In ASUO committees
Faculty group reviews
no-pass grade system
Different views on grading
will be brought up in a seminar
of faculty members before win
ter term elections.
The planned seminar was dis
closed at the ASUO Senate Aca
demic Committee meeting Mon
day.
Participants will discuss the
pass-fail system, group require
ments, lower division courses
and will attempt to formulate
grading proposals for the ballot.
In other action, the committee
approved Eric Larson, a senior,
and Paul Brainerd, a junior, for
membership on the Computer
Registration Committee.
The two will work with other
students and faculty members to
implement computer handling of
the much-criticized registration
procedure.
Brainerd conjectured that a
random sample of students may
test a computer program spring
term.
Governing
The ASUO Governing Com
mittee, in a meeting Monday de
cided to re-submit to the Senate
a bill providing a censure system
for Senators frequently absent
without excuses.
The bill, defeated earlier this
year by the Senate, is an attempt
to ensure responsibility and ef
ficiency within the Senate, the
committee decided.
In further action ,the commit
tee discussed, but did not act on,
the proposed office of the presi
dent of the Senate. The creation
of the new office has been sug
gested to relieve the vice-presi
dent of some of his duties, leav
ing more time for administrative
work.
The discussion centered on the
question of whether the officer
should be elected by the entire
student body in the winter term
elections or whether he should
be chosen by the new Senate.
ASUO Senator Bob Winger
argued that the officer would
be more responsive to the Sen
ate and would expedite action if
elected by the Senate.
Administrative assistant Bill
Kerlee stated that the officer
would be more influential and
would not be subject to “the
whims of an irresponsible Sen
ate” if elected by the student
body at large.
Fiscal
The ASUO Fiscal Committee
will aim its efforts this term at
thoroughly researching four
principal budget areas, Commit
tee Chairman Jerry Gauche said
at a meeting Monday evening.
The four budget areas include
student health services, EMU
educational activities, athletic
department and gym suit and
towel services.
Gauche said he hopes that
each one of his committee mem
bers will become well versed
in one area. He added that
when the budget requests for
the next year come in this
March, the committee can be
sure the budgets are broken
down and show exactly how the
money will be used.
Next week the committee will
probably discuss financing win
ter term elections, commented
Gauche. He said plans are be
ing made to use votomatic ma
chines for the election and at
present those in charge of the
arrangements feel they will need
paid pollers to effectively oper
ate the machines.
Gauche said the machines
will probably cut printing and
tabulating expenses. These sav
ings may balance out the money
required to pay the machine
operators.
The Fiscal Committee also
intends to study the financial
standings of the University fac
ulty club, according to Gauche.
Gauche commented, in addi
tion, he plans to check with
Acting University President
Charles Johnson for available
funds to help the University
draft information program and
the club sports program which
are “badly in need of funds.”
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Committee files writ
in traffic fine dispute
By ROBIN ROY
Of the Emerald
A mandamus was filed in
Lane County Circuit Court by
the Faculty Staff Parking Com
mittee to force either Lane
County District Court or Muni
cipal Court to handle Univer
sity parking fines.
According to Donald Thomp
son, head of the committee, the
mandamus is directed to give
one of the two courts the au
thority to handle the cases.
At present all three judges
in Lane County District Court
Frank Alderson, William Beck
ett and William Bartle, have re
fused to hear cases involving
University parking citations.
They question the constitu
tionality of Oregon Revised Sta
tue 352.360, which states that
while the State Board of High
er Education has the right to
make traffic rules for state in
stitutions, proceedings to pun
ish violators must be made in
district court.
“I believe that we’re entitled
to the services of the district
court.” Thompson said.
While students can’t take their
cases to the local courts, as it
stands now, they also have
grounds on which to dispute
the University's policy of tak
ing parking fines from then
breakage fees as a result of a
Lane County Circuit Court deci
sion.
Citing ORS 352.360, Paul
Nolte, second-year law student,
won a case on Nov. 20 con
tending that it was illegal for
the University to fine him be
cause to do so would be in vio
lation of his right to due pro
cess of law.
