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Senate Passes Resolution Page 2 OREGON DAILY EMERALD Dads' Day Discussions Page 3 Vol. I,XVI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1966 No. 62 At Tongue Point Staffers Wives Object to Plan From AH Reports ASTORIA—A group of women who live in old Navy housing on Heights above the Tongue Point Job Corps Center said Friday they didn’t like the idea of the corpsmen being moved into their residential district. Most of some 40 who called on Director Douglas V. Olds to protest the move are wives of men employed at the cen ter. What do the husbands have to say, Olds was asked afterward. “I don’t know,” he said. “None of them protested when we talked about it at a Thursday staff meeting.” CENTER TO EXPAND The center now ha* about 000 enrollees and plans are under way to build this to 1,250 Olds said it was known when the center was opened a year ago that it would be necessary to build a dormitory, move the housing to the base or move the enrollees to the housing. He said the last was the most economical and the staff talked it over "I thought I had a positive reaction," he said. Then Friday the women descended. Olds said a few men were about, including reporters, and he couldn’t be sure that all of those protesting were women, but it seemed that all were, except possibly one or two (tlds said half a dozen spoke at the Friday meeting and some said they would take petitions to Arthur Flemming, president of the University, which is in charge of the training center. FLEMMING CALLED One of the wives reportedly called Flemming to protest the slated action Me could not be reached for comment Sunday. L'nlesfc Flemming changes the plan, corpsmen will lie assigned in groups of 22 to the four plex housing There is enough to accommo date 385 families Some 218 families live there. About 22 will be moved from quarters they now occupy to others in other parts of the housing area in order that the corpsmen may have their own community. Olds said about 350 would be the total number of corpsmen housed there Me said some of the women appeared to be afraid to live near the corpsmen Others said they wanted to keep their professional and family lives separated Olds said if the families of the teachers are afraid of the young men, then the families "have no place in the Job Corps program.” OI,I>8 KKBl'KES PROTESTS Me said at the Friday meeting that he thought what was going on was "absolutely absurd," according to a story in the Oregon Journal "If you're afraid of the corpsmen, you'd better tell your husbands to start looking for a job somewhere else," Olds was quoted as saying The Office of Economic Opportunity, in charge of federal poverty programs, has suggested that the trainees be moved into the Heights housing to relieve housing shortages on the base. Olds said that the boys who live in Heights will be supervised, with adults living with them. One mother said at the meeting that she would be afraid to let her daughter play in nearby woods because of "homosexual" corps men Olds asked, 'What’s to prevent corpsmen from walking into the woods right now?" The Journal said that the leader of the opposition was Mrs. James Blake. The Heights housing area, consisting of four plexes formerly used to house Navy personnel when Tongue Point was a Naval Base, is about two miles south of the center, across U S. Highway 30. TEAM CAPTAIN JIM BARNETT drives downcourt during Fri day night’s 82-76 loss to the University of Southern California Tro jans Barnett picked up 18 points in the game to become the num ber two career scorer at the University. See story page 4. Photo by Jim Chaskin VISTA Week to Include Symposium, Films By KATHY MOORE Staff Writer “I welcome the representatives of President Johnson’s staff who will be recruiting on campus this week,” said University President Arthur S. Flemming in opening VISTA Week. “VISTA volunteers make the War on Poverty personal by tak ing assistance into homes and neighborhoods. The VISTA pro gram will have appeal espe cially to those students wish ing to gain personal satisfactions ☆ ☆ from working with the poor But I hope that all of our college com munity will become better ac quainted with the War on Pover ty during VISTA Week,” Flem ming continued. From a shack on the Student Union lawn the student VISTA committee, aided by a team of na tional recruiters will coordinate a five-day series of events. Among the activities planned are a po tentially explosive symposium on Tuesday, and five movie-discus sions. ☆ & Recruiter Tells About Program By UIKISSY D. FLORE A Staff Writer The responsibility for correct ing a problem doesn’t necessarily lie with the individual. It lies with the society as well. This was the view expressed by George C. Koch, staff assistant to the director of Volunteers in Serv ice to America (V'ISTA) recruit ment in a news interview Thurs day. Koch, who will be on campus during this week for the VISTA week program, went on to say if people don't like something in society, it is their obligation to do something about it. “People are becoming awate of their responsibilities," he said. They are going out to meet them. ' Twenty-five years ago volunteers had to be affluent in order to sus tain themselves.” This meant that volunteers were of a certain strata which produced certain ideas and resulted in certain ap proaches to problems. “Today, volunteers are taken from a cross section of the so ciety.” He pointed out that be cause of this cross sectioning, volunteers can come to VISTA with a variety of experiences which enables programs to find a broader scope of answers to prob lems. This is one of the reasons that VISTA requires no specific edu cational requirements