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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1971)
Rubble is all that remains of the old veterans' dorms (later offices for ROTO after wreckers did their thin# over spring break. While the dorms were coming down con struction crews continued their efforts at putting up. Workmen finished repair work on bomb damaged IM,C and the addition to Lawrence llall is all but completed Construction continues on new tennis and handball courts, while the fire gutted mens' PE building hi being remodeled Photo by Frits Schmidt Negotiations 4going nowhere9 Councilwoman raps talks By I'ATTI MINTON Of the Emerald Eugene City Councilwoman Wickes Beal presented her initial public report on the Citizens Conference for Peace Tuesday night to the Spring meeting of the World Without War Council Mrs Beal was one of 171 American delegates to visit the Paris Peace Conference March 3 H) and was sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee. Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam and the Fellowship of Reconciliation According to Mrs Beal, the group's purpose was to collect firsthand information on the conflict in Indochina and “to get behind all the diplomatic ver ha go" of the talks Her group included businessmen, lawyers, dot-tors, clergymen of all faiths and "the usual quota of the outraged and irrepressible young." whom she termed “a tremendous addition" to the group IHirmg the five day con terenre the citizens were received by the chief delegates from each of the four missions to the Paris talks, as well as Buddhist and Catholic leaders l-toiian and South Vietnamese Emerald Applications \|ipllr>liuns arr bring ac cepted lor Ihr positions of I merald rtiilor and busmrss manager Nppllralions arr as a liable in Ibr office ol thr KM I Hirer tor M ml I Ml and must hr relumed bs I pm, Wed nrxdas \pril II The positions arr open lo all irgisirrrd students The new • dilni will assume duties Mas I students. journalists and members of a “highly sup pressed" Saigon women’s movement Representatives from Prince Sihanouk's Cambodian govern ment in exile, and the French peace movement also met with the citizens conference Mrs Beal revealed three dominant impressions she received from tin' conference Particularly striking was the deadlock which exists in the Pans Peace talks, she said •Nothing productive can be expected without fundamental Continued on page t> Help in sight for cut victims Students who don't think they can continue to attend the University under current restrictions on the Work-Study program should contact the Financial Aids Office, action Financial Aids director lairy large told the Kmerald Tuesday l»irge said the University was concerned about the student who might mg he able to continue his education because of the cutback from 15 to 10 hour maximum work weeks for students in the program which was made at the end of last term Uirge said persons affected by the cutback should make an up point men! with his office Appointments will begin noon Thursday, he said "We re going to find all of the students to whom'this cut hack means the difference of surviving and not surviving in school ami deal with that problem." lairgc said I-urge said how the department deals with the problem "will depend ut>on the individual and his personal circumstances ” The acting director said tlx- first step would lie a check to see if an NI>FA loan could tie used by the student to make up the difference between 15 ami 10 hours If NDHA is not a "reasonable alternative." lairge said his department would arrange it so that llie person in need would work 15 hour weeks Hut. he added, it would not lx* a "high proportion" of work study students who would lie eligible for such exceptions "Ttus is lx*ing done with the clear understanding tluit It simply means w hatever amount of money we use (or these kinds of exceptions will m effect tie charged against next year's programs Hut I feel we have a commitment for this academic year ami we will do our tiest to meet it by whatever other means we have If the only one that's left is exempting the cutback, we ll do it." large emphasized that this exemption did not mean any new certifications or expansions of certification* were available "It's just those affected by the difference between 10 and 15 hours." lairge said The acting director said that a person in need who Is affected by the ruling should come to the financial aids office If he feel* his need is sufficient for an exception to tie granted "KOI’ students will go through Johnny Holloway, director of supportive services and his staff." he said "The burden of proof will lx* tlx* student He must show that tlx* cutback dm*s make the difference ihe office will try to determine an equitable way of making these exceptions " Clark requests conduct panel study student ‘bill of rights’ By J AN TOTH Of Ihr Kmrratd President Robert Clark has asked the Student Conduct Committee to consider formulation of a Bill of Rights and Kespon sihilities that would apply to all constituents of the University faculty, students, ad nunistrators. and staff In a letter to Chapin Clark, professor of law and chairman of the Student Conduct Committee. Clark indicated that he felt the University should have a clear, concise statement of rights He submitted to the Committee for study and consideration the "Model Bill of Rights and Responsibilities" as set forth in a recent report bv the Camegle Commission on Higher (-'.duration The model bill states members of the campus have an obligation to fulfill the responsibilities incumbent upon all citizens. a> well as the responsibilities of their par ticular roles within (he academic community All mem Iters share the obligation to respect The fundamental rights of others as citizens The rights of others based upon the nature of the educational process The rights of (he institution The rights of members to fair and c<|uilabl« procedures for determining when and upon whom penalties for violation of i am pus regulations should be imposed \«-r**rdmg to the bill mrmbers of the campus enjoy the same batur rights and are iMNind by the same responsibilities to respect the rights of others, as an* all citizens Aiming the Iwisic rights are freedom of speech. feeedom of pr«**s, freedom of |M*areful assembly and association, freedom nl political beliefs, ami freedom from per sonal force ami violence, threats of violence ami |M*rsonal aliuse Kach member of the campus has the right to organize his or her own personal life and behavior, so long as it doesn t violate the law or agreements voluntarily entered into, and iloes not interfere with the rights of others or of the educational process The hill also states all members of the campus have other responsibilities and rights based upon the nature of the educational process and the requirements of the search for truth and its free presentation Incorporated in this is the obligation mg to interfere with the freedom of members of the campus to pursue normal academic and administrative activities, including freedom of movement The right to hold public meetings in which mcmlicr* participate, to post notices, and to <*ngagc in peaceful orderly demons! rat ions Ar. obligation mg to infringe upon the right of all members of the campus to privacy in offices laboratories, and dormitory rooms and in the keeping of personal papers, run lidential records, and effects, subject only to the general law and to conditions voluntarily entered into Campus records on its members should • ontam only information which is reasonably related to the educational (Hirjxwve or safety of the campus The institution, according to the hill ha» the right and obligation to provide an open forum for mem tier* of ttie campus to present and debate public issues, ami the right not to take a |MMitimi in electoral polities or mi public issues, except on those ishim's which directly affect its autonomy, the freedom of its members, Its financial support, ami Its academic functions In the bill ull members of the campus have a right to fair ami equitable procedure* which shall determine the validity of charges of violation of campus regulations Members of tin* campus charged or convicted of violations under general law may t*c subject to campus sanctions for the same conduct, in accord will, campus policies and procedures when the conduct is In violation of a campus rule essential to the continuing protection of other members of the campus or to the safeguarding of the educational process According to Chairman (lark "The Student ( (induct Committee welcome* such a report because It fits in with the approach already taken by the committee ” He said a subcommittee has hern appointed and Is working specifically on formulation of an "all community code" for the University that would include such a Hill of Rights Members of the subcommittee are t.eorge Streisinger professor of biology, chairman Cordon Cotes associate professor of chemistry and geology and John Baker, si oder it