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Flemming Talks
On Campus Issues
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HS EMERALD
VoL LXVI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1966
School Workers
Sought
Page 3
No. 59
Election Delayed
One Week
By Constitution
Winter term ASUO elections
have been postponed one week
ASUO Vice President Tom
lark said he will ask the Sen
ate to postpone the election un
til the Constitutional Commit
tee can clear up a question of
low many offices a person can
hold under the ASUO Constitu
tion.
The general election will he
held Feb 9 instead of Feb. 2 The
primary has been postponed
from Jan 26 to Feb 2 The dead
line for candidates to file for the
positions open has been extend
ed from Tuesday until next Tues
day.
Two Running
The question about how many
offices one person can hold has
come up because two people who
already hold positions under the
Constitution have filed for an
other position
Rod Roth, graduate student
representative to the Senate, has
filed for senator-at-large, and
Freshman Class Vice President
Roger Could has filed for fresh
man president.
It's a questionable section in
the Constitution that's caused the
whole problem. That section —
Article IV, Section III—says that
"no member of this association
shall concurrently be a candi
date for more than one office un
der this constitution.” It doesn't
say anything about running for
one office when the persons holds
another one.
Committee
The Constitutional Committee is
a group of students and faculty
empowered to interpret the Con
stitution It's this group that must
decide whether that section of
the Constitution can take care of
this problem.
The Senate passed last winter!
(Coiilimird on pat)e 8)
Index
Editorials . page 6
Classified . page 7
Campus Briefs . page 2
Sports page 4
RABBI GIJMBEINER of the Hillel Foundation, Univer
sity of California at Berkeley, discusses Martin Buber’s
theory of problem-solving and its applications to Southern
racial conflicts at a YMCA Dialogue Tuesday. Gumbeiner
will also speak on Buber’s theory at a Browsing Room
Lecture at 8 p.m. today in the Student Union.
It isn't Easy'
Local Identity'
Peace Problem
By DAVIft BUTLER
Feature Editor
In an informal panel discus
sion last night in 150 Science,
former Peace Corps volunteers
decided that the world wide effect
of the corps depends extensively
on the local effect of the indi
vidual volunteer in local situa
tions.
“It is a very personal, face to
face relationship," Steve Knaebel,
Peace Corps recruiter said, “you
have to start with the grass
roots.”
To establish a workable rela
tionship, volunteers entering a
community are faced with iden
tifying themselves with local cus
toms and cultures. Cultures and
customs, said the recruiters, vary
not only within different areas
of countries, but also within the
communities themselves.
Caste System
Former volunteer Charlotte
Crawford faced strict caste sys
tems in Pakistan. Knaebel had to
explain the Peace Corps to citi
zens in Moron, Venezuela. Char
New UO Dormitory Plan
Now in Development Stage
If ail goes well, the Univer*
*ity may have a privately oper
ated dormitory by the fall of 1967.
The new unit Is In the early
stages of development by Dan
Davis Corporation of Portland.
No site has been chosen for
the new structure. Davis told the
Emerald by phone Tuesday night
that he hopes to travel to Eu
gene in about 30 days "to nego
tiate for property” on which to
construct the new unit.
If property is obtained at that
time. Davis said, construction
would begin "sometime this sum
mer." Target date for completion
of the building would be fall term
of 1967.
The project will have no con
nection with another private Uni
versity dormitory which is pres
t ently in the planning stage by a ■
Texas company on property be
tween 11th avenue and Broadway, j
north of the millrace.
Design of the new building will
be on an "apartment” basis, with
units for four to six students.
There will be no central eating \
quarters and students will have
to supply and prepare their own
food. The complex would be
staffed with student counselors
employed by the Davis Corpora-!
tion. Davis said that all appli
cations and screening for coun
selors will be done by the com-;
pany.
Questioned about closing hours l
I in the new unit, Davis said, “We
| would expect to abide by the
same rules that apply to the state
I owned dorms.”
University President Arthur S.
Flemming told the Emerald Tues
day night that the University had
not yet been contacted about the
new building.
Friday Last Day
To Drop Classes
Friday is the last day to
drop classes this term. Stu
dents dropping classes must
turn in all necessary papers
by 4 p.m. Contrary to an an
nouncement Tuesday, the final
registration deadline has al
ready passed. Students must
now petition to register late or
to add classes.
les ButJer entered Venezuelan
slums to try to convince fisher
men to form a cooperative in their
fishing.
The discussion ranged from de
selection processes to qualifica
tions for married volunteers.
In referring to a magazine ar
ticle criticizing the de-selection
process of the corps, Knaebcl ex
plained the Peace Corps’ efforts
to revise the selection process as
an effort "to try to get the trainee
to select himself out.”
Counsel. Not Diagnose
In the past, the Corps has re
jected a candidate on a strictly
surprise, and in many cases un
known, basis. However, in the re
cent revision, selection commit
tees attempt to "become coun
selors rather than diagnostees.”
Other Peace Corps problems dis
cussed involved the total effect
of the corps as a peace agent. Ac
cording to former volunteer
Bruce Lawhead, the overall small
ness of the corps, and arrogance,
such as the French in Nigeria, to
Americans hinders the corps' total
efforts.
