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Poverty Conference raw 3 Vol. LXVI dau? EMERALD UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1%B Shastri Memorial Pape 2 No. 54 Schools, Code Faculty Issues I University faculty members will meet in closed session today to discuss such varied topics as the possible addition of two new professional schools to the cur riculum, a Conduct Code amend ment that was recommended by the Student Conduct Committee, a motion to establish an under graduate council, and a suggestion to investigate the dry zone sur rounding the campus. The two new professional schools under consideration are a School of Community Service Drive Secures 600 Signatures For LBJ Wire The drive to secure student and faculty support for a tele gram praising President Johnson's recent peace offensive ended Tuesday night with approximate ly 000 signatures. The message was sent late last night so that it would reach the White House before the President delivers his State of the Union address to the nation at 6 pm today. The telegram, the product of a meeting held Friday night by some 65 students and teachers, received limited support from supporters of the extreme left and the extreme right, according to drive sponsors. Drive workers said that several members of the anti war Student Faculty Committee to Stop the War in Viet Nam refused to work in the drive or sign the telegram because it did not demand for mal recognition of the Communist National Liberation Front. Students from the extreme right voiced disapproval of the message because it did not ad vocate full scale bombing of the North. One student was reported not to have signed because he feared his summer job at a dc fense plant would be jeopardized. Another said, "We don't wear feathers; we’re not chicken." Sev (Continusd on paye 2) and Public Affairs and a School ol Librarianshlp. Presently the University has 10 professional schools, and the addition of one or both of the new schools would be the first on the Eugene campus since 1920. However, the School of Nursing and the Dental School, which are located in Portland, were founded in 19<i0 and 1945 respec tively. No Vocal Opposition According to University spokes men, no opposition has been voiced concerning the establish ment of either of the new schools. Both the Faculty Senate and the Faculty Curriculum Committee have approved the ideas for the two schools. The faculty will merely be vot ing about the idea of establishing the schools; the final plans for the schools will be submitted for faculty approval at a later date The School of Community Serv ice and Public Affairs is a "very descriptive title,” according to Jarold Kieffer, assistant to Uni versity President Arthur S. Flem ming. He told the Emerald that the new school would be "an attempt to define the range of activities and jobs in what we call the helping, social, and welfare agen cies.” According to preliminary plans, the new school will in clude an intern program, so that students' studies can be inte grated with their career objec tives. Kieffer said that "the emphasis on the outset will be on the under graduate level.” Expand Opportunities Also according to present plans, the new school will merely in corporate many of the courses that are already offered in other departments into its curriculum. There will probably be some new classes developed, too. The School of Librarianship will be an attempt to expand the curriculum offerings for those interested in librarianship studies. It is also an effort to get ac creditation for the librarianship program here. The librarianship program is presently under the School of Education. It can’t be accredited unless it is a profes (Continurd on [atic >) At Tongue Point Group Living' Set-up Revised (Editor's Note: There are two phases to the Job Corps pro gram at the University's Tongue Point center. One is teaching the trainees enough skills so they can get a job and hold it. The other, no less important, is getting them to adjust to society. The program that involves most of this “learning to adjust’’ process is called the “group life” program. This is the third of four articles.) By PHIL SEMAS Associate Editor TONGUE POINT (Special)—Tongue Point is a strip of land that reaches out into the Columbia River near the stream’s mouth. It’s cold, windy, and rains a lot. The Job Corps center is a former naval base and still looks like one, though it’s been refurbished. That’s the picture that greets Job Corps trainees when they come here. They come from different backgrounds, but few of them have ever lived at a place anything like Tongue Point. “It’s pretty hard to like this place when you get here,” smiled Ben Johnson, who, as “group life” coordinator at Tongue Point, is supposed to get them to like it. Johnson is the key man in a major overhaul of the “group life” (dormitory) system at Tongue Point, made last year by Program Director Harold V. McAbee. Trainees at Tongue Point live in a couple of large orange build ings that used to be officers’ quarters. They’re divided into seven units called cadres. Right now these groups have about 50 trainees each. There’s also an eighth cadre: an