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Student Exchange 1'age 2 OREGON DAILY Delano 'Slave System' Page 3 Vo!. LXVI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1966 No. 99 Todays Rally to Ask Student Voice' Coming to Campus Shriver to See Festival, Attend Job Corps Meet Office of Economic Opportunity Director Sargent Shriver and four members of Oregon's Con gressional delegation, will prob ably attend a student run discus sion session on the Job Corps, planned for the University’s Job Corps Center at Tongue I'oint. Shriver will be on the Univer sity campus April 15 and 16 for the University's International Festival April 16 he will attend at least part of a Student Union sponsored Oregon Assembly at Tongue I’oint, according to Eddie Keyes, activities director of the Student Union. The group will continue on April 17. Sen Wayne Morse (D-Ore), will also definitely attend the discussions. Earlier this week. Morse, generally a supporter of SU Hearings Continue, SDS Not Present By VANCE WELTY SUfl Writer The Student Union Board went into its second day of hearings Tuesday with most of the dis cussions centering on responsibil ity to student opinion. The hearings were reportedly being boycotted by the SDS be cause they feel that the board serves no useful function How ever. since they were not present at the hearings to present their arguments, nobody could find out what alternatives they had in mind. Steve Myers, a freshman in pre-med brought up the point that as of now, there is no underclass man representation on the board He suggested that the hoard ac cept a third-term freshman to sit on the board as a non-voting member to gain experience prior to becoming a full member. Elected Body Should Control Phil Sernas, ASUO Senator and associate editor of the Emerald, said that since the SU board is a policy-making organization, an elected body should have some control over its functions. In this way, he added, the board would be more responsive to student views. Art Tarlow, law student, said, “If we’re reviewed by some other group, like the ASUO Senate, why not let them do the rest of our jobs? Why shouldn't we review our own actions?” Sernas argued that since the SU Board is not chosen by the (Continued on page 8) Emerald Petitions Due Today Petitions for the positions of editor and business manager of the Emerald are now available and must be completed and re turned by 5 p.m. today in Room M101, Student Union. The petitions are also avail able in the same room. The Student Publications Board will interview for the two positions April 11. i the "war on poverty,” made sev eral critical statements about the program. Green Might Attend Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.), one; of the most vocal critics of OEO, | will also probably attend, though her plans are not definite as I yet, according to Reyes. Reps Robert Duncan. Democrat, and Wendell Wyatt, Republican, will also be at the Center. The discussions will involve these people plus 35 other peo ple—10 faculty and 25 students -from the University, 35 staff and Corpsmen from Tongue Point, and 20 students from Clat sop Community College in As toria. The two major addresses at the assembly will be made by Uni versity President Arthur S. Flem ming and Tongue Point Program Director Harold McAbee. Shri ver and the others will not speak but will participate in the dis 'cussions. The title of the program is the ; "Job Corps and the Great Soci ety." Among the questions they will consider are the race prob lems, difficulties with townspeo ple and other criticisms of the I program Flemming to Speak Flemming will speak at 3 p m . McAbee at 7:30 pm. The rest of the day will be taken up with discussions. There will be a general as-; sembly the morning of April 17 Participants in the program will stay at the center. Reyes said most of the faculty members and students have been chosen but not all have been named as yet. The Student Union will also sponsor a Job Corps exhibition on campus April 25. The SU will also sponsor a panel discus sion on Private Line Three April 25 to discuss the Job Corps. Keyes said that the Corps men will attempt to present exhibits in the SU which will give some idea of the way Tongue Point center is run. ASUO Leaders to Talk At 'Speakers Platform ASUO President Steve Goldschmidt will lead a student rally today to show that students want a voice in the decision making processes of the University. The rally, which will begin at 3:45 p.m. today, will be held at the Free Speech Platform on the Student Union Terrace. Originally, the rally was supposed to coincide with the April faculty meeting, but University President Arthur S. Flemming announced Monday that he was postponing the faculty meeting one week. Despite the postponement, Gold schmidt will still lead the rally today. Goldschmidt, ASUO Senators Henry Drummonds. Marvin Feuerberg, and Chuck Pruitt will speak during the rally, as DONALD Dl'N'CAN, former sergeant of the l\S. special forces in Viet Nani who attacked the war in