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Groups View Viet Nam VuW H Vol. LXVI OREGON DAILY EMERALD Ecumenical Hootenanny Page 3 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1966 No. 61 Planning Committee Press Question Raised Again The* University's Planning Com mittee never got around to dis cussion of campus planning Thursday. Instead, it spent 40 minutes discussing press coverage, then referred the whole question hack to University President Arthur S Flemming It will be the second time in two months Flemming has had to make a decision on press cov erage of the Planning Committee The first time he ruled that the press could attend all meetings Of the Committee hut that the Committee could go into execu tive session "when it is consider ing matters related to persons or land values." In such discussions the press would stay in the room hut Flem ming expected that they would not report on what happened. The Planning Committee ad vises Flemming on long range campus planning, building plans, and parking. What finally caused the Com mittec to adjourn, with a 9 2 vote on a motion by Donlyn Lyndon, head of the department of archi tecture, was a statement by Dan Wyant, a reporter from the Eu gene Register-Guard. The Committee went into ex ecutive session to discuss long range campus plans prepared by Acting Chairman John Dallas. Hut Wyant said his paper’s policy is to print Everything ex cept matters related to land aqu isition and personnel. He said the Register Guard would not leave out discussions of archi tects, although the laws of libel would prevent the inclusion of many comments usually made during such discussions. r.meraiti Associate r.ouor mil Sernas said the Emerald will abide by Flemming's statement. He said that the Emerald will print all Committee discussion except that concerning personalities, in cluding architects, and land aqui sition. The question came up when Committee Member Fred J. Mohr, special assistant to the dean of the Graduate School, moved to go into executive session. Mohr said Felrnming's decision raised a question about whether the Committee is a legislative or advisory body. Lallas, director of planning and institutional re search, noted that Flemming had since clarified that he still con sidered the group to he advisory “As a legislator I’ll stand up and take my licks," said Mohr, “but not as an advisor." In a letter he sent to other Committee members last term Mohr said the Committee shouldn't be covered by the press if it is only an ad visory body. Graham Hoyle, professor of bi ology, seconded Mohr’s motion, then withdrew his second when be found out that the press could ((. untinued on pane 2) Research Grants Given To University Biologists By ALLEN BAILEY Associate Editor Two University faculty mem bers have received Career Devel opment Awards from the Nation al Institute of Health (NIH), and the awards may be worth as much as $400,000 over a ten-year period. William R. Sistrom and Donald E. Wimber, both associate biology professors, will have their salar ies and incidental expenses paid for the next five years by NIH, with a possibility for renewal for another five. The award will amount to an estimated $20,000 per year for each man. This award will make it pos sible for these scientists to light en their teaching loads, at the WILLIAM R. SISTROM and Donald E. W'imber, both associate professors of biology, discuss their 10-vear National Institute of flealth grants at a news conference Thursday. The awards will allow both men to continue research while teaching at the University. Students May Face Exams to Remain 2-S WASHINGTON (AP) — Selec tive Service Director Lewis B Hershcy has indicated some col lege students may face induc tion if draft calls continue to run above 30,000 monthly. "I think 30,000 as a diet is too great for us: that's 360,000 a year,” Hershey said, apparently meaning that if calls exceed that figure college students who fail to meet specified requirements may be drafted. Monthly draft calls lately have been running around 40.CMK). As for the requirements, Her shey said “the odds are strong” there will be a return to a sys tem of testing and consideration of class standing, as was used during the Korean War, in grant ing deferments to college stu dents. During the Korean War, class standing tests usually gave defer ments to: • Freshmen in the upper half of the class. • Sophomore in the upper two thirds. • Juniors in the upper three fourths. The draft director met during the day with Eastern and Mid western state draft directors. He said a decision will have to be made within the next 10 days—by Feb. 1—in order for any testing to begin before the end of the current academic year. The results would apply then for the 1966-67 college year. Local draft boards could use the results as guides in deciding on student deferments. But Her shey emphasized that the local boards are not required to fol low the test results. Election Slated For Constitution Students will vote again this winter on amendments to the ASUO Constitution. The ASUO Senate decided Thursday to put amendments, which failed to pass fall term be cause not enough students voted, on the ballot for the ASUO pri mary Feb. 2 If the necessary 25 per cent of the student body fails to vote in that election, the amendments will go on the gen eral election ballot Feb. 9. One more amendment was added to the original list. It says that all offices which fall vacant will be filled during