Stanford's Beta Chi Drops
Selective Member System
STANFORD (CPS)—In a surprise move. Beta
Chi fraternity at Stanford University voted to
abolish its selective system of choosing new mem
bers. Radically breaking from traditional pro
cedure, the fraternity opened its doors to anyone
connected with the University, including women,
faculty members, graduate students and admin
istrators.
On October 17, over three-quarters of the
house's 55 members rejected selection procedures
currently employed by all Stanford fraternities.
Members instructed their executive committee
to draw up plans allowing any interested member
of the Stanford community to become a member
of Beta Chi. Interest in the house’s activities and
payment of dues were the only stipulated pre
requisites to membership.
PRESIDENT DISSATISFIED
The Interfraternity Council president said, “We
welcome Beta Chi’s move with open arms. We
know they’ve done a lot of serious thinking about
this.”
Dick Williams, president of Beta Chi, expressed
dissatisfaction with the Council. He said that he
would stay in IFC for the quarter term only to
see whether other member houses were sincere
in their recently professed desire to renew em
phasis on education among the campus’ fraterni
ties.
Williams said Beta Chi’s move was in protest
against the blackball system and exclusive selec
tive living. Intellectual fraternity programs, he
added, can be good enough to attract new
members
Fraternities, including Beta Chi, have tradi
tionally been inward-oriented, Williams said, and
the house’s intention now is to become a greater
part in the University community.
SYSTEM NOT THREATENED
Of the other 24 fraternity presidents at Stan
ford, 16 stated that Beta Chi’s revised member
selection policy would not be a threat to the
fraternity system. They added, however, that their
houses would not consider such a move in the
near future.
Although some of the presidents admired the
move, others criticized Beta Chi as being either
too farsighted or too progressive. Several said
that Beta Chi was no longer a real fraternity,
but a dormitory with Greek letters.
Williams blamed fraternities' resistance to
change on an overreliance on national fraternity
leadership.
Beta Chi, formerly Beta Chi chapter of Sigma
Nu fraternity, went local in 1962.
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Governor s Arts Council
To Hold Public Hearing
By NOMI BORENSTEIN
Emerald Associate Editor
As a part of the “most search
ing examination of Oregon’s art
and humanities in the history of
the state,” the Governor’s Plan
ning Council on the Arts and Hu
manities will hold public hearings
Tuesday in Eugene.
The hearings will be held at
3 and 7:30 p.m. at the Eugene
City Council Hall, 777 Pearl
Street.
The Planning Council, organiz
ed last spring by Governor Mark
Hatfield, is trying to develop a
permanent state agency in the
field of the arts and humanities,
develop a draft statue and a pro
gram for the proposed Oregon
Arts Humanities Commission.
According to Jarrold Kieffer,
vice-chairman of the council and
an assistant to University Presi
dent Arthur S. Flemming, the
purpose of the nine public hear
ings is to “try and explain the pro
gram to citizens, representatives
of civil and art organizations and
a chance for them to react to
the proposal and make sugges
tions.”
Program to Aid Art
Kieffer said the “program’s key
thrust is to aid art at the com
munity level.”
The temporary body, he said,
will ask the legislature for $50,
000, which will be matched by
another $50,000 of federal money.
“All this will go for programs
but the amount doesn’t permit
you to subsidize new programs,”
he said.
“As I see it,” he said, “the per
manent agency could do a lot of
needed work.
“It could act as a pin-pointer of
aid. It might work with the com
munities and the organizations to
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figure out what might put them
on a better footing.
“It could bring advice and as
sistance . . . it’s amazing how
much is needed. It could encour
age local co-operation; act as a
clearing house for information.
It could act as a focal point for
alerting the communities about
the availability of touring groups
based inside and outside the
state, and facilitate the arrange
ments for bringing these groups
to places where they usually
wouldn’t go.”
“Who knows? They might even
give financial help,” he conclud
ed.
“Small grants to make things
| possible or to cover stubborn
gaps.
“We could make greater use
of Portland and Eugene sympho
nies,” he said dreamily, “send
them to Roseburg, for example,
and three or four other commu
nities in that area that would
just love to have a symphony.”
concerts rossioie
“They could give concerts in
the schools and hold workships.
“We might even spring loose
some local money — not very
much but enough to make things
possible,” Kiefler added, smiling
wistfully.
“There’s another thing the
permanent body could do . . .
it could speak as a state agency
in the councils of government
on the needs and interests of the
arts, which aren’t often repre
sented now.
Work With Ideas
“The ideas now is to work with
practical ideas that need to be
done, but these ideas must be
capable ideas that need to be
done, but these ideas must be
capable of being implemented
Meeting Scheduled
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Is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tues
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, with very little money,” Kieffer
! said.
“It’s my personal hope,” he
continued, “that a certain per
centage of the budget could be
; used to bring things into being.
“The council won’t have much
; $100,000 a year for ten years
| money to work with now, but
that means $1 million.
“For instance,” he said, “even
tually the state commission might
make a number of small grants on
aid to cover students during that
transition period from getting out
of school and into the world of
the arts.
Seniors Named Cadet Brigade
Some 96 senior cadets in the
Army Reserve Officer Training
Corps (KOTC) at the University
have been named to positions in
the Cadet Brigade.
These seniors will be respon
sible for the operation and main
tenance of the brigade, which is
composed of the University's
Army KOTC cadets.
They are
Cadet Colonel Robert Glenn McCoy.
Cadet Lt. Colonel—Robb Jay Slegen
thaler. John Spencer Carlaon Jr.,
Michael Kenton Woodln, David Ed
ward Romppanen, and David l.aaar
Diamond.
Cadet Major—Ranee David Sopko,
John Roland Snodgraaa Jr., Stephen
W'arrvn Cole, and Daniel Menefee Cole.
Cadet Captain—Gregory Van Sant
voord Camp, Donald Wayne Jenson,
Braxton Miles Johnson, Thomas Wayne
Went fall, Randell Clifford Guyer Jr.,
Frederick Dougla* Killers, and Robert
Dewev llarrla.
Charles Richard Winn. Nlckolao*
Theodore Pappas, John Robert Keen,
Leonard Marcelloua Scholl Jr., Jack
Neal Clark, Walter Joaeph Foster,
John Steven Folawn, Michael Jamea
Willoughby, and Stephen Hadley Wat
tern.
Cadet First Lieutenant—Guy King
man Bennett, Lcncld Edward Brown,
Grant HenJyoJI, David Lawrence Me
Clung. Donald Herbert Rice, Jamea
Martin Shull. Scott Lee Taylor, Jeffery
Sigma Nu-Morton
Win College Bowl
The Sigma Nu Morton college
j bowl team polished of! the Sigma
! Kappa Douglas squad, 240-120.
i Thursday night on the PL-3 Col
lege Bowl program.
In the single elimination tour
nament involving 44 teams from
88 living organizations. Sigma
Nu-Morton will go on to play Chi
Omega-Ganoe while Sigma Kappa
Douglas arc dropped Next week's
| College Bowl program will pit
Sigma Phi Epsilon - C a r s o n II
against Alpha Omicron Pi-Boyn
ton at 9 p.m.
Beal Wins Position
Philip Beal, assistant dean of
; students at the University, has
been elected a member-at-large
for the Northwest College Person
; nel Association. His term will be
1 for the academic year 1966 67.
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