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Seligman to Talk On Israel Porc 3 OREGON DAILY EMERALD Blake to Outline Academic Reform Page 8 Vol. LX VI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENB, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1D#« No. 119 Primary Today; Polls in Dorms ASUO primary election* begin at 8 a m. today. Voting will be held to select finalists from the 43 candidates who have filed for 23 ASUO offices. Two juniors are in the running for ASUO President: Henry Drummonds, chairman of the Senate’s Public Affairs Committee; and John Kessler, a political science major. Their running mates are, respectively, Lee Bollinger, senator-at large; and Kirk Aronston, a sophomore in pre law. Students may vote in today's ASUO primary election In any of the following locations on campus: • ISO Science • Student Union terrace • Commonwealth Hall quad • Sidewalk between the Library and Prince l.ucien Campbell Hall • 18th and University streets Polling hour* at those locations will be 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. Polling booths will also be sot up in all dormitory lounges, and will be open between the hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Students must present their study body cards when voting. Other candidates Include: • For the Senate—Bob Caufield, Ed Davis, Randy Gragg, Errol HammontL Hal Kingslien, Emily Lynn Knupp, Roger Leo, Tom Mesher, Paul Tuttle, Dave McCioskey, Bart Poston, and Gordon Empey for senator-at-large. Mike Donahue, chairman of the Senate’s Governing Committee, is a write-in candidate for senator-at-large. Donahue withdrew from the vice presidential race Monday, following Bill Hansell's withdrawal from the Presidential ticket. Barry Staw for senior representative; Sue Bartron, Jan DeBerry, and Wilma Baker for sorority representative; Sandra Madsen and Nar.cy Lovely for off-campus women’s representative; Sandra Wesley, Robin Tuttle, and Nancy Holmes for women’s co-op representative; Howard Harrison and Steven Lamb for men's co-op representative; Philip Barnhart and Girayer Aknouny for uppcrclass men's dorm representative; and Mike Wooden for fraternity representative. No petitions were filed for upperclass women’s dormitory repre sentative or married student representative • For class officers—Mark Dennett and Tom Jernstedt for senior class president; Scott Farleigh for junior class president; Chris Mull man and Jonn Abramson for sophomore class president; Art Knauss for senior class vice president; Michael Retver and Dave Bohlman for junior class vice president; and John Eason for sophomore vice president. Board Considers Budget Requests Editor's Note: Due to a short age of spare in Tuesday’s pa per, all of the meeting of the Student Union and Educational Activities Budget Board could not be reported. This is the remainder of the budgets on which they heard information. The Student Union and Edu cational Activities (SU-EdAc) Budget Board heard budget re quests from the Rally Board, the Model United Nations, and the International Education Center Monday. The Hally Board budget, tra ditionally included in the ASUO budget, was dropped this year by ASUO President Steve Gold schmidt, who said that his office had little administrative control over the budget. Skip Clemens and Ken Settle mier of the Bally Board came in with a separate budget of $3,160. The Bally Board received $800 from the Athletic Department. Last year the Rally Board had a budget of only $1,100, or a $300 subsidy from SU-EdAc. The bulk of the increase is in travel expenses, with smaller in creases in uniforms and other expenses. Clemens and Settle mier said they felt the rally squad should be reimbursed in full for its expenses, as it has not been in the past. That accounted for the major portion of the increase. Henry Drummonds, a member of the Budget Board, asked whe ther the athletic department would he willing to increase its subsidy to the Bally Board. "Last year they paid about 70 per cent," he said, “but under this budget they will only be paying 30 per cent.” Clemens said the Athletic De partment had been approached but felt its budget would be cut and did not have the money available. (Continued on page 2) Students and Faculty Council Approves Pass-Nonpass P;E. By ANNETTE BUCHANAN Emerald Managing Editor A recommendation that the faculty approve a proposal for a pass-nonpass grading system for, physical education courses was passed by the Student-Faculty Council Tuesday. At the last meeting of the Fac ulty Senate, this question was referred to the curriculum com mittee for further study, before being presented to the full fac ulty. In essence, the proposal means that PE grades for one hour. lower division service courses would no longer be figured into a student’s grade point average. Three members of the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation presented their views in the two-hour meeting. Dean Arthur A Esslingor began the discussion by inquiring about the PE classes taken by student members of the council. He discovered that of the four student members present, two of them had each taken one course, the others none. "It’s pretty hard to evaluate something if you have Aid