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Vol. LXVI
I DIVERSITY OF OREGON, FI GENE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 19«6
No. 104
Stanford Sigma Chi's
Reinstated by National
By PH II. SUM AS
Associate Editor
Thi* Sigma Chi chapter at Stan
ford has been taken off suspension
by its national organization.
But University President Ar
thur S. Flemming says he and
Oregon State President James
Jensen still plan to meet with
the national president of Sigma
Chi to discuss racial discrimina
tion policies.
Sigma Chi at Stanford was
placed on probation just after
they pledged a Negro last fall
The national claimed that the
suspension came for failure to
“comply with the ritual and for
not keeping the house clean ”
But several members of the
fraternity said they were sure the
suspension was for pledging a
Negro.
Stanford Sigma Chi President
Parry Hough told the Emerald
Tuesday that his chapter had been
officially reinstated "as a full
member of the national.”
But the Negro that Sigma Chi
pledged is not eligible to be a
pledge because his grades slipped
below standards of both the Stan
ford local and the national
What if he becomes eligible
again? "We'll cross that bridge
when the time comes,” Hough
says. "He's studying hard, trying
to get eligible again."
His next chance will be in June
when grade reports coine out
again.
President Flemming said he'd
had no official word from the
Sigma Chi national on the rein
statement of the Stanford chap
ter.
He said he and President Jen
sen had been waiting until after
the national took action on the
Green Appalled
By Corps' Cost
Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore), told
a Stanford University audience
Monday that the new war on pov
erty programs are "siphoning
off" money and talent from exist
ing school and college systems
which need both urgently.
Mrs. Green specifically criti
cized the Job Corps. She said
she was "appalled” by the cost
of the corps and the small num
ber of persons who benefit.
She said costs run to $13,000
a year per trainee and that only
18.000 of the 500,000 eligible boys
and 1,615 of an equal number of
girls are enrolled.
Mrs. Green, who heads t h e
House Education and Labor Com
mittee's subcommittee on higher
education and special education
for the handicapped, said only
9 per cent of 3,700 high schools
recently studied had any trade
courses .
Mrs. Green did not advocate
abandoning the Job Corps pro
gram. She said anti-poverty pro
grams outside the schools should
be instituted in some areas where
there is resistance to providing
adequate education and training
to the disadvantaged who are
in greatest need of it.
Mrs. Green, who is serving her
sixth term in Congress, is speak
ing on issues ranging from inter
national politics to student pro
tests during a three-day stay on
the Stanford campus.
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Index I
Editorials .page 6
Classified .page 7 |
Campus Briefs.page 8 s
Sports .page 4 §
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.Sigma (.'hi .suspension, which was
| scheduled to run out April 4.
Now. he says that as soon as
he finds out officially what the
national did he and President
Jensen will begin to move toward
a meeting with the Sigma (.'hi
national president.
Flemming announced in Octo
ber that he would look into the
situation. The State Board of
Higher Education has a policy
that the University and Oregon
State shall withdraw recognition
fiom any fraternity or sorority
whose national requires them to
restrict membership on the basis
of religion or race
Since the Hoard made that di
rective, the president of the Uni
versity’s Sigma Chi chapter has
always submitted a statement to
the University stating that the
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THESE ARE A FEW of the performers In the third annual Inter
national Festival being held today through Sunday. Barbara Kwci
(on the left) will perform a Chinese Ribbon Dance. The group of
African students (on the right) will be singing West African folk
songs. Performances will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and
Saturday nights and also at 10 a.m. on Saturday.
Faculty to Vote
On ASUO Request
University faculty members will meet at 4 p m. today to consider
an ASUO Senate request to allow two students to attend faculty
meetings.
The two students, the ASUO President and another student well
versed in the issues discussed at each faculty meeting, would be
allowed to speak during the meetings if the majority of the faculty
members present agreed, according to the ASUO Senate’s request.
The Student-Faculty Council voted .Monday to recommend to the
general faculty that the request be granted, with minor amend
ments suggested.
On March 30, the Faculty Senate voted to recommend to the
general faculty that the ASUO Senate s request be referred to the
Student-faculty Council. However. Council members concluded
Monday that they have the right to initiate discussion on topics of
interest to students and faculty; so they decided to make a recom
mendation even before officially hearing the Faculty Senate’s report
at today’s meeting.
