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OREGON DAILY E mer aid REGISTRATION UP FIVE PER CENT SO FAR Page 3 Vol. LXVII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1966 N».» Items Held Over Faculty to Meet For First Time The first mooting of the University faculty is scheduled for 4 p.m. today in 150 Science. Most of the items on the agenda arc held over from last spring. The major item to ho considered is a proposal by David Aberle, professor of anthropology, regarding the University’s relation to .Selective Service operations. It is third on the agenda and was postponed at the faculty meeting last June. Another item which probably will be considered was tabled at the June meeting This is a motion by W. P. Rhoda, professor of physical education, concerning the 2.0 GPA eligibility rule for student officers, which is included in the Student Activities Draft. Introduction of new faculty members and those returning from leaves is scheduled to begin the meeting. University President Ar thur S. Flemming, the presiding officer of the faculty, says there are about 125 new faculty members this year. This represents a net addition of about 90 instructors to the University faculty, according to Flemming The second item of business is a motion by Jack Wilkinson, head of the department of fine and applied arts, concerning the relation of the Student-Faculty Council to the Faculty Senate. MAY DELAY ACTION It was said Tuesday, however, that Wilkinson wished to delay action on his proposal for another month. Although it is not on the agenda, the faculty is expected to discuss the future of the ASUO Course Survey Bulletin. Three reports on the program should be submitted to the faculty today. These are from the student group, the faculty committee, and the administra tion committee. The faculty is expected to discuss these reports but delay any action on the future of the evaluation program until the November meeting. The two main questions involved are whether the survey results should be used in promotion and tenure decisions and whether faculty members should continue to submit their classes to the evaluation. Aberle’s motion on the draft was signed by three other faculty members and would serve as a recommendation from the faculty to the University president. The notice of motion states: "The faculty of the University wishes to separate the University system officially from the operations of the Selective Service administration. “CERTAIN POLICIES” With that end in mind, it warmly endorses certain policies of the University and requests their continuation. But it also requests changes in certain other policies.” The proposal provides that the University: • Continue the practice of not supplying draft boards with students' grade point averages. • Discontinue its practice of computing rank orders for students. • Cease its present practice of supplying to draft boards any information that indicates how well a student is performing. • Refrain from using University personnel and facilities for the purpose of administering the Selective Service tests. Peggy Mitchell's Services Slated Funeral arrangements have been made for University fresh man Peggy Mitchell. Private services will he held at Mikeworth’s Peninsula Funer al Home, Portland, on Thursday. Other services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Portsmouth Trinity Lutheran Church, Portland. Miss Mitchell, 18, was one of 18 persons aboard the West Coast DC-9 airliner which crashed 16 miles east of Estacada, 35 miles southeast of Portland, on Saturday night. Apparently Miss Mitchell died instantly. She was a freshman in liberal arts and resided in Carson II. She had recently pledged Alpha Phi sorority. S-FC-Faculty Senate Link-Up Not in Sight By JIM KIMBALL Kmrrald Staff Writer The Student-Faculty Council— called into being last year to an swer student demands for a com munications link to the faculty —is still looking for its place in the sun. At its first meeting of the fall Tuesday, both faculty members and students searched for their plug-in to the faculty government apparatus. The Council turned down a proposal by Jack Wilkin son, head of the department of fine arts and author of the motion that set up the Council, to link up with the Faculty Senate. Both students and professors on the committee said they want ed to spell out how they can go directly to the general faculty meetings. This would allow them to bypass the Faculty Senate, which Gregory H. Wannier, phys ics professor, called a “mincing machine” that will not pass through what students really want to tell the faculty. Advisory Group? ASUO President Henry Drum monds saw the issue as making the Council "an advisory group to an advisory group” or making it an open line between faculty and students. The Faculty Senate, which Wil kinson wants the Council to re With Parents Consent Co-ops Granted No Closing Hours By CLIFF SANDERLIN Emerald Editorial Page Editor Sophomore and junior women living in co-ops who have their parents’ permission will no long er have closing hours. This decision was handed down to Barbara Reid, president of Co ed Housing, by the Student Con duct Committee, Tuesday. At its first meeting of fall term the Committee also discuss ed procedural and policy ques tions. The consensus- of the Com ; mittee was that topics for the agenda should be open to the gen eral student body, that its meet ings will be open to the public, and that limited discussion will be permitted from people outside the Committee. Verifying Permission In passing down the closing , hour