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EMERALD
Vol. LXV1II UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1968 No. 83
Flemming May Leave University
An Editorial
UO Must Act
To Keep Flemming
The University of Oregon needs Arthur S. Flemming,
and its students and faculty should act rapidly to try and
keep him.
Thoughts of a student-faculty show of support of the
president may seem premature at this date, but that isn't
the case. If the people who benefit so greatly from Flem
ming’s administrative talents don’t speak soon they might
as well not speak at all.
Today the talk of Flemming’s possibly accepting a posi
tion at another campus is merely rumor, but it is confirm
ed rumor. Flemming is under consideration for another
post, and from what we understand the job is the type
of challenge that interests a man of Flemming’s talents.
According to Flemming, the other institution is “in
terested in knowing whether I’m interested.”
But before the president makes any decision, the stu
dents and faculty of the University of Oregon should make
it clear that they are interested too.
They should say that they are interested in keeping
the man who in six and one-half years has turned the
University of Orgeon from an obscure, little school into
a nationally recognized educational institution.
Flemming's years at the University have been definitely
year’s of accomplishment. Achievements of particular
note during his tenure have included the following:
• The development of the Student Conduct Code, prob
ably the most liberal in the country for giving students
control over their own discipline rules.
• The additional resources that have become available
through the federal government, for student loans, build
ing projects, faculty research, and so on.
• The establishment of a School of Librarianship and
especially of a School of Community Services and Public
Affairs, which “represents some pioneering on our part.”
• The growth of the Development Fund and private
gifts to the University, a major part of Flemming’s overall
effort to make this what he calls a true “public university,”
supported equally by the state, ihe federal government,
and private citizens and foundations.
• The growth of the sciences, highlighted by a $4 mil
lion developmental grant from the National Sciences
Foundation which “assures that we will become one of
the strongest science centers in the country.”
The president says that in carrying on the conversations
with the other institution he is trying to ascertain where
at this point in his career he can be of most service.
The students and faculty of the University of Oregon
must impress the president with the need this institution
has of his services, and they must do so now.
Arthur S Flemming, who has
been president of the Univer
sit.v for six and a half years,
may leave Oregon for another
institution.
In a telephone conversation
with the Emerald Tuesday,
Flemming indicated that he is
in the process of deciding
whether to stay at the University
or move to another, unnamed,
institution.
Flemming insists that he has
made no definite plans in either
direction and squelched the
rumor that he told his seven
member faculty advisory coun
cil that he has accepted a posi
tion at another institution.
"In carrying on these con
versations, (those with the other
institution) I have tried to as
certain where at this particular
point in my career I can he of
most service,” Flemming said.
The former Secretary of
Health. Education and Welfare
will be 63 years old in June.
According to a Register-Guard
story, Flemming “declined to
name the other institution be
cause, he said, he feels ob
ligated to protect the integrity
of its selection processes.' Tradi
tionally, announcements about
the departure of college and
university personnel arc made
by the institution hiring them.”
Flemming said he has been
weighing the situation in a
very positive attitude toward
the University and he holds no
negative feelings toward this
institution.
A possible guess as to what
institution is inquiring about
Flemming's availability seems
to be Macalester College, a pri
vate co-ed liberal arts college
of about 1,800 students located
in St. Paul, Minn.
According to the Guard story,
“Macalaster is the alma mater
of DeWitt Wallace, founder of
the Reader’s Digest . . . Flem
ming is a member of the board
of trustees at Macalaster and
has developed a close associa
tion with the Wallaces as a re
sult of Mrs. Wallace’s gift (of
SI million dollars) to the U of
O.”
Flemming is now in San
Diego, Calif., where he is head
ing a National Council of
Churches board meeting as
president.
Vacuum Traps Americans
Says Conservative Bozelle
By SUE HEINZ
"It (the United States) is a
country of Freudians, it is a
country of sclf-indulence, and
the greatest self-indulgence is
one’s own life,” stated Brent
Bozelle in the EMU Ballroom
Tuesday night.
