Oregon daily emerald., November 13, 1973, Image 1

Photo by James Link
Fifteen members of Vietnam Veterans Against tbe War (WAW) gathered around the memorial cross at Skinner’s Butte Monday in
observance of veteran’s day. Speeches were followed by the burning of discharge papers and the playing of taps.
VVAW
honors
veterans
By GEORGE CURL
Of the Emerald
A cold damp Monday morning
greeted members of the Vietnam
Veterans Against the War
(VVAW) as they gathered on the
downtown mall to prepare for
Veterans Day observances.
Veterans Day was com
memorated in Oregon on Mon
day, even though the national
observances were held nearly
three weeks ago on Oct. 22.
No flags or marching bands
were present when the 15
veterans began their twenty
minute march to the cross which
serves as a war memorial on the
crest of Skinner’s Butte.
Pete Peterson, a VVAW
member, began the services in
front of the memorial by ex
plaining the reason for the ob
servance, “We have come to
remember all who have
sacrificed, not just veterans, but
civilians as well, from all the
countries who were part of the
conflict ir. Vietnam.” Before the
march Peterson had said the
ceremony was an alternative for
those who did not feel it was so
honorable to be a veteran of the
Vietnam War.
Speaking next, Cris Strum, the
local head of the VVAW, called
for “unconditional amnesty” for
all who opposed the war.
“It is time for reconciliation, to
let an entire generation know this
country can still display
humanitarian concerns,” Strum
said. “We believe,” he said, “a
majority of the people in Oregon
favor amnesty, though we don’t
have scientific studies to back
that up.”
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Plan will control tenure
By TOM SOW A
Of the Emerald
Numerical index, steady-state
model, departmental con
tingency plan ; these are some of
the terms that now are lodged
permanently in the vocabulary of
the University. They are the
working terms of what the Office
of the Vice President for
Academic Affairs calls the
Faculty Staffing Plan.
In brief, the plan has been
developed, at the request of the
State Board of Higher Education,
as a response to the expected
decline in student enrollment
during the next 15 years. It hopes
to insure a balanced distribution
of tenured faculty at a time when
tenure appointments are already
at a level that can impede the
influx of new faculty.
If enrollment does decline,
whether from general drop of
over-all population or from in
creased community college
enrollment, the University will
face serious budget reductions.
President Clark, who sees the
plan as the best way to “protect
the vitality of the faculty in terms
of age and experience,”
remarked “it would be a gamble
on the University’s part to
believe that enrollment will not
decline.” He told the Emerald
last week that the plan would also
provide the continuity of ap
pointment for those faculty
already on “tenure-track.”
Because of the commitments
already made to faculty, the
Faculty Staffing Plan projects an
increase of the present numerical
index, of 65 percent, to an
estimated maximum of 74 per
cent in 1978. The numerical index
is “the percentage of the head
count of all tenured staff of the
University to that of the total
State budgeted full-time
equivalent staff.”
To explain this, professors
engaged in full-time instruction
are rated one FTE. Graduate and
research assistants, lecturers,
part-time instructors are rated
less than one. And not all tenured
faculty are rated one FTE
because of non-instructional
assignments, such as depart
mental or administrative work.
According to figures compiled in
May of this year, the total
number of tenured faculty is 516.
The total budgeted FTE is
computed to be 820.19. This
roughly works out to a 63 percent
index of tenured faculty to total
FTE.
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IFC conflict ends
By MARIANNE RINALDO
Of the Emerald
The recent controversy between the ASUO executive and
the Incidental Fee Committee (IFC) has come to an end with
the ASUO Constitution Committee releasing a report dealing
with the duties and powers of the IFC.
The Constitution Committee, composed of five
University students, four of whom are from the law school,
ruled that:
— The IFC should operate continuously;
— Once the IFC has determined the incidental fee
budget, it no longer has control over the money allocated;
— The IFC may establish Reserve Accounts;
— The IFC may maintain a contingency fund for sup
plemental allocations.
In addition, the committee ruled that, “since there was
no election held for the IFC spring term 1973, the committee
directs that the ASUO vice-president call and hold an election
fall term 1973 for new IFC members.”
The final paragraph of the report states that the
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