However, Jacqui Taylor, also
an ex-volunteer, felt “the educa
tional system in Nigeria couhi
not carry on without Peace Corps
volunteers. The people they do
have are going to college. The
people with college educations
were doing graduate study. In
Nigeria they knew immediately
you were with the Peace Corps.”
Mobility a Must
Peace Corps mobility was
stressed by the panelists. Mobil
ity, said the volunteers, is neces
sary in the corps. They must
adapt freely within their local sit
uations with different customs.
Adapting to local customs, in
addition to respecting them, is a
major qualification for a volun
teer. The panelists said the corps
does not expect volunteers to
change with the customs, but ra
ther move to flexibly within them.
A Peace Corps trainee, said re
cruiter Linda Pierce, should be
impressed that "there’s a job to
do, it isn’t an easy job and it isn’t
fun.”
In reference to liberal arts stu
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1Upward Bound' Students Voice Opinions
Editor’s Note: This is the seeond in
a series of three articles on the Up
ward Bound program at the Univer
sity. Part three will deal with the
program's administrators and advisors.
By ALLEN BAILEY
Associate Editor
Armando Laguardia is a soft-spoken
young Cuban who has only spoken Eng
lish for the last three years.
Now he is attending the University
under the Upward Bound program.
"I really like it,” he says of the pro
gram, grateful for the opportunity to
come to the University.
“I don’t sec anything wrong with it
. . . and I think it's helped everyone in
it,” Armando continued.
And the program has indeed helped
Armando Laguardia.
When he graduated from high school
in Portland last spring, he went to work
in a hotel, planning to work part-time
while attending Portland State College
in the fall.
LIVED IN HOME
Armando lived in a foster home until
he was 18, after coming from Cuba three
years ago. When he was 18, he moved
away from the foster home and sup
ported himself.
His father is a doctor in Cuba and
hopes to come to the United States
within the next few years.
He is now preparing for a major in
pre-medicine. However, since he speaks
both Spanish and English well, he is
also considering a major in languages.
Though his grades were not quite what
he had hoped for last term, Armando
feels he can raise them considerably
this term. He is taking 13 hours, besides
auditing English composition.
“1 believe everybody in this program
is qualified to get good grades,” he af
firmed, adding that he had guessed wrong
last term as to which Upward Bound
students would do well. The ones whom
he thought would get the best grades
didn’t, and vice versa.
•GAVE CONFIDENCE’
As for the eight-week summer orienta
tion program given to the students in
Upward Bound, Armando said it "gave
me a lot of confidence.”
"If we do well, many kids back home
will get a chance to go to school, too,”
he concluded.
Emma Perez is a pretty, dark-haired
girl from Silverton, Oregon, who isn't
sure just why she was chosen for the
Upward Bound program, but who is cer
tainly glad she has been given the
chance.
"I was going to go to a beauty school,”
she said, "because I couldn’t alford to go
to college.”
She was chosen for Upward Bound
through the Valley Migrant League,
though her father is not a migrant; she
and her family came from Texas six
years ago. where her father was an ag
ricultural laborer. Her mother is from
Mexico.
Now that she has had a chance to see
what college is like, however, Emma
says she definitely wants to finish her
education Although over 70 per cent of
the Upward Bound students are now on
academic probation, her grades were a
solid 2 45.
“The ones that are really trying” will
be able to bring their grades up this
term, she said, referring to those on
probation.
Upward Bound students even put out
their own newspaper, which is edited by
Meade Grier.
Meade graduated from Jefferson High
School in Portland in 1964 and has work
ed most of the time since then. He
couldn’t afford to attend college, even
though his high school grades were good
enough.
“I wanted to go to school, but there
was no way,” he explained.
He learned about the Upward Bound
program two days before he left Port
land to come to the summer program at
the University.
•UPSIDE DOWN’
Upside Down is the name of the
mimeographed weekly paper published
by Upward Bound students.
“Everything was kind of upside down”
last fall, and the paper was started to
“get ideas out to kids who were kind of
controversial,’- Meade explained. Differ
ent groups of people in the program
held discussions among themselves, but
needed a way to communicate with each
other
Meade thinks the over all Upward
Bound program is doing a good job.
"At first . . . they were as new at it as
we were ... all the teachers had the
authority. Now we have the student
council and the newspaper, and the kids
are more involved in it,” he finished.
“They didn’t really get the help that
they should have had last term.” he gave
as a partial reason for the number of
low grades received by students in Up
ward Bound. He explained that things
such as seminars will help to bring those
grades up during winter term.
WANTS ARCHITECTURE
Ken Laverdure is a shy young man
from Portland; he likes working with
his hands, enjoys his sculpture and de
sign studio classes, and wants to be an *>■
architect.
“An opportunity that I wouldn’t have
had, going to school on my own” is how
he described his participation in the
program.
However, Ken said he doesn’t think
he was prepared well enough for a col
lege education, particularly in English
composition. “I enjoy my schoolwork if
it draws my interest,” he said.
“I thought it was great at first, but
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