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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
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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)