Nolte said until the district
court agrees to take the cases
or until the State Legislature
changes the law, enabling the
University to collect fines, any
student can instigate proceed
ings in small claims court to
retrieve parking fines from his
breakage fee, citing the Nov. 20
"landmark” case.
Thus, with the district court
refusing to hear traffic cases
and with the possibility of stu
3,500 people march
Activities unhampered
by Development Walk
Despite the scattered com
plaints voiced by various mem
bers of the Emerald staff of
sore feet, turned ankles and
charleyed legs, apparently few
people who participated in the
32-mile Walk for Development
Saturday were so incapacitated
that they could not continue with
their regular weekday activi
ties or had to have medical aid
for their feet.
Approximately 3,500 people
took part in the walk to raise
money for poverty projects in
Lane County and South Korea,
according to the Walk for De
velopment Committee. Each of
the walkers gathered sponsors
who paid so much a mile for
each leg of the journey that his
walker completed.
A Walk Committee spokesman
estimated that between 700 and
900 marchers finished the jour
ney.
Walk for Development officials
estimate that $30,000 was earned
by walkers on Saturday. The to
tals will not be ready until early
in February according to a com
mittee spokesman.
One would have expected that
after trudging through the
streets of the Eugene area for
32 miles that many persons
would be sporting canes, ankle
bandages and other walking aids.
Reports did not confirm this as
sumption.
The District 4 high schools
reported that absenteeism was
no higher Monday than usual.
In fact, one district official said
that there were fewer absenses
than usual on Monday.
Dr. Julian Reinschmidt of the
Student Health Service stated
that there was no great influx of
students seeking medical treat
ment for sore or blistered feet.
Two downtown pharmacies
said that the sale of conventional
McCarthy admits
possible candidacy
NEW YORK (JP> — Sen. Eu
gene McCarthy said Saturday
night he would not rule out an
other run for the Democratic
presidential nomination in 1972.
The Minnesota Democrat, who
said last October that he would
not run for re-election as a Dem
ocrat, said he would make a de
cision on another presidential
race well before the 1972 Dem
ocratic convention.
McCarthy made the com
ments in an interview after he
urged party reforms of 2,800
state Democrats attending an
all-day conference in a Brooklyn
hotel.
foot remedies saw no increase.
Two Eugene podiatrists that
were contacted said that their
ease load was no heavier than
usual because of the walk.
State Senator Ed Fadeley was
in the state capital despite the
fact that he walked well over six
miles of Saturday's sojourn, with
Sen. Don Willner of Multnomah
County and Pendleton District
Attorney Joe Smith.
dents disputing University lin
ing, University parking traffic
cases are up in the air.
However, as of last week, the
business office will not change
its practice of collecting fines
from a student’s deposit, accord
ing to University Business Man
ager W. N. McLaughlin. Mc
Laughlin said he had not yet
been notified in writing of the
Nolte decision and he stated
that the decision concerned only
Nolte's specific case and not the
general policy .
McLaughlin was not available
for comment Monday.
Ceramic platters
to be displayed
A collection of ceramic plat
ters by Bob James will be dis
played in the Museum of Art
on the University campus for
a two-week period through Jan.
26.
James is an associate profes
sor of art at the University. He
has been teaching courses in
ceramics and design since 1955.
Deeply colorful, glowing, pro
ducing almost magical images,
the platters represent a great
technical skill and facility. The
glazes are applied in a series,
using Chinese paint brushes
which James prefers for this
purpose, and waxing over each
application in order to main
tain a clear image.
James has exhibited his pot
tery both regionally and na
tionally with his first one-man
show being held in 1963 at the
Oregon Ceramic Studio. He pro
duced the terra cotta ceramic
mosaic mural on the ceramic
studio wall facing the court
yard of the School of Architec
ture and Allied Arts.
To A Great "UNIT" On His 21st
K. I. BEEMAN
HAPPY HANGOVER
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