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Conduct Committee Page 3 summer E M E RALD UNIVERSITY OK OREGON, EUGENE, MONDAY, JUNE 20, I?*GG Publications Board Page 4 Vol. LXVI No 137 Buchanan, Frye Stand Firm Annette Buchanan is standing firm. But so is William Frye. Frye, the Banc County district attorney, wants Miss Buchanan, managing editor of the Emerald, to reveal the names of students who told her they use mari juana. She will appear in court next Monday to find out if she will be cited for contempt for refusing to reveal those names to a Brand Jury in spite of a court order directing her to tell. She says she will not tell because it would violate Journalistic codes of ethics. "I just could not live with myself if I revealed their names,” she says. When she interviewed the seven students (five of whom she remembers the names of) she told them she would keep their names confidential. In the story which she wrote from the interview she used pseudonyms for the seven. But on Wednesday, June 1—eight days after the story appeared in the Emerald under the headline "Stu dents Condone Marijuana Use”—Frye subpoenaed Miss Buchanan, Emerald Editor I’hil Sernas, former editor Chuck Boggs, and former managing editor Rob Carl, to appear before the Lane County Grand Jury. The same day Frye issued the subpoenas, June 1, he issued a press release on the investigation Larry Hildebrand, assistant city editor of the Port land Oregonian, said Frye's press release was delivered to his paper by a messenger at about 9 p m. Wednesday. He said the Oregonian had received a tip on the story from a University student earlier in the evening and a reporter had talked to Miss Buchanan before the release arrived Hildebrand added that the release, accompanied by a picture of Frye holding the Emerald issue in ques tion, arrived before the Oregonian was able to contact Frye. Henny Willis, a reporter for the Eugene Register Guard, said Frye called him Wednesday night to tell him that he had sent a release to the Oregonian and that a copy of the release would be available in Frye’s office the next morning. Willis said it was the first time Frye had ever issued a release to him before a case went to court. The press release said that the story gave the impres sion “drug use is out of hand on the campus,” while it actually is not, according to Frye. "This investigation,” he continued, “is as much to al lay the concern of the public as to learn what we can about the sources of the drug on this campus and the extent of its use.” Arthur Johnson, Miss Buchanan s attorney. later ob jected to the release and the intent of those statements in particular. Although the release said the four students were to be questioned about Miss Buchanan's story, all four said that the police officer who served the subpoenas did not tell them what they were going to be asked about. By the time the release reached the Oregonian three of the students—Miss Buchanan, Sernas, and Beggs— had been served. Carl was not served until the next morning after the story had appeared in the Oregonian. When the four appeared before the Grand Jury on June 3, the jurors and Frye decided that the other (Continued on paye 4) For Three Years Faculty OK s Pass-Fail PE I’nss-or-fail physical education courses were approved for a trial period of three years at the June 1 meeting of the University fac ulty. Under the plan submitted by the Faculty Curriculum Commit tee. students will have the op tion of taking physical education service course*, those numbered 180, 190, 380, and 390, on a no grade basis for University credit. During the experimental period the Bureau of Educational Re serch will cooperate with the School of Health, Physical Edu cation, and Recreation to carry out a study of effects of grades, as opposed to no grades, on enroll ment. The plan is designed to in crease enrollment in PE courses. However, PE majors will not be allowed to elect the no-grade option. In other business, Robert Camp bell, head of the economics dc partment and chairman of the ad hoc committee for evaluation of teaching, submitted a report urg ing the faculty to participate in a “trial run” of the course evalu ation program. The Faculty Advisory Council moved the adoption of the report and the motion was passed. The results of the 'trial run” will not be used in the regular evalua tion of faculty members, accord ing to University President Ar thur S. Flemming. “It will not be used as evi dence in connection with promo tion and tenure cases. The ASUO will determine what use it de sires to make of the results," Flemming said. A motion submitted by Jack 'Wilkinson, professor of art, con cerning the routing of reports from the Student-Faculty Coun cil to the Faculty Senate, was postponed until the October fac ulty meeting. The faculty tabled, by voice The Emerald Needs Help Students who are interested in working on the Summer Em erald may contact Managing Ed itor Annette Buchanan in 301 Allen Hall, ext. 1817, or at 343 3706. Reporters, desk editors, proof readers, and photographers are needed. Pay is exceptionally good and consists entirely of personal satisfaction. vote, a