Most carried forward
Council okays budget
The Eugene City Council unanimously ap
proved a supplemental budget for $1.9 million,
including $668,810 in federal revenue sharing funds
during its Monday night meeting.
Most of the money, about $1.2 million, will be
carried forward to the 1973-74 city budget. The
council okayed $752,696 to be spent during the
present fiscal year.
The supplemental budget is composed of $1.8
million in revenue sharing money, a $50,000 federal
planning grant and an estimated $75,000 from the
new airport boarding in effect at Mahlon Sweet
Airport.
Howard Bon nett, a member of the city planning
commission, suggested that some of the sup
plemental budget money should be appropriated for
parks, bicycle paths and mass transit planning,
instead of conventional city services.
Councilman Neil Murray agreed with Bon nett,
saying funds should be channeled into projects
“that have some visibility and staying power.”
In other action the council approved a 10-cent
increase in the basic taxi fare. One citizen, Aviva
Sainz, protested the increase and told of an incident
in which when she did not have exact fare for a taxi
ride the driver called the police after she refused to
pay for the ride to a store to where she could get
change.
The council agreed to schedule a later meeting
to hear complaints against local taxi service.
The council also approved a motion to drop the
city’s Christmas tree recycling program.
Program aims at students
deficient in basic skills
By PETER SHEPHERD
Of the Emerald
“If you give us an inch, we’ll be
in position to show you it’s worth
going a mile,” Herb Cawthorne,
Director of the Study Skills
Program for Minority Students
told a meeting of University
department representatives.
Cawthorne and his staff
described the program and how
the departments could help in a
luncheon meeting held Tuesday
at the Faculty Club.
Cawthorne, a Black, said the
study Skills Program for
Minority Students consists of
three divisions: the Ad
ministrative division, which
handles the budget and per
* sonnel; the Tutorial division, and
the Instructional division.
Cawthorne first commented on
the Instructional division. “We
offer a variety of courses to
minority students. Minorities
have to work particularly hard to
get an adequate education
because their high school
background often is not strong,”
said Cawthorne.
“We had an English depart
ment faculty member sit in on
one of our classes and the reviews
we got were as good as those of
Sanford and Son,” joked
Cawthome.
Though most people taking
classes in the program are
minorities, Cawthome said they
were open to everyone. “Last
term about 16 per cent of the
students were regular University
students, and I expect that to rise
this term.”
“Our instructional division can
help students who may be
deficient in the basic skills
needed to do the mechanics of the
work, but who are not by any
means deficient in intelligence or
insight,” said Cawthome.
Cawthome said the staff of the
program was concerned with
motivating students to “ap
preciate what is available at this
University. We could tell them
that the institution isn’t going to
be sensitive to minorities, which
in some cases is true, or that it
wasn’t designed for minorities,
which is also true sometimes; but
that doesn’t help much. They
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have to seek out the things in the
institution that would be of value
to them,” said Cawthorne.
Mike McCabe, Director of the
Tutorial Division, said depart
ments in the university could
assist in the evaluation of tutors.
“We do evaluate the ef
fectiveness of our tutors now, but
it would help improve the
reliability of the evaluations if
the individual departments could
also make an assessment,’’
McCabe said.
Carol Chislett, a tutorial
supervisor for the program,
pointed out another advantage of
close cooperation with depart
ments. “People who have a
major in a field are generally
more enthusiastic about the
subject area and I think that
enthusiasm transfers itself to the
student and makes the tutor more
effective,” said Chislett.
Presently, ten departments
have people who can be called on
by the program to locate tutors.
Students who would like a tutor or
who would like to tutor should
call the Study Skills Program for
Minority Students at 3232.
All three speakers pointed out
however, that the Study Skills
Program for Minority Students
was not a place to turn for some
easy credits. Chislett noted that
members of the program staff
were “really interested in
helping the students help
themselves. This isn’t a Mickey
Mouse thing where you just slide
through and collect your
credits.”
“The student is expected to
take the responsibility to meet
with his tutor regularly, and work
to retain him because there is
such a high demand for tutors,”
McCabe said.
Four proposals before
Faculty Senate today
Four major proposals will be discussed today at a Faculty
Senate meeting at 3:30 p.m. in 101 EMU.
The proposals are:
— That the deadline for changing grade options be rh«ngt>H
from six weeks to three weeks after the beginning of the term;
presented by Jack Sanders (Religion).
— That a new system of inter-institutional transfer of credit
be adopted, Richard Ingraham (CSPA).
— That ranking hierarchy for professors be abolished, Alvin
Urquhart (Geography); and
— The Curriculum Committee’s presentation of all new
courses proposed for next year. Chairer Roland Ball (English)
will make that report.
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