilities intramural fields, computer time, offices and meeting rooms, the use of auditoriums — on their: campuses. Bureau Chosen For Area Study The University Bureau of Mu nicipal research was appointed Tuesday to formulate a long-range community development plan. The Central Lane Planning Council chose the Bureau to study future development of cultural and recreational needs for the area, and emphasized study of the North Bank area, the site of the proposed University football sta dium Cost for the study, an esti mated $20,500, will be divided between the Dept, of Housing and Urban Development. Lane Coun ty, Eugene and Springfield, and the University. Cl.PC members asked to have Tony Kom, a Bureau planning consultant, head the project. 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. If Sigma Chi can stay in good graces with Its national while having full access to Colorado fa cilities, the regents might as well be without precedent to impose any regulation on any group which wishes to use the univer sity, The Boulder chapter of Sigma Chi first came under fire from the regents last April when the board charged that the national had a rule which violated the uni versity’s nondiscrimination rul ing of 1056, On May 29, the board ruled that the suspension of a partic ular chapter was in accordance with an unwritten tradition and practice of the national Sigma Chi office of discriminating against minority groups, On Probation Now By a four to two vote the re gents put the Sigma Chi chapter on probation on these grounds At the beginning of the cur rent semester, the chapter notified both the regents and its national headquarters that it was to be considered “autonomous” in the selection of its members. The chapter then requested the regents to lift the probation. The regents were assured at that time that the local fraternity would not submit its choice of members to the national fraternity for ap proval in the future. The regents voted again and this time the vote was three to three. University President Jo seph Smiley is the only person, under Colorado law, who can break a tie vote of the regents. Since Smiley was out of town, the motion failed. Began at Stanford Trouble for local Sigma Chi chapters seems to stem from a Stanford University incident last Art Center Holding Class Registration The Maude I Kerns Art Cen ter at 1910 Fifteenth Ave East will be conducting registration for students both this week and next week The term is ten weeks long with classes beginning next week. Three-hour classes are $20 00 Memberships in the Art Center are $5 00 and some classes require a lab fee. The Art Center has announced that two painters of well renown have joined its faculty this term John llaugse, from Seattle, will teach etching Wednesday night from 7 to 10, and Vernon Witham, from Eugene, will teach acrylic painting Thursday night from 7 to 10 Both men have exhibited widely on the West Coast and both have studied at the Univer sity of Oregon. Anyone wishing further infor mation should contact Ron Jan son, Art Center director, at 345 1126 spring. The Stanford chapter pledged a Negro and was sus- j pended from the national organ-! ization. The national office claimed the j suspension was not for taking a! Negro, but for “continued dis regard of, and actual opposition to, the ritual requirements of the 1 fraternity.” The Stanford chapter had tak j en the same measures as the | Colorado chapter when before! it pledged the Negro, it an- j nounced its independence of the national office on membership1 matters. The national fraternity re-i quires that no chapter pledge or 1 initiate any member “who for any reason is likely to be considered as personally unacceptable as a I brother by any chapter or any ] brother anywhere.” “White Christians” The University of Wisconsin j had prodded its Sigma Chi chap- j ter into pushing for the elimina tion of the “white Christians j only" clause. The “acceptable to any brother anywhere” clause is the replacement. The probation imposed by the! regents was based on the assump-1 tion, the university said, that if' the chapter was not in trouble with the national it was only be-' cause the national had reason to believe that the chapter would continue to abide by the “accept able to any brother” clause. Since the lawsuit was brought j by the Boulder and national or- i ganizations together, some uni versity officials feel that this as sumption was well founded. These officials say that if the Colorado chapter’s declaration of It* in dependence in membership mat ters had been distressing to the national organization it would not have entered into a suit on its behalf > Clause Exemption As the suit was filed, the Fac ulty Senate Committee on Student AfTairs at Colorado was studying a proposal that might go to the Dec. 16 meeting of the regents and would tighten regulations on all campus organizations. The so<alled Danielson pro posal now under study says, “Be ginning with the academic year 1966-67. no student organization in which there is any regulation or practice which denies partici pation to any student on the ba sis of race, color or creed will re ceive university recognition.'’ If passed as is, the statement would also require that member ship selection be strictly a local matter. \ A committee spokesman said a portion of the proposal which says that a religious group organ ized “to promote, as its primari purpose, the study of a religious faith or the promotion of ethnic or racial purity” may request an exemption from the regulations is “in debate." Committee chairman Ned Bowler predicted that the exemption clause will ‘undergo some revision.” m.r,u’, CAMPUS CLEANERS 1420 Orchard St. Pants 69c Dresses $1.25 (plain) Suits $1.25 Skirts 69c (plain) Dry Cleaning 9 lbs. $1.50 (1 FREE PRESS) DID YOU KNOW That the D.Q. 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