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Flemming Speaks Page 8 OREGON DAILY EMERALD Christian Science Lecture Page 2 Vol. LXVI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 19fi6 No. 58 Student Group Calls for Reform A group of about 40 students "railing for significant changes in decisions that affect students" at the University met for two hours Monday night to discuss social and educational “reform on campus," Ia-k Hendrickson, a graduate student in sociology, chaired the meeting of the unafflliated group which calls itself only a "student committee for reform on cam pus” Hendrickson told the meeting that the group was bound by no "fixed plans," but that he would like to sec some "changes made which the students want," The group spelled out some of these changes in an advertisement in Monday's Emerald. Suggestions included abolishing compulsory physical education, the "dry zone." and compulsory athletic fees. Reforms Mated Other reforms were listed as student control over curriculum, more teaching and less research, open faculty meetings, and a Stu dent Union Board made respons ible to the students One student in the audience suggested that such a committee is needed because "There is no discussion on this campus Such debate as the Mosser plan may have generated will not happen," Another said that the "sub stance of student complaints" is that this is “not really the stu dent’s University. It is not run for our education, but is run for other purposes " Beatbe Reads I-arry Beathe, an ASUO Sen ator, read a letter written last term to ASUO President Steve Goldschmidt by Charles Duncan, dean of faculties, calling for a student faculty committee to dis cuss issues of concern to students Beathe suggested that the stu dent group look into the idea further. Several students at the meeting suggested that avenues be ex plored through the Senate. Jim Beat, off-campus represent ative to the Senate, replied to a question from Hendrickson con cerning the weaknesses of Senate power by saying that any weak nesses lay "not within the struc ture but within the people in the Senate." Beat said that a block of about seven "conservatives” had ob structed Senate attempts to dis cuss issues such as those raised by the committee. An unidentified faculty member at the meeting said he was “very interested” in the students’ dis-; cussions and felt that it was time , that University students “grew up a little bit.” LE8 HENDRICKSON Leadk Meeting In Senate Hearing Views Aired On Viet War By KATHY SHAW Staff Writer Does the ASUO senate have the right to form a policy on the Viet namese conflict? The Senate’s public affairs com i mittee chairman, Henry Drum-. mond, began the open hearings on Viet N’am with a statement Peace Corps Sets Record For Campus Recruitment Over MO students signed a list in the Peace Corps tent yester day applying for the Peace Corps. Amazed, former volunteer Steve Knaehel said, "This is the high est number of people to sign up on the first day of recruiting week this year on any campus throughout the country. “I'm amazed and really pleas ed with turnout because at the University of Washington, which yielded us the second highest number of applicants in the na tion, the first day total was 88.” In addition. Peace Corps re cruiters said the University could surpass California at Berkeley, long considered the mecca for Peace Corps volunteers. The early surge in applications followed a busy day, the first of the five-day Peace Corps Week. Several recruiters visited class es, explaining the processes of the Peace Corps and answering questions. At 4 p.m. today the movie, “Volunteers in India” will be shown. At 7 p.m in 150 Science, H W H Vaughn to Direct Peace Corps By 1>AVID BUTLER Feature Editor The .first Spanish words new Peace Corps director Jack Hood | Vaughn heard were ‘ mata el gringo!”—"Kill the American!” He was a young boxer in Mex ico at the time. Many years later as ambassador to Panama during the crisis he was called "Embaja dor del pueblo,"—"Ambassador of the people.” The former boxer and ambas sador became director of the 1 Peace Corps yesterday morning when Sargent Shriver resigned to devote full attention to the War on Poverty. After a short term as Asst. Sec. of State, Vaughn assumed the new position when President Lyndon Johnson asked Shriver to devote his efforts to the anti-poverty war Born in the ranch-lands of Mon tana, Vaughn spent part of his youth in Mexico Later he taught at the Universities of Michigan and Pennsylvania after receiving a masters degree with specializa tion in Latin American affairs. In government service, Vaughn has served with the l’ S Informa tion Agency, the Foreign Opera tions Administrations, and the In ternational Cooperation Adminis tration. He organized the Peace Corps Latin American programs of 1960. expanding both community devel opment and number of volunteers by over 2.000. In April. 1964, he left the Peace Corps to return to Panama as American Ambassador. While in Panama, Vaughn mixed with the Panamanians, mostly in the slums, thus receiving the title of "the people’s ambassador." Peace Corps recruiter Steve (Continued on page 7) Upward Bound Provides New Learning Experiences Editor's Note: This is the first of a series of three articles on the Upward Hound program at the University. The second and third parts will deal with indivi duals in the program. By ALLEN BAILEY Associate Editor "It’s really exciting to see the way these kids come on.” beamed University Upward Bound direc tor Kevin Collins from behind his desk in a basement laundry room in Sherry Ross Hall. Collins’ job is to administer the Upward Bound program, which was set up at the University with $320,000 worth of money from the Federal Office of Education as part of President Johnson’s War on Poverty. He is in charge of 70 students who are going through learning experiences which they have nev er before had the privilege or op portunity to have. Upward Bound is the name giv en to a project which is attempt ing to give under-privileged young people, and those with grades too low to get into college, a chance to prepare themselves for going to college—and in some cases, they are even now attending col lege. Seventy in Program Seventy students are now in the program at the University, many of them full-time students. Although more than two thirds of them are now on academic probation, they are hard work ers and Collins feels that their grades will continue to improve