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EMERALD
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RON EACHUS, Editor
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University of Oregon, Eugene, Tuesday, May 21,1968
President Flemming
Must Approve
Closing Hours Soon
Remember when the faculty recommended abolition of
closing hours in University dormitories? That was on Jan
uary 10. But as yet the no closing hours policy is still not
a reality. President Flemming still has not approved it.
At its January meeting the faculty recommended aboli
tion of required closing hours go into effect at the begin
ning of the 1968-69 academic year. However, it can’t go in
to effect until the president approves it and in our view he
has less than a week to do so.
Not only is it getting close to the end of spring term, but
the Emerald will end publication this Friday. Unless the
president makes a decision before Friday the students will
have little way of knowing if the recommendation is ap
proved.
We have little doubt that it will be approved, but we
feel it necessary that it be done soon and at a time when
students can be informed of the decision.
We realize that there are problems that had to be iron
ed out. There are many administrative aspects, such as
extra staff and a key system, that need to be established.
We also realize that the president has other time consum
ing duties.
But it has been over four months since the Faculty
passed the recommendation. The president has promised
several times a decision would be made but each promise
is followed by another.
Keeping in mind the president’s immense job, we un
derstand the delay. But f o u r months is a long time to
make a decision. We think it’s time the final approval for
a no closing hours policy was given.
Footnote
“What White Americans have never fully understood—
but what the Negro can never forget—is that White society
is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created
it, White institutions maintain it, and “white society con
dones it.”
—From the Report of the National Advisory Commission on
Civil Disorders.
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Emerald Editor:
Vacation Time Thinking
Emerald Editor:
Last week I heard very
strange rumors. After extensive
search, the rumors appeared to
be facts.
Our student body president
had been sent to student court
for violating visiting hours. He
was in a girls’ dormitory after
closing hours. The sanction he
got was two hours of work in
the Physical Plant.
Last fall term three boys
from my dorm were sent to
court for the same reason. They
were charged with one year
probation! Is this justice or
arbitrariness?!
I certainly can agree with a
policy that makes exceptions in
the punishment, because of dif
ferent circumstances, but this
case is — as far as I can see —
out of all proportions. Why
should the ASUO president get
far less than a normal fresh
man?
In this particular case I would
have assumed that the court
would have given even lesser
consideration to the ASUO pres
ident than to the freshman, be
cause of his position.
Those freshmen had been at
this University only for two and
a half months; they were not
quite integrated into the sys
tem, they had just come from
high school and were not aware
of the “seriousness” of certain
rules.
Dick Jones, on the other
hand, has been here for three
years, has been a senator, ran
for ASUO president and should,
as such, be more mature. One
can assume on these grounds,
that he should have been aware
of what he was doing.
This is for me the second time
that he showed very irrespon
sible behavior. The first time
was, when he and Dan Allison
were playing their role in the
sleep-in in Johnson Hall.
What did they reach? Equal
representation? No, of course
not. They just damaged the
good reputation that the ASUO
had in the faculty, alumni, Eu
gene’s population, etc.
I would highly recommend,
that Mr. Jones would‘-use his
summer vacation to think about
his future career as ASUO pres
ident and would not forget to
Last Chance
For Letterwriters
Today is absolutely the last
chance letterwriters have to get
their personal .beef off their
chest and on the Emerald Edi
torial page. So that we can get
all the letters we have received
this term printed by our last
.publishing date, this Friday, we
will not accept any letters after
5 p.m. today.
include in his meditations the
possibility of resignation.
As far as Student Court goes:
they should think in the mean
while about their role on this
campus and reconsider their
standards of judgement. I think
that it is rather late in the
year for these freshmen to re
quest for reconsideration of
their case.
I would really appreciate if
Student Court would apologize
publicly for their bias judge
ment in December and that they
would send a letter to the par
ents of these boys with the
same content. The parents
might have been shocked by
the letter of the court in Decem
ber, not realizing that this was
just an arbitrary judgement.
Pieter J. A.M. Seeverens
Counselor,
Henderson Hall
Editor’s note: Dick Jones was
not sent to court for being in
a girls’ dorm after closing hours.
He was sent to court for violat
ing visiting hours at 9:30 p.m.
on April 15.
* ❖ *5:
One Man’s Meat
Emerald Editor:
I had the pleasure of talking
individually to a number of stu
dents recently and having lunch
with one of them. Hopefully, I
think that communication was
established between us to a far
greater extent tnan was ap
parent before this date.
From my viewpoint at least,
it was an opportunity to hear
individual views. This will be
very helpful to us. I did try
to elucidate one point that I
think is important. We will do
everything that we can to be
fair and impartial within the
framework of the law and reg
ulations, but we cannot in any
case go counter to the law and
regulations in determining in
dividual cases.
To those in the group who
cleaned up the hall, we are in
debted. The responsibility and
courtesy shown by all was tre
mendously impressive.
To those I did not get a
chance to talk to, I apologize,
but time was the limiting factor,
not my desire.
Leonard G. Hicks
Colonel, USMC
State Director
Selective Service
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Maps Needed
Emerald Editor:
The University map library
moved this year from the main
library building to expanded
quarters in room 165 Condon
Hall. Although the map hold
ings are excellent for United
States maps, the foreign collec
tion is slim.
Could those of you who are
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March for the Poor
Editor’s note: Roy Rennet is one of the state co-ordinators
for the Poor People’s March which begins Wednesday from
various cities in Oregon. The marchers will converge on the
State Capital in Salem Friday to focus attention on the needs
of the poor people in the state.
Honkies, gringos, fat cats—they’re all the same in the poor man’s
book. They all mean the middle class sympathizer who does noth
ing but sympathize.
Be he Black, Brown, or White, the poor man has a name for
you, because he does not want sympathy. He wants action! He
wants progress! He has found that sympathy does not feed him,
nor does it house him, nor educate his children.
Jobs, housing, education—these are the three elements in his
day to day struggle. These are the problems he wants solved, and
tomorrow he starts marching. He is marching from the Portland
ghettos, and he is marching from the migrant camps of Woodburn.
He is marching from the welfare homes in Ashland, and he is
marching from Eugene.
He will converge on the Fairgrounds Friday night to march to
the capitol Saturday morning. Hundreds of him—the poor people.
There are over half a million of him in Oregon.
And he's marching tomorrow.
He’s marching as a migrant for a minimum wage law. He has
none now. He’s marching as an Indian for housing. Any house is
better than the hovel he lives in now. He’s marching as a poor
White and as a poor Black for a job. He’s the poor man and he’s
marching.
This time we can march with him. Next time, who knows? He
may have starved, or he may have died of typhus seeping into his
water from the sewage pipe, or he may have been shot in the
street. Who knows?
But this time we can march with him. He leaves at 8:00 Wednes
day morning from the front of Commonwealth Hall.
Be there.
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