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Vol. LXVIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1969 No. 96 Rally planned to keep Pearl at University By ANITA BICKERS Of the Emerald A rally in support of “doing everything we can to keep Pearl here” is planned for noon Friday at the free speech plat form, according to representa tives of a group of teaching as sistants and students from Art Pearl’s classes. Pearl, professor of education and leader in the University’s programs for the disadvantaged, announced earlier in the week he was considering an offer to join the faculty of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. At 3:30 today in the Dads’ Room, EMU, there will be an organizational meeting to de cide strategies the students will use to negotiate with the Uni versity administration about its commitment to: • Keeping Pearl here. • The future of the disad vantaged youth programs, in cluding Pearl’s classes, High School Equivalency Program (HEP), Project 75 and Upward Bound. • A relevant and innovative education. Pearl said Tuesday, “I don’t want to leave, but I need a wee bit more institutional sup port for what I’m trying to do.” He said he wanted a commit tee from the University to im prove all education and pro grams for the disadvantaged if he was to stay. Three main areas Pearl is concerned with, according to the ad hoc committee of students and discussion leaders are: • Bringing the disadvantaged programs under an “administra tive umbrella” with strong ad ministrative support for them. • Increasing the number of T.A.'s for his classes so they have more time to devote to making the classes worthwhile (Continued on page 2) BLACK STUDENTS MARCH FROM OSU “Have no desire to remain” Blacks exit OSU en masse CORVALLIS (Special) — All 47 of Oregon State University's Black students have left the school. The Black students walked off the campus together Wed nesday after their spokesman told a rally of about 1.200 they were leaving the school for good. Mike Smith, BSU president and the first speaker at the 1 p.m. rally, told the crowd of approximately 1,200 persons that the Black students had no desire to be at the school. Smith said they were fed up with discriminating practices and administrative tokenism at the school. He charged OSU President James Jensen with “relegating authority to scape goat the issue,” in the BSU's controversy with the athletic department. “After watching the tinagling, we have no desire to remain here,” he said, adding that they were leaving in a “memorial to the plantation logic,” at OSU. The Black students then tiled out of the ballroom as the crowd of supporters applauded. The Oregon State BSU was join ed by about 80 members of the University’s BSU who had come to show support. The group then walked across campus and through a gate on the east edge of the school. They stood outside the gate and Oregon State's BSU yelled "freedom” once and dispersed. At a later rally the Univer sity’s BSU which had chartered two buses to OSU, said they were “going back to Eugene to put out our own fire.” James Hill, speaking for the University’s BSU, told the 300 people who had regathered in the ballroom, that, they empa thized with the Oregon State BSU. The conflict at OSU, he said, had “demonstrated that every institution committing racist acts affects all of us.” "We came as firefighters,” he said. "We're going back to put out our own fire, to clean our house so that we don’t have to leave.” According to Smith the 47 Black students who left consti tuted the entire Black enroll ment of the school. He said there Takes stand on OSU issue Faculty supports human rights for all in academic community By PEARL BARKEN Of the Emerald After nearly two hours of heated debate, the University faculty passed a resolution Wednesday affirming basic human rights due all members of an academic com munity. The resolution was prompted by conflict between the athletic department and Black Student Union at Oregon State University. A motion to reconsider, however, may mean the faculty will revote on the resolu tion at next month’s meeting. “The resolution is meant to affirm that all students and student organizations are part of the academic community with all human rights and privileges,” said associate professor of sociology Roy Rodgers, who introduced the resolution. Rodgers emphasized that the resolution was not anti-administration nor an “attempt to meddle in others affairs.” He said that in passing the resolution the faculty would not be establishing a new policy or revising an old one, but only re affirming their policy and continuing “to speak out when there is a threat to aca demic freedom at other campuses.” Debate among the approximately 100 faculty members in attendance centered around wording of the resolution and whether or not a notice of motion was needed to consider the statement. Principal opposition came from Bower Aly, speech professor, who voted for the proposal and then moved to reconsider it at the next meeting. Aly objected to the resolution mainly be cause without a notice of motion many faculty members were not aware that the matter was to be discussed and there was no time for deliberation. He also questioned the “wisdom and expediency of passing a resolution on a topic still before the Oregon State Univer sity faculty.” Aly added that he felt the faculty should not get involved in an area where the State Board of Higher Education had refused to enter in. Refuting Aly’s arguments, James Tatter sall, associate professor of economics, said "What is at issue before the OSU faculty is not the general principle of this resolu tion, but the means of handling the dispute.” He said that he did not feel the Univer sity faculty would be telling OSU how to handle the matter by passing the statement, for he doubted if they would disagree on the general attitude expressed. The resolution after amendments, stated that “Inasmuch as nothing is as destructive to respect for rational authority and to an appreciation of the importance of self dis cipline as being subjected to the destructive impact of authority exercised in a complete ly arbitrary manner, we, the faculty of the University of Oregon, affirm the personal and individual rights of all students to de cide their own personal appearance with out being subject to academic or economic coercion. "We hold that in all cases due process procedure must be followed in every area of the University community.” The faculty also approved a recommenda tion from the Curriculum Committee for the establishment of a Doctor of Arts de gree for English majors. In order to qualify for the degree a student would have to meet all the requirements for a doctorate except the writing of a dissertation. A motion providing that 24 out of 45 credit hours required for a master’s degree be graded was also passed. Formerly the individual departments were free to make decisions on such policy. With passage of this motion, they will still be free to decide what courses must be graded or increase the number of graded hours required, ac cording to Leona Tyler, who introduced the motion. Francis Dart, Honors College Director, gave notice Wednesday that he would move at the April 9 meeting that student mem bership be included on faculty committees. He said students would have full voting rights and be appointed by the University President with confirmation by the ASUO President and Senate. Three other faculty members gave notice that they would present motions for amend ments to the Student Conduct Code at the next meeting. were 57 but ten had dropped out since the term began. Smith said they were with drawing from schools as of Wednesday and all were going to other schools spring term. The director of information at OSU, Sam Bailey said be tween 25 and 30 students had picked up their withdrawal forms Wednesday but as of 4 p.m. only one student had ofli cially withdrawn. Bailey said students who withdrew before the last day of classes, March 14, would re ceive grade cards. Those doing passing work at the time of withdrawal will receive a "W” meaning withdrawal. Those do ing failing work will receive an “F.” Black students had been boy cotting classes for one week as a protest to a decision by head football Coach Dee Andros to remove a Black player from the team when he refused to shave his mustache and beard. Some White students and sev eral members had supported the boycott. Jensen said, “the request of the departure of the Black stu dents . . . tilled me with con siderable despair. I felt we had failed.” The Black students have been requesting the administration to reverse Andros’ decision which they claim violates an individual’s human, cultural and social rights. They have also been request ing the administration to adopt a proposed administrative pol icy recommended by a Minority Affairs Committee appointed by Jensen. Jensen has not adopted the policy, but Tuesday night he announced the formation of a Human Rights Commission to investigate "conflicts that arise when coaches perogatives, as well as when other university officials’ decisions collide with human rights.” The commission will be made of six faculty members and six students and will serve as an appeal board making recom (Continued on page 2) ■Bciiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiminiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiimiiiiiuim TODAY’S WEATHER Scattered showers all day High 50, low 30 30% chance of rain through Thursday night ikiiiimimiimii:iijiii.iiiuiiiMuiiuiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiuiiMii