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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1972)
Oregon An Independent Student Newspaper Vol. 74, No. 13 Wednesday, July 12,1972 "Beauty is nature's coin, must not be hoarded" —John Milton Ph0,° bv Ph" waidstein Proposed policy extensive I Records hearing Thursday r By CLAY EALS Of the Emerald The University’s proposed student records policy will go up for public scrutiny one final time Thursday. A public hearing on the proposed policy will be held from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in the Johnson Hall conference room. The proposed policy, 19 months in the making, describes all records kept about students at the University and sets down regulations for the release of such records. Robert Bowlin, dean of student personnel services, says the proposed policy is “light years ahead” of policies at other schools in the nation. | Analysis After Thursday’s hearing, Bowlin, on behalf of the ad hoc committee, will submit a recommendation concerning implementation of the policy to Gerald Bogen, vice president for student services. Bowlin says he hopes Bogen and University President Robert Clark act on im plementation of the policy before fall term starts. “We really have to start out the year with everybody knowing what the policy is,” Bowlin says. After looking over the proposed policy, a student may be amazed at the volume of records kept by the University about him. They include: the Permanent Registrar’s Record, the Permanent Academic Folder, the Disciplinary Record, Office of Student Ser vices Records, Foreign Student Office Records, Organization Membership Records, Placement Service Registration File, Counseling Center Records, Office of Financial Aid Records, Student Health Center Records. Payroll Records. Student Employee Evaluation Records, the School or Depart ment Graduate Admissions Folder, Ap plications for School-Departmental Assistantships, Scholarships or Other Awards, Academic Advising Folder, Student Employee Evaluation Records, Student Teaching Records, Class Lists, First Grade Report, Grade Books and Attendance Records, Student’s Examinations and Class Papers. But, even more interesting than the volume of student records kept by the University may be the proposed regulations concerning the release of, and access to, such records. The proposed regulations are divided into two catagories. general release and access to records, and student access to and correction of his records. Following are the proposed rules for “general” release: “Certain appropriate information about the student may be released without the student’s consent” and that information includes the student’s full name, campus address and telephone number, home address, parent’s name and address, place and date of birth, dates of attendance at the University, class, academic major, and objective evidence of the student’s academic achievement (number of credits and degrees earned). “All other information contained in student records is considered personal and con fidential and may not be released to any person or agency without the student’s written consent.” However, there are several exceptions to that last rule. The exceptions are: —“University personnel” can see any student records, except psychological and medical, when they “have a demonstrably legitimate need to review them to fulfill their official, professional responsibilities with regard to the student.” —“Appropriate University personnel,” with direction from the University President or a designee, can appear in court to “test the validity” of a subpoena or court order which seeks access to student records (Continued on Page 3) f McGovern changes Vietnam POW stand MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Sen. George McGovern said Tuesday forthe firsttime that he would keep U S. troops in Thailand and naval forces in the gulf of Tonkin-on what aides termed "an inactive basis”—until the North Vietnamese release captured U.S. prisoners. The South Dakota senator, on the verge of capturing the Democratiepresidential nomination,made what the aides said was “an elaboration of his position” in a statement issued responding to his endorsement by a group of wives and sisters of American prisoners of war. It brought his position closer to that of Fresider t Nixon, who has vowed to maintain U S. military action in Indochina until the North Vietnamese promise to free prisoners. Heretofore, McGovern has pledged to remove all U S. forces from Southeast Asia if elected president, saying he was certain this would lead the North Vietnamese to free captured Americans "While I am fully confident that there would be no such need,” the senator said, “I would also retain the military capability in the region—in Thailand and on the seas—to signal and fulfill our firm determination on this issue. "This is the only cause for which I would retain any U S. forces in or adjacent to Southeast Asia,” McGovern added