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\j An Independent Aewspaper
Vol. 77, No. 152
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Thursday, May 13,1976
‘Misuse
examined
in inquiry
By GWEN DA RICHARDS
Of the Emerald
The investigation of alleged
misuse of authority by University
officials involved with minority
programs will take another step
fonward today.
The Student-Faculty Commit
tee on Grievances, charged with
conducting the investigation by a
General Faculty decision last
week, meets at 1 p m. in the Law
School to draw up probe
guidelines
The investigation springs from a
six-month University Senate
committee review of the
Academic Opportunities Program
(AOP) and centers on student tes
timony received at a Feb. 24 pub
lic hearing At that hearing, stu
dents accused Bob Campillo, di
rector of admissions and financial
aid for AOP, and Chns Munoz, his
assistant, of unfair and possibly
illegal performance of their duties
Both have been mentioned as
specific targets of the investiga
tion.
Some faculty members have
questioned the appropriateness
of conducting the investigation
through the grievance committee.
The committee itself will try to
clarify its role regarding this inves
tigation at today's meeting
"The grievance committee has
dealt in the past with individual
complaints involving considerably
informal procedures," said
Mildred Carmack, committee
chairer and associate law profes
sor. "The members must discuss
how to adapt this approach to a
general investigation."
Lee Ward, another committee
member, said, "The normal pro
cedure — and this AOP business
is not normal — is that the student
will come to the committee with a
written statement complaining
that he has not been fairly treated.
He looks to the grievance commit
tee to help him."
Several committee members
have said that new procedures
should be developed in order to
conduct the investigation ade
quately. But the question of
whether the committee, which has
handled three or four grievance
cases this year, can switch from
handling individual complaints to
a large-scale investigation does
not trouble some members of the
Educational Opportunities Com
mittee (EOC), the Senate commit
tee which originally proposed the
investigation.
Katherine Eaton. EOC chairer,
is confident the grievance commit
tee structure is broad enough to
cover the investigation.
“When they look at the kinds of
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Photo by Kemie Stemhauer
Behind bars
Oregon baseball fans sometimes view the game from behind the
fence, others sit on top; the price is the same.
CCDC:
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Child care fund raisers to employ
bell-ringing, door-knocking tactics
By BRENDA TABOR
Of the Emerald
Parents of children served by the Child
