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OREGON DAILY SECOND STUDENT PLEADS NOT GUILTY ON DRUG CHARGE Pag© 3 Vol. LXVII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, IMS Nt. If Straub-McCall Debate Set for Today ROBERT STRAUB Democratic Candidate Robert Straub and Tom McCall, leading guber natorial candidates, will debate at 3 p.m. today in the Student Union Ballroom. They have been invited by the ASUO to debate major issues, and present their legislative opinions to students, fac ulty, and guests. Henry Drummonds, ASUO president, will mod erate the program and introduce the speakers. After rebuttals are made by Straub and McCall, the audiences may address the speakers with ques tions from the floor. The debate will be covered live over KEZI-TV and is expected to be re-broadcast at a later time. This is the last of two scheduled debates between the gubernatorial candidates. The first was held in Portland on October 7 before more than 400 Portland City Club members gathered in the Benson Hotel. DISAGREE ON TAX RELIEF McCall and Straub disagree on the approach to property tax relief. Each has accused the other of vacillating on tax proposals depending on the audience being addressed. In the Portland debate, Straub said, “I am very much opposed to a sales tax. If it is re ferred to the voters, I will do all I can to oppose it.” McCall said, "I am opposed to a sales tax, but if our schools were to be emasculated by a 1 Vi per cent tax limitation, I would reconsider my prejudice on the matter.” Straub replied that he believes voters should have a right to decide on a sales tax, and they should have had the right to vote on the 1V4 per cent property tax lid. This implied slap at McCall’s handling of the initiative petition matter brought a retort from McCall that he was unaware there was any ques tion on the number of required signatures on petitions, until the day before deadline. FORMULA SET ‘The formula was set five years ago, three years before I became secretary of state, and never to my knowledge was questioned until July 6, 1966, ’ McCall said. Straub said that a person taking over an office should "reappraise and re-evaluate” the way things are done. He said, “T would have an advan tage because I am of a different political party, and I would come in with that kind of attitude ” McCall was elected on a Republican ticket to the position as Oregon’s secretary of state in November, 1964. He had previously served as administrative assistant to Governor Douglas McKay. Straub became Oregon state treasurer in 1964. A Lane County businessman and rancher, he held previous political offices as county commissioner and as a state senator from this district. TOM McCALL Republican Candidate •Wilt!™ ‘W* '■ .•- ... • Survey Gets Faculty Ratina Editor's Note: This is the first in a se ries of three articles on the reaction to the ASUO’s Course Evaluation Booklet. By NOMI BORENSTEIN Emerald Associate Editor After the course reaction survey was completed. University President Arthur S. Flemming set up three ad hoc com mittees — faculty, administration, and students—to evaluate the booklet. All three reports will be distributed to the general faculty before the No vember 2 meeting when the faculty will discuss the course survey at that meet ing. Several issues have been raised con cerning the survey which the faculty may consider. QUESTION OF USEFULNESS First is the question of the useful ness of conducting a survey, second the question of a universal sample, and whe ther or not the survey results, and this report in particular, should be used as one factor in deciding promotion and tenure in general. At present, two of these reports — faculty and administration — have been released. The student report should be released either today or Friday, as soon as it has been mimeographed. The faculty report states that student evaluation of teaching and courses has been going on at the University for some time, but that this survey is differenti ated from earlier efforts because: • “It comes on a wave of a nation - wide student unrest. • “It is an outgrowth of student gov ernment. • “The experiment was subsidized by the University. • “The results were collected and will be interpreted by an agency of the University. • “To a substantial extent, the results are a matter of general campus and com munity knowledge.’’ The report states that “the committee, as a matter of principle, approves of mak ing participation in the survey voluntary. However, it might be suggested in pass ing that those who decline to participate are likely to be rated anyway in the event of future surveys with the accompany ing risk of incomplete, inaccurate, and distorted ratings. “Whether the findings of the survey should be made available to administra tors or to the public or to both is largely an academic question. ... a cursory examination of the Course Survey Bul letin suggests that the book was put to gether in good faith and with no evident air of vindictiveness.” The committee points out that “a sin gle survey is scarcely sufficient indica tion of an instructor’s effectiveness_ Only a sustained and controlled program of measuring student attitudes toward courses and instructors can be of value.” CAN BE OF VALUE The administration report states that "it appears reasonable that valid and reliable data about student reactions to courses can be developed from a student rating process like the one used last spring, particularly if some projected refinements are made in the process used in collecting the data." The report states that “it appears equally reasonable” that the data weald likely be used when administrators are making decisions about teaching effec tiveness, if the data is made available