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Fashion Conscious? Fiscal Committee Check Inside Recommends Extensive For Spring’s Newest Budget Slashes Section 2 i __ See page 3 —-Vol. LXVH UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1968 No. 112 — Senate Asks Farleigh to Get Court Order Against Dean By ANITA BICKERS Of the Emerald In what was termed “unusual __. r^sh action,” the ASUO Senate suspended rules to consider and pass a motion to initiate a cease and desist order to stop Dean Walter Freauff’s, associate Dean of Students, policy of supplying quarterly records of student’s academic progress to local draft boards. Also under suspended rules, the body passed a Presidential Search Committee Bill which mandates the ASUO president to form a Student Search Com mittee and giving him the pow er to appoint students to any other search committee. In other major legislative ac tion the Senate passed a rec ommendation to the general fac ulty which may lead to exten sive revision in the Student Conduct Code and withdrawal of funds to any agency found to be discriminatory. The bill, introduced by Dick Jones and Dan Allison, recom mends to the faculty that a clause be added to the conduct program. The clause states that if any group receiving University funds is found to be discrimin ating on the basis of race, col or, sex or creed, the University President “must refuse to fund that group until such discrim inating practices have ceased.” If accepted the clause would lead to a major policy change. Under the present code it applies only to students. The discrimination sanction clause applies to any group within the University system. The Senate considered a bill to establish guidelines for vending machines on cam pus, a bill to recommend ex tension of hours for the men’s Student Association (NSA) membership bill and a mandate against tuition and incidental fee increase. After much debate, the Sen ate defeated a motion to post pone until Tuesday’s meeting consideration of the cease and desist bill against Freauff. The main motion was passed by a wide margin and a collection was taken up among the Sen ate to raise $18.50 for the court costs. The issue of the student rec ords came up after at least three students reportedly lost their II-S deferments as a re sult of Freauff’s policy. The law requiring the send ing of quarterly records to draft boards has not been in effect since summer 1967. After lengthy debate on the Presidential Search Committee Bill the motion was passed in its amended form. The Search Committee Bill reads: “Whereas: The selection of a new University President will perceptibly affect students in the classroom, in their conduct, and in their commitment to so cial programs, and “Whereas: Students must be involved in the decisions which afreet the results the Univer sity achieves with its students, in order to direct their own lives, and “Whereas: Three students appointed to a Presidential Search Committee of a total number of 13-15 will not ade quately represent student opin ion, “Therefore Be It Resolved That: The ASUO Senate de mands equal representation along with faculty and admin istration on any Presidential Search Committee. “Be It Further Resolved That: The ASUO Senate shall allow Black Students Demand University Action on Race The University Black Stu dents’ Union (BSU) released a list of demands Thursday which were presented to University President Arthur S. Flemming last week. The demands were given to the president last Friday, and accompanied a list of grievan ces. The Emerald printed the grievances on Monday, however the demands were not releas ed by the BSU until Thursday afternoon. Basically the demands fall into the same major categories as the grievances. The text of the demands is as follows: Dormitories and related areas: • More Black dormitory counselors. • At least three Black stu dents assigned to each dorm. This should be set up as an option such as it should be the discretion of Black students whether or not they would like to live with students who share their same common cultural her itage. • Since foods relating to other nationalities and or eth nic groups are served in the dor mitories dining halls, i.e., Ger man, Spanish, Italian, etc., it is imperative that “soul food,” which relates to Afro-Arneri cans, should also be served. • All white dormitory coun selors be required to have train ing in human behavior and inter personal relationships. This would eliminate some ol' (lie antagonism between White and Black Students within t h e dorms. Finances and related areas • Due to the inadequate and inferior education that Black students are subjected to within their communities, it is appar ent that they cannot compete successfully for a preponderent quantity of the financial assis tance available. It is, therefore, imperative that the factor of ‘‘need” should be the most rele vant criterion for the evalua tion of an application for aid. • A list of all job opportu nities or openings should be submitted to the Black Student (Continued on page 2) the ASUO President to appoint students to any Presidential Search Committee. “Be It Further Resolved That: The ASUO Senate mandates the ASUO President to form a stu dent Presidential Search Com mittee in addition to the facul ty presidential committee with any student members of the Presidential Search Committee as members.” A guideline bill for vending machines was also passed. This bill provides for all machines to be under the control of the Erb Memorial Student F u n d instead of under the individual departments as they are now. It also provides for all vend ing machine revenue to be used for a special financial aids fund with the exception of EMU and