EMERALD
Vol. LXVIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1968 No. 44
Photo by Low Melson
LAW SCHOOL MODEL
Construction Starts On Kincaid Building
Ground Breaking
Ceremony Starts
New Law Center
Ground was broken officially
for the University Law Center
Wednesday in a ceremony which
Law School Dean Eugene Scoles
termed "an historic occasion in
legal education.”
Some 100 persons witnessed
the groundbreaking, including
Acting University President
Charles Johnson, representa
tives of the Law School Alumni
Association, the Law School As
sociation, and the architectural
and planning staff for the
center.
The Law School dean noted
that "a good law school must
be the center of activities in
which fegal studies touch all
areas of society in the functions
of teaching, research and serv
ice.”
The new two-story building
will contain classrooms, admin
istrative and faculty offices, and
the law library. A moot court
room is planned that may also
be used as an 80-student class
room.
John Yerkovich, Portland at
torney and president of the Ore
gon State Bar Association, dug
the symbolic first shovel of dirt.
He was assisted by Scoles and
Michael Phillips, president of
the Student Bar Association at
the University.
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GROUND BREAKING CEREMONY
Marks Beginning of Construction
Board Studies
Dissent Policy
By LES BLUMENTHAL
Of the Emerald
PORTLAND (Special)—After
live hours of discussion, the
Committee on Academic Af -
fairs, a standing committee of
the Oregon State Board of
Higher Education decided that
the question of student unrest
and dissent was too important
and complex to formulate a pol
icy in one meeting.
The committee was reviewing
a proposed general policy state
ment prepared by Miles Rom
ney, vice chancellor for academ
ic affairs, which called for stu
dent involvement on "the formu
lation of institutional policies,
rules and regulations.”
If the report had been ap
proved, it would have been pre
sented to the state board on
Dec. 9. Iits future now is uncer
tain.
The report has been revised
three times and has been sub
jected to the scrutiny of an in
stitutional executive meeting
and a meeting of student body
presidents.
Contributions
"They (the students) have
much to contribute to the de
liberative processes in many
areas affecting academic life,”
the report said.
It also said that many stu
dents, militants especially, will
find the "analytical approach of
the academic world conspicu
ously unexciting.”
The report stressed the fact
that student involvement should
be implemented on the institu
tional level to account for the
lack of specifics in the report.
It challenged all state uni
versities and colleges to write
up a set of rules and institu
tional guidelines, such as the
University now has in the Stu
dent Conduct Code.
The report stated the belief
that if these rules are adopted
with the agreement of students
they will, in actual use, be more
effective.
Acting University President
Charles Johnson said, “These
rules already exist at the Uni
versity. It is a compliment to
us to see our rules reflected in
the committee’s proposal.”
Elizabeth Johnson, chairman
of the committee, emphasized
that the state board did not
want to interfere in the inner
workings of an institution, or
propose such statutes as those
enacted by the Ohio state legis
lature.
“We have decided not to is
sue ‘thou shalt nets.’ ” Discus
sion of the problem has not
been underway for some time,
we are not going to propose
definite specific rule,” she said.
The introduction of the re
port maintained the belief that
for an institution to be effec
tive, certain freedoms must be
guaranteed. Among these are the
expression of academic freedom
and the freedom to hold diver
gent views and opinions.
On Television Forum
Press Examines Turmoil
Obscenity, freshman living-in and the
Students for a Democratic Society domin
ated discussion on "Oregon Dialogue,”
broadcast over Oregon’s educational tele
vision network Wednesday night.
Featured guests on the show were State
Chancellor of Higher Education Roy Lieu
alien. Acting University President Charles
Johnson. John Nolan, student body presi
dent at Portland State College and Russell
Sadler, chairman of the Inter-Institutional
Student Committee on Higher Education.
Questioning the four were newsmen
Wayne Whitehead of KVAL-TV in Eugene,
and Don Sterling, editorial page editor for
the Oregon Journal in Portland.
Moderator of the program was Bob
Bruce, Salem correspondent for a number
of television stations throughout the state.
Impetus for the telecast, according to
Bruce, was the recent controversy surround
ing distribution of “filth” by members of
the Students for a Democratic Society on
campus.
