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Oregon daily Vol. LXVIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, MONDAY, JANUARY 13. 1969 No. 60 University delegate says Hairstyles not aim of NCAA decision By RICK FITCH Of the Emerald The University’s delegate to last week’s National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) convention said Sunday the rul ing on "manifest disobedience” passed by delegates was not aimed at athlete’s haircuts or personal habits. Physics Professor Raymond Elliekson, a member of the NCAA’s policy-making council, said the purpose of the ruling was to give member institutions of NCAA the right to strip an athlete of his scholarship if he is found guilty of "disruptive activity.” "If an athlete were to throw a stick of dynamite into John son Hall, that might be an act of ‘manifest disobedience,’ ” El lickson said. He said he voted for the rul ing because he saw a need, in NCAA rules, for the existence of machinery to take away an athlete’s scholarship. "The way it is now,” he said "there isn’t even a provision in the NCAA rules to take away an athlete’s scholarship if he decides not to compete.” Elliekson denied the ruling had any racial implications. "The whole notion that this was aimed at Negro hair styles was started by a delegate from Grambling. It was perfectly clear this was not involved.” He said the ruling would Term enrollment up from lost year Registration figures totaled 13,117 students as of noon Sat urday, 616 more than the same time last year, according to of ficials in the registrar’s office. Saturday was the last day to register without paying a late fee. Late registration will con tinue through this week. Enrollment predictions for this term amounted to about 14,000. Enrollment last winter term was 13,169. Fall term enrollment, high er than other terms, was 14.884. probably not have a great effect at this University because, in making disciplinary rules such as this, the NCAA's policy was to establish guidelines for insti tutions to follow, leaving en forcement up to the individual schools. He said a student charged with "manifest disobedience” here would probably be given a hearing before a student-fac ulty committee, though he didn’t know which one. Athletic department public relations director Art Litchman said he didn’t have the “re motest idea” how the NCAA ruling would be implemented here. “It would seem that this would apply outside the normal scope of disciplinary problems. “In that case, the intercol legiate athletics committee wouldn’t be the judge in a case involving violation of this rule. Perhaps the decision would be made by the administration. If a student were suspended or ex pelled for disruptive activity, he would lose his scholarship,” he said. Teacher besieges cross; gets arrested for effort Another attack was made on the cross on Skinner’s Butte Saturday—only this time physic ally. Chet Taylor, a creative writing instructor at the Uni versity, attempted to topple the cross by digging at its base. Taylor was arrested by Eu - gene police approximately two hours after he had begun dig ging. A bystander called the po lice. However, Taylor was re leased on a $50 bail. “I was kind of glad they stopped me, I was getting tired,” Taylor said. “If they hadn’t stopped me others would have helped,” he continued. Taylor belongs to the Eugene Activists Council, who sponsor ed the plan. “It’s a very loose group,” Taylor explained. The group consists of citizens in the Eugene community. According to Taylor, action in the group is on an individual basis. Apparently the main reason for bringing the cross down lies in intellectual and philosophical reasons. “We worked to drama tize the fact that it is the time to end supernaturalism,'’ Taylor said. “We are taking an agnostic position,” Taylor said. "We want to be responsible lor our lives as men, and not advocate our CHET TAYLOR Legislature opens today; priority low on education By LEE O’CONNOR Of The Emerald The 1969 Oregon State Legis lature opens today. A proposed sales tax, a pro posed reorganization of state agencies and a bill proposing the state acquisition of beach lands, have pushed the higher education requests to a low po sition on the priority list. However, Oregon’s institu - tions of higher learning may be facing several serious prob - lems, both financially and re strictively by the 1969 legisla ture. Financially, the Oregon Sys tem of Higher Education may be woRe off than it was in the past academic year. This is coming at a time when educa tors are asking for money than they have any prior time. Acting University President Charles Johnson called this a normal situation for the edu cation budget. All state agency budgets are changed somewhat from their original requests by the governor, depending on the governor’s estimated state in come, Johnson said. The