Oregon daily emerald., February 22, 1973, Page 4, Image 4

—Editorial
Gooooooo Ducks!
What is school spirit?
Not an easy question to answer is it?
Love of school? Love of campus? Love
of team?
To be sure, school spirit is a bit of all of
these. School spirit is that little tingle at
the back of your neck when you hear the
fight song or see a Lemon and Green
letterman’s jacket in the front of the row of
Eng. 202.
School spirit is the Fighting Ducks of
Oregon tromping Dee (fatman) Andros in
Corvallis. School spirit is Steve Prefon
taine gamely limping home to claim
another American record.
School spirit is the pluck and per
severence of Dick Harter’s glorious B
Bailers as they rise from the depths of
despairing defeat to third place in the Pac
8.
School spirit is the annual Oregon
UCLA basketball game—the battle of the
titans, the game of the century, the contest
of the age.
Tonight those wonderful Kamikaze
Kids have a chance to bring the big “V”
home to Oregon.
Victory over UCLA!
The National championship!
Peace and brotherhood!
When Ronnie and Gerald and Mark
and Doug and Billy (and all the other
marvelous players) take the floor tonight
against the big bad Bruins, the rafters of
old Mac Court should shake as they’ve
never shaken before.
School spirit is backing your team to
the hilt as they thrust the dagger of justice
into the cold black hearts of the Califor
nian enemy.
No quarter!
No rest!
No peace!
Until the Ducks slay the Bruins and
bring victory back to Eugene.
Go Ducks, go.
Fight Ducks, fight.
Win Ducks, win.
For Oregon.
Quack.
Commentary
’Winkelman plan' —how realistic?
By John (Scott) Andrews
Editor’s Note: Andrews is a junior in
political science at the University, a
member of the Oregon Student Association
executive committee and a representative
of IUS to the Oregon State Legislature.
INITIATIVE: ALLOCATION OF
STUDENT INCIDENTAL FEES
At registration each student of
the University of Oregon will be
given a complete list of ASUO
programs, including the Athletic
Department and EMU, and will
be required to allocate his or her
incidental fee among the various
ASUO programs (including a
special category, to be spent as
the ASUO Senate sees fit). The
percentages will be summed and
converted to a dollar amount,
based upon the amount of in
cidental fee, and this dollar
amount will continue the funding
of each program.
This provision shall override
and nullify the previous methods
of allocating the incidental fee,
and shall be binding upon the
ASUO Senate and Executives as
of May 15. 1972.
This is a copy of the petition voted on by
students here at the University Spring
term, 1972. It is now infamously known as
the “Winkelman Plan”. The plan is
probably the biggest farce ever per
petuated on this campus.
At the ASUO Senate meeting of March 7,
1972 John Winkelman submitted a motion
much like the initiative above. The dif
ference was that the motion kept the
funding of the Athletic Department and the
EMU in the hands of the Senate. The
motion passed by a large majority, but not
until it had been amended to be a check-off
system to be administered by a student
committee. This plan could have been put
into effect without the initiative.
There are several problems with both
plans, but the Senate motion is the only one
of the two that is even remotely possible.
Consider these points:
1) The Athletic Department and the
EMU are budgeted under a contract, and
could not be cut out. These two programs
alone eat up over $435,000 of the incidental
fee budget. This leaves only about seven
dollars per term per student that could be
allocated under the “Winkelman Plan”,
not $18.
2) By state law the State Board of
Higher Education has complete control
over the student incidental fees. The State
Board has, in turn, given most of this
responsibility over to each institution’s
President. This means that, if he chose,
President Clark could make the budget out
himself without any student input. This is,
in effect, what is being done at Portland
State.
Here, Clark has given the ASUO Senate
the right to make the general decisions
affecting students. He in turn rubber
stamps the budget and sends it to the State
Board for final approval. The rules for
these responsibilities are written in the
form of incidental fee guidelines, and the
Incidental Fee Committee Report. That
report reads in part: “This document and
the delegation herein may be withdrawn or
revised at annual intervals by the
President or at the initiative of the ASUO
after consultation between the parties.”
