Oregon daily emerald., April 28, 1972, Page 9, Image 9

DeGross has two grade school children
and one junior high school child. At the
time of the interviews DeGross was in
Alaska and could not be contacted.
Position No. 4
Floyd F. Blaser, 55, Thurston Rd„ is a
27-year-resident of Eugene. He has one
son. Blaser is a newspaper pressman for
the Register-Guard.
Blaser is primarily interested in “seeing
people get a better deal from their taxes.”
because it’s too simple,” he said.
John E. Petrick, 26, has lived in Eugene
for two years and he has a Masters in
Juvenile Corrections and is the director of
Canterbury Center, a youth education
information and referral agency. Petrick
is also editor of “Pedaler’s Pamphlet,” a
bicyclist’s magazine. He lives at 1927
Lawrence St.
Petrick sees the school board as needing
more “input by younger people" because
these are the people that the board rulings
mere objects, but it’s a side-effect of the
bureaucracy.”
Petrick also sees the formal teacher
student roles as being regressive. He
would like to change it into a more per
sonal, “people-oriented" role.
In theory, Petrick agrees with McCall’s
tax plan, and “basically agrees that the
taxing should be switched to someone else
other than the home owner.
But he feels that a “voucher system”
program needs to be experimented with.
In this system a student could spend file
want a job, “we need people who are really
sincere about their duties,” he said.
Experimentation and innovation are
important, West said, especially at the
early levels.
“Why can’t we involve the University
and get them involved in the teaching
process? We should be suing all the ex
pertise we can get.”
“1 think vocational studies should be
stressed,” West said. "Every student
should have one year of vocational
training.”
Barbara West
James Jeppesen, Jr.
Robert Kraus
David Maier
Those taxes “should teach these kids
how to make a living,” he said. “We should
have a good vocational training program
instead of throwing money to the wind”
into unnecessary programs.
“We don’t need to worry too much about
those kids that are going to be doctors and
lawyers because they’ll take care of
themselves,” he said. It is those students
who aren’t going onto college who are
having problems due to the lack of good
vocational programs.
Open campuses should be curtailed,
Blaser believes. “They’ve taken their toll”
in terms of disorientated students, he said.
The good students are able to make it on
open campuses, but “what about the poor
students? They need more guidance than
that given them by the open campuses.”
Blaser thinks McCall’s tax plan is ‘“a
good idea” although, he believes that “all
taxes should be thrown out except for the
local personal income tax.” All the three
governments, national, state, and local
would then get the money needed from
this, he said.
“I’m sure McCall wouldn’t go for it
affect.
Along with more representation the
board needs to be “more action-oriented
and out in the community working and
allowing them to do community service,”
he said.
What it mostly entails is “allowing the
students to either go to the school itself or
instead to go out into the community.”
There’s a definite lag between school and
what’s going on in the community, he said.
Like many other candidates, Petrick
thinks the school has to be more vocational
oriented rather than college oriented.
The schools haven’t prepared the
students for what Petrick calls “diploma
shock”: what do 1 do now with my
diploma? It’s the job of the education
system to provide resources for the
student that provides job information on
what is available and “how to go about
doing it.” His idea is “somewhat like that
of the Whole Earth Catalog,” he said.
The structure of the schools “deny
students their rights and the way the
school deals with people is bad,” he said.
“People don’t consciously treat others as
$869 (grade school) or $1129 (high school)
slotted him for the year for “things he
wishes to leam from, including which
school he wants to go to." It would be
somewhat like the present G.I. Bill, he
said.
Businesses that produce “ecologically
destructive” products should be the first
businesses taxed, Petrick said.
Incumbent Jonathan West, 49, is a three
year resident of Eugene. He is the equal
opportunity adviser to LCC President
Eldon Schafer and also a counselor there.
West has four children with one in junior
high school. Last July, West was appointed
to the board position.
Because it’s been a short term for him,
he’s running again, he said. But first of all,
the board needs someone in education,
secondly, he has a counselor background,
thirdly, the problems of today are such
that “people just don’t understand them
and I hope I can keep some of the com
munication lines open."
West said that he’s also seeing less and
less public service by officials who only
West believes that we have to remove
the low-status stigma that society
presently places on vocational training
and the jobs that it leads too.
“There should be a great marriage
between the vocational and the industry in
the Eugene area. The industries are
saying that they don’t have the people, so
we should try to get them to help train the
vocational oriented student, he said.
West feels that McCall’s tax plan is “an
improvement; the property taxes have run
it’s gamut.”
The tax is only part of the solution
though, he said. We need ways to
“overhaul our total tax system. It’s always
been full of holes.”
“This overhaul would mean a
reassesment of land values and of the
system of income tax,” he said. "We need
to start letting-the wealthy carry their
share **
But with all this, West said, “We don’t
want to lose sight of the product because
we spend so much time with the process.”
This end product is a good education for
our children, he said.
PARENTS WEEKEND 72
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Friday, April 28
9 30 5 30 Class visitation ,
9 00 a m to 00 p m Greco Roman Wrestling Championship. Mac Court
12 00 U of O intercollegiate Tennis Championships, 15th St. Courts
12 30 p m Musical Smorgasbord, Music Auditorium
12 30 5 00 p m 13th St Craft Fair
8 30 p m O'Neil’s Ah Wilderness. University Theater
Saturday, April 2*
8 30 a m 10 30 a m Parents Breakfast Address by President Clark, EMU
Ballroom Breakfast si 75 per person
9:00 a m 10 00 p m Greco Roman wrestling Championship, Mac Court
9 00 a m u of O Intercollegiate Tennis Championships
10 00 a m 4 00 p m 13th St Craft Fair
11 00a m 12 30p m university Administrative Forum. EMU Ballroom
12 00 5 00 p m Living Organizations Open House
12 00 1 00pm water Polo Oregon vs. OSU, Leighton Pool
2 00 P m 3 00 p m University Student Forum
1 oopm 4 30pm Track Meet Oregon vs. WSU Hayward Field
2 00 p m Lacrosse. Football practice field
6 00 p m Spaghetti Dinner, EMU Oming Room. S 90
8 00 p m Wangard’s Revolution, University Theater
8 00 prn Concert Rock, Country, Jazz. Blue Grass, EMU Ballroom. Ad
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