2nd Degree editor discusses graduate isolation
“Graduate students tend to
become very isolated in what
they’re doing,” said Charlie Itzin,
newly elected editor for Second
Degree, a campus newspaper for
graduate students. This was one
of two problems Itzin pinpointed
as the reason for the newspaper’s
earlier difficulty in reaching the
nearly 3,000 graduate students at
the University.
The other problem Itzin spoke
of was that Second Degree is a
new paper and that not enough
graduate students were aware of
its existence. According to a
January telephone survey,
however, Itzin said that close to
funding for graduate students
and other information that would
spark graduate students’ interest
could hHp to break up their
isolation from important events
and data focused directly at
them.
Itzin, who was editor of a
literary journal at the University
of Texas and of “counter
culture" newspapers, said that
he has learned a lot about putting
a newspaper together and that
several graduate students have
helped him through their interest
in writing stories for the
newspaper.
The newspaper is funded by the
Graduate Student Council, ac
cording to Itzin, and carries a
cost of $170 for each issue
60 per cent of the graduate
students were familiar with the
paper and expected it on a
regular basis.
Second Degree was created in
the fall of 1972 by the Graduate
Student Council and Marc Lif
sher, who was editor of the
newspaper up until Itzin's recent
election to the position. The
newspaper, however, evolved
from a newsletter which Lifsher
also created.
“Information directly per
taining to graduate students is
the newspaper’s key factor,” said
Itzin. He continued by saying that
information such as federal
published. The work done by
graduate students for the paper is
voluntary.
Itzin said he would like to make
the Graduate Student Council
more of an active voice for the
graduate students. Consequently
he feels that the GSC’s funds for
Second Degree will allow the
newspaper to grow and serve as a
“unifying force among graduate
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override the veto.)
Wyatt sees electing a new
president earlier than was ex
pected as an advantage for the
new president. Having a say in
the 1973-74 incidental fees budget
and having time to appoint
executive staff before spring a
term is over will definitely be a *
Publicity needed for forests
Speakers at a conference in
Portland, March 20, who took a
close look at the concern of the
public in the management of
forest land, both public and
private, were in agreement on
the need for better means of
communication.
The conference, “Public
Relations in an Era of Public
Involvement; Challenge for the
Timber Industry,” was held by
the Forest Industries
Management Center of the
University of Oregon College of
Business Administration and the
Division of Continuing
Education
In a period when the public is
evidencing a strong and vocal
concern for the quality of life, it
follows that the public also wants
to be a part of the decision
making that affects the quality of
life.
This broad public concern
about environmental quality and
dissatisfaction with the kind of
land-use ethic in this country
have had a strong impact on the
Forest Service, declared
Theodore A. Schlapfer, Regional
Forester for the Pacific Nor
thwest.
“Management programs must
reflect public wishes,” he stated.
“For too many years now we
have concerned ourselves with
the professional posture of land
management without two-way
external communication.”
The message that the “people
want a voice in the way their
forests are managed” has broken
through to foresters, he said, who
think “that the public has every
right to be concerned with how
public lands are managed.”
Schlapfer added that he feels
that “private landowners are
now just enjoying a grace
period.”
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was considered by the State
Board of Higher Education on
March 27.
. The proposal stated that rental
rates for married student housing
at each institution shall be
established for each fiscal year
by the institutional executive,
with the approval of the Chan
cellor and report to the Board.
Students needed to help
gardening senior citizens
A chance to “cultivate a friendship and some vegetables at the
same time” is being offered to students through the Celeste Campbell
Senior Community Center in Eugene.
According to Wally Wall berg, a CSPA student who is doing his
field study at the center, many senior citizens have gardens but are
unable to handle all of the gardening tasks. They would like to meet
students who would help them.
“A lot of students who live in apartments would like to have a
garden but don’t have any room,” said Wallberg. “This is a chance for
them to have a garden and help other people.”
The Celeste Campbell Senior Community Center is operated by
the Eugene Parks and Recreation Department and is a social and
recreational center for people over 55, said Wallberg.
He said that many of the people who participate in activities at the
center have backyard gardens and orchards.
“You hear a lot of talk around here between people who can’t till
their gardens yet would like to have fresh vegetables,” Wallberg said.
Students interested in helping a senior citizen with g&i*dening can
talk to Wallberg or Bob Eaton at 687-5318, who will help match up the
people interested. Details concerning the individual gardening
projects will then be worked out between the people concerned.
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The proposal also stated that the
rental rates will be established
after a public hearing at the
institution.
ACT is investigating the
proposal to determine whether or
not there would be hearings
pursuant to the Administrative
Procedures Act at each in
stitution before the decision
about rental rates.
boon to the new president, he
said.
Through all of the discussion
about recall this week, Wyatt
said he has discovered that the
recall portion of the new ASUO
Constitution is “meaningless,”
when applied to the presidential
and vice presidential positions.
The constitution provides for no
method for electing a new
president and vice president, if a
current president and vice
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president and vice president are
charged with the responsibility of
administering elections, there
would be no one left to set up new
elections, Wyatt said.
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