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Oregon daily EMERALD Vol. LXVIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1969 No. 142 STUDENTS engage in a water fight in front of Deady Hall as temperatures soared to the 80’s Wednesday. The Weather high of 82 and low of near 50 for today, with a near 0 chance of rain. Bureau forecasts a rhoto by Greg Friedman Senate installs new senators, ASUO head By ROBIN ROY Of the Emerald In its last meeting of the year the Senate Thursday night: • Approved the election of Kip Morgan and Sonja Sweek as ASUO president and vice-pres ident respectively. The two were installed after two hours of dis cussion and at least five votes concerning approval of presi dential election results. Outgoing ASUO president, Dick Jones, in stalled Morgan and Sweek and received a standing ovation aft er his speech. The debate ended when a mo tion established a hearing would take place on alleged vio lations of ASUO election rules by Morgan and Sweek. (See story, page 3). • Installed the 15 newly • elected ASUO senators. • Re-elected Senator Bob Winger to the post of Senate president. Winger opposed Mor gan at the recent ASUO elec tions. • Discussed the matter of Morris Yarowsky, visiting assis tant professor of art. Charles Johnson, acting University pres ident. and Charles Duncan, dean of faculties, appeared before the body to discuss the situa tion and to talk about the vis iting professor program which is included in the Senate-passed ASUO incidental fees budget. No commitment was made on either subject. • Passed a resolution con - demning the state legislative bill to increase out-of-state tuition. • Approved 17 committee ap pointments. The body was still discussing National Student Associations representatives at press time. Three bills were before the Senate but had not been debat ed or acted upon. Emerald staff meeting There will be a mandatory full-staff meeting of all Emer ald editors, reporters and pho tographers at 7 p.m. Sunday in 301 Allen Hall. This will be the last meet ing of the term and plans for the Summer Emerald and next year will be discussed. Open office hours Acting President Johnson will hold open office hours from 3 to 3 p.m. today. Photo by Matt McCormick SEN. AL FLEGEL Supports HB 1880 Senators pass bill on campus disruption By HIATT McCORMICK Of the Emerald SALEM (Special)—A revised version of IIB 1880 received the formal approval of the Oregon Senate Thursday with a 24-6 vote. The bill gives the governor the authority to declare a state of emergency when "a clear and present danger exists to any public property.” The revised bill includes all public lands. It also re quires the governor to consult with the public official or other official in charge of the property involved . The original draft of the bill that was passed by the House with unusual speed two weeks ago only gave the governor power to bar persons from state college campuses. The vote came after approximately 15 minutes of discussion. Sen. A1 Flegel, D-Douglas, said, ‘‘This bill bears little resemblance to the one given to us by the other chamber. I feel we have writ ten a good public trespass law.” He went on to say that he didn’t think the bill was a “cops on campus” measure. Sen. Vernon Cook, D-Multnomah, said the bill was unconstitu tional because it excluded people from public property without due process. riegei pointed out the bill provided tor an immediate court review of any action taken to bar a person from a public place. Senators voting against the bill in the Senate Thursday were: Cook, Ed Fadeley, D-Lane; Ted Hallock, D-Multnomah; Berkeley Lent, D-Multnomah; Betty Kobcrts, D-Multnomah; and Glenn Stadler, D-Lane. Other bills affecting higher education are: • HB 2040, which provides the budget for the coming biennium for the state system of higher education. It will be voted on by the Senate today, and passage is expected. • HB 2201, which provides for $38 million for capital con struction of school buildings. It is also to be voted on by the Senate today. • IIB 1412, which would reorganize the parking and traffic violation procedures for institutions under the State Board of Higher Education. The Senate will vote on it today. • HB 1827, the “super-board” bill, which would pul ail educa tion from kindergarten to college in the state under a single board, instead of the present system of three separate boards. The bill is still being considered by the Senate Education Committee. • SB 539, which would provide for the building of a dome stadium in the Williamette Valley. The bill apparently has also died in committee. The Legislature hopes to close the session by this evening. Request made by Morgan Student Services review asked By ANNE PARSONS Of the Emerald Kip Morgan, newly elected ASUO Presi dent, said one of the first things he is go ing to do is to ask Acting University Presi dent Charles Johnson to set up an ad hoc committee to review the Office of Student Services. “Although it does serve certain neces sary functions,” Morgan said, “it isn’t re flecting the needs of the students.” The Office of Student Services is coordi nated by Dean of Students Donald Du shane. Its departments occupy most of Emerald Hall and much of Susan Campbell Hall. “From the time a student first expresses an interest in coming to the University, we’re concerned about him,” Dushane said. The services are: Office of Admissions, Registrar’s Office, Placement Service, Financial Aids Office, which Dushane described as “the fastest growing section of the services,” Office of the Graduate Student Advisor, Office of Student Services Research, Student Con duct Office, Counseling Center, Interna tional Students Office, Offices of the Dean of Men and the Dean of Women. Morgan said his concern over the stu dent services office relates to his concern over the lack of adequate student participa tion in University decision-making bodies. “I want to restore the priorities to the student. “The Office of Student Services is sup posed to serve students. It must have a student voice,” Morgan said. "Who under stands students better than students?” Some of Morgan’s ideas were presented to staff members of the Office of Student Services. Dushane said some students are paid members of his staff. He pointed out that the Minor Court Ad visor, the student defender and the stu dent prosecutor arc students. He also said the assistants to the Dean of Men and the Dean of Women are often students. It is these offices which specifically con cern Morgan. Acting Dean of Men Larry Large said there is a definite communication gap be tween his office and the ASUO President’s office. “It’s because we’re a new office with an old image,”he said. “Since we no longer have the function of discipline, our function is that of providing general services to students whenever they think they need us.” Dean of Women Shirley Wilson said, “We don’t want to impose our services on anyone, but we hope that all students will feel free to use us.” Large said, “We are a sort of buffer be tween the faculty and the students and vice versa. We have access to valuable knowl edge which the student does not. "We arc, in fact, the student’s adoveate when he comes before the scholastic defi ciences committee,” Large continued. Morgan said he feels the office of (lie Dean of Men and the Dean of Women are giving "proportionately unfair amounts of time to certain group of people, such as fraternities arrd sororities.” Miss Wilson said, "We’re concerned about that and we don't want that to be true.” She said two assistant deans of students, John English and Bunny Nosier, act as links to the fraternities and sororities. "We did a study on how much of the assistants’ working day was spent on this business and we figured that it averages about 20 per cent,” Miss Wilson said. Another of Morgan’s suggestions is that fewer people could handle the work load of the office. He said associate professor of history Stanley Pierson is proposing to the Faculty Student Council that the position of Dean of Undergraduate Studies be created. He suggested the creation of this office might eliminate the need for the Dean of Men and the Dean of Women. Dushane said he had not heard of Pier son’s proposal. "I would assume it would be an exten sion of the Office of Undergraduate Advis ing,” he said. "I don't think this would cause any changes in the present structure of the Office of Student Services.”