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OREGON
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Peace Corps
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Vol. LX VI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1066
No. 55
Governor Charges
Schools 'Inadequate'
SUIT Writer
"We must face the fact that
present teachers, textbooks, and
curriculum are inadequate to
meet the present challenge. Edu
cation must reach into the lives
of all people,” declared Gov. Mark
o Hatfield in the Student Union
Wednesday night.
Hatfield was speaking at a din
ner meeting of the Oregon Pro
gram, sponsored by a Ford Foun
dation grant, when lie released a
report on the role of com in u
mty colleges. The meeting was
one in a series called Oregon's
Public Conversations about Edu
cation
Other speakers included Leon
Minear, State Superintendent of
Public Instruction, and University
President Arthur S. Flemming.
"A person will probably have
to change his field three times
during his life because of tech
nological changes Therefore edu
cation must be a lifetime pro
cess open to all adults," Hatfield
pointed out.
Training Teachers
Hatfield emphasized the neces
sity of properly training teachers
to cope with the new advances
in all fields. "Education is a prob
lem and a program of teaching
the youth how to learn and think,
not what to learn and think The
schools must teach them how to
cope with new information and
how to acquire more education,"
he said.
After mentioning the emergen
cy steps which are being taken
nationally to upgrade education.
Hatfield turned to Oregon's prob
lems. "We must recognize that
we are required today to plan for
the future before crisis propor
tions develop," he said. J
Hatfield pointed out that
schools are working as desperate
ly to cope with the "knowledge
explosion" as they are with the
population explosion. "We must
insist on attention to the study
of the proper techniques for
teaching people how to think.
Teachers must learn to motivate
all types of students,” he said.
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Editorials .. page 6
Classified ..page 7
Campus Briefs ... page 5
Sports . page 4
rhe philosophy of education
must he adjusted to accommodate
a highly mobile population, ac
cording to Hatfield. This is part
of the role of community col
leges He said they can "lend a
hand in the remaking of Ameri
can education.”
Minear discussed the Oregon
Program and the role of com
munity colleges He defined the
objectives of the program as iden
tifying problems and encourag
ing innovations. Under the pro
gram, higher education, local
schools, and the state are working
together to establish a climate for
change.
Minear emphasized the impor
tance of vocational education. He
called it one of the most ex
pensive phases of education and
described it as one of the func
tions of the community colleges.
Educated Machines
"Many machines now have a
high school education," Minear
quoted Secretary of Labor Wil
lard Wirtz. He added that a per
son now needs about 14 years of
education to be able to compete
with machines.
Flemming commented: “Com
munity colleges provide the na
tion with an answer to a serious
problem I welcomed Lane Com
munity College a part of Eugene
and the surrounding communi
GOV. MARK O. HATFIELD
emphasires a point in his ad
dress on the role of Oregon’s
community colleges at the din
ner Wednesday evening in the
Student Union.
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ties. It should be a genuine assis
tance to us (the University) as
we strive to serve the people of
the state.”
The community colleges and
the universities should share
their resources and work togeth
er for common objectives, ac
cording to Flemming.
Hatfield left his car in the SU
parking lot while attending the
meeting. But when he left he dis
covered that someone had stolen
his license plates while he was
discussing the value of educa
tion.
Hatfield Enjoys
Politician's Life
“After 16 years In public life
one becomes committed to its
programs and ideologies I desire
to remain a part of this life,” said
Governor Mark O. Hatfield at a
press conference in the Student
Union last night, after announc
ing his candidacy for the US.
Senate in the afternoon.
Hatfield made the expected an
nouncement in Salem in a 200
word news release which traced
Oregon’s economic advances dur
ing his years as governor. He will
seek the Senate seat being vacated
by Democrat Maurine Neuberger.
"I want to put whatever talents
and experience which may be
mine into continued service for
Oregon,” said Hatfield as he made
the announcement.
Hatfield stressed the necessity
of consolidating state and na
tional education programs. "In
the Senate I would hope to build
a bridge from the polarized ap
proach to the joint state and local
action which is necessary.”
Hatfield is on the steering com
mittee of the Interstate Compact
on Education, composed of gover
nors, legislators, and school board
members, which is designed to
share the knowledge and
strengths of the individual states.
The group's objective is to give
stature to state and local educa
tion programs.
“My responsibilities as gover
nor are my major concern at this
time,” Hatfield responded to a
question about the campaign.
“The issues will not be defined
until the campaigns start in ear
nest,” he concluded.
Approved In Principle'
Faculty OK's
Library School
By BOB CARL
Managing Editor
Meeting in closed session Wednesday, University faculty
members approved “in principle” the idea of establishing a
School of Librarianship at the University. All other agenda
items were tabled until next month’s meeting.
Although the final vote showed strong faculty approval
for the idea, there was a great deal of discussion of the pro
posal for the new professional school, which was presented
by Associate Dean of Faculties Charles Duncan.
The vote was 120 to 21, but as one faculty member who
departed early said, the measure was approved only after
faculty members "roundly insulted the librarians, the libra
ry and everything connected with it.”