Students held a rally last Wednesday, on the dav the April
faculty meeting was originally scheduled, to show that students
should have a voice in the decision-making processes of the Univer
sity. More than 600 students filled the area surrounding the Free
Speech Platform on the Student Union Terrace. University Presi
dent Arthur S. Flemming postponed the day for the faculty meeting
■ until today because he was forced to be away from the campus
during the weeks preceding last Wednesday.
The faculty will also consider a motion concerned with broad
| casting policy at today’s meeting, which will be held in 150 Science.
Photos by Fehly Studio
Nothing to Lose
Carter Urges Deferment Test
University students have until
j April 22 to obtain application
i forms for Selective Service Col
; lege Qualification Test. A student
must be 18 and registered with the
! Selective Service to be eligible to
i take the test.
Application forms can be ob
tained through a week from this
Friday at any draft board. The
student does not have to apply
to the board with which he is
registered.
The selective service office in
Eugene is located at 1047 Wil
lamette St. Office hours are from
8 am. to 4:30 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
Application forms must be sent
to Science Research Associates
(SRA), Chicago, no later than
i April 23. The student may indi
cate his preference of time and
place of exam on the application
| form.
Qualification tests will be giv
en Saturday, May 14; Saturday,
May 21; and Friday, June 3. Test
ing sites include every major
college and university in Oregon.
SRA, upon receipt of an ap
: plication, will mail direct to the
I student his "ticket of admission.”
This "ticket” must be presented
to the exam supervisor tat a time
and place designated by SRA) in
order to take the test.
Sprague Carter, Oregon’s Selec
tive Service director, has urged
all students who expect to be de
ferred, to take the test.
Carter believes that a student
has nothing to lose in taking the
test. He has said that those stu
dents with good grades who do
poorly on the test will probably
still get deferments.
Those students with low class
standing stand to gain from tak
ing the test, according to Univer
sity Dean of Men Bob Bowlin, be
cause the test will give the draft
board another measurement of
ability. Qualification test re
sults will be used by local Se
lective Service boards as an aid
in determining eligibility for stu
dent deferments beginning fall
term.
To be eligible for deferment
next fall, a student must be en
rolled in a full-time, four-year
course. This means a student
Speakers Condemn Draft
By KATHV HOWARD
Staff Writer
Although all six of the people
who spoke at the Free Speech
Platform Tuesday objected to the
draft, they did so for different
reasons.
The discussion, sponsored by
the Faculty - Student Committee
to Stop the War in Viet Nam, was
begun by William Meyer, a ju
nior in political science.
He said that he opposed the
I system because the "selective
| service controls each student’s
j education.”
By requiring the University to
i forward grades and class stand
ings the selective service sys
tem gives the University a hand
in the guilt of this dirty war.
Every professor when he goes
to hand out grades must realize
that a "D” or “F” might send a
student to his death.
He also attacked the test male
students must now take in order
to obtain student deferments. In
his opinion, it discriminates
against workers and humanities
students because the test stress
es math, science, and engineering
skills.
Daniel Goldrich, associate pro
fessor of anthropology, said that
there should be an alternative
for those citizens who could not
morally justify participating in
the war in Viet Nam. He felt
these persons could be accommo
dated through legislation to serve
their county doing '‘peaceful con
structive work.”
Joel Berreman, professor of so
ciology. explored the alternatives
that could be both legally and il
legally used by a person who
does not believe in war. Compli
ance under social pressure is the
easiest way and requires n o
thinking or moral courage, he
said. Civil disobedience is the
only alternative, he concluded,
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I should plan to carry a minimum
of 15 credit hours.
To obtain a continued defer
j ment:
The sophomore must have com
i pleted his freshman year in the
upper half of the full-time male
students in his class—or he must
have passed the Selective Service
college qualification test with
a score of 70 or better.
The junior applicant must suc
cessfully complete the second
year of college in the upper two
thirds of his class—or he must
have a 70 or better on the quali
fication test.
The senior must have com
pleted his third year in the up
per three-fourths of his class —
or have a score of 70 or better
on the test.
A student may be given a de
ferment long enough to complete
i post-graduate study, if he com
i pletes his fourth year in the up
I per one-fourth of the full-time
male students in his class, and
if he passes the qualification test
with a score of 80 or better .
A student may be deferred for
post-graduate study leading to a
degree in various professional
schools, including law, medicine,
dentistry, veterinary medicine,
osteopathy, chiropody, and phar
| macy.
| No deferments will be granted
until classes start in September,
according to Carter. This is be
cause a student must be actually
enrolled and in class to be eligi
i ble for a deferment, Carter
stated .