legislature may or may not change the governor’s budg et allocations to institutions of higher education. "I don’t have enough experience with the leg islature to know whether they Photo by Polly Thaxton A SNEAK SNOW STORM struck Northwest Oregon Sunday as the worst winter in decades contin ued to plague the area. Hundreds of cars were stuck in snow-filled Portland streets with 10 inches of snow expected there by morning. The Coast Range and Cascades were experiencing a heavy snowfall. In Eugene snow covered the ground during the morning, but melted during the after noon. Showers, with occasional winds were forecast for today. A high of 40 and a low of 35 is expected, 80 per cent chance of rain. will raise the budget,” Johnson said. Apparently, budget considera tions for institutions of higher education are tied in with sev eral issues, such as free speech on campuses. Several issues in the last year such as speaker David Harris and the obscenity on the University’s campus have drawn much criticism to Oregon schools. As a result, the Speaker of the House appointed a commit tee of six legislators to tour state college campuses to report on conditions in the institutions. Acting President Johnson said, “I strongly suspect that this report will influence the linancial picture.” A crackdown on university (Continued on page 1) lives to supcrnaturalism.” Taylor’s action was planned to have much larger consequen ces than just digging up the cross. He said the group also wanted to destroy illegal links between the state and church locally. Taylor pointed out the Pledge of Allegiance and the '’Bible Broadcasts” from outer space by American astronauts as examples of illegal religious pro cedures. Taylor will appear in the Eu gene Municipal Court today. As of now he will probably be charged with defacing public property by digging a hole in a public park. Theological Grounds Taylor said Eugene lawyer Charles Porter will defend him. They will try to have the case based on theological grounds. However, Taylor expressed the opinion that the city attorney will try to duck the central is sue and try him on defacing public property. "If they are successful in ducking the central issue, there will be another assault on the cross with concrete working equipment,” Taylor said. Taylor emphasized that ho and other members of the Eu gene Activist Council intend to practice further civil disobedi ence if it is required. “At first, we planned destroying the cross as a mass guerrilla action at night,” Taylor said. “We decided to take more responsible ac tion though,” he added. Controversial Topic The cross has been a topic of local controversy since its erec tion in 1964. In 1965 opponents of the cross won statewide pub licity when 10 Eugene residents filed a suit seeking the cross’ removal. Past opponents of the cross have claimed that its presence on public property is a viola tion of the constitutional sepa ration of church and state. The cross was ruled illegal in the Lane County Circuit Court by Judge William Fort. How ever, supporters of the cross have carried the fight to the State Supreme Court, where oral discussions of the case began last week. Educational change topic of grad dialogue "We have some very pressing problems facing the univer sities, and the solutions are not forthcoming. By getting together faculty members and students who have an interest and a variety of ideas, we hope to come up with a few.” This was the explanation given by Joe Fashing, the current president of the Graduate School Student Council, for the creation of a series of confer ences on higher education. The first of the series will be held tonight at 7:30 in the Graduate Center. The series was proposed by the dean of the Graduate School, Leona Tyler, fall term. The idea behind her proposal was to make an opportunity for people who have ideas and share an interest in higher edu cation to discuss their ideas and try to deline its purpose and goals. This hopefully would lead to the solution of some of the problems facing most univer sities. All of the faculty members and graduate students at Ore gon received a letter asking them to indicate their reactions and interest towards the pro posed conferences. Over 100 replies were re ceived with two-thirds of them coming from the faculty. It is hoped by Dean Tyler that more students will show an interest as the series progress. Students wishing to participate should contact her. Approximately 20 people will participate in the first discus sion tonight. The topic of the first two discussion meetings will be the purpose and func tion of a university. According to Fashing, the first couple of meetings will dwell on defining terms and from there branch out to the pertaining problems. Fashing also indicated that any ideas that have some valid ity will be presented to the Uni versity through proper chan nels.
