Clark al ONPA conference
University strained by finances
The “most compelling problem” facing the
University is financial, University President
Robert Clark told more than 80 persons
Friday.
Clark said there are two sources of the
problem: the level of state support to the
University is lower and some private grants
are now expiring and the University has to
take over paying the salaries and other ex
penses that the grant money used to cover.
The president spoke briefly at the opening
session of the Oregon Press Conference
sponsored by the Oregon Newspapers
Publishers Association and the University
School of Journalism. The first day’s
meetings of the two-day conference were held
in the EMU.
Following Clark’s talk, Carl E. Wilcox, data
processing manager for the Oregonian
Publishing Co., spoke to the group about the
use of computers in newspaper publishing.
Clark said “Relatively, the level of support
for higher education is lower now than it was
in 1958-59.” The student-faculty ratio at the
time was 15-1; now it is 18.3-1, he said.
The president said he was in favor of
community colleges and of private colleges
but that the support for them “has put a strain
on schools in the system (state system of
higher education).
By JUDY SLY
Of the Emerald
Clark said, “If we can hold on for another
biennium or two in the quality of our in
struction,” that he believes the economy (and
support for the University) will pick up.
He said ihe “irony” in the conflict between
free press and open deliberation in the HPUP
(Hearing Panel on University Priorities)
meetings is that the University has “the most
open process that any budget agency in the
state has.”
He said that the budget group was being
criticized for closed sessions because the
reasons for the closure were not understood.
Discussion in meetings, he said, is 90 per cent
about personnel, which requires that they be
closed.
When the group makes its recom
mendations they will be made public, Clark
said. Then the recommendations will go back
to the departments to be gone over again, he
said.
Clark said “top priority is (goes to) in
struction for undergraduates.”
Carl Wilcox, who has worked with com
puters in newspapers for nine years, talked
about the problems and solutions in acquiring
equipment and about present and future uses
for computers in newspapers.
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Tenant
rights
leader
to speak
Jesse Gray, chairman of the National Tenants
Organization, will deliver a free public address on
the problems and rights of tenants at 8 p.m. tonight,
in the EMU at the University.
Gray, who has become nationally-known for his
involvement with housing problems, is coming to
Oregon to discuss the need for a state initiative
measure concerning landlord-tenant laws.
Citizens of Oregon for Decent Housing, (CORDH),
a Portland based group, has launched a petition
drive to place the measure on the ballot next
November.
Gray’s appearance at the University is co
sponsored by CORDH, the ASUO Housing Office,
the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group
(OSPIRG), and ASUO Student Community
Projects.
Gray began organizing residents to protest state
and federal housing practice 20 years ago in New
York City.
In 1953, as leader of the Harlem Tenants Council,
he fought and won rent control regulations for
Harlem that exist today. The same year he won a
battle that gave due process rights to evicted
rooming house residents.
In 1963 and 1964 Gray led 30,000 residents of New
York City in a rent strike to protest poor housing
conditions. The strike resulted in establishment of a
state law giving residents the right to withhold rent
when hazardous living conditions exist.
Gray’s discussion of tenant problems and rights
will be followed tomorrow with a public hearing on
tenant rights at 7:30 p.m., in the EMU (room
number to be posted).
Tuesday’s hearing is co-sponsored by OSPIRG,
the ASUO Housing Office, and the ASUO Legal
Services Office.
Jesse Gray
Black History Week scheduled
A series of public events will take place at the
University today through Feb. 26 in observance of
national Black History Week.
Edwin Coleman, assistant professor of English at
the University is coordinating local arrangements.
Works by students in his black literature classes
will be featured in displays on all three floors of the
University Library, which will include poetry,
plays, photographic essays, short stories and
historical and folklore papers.
Another exhibit will begin Tuesday evening in the
Co-op.
First event of the week will be the Tuesday
showing of a film. “Nothing But a Man,” which is
considered by most black critics, according to
Coleman, as the “only true film about black
Americans." The 1965 film which stars Ivan Dixon
and Abey Lincoln, will be shown at 8 p.m. in 177
Lawrence. Admission is $1.
"Black History—Where We’ve Come From,
Where We Are and Where We're Going” is the
subject of the panel discussion scheduled for the
KZEL radio program “Art Pearl versus The
World” at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Panelists ate Pearl;
Bobby Edwards of the Afro-American Institute of
Eugene; City of Eugene minority specialist, Lewis
Peters; Marge Wright of the University School of
Community Service and Public Affairs; and Carol
Cross, teaching fellow in biology.
At 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sonja Sanchez, black
poetess from New York, will present some of her
poetry in the EMU ballroom. Admission is free. Her
appearance is a 1972 Festival of Arts attraction.
As part of the program, Coleman will direct one of
her plays, “Sister Son-ji,” with Lynda Mixon, a
University student, playing the lead role.
The final event of the week will be a slide-lecture
on trends and developments among contemporary
black artists by Alonzo Davis, black artist from Los
Angeles.
Davis is co-owner and director of Brockman
Gallery in Los Angeles and a teacher. His talk will
be at 8 p.m. in the EMU ballroom. No admission
price will be charged.
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