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Tiii “emerald VoL LXVII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1968 No. 113 r I • Vigil for Equal Voice Continues Faculty Splits Over Search For President By GIL JOHNSON Of the Emerald There seems to be some di vision among faculty members on the issue of selecting a new University President, and who in the faculty should do the choosing. Efforts on the part of two dis tinct groups of faculty members to place certain candidates on the Presidential Search Commit tee has resulted in a division of three “liberals,” four “con servatives” and one “moderate” on the committee, according to an informed source. Though the members of the committee have been picked, State Chancellor Roy Lieuallan is not expected to announce rfthem until Tuesday or Wednes day. A letter circulated two weeks ago by sociology professor Rob ert Dubin requested the faculty to make its nominations for the Search Committee from a list of 12 names. The letter read: “You have just received a bal lot for nominating a group of five members of the faculty to a Presidential Search Commit tee. ' “This is obviously a critical committee, for the destiny of the University may rest on the wisdom of the recommendations made to the chancellor by the Search Committee. “A group of faculty concern ed with strengthening the in tellectual purposes of our Uni versity believes that a search committee composed of five members selected from the fol lowing list will represent the best interests of the University and all staff members like your self. “We hope you will give seri ous thought to making your nominations from your col leagues listed below.” The letter listed the follow ing people: Gustave Alef, his tory; Virgil Boekelheide, chem istry; Chapin Clark, law; Mel vin Cohen, biology; Russell Don nelly, physics; Stanley Green (Continued on page 3) , ‘V’ IS FOR VICTORY And in this case, for Vigil and equal Voice, too Chancellor, Farleigh Meet This Morning By LINDA MEIERJURGEN Of the Emerald This morning Chancellor of the State System of Higher Edu cation Roy Lieuallen will meet with ASUO President Scott Far leigh to discuss the number of students on the Presidential Search Committee. Sunday night concerned stu dents staged a sleep-in vigil in front of Johnson Hall to empha size the importance of having equal student representation on the committee. The Presidential Search Com mittee will recommend the State Board to fill the position of pres ident. It is only a recommending body, as the board has final de cision on who will be the next University president. Those who slept on the steps and lawn in front of Johnson in 32 degree weather wanted to in sure that students would have equal representation of any such committee. The exact size of the commit tee and the number of students to be placed on it has not been released. Most people at the vigil felt the number of students on the committee would be two. A letter expressing the opin ion of all who participated was An Open Letter Students Insist Equality On Search Group 'Vital' Editor’s note: The following is an open letter to Chancellor Roy Lieuallen demanding equal representation on the Presi dential Search Committee. Sig natures for the letter are still being collected. Those w ho have signed it already include ASUO presidential candidate Dick Jones, ex-candidate Phil Barn hart, vice-presidential candidates Dan Allison and Tom Fagan, and Emerald Editor Mike Fanch er. The Associated Students of the University of Oregon have stated their demand for equal representation on the State Board of Higher Education’s committee to search for a new president for the University of Oregon. The vigil in progress before Johnson Hall is a mani festation of their desire to have this request given full and com plete attention and to obtain substantial representation. The President of the Univer sity of Oregon spends almost all his time dealing with problems and issues which directly af fect the lives of students. The president sets the tone and mood of the University. The al location of funds, regulation of conduct and emphasis and di rection of curriculum are the means by which the President influences the student. JVith the students’ growing awareness and activity in each of these areas it is vital that students be in volved in the choice of the man who will direct the University community in the future. The proposition that students be given two members on a search committee of 12 to 14 members is untenable. Over 90 per cent of the University com munity is comprised of students. In keeping with the tradition of student-faculty cooperation a search committee should con tain equal number of students and faculty. If there are to be 10 to 12 faculty members, staff, alumni and board members on a search committee, there should be 10 to 12 student mem bers. A representation of two is tokenism. The students of the Univer sity of Oregon call upon the Chancellor to reconsider the number of students to be ap pointed to the Presidential Search Committee. We call upon the Chancellor to withstand the pressures brought to bear by persons outside the University who do not know or understand the University and its needs and who often do not have a lasting interest in the educa tional process. We call upon the Chancellor to consider the inter ests and perspectives which stu dents can bring to bear in this committee. We stand ready to devote time and energy as well as concern and interest to the working of the committee to ward the selection of the new president. Finally we call