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^EMERALD Vol. LXV1I UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1968 No. 121 President's Committee on Racism Says Racism Dorms' Biggest Problem in ns nrst report to University Presi dent Arthur S. Flemming, the President’s Committee on Racism on Campus Wednesday recommended changes de signed to eliminate racism in University dorms. "The most important problem con fronting dormitories is the problem of racism,” the committee concluded. The report said racism in dormitories could be broken in three parts: place ment of students in dorms, recruitment and training of dormitory personnel, and preparation of dormitory food. The report was the first of a series of committee reports containing recom mendations to the President for elim inating racism on campus. The committee was established by Flemming in mid-April to address itself to the grievances of the Black Student Union. The BSU presented the president with a list of grievances April 12. The committee is chaired by Robert Agger, director of the University Insti tute of Comparative Research. It is com posed of six subcommittees dealing with dormitories, finances and administration, athletics, curriculum, community rela tions, and general problems. The report said the current dormitory student placement policy was “totally unrealistic.” “It does not,” the report continued, “take into account that Black students who come to live in dormitories con front a hostile and unfamiliar environ ment.” To insure that Black students find “familiar faces and common interests” with dormitory residents the subcommit tee recommended the University ensure that a “certain minimum, no less than five, Black students live in particular dormitory units.” Each Black student, the committee added, must have the guarantee of the option to choose a roommate before be ing assigned to a room. “Transfers of Black students should be allowed on the same basis as are currently allowed for White students,” the report continued. The committee contended that the current method of selection and train ing of counselors is not designed to handle the problems that are likely to arise. Consequently the committee recom mended "drastic reorientation of the counselor training and selection pro cess.” The recommendations were threefold. • More dormitory counselors are needed. "There should be no maximum quotas set for Black counselors,” the report said. Having Black counselors would help the Black student develop a sense of "belonging and familiarity” and would force the White student to come "face to face with his often unconscious preju dices.” • At least one head resident in the University dormitory system should be Black” the report said. • "Dormitory counselors and head residents must be carefully screened to eliminate the incorrigible White racist,” the report said. The committee claimed there was a critical need to re-examine the belief that a good counselor is one who gets along with everybody. "Too often such a person avoids confronting the tough problems.” the report said. "We recommend that the orientation of counselor recruitment be shifted to wards favoring the person who is will ing to make tough decisions and who is sensitive enough to recognize potential racial problems.” However, the report added that train ing of counselors was an even more im portant process. The committee recom mended the use of role-playing and other methods of "realist reconstruction of practical problems, be used to train counselors.” "Instead of training counselors, the present program familiarizes counselors with the various functions of the Uni versity,” the report said. In its final recommendation the com mittee called for preparation of food from the Black culture in the dormitory kitchens. II it is necessary to hire a Black cook, the committee urged that it be done promptly. See text, page 6. Anderson Sentenced to 5 Days For Striking Dean; Will Appeal By RICK FITCH Of the Emerald Howard Anderson was sen tenced to five days in jail in Lane County District Court Wednesday for striking Philip Beal, associate dean of students, in Beal’s office Feb. 8. Charles Porter, Anderson’s at torney, announced immediately after the sentencing by Judge William Beckett that Anderson had already filed notice of ap peal. Anderson, a Black University teaching assistant was convict ed of assault and battery against Beal by a six-woman jury in dis trict court last Thursday. He currently has an assault and battery case pending against Beal to be heard in District Court May 24. Announcing the sentence be fore a packed courtroom Beck ett said, “I’ve given a great deal of thought to this matter. I feel I owe an obligation to you and to the community. Unquestion ably, there are a lot of under lying factors. "This isn’t just a simple as sault and battery case. There is a colored defendant and a white plaintiff, a University dean and a student, and there is a conflict between authority SPI Gets Support From ASUO Budget By JIM SPOO Of the Emerald After pondering an unstable financial state, board members of Student Projects, Inc. (SPI) were glad Wednesday to hear ASUO President Dick Jones’ proposal to support SPI’s Course Survey Bulletin from the ASUO budget. At the SPI board meeting ex ASUO President Scott Farleigh said the board needed Jones’ support because he controls ap pointments to the board and SPI finances. Jones said he was committed to support SPI but wanted to know specifically what was being asked of him. Wayne Hubert, out-g o i n g president of SPI, said $2,000 would be needed to finish up the Course Survey Bulletin, which he said was 80 per cent finished. Hubert said at least S1.500 would be repaid to the ASUO from sales and advertis ing from the bulletin. Earlier in the meeting, Far leigh said SPl's new board, to be formed soon, will “face a real question whether to make its own money or fall back on PHiHHii»iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHimiiiHniiHHiiHmDiHM»iainii»iiiiniiniiiiHiniiiiiBW Index Weekend Preview ... page 2 Campus Happenings page 2 Sports . pages 4, 5 Editorials . page 6 Classifieds .page 7 Campus Briefs.page 7 ASUO support. This corporation will not be the recipient of any more anonymous grants next year, believe me.” Farleigh then reviewed the history of SPI’s founding and how opposition forced it to de cide to become an independent organization which an anony mous source has funded. He re called the