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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1968)
IED Rejects Kunkles Appeal • • • (Continued front page l) formation from people outside the school in deciding to sus pend him. • Kunkle’s reassignment to a mentally retarded class at Kennedy Junior High was out side the classification under which he took the job. • Complaints about his teach ing methods were handled im properly. • A review of his case should have been held by the personnel adjustment board of the dis trict. The smoldering case of the former fifth grade teacher flared up again Monday after nearly a month of relative cool. The District 4 School Board, at its Monday meeting, lis tened to testimony from 16 parents on whether or not the school board should give the case further consideration. Then it voted 4-3 that the matter should be dropped from any further discussion. If parents of many of Kun kle’s former students and sev eral hundred other Eugene resi dents have their way, the mat ter will be doused completely from public discussion. The citizens, many of them members of the newly formed Robbery Leaves Student Broke Like the majority of Univer sity students. Sharrel E. David son is broke. The thing is. Monday morn ing he had S120. It was stolen from his wallet sometime be tween 8 a m. and 12 p.m. in the Men’s P.E. Locker Room Davidson, a junior P.E ma jor. had cashed his paycheck from the plywood mill where he works part-time. He spent only a few dollars from it and still had $120 left A married student with one child. Davidson said. "This is really going to hurt. I just don't get that many paychecks and being a married student, need less to say I really need the money." Davidson hopes that the per son who took the money will see his way clear to return it. He lives at 2090 Holly Ave.; his phone number is 344-1227. 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Another, Robert Sheplee, of 2577 Dover Drive, put it more strongly: “Prolonging a final discussion regarding this case is detrimental to the pupils in the classroom, the morale of our teachers and administrators, the confidence placed in our elect ed officials and the wetfbeing of our community.” One of the co-chairmen of the parents' committee. Byron Ba kcr of 3014 Dalewood, told the board that Santa Clara students and staff "have had to bear more depression and disappoint ment than is necessary.” Baker questioned whether Kunkle should have been grant ed the hearing he received January 15 and 16. adding that the citizens of this country have privileges, not rights He said these privileges come in the form of rules and laws which "should not be broken or twist ed or stretched.” Among citizens speaking in Kunkle’s behalf was Herbert Bisno. 2360 Arthur St., who is a University faculty member of the School of Community Serv ices and Public Administration. Bisno told the board he was “appalled by the reasoning of some of the speakers." Speaking before the clearly hostile audience, comprised mostly of the anti-Kunkle fac tion, Bisno said. "It would be a bad bargain for the board to trade what they consider to be immediate serenity for the principles of the case.” He ex plained that this would only bring about a recurrence of at tacks and attempts to intimi date teachers. "Once you go this route, you are opening yourself up for a constant period, not of seren ity, but of controversy that's not based on principle. Bisno said (hero is always dis rupt ion when then- is social Change and that Kunkle’s teach ing methods represented such a change. He said education "is not Just books" and that it involves "seeing in practice things that are occurring externally." He said it is an extremely had policy to compound errors by not changing a decision, when that decision has proven un just. Kunkle, who has been em ployed part time by Lane Com munity College, was hired last week in a part-time position by Robert Agger, of the University institute for Comparative Kx pcnmrnt.il Research on He havorial Systems. Who put all those Hawks and Doves in Pigeonholes? Phoenix Our guess: the press. Because it was colorful and convenient But also because folks like it that way. It's so much easier to choose up sides; To dismiss everything a man says (If he's on the other side) Rather than go to all the trouble of weighing The parts of his speech. It's the way our politicians raised us, after all, Or lowered us. Partisan political palaver Cries out for the easy label And deserves it. But the honest opinions of responsible men Should stand or fall on their merit Not their badge. We hope you agree. You are our life insurance.
