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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1966)
Pacific Northwest Assembly Discusses Court Reform Several speakers addressed a Pacific Northwest Assembly on "The Courts, the Public, and the Law Explosion," held last week end at the University. Itohcrt Finley, associate justice of the Washington Supreme Court, told the assembly that "the pressures of population growth and of a complex society have created a problem of how to improve a good product. "We have a fine court system. stale by state," Finley said, “But we need to ask ourselves — how much better can the system be in terms of the administration of justice?” Me cited the "tremendous over load of eases in traffic courts in many metropolitan areas as a real problem. “The vast major ity of the American people only come into contact with our court system at this level—and the (|iia»tity of cases some traffic Browsing Room Lecture Planned Suicide in America today and the rold war with Communiitni will he included in the wide spec trum of subjects to lie discussed during tile University's Summer Browsing Hoorn Lecture ■ Forum Series. The Browsing Hoorn programs will he held at 7:30 p in. Wednes days until August 3. A discussion of "Tongue Point: Yesterday. Today, and Tomorrow” will initiate this summer's Brows ing Hoorn series next Wednesday. Lecturer will be (iuy Shellen barger. instructor of education at the University who was on the stalT of the Tongue Point Job < orps Center during its first year of operation. Arthur Steinhaus, authority on muscle relaxation, will disclose AT COLE S Students & Faculty Get 10°. DISCOUNT on cash purchases $ 1.00 & over AT TIME OF PURCHASE 125 E. 345-4001 what physical education can do for the "mind and spirit of man” {during the July ti program. He is a visiting lecturer at the Univer sity this summer from George Williams College, Chicago, 111. Featured speaker for the pro j gram focusing on suicide in this ; country will be Walter Martin, head of the sociology department at the University, lie is the co author of "Status Integration and Suicide," a book which represents a thorough analysis of world sta tistical data on suicide. The controversial expert on the cold war, D. F. Fleming, will con sider its costs and consequences on July 20 Fleming, an emeritus professor of international rela tions at Vanderbilt University, is currently a visiting professor at the University of Arizona. Novelist and short story writer Harvey Swados will speak on "Fiction and Social Revolution” on July 28. Swados. who has pub lished a number of novels, essays and short stories, is currently a member of the literature faculty at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N.Y. "Television Commentators as a Political Force in Political Klec I tions” will be the topic of the summer’s final Browsing Room program, on August 3. Lecturer will be Elwood A. Kretsinger, associate professor of speech who has had 14 years of ex : perience in production and in struction in educational television. MOVING?—MAKE TRAILER RESERVATIONS EARLY NIX U-Haul Service OFFERS STUDENTS VOLKSWAGENS FOR RENT $3.95 a day $.05 a mile ALSO TRUCK RENTALS 698 E. Broadway 342-3951 judge* are receiving is astronom ical, and this hardly leave* a good impression on the people who en ter these place* expecting some symbol of justice.” lie said it is time the national, state, arid local bar association*, along with the law schools, prac ticing attorneys, and the public, examine whether the courts are functioning as well as they could. Finley called for an examina tion of the management and ad- , ministration of the courts to in sure that they arc operating effi ciently. "We must take a hard look at judicial salaries,” he said, "re tirement and tenure plans, and the judicial selection procedures so that we can attract the top talent in the legal profession into judicial positions.” Richard W. Nahstoll, a Portland attorney, told the assembly that litigation has become so expen sive that a litigant can’t even af ford to win any more. Lawyers have tolerated expen sive procedures allowing litiga tion and appeals to be priced be yond people’s reach, and have also done a poor job of accommo dating to those things which could have been done to reduce costs, he said. He outlined some of the proce dures which will make legal serv ices more readily available for the poor as a result of the Eco nomic Opportunities Act, but add ed that the middle income group might be worse off than the poor in securing legal services. Museum Exhibits Teachers' Photos A unique photography show, “Professors of Photography: A National Exhibit,” opened at the University Museum of Art June 11. The new exhibition, which is concurrent with “9 Pacific North west Artists — 3 Dimensions — 1966," replaces the originally scheduled exhibition of an his torical review of the art of pho tography in America. The show, of the work of teachers of photography, is unique in that it is the first such to be organized on the national level. Organized by Bernard L. Freemesser, associate professor of journalism, the show is made up of. the works of 20 photogra phers, all members of the So ciety for Photographic Education, The photographs will be on view in a rotating exhibition through July and August in the new Photography at Oregon Gal lery of the Museum of Art. This gallery, designed especially for photographic displays, was made possible by a gift from the Uni versity's class of 1966. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON CO-OP STORE New Building & New Location SUMMER SESSION STUDENTS A complete selection of SCHOOL SUPPLIES LANGUAGE READING CARDS ART SUPPLIES SPORTING GOODS GIFTS RECORDS SWEATSHIRTS XEROX COPY SERVICE— 8c A COPY Typewriter Rentals—$5.00 a Month Open This Summer 8:30 a.m -5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday U of O CO-OP STORE 13th & Kincaid u> AlcoKwes U6IJU b« * ©*Au afe gjw*^ jJSiw*?. sU££ *$t*■ . «V«mV— *A\»A \3&*e' T^e* t**** tir»**r 4g5* •flJP st® t*s