opposition of many professors to being evaluated in the Course Survey Bulletin. He said becoming an inde pendent organization has meant more expenses than if it were ASUO supported. "We are real ly a part of student govern ment. Maybe this is the time to re-emphasize students’ right to course evaluations,” he said. Hubert favored SPI providing its own funds. “I think it pre mature to give up,” he said. Although the board voted to discontinue sales of course notes for this term, Hubert felt note sales next year might bring in $500 a month. Mike Donahue, former ASUO vice-president, said perhaps a solution would be to have ASUO funds support the Course Sur vey Bulletin with a grant that would allow SPI to keep an in dependent voice in its opera tion. Donahue’s suggestion was what Jones proposed to support. The board also discussed the function of the Survey Bulletin. Some felt it was to improve teaching. Jones and Lawrence Ross, board advisor from the business school, said other ways could be found that were bet ter to improve teaching. and resentment of that author ity.” “I feel the most important factor, the basis of the sentence, is one man striking another in dividual. It is not easy to elimi nate the issue of race. The re lationship of dean to student is the province of the University. It is only incidental in this case. I’ve seen that the conflict of authority and resentment plays a part in this case; a small part, but a part.” “In reading the pre-sentence report,” Beckett continued, “I have found that your parents apparently fit well with middle class society . . . but you have been prone to get in trouble. I hope in some way, you can get over this and become a useful member of society. “With all of this in mind,” Beckett concluded, “I don’t feel probation is the answer. It would be totally useless ... I don’t think a fine would mean much. What the court is at tempting to get across is some measure of punishment. Behind the court’s decision, there is a fond hope that you will find yourself and fit into society.” In his pre-sentence state ments, prosecuting attorney Stephen Keutzer stressed what he called “the defendant’s dis regard for the rules of society. (Continued on page 2) Faculty Delays Search Action By RON EACHUS or the Emerald The University faculty will wait until its June meeting to take action on statements con cerning last week’s Johnson Hall slccp-in and the resulting for mula for make-up of the Presi dential Search Committee. In its May meeting Wednes day, the faculty referred two opposing statements concerning the Search Committee to the Faculty Senate for further in vestigation. The motion to re fer passed 195-40. In other action the faculty: • Approved course changes in the political science depart ment allowing for the depart ment to move to a five - hour course base. • Removed University-wide regulations on foreign language requirements for advanced de grees and gave each school and department autonomy to set up its own language requirements. • Elected seven members to the University President’s Ad visory Council. • Removed English composi tion from the list of lower divi sion requirements and made it a general University require ment. The two motions concerning the Presidential Search Com mittee were proposed after the Faculty Senate’s report on a statement of opinion it had adopted in a special session last Thursday. The statement asked that the formula of the Search Commit tee not be a precedent applied to the conduct of University affairs. The Search Committee will be composed of three students, three faculty members and three administrators (deans of schools and department heads). This formula was agreed upon by students and Roy Lieuallen, Chancellor of the State System of Higher Education, during last week’s two-day student sleep-in in Johnson Hall. After the Faculty Senate re port, James Tattersall, associ ate professor of economics, mov ed for an adoption of a reso lution endorsing the Faculty Senate statement and request ing that the Advisory Council and the Senate confer with Licu allcn on the implications ol the tactics used at Johnson llall. The resolution also recom mended the Faculty Senate and the ASCO Senate meet and dis cuss the question of student participation in educational pol icy decisions. In response to Tattersall’s motion, management professor Edwin Beal offered a substitute motion. lie moved adoption of a state ment which said the faculty ac cepted the formula for t h c Search Committee proposed by the chancellor. Beal’s statement commended Lieuallen for his ‘wise, patient and courageous handling of the student demonstrations.” It said the faculty did not condone the student’s tactics but shared their concern over the choice for a new president. During discussion of the two motions, Dick Jones, ASUO president, said there was a cru cial difference between the two statements and supported Beal’s motion. “Discussions are overdue,” Jones said. He said Beal’s mo tion laid the ground for fac (Continued on page 2) Status Seekers' Author Packard to Speak Tonight Vance Packard, author of the bestsellers, “The Hidden Persuaders” and "The Status Seekers” will be at the Univer sity tonight to speak on “The Invasion of Our Privacy,” at 7:30 p.m. in the EMU Ballroom. Packard’s talk will concern what he terms "professional people-watchers” who. he says, “inspect, control, and keep an eye on us as individual citizens.” He claims the Bill of Rights it self is under siege and person al liberty endangered by these “people watchers.” Packard has been called one of America’s most celebrated so cial critics. His articles have appeared in magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly, the Sat urday Evening Post and Har per’s. In 1957 his first book, “The Hidden Persuaders” appeared as a result of Packard’s study of motivational research tech niques used by “persuasion in depth” advertising. It was followed in 1959 hy "The Status Seekers,” an anal ysis of class stratification in the U.S. and in 1960 by “The Waste Makers,” which warned against planned obsolescence and the waste-encouraging commercial ism of American life. All three books became num ber one best-sellers and Packard became the only author in re cent years to have three hooks in a row reach this spot in the non-fiction field. Since then “The Pyramid Climbers,” in 1962, and “T h e Naked Society” in 1964 further delved into America’s socie ty as it “restricts human lib erty.” VANCE PACKARD