National Survey Indicates
War Major Student Issue
PRINCETON, N.J. (CPS) —
A recent survey of more than
800 deans at the nation’s col
leges shows that Vietnam was
the major cause of organized
protests by college students
during the 1967-68 academic
year.
Dormitory rules, Civil Rights
and student participation in
college government were, in that
order, the next most frequent
ly protested issues on the na
tion’s campuses, according to
the survey by the Educational
Testing Service.
The ETS report also notes that
organized groups demonstrating
against most issues rarely made
up more than 10 per cent of a
college student body. Protesters
against U.S. government pol
icy in Vietnam, for example,
averaged about live per cent of
their respective student bodies,
according to the deans’ esti
mates. Protests not organized in
advance were not included in
the findings.
ETS’s questionnaire survey
was completed by deans of stu
dents in 860 accredited four
year colleges and universities.
Each dean was asked to note
the extent of organized student
protest over 27 educational, so
cial and political issues during
the 1967-68 academic year.
Thirty-eight per cent of the
deans reported Vietnam dem
onstrations on their campuses
last year. Thirty-four per cent
reported protests over dormitory
regulations, and 29 per cent
over local, off-campus Civil
Rights matters.
Protests over greater student
participation in campus policy
making was reported at 27 per
cent of the colleges. In one out
of four colleges there were pro
tests about the draft and about
the presence of military recruit
ers. One out of five colleges not
ed demonstrations over govern
mental agency and industrial
recruters on campus.
In a survey in 1965, a similar
group of deans was asked to
provide the same information
about many of the same issues.
At that time they reported that
Civil. Rights was the most fre
quent cause for student activ
ism. Campus food service rank
ed second and Vietnam third.
Vietnam, then, was cited by
one out of live colleges as a
cause of organized protests,
compared to almost two out of
five today.
A comparison of the results
of both studies indicates that
since 1965 three particular is
sues have triggered protests
with increasing frequency. Or
ganized discontent with dormi
tory rules was registered at 34
per cent of the colleges, as com
pared to 27 per cent in 1965.
Student demands for a larger
role in campus government in
creased from 19 to 27 per cent.
This past year racial matters,
especially demands for studies
of Black culture, accounted for
demonstrations in 18 per cent
of the schools. Three years ago.
five per cent of the deans re
ported student activism over ra
cial issues.
'New Politics Prompts
Euaene Political Group
In response to the "new poli
tics” of Senator Eugene McCar
thy’s campaign, a group of Eu
gene citizens have formed the
Eugene Council for New Poli
tics.
Announcing a convention on
Nov. 23 and 24, the council said,
"The lesson of 1968 is bitter and
clear: participatory democracy
requires more than election
year involvement. Political edu
cation and action must become
part of our lives all of the
time.”
Dave Jackson and Mrs. Bar
ry Siegal are the local chair -
men of the council, which is
composed of a coalition of Mc
Carthy, the late Sen. Robert
Kennedy and Gov. Nelson Rock
efeller supporters. The coun
cil was formed Tuesday.
The Eugene council will send
delegates to the convention,
sponsored by the state Council
for New Politics, at Reed Col
lege in Portland. The convention
is open to all Oregon residents.
A registrant fee of $1 will be
charged.
The state council will decide
if it will be issue-oriented (i.e..
war-peace, human rights): its
degree of concern with the po
litical process and electoral re
form; its endorsement of can
didates and on what level; its
scope of concern—national, state
or local; and other questions.
The topics for discussion will
include an analysis of what ex
isting political organizations
lack and how this new organi
zation should function to make
up that lack; how the quality
of representation in all levels
of government can be approv
ed; the possibility and advisa
bility of a national primary;
the process by which delegates
to the national convention are
chosen, and other aspects of
the electoral process and means
of electoral reform.
The council will also discuss
questions of possible affiliation
of one of the major political par
lies or with any national organ
ization.
The Eugene council will spon
sor a panel discussion on whe
ther a nuclear power plant
should be built in the Eugene
area.
Professor Robert Freeman
from the biology department is
acting chairman.
The ETS study also reports
that:
• Issues relating to the cur
riculum. quality of instruction,
class size, or faculty involve -
ment seldom sparked student
protests. Fifteen per cent of the
deans reported protests over
curriculum inflexibility, 13 per
cent over quality of instruction,
three per cent over class size,
and two per cent over the limit
ed extent of the senior faculties
involved in undergraduate teach
ing.
• There was substantial vari
ation by size and type of school
in the nature and extent of stu
dent protests. The large uni
versities in the survey reported
more student involvement in al
most all issues. Protests over
Vietnam occurred at twice as
many independent universities
as at public colleges and sec
tarian and career - oriented
schools. Draft protests look
place at half of the indepen
dent universities in the survey,
but at no more than 20 per
cent of the Catholic, teacher -
training, and technical institu
tions.
9 Civil Rights activism among
White college students has de
clined significantly.
This picture of student pro
tests, only partly accurate in
itself (since it was compiled by
deans ol students and did not
include spontaneous protests),
is likely to change radically this
year.
Friday Last Day
To File for Degree
Students who plan to grad
uate Dec. 13 must file an ap
plication with the registrar’s of
fice by Friday, according to Clif
ford Constance, University reg
istrar.
To qualify for a degree, a
student must have completed
“all necessary work and pro
cedures” by the end of this
term, be said. All transcripts
from other schools must be filed
by Nov. 20.
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Conduct Committee Hearing
Group to Debate
Dorm Policies
The University policy requir
ing freshmen to live in dormi
tories will be considered by the
Student Conduct Committee at
7:30 p.m. today in the EMU.
An open hearing on dormitory
closing hours will also be con
tinued from last week’s meet
ing. A dormitory has requested
24 hour visiting hours, and the
committee is holding the hear
ings because its decision on the
request will set a precedent on
closing hours.
The decision by the commit
tee to debate the iiving-in policy
was made w h e n student de
fender Bruce Brothers brought
the ease of a freshman girl who
may be expelled because she
is not able to afford to live in
a dorm.
Brothers made his request as
an appeal to a decision by a
committee of deans requiring
the girl to move into the dormi
tories at the beginning' of win
ter term. If she does not live
in a dorm, she will not be al
lowed to register, he said.
Brothers’ opinion was that
the decision involved student
conduct since failure to comply
with the livingin policy would
result in expulsion.
The committee denied the re
quest lor appeal on the grounds
that there could not be a case
until a person was actually
sanctioned. The gill’s case will
be discussed in the hearing on
living-in policy, however.
Donald DuShane, dean of stu
dents who headed the commit
tee of deans, has said that stu
dents are required to live in
dorms partially because of the
educational experience provid
ed by group living.
He also said the student could
live in a dormitory if she would
apply for a loan or a dormitory
job.
Brothers challenged this de
cision, saying the living-in pol
icy was discriminatory accord
ing to finances, age, and par
ent’s residence, since students
may live at home rather than
in dormitories.
Also on the agenda is a dis
cussion of an ASUO Senate rec
ommendation that students be
given notice of fines issued by
the Housing Office.
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