Herb Penney, director of the University News Bureau,
told the Emerald that most of the meeting was spent in ex
ELIZABETH ASHLEY
Star to Discuss
Students' Views
Elizabeth Ashley. Hollywood.
Broadway and television star,
and the youngest member of the
newly founded National Council
on the Arts, will visit the Uni
versity today to discuss with stu
dents their views on the arts
She will be available at 4 pm.
in the Dad’s Room of the SU.
Miss Ashley is visiting several
campuses around the country, but
the University is the only place
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Can the Job Corps Work?
1966 Will Answer Questions
(Editor's Note: Criticism of the Job Corps has been heavy on
both sides. Many people, especially conservatives and Repub
licans, view with horror and anger the high budget and massive
staffs of the centers. Liberals object that the Job Corps isn’t
doing enough about the poverty problem, that its efforts are mis
directed. This article, the last in a series of four, looks at the
University-operated Job Corps center at Tongue Point in light of
this criticism.)
By PHIL SEMAS
Associate Editor
TONGUE POINT—When the first administrators came to this
Job Corps camp in January of 1965—a month before the first
trainees arrived—they found one phone on the entire base, no
office furniture, and extensive repairs needed on most of the
buildings.
“This is a crash program if there ever was one,” said Guy
Shellenbarger, assistant director of Tongue Point at the time.
He was proven right by events that followed.
That summer the Office of Economic Opportunity, under poli
tical pressure to get the Job Corps in full operation by 1966, sent
a flood of trainees into Tongue Point—555 in June. There were
fights among trainees and complaints from Tongue Point officials
that they were getting too many trainees too fast.
Resides, as one trainee, who was here then and is still here, put
it, "They didn’t know how to run a Job Corps camp, nobody knew
how to run one. This was the first one; it had never been tried
before.”
So OEO cut off the trainee flow until last month to let Tongue
Point reorganize and find out how to run a Job Corps camp.
That reorganization was extensive. The staff was cut back and
is still being cut back. Some people quit, some were asked to
leave.
Shellenbarger resigned to take a position on the Education
School faculty at the University. Special Services Director Walter
Freauff, former assistant director of dormitories at the University,
will return to Eugene in June.
Many staff members in the dormitory program were fired to
get more experienced people in those positions.
“This is not the kind of place where everybody can work,” says
Assistant Director Harold V. McAbee, a tall, gentle-looking man
who used to be an assistant school superintendent near Eugene
and ran a community poverty program called the Lane County
Youth Project.
“Some people’s basic philosophy might not fit in with ours,” he
explains. "The needs of this place change. In six months they
might not need me here.”
Tongue Point is hard on an administrator.
“This is a developing institution,” says McAbee. “This place is
changing so fast you don't always have time to do things slowly
to think things through. The day I got here I was unfamiliar with
the operation but I started making decision right away, decisions
I really had no business making.”
McAbee’s position was created after an administrative change
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piainmg me proposal. He said
this lengthy explanation was nec
essary for better faculty under
standing of the new school and
gave this discussion as the reason
why the faculty only considered
one agenda item during the meet
ing. which took almost two and
a half hours.
Other Agenda Items
The faculty was also scheduled
to discuss the idea of establish
ing another new professional
school at the University, the
School of Community Sen-ice and
Public Affairs, a possible amend
ment to the Student Conduct
Code, a proposal to set up an un
dergraduate council, and a motion
to investigate the "dry zone" sur
rounding the campus.
All of these items will be put
on the agenda for next month’s
faculty meeting.
In Principle
The faculty only endorsed the
principle of establishing the
School of Librarianship at the
University. All final plans for the
new school, such as curricular and
degree proposals, will have to be
approved by the faculty at a later
date. Then, before the new school
can be founded. University Presi
dent Arthur S. Flemming will
have to gain approval of the plans
from the State Board of Higher
Education.
Penney said he had no idea
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10.961 Enrolled;
More expected
By JOHN DENNY
Staff Writer
University enrollment stood at
10.961 Tuesday at the close of the
period of registration without
paying a late fee, according to
Registrar Clifford Constance. All
late registration must be com
pleted by Friday.
Projected total enrollment for
this winter is 11.233. based on the
percentage of increase in enroll
ment winter term 1965. Total en
rollment winter term 1965 was
10,069, 2.5 per cent higher than
the 9,820 recorded during penal
ty-free registration of that year.
During the 1964-65 school year
University enrollment decreased
5.4 per cent from fall to winter
term. The enrollment figure for
winter term of this year will drop
8.3 per cent from the figure of
fall term, 29 per cent more than
in 1965, based on the projected
enrollment figure of 11.233.
Although enrollment is likely
1 to decrease more than usual this
winter term, graduates won't be
j the cause. The number of stu
dents disqualified from attend
ance at the University because of
a G.P.A. deficiency this past fall
| term, is 371, according to the reg
istrar. Of these students, 360 (3.8
j per cent) were undergraduates.
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