(emphasis mine)
3) In a memo to Cliff Zukin, President
Clark wrote; “Although I find a good deal
of merit in Mr. Winkelman’s referendum,
particularly in trying to assess the
students’ preferences in the expenditure of
their money, I do not believe the suggested
procedure practical and therefore could
not find it acceptable, (emphasis mine)
4) Nobody can estimate how much
implementing the plan would cost. The
counting and figuring would be immense,
a job at least for a computer. Over three
thousand students do not pay full in
cidental fees. These are part time
students, and keeping track of each one,
how much incidental fee each pays, and
where that money goes would require a
very sophisticated program.
5) How many students would stop at
registration and take the time to do an
intelligent job of allocating his or her fees?
The ASUO Senate spends hundreds of
hours reviewing budgets, deciding the
needs, uses, and importance of programs.
Students just do not have enough time to do
all that individually.
It becomes readily apparent that any
change in the allocation system is going to
have to be researched, and researched
well. I hope the proponents of new plans
will do a better job than Mr. Winkelman
has.
Letters
‘Misquoted' law
Just asking, here, for a little equal time.
Your story on the Hilyard St. Market
was no doubt true. The market does have a
good wine selection, and it’s hard .to deny
that Brooke seems like a pretty nice guy. A
very mellow place—good vibes.
But along with his wine, Brooke has,
displayed prominently in his market, a
sign which he says is a state law, which
states that any person of “questionable
age” (21-26 Years) cannot be sold beer or
wine unless he produces an OLCC card.
This sign is about 16 by 13 inches big, and
has the appearance of an official or
dinance. Brooke has consistently (and
always with sympathy and a smile, to let
you know that he’s really on your side)
refused to sell beer and wine to persons
without the card, piously panting to the
law and saying that he believes you, but
you see, the law . . .
There is no such law. Oregon Revised
Statues, 471.130 states
1) All licensees and permittees of the
commission, before selling or serving
alcholic liquor to any person about whom
there is any reasonable doubt of his
having reached 21 years of age, shall
require such person to produce his iden
tification card issued under ORS 471.140.
However, if the person has no iden
tification card, the permittee or licensee
shall require such person to make a
written statement of age and furnish
evidence of his true age and identity.
2) The written statement of age shall be
on a form, furnished or approved by the
commission, including but not limited to
the following information . . .
Such a form is regularly provided to
retailers by the Oregon Liquor Control
Commission. District Sgt. Frank Ransom,
of the commission, told me that he has
provided the Hilyard St. Market with a
supply of these forms.
1 have told Brooke all this. But the “law”
still hangs there, right behind the potato
chips and fritos.
Brooke is entirely within his rights to
refuse to accept any I.D. He’s got a
business to protect. State laws dealing
with selling to minors are severe.
But the point is that he should be honest.
If he doesn’t trust someone’s ID., then he
should damn well tell them so. He
shouldn’t point to a misquoted law.
It is vital that people who must abide by
laws know what the laws are. This sort of
deliberate misrepresentation, that very
possibly has the tacit support of the OLCC,
can only result in an increased contempt
for both the laws themselves and the
agencies which enforce them.
The Hilyard St. Market is a good store.
They’ve got a good “cellar.” The place is
clean and friendly. Brooke goes out of his
way to hire students. But the sign should
come down.
Charles W. Holzhauer
Journalism
Know by the censors
I’d just like to see the Bible Richard
Nixon reads. More than once I’ve won
dered who his censor was there. Now, I
love him, don’t want to see him shot, fool
that I may be, I even forgive the man too,
for his censor obviously didn’t know what
he was doing leaving out whole parts of the
authors’ intending naming of “Christian
values’’ like forgiveness, love for one’s
enemy, charity for all, you can see the list
isn’t at all complete here—complete it
yourself.
Oh well, I guess the ‘Christian’ image
gets him into the hearts and homes of
millions of say, Average Americans who
earn their names well, by voting for him.
Or is it really just more Churchianity? I
mean, the end of ‘benign neglect’ would
bring an end to misery and suffering to
many who are painted as chiselers’ and
‘bums’ disguised as ordinary human
beings in real old-fashioned need of some
charity ... . no way, I guess, alas, it
doesn’t show a profit and further pres
ervation of a system of socio-economics
that sees its victims as the bad guys,
villains while those who perpetuate it and
are at the reins are the good guys, heroes,
all honorable and prideful men.
Right on?
Or like the baby who in his or her ghetto
crib sees its first animal crawling into its
crib.. . Rat On! to BusineSI a$ U$E YOU -
ALL.
Frank Morris