OREGON DAILY EMERALD
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represent the opinions of the ASUO or the University. Opinions expressed in signed columns
are those of the writer.
LOUIE ABRAMSON
Business Manager
MAXINE ELLIOTT
News Editor
CHUCK BEGGS, Editor
BOB CARL
Managing Editor
PHIL SEMAS
Associate Editor
WILBUR BISHOP, JR.
Advertising Manager
ALLEN BAILEY
Associate Editor
Page 6 University of Oregon, Eugene, Monday. February 21, 1966
A Reasonable Proposal
Semite's Request Deserves Good Consideration
The ASUO Senate's resolution asking
that two representatives of the University
student body be allowed to attend faculty
meetings is a reasonable and moderate
proposal. It deserves full consideration by
the faculty.
The bill, passed unanimously Thursday
night, provides that the ASUO president,
plus one other student appointed by him
and approved by President Flemming, be
permitted to attend the meetings of the full
faculty. They would also be allowed to state
their views before the body, if given majori
ty consent by the faculty.
We have long felt that students have a
right to be heard before the faculty ses
sions. The general faculty is vested with
the power to make important decisions
which affect the students' pursuit of educa
tion at the University. Changes and addi
tions in curriculum are acted upon by the
faculty. Rules regarding student discipline
are formulated by the faculty. It was the
faculty that gave final approval to the Code
of Student Conduct now in force. But
through all these decision-making proces
ses. the student voice is never heard at the
faculty meetings.
It seems strange and a bit unfair that the
faculty chooses to do its business behind
closed doors, and refuses to pay direct at
tention to an important sector of the cam
pus—the students. This newspaper, along
with the Eugene Register-Guard, asked last
fall that members of the press be admitted
to the faculty meetings at which the Mosser
Plan was being debated. We were refused
by a nearly two to one vote.
Very little is done to promote good will
among faculty and students when the dis
cussions that lead up to the more important
decisions are carried on in secret. Allowing
the student body president, the most rep
resentative spokesman for the students’
views, to appear before the meeting would
do a great deal to enhance this relationship
and promote that good will, A mutual trust
and understanding between students and
faculty is essential in a University this large
and growing larger. One faction cannot af
ford to be alienated from the other.
Of course, it is hoped that the two repre
sentatives would be listened to by the fac
ulty before the decisions were made. To
day’s student has a high stake in his educa
tion, and is deeply concerned with it. He
should also have a strong voice in the poli
cy-making discussions that shape much of
that education.
A University, traditionally a place for
free exchange and discussion of ideas, is
no place for closed-door meetings.
No Crime Wave Here
At a recent Conduct Committee
meeting. Associate Dean of Students Fran
cis Nickerson beamed as he announced that
the students of the University had gone
another whole week without experiencing
a single criminal arrest.
He said this was the fifth week during
the school year students had stayed out of
trouble with downtown police.
Though Uncle Sam and midterms prob
ably had more to do with this docile be
havior than Dean Nickerson or an improve
ment in human nature, he and all the stu
dents still have a right to be proud.
After all, where else does one hear of a
community of 12,000 going a whole week
at a time without an arrest?
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Table Tennis
Emerald Editor:
The gentleman in charge of
the all-campus table tennis
tournament by providing for
his own interest and success in
the regional tournament de
prived the University of skilled
and more competent representa
tion in that tournament thereby
depriving the University of its
deserved championship
In the regional tournament
each school is allowed three
representatives—two for singles
and a best combination includ
ing one of the singles for
doubles. The gentleman in
charge of the all campus tourn
ament was defeated once in the
all-campus tournament. Two
others were defeated once and
twice respectively. 1 was unde
feated. For the regional tourna
ment the gentleman in charge
appointed himself and one who
was defeated twice to the
doubles team and the singles
team. As can be seen, he ap
pointed only two men to the
regional tournament: two men
who were each defeated. Is this
logical when he could have ap
pointed one more man, who
was undefeated?
