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OREGON DAILY E mer aid GREATER OREGON PROGRAM REVIVED AT UNIVERSITY Page 3 VoLLXVII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1967 No. 68 Photo by John Sasaki INDIAN STUDENTS commence “India Nixht” by sluicing their national anthem. Pictured from left to riitht are Mahima Ktindu, Manoraina Pandit, Phillip Thomas, Gita Kundu, and Muthuveedu Kriahnan. Widespread Budget Cuts, Tuition Increases Seen Editor's Note: This article is lhr first of a series on the fu ture finances of public univer sities across the nation. By ROBERT A. ( BOSS ( olli-RUIr Frrts Sirvke WASHINGTON, DC — As the new state legislative sessions be gin, public universities across the country are facing the prospect of budget cuts and tuition in ; creases for the 19ti7-f>8 fiscal year. | Although California Governor Ronald Reagan's suggested tuition for state colleges and universe ties has sparked the most heated debate, public schools in Colo- j rado, Illinois. Indiana, Oregon and Texas are also confronting! the issue of taxation versus tui tion in their search for operating | revenues. Following his inauguration this! month, Republican Reagan pro posed that the state reduce its! appropriations for higher educa tion and that California schools levy a tuition for the first time; in the state’s history. Urges Budget Cut For the nine-campus, HO,000 student University of California,; Reagan urged a cut in state funds; from the present $240 million to $192 million. To make up for the budget cut, the governor suggest ed a $400 tuition and a one time appropriation of $22 million from the regents’ contingency fund. The Reagan administration has also proposed reduction in state funds for the 18 state colleges from the present $176 million to $168.4 million. The state college system, organized separately from the University, has a student en rollment of 127,000. Reagan’s proposals, if adopted, would raise the cost of education at the university from $220 in "incidental” fees to $620 for Cali fornia residents—one of the high est tuitions at public universities in the country. State college stu dents, who pay $135 in "inci dental" fees, would have an added $200 tuition. The median in-state tuition for all state universities is $311. The governor’s suggestion met widespread opposition in the aca demic community and widened the gulf between the new admin istration and University officials. Reagan had made student dem onstrations at the Berkeley cam pus a major issue in his race against incumbent Governor Kd murid G. Brown. The controversy over the budg et also precipitated Friday’s fir ing of University of California President Clark Kerr by the re gents Kerr, who had been criti cized in the state as too "liberal" in his treatment of student radi cals, had strongly opposed tui tion charges at the university. Kmergency Created Reagan’s proposals were made at the same time as the univer sity was seeking an increase in state appropriations to $278 mil lion, in anticipation of an en rollment increase of 9,700. The university announced soon after ward that it was halting all new admissions on both the graduate and undergraduate levels. The university’s action followed a similar step taken earlier by the state colleges, which had sought Address Report Deadline Tuesday Alfred J. Urbano, district di rector of the Immigration and Naturalization Service today urged all aliens in the State of Oregon who have not yet filled out alien address report forms, to do so before Tues day at the nearest Immigration and Naturalization Service of fice or local post office. The immigration official pointed out that the law re quires all non-citizens, except persons in diplomatic status and foreign representatives to certain international organiza tion, such as the United Na tions, to report their address es to the government each Jan uary. Mr. Urbano added, “T h e parent or legal guardian of an alien child under 14 years of age must fill out the address report form for such a child in order to comply with the law.” The immigration official said 10,000 aliens in the State of Oregon have already filled out address reports. He estimated that 15,000 such reports will be submitted before Tuesday. a budget increase to $213 million to pay for an increased enroll ment of 17.000 students. Reagan said he was making the proposals because an expected $475 million state deficit had cre ated an “emergency" situation. "This is in no way a change in permanent policy," he said. If all state expenses, including those for higher education, were (Continued on page 2) Congressman Blasts Speakers A Milwaukie legislator has criticized the list of speakers invited to the campus in a recent letter to University President Arthur S. Flemming. Representative Leo M. Thornton, a Republican, said in his letter: "most of the speakers listed have demonstrated to the American public a lack of social responsibility and integrity.” Thornton was referring to such speakers as Stokeley Carmichael, leader of the Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee; George Lincoln Rockwell, self-styled leader of the American Nazi Party; Negro comedian and civil rights worker Dick Gregory; Martin Luther King, Negro civil rights leader; former Episcopal Bishop James Pike; LSD advocate Timothy Leary; Paul Robertson, an attorney defending a marijuana case; and Sidney Cohen, an oppo nent of liberalized use of LSD. REPLY BEING