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OREGON DAILY
University of Oregon, Eugene,
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Hr 1971
Photo Dy Mott McCormick
Eugene Police Capt. Dale Allen: as a student, he would
try to change things “legally and peacefully."
PE requirements
to stay, says faculty
By PEARL BARREN
Of the Emerald
If you want to graduate from the University, you still
have to take five terms of physical education and one
term of health.
The University faculty decided Wednesday to keep
those 66-year-old requirements.
They voted 46-108 against abolishing the P.E.
requirement and by voice vote not to abolish the health
requirement.
The faculty, meeting Wednesday to finish up business
not completed at their regular monthly meeting last
week, debated the requirements for over an hour.
Joe Allman, political science professor, presented the
proposals on behalf of the ad hoc committee on un
dergraduate education which has been studying un
dergraduate requirements over the last two years.
The P.E. and health requirements “build in a certain
priority for these programs which the committee has
found difficult to justify,” Allman said.
‘On Art Pearl vs. the World’
Eachus and Allen switch roles
By IRJA ORAV
Of the Emerald
Ron Eachus, student body president, and Eugene
Chief of Police Dale Allen were asked to hypothetically
switch roles Wednesday night. Art Pearl made the
request of his two guests on his weekly talk show, “Art
Pearl versus the World,” broadcast from Laurelwood
Country Club over KZEL-FM.
Pearl, a university education professor, asked Allen,
“If you were student body president and had gone to
North Vietnam and returned to work against the war,
how would you respond to the demonstrations?”
Holding a cigar in his bandaged right hand, Allen
responded, “That’s a difficult question for me to answer.
If I were a student leader, I’d have an inner feeling to
keep the group together.
“If I felt the same frustrations as students do now,”
he continued, “I would want to do something about it.
Legally and peacefully, I would try to reverse the
situation I was against."
Pearl then asked Eachus what he would do as chief
of police. “If I were the chief of police and felt the
demonstration to be illegal, I would ask the demon
strators to disperse. But if the crowd stayed, I would
make quiet arrests. There is no need to beat people. It’s
better to move in non-violently to make arrests.”
He went on to say that the group should be kept
together, and using tear gas would only cause it to
scatter. He would avoid using tear gas.
Pearl, addressing both Eachus and Allen as leaders
of groups, asked, “What happens when you are caught in
a game where you have to defend the behavior of in
dividuals in the group you may not agree with?” He was
referring to the use of violence such as rock throwing in
a supposedly peaceful demonstration and police using
violence against protestors.
Risely funeral
arrangements set
Funeral services for professor Paul Risely will
be held at 3 p.m. Friday, May 14, at the First
Congregational Church, 23rd and University. Risely
died Monday night of a heart attack. There will be a
private interment.
Risely came to the University in 1945 and
served as chairman of the University biology
department from 1945 to 1953. He specialized in the
study of mammalian reproduction and had carried
on an active research program. The 65-year old
Risely had planned to retire in June.
Professor Risely is survived by his wife Louise,
two daughters, Barbara Newton of Eugene and
Carolyn Hicks of Dallas, Texas, and his mother,
.aura Risely, of Eugene.
Allen answered the question by saying that if a
group is called together, the official in charge has to
accept the responsibility for its actions.
Before the guests spoke for their sides, Pearl said,
“We have a chance tonight to look at what’s happened in
the last week. We’ll have it from the perspective of two
people who played significant roles in the demon
strations.”
Allen said the members of the University and the
Eugene community on May 1 showed they could be
drawn together when they marched onto the Mall area.
But he said by the May 5 evening demonstrations, the
events were taking on a different tone. Again on Thurs
daynight, when the group was blocking all six lanes of
Franklin Blvd., the tone of the group again “was not as
friendly as some others I have dealt with.”
Eachus said the original intent of the demon
strations was to show non-violent civil disobedience.
“We had to show that there was enough interest in the
issue by being able to disrupt business as usual. The
result of the demonstrations Thursday night was to
characterize the protesters as a mob.”
Eachus said even President Clark characterized the
group as dangerous, and said people had been “led into
it.”