Of course, it could be con
sidered logical from his point
of view Would he not have had
a better chance of winning the
tournament? He would have had
a better chance of winning but
he definitely lessened the Uni
versity's chances of winning
I would like the Student
Union, which sponsors this
event, to he aware of this ac
tion and to be more cautious in
the future.
Richard Hon
Sophomore, Chemistry
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“Wrong Topic”
Emerald Editor:
Apparently Mr. Jackson read
what he wanted to read in my
letter rather than that which
was written My topic was pro
tests —not Viet Nam--any pro
test, he it Viet Nam, taxes, cut
tin*; down park trees, etc.
My point was this: I believe
that each student should be
fully informed about any pro
test group to he certain that
it is not influenced by elements
whose interests are not con
cerned with the actual better
ment of American society.
I will specifically refer to
the American Nazi Party, the
John Birch Society, and the
Communist Party. 1 can not be
lieve that these groups are hon
estly striving to maintain our
principles of freedom. I do be
lieve that all of them would
and do operate on many a cam
pus within the framework of
guaranteed freedom to obtain
their goals and to destroy this
nation.
As for accusations and distor
tions, I consider Mr Jackson’s
entire letter a distorted accu
sation—the proof being a re
reading and comparison of my
letter and his reply.
I did not condemn protests
per se, inf a ct I viewed them
as an “acceptable and healthy
activity,” similarly 1 did not
sanction all protests.
Bob Ackerman
Senior, Hus. Admin.
Clttil' f ^rit ill
Senate, Students
And the Issues
Editor'ii Note: Chuck Pruitt
iii an ASU'O senator-at-large. In
this column he comments on the
role of the ASCO Senate and
the students of the University
in both campus and national and
international issues.
Most of the students on this
campus are peons. Other people
are making the decisions which
decide the course of our lives,
and yet most of us just sit back
and smugly say that we don't
care.
All that most of us really ex
pect from this university is a
G.P.A., a degree, and a reason
ably good time.
And that is not enough.
This University, this nation,
this world arc not as good as
they should be.
Our nation is involved in a
war which the overwhelming
majority of our citizens don’t
understand, half the world goes
to bed without enough to eat
and wakes up to a grim existence
concerned primarily with just
staying alive, and students at
the University are being bullied
by the campus administration
without even knowing it.
We have poverty, wars, and
bigotry because people find it
easier to ignore their problems,
yet we have a great nation be
cause certain men in the past
have cared enough about the
way they lived to spend some of
their winters at the Valley Forg
es, Vieksburgs, and Selmas.
Must Start Uproar
If we are to make a better
world, a better nation, and a
better University the students
and the Senate will have to be
come willing to start an uproar.
Frankly, the campus has had
good reason to be bored by their
student government because the
Senate has in the past conceived
of itself as a body which planned
social events and reorganized
itself.
During this year, however,
due to the efforts of men like
President Steve Goldschmidt,
and Senators Henry Drum
monds. Scott Karleigh, and Jim
Beat, the situation has been
radically changing
We still have a few senators
who are only interested in
changing the rules of Senate
meetings, who want to plan ban
quets and dances and who want
to increase school spirit, feat the
balance is changing in favor of
those who want to make this
University a better place to get
an education.
Curriculum Work
Senators and active students
are now working in the area of
curriculum so that new courses
will be added (such as the es
sentials of math); so that grad
ing will be changed to the pass
or fail system; so that PE.
courses will be goared to per
mit us to take any course we
want as often as we want; so that
Graduate School departments
will be granted the independ
ence to establish their own lang
uage requirements; so that a
board can be established to re
view obvious cases where pro
fessors have given students un
reasonable grades; and so that
programs can be instigated al
lowing us to regularly evaluate
our courses and teachers.
Senators are active in making
the University awaro of our
recreational and study space
needs. There are obviously not
enough handball or tennis
courts, nor are the library hours
as acceptable as they can be.
Trying to Change Rules
Senators are trying to change
the rules and regulations which
govern our behavior in order to
allow the students an opportu
nity to become the guardians of
their own morals.
If we aren’t men and women
by the time we come to this
place, we have no business here.
Nobody should be required to
live in a dorm against his wish
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