KESTER SVENDSEN
Cancer Claims Department Head
Funeral Services Set
For Svendsen Today
Memorial services for Kester
Svendsen, late head of the Uni
versity’s English Department,
will be held today at 1 p.m. in
the Poole-Larson Funeral Home
in Eugene.
The 56-year-old authority on
writer John Milton and Eng
lish poetry, died Saturday of
cancer after having been ill
for several months.
Svendsen had taught at the
University of Oklahoma, Uni
versity of North Carolina, Cen
tral State College (Oklahoma)
and the University of Texas, be
fore coming to the University.
In the years he was head of
the University's English De -
partment, the English faculty
tripled. He also originated a
weekly series carried by educa
tional television known as “The
Poet’s Eye.”
Svendsen had been president
of the Milton Society of Amer
ica, a fellow of the Royal So
ciety of Arts, and had been
listed in “Who’s Who in Amer
ica” since 1952.
In lieu of flowers, the family
would appreciate contributions
to the Kester Svendsen Memo
rial Fund, care of the Univer
sity’s Development Fund.
'Student as Nigger'
Controversy Follows
Professor's Essay
"The Student as Nigger,” a
California professor’s essay on
the state of American higher ed
ucation distributed during fall
term registration on the Ore
gon campus, has become the
center of continued controver
sy at a number of universities
across the nation.
The most recent controversy
flared at the University of Min
nesota where six English pro
fessors were temporarily pro
hibited from including the es
say on required reading lists.
The essay was written by
Gerald Farber, professor at Cal
ifornia State College in Los
Angeles, and equates the posi
tion of American students with
that of the Negro prior to the
civil rights movement.
Six instructors of freshman
English at Minnesota were pro
hibited from including the arti
cle on course reading lists.
English department chairman J.
W. Clark, fearing adverse reac
tion from students and parents,
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Index
Campus Happenings .page 3
Editorials .pages 4, 5
Sports .Page 6
Campus Briefs .page 7
Classifieds .page 7
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banned the essay, calling its
language “impudent.”
Reaction on campus was one
of dismay at Clark’s alleged at
tempt to censor the activities of
the six teachers. After a week
of sporadic picketing and news
paper condemnation, Clark re
moved the ban.
The essay caused less commo
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Associated Press Survey Reveals
50 Senators Back Bombing Halt
WASHINGTON (AP) — At least half the Sen
ate favors one plan or another to halt U.S. bomb
ing of North Vietnam.
Twenty-seven senators of the 85 who responded
to an Associated Press survey said they favor an
unconditional bombing halt. They are opposed by
18 senators who said there should be no further
bombing reduction in the current stage of the war.
In between were 23 senators who said they
would insist on some matching action by Hanoi,
either in reducing the level of the fighting or in
compromises at the bargaining table in Paris.
The 18 who oppose any reduction of the air
predicted that a bombing halt would result in
wholesale military infiltration from the North and
stepped up, costly ground action in the South by
Communist units taking advantage of a toothless
American air dragon.
The senators who said they want the bombing
halted unconditionally—at least on an experimen
tal basis—maintained it would be an acceptable
risk in an all-out attempt to end the fighting.
The AP survey was conducted after the flurry
of congressional and political debate sparked by
Vice President Hubert Humphrey’s Sept. 30 Viet
nam policy speech.
Humphrey said that as president he would con
sider stopping all bombing “as an acceptable risk
for peace.” He said that before acting he would
“place key importance on evidence — direct or
indirect, by deed or word — of Communist will
ingness to restore the demilitarized zone between
North and South Vietnam.”
He said that should the Hanoi government
“show bad faith, I would reserve the right to re
sume the bombing.”
All senators contacted were asked: "Do you
presently favor a halt in the bombing of North
Vietnam, either unconditionally or predicated on
Hanoi’s advance assurances of a reciprocal ges
ture?”
Seventeen of those contacted declined to com
ment. Fifteen others — many of them on the
campaign trail — could not be reached.
Seven Northwest senators supported a bombing
halt in one form or another.
Those 27 senators who said they favor an un
conditional end to all bombing, at least on a
wait-and-see basis, included Frank Church, D-Ida
ho; Ernest Gruening, D-Alaska; Mark ifatlield, R
Ore.; Warren G. Magnuson, D-Wash., and Wayne
Morse, D-Ore.
A group of 23 senators who said they favored
a bombing halt if reciprocal action could be won
from the Hanoi regime included E.L. Bob Bart
lett, D-AIaska, and Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash.
Draft Hearing Ponders
Full Time Qualifications
By LAURIE PADILLA
Of the Emerald
The University’s definition of
a full-time student was question
ed Monday at an ASUO Senate
hearing on the University’s draft
policy.
Donald DuShane, University
dean of students, said the Uni
versity administration was con
cerned over its position wherein
they "certify student informa
tion which is misleading” to the
draft boards.