and no tests. "We are concerned about bringing as much depth to the problems as possible, depth in the form of people,” he said. He stressed the point that VISTA judges each person as himself and on what he can con : tribute. A tall, clean cut young man, Koch said, "I wouldn’t ask anyone i to join VISTA. This is something he must decide for himself. All I ask is that an individual stop by, pick up some of our mater ial, and read it.” When asked about VISTA’s ex pected turnout, Koch said he hasn’t tried to make any predic-1 tions. He noted, however, that: last year the University was among the top three schools in re cruitment. ’’We try to inform as many as possible.” Koch said. He cited i information, education, and back ground on the VISTA work as the chief aims of VISTA week. I The symposium will be a discus sion among Raymond Lowe, dir ector of the VISTA training pro gram at the University, Leslie Fleming, past coordinator of the John Birch Society for the State of Oregon, Kenneth Viegas, chief of the Family Service Program of the Lane County Youth Study Project, and Glade Shimanek, Eugene attorney and member of the mission movement ".Seventy” of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, on "The Role of the U.S. Government and the Volunteer in the Social Ser vices.” The views of Fleming and Lowe are expected to clash strongly and a rousing debate is forecast. The films, "some documentary classics” according to George Koch, a national recruiter, in clude the late Edward R Mur row’s masterpiece, "A Harvest of Shame The film, originally pro duced by CBS for national televi sion, tells without paternalistic cliches the plight of America’s migrant workers. The other mov ies show different facets of pover ty in the United States— dealing with Appalachia and metropolitan slums. The national recruiters will be available in the VISTA shack to discuss their experiences and ex plain the aims of VISTA. "I have no patience with people who arc frightened by a mammoth prob lem, said Koch. “We really can’t be worried about the possible ef fects of cybernation 10 years from now. If we worry about clearing the second hurdle we’ll never clear the first one.” "Volunteers,” continued Koch, "are catalysts, no more, no less. The measure of a VISTA success will be how little he is missed when he leaves. He must try in stilling spirit in the people with whom he works.” At the same time he must be wary of not pressing his middle class values on another group of people. There is no job in the War on Poverty for a Pepsi-Gen eration soldier. The poor have a i Continued on page 7) Hoyt Discusses Standards For Newspaper Criticism By ANNETTE BUCHANAN Staff Writer Newspapers should be criticized on their own merits and not com pared to the nation's outstanding papers, according to Palmer Hoyt, editor and publisher of the Den ver Post, in the 47th annual Eric Allen Memorial Lecture at the Friday luncheon of the Oregon Press Conference. Hoyt, a 40-year veteran in the newspaper field and a 1923 Uni versity graduate in journalism, was one of Allen’s students. Allen was the first dean of the School of Journalism. About 250 profes sional newsmen and guests at tended the conference, sponsored jointly by the School of Journal ism and the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. The speech title “Apples. Or anges, and Bananas” Hoyt ex plained, refers to the way critics compare papers which are not at all alike, rather than judging them individually. Not Newspapers “The New York Times, Chris tian Science Monitor, and Wall Street Journal cannot be called 'newspapers’ and used as a stand ard for others,” Hoyt said. “The bulk of papers in the United States is printed in small cities. Thus they cannot be compared with the larger papers.” Hoyt called the New York Times an encyclopedia, not a newspaper. He paraphrased the motto of the paper, "all the news that’s fit to print," saying, “all the news that fits, we print,” and "all the news one man can carry,” re ferring to the size of the paper. "The best unedited publication anywhere,” said Hoyt about the paper, rated number one in the nation by critics. McCall to Speak At Coffee Hour Tom McCall, the only an nounced Republican candidate for governor, will speak at 4 p.m. today in the Student Union Dads’ Room. McCall is now Secretary of State and a member of the State Board of Control. When he was elected in 1964 he polled 432,000 votes, the largest total ever re ceived by an Oregon Secretary of State. The informal coffee hour and speech, to be followed by a question and answer discussion period, is being presented by the University Young Republicans. The speech is open to the pub lic and all interested persons are invited to attend. Refreshments will be served. A small daily cannot cater to a select cosmopolitan group as does the New York Times, Hoyt said. It the Times did pay more atten tion to social, political, and cri minal problems the city of New \ork might be improved, he said. Interest Groups The Christian Science Monitor and the Wall Street Journal also cater to specific interest groups according to Hoyt. They do not play the same role as do general daily papers. “Proper criticism is healthy,” Hoyt said. "Newspapers of all in stitutions ought not to be thin skinned about criticism. We give enough of it and should be able to take it.” “Many papers need it badly,” he continued. But it must fit the oftfTender and the offense and take into account the circum stances, Hoyt said. (Continued on page 7) ARHmWRHHtnMIlHINMIllNlilHIfWMUiMWMMWHIIHIWWitluulWMMK Index 1 Editorials .page 6 I I Classified .page 7 § | Campus Briefs page 2 1 f Sports .page 4 J SiiiiiiniHiimuuuuiuiiiiiHiiiumHDiBiiininHmiiunumniiiHu,,,,,,,,.