Ramparts magazine, will speak at the SL! Thursday, His lecture is sponsored by the Student Faculty Committee to Stop the War in Viet Nam. will other students and faculty members. Jim Hill, a freshman member of Young Americans for Free dom, a right-wing political club, has announced that he intends to conduct a counter-demonstration or “vigil anti” during the rally. The speakers at the rally will discuss student involvement in the educational process, includ ing student suggestions for cur riculum reform and an ASUO Senate request that the faculty vote to allow the ASUO President and one other student into fac ulty meetings in the future. Flemming said Tuesday that he was sending out invitations to faculty members and students to serve on the Faculty-Student Council at once. Last Wednesday the Faculty Senate voted to recommend to the faculty that the question of allowing the two students to at tend faculty meetings in the fu ture be referred to the Faculty Student Council, a newly-estab lished faculty committee. € m—nir- • ■ ..sssts.^i Index j Editorials _page 6 | Classified _ page 7 | Campus Briefs . page 7 § 8 Sports . page 4 | ^teve Cjofilsclm idt A Letter to Faculty, Students ASl’O President Steve Goldschmidt analyzes the factors surrounding today’s student rally, inviting students and faculty members to participate. The last four years have witnessed an increased participation in issues of local, national, and international significance by Uni versity of Oregon students. Students attacked “in loco parentis” and worked with the faculty to establish the Student Conduct Code. Students devel oped a Migratory Labor Project—the first of its kind to be fi nanced by a federal agency. Students began discussing, studying, and taking stands on issues like the South African Apartheid. HUAC, and Viet Nam. University of Oregon students involved themselves in this country’s greatest social issues by going south as civil rights workers and by working in the slums of America's cities. As on other campuses, students at the University of Oregon have also begun to investigate the problems of higher education. We have begun “lobbying” in the towns and cities of Oregon, as well as at the State Legislature, for increased support to higher education. The students have worked for a faculty evaluation process which will be implemented this year. We have estab lished a Curriculum Committee which has drafted a dozen pro posals for faculty consideration. Student interest in the problems and processes of higher edu cation is natural. Students realize, as do faculty members, that the future of higher education depends to a great extent on the quality of "lay” leadership developed by this state and its insti tutions of higher education. Unless students understand, partici pate in, and commit themselves to higher education, higher education may not receive the necessary tax support from the public in the future. The rally scheduled for the Free Speech Platform at 3:45 p.m. today is a natural extension of the interest in higher education which many students have displayed throughout the year. The rally is not intended to threaten the faculty or the admin istration of the University of Oregon. It is rather an opportunity for students and faculty to participate in a discussion of the problems of higher education confronting members of today's academic community. In discussion with faculty members. I was surprised to learn that many thought the students were planning a demonstration, a sit-in, or other coercive tactics to pressure the faculty to accept the ASUO Senate’s recommendation to allow two student repre sentatives to attend faculty meetings. (The ASUO President and one other student.) Nothing was further from our minds. Instead this rally is intended to broaden the discussion which students will unquestionably pursue, relative to the future direction of higher education at the University of Oregon. Likewise, some faculty members thought I withheld my ap pointments to the Student-Faculty Council as a means of pres suring the faculty into accepting the ASUO Senate’s recommen dation. This was not my intent. To this day, I have not received a formal request for student nominations to the Council, nor have I seen a copy of the faculty motion establishing the Council. I would also point out that the faculty appointments to the Council have not yet been made. To a large extent this may be the result of finals week, and the absence of both President Flemming and myself for over two weeks. I have now recom mended to President Flemming my appointments for the Student Faculty Council, as has the Faculty Committee on Committees. In this letter I have not attempted to discuss the reasons why students should be allowed representation in faculty meetings; however, it is my hope that all other student-faculty grievances and misunderstandings will be set aside in an effort to facilitate the discussion of this one very important issue. I look forward to a large student-faculty participation at today's discussion.