dramatically. There will be a few for whom it's “just a ride,” the director said, but he feels that “a lot of ’em will come up.” Most of the students were working when they were chosen. All but a few had just graduated from high school last spring; Today Last Day To Pay Fees Today is the last day to pay registration fees or to add courses for winter term. Courses may be dropped through Jan. 24. the others had been working for a year since they finished high school. They first came to the Univer sity—76 of them—in early July for an eight-week session of in tensive remedial work in such areas as social studies. English, mathematics, physical education, and health. Considered Unfit Though these were all high school graduates, they had previ ously been considered unfit for college for one of several rea sons. Some of them were too poor to afford a college education. Others’ high school grades were too low to be considered for ad mission to college. And still oth ers had been in trouble with the law. as well as having low grades. In many instances, their apti tudes had shown up poorly on tests because they had not been exposed to the same culture as other students. Seven of the Upward Bound students came from the Valley Migrant League, having lived in migrant labor camps for much of (Continued on page 7) i corps representatives and student j critics will debate the success and credibility of the Peace Corps, us ing a number of questions raised in a Saturday Evening Post ar ticlt as a basis for the discussion Said the Post, "Training re mains little more than briefings ' on how to get along in another country . . . The Peace Corps never has seriously tried to at tract seasoned, professional peo pie ... The corps did its best to persuade visiting congressmen with a taste of the so-called hard , ship.” The panel, which became some what stormy last year, will fea ture questions and topics raised from the audience. Class visitation will continue throughout the week, mostly in upper division | classes. Recruiters will also vis it living organizations. Testing for all students apply ing for the corps will begin Thurs day. Testing will continue through Jan. 25. ☆ ☆ Shriver Drops Peace Corps Duty WASHINGTON (AP) — Pres ident Johnson divided the com mand of Sargent Shriver Mon day to make him solely the head of the War on Poverty. The di rection of the Peace Corps was given to Asst. Secretary of State Jack Vaughn. Shriver has been heading both operations and both are major programs of the Johnson admin istration. Some critics, among them Re publicans on Capitol Hill, have contended the double responsi bility was too much for one man. The President personally an nounced the splitting of the jobs to newsmen assembled in the fish room at the White House— a conference room just off his office. Shriver and Vaughn were with him. Johnson had praise for each. He said Shriver, brother-in law of President John F. Ken nedy, is one of the few men in the life of the nation ever to hold such broad responsibility as erecting the Peace Corps and heading the War on Poverty si multaneously. looav, tne President said, "I am asking Mr. Shriver to give full time to the war on poverty.” He said this war, as he prom ised in his state of the union mes sage to Congress, is going to be expanded and “we are going to prosecute it with all the vigor and determination at our com mand.” ^inmiiiiuiuiimimimiimiuiutHumiuimiiuuiiiiuumiiumiiuiiimii Index | Editorials . 1 Classified ....... 1 Campus Briefs j Sports . page 6 | page 7 | page 7 | page 3 | on their right to take a stand. Later in the hearing the Young Democrats, one of the groups in vited to present their views, in stead took their time to ques tion the Senate’s authority to hold the hearings. The Senate’s position is that it wants a guideline on general University views for representa tives to take to the National Stu dent Association convention. It was also pointed out that in pro viding an open hearing, the Sen ate is providing an educational opportunity to inform students who are deeply concerned about the conflict. YDs Argue The YD’s, represented by Bill Muir and John McKenzie argued that the Senate is not representa tive of the college as it is elect ed by approximately 51 per cent of the voters. They also said that the Senators, when running for election, had not informed the students that they would take a stand on issues not directly relat ing to University policy. This position was rebutted by a spectator that the Senate was fulfilling its job as an elected executive committee to form Uni versity policies. It was also noted that the policy of not presenting a position had been drawn up by the 14-member executive com mittee of the YD’s representing a membership of approximately 150. Senator's Access It was stated that the Senators have access to all student living organizations except those not on the campus. That the Senators did inform the students that they would take stands on off-campus affairs was presented as another argument. Groups presenting positions < Conti titled, on page 8) UO Enrollment Highest in Slate From Associated Press Reports The largest student enrollment in the State System of Higher Education is again at the Uni versity, with 11.485 students reg istered for winter term. This is a 14.1 per cent increase over last winter term, and 145 students more than the enroll ment at Oregon State University, which is 11,340, up 12.4 per cent from last year’s figure. Guy Lutz, assistant director of the state system’s Office of In stitutional Research, released the enrollment figures Monday. The total winter term enroll ment for the nine state institu tions is 39,508, he said, an in crease of 14.7 per cent from last year’s winter term. The greatest percentage in crease came at Oregon College of Education in Monmouth, where enrollment was up 27.5 per cent from last winter’s total of 1,594. OCE this year has 2,033 Other enrollment figures, with per cent of increase from last winter term: Portland State College, from 7,067 to 8,159, up 15.5; Southern Oregon College at Ashland, from 2.375 to 3,010, up 26.7; Eastern Oregon College at La Grande, from 1,134 to 1,301, up 14.7; Ore gon Technical Institute at Kla math Falls, from 987 to 1,042, up 5.6; University of Oregon Medi cal School at Portland, from 730 to 753, up 3.2; University of Ore gon Dental School, from 391 down to 385. down 1.5. Last year’s total winter term enrollment at the nine institu tions was 34,438.