for such use. But the committee asked in its report that certain conditions govern this use, including the following: • Administrators should remember that this data represents measurement of only one dimension of teaching effec tiveness. • Finding should be weighed together with other evidence, including evalua tions of other faculty members. • “Ideally, these ratings should be considered in evaluating teacher effec tiveness only if the rating system is adopted on a universal basis ... or if all instructors of an academic unit are rated” in order to be as fair as pos sible. IN-CLASS QUESTIONNAIRES Both reports agreed that the ques tionnaires should be distributed and re turned in class. The administration committee said that it could make no decision as to whether there •shall or shall not be student rating of classes in some form” because the ‘students may decide to formulate and publish ratings of courses and instructors whether or not they have access to data collected on some valid and systematic basis.” This report states that it coaid be ar gued that it -would be in the interests of the faculty to use a system like the one used last spring than if students did it “on an extracurricular basis.” PROMOTION AND TENURE And it algo could be argued that a rat ing system like this could serve in the interests of the faculty when promotion and tenure are made. Administrators have been using stu dent reaction when making these de cisions. The report goes on to state that data collected in this manner has a much sounder basis than in the many cases when the data collected informally has been "fragmentary, in disorganized and not necessarily representative. "The fact that such data would be made generally available would give the individual member an opportunity to challenge faulty evidence, and under the present system,” the report points out, “he usually does not have such an opportunity.” The faculty report was compiled by Galen Rarick, associate professor of journalism; Joseph Hynes, associate pro fessor of English; and Edwin Bingham, professor of history. The administration report was pre pared by John Hulteng, dean of the School of Journalism; Leona Tyler, dean of the Graduate School; and Charles Johnson, dean of the Collefge of Liberal Arts. lidmillafIIilltllIIIIIIIIII«lllllllICulllIVSIlISlIRinVIlllllIIHiki!• 14»sfnmllutll n4<* Counter-Interests Hamper SU Board's Tent Decision By JAQI THOMPSON Emerald Stair Writer In its longest meeting on rec ord, the Student Union Board, aft er three ballots, decided Wed nesday to allow the Peace Corps to pitch a recruiting tent on the lawn of the SU during the week of November 14-18. Although the Board members expressed their personal enthu siasm for the Peace Corps and its i'i . "i uiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiwiiuiiiiiiniiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiMniinililiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiw | Index Sport$ .pages 4-5 f Editorials.page 6j Classified .page 7 Campus Briefs .page 2 | | Concert Series .page 7 i Today’s Events.page 8 i * § I ^IliiilllllllilHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIilllllllllNIHUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'lllllllllllllllr recruiting at the University, there were a number of factors which made it doubtful that the request for a tent on the SU lawn was in the best interests of the stu dent body. Last year the lawn did not re cover from the effects of the tent for three to four months. This brought many complaints and so did the unsightliness of the “shack" VISTA (Volunteers In Service to America) erected on the walkway for its membership drive. VISTA had requested a tent, too, but when the effects of the Peace Corps tent on the lawn were seen, the Board decided the lawn couldn’t stant' another one. After the complaints about the VISTA structure came in, the Board decided not to give per mission to WUS (World Univer sity Service) Week to erect its structure. The Board received much criti cism at the time that it was be ing unfair and inconsistent. It is still trying to decide where it should and does stand. The Board (Continued on page d) Course Change Deadline Friday Friday is the last day to drop or add courses for fall term. A $1 fee for each course dropped or added must be paid to the business office and the course change card filed in the regis trar’s office before 5 p.m. Fri day. Students new to the Univer sity this term may drop courses through October 28, with the consent of their advisor and in structor. In Portland October 24th Kennedy Slated For Demo Rally Robert F. Kennedy, Democratic senator from New York, has scheduled a campaign address for 8 p.m. on October 24 in Portland’s Memorial Coliseum. He was invited to appear in Oregon by Representative Edith Green as the head speaker at a fund raising dinner and rally for all Democratic candidates. Free seating in the Coliseum will initially be limited to 5,000 people in order to maintain a stage effect. However, if a greater demand exists, more seating will be opened up, according to Bill Wiessert, editor of the Portland State Vanguard. Wiessert said that the rally is being called “to stimulate student interest in the Democratic party.” While there is no indication that Kennedy will also make an appearance at the University, Larry Beathe, president of the campus Young Democrats, said his group has extended an invitation to Kennedy to speak before the University and Eugene audience “on or about the 25th.” The regional director of the college YD’s is also in contact with Kennedy’s senate office in seeking his appearance here. According to Wiessert, Kennedy will leave for Washington the day following his Portland appearance.