Bozelle assisted Barry Gold
water in writing "Conscience of
a Conservative" and is the editor
oi the Catholic Triumph.
Bozelle was speaking on the
lack of purpose which he feels
is evident in America today, es
pecially concerning the war in
Vietnam.
"It is quite clear that Amer
ican people arc no longer con
vinced that Communism repre
sents an opposition to man’s
true purpose in life,” he stated.
He said that never before has
a society had a clearer concept
of its own distress, ”a sick
ness so deep. . . .”
“Ours is the richest, yet the
poorest nation in history,”
lie said, "Richest in the things
man can provide, and we arc
getting richer, hut poorest in
the things man cannot provide,
and we are getting poorer.”
He stated that the luxury of
Americans today "is meaning
less; it is possessed in a vac
uum—we finger our coins like
Midas."
He said because of this mean
inglessness, Americanss don’t
know what reality is and are
therefore turning to drugs and
sex for diversion and use tele
vision “to insulate themselves
from life.”
BRENT BOZELLE
Goldwater speaker
Up stressed faith and a rela
tionship with God to alleviate
some of today's problems.
“Every man knows that there
is a part of him not answerable
to these tangible and measur
able things ... a superior
part. He knows it’s a part that
gives meaning to what he does
and what he is.
Bozelle defined himself as a
dissenter on the basis of two
things. First, that he has a
quite clear idea of what he is
dissenting from and second, that
he had in mind certain standards
against which the things he dis
sented could be weighed.
He told the audience that the
prevailing order of society is
secular liberalism. “So if you
dissent, you are by definition
anti-liberal and I congratulate
you,” he said.
As a Christian, Bozelle point
ed that he "is forbid absolute
ly to shed innocent non-contpe
tents' blood.
“Christians can wage war, but
not against non-competents,” he
stated. He said war could be
justifiably waged in defense of
one’s country or against "the
representatives of evil in the
world.”
It is against missiles aimed
to destroy large cities populat
ed with innocents that Bozelle
objected. "I dissent from that,”
he said.
Negro Jones Calls
For City Conquest'
By WANDALYN RICE
Of the Emerald
Flanked by two black - clad
bodyguards. Leroi Jones, Negro
playwright and poet, described
Negroes in the Black Power
movement as "Americans who
have no further need for Amer
ica to exist in its present state.”
Jones, here as part of the
three-day Symposium on Social
Revolution sponsored by the
ASUO, demanded that Negroes
be given power in the cities
where they live, saying "We
will rule ourselves or no one
will rule us.”
He said the main goal of the
movement is the "conquest of
the cities” and declared that
"Revolution will come in the
cities and both Black and white
are prepared. Anarchy will come
to the cities.”
In anarchy, he said, only those
who can adapt survive, and said,
"We must raise cities in our own
image,” rather than the pres
ent white image.
Beginning with some "Black
greetings” apparently in Ara
bic or Svvahali. and ending with
a poem dedicated to the "half
white college student,” Jones
attacked the white culture in
America and those middle -
class oriented Negroes who are,
he said, accepting an honorary
white man’s card” by fitting
into the mainstream of white
society.
Much of his speech was di
rected to the Negro college stu
dents in the audience, since,
Jones declared, “You can’t ex
pect white men to do anything
for you but what he has been
doing to you.”
He called upon Negroes to re
place "one system of values for
another system of values” and
to turn to their own culture, not
white culture or white art.
He pointed to the riots in
Newark as "a symbol, an exam
ple, of what will happen in
the future” because Negroes
will take power in the cities if
they have to "negotiate for it,
kill for it, trick someone for
it.”
There is no need for "scare
phrases” anymore, according
to Jones, because "the future
is oitrs.”
Jones said he did not believe
the white power structure of the
cities would ever give up their
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LEROIJONES
"black greetings”