orientation cadre where new (Continued an page 2) Grades Remove Five Senators Five ASUO senators have gone on academic probation or flunked out of the University and two more have resigned. An ASUO election will be held Feb. 2 to fill those posi tions plus six senator at large positions that open winter term and the office of freshman class president. Petitions are available out side room 301 in the Student Union. They must be turned in by 5 p.m Jan 18 in room 306 SU The primary election will be Jan 26. Senior Representative Bill Dames, Senators-at-Large Vic Kucera and Chris Lassen, Fresh man Representative Gunnar Lundeberg, Freshman Men’s Dormitory Representative Steve O’Leary, and Freshman Class President Roy Buell are all aca demically ineligible for their offices. Men's Coop Representative Dick Beeson and upperclass men’s dormitory Representative Tom Page resigned. Deficit Spending Frosh Approve Snoball Debt By ELAINE DAVENPORT Staff Writer Deficit spending was adopted by the Freshman Dormitory Council Tuesday night to finance the an nual Frosh Snoball. Roger Gould, freshman class president, made - the /final decision. The decision climaxed a de- i bate that began when DeCou Hall objected to a 50 cent tax used to finance the dance. Gould began the meeting by stating it was necessary to change the method because of too many complaints. “If there continue to be com-, plaints year after year,” he said, "it must mean that there is some better way. I personally prefer j the way it is done now. but if there are going to be complaints, | deficit spending seems to be the only feasible way.” Next Two Years The approximately $850 to be spent on the freshman dance will i be paid for in the next two years j from money made on Homecom- j ing and Junior Weekend. “It won’t be that much of a ; problem to make it up,” Gould j commented, "I just hate to see j $850 hanging over the head of next year's class president.” A show of hands vote from GPA Takes Toll In Fall Grades For students returning to the University for winter term, one of the striking characteristics of dormitories, some Greek organi zations, co-ops, and apartment ; houses is a number of empty and I half-empty rooms. The rooms that were full fall | term are empty because some 400 students received notice dur ing Christmas vacation that they were suspended due to grades. Students suspended because of grades received at least two suc cessive terms under a 2.0 GPA or one term under a 1.0 GPA. Besides the 3 8 per cent of the fall term enrollment of 12,200 that were suspended, about 1,000 students received notice with j their grades that they were on j academic probation for earning below a 2.0 GPA. Students on probation are al lowed one term to improve, but; those suspended must petition, if I they wish, to the University Sc ho- j lastic Deficiency Committee, to be let back into school The com mittee recommends a suspended student wait a few terms before petitioning to re-enter the Uni versity. those present revealed a 14-13 vote in favor of deficit spending. A roll call vote was asked for, but Gould said "I’d like to leave it up to me. I think my way is the best.” Hal Kingslien, president of Dc Cou Hall, first raised the objec tion He claimed that it was not fair to tax all dormitories for a dance that only a few went to. Freshmen living off-campus, how ever, were not taxed, even if they did attend. Freshman new student week was discussed by Tom Clark. He asked the dormitory council to make suggestions to improve or completely change the procedure used during new student week. "Public relations for the Uni versity is bad,” he said, "and we are not attracting the type of freshmen we would like to have.” Clark pointed out that orien tation week has been more social than academic, and that orienta tion sessions are not well-at tended. Six-Man Committee A committee consisting of two students, two faculty members, and two administrators has been set up to study the problem, but the student members must have some definite ideas to present at the coming meeting. Ideas from other colleges are being considered. They range from the complete tour-the-cam pus idea to the completely aca demically oriented meetings. ‘‘This is a very crucial part of student government this year,” Goldschmidt said, “and I’m ask ing the freshman class to help get some new ideas since they were the latest to go through it.” Goldschmidt commented that if plans were started immediately to get new ideas, the present system could be converted as early as next year. A six member committee from the dormitory council was ap pointed to study the matter fur ther. Definite plans for the dance were discussed. This year's theme will be “Silver Skates,” and decorations will be in blue and silver. t . I STUDENT BODY OFFICERS at the University’s Tongue Point Job Corps Center take the oath of office. Student government at Tongue Point makes most of the rules that govern trainees. It has representatives from each cadre, or living unit, in a student council. The three officers, left to right, Jack Davis, treasurer, San Pedro, Calif.; Darnell Smith, vice president, Stockton, Calif., and James Mosby, president, Lexington, Ky.