for Education Passed by House WASHINGTON (AD — The House poked another hole in President Johnson's budget Mon day when it sent to the Senate a 52 95 billion higher education bill. Passage was by voice vote with out any audible dissents after about half an hour of debate be fore less than 100 members. The legislation provides for, loans to students and for grants and loans for construction of college academic facilities. Hoped to Save Johnson had hoped to save $160 million this year by substituting private capital for direct federal loans. But he ran into heavy op position from both Congress and the banking industry. The loan program, which has helped more than 890,000 stu dents in 1,700 colleges over the last seven years, is regarded as highly successful and popular in Congress. Bankers cautioned against shifting such a big load to private lending agencies at a time of high interest rates and tight money. A compromise administration proposal that would have pro vided partial federal funding of the loan program also was turn ed down bv the House Education Committee, which demanded con tinued full federal financing at the rate of $190 million this year. In urging the switch. John son originally had budgeted only $30 million. The money authorized by the bill would continue for three years, at expanding annual rates, the program of grants and loans for construction of college aca demic facilities enacted by Con gress in 1.963. First-year Cost The first-year cost of $750 mil lion—not including the student loan program—follows the admin istration's budget recommenda tions. But sharp increases are pro jected for the future. The $453 million authorized for the coming fiscal year for con struction of undergraduate facil ities would climb to $700 million in fiscal 1968 and $900 million in 1969. The federal share is one - third of the construction costs. The committee believes even these sums will be insufficient to meet the need for classroom space to take care of rapidly ex panding enrollments that have doubled in the last 10 years. THIS IS ONE of the many sports participated in yesterday at the Millrace Olympics. Many coeds found themselves going for a quick but unexpected dip. The Olympics, part of the Junior Week ac tivities, included canoe jousting and tug-of-war contests between living organizations. By the end of the day most participants and spectators had gone in at least once. Photo by Bob Denniston had no experience in it,” he charged. It was pointed out that several of the student members are grad uates or upper division transfers, and thus did not have to fulfill the PE requirement at the Uni versity. Dave McCarthy, a gradu ate in sociology, asked Esslinger how many PE courses he had taken. Bill Camp, a senior in sociology, pointed out that the Council was not designed to promote a stu dent faculty dichotomy, that the purpose was to work together as individuals on the problems rather than as students or fac ulty. "The members of the Council were not chosen because of their experience in the PE depart ment,” ASUO President Steve Goldschmidt told Esslinger. "They are here to discuss all things which affect students.” Then Esslinger demanded to know: "What mandate do you have from the student body to consider this issue?” Polls Cited Goldschmidt mentioned some polls which have been conducted on the campus, then yielded the floor to Henry Drummonds, chair man of the ASUO Public Affairs Committee, who further discussed the polls. Esslinger countered with a sur vey conducted by the PE depart ment which contradicted the ASUO poll. The merits of each survey were discussed at length before Horace W. Robinson, pro fessor of speech, asked Esslinger to "summarize his reaction to the proposal.” "I want to discuss another poll first,” Esslinger responded. "A substantial part of the students favor letter grades in PE classes.” He gave the figures as 70-30 in favor of including PE grades in the University gradepoint. “We are not interested in a popularity poll, but in what would" make a better system of educa tion,” Camp said. Goldschmidt asked that the. group address itself to a broader, more philosophical problem con cerning the value of grades as a motivating factor. Esslinger Explains Esslinger then gave three rea sons why the department wants to retain the conventional grad ing system. • The grades are based on learning, an "excellent basis.” We want to be able to grade just like the rest of the faculty. • A level of performance from D through A is represented. You can’t tell what a P means. He explained that the department re ceives many inquiries about stu dents’ PE grades from potential employers. Grades which cannot be interpreted will interfere with the educational process, he com mented. • A grade is a tremendous mo tivator. Grades stimulate the stu dents to higher efforts. He men tioned that a student with grade problems might wmrk especially hard in a PE class in order to remain in school or keep from being drafted. Other schools have reported that students lose their (Continued on page S) giiNiiilffi':: ■ I""; muiihuiiiiiiuumiu!iitiiiiiniini;ui;i»i!i::ii; 1 a Index | Editorials .page 6 | Classified ..page 7 | Campus Briefs.page 5 1 | Sports .page 4 &