Since Selective Service law
states that a student is eligible
for draft deferment as long as
he is a full time student carry
ing a normal load throughout
the year. DuShane said the Uni
versity was afraid it would be
misleading the draft boards in
cases where students are taking
less than the normal load the
first term, but plan to catch up
in the next two terms.
According to University regu
lations, a full time student is one
who is enrolled for a minimum
Percy fo Make
Packwood Stop
Senator Charles Percy of Il
linois will be making an appear
ance at the University Thurs
day on his whirlwind Oregon
tour in support of Senatorial
hopeful Robert Packwood.
Percy and Packwood will ap
pear jointly at a symposium in
the EMU ballroom Thursday
morning at 10 a.m. Both will
open the discussion with gen
eral remarks followed by a
question and answer session.
Percy’s campus appearance
will follow an early morning
organizational breakfast and
press conference at the Eugene
Hotel .
Packwood compares his cam
paign to unseat veteran Sena
tor Wayne Morse with Percy’s
successful campaign against
older rival Paul Douglas in
1966.
After the University sympo
sium, Percy and Packwood will
leave Eugene to continue their
campaigning with afternoon ap
pearances in Portland.
A fund-raising dinner at Port
land’s Memorial Coliseum will
climax Percy’s Oregon tour.
of 12 credit hours. Most Univer
sities consider 15 hours as the
normal load per term.
“The University still backs
these students before their draft
boards on the assumption that
they will pick up (the needed
hours) in the next two terms,”
DuShane said.
Questions arose on the point
that some students take more
than the normal load each term
and consequently are eligible
for degrees in less than four
years.
DuShane said this was a mat
ter which was up to the student
and his draft board. “Students
do not get their degrees until
they apply for it. And we’ve had
students who do not apply for
degrees — even if they have
completed the required number
of hours — and choose to stay
in school and complete the four
years,” he said.
Special consideration is also
given to students who transfer
to the University from junior
and community colleges, Du
Shane said. When students lose
some hours in the transfer, the
University takes this into con
sideration and starts counting
the hours taken here,
The hours lost by the transfer
student are not counted against
him when the total number of
hours he has taken is brought
up by his draft board, DuShane
said.
Dave Gwyther, acting director
of the ASUO Draft Information
Center, also questioned the Uni
versity’s policy which authorizes
the registrar’s office to enter in
the "remarks” section of the in
formation released by the Uni
versity the present study load
of the student if it is less than
12 term hours for undergradu
ates or nine hours for graduate
students.
Gwyther said that at a meet
ing in acting President Charles
Johnson’s office late September,
it was agreed among those pre
sent that the specific number of
hours would not be mentioned.
However, DuShane said there
was no agreement made to that
ell'ect.
Gwyther also suggested that
the hearings look into how close
ly tied the University is with
the selective service system. He
said the advisers to registrants
are appointed by the Selective
Service System, with the recom
mendation of the University.
The advisers, who are Bob Bow
lin, dean of men and Walter
Freauff, associate dean of stu
dents, are listed as general per
sonnel of the Selective Service
System.
Committee Discusses
Graduated Tuition
A tuition proposal outlined in
an Oregonian editorial during
September came under discus
sion of the ASUO Committee on
Higher Education Monday.
Randy Farleigh, chairman of
the group, outlined a proposal
for a graduated tuition charge
that would lower costs for stu
dents who must take less than
a full course load in order to
work and pay for their educa
tion.
The tuition which appear
ed in the Sept. 16 Orego
nian would place a per term
hour charge on each credit hour
up to 15 hours so that the
charge for 15 hours would be
$123, regular tuition. Hours
over 15 would not cost extra.
In this way, Farleigh ex -
plained, students who must
take only 12 hours a term so
they can work would not have
to pay the full tuition and thus
be penalized if they must con
tinue in school for extra terms.
The Oregonian editorial point
ed out if a student takes few
er hours a term, he must ex
tend his studies over seven
years rather than the regular
four, he must also pay $2,583
in tuition rather than $1,476
as four-year students do.
The Committee also discuss
ed further work with the State
Board of Higher Education and
the State Legislature to get the
state to take over some of the
funding of the University
Health Service.
Presently the Health Serv
ice is financed out of student
Incidental Fees and due to the
rising costs of medical care
the Health Service has been
taking increasing percentages
of the money from the fees, ac
cording to Farleigh.
The committee also decided to
set up tiles on the voting rec
ords of legislators so “we can
tell who our friends are.”
Draft Symposium
OpensWednesday
Draft resister David Harris,
husband of folksinger Joan
Baez, will open a three-day sym
posium on draft resistance Wed
nesday, Oct. 9, at 8 p.m. in the
EMU ballroom.
Harris, a founder of The
Resistance and former Stanford
University student body presi
dent, is facing a three-year jail
term for refusing induction. He
will speak on The Resistance
and its role in American soci
ety.
Joan Baez Harris will per -
form at a benefit concert Fri
day at 8 p.m. in McArthur Court.
Proceeds will go for support
of The Resistance.