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
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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.