the next election, except for ASUO presi dent and class presidents. Those two offices will be filled by the vice president until the next spring term election, except for (Continued on page 12) Peace Corps Breaks Records; Recruiting Drive Soars to 362 By DAVID BUTLER Feature Editor Over 360 University students in four days have signed applica tion lists in the information tent to test for the Peace Corps. In its fourth day, Peace Corps Week re cruiting was outdistancing all corps campus recruiting records. Last year Peace Corps recruit ers netted 88 applicants in a sim ilar drive. Several reasons are attributed to the success of Peace Corps Week: • The information tent that oc cupies a strategic position in front of the Student Union. Since last year’s lobby decision ruling that no tables be allowed in the SU lobby, Peace Corps recruiters were forced to find somewhere else for an information center. At first, the thought of a tent made the returned volunteers somewhat wary. However, said Steve Knaebel, a member of the recruiting team, the tent has be come a major factor in drawing, first in drawing students’ interest, then drawing them inside from the frigid January air. • The presence of return vol unteers rather than Peace Corps staff members has also played an important factor. In the past, staff members from Washington, D.C., did all or most of cam pus recruiting. However, returned volunteers on campus, said Knae bel, were more effective "because students could identify with us more readily.” • Speaking before classes, said the recruiters, also raised the turn-out rate. • The nature of the University itself, said Knaebel, is a main rea son for the recruiting success. Success, offered Knaebel, is due “part to the fact Oregon has al ways had a commitment to the Peace Corps." The recruiting team is astound ed with the response. With today the last day, they are hoping to hit 400, double their original es timation of 200. “It really is incredible we have 362 people signed up,” gasped Knaebel. "I think it is fantastic.” The University of Washington, with double the University’s en rollment, signed 282 students two weeks ago, which pushed them to second in the U S. at that time. Today is the last day of Peace Corps Week. Class visitations, question and answer periods at living organizations, and sign-ups in the information tent continue through late afternoon. Testing will continue today also, and will run through Tues day. Times and room numbers are posted in the information tent and SU. Recruiters stressed that al though applicants apply in such large groups, the tests are non competitive and the number of students taking tests does not in fluence an applicant’s chances. | same time making it possible for the University to hire additional | faculty members to take over I some of their duties. More Research Lightening their teaching loads will enable Wimber and Sistrom | to devote more of their time to i research work. They will, how ever, still instruct at the Univer sity. Wimber, 36, attended San Diego State College as an undergradu ate and received his doctorate at Claremont College in California. In 1958-60, he was a post-doc toral fellow at the Brookhaven National Laboratory; he was also a post-doctoral fellow at the Roy al Cancer Hospital in London, in 1960-61; and from 1961-63 Wim ber was an assistant biologist at the Brookhaven National Labora tory. This biologist’s research is an investigation of the growth of cell populations in live animals and plants, as well as these cells’ re - actions to environmental changes. Uses Poison He creates these environmen tal changes by using poison and | X-ray radiation on the cells. ; Other research Wimber is con ducting involves the study of the duplication of hereditary ma terial, such as chromosomes; how ; they are made up and how they divide and duplicate. The cytology, or study of the ; cell structure, of cultivated or ! chids is also one of Wimber’s main interests. In fact, his hob by is growing orchids. Sistrom, 39, was an undergrad uate at Harvard University and received his doctorate from the University of California at Ber keley. NSF Fellow He was a National Science Foundation pre-doctoral fellow in 1952-53; a junior research bacter iologist at Berkeley in 1954-55: a United States Public Health Ser vice post-doctoral fellow in the Institute Pasteur, Paris, 1955-57; an instructor in the department of microbiology in the New York | University School of Medicine, 1957- 58; and an assistant profes ! sor of biology at Harvard from 1958- 63. Most of Sistrom’s research is into the physiology of a certain type of bacteria, which lives by a photo synthetic process, simil ! ar to that which enables plants : to take carbon dioxide from the air and remove the carbon from it for food. Sistrom is attempting to find the molecular structure of those parts of cells in which the photo synthetic reactions occur—and to find out how such cells are able to change with changes in their environment. Green Bacteria The photo-synthetic bacteria are green in color and can be found in the soil in the Eugene area. Sistrom wants to find "the relation of the structure of the cells to the processes they carry out.” Wimber presently teaches a four-hour course in cytology (the study of the organisms which make up cells), while Sistrom teaches a senior graduate course in microbiology and an under graduate course in cell physio logy. 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