Oregon daily emerald., February 08, 1968, Page Three, Image 3

F aculty Lashes at General Hershev
By M1KK FANdllll
Of the Kmcritld
Selective Service Director
I-'-win II. Ilorshcy was dealt nil
mcroui verbal blows at Wed
nesday’s meeting of the IJnlver
sity faculty, but the knock out
punch never came.
Despite severe criticism of
Mershcy’s controversial letter
regarding protestors, the facul
ty reached no linal decision on
a motion urging him to rescind
the communication.
The motion, stating that the
faculty protested the letter of
October 2(f, 1907, was referred
back to the University chapter
of the American Association of
University Professors.
Sidney Greenfield, on behalf
of the local AAUI* Kxecutivc
Committee, introduced the mea
sure to the faculty.
Hcrshey’s letter recommend
ed that any violators of "the
Military Selective Service Act
or the Regulations, or related
processes . . should be denied
deferment in the National inter
est.”
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Results
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card, allowing a person to vote
a second time, taking one’s eye
olT a pile of ballots for a mo
ment, or it was charged that
some polling areas were left un
attended for a short while.
Donahue commented, “Sev
eral individuals have made ver
bal charges of election inis
praetices As of this time. 1 have
received no formal complaints.
All charges will be considered
rumor until a written protest
is filed in my office "
To safeguard elections in the
future, Donahue is appointing
an election reform committee
of 10 members which will inves
tigate past election procedures
and make recommendations for
improvement.
Appointed to the committee
Wednesday night were election
board members Lee Neumann,
iiuffie Maekie and Kandy Clark;
Senators Dick Kymann, Brian
Kellington, Kandy Gragg and
Alike Hartwig.
In addition, three members
of the student body at large will
be selected as members. Peti
tions for these three positions
will be available in room 306
of the EMU today.
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The motion introduced said
the faculty "strongly protests
your letter of October 2<i, 1967,
as it relates to the academic
community . . .
"By allowing local boards to
decide 'violations' of such vague
concepts as ‘related processes'
your letter would use the draft
as a punishment for those stu
dents and young faculty mem
bers who might merely be exer
cising their academic preroga
tives and their Constitutional
rights," the measure continued,
"W( deplore your letter's dis
regard for due process of law
and the implication that serv
ice in the armed forces of the
United States should bo used
as a penalty for law violations.
“The members of this facul
ty," the motion concluded,
"strongly urge your letter of
October 2(1, 1907 he rescinded.”
There were apparently many
reasons why the roughly 85
member body voted to refer the
motion back to the AAUP. How
ever, Edwin Beal, professor of
business administration, was
very explicit in making the re
ferral motion
»eai caiicu ine niouon wisny
washy and pompous." He stress
ed. "llershey certainly isn’t
wishy-washy and if it goes to
Johnson that goes double.”
Other reasons were given for
the final postponing decision.
Bower Aly, professor of
speech, offered one other, re
questing the AAUP to take into
consideration other communica
tions which have taken place
since the initial letter was re
leased.
The points of later coinmuni
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Guitar Lessons
The University YMCA will
sponsor classes in classical and
folk guitar beginning next week.
The classes will continue for
12 weeks and provide the oppor
tunity for students to improve
their technique.
Students should have their
own guitar and some basic
knowledge.
Registration will be limited
to 10 students per class and are
being taken in room 15 of the
EMU between 9 and 12 morn
ings.
Festival Planners
To Pick Designs
International student organi
zation presidents will select fi
nal plans for the design of this
year’s International Festival ex
hibits at a panel today.
Six different plans will be
submitted by some 32 third
and fourth year interior design
students. One of these will be
picked as a pattern for festi
val exhibits.
After the single plan is se
lected, the same group of stu
dents will divide into 12 groups
and design exhibits for each of
the 12 world areas represented
in the festival.
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cations and President Johnson’s
involvement were the basic sub
jects of the faculty’s debate.
Orlando Hollis, professor of
law, introduced the point
that the letter does not rotiect
the federal government’s policy
on the- draft and asked Univer
sity President Flemming to dis
cuss the actual policy of the
Johnson Administration
Flemming reminded the body
that the October 2fi letter was
to be followed by an executive
order making it effective and
that the order was never re
leased.
Flemming added that another
letter had been released from
the White House which was
quite a different letter from
General Hershey's communica
tion.”
The point was made, however,
that the White House letter was
issued to a group of Ivy League
schools and not to local draft
boards.
The faculty seemingly reject
ed Flemming's advice to react
to the latest policy statement—
that from the White House on
the following two points:
Appeal Delayed
In Kunkle Case
EUGENE '/Pi _ The Lane
County School Hoard has de
layed until Tuesday, Feb. 27, a
decision on whether it will hear
the appeal of fired Eugene teach
er Honald Kunkle.
The board is not sure it is the
proper agency to hear the ap
peal.
Kunkle was fired after he
was accused of inefficiency and
insubordination.
Following a two-day hearing
last month, the Eugene School
Board upheld the suspension
and transfer orders which pre
ceded Kunkle's dismissal for
refusing to accept the transfer.
• That local boards have act
ed on the October 26 letter de
spite later communications.
• And that there is no as
surance that Hershey's letter
might not become official Ad
ministration policy in the fu
ture.
Flemming also recommended
that the original letter from the
faculty, if passed, be sent to
Johnson and that a copy be for
warded to Hershey.
Greenfield accepted this pro
posal and at this point Beal
made his motion to refer back
to the AAUP.
The motion introduced to the
faculty would not have gone as
far as one which was to have
been voted on by the Portland
State College faculty Wednes
day.
The PSC measure would have
banned all military recruiters
from the campus until the let
ter is rescinded. No report was
available on that motion at
Emerald press time.
Greenfield said the AAUP
Executive Committee did not
suggest such a ban on two
grounds:
• That it did not get at the
“civilian arm” which is involv
ed in the draft question.
• And that it would yiolate
the University's principle of al
lowing anyone to speak and re
cruit on campus.
In other business the faculty
changed balloting . procedures
for its elections and es
tablished a committee to re
view all organized programs in
volving foreign students at the
University and University stu
dents studying outside the U.S.
The committee is to examine
academic standards maintained
in such programs and report to
the faculty, through the Faculty
Senate no later than October.
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