upon (Continued on page S) Farleigh Calls for Addition Of Blacks in ASUO Senate By MIKE FANCHER Of the Emerald ASUO President Scott Farleigh has called for the immediate addition of two members of the Black Students Union (BSU) to the ASUO Senate. In a release Friday, Farleigh said, "I believe student government is confront ing a grave crisis of unresponsiveness, misrepresentation, and irrelevancy. "Steps must be taken,’-1 he said, "to make the ASUO, and specifically the ASUO Senate, more directly representa tive of the active student cross-section of the campus.” Implementation of the ASUO presi dent's recommendation would necessitate the Senate’s amending its by-laws. • At present there are 35 voting mem bers of the ASUO Senate. The member ship apportionment is as follows: • One representative from each class, including a representative of the gradu ate school. • One representative each from up per class men’s and women’s dormitories, and one representative each from fresh man men's and women’s dorms. • One representative each from fra ternities and sororities and one each from men’s and women’s co-ops. • One male and one female ofl'-cam pus representative, and one off-campus married student representative. • One representative from the inter national students. • And 18 members elected at large. Farleigh listed campus discrimination, job opportunities, housing discrimination and lack of financial aids as major con cerns which student government must face. •These problems relate directly to the minority groups on campus and will he solved only with the assistance of the Black Student Union,” he said. BSU President Johnny Holloway met Farleigh's recommendation with mixed emotions. He said that if the proposal was made in response to recent BSU demands concerning reorganization of the ASUO, "then Farleigh doesn’t under stand what we mean by reorganization of student government.” Specifically Holloway made two points concerning the recommendation: • That having two Black students in the government doesn’t make a govern ment representative and the ASUO still might not be responsive. • And that while two Black represen tatives would be some help to Black stu dents it wouldn’t help solve the problems of all students on campus. On the second point Holloway added that a lack of student involvement in the government is shown by low voter turnout in ASUO elections. He suggested that an item could be placed on Wednesday’s election ballot asking students if they thought student government should be reorganized. If students feel the sense of a change, something new, they’ll become more in volved,” Holloway said. In this way he hoped students could bring forth new ideas for making student government more representative and responsive to all the students. circulated throughout t h e evening. It was an open let ter addressed to Chancellor Lieuallen. “. . . if there are to be It) or 12 faculty, staff, alumni and board members on a search committee, there should be It) to 12 student members,” the let ter said. "The proposition that students be given two members on a search committee of 12 to 14 members is untenable. Over 90 per cent of the University com munity is comprised of stu dents,” it continued. This morning Lieuallen and Farleigh will discuss the num ber of students to be put on the search committee. The University faculty has submitted a list of 15 names of faculty members to the chan cellor. Farleigh has a list of 15 student names. Neither list will be approved until it is de cided how many students will be placed on the committee. Tom Fagan, one of the organ izers of the vigil, said three rep resentatives are not enough, because many segments of the University would not be repre sented. "Diverse interested must be represented, the Black students, the oll'-campus students and the rest,” he said. Fagan said, "The demonstra tion was held to demonstrate to the chancellor that students are interested in who will be their new president, interested in their education.” The State Board of Higher Ed ucation will discuss student representation on the commit tee at its next meeting May 1, in Eugene. Barnhart Quits ASUO Race, Fagan Still In Phil Barnhart, has withdrawn from the race for the ASUO presidency. Barnhart listed per sonal reasons for his with drawal. According to ASUO vice president Mike Donahue, Barn hart’s running mate Tom Fagan cannot run for the presidency because he received no write in votes in the primary elections last Wednesday. But Fagan said he will auto matically become president if the Barnhart-Fagan ticket wins. Their names will remain on the ballots, which have already been printed. "If we win, Barnhart will simply resign, and that will move me up to the presidency, ” Fagan said. Barnhart released a statement why he isn’t running. It reads as follows: “The last weeks have been a period of doubt and uncertainty for me. When I entered the race lor ASUO president 1 expected then to attend the University of Oregon Law School. “However, because of changes in my own attitudes and desires, I will not be attending the Uni versity of Oregon next year. Therefore, in honesty to myself „ and the student body, 1 am withdrawing my name as a candidate for ASUO president. I fully endorse my ex-vice-presi dential candidate, Tom Fagan, lor ASUO president.” li- . nr..>ii;:.:.:i:i!iliiliiii!IIUJtlilinit b Mini. ... iiiiiiiiiiiiUiiiiiNWi Index Campus Briefs . page 3 Sports .. pages 4, 5 Editorials page 6 Classilieds ... . page 7 Campus Happenings page 8 KMB.K.riimii.MifflmnmiUffilllliHlIIIUIIIIMIUIIIIIIIIUUMfllilllMMa