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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1976)
Job training vs education Schools face problem By PETER MEAD Of the Emerald “For most students, the experience of higher schooling cannot be equated with education," said educator and author Stan ley Aronowitz Thursday. He said students will have to find methods more effective than simple protest to turn back the trend toward limiting educa tion to job training. The ASUO and the University sociology department spon sored Aronowitz’s address to about 100 persons in the EMU Forum. Now a visiting professor of literature at the University of California, San Di ego, Aronowitz is on the faculty of Staten Island Community College in New York. After a process of evolution, Aronowitz said, the nations’ colleges are now caught between two “opposing aspirations. Cor porate interests want to use colleges as supply depots for employes, while the labor ing classes want college to be a vehicle for moving up the social ladder. Those aspirations hav co-existed without any major warfare, because schools have taken young and old off an overcrowded labor market. But he feels they may come into conflict in the face of a recession economy, and the fact that nearly half of recent college graduates are working in fields other than those they studied. “Since education in college has almost nothing to do with the output of labor, when the crunch comes, you'll see a realignment of the educational process towards more hierarchy and job training,” he said. ‘‘The raising of entrance requirements and tuition costs, and cutting back budgets is not just the capriciousness of conserva tive politicians,” he continued. “They want to put that money into developing t economy, energy resources and a favora ble balance of trade.” Fighting the loss of funds and the shift toward training won’t be a simple as protest ing, he said. “We haven’t realized that the sixties are over. You cannot deal with the bureaucracies with the absolute no. ” "We are now in a position of both having to be in opposition and of permeating the system,” he stated. In addition to protesting, Aronowitz said some will have to join the system to change it. That includes working in school bureaus and cooperating with bureaucracies on specific proposals. D grade plan (Continued from PageD the student,” he said. "Richt now he is dig ging his own grave. There has been an incredible inflation of the grading system, which is an advantage to the poor student but a disadvantage to the good student.” The University Senate Rules Committee will discuss the correctness of the proposal, including the language, this week. It will then be put to the full senate at their regular meeting Feb. 25. If approved there, the u General Faculty will discuss it March 10. WhistleSTOP— The whistles will be sold at the Women s Referral and Resource Center in the EMU and at the LCC Women s Awareness Center. An information booth will be located in front of the bookstore and merchants in the community will display signs indicating where whistles can be purchased during the campaign. The rape team advises women to take their whistles with them any time they are walking or traveling alone. If a woman is confronted, she should blow her whistle and run down the middle of the street or open a window. They say the important thing is to keep making noise. Women are also advised to respond to a distress call by blowing their whistle. The (Continued from Page 1) rape team cautions against dealing with the situation alone, saying that the whistle will attract attention and help. The use of the whistle as a summons device thwarted a potential sexual assault in Portland two months ago. Neighbors in a Portland community formed an Action Against Rape group fol lowing a number of rapes in their area. Each person purchased a whistle and kept it av ailable for use. Late one evening a man broke into a woman's home and threatened her; she grabbed her whistle and blew it loudly. Within moments, about 15 whistles answered her distress call and the frigh tened assailant fled. / / € tl</ Orawrtg by Jo Ann Fabigren $ 1,215,628.20 Find Out Why and The ASUO will be holding public hearings this Tues day, Wednesday, and Thursday for the purpose of generating student input into how next year’s (1976-1977) Incidental Fee monies should be distri buted. This is YOUR opportunity to voice your opinion and be heard!!! Where It Goes!!!!! The following is a schedule of the public budget hear ings called for by ASUO Budget-Counter Budget pn> cess. The three days of hearings will be divided into different areas of concern which programs fall in to. They will be held in the EMU from 4 to 6 each day and the rooms will be posted. *************** Tuesday Feb. 10: Governing Bodies, Informational, and Service Oriented Oregon Daily Emerald ASUO Executive Student University Affairs Board Incidental Fee Committee Student Bar Association ASUO Legal Services Inter-Fraternity Council Panhellenic ASUO News Bureau Oregana Switchboard Drug Information Center Off-Campus Housing KWAX Women’s Referral and Resource Center Crisis Center Food-Op Wednesday Feb. 11: Academic and Research OSPIRG ESCAPE PACE Forensics Man and the Oregon Coast Survival Center Social Worker’s Interest Group Gerontology Association Graduate Student Council Geology Condon Club Political Science Student Union Music Pre-Health Science Center Health, PE, and Recreation Student Advisory Council Thursday Feb. 12: EMU, Athletics, Minority, and Miscellaneous Erb Memorial Union EMU Board Athletic Department Women’s Intercollegiate Athletics Native American Student Union Black Student Union MEChA Asian American Student Union Chinese Student Association 3-D Self Development Gay Peoples Alliance Alert Foreign Student Organization International Education Center Recreational Folk Dance Repretory Dancers Action Now University Theater
