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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1968)
. """" — — ■ - — . JQp rlfloraan mm ^ ' ~ Students Should Form Union. Strike tailors nuie: ivip Morgan, former ASUO Senator, former President of the University Young Democrats, and former University student, here urges students to follow the example of labor unions. The student government, headed by Dick Jones, is an il legitimate, powerless organ of the administration. It is power less to enact its simplest man dates. Last spring the Student Senate passed a bill to lower the flag in front of the Student Union to half mast until the end of the Vietnamese War as a symbol of mourning. But there still flies the flag at full mast. Their powerlessness is the basis of their illegitimacy. They do not represent the wishes of the students. Their only purposes are to legitimize the authoritarian mandates of the administration and to de stroy meaningful dissent. Stu dents are not interested in stu dent government because it is a powerless, yellow prune. There is no reason to be interested un less you are one of those young career politicians on the make. But students do have grievan ces and students do have power. We are the majority on this cam pus. We are the product of the university. If we refuse to co operate, there will be no univer sity. If we refuse to be graded, there will be no grading. If we refuse to accept irrelevant cur riculum requirements, there will be no requirements. Students have the power of collective bar gaining. Students are being confront ed by the issue of “taxation without representation” that our forefathers fought and won in the Revolutionary War. We are forced to do things which we do not want to do and then gi aded for them — our future relying upon those grades which have proven to be so meaning ly e have no voice in the decisions that shape our lives. We must create that force. We must take control of our fate. We must form a student sup ported, student run, Student Union to collectively bargain with those administrators and faculty members who oppress and exploit our creative drives. The basis of power for a Stu dent Union in this multiversity Opinion lies in the fact that we students are the majority and purpose of the multiversity. We are the multiversity. There are think tanks for professors who do not teach. Administrators would find jobs elsewhere. But a com munity of students who are seek ing knowledge together is a university. The university is supposed to be helping us learn to think, to understand our en vironment. In reality, we know that it is not. We know that we are being oppressed and con ditioned. We know that we are not learning what we want. We know that we are merely memo rizing facts and concepts with out learning to interrelate them or ourselves. We are dissatisfied and frustrated. The university Abby’s K* 1970 River Road ✓ Open Noon Daily } 21 variations of delicious > pizza — For orders to go phone 689-0091 Plan Your Pizza Party at Abby's has become our oppressor. We can and must change it if we are to maintain our humanity. Grades are the first link in our oppression. From the first grade we have been taught that what we wanted to do was not impor tant — that our values were not important. It was what the au thorities, the experts, the teach er wanted that is important. What is good is to get an A from the authority, the expert, the teacher. We were taught to rely upon other people’s values rather than our own. Our future is to work from 9 to 5 design ing tail fins for Cadillacs with built-in obsolescense while mil ions starve or to make napalm without ever questioning the values of the expert. We have been mechanized by grades. What can be done to regain our humanity—our reliance upon in trinsic values? We can strike! We can boy cott our classes! When we re fuse en masse to be graded, Donations Made By Co-op Board The Co-op Board pledged mon ey to needy foreign students, the United Appeal, and the Uni versity Development Fund at a Thursday evening meeting. The board annually donates $75 each to the six most needy University foreign students. Kenneth Ghent, foreign student advisor, commended the board its action. “The money continues to be of significant help to worthy needy students from abroad, some of whom are cut off by war from funds from home,” he said. The Development Fund and United Appeal received $200 each. Gerald Hanson, Co-op repre sentative, said used books will not be repurchased if they be come outdated for University courses. The board also discussed the Student Conduct Committee rul ing Spring term which placed students under the Student Con duct Code for shoplifting char ges at the Co-op. Under the code, students are subject to academic probation, or possible suspension for re peated shoplifting. 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