Oregon daily emerald., February 01, 1966, Page Eight, Image 8

Opposes Student Draft
EOC Registrar
Quits Draft Board
LA GRANDE (AP)—The pro
gram for drafting college stu
dents into military service is
both unrealistic and unfair, Lyle
H. Johnson said in a letter re
leased today, announcing his re
signation from the La Grande
draft board.
Johnson, who also is registrar
of Eastern Oregon College, sug
gested it would “be more fair to
use some form of random selec
tion” than to base selection on
grade point averages and test
scores.
Moreover, he said, “I find my-1
self in an untenable position of
calling college students into the
armed forces on the one hand
and on the other as registrar at
Eastern Oregon doing every- j
thing possible to keep these stu
dents in school.”
He said there is little correla
tion between college grade point
averages and success in later life,
and to base draft selection on
these is “entirely unrealistic and
unfair.”
Johnson said the registrar’s
office had been deluged “with
students presenting forms from
their respective boards asking for
the number of credits they are
carry ing, their cumulative grade
point average and their grade
point average the past term.
"Furthermore, these young
men are advised by their boards
that unless this information is
furnished within two weeks they
will be classified 1-A.
•'The college had not been no
tified of this procedure and as of
this date had not been able to
figure the cumulative grade
point averages since the fall
term . .
The resignation was sent to
Sprague Carter, Portland, Ore.,
director of Selective Service,
who had announced last week
that the information would be re
quired and that the deadline
for getting it back was two
weeks.
At the time he said it was
up to the institutions to meet
the deadline if they didn't want
their students to lose their defer
ments.
At the University, Clifford
Constance, University registrar,
said his office would be "in grave
trouble” if it has to supply all
the information which he has
heard in news reports that Car
ter has called for. He said local
boards have produced an "explo
sion of forms.”
A spokesman at Portland
Community College said counsel
ors had been handling some of
the clerical work in order to
keep up with the students' re
quests for reports. _
Oregon State University said
that since last Tuesday, it has
had more than 100 requests each
day from students to fill out
the reports. The registrar’s office
said that students were having to
wait one day for the reports
to be completed.
University May Gain
Zionist Chapter Soon
Students and faculty are needed
to help form an SZO (Zionist)
chapter on the University cam
pus, it was learned last week.
According to Mike Baer,
spokesman for the group, mem
bers of the chapter will be able
to participate in many activities
through it. Among these will be
an Israeli folk dancing group:
Kumsitz (small social gather
ings); large get-togethers featur
ing speakers, full-length films,
Israeli food, singing and danc
ing; celebration of Israeli inde
pendence and other major holi
days; the opportunity to attend
seminars in San Francisco, Port
land, and other major cities: and
small study groups with topics
ranging from Jewish literature to
philosophy.
While these activities may ap
peal more to Jewish persons, Baer
said that the group would have
no specific religious affiliations
and that all are welcome to join
Baer may be contacted for fur
ther information at 345-0921
(nights) or 1885 (days). Dan
and Lynn Langmeyer at 344-9405
may also be reached for informa
tion.
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Business School Establishes
Transport, Logistics Center
The University School of Busi
ness Administration has estab
lished a Transport and Logistics
Research Center, according to
Richard W. Lindholm, dean of
the school.
The Center will engage in
research into all phases of the
transportation industry. Lindholm
said. Although it has been in the
planning stages for some time, it
was established at the same time
that President Johnson request
ed Congress to establish a Depart
ment of Transportation as a cab
inet post.
Director of the new Center
will be Harold K. Strom, who
joined the Business Administra
tion School faculty last fall as
an associate professor of transpor
tation. His specialty is logistics.
Research associates in the Cen
ter will include Lindholm, whose
special area is taxation: Roy
Sampson, professor of transpor
tation. whose specialty is trans
portation economics; and Charles
F. Ziebarth, professor of trans
portation, Portland, whose special
ty is traffic management.
Viet Nam Spurs
ROTC Sign-ups
From AP Reports
The Viet Nam situation was
credited Wednesday with spur
ring enrollments in officer train
ing programs at the University
and Oregon State University —
Oregon's two largest institutions
of higher education.
A survey by Associated Press
indicated that nearly 1,200 men
are in officer training programs
at the two institutions.
Compared to what it was be
fore, said Col. Horton Fross of
the Air Force program at Ore
gon State, "they’re beating the
doors down.”
He said about 85 students were
waiting to get into the program.
Col. A. E. Fossum of the Army
officer program at the University
said “we're getting a few more
men” because of the Viet Nam
situation.
However, he said a more impor
tant factor in increased enroll
ment was an authorization by
I Congress last year for a two year
, Army officer program.
Until then the Army program
|—like the Air Force and Navy
programs—required four years of
college participation.
Fossum said 288 men are in
the Army program at the Univer
sity with some GO juniors signed
up for the two-year plan.
He said he expects next year’s
class for the two - year program
to result in the school’s largest
number of commissioned officers
since the Korean war.
Oregon State has 210 men in
the Army program, with 16 un
der the two-year plan.
In the Air Force program,
which takes four years, the Uni
versity has 250 and OSU has 240.
OSU also has a Navy program,
four years, with 200 enrolled.
For the last four years, offi
cer programs have been volun
tary at the University and Ore
gon State. Before that, all male
students had to take the first two
years of a four-year officer pro
gram.
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Although other West Coast uni
versifies have transportation cur
riculums, Dean Lindholm said
that no organized research center 1
similar to the University's ex
ists in the West, and the only i
other such center is concerned
only with transportation and does
not include logistics (distribu
tion).
The primary purpose of the
Center will be research in both
transportation and distribution
management pertinent to the
state and the nation.
Executive development pro
grams for personnel in the Held
of transportation and distribution
management will be arranged
through the Center.
The Center plans to pursue a
program of comparative analysis
of transportation and physical dis
tribution activities through co
operative programs with indus
try and government and contacts
with similar organizations in oth
er countries.
Important in the operation of
the Center will be the involve
ment of University students, both
at the graduate and undergradu
ate levels, in the research work
Information regarding the Cen
ter's research and its implications
and application in the Held of
transportation and distribution
will be distributed as a part of
the Center's service, according to
Dean Lindholm.
Strom, whose position as direc
tor of the Center is effective im
mediately, came to Oregon this
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fall from the University of Cal
ifornia at Lou Angelos, where he
has been an assistant professor
since 19ti4.
Sampson, who will be a re
search associate in the Center, is
nationally recognized in the held
of transportation, lie has just
been elected vice president of the
Pacific Northwest Advisory Board,
organization of some 800 North
west shippers.
Ziebarth, also a research as
sociate, is currently in Mexico
studying management policies of
the state run railroad system
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