“Monday night the march to the City Council was to
show the intent for non-violent protest,” said the student
body president. “It wasn’t reported that seven out of
nine councilmen reported that they would vote for the
referendum (to keep Oregon citizens from fighting in
undeclared wars) May 20. Violent incidents received
press, not what the councilmen said.”
He said the proposed changes were intended to reduce
restraints on students' decisions regarding their
educational programs. “One of the major purposes of
education is to teach students to make decisions,” said
Allman. “Requirements aren’t a way of educating
people. Students have to understand there are con
sequences in terms of the choices they make.”
However, Arthur Esslinger, Dean of the School of
Health, P.E. and Recreation, said he was afraid leaving
the decision up to the students would cause the program
tolose the students who needed the courses the most.
Estimating that P.E. enrollment would drop 50 per
cent, he said, the students who took the courses would be
those “already fit and skilled and in control of their
bodies. We wouldn’t get those who are weak, poorly
conditioned or skilled in few life-time sports.
“If you could see the unfitness and ineptness of the
bottom half of our student body, you couldn’t support
this motion,” Esslinger said.
Leonard Jacobson, associate health education
professor, said the P.E. requirements should be retained
because “sufficient muscular activity doesn’t come
easily-it has to be disciplined into our life style.”
Saying that the U.S. is becoming “Americanis
flabiosis,” he said exercise is essential to halt the rising
incidence ofarterioscherosis and heart disease, “which
has its inception in early adolescence.
Jacobsen brought mumbling from the faculty when he
suggested increasing the P.E. requirement to 12 hours
and adding a requirement for faculty members.
Proponents of the motion, he said, “must be joined in a
subtle conspiracy with General Motors, the elevator
tycoons, golfcart and numerous other manufacturers of
hundreds of laborsaving devices designed to get rid of a
large proportion of our productive young males.”
Lewis Ward, a member of the ad hoc committee, said
“I can assure you we weren’t attempting to plot against
the health and wellbeing of the student body or anybody
else.”
He said the major concern of the committee had been
to ask whether it was appropriate “to tell students
what’s good for them.” If classes are required because a
student needs them, he said, then perhaps a course in
money management and credit should be required to
help students deal with problems of personal debt.
Bower Aly called the argument “specious,” saying
“If you steal my purse and I still have my health I may
still be able to get more money.”
Esslinger said the P.E. program, which includes 58
different course selections, emphasizes activities which
a person can participate in throughout his life.
Yet, Allman and Ward both said the committee had
not been able to obtain any data from the school to show
that the requirements did lead students to continue
participating in the activities after leaving the
University.
However, other professors, from personal ex
periences, support the value of learning the life-time
activities. Wallace Baldinger, art history professor, said
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Clark tells faculty
‘Solons not hostile to University’
“Plentiful” speculations, rumors and apprehension
of misunderstanding have existed on campus this year
about the University’s budget, University President
Robert Clark says.
But state legislators are “not hostile” to higher
education, he adds.
Clark made those statements in a prepared speech
to the University faculty Wednesday afternoon.
In his prepared text, Clark said Dean of Ad
ministration Ray Hawk was quoted in Friday’s Emerald
as saying, “The University is going to survive” a
possible 10 per cent budget cut.
Clark went on to say, “Unfortunately, he was
grossly misunderstood.” He explained that, “If taken
literally, his remark is true. But in quality (the
University) would not be the same institution.”
Nowhere in Friday’s or any other day’s Emerald
was Hawk quoted as saying the above statement,
referred to by Clark.
In Friday’s Emerald, Chief Budget Officer Ralph
Sunderland was quoted as saying, “The University is
going to survive” a possible 10 per cent budget cut.
Clark’s statement to the faculty was composed of
similar remarks he made to the State Senate Education
Committee, dealing with adjustment of non-resident
student enrollment. He said a "severe restriction” on
University library funds could be decided upon if the
Legislature approves the Governor’s Budget for the
State’s higher education.
“We shall know in another ten days or two weeks
what our situation is. My own conversation with the
members of the Legislature leads me to believe that they
are friendly to higher education, not hostile,” Clark said.
"They are faced with an apparent budgetary problem—I
say apparent because I believe that Rep. Stafford
Hansell, who has given me permission to quote him, has
spoken truly when he said that ‘we are a high service and
low tax state.’ ”