dormitory machines which will keep their funds for program ing. The bill provides for the vending machine policy to be reviewed after five years. Also passed by a vote of 15-10 was mandate to indicate ASUO opposition to any increase in tuition or incidental fees. A policy bill introduced by Kick Farleigh which would urge "all members of the ASUO to allow the University to continue its membership in the Nation al Student Association by de feating the NSA disaffiliation measure in the coming elec lions” also failed. A bill was passed by unani mous consent to "implore Pres ident Flemming to lake imme diate action to resolve "'speci fic inadequacies in the Depart ment of Urban Planning and two appointments were made—Don Fitz was appointed to the Aca demic Committee and Ernest Martin was appointed to the Building and Grounds Commit tee. iiimiiiiiliii:iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiuiii'l'iillililiiiiiiiilliliiuui<i; .mm ..iliiiiiiii Sports .pages 4, 5 Classifieds .. page 9 Campus Briefs page 9 Editorials pages 10, 11 Campus Happenings page 12 ■llllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllilllllllllilllllllllllllllllllilllilllllllllllllllllllllillllHIUi Photo by Craig McKern JUNIOR WEEKEND’S queen Finalists pose for the Emerald. From top to bottom they are: Folly Tweed, Finn Madden, Feslie Cooper, Dody Dornsife and Claudia Dobney. The win ner, who will be selected in Wednesday’s general election, will, reign over festivities the weekend of April 20, 27 and 28. Choice '68 Presidential Primary Computer to Analyze, Count Votes CHOICE 68 has added another first. A UNI VAC 1108 computer will make the first com plete tabulation and analysis in history of the voting preferences of a nationwide segment of the U.S. popu lation during the National Collegiate Presidential Primary. Votes from an anticipated turnout of over two million students will be processed, totaled, and analyzed by a single large scale computer in Univac’s Washington offices, according to Emerald Editor Mike Fancher, a member of the CHOICE 68 Board of Directors. The computer will work from data supplied on punch ed cards by each voter, much like the process in ASUO elections. The 1108 will then make a comprehensive breakdown of the voting from nearly 1.500 colleges representing more than 75 per cent of the nation's total college enrollment. This is the first time that a computer has been used to tabulate and completely evaluate results of a nation wide poll," commented Carl Hammer, Director of Scientific and Computer Services for Univac’s Federal Systems Division. "We will perform the most comprehensive analysis in the history of balloting on a national scale,” he added. Hammer pointed out that in other national elections computers deal with totals from individual polling places. In CHOICE 68. the computer will handle seven types of data from each punched card ballot, thor oughly comparing and analyzing the voting on candi dates and issues. The seven types of information are as follows: • Age: 18 or under, 19, 20, 21, 22 or over (as of Nov. 5). • Parly preference: Democrat, Republican, Inde pendent, other party. • Whether voter is a foreign student. • First, second, and third choices for President. • What course of military activity action the U.S. should pursue in Vietnam. • What course of action the U.S. should pursue in regards to bombing North Vietnam. • And which area of government spending should receive highest priority to meet the urban crisis. From about two million ballots, the 1108 will tabulate percentages of first, second, and third choice votes for each candidate, and the percentage of students favor ing each course of action under the three referendum questions. It has also been programmed to compare the first choice voting for candidates with the voting on each issue, showing, for instance, how many students in dicating Senator Eugene McCarthy as their first choice also favor immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam. The 1108 will further analyze the voting by age groups, party, region, and type of school, and will show the exact number of votes for each of 1,872 pos sible combinations of first, second and third choices. At their campus polling places, students push out perforations on the cards to indicate their preferences. These punched cards go to branch offices of the Univac Information Services Division in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Silver Spring, Md., where UNIVAC 1004 III card processors convert them to about 25 magnetic tapes. These tapes are sent to the UNIVAC 1108 in Wash ington, which compresses them into three reels hold ing the entire prmary data on about 3,600 feet of tape. The computer then tabulates complete returns. Six million punched cards have been distributed to participating universities, colleges, and junior colleges. Univac’s detailed breakdown of the voting is expected to be available during the first week of May. Each participating institution will receive a computer printout including results of the balloting on its cam pus.. Printouts will be made available to news media and other interested parties. After the primary, a detailed report on all aspects of Choice 68 including f urther analyses of the returns, will be published. v A team of about 20 Univac computer specialists will devote their full time efforts for about one week fo processing the Choice 68 returns. This processing will require about 300 hours on each 1004 and a total of about 40 hours on the 1108. About 15 Univac programmers, managers, and execu tives have worked for several weeks before the primary to coordinate the handling of the data and to write the programs which tabulate the returns in the com puter.