Bill lowering majority age
faces vote in House today
SALEM (Special) — The House
will vote today on a bill (HB 3167)
which grants 16-year-olds all
legal adult rights except the right
to drink. The bill sets Oregon’s
drinking age at 19.
The House rejected a motion
Thursday which would have
substituted 18 for the 19-year-dd
drinking age in the bill:
Rep. Stephen Kafoury, (D
Portland), chairer of the Joint
Alcohol and Drugs Committee
which considered HB 3167, made
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Classics department
cut to two faculty
The Classics staff, already reduced by the mandatory
retirement of Frederick Combellack, Professor Emeritus of
Greek Literature, has been denied funds to replace an
assistant professor position being vacated this year, C.
Bennett Pascal, program head, said yesterday.
This leaves only two instructors, Pascal and John
Reavis, a doctoral candidate at Stanford, for next year’s
Classics program.
Pascal said they will have to take on 11-14 hours of
teaching apiece and give more autonomy to the graduate
teaching fellows.
Though he couldn’t say whether the staff reduction is
permanent or not, Pascal said it looks like Classics is
“becoming an endangered species.”
He added that the student participation in the program
isn’t immense, “so we can’t yell loudly ... I can sympathize
with the Dean’s office on this.”
Though enrollment in the program’s Arts and Letters
courses is good, there is about an 80 per cent “mortality
rate” in the first-year Latin and Greek classes, Pascal said.
He said that funding decisions are often based on the
quantity of students involved in a particular program.
“Our students have been few, but they’ve performed well
at the University, and they’ve got good jobs outside the
University,” Pascal said.
Pascal said that with the reduction, be will be the only
Ph.D. in Classics left in the employ of the State System of
Higher Education.
the motion to substitute “a
minority report” for the bill
passed by his committee.
Kafoury said it is not “logically
consistent” to grant 18-year-olds
all adult rights except the right to
drink. “Drinking should go along
with adulthood,” Kafoury noted.
He said everyone knows that
18-year-olds now drink, pointing
out, “it has been found that the
rate of drinking does not vary
with legality or illegality.”
The young representative
observed that the present
situation causes “the very
serious problem of disrespect for
the law.”
The debate on Kafoury’s
motion was sluggish during the
morning session, with few
legislators speaking for or
against the minority report.
Rep. Howard Cherry (D
Portland), a doctor, said that it is
important to note setting the
drinking age at 19 will prohibit
persons from legally drinking
until they have graduated from
high school.
Rep. Paul Walden (R-Hood
River) said that traffic officials
in his district have expressed
concern about young persons in
Washington traveling to Oregon
to drink if Oregon lowers its
drinking age below the 19 year
age recently set in Washington.
He said it is important to keep the
drinking ages the same in each
state to avoid traffic problems.
Groener (D-Oregon City)
supported Kafoury’s motion
during the sleepy session.
The House voted 20-6 against
the proposal.
Women’s committee asks
for full-time studies director
The Ad Hoc Committee on
Women’s Education recently
appointed by President Clark
delivered a letter to Clark
Thursday in which the committee
requested “immediate
authorization to search for and
employ a full-time Director of
Women’s Studies at the
University of Oregon, an
academic appointment to begin
fall quarter, 1973.”
The Ad Hoc Committee was
appointzd by Clark April 12 in
response to demands presented
him by the Women’s Studies
Steering Committee in a position
paper the Steering Committee
wrote during fall term. The
Steering Committee was formed
from a group of about 100 women
who met in November. The
Steering Committee met with
Clark in February to discuss the
requirements for beginning a
Women’s Studies program. Clark
then appointed the Ad Hoc
Committee, which is composed of
equal numbers of faculty, staff,
students, and interested com
munity persons.
Clark charged the Ad Hoc
Committee to analyze women’s
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educational needs. The com
mittee’s letter to Clark, “in
response to” that charge, “has
determined that an urgent need
exists on this campus for a
Director of Women’s Studies.”
The person holding this position
would “co-ordinate the currently
offered women’s studies cour
ses...develop an Introduction to
Women’s Studies course, which
would be offered beginning fall
term 1973 through the In
terdisciplinary Studies Com
mittee, team-taught by women
instructors from several
departments,” according to the
letter the Ad Hoc Committee sent
Clark.
In addition, the proposed
Director of Women’s Studies
would ‘‘provide liaison among
university departments to
facilitate the initiation of new
courses in women’s studies,” and
“collect information on all
current courses and publish a
booklet publicizing them.”
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The Native American Student Union will hold elections
for officers today, Monday and Tuesday. The polls will be
located in the Native American Student Union office in the
EMU. Information on candidates will be available on the
ballots.
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