decision, based on II-F-3-C-2 of the Conduct Code, the mem bers of the Committee heard a suggestion from Donald Van Ros sen, Committee member and Uni versity swimming coach, that the administration should devise a j method of verifying that women | students have legitimate letters of permission from their parents to j live in special dorms and in the co-ops without closing hour re | strictions. Van Rossen suggested sending mi Photo by Dennis Dunn CAST MEMBERS of “Slow Dance on the Killing G round” make up for the play. Left is William Cott rell, who plays Glas. With him is Jim Smith in the role of Randall. , another letter, one of acknowl egement, to parents who have fill . ed out and returned the form letters which grant their daugh ; ters this freedom. Roy Rodgers, associate profes sor of sociology, who is also a member of the Committee, dis agreed with Van Rossen that the letters should be verified: "I be lieve in treating students as adults until they’ve proven they’re children.” Misuse of Property Associate Dean of Students Francis B. Nickerson and Greg Reed, special assistant to the con duct program, reported an inci dent involving misuse of Univer sity property by two graduate students who occupy a University office, and asked the Committee to make a policy decision. Nickerson said the students had covered the walls of the office with '‘written obscenities.” Nickerson said the office was so bad that the janitor "squawked to the head of the University Se curities” who investigated it with him. “It was pretty rough, with about a foot of peanut shells on t h e floor. And the place was a wreck,” Nickerson said. "What they had on the walls was bad ... and out did any outhouse I had seen,” Nickerson reported. Policy Questions One of the policy questions Nickerson asked was: "At what point do we become concerned with profanity?” The Committee members disa greed over what should be done, and decided that not enough in formation was available to deter mine whether the students were hired as teaching assistants (who would not be handled by the Student Conduct System) or whe ther they were graduate stu dents. Nickerson asked for policy de cisions without reference to this case specifically: 1) at what point does a student become a faculty member; 2) where do we draw the line on profanity? Greg Reed is to report back at the next meeting with more infor mation on the specific case of the two students. Faculty members of the Con duct Committee this year are Lawrence Ross, Jr., associate pro fessor of business law and chair man of the Committee; Roy Rodg ers, associate professor of sociol ogy; Donald Van Rossen and Jack Laughary of the education depart ment. Student members include Jim Beat, senior in economics; Dave McCloskey, sophomore in liberal arts; and Gene Sokolski, graduate in history. port to, digests and makes recom mendations on the motions pre sented at faculty meetings. A majority of the Council Tuesday said they wanted to be able to take their proposals and recommendations on University affairs directly to the faculty. This would give students—through the Council—a role in decision-mak - ing something like that of t h e Senate. Postpone Motion At the end of a l^-hour dis cussion, Wilkinson agreed to re write his proposal to allow for the Council’s demand for a direct link with the faculty. He said he would postpone his motion in to day’s faculty meeting to work out 1 the compromise. The procedural issue was raised last spring soon after the Coun cil was formed. One of its first actions was to recommend a plan to put two students on the floor of the faculty meetings. The Sen ate dropped that plan into the lap of the Council after failing to make up its own mind. The Senate said it wanted to know what the students thought. The Council approved the pro posal, but it didn't report back to the Faculty Senate and just whom the Council was to report to never was established. No Time The Council ran out of time Tuesday before it could do any thing to get started toward full recognition in faculty meetings. But it did take one step. It voted to empower its chair man—Robert D. Horn, professor of English—to speak for it in fac ulty meetings. He was instructed to report to the faculty the Coun cil’s views whether requested to or not. As for the faculty Senate, Horn said that if they want to knew what the Council thinks, “1 should be invited.” •Direct Pipeline’ The motion to instruct Horn to speak for the Council to the fac ulty was made by ASUO Senator Marvin Feuerberg. He said there was general agreement that the Council "should be a direct pipe line into the faculty.” The feel ing that the pipeline might need better connections was shared by most of the Council. But Horace Robinson, Univer sity Theatre director, wouldn’t I even go along with Feuerberg’s | motion. He said the chairman should report the Council s views according to his discretion, and only when it is in the student’s best interest. Students Object The Council’s student members objected. BolrHolmes pointed out, "the chairman is not a student. We want to be sure we have a means to be heard by the faculty.” (Continued on pope 2) Emerald Staff To Meet Today A general meeting of the Em erald staff is set for 7 p.m. in 301 Allen Hall. Attendance is mandatory for all old and new staff people. If for some reason this is impos sible, staffers shoold contact Annette Buchanan or Janet Goetze at ext. 1817 prior to the meeting. Index 11 Sports .Pages 4-51 11 Editorials . Page 6| I I Classifieds..Page 7| : § PL-3. Page 2j ;1 Campus Briefs .Page 2| I—.—