Bruce, in prefacing discussion, asked
Johnson to explain how University stu
dents and the administration should react
to the SDS effort.
“There is no question,” Johnson said, “but
that the handbill in question was offensive
to a large segment of the public. Policy
at the University, however, is that students
are adults and responsible for their own
actions.”
Johnson referred to the Student Admin
istrative Board as the organization direct
ly in charge of the EMU presses on which
the flyer was printed.
“What has to be determined on cam
pus,” he continued, “is whether an organ
ization which abuses the right of free
speech should be censored.”
Both Bruce and Sterling sought from
Lieuallen reason for students’ apparent
contention that affairs at the University are
not the direct business of the public.
“Is the University of Oregon public prop
erty?” demanded Sterling.
According to Lieuallen, the University
and the State System of Higher Education
are direct arms of the Oregon Legisla
ture, and as such, are public property.
"The state system and the University are
accountable to the public,” Lieuallen said.
When asked if a student-supported rule,
limiting distribution of socially reprehensi
ble material, would receive support from
the administration, Johnson replied, "The
University could enforce such a rule, and
already enforces rules which are unique
to the University area, such as no alcohol
in the dorms, and prohibition of firearms
on campus.”
The problem, Johnson said, was whether
students wished to control free expression
in that manner.
Lieuallen and Sterling at one point en
gaged in a dialogue over the Johnson Hall
sit-in of last May.
Sterling implied the action was an overt
takeover of a University department, and
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“Our aim must be to foster
and protect these freedoms for
without them education becomes
indoctrination,” the report said.
These freedoms must be pre
served and protected from with
in as well as from unwarrant
ed interference from without,
the report added.
Students from the University
and Portland State were also
present. They expressed the be
lief that they were not being
represented by Russ Sadler,
chairman of ISCOHE, or their
student body governments.
Those who spoke said that
students have some power, such
as in the Johnson Hall sleep-in,
but they lacked authority. Joe
Fashing, chairman of the Uni
versity Graduate Student Coun
cil said, “students are not al
ways taken seriously by the fac
ulty and administrators, they
need substantive power.”
The board was of the opin
ion that, the problems of student
government can only be correct
ed by the students of each indi
vidual institution.
One member said, “the board
can make suggestions stressing
the need for more student in
volvement, but it is up to the
students themselves to take
advantage of them."
Visiting Hours
Plea Suspended
Acting University President
Charles .1 o h n s o n suspended
Wednesday the Student Conduct
Committee decision granting
Gamma llall 24-h o u r visiting
hours.
Richard Rapp, assistant dean
ol' students, informed Gamma
Hall in a memorandum that the
Tuesday decision of the Student
Conduct Committee to grant
the request for 24-htmr open
visiting hours has been suspend
ed by Johnson “so that, he can
review that decision.”
To Be Informed
Rapp told the dorm that they
would be “informed of his de
cision as soon as possible” and
added that until the final de
cision is made Gamma Hall will
continue to have visiting hours
at 12 noon to 12 midnight Sun
day through Thursday and 12
noon to 2 a m. on Friday and
Saturday.
The hours are “perfectly salis
factory,” according to a second
floor resident of Gamma Hall.
He added that he was “not too
disappointed” in Johnson’s ac
tion.
A third floor resident said the
visiting hours now in effect
"will be sufficient.” He added
that he did not like the idea
of being “under the thumb” of
Johnson.
The Student Conduct Com
mittee Tuesday granted t h o
dormitory unlimited visiting
hours on a experimental basis
until the beginning of spring
term. At that time a request for
continuation of the open hour
policy would have to he re-sub
mitted for consideration.
Decision’s Meaning
“Acting University President
Johnson's action of suspending
this decision means that the de
cision of the committee will not
go into effect at this time.” The
memorandum read, “The acting
president will review that de
cision and determine whether
or not he will approve it.”
Another student from Gam
ma Hall commented that many
of the dorm residents now just
want to prove a principle, add
ing that Johnson was going to
“have to act on the issue sooner
or later.”
He also said he didn’t think
the 24 hour visiting hours would
last if granted.
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