PREPARED Flemming said Sunday that a reply to Thornton is being prepared and will probably be released sometime today. He explained that the answer would include a statement of the University policy on speakers and that University Relations Direc tor Jim Shea is in the process of compiling a complete list of speakers invited to the campus this year. Flemming added that he woud have no further comment until his reply is released as he feels a “double answer” to Thornton’s complaints to be unnecessary. Thornton is vice president of the Western Evangelical Seminary near Portland and was pastor of the First Evangelical United Brethren Church in Eugene from 1954 to 1958. Although Thornton could not be reached Sunday night for addi tional comment, the text of his letter to President Flemming is printed below: TEXT OF LETTER ' I want to express to you my concern over an article appearing in the Oregonian on January 25, 1967, “Oregon University Students Book Speakers Covering Full Range of Social Ideas ” First, I will differ with the title of the article, which I know is not the responsibility of the University, but even so 1 do believe the listed speakers in the article do not represent a Full Range of Social Ideas ” “Second, I consider most of the speakers listed to have demon strated to the American public a lack of social responsibility and integrity. Why should they be granted the public forum of our tax supported university campus to further their extreme views? My asking the question does not mean that I do not know the • classic" answer given by the people who defend such exposure. This brings me to two questions respectfully directed to you. What administrative responsibility and authority do you as the President of the University have over such a situation? Also, what steps can be taken to get a balanced roster of speakers who could with integrity and responsibility approach the social ideas of our day? ' Would you please send me a list of the scheduled, confirmed and tentative, speakers for the remainder of the school year who will be sponsored by such groups as the Associated Students and the Inter-Fraternity Council?” Road to Tenure Tough For University Faculty Editor s Note: The influence of teaching ef fectiveness in decisions on faculty promotion and tenure has become a major topic of debate during the past month as the general faculty considers possible uses for student evaluations of courses. Many things about promotion and tenure remain a mystery to students and even to some faculty. To shed some light on the sub ject, the Emerald interviewed Bernd Crase man, professor of physics and chairman of the Faculty Advisory Council, and Charles Johnson, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, two of the key men in the promotion and tenure process. This article deals with the formal structure for promotion and tenure. A second article will explain how teaching effectiveness is evaluated now and what the effect of student evaluations would be. By PHIL SEMAS Emerald Editor How is a faculty member promoted and how is he given tenure? Perhaps it would be better to start with a more basic question: what is promotion and tenure? Promotion is easy to explain. When a man joins the University faculty, he starts at a certain rank, usually assistant profes | sor. Faculty members used to be hired at the in structor rank, but because of competition for faculty, thal has almost disapneared, according to Charles Johnson, dean of the College of Liberal Arts. PROMOTIONS DESIRED Faculty members almost always would like to move from assistant to associate to full professor. Thus the University must decide when they will be promoted. Tenure is a little harder to understand. Basically, a faculty member who has it can't be fired, unless he’s committed high crimes and misdemeanors. At the University promotion to associate pro fessor and tenure go together. The way in which faculty members are pro moted and given tenure is a long process involv ing many people from department heads all the way to University President Arthur Flemming. POLICY TOUGH This is the way it works: The University has a policy that tenure is not given to anyone who does not become an associ ate professor in six years, according to Dean Johnson. If a faculty member fails to receive tenure in six years, he is allowed one more year at the University and then must leave. Some time during that six years, the depart ment head decides he will recommend a member of his faculty for promotion. The department head then puts together a statement of what the man has done and his opinion of the quality of his work. FACULTY CONSULTED When Dean Johnson in the College of Liberal Arts (or the dean of a professional school) gets that letter from the department head, he selects three faculty members to make additional com ments. Generally he says he selects people from the same department. ' The letters from the department head and his colleagues give us as good an idea as we can get of his performance in the University,” Johnson says. The University also asks for comments from people outside the University community, deal ing especially with his reputation in his iield. "There are differences of opinion on how good these are,” Johnson says. "Some people feel that outsiders aren't as involved in the University and are softer on candidates for promotion and tenure.” The lile containing all these letters, plus a list (Continued on page 2)