motion concerning student eligibility rules, proposed by W, P, Rhoda, professor of physical education and chairman of the Student Activities Committee. A motion calling for the major of all degree recipients to be re corded on all records was ap proved. David Aberle, professor of an thropology, gave notice of a mo tion that the University not co operate with the United States Se lective Service in furnishing in formation on how students sub ject to the draft are doing in school. Specifically, the motion would: • Discontinue the practice of supplying gpa's. • Continue the practice of not listing students in rank order. • Cease supplying informa tion concerning how students are doing in their studies. • Refrain from using Univer sity personnel for Selective Serv ice tests. • Cease indicating whether students are full or part-time. The motion will be voted on at the next meeting of the fac ulty, scheduled for October. Stadium Plans, Name Win Board Approval By PHIL SEMAS Emerald Editor KLAMATH FALLS (Special)— The University’s proposed foot ball stadium now has a name, a financing plan that includes a new fund drive, and a state-ap proved architects’ plan. The stadium will be called Aut zen Stadium. The State Board of Higher Education agreed last week to name it after the Autzen Foundation, which contributed $250,000 to the $2,332,500 project. Besides the Autzen gift, the University has presently received $095,000 in gifts plus another $80,000 in gifts of materials and manpower for a total in gifts of $1,330,000. The Athletic Depart ment will contribute $925,000 from its reserves. At present it is planned, if necessary, to use $55,000 from a reserve for dormitory equipment depreciation to make up the bal ance. That money would be paid back into the fund by the Uni versity later. New Campaign But University President Ar thur S. Flemming told the Board of Higher Education that the 1 University will inaugurate a cam i paign for additional smaller pledges to raise another $200,000. Flemming said that if this drive is successful the loan from the dormitory reserve will not have to be made and less will have to be taken from the Athletic De partment reserves. He said he expected the drive to succeed, noting that the first drive, which raised well over SI million, included only gifts of $1,000 or more. He said this new drive would be for smaller sums and would be aimed at University alumni and the Eugene area. The State Board also approved preliminary plans by Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM), a Portland architectural firm, for the stadium and authorized a bid call for mid-July for $350,000 of excavation and grading work to be done this summer. Separate Contract The actual work on the stadium will be let under a separate con tract and will not be let until next, summer. The stadium is scheduled for completion by fall of 1967. The stadium will be built of concrete and earth in a large bowl made from materials on the site. Architect Tom Frey of SOM SCORCHING JUNE WEATHER makes the Student Union Terrace a popular place as students re turn to campus to begin their summer session studies. Photo by Shota Ushio said this was the only kind ol construction possible within the budget planned. Tom Edwards, assistant state highway engineer, told the State Board that the stadium will not create any difficult access prob lems. assuming Lane County goes ahead with plans to widen a sec tion of Centennial Blvd. near the North Bank to four lanes. No Track Frey and Flemming both spent considerable time explaining the disadvantages of putting a track on the North Bank. Flemming said present plans are to put an "all-weather” rub ber asphalt track on the Hayward Field site instead of the present cinder track, take out the present intramural track, and tear dowi* one side of the Hayward Field stands. He said the additional area gained from tearing down part of the stands and getting rid of one track would be used for recrea tional purposes. The all-weather track would be able to meet al) needs of intramurals, physical education classes, team practices, and meets, according to Flem ming. The president said this plan was preferable to putting a track in the stadium. Building Problems Frey added that a track would also cause building problems, since the stadium would have to be expanded, cutting out much needed parking space. Flemming said the stadium, would probably be used by more than just the University. He sat# Eugene public schools especially might be interested. Flemming called the stadium question "a very important point in our history.” He said it would enable tho University to continue a top-qual ity intercollegiate athletic pro gram And he said the fund drive for the stadium built up "con siderable interest in the private sector” which could be made use of for other projects, if this one is carried through successfully. He called the North Bank sit6 "the best possible location” for i Continued on page 2) niiiniiiii £)iiHiiinim!iiiiiiiittiimii>iiiiiiiiiiimiiniunuiiimHi<!iii<)!iiiini:!ii;:iiini!!miiiiuiu| Editorials Classifieds Grant. New Dean Index page 0 page 7 page 3 page 7
