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Vol. LXVI
OREGON
DAILY
EMERALD
Ecumenical
Hootenanny
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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.
(Continued on page 2)
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Index
1 Editorials .page 10 1
I Classifieds .page 11 |
| Sports .page 4, 5 |
| Campus Briefs.page 6 |
| Religious News .page 3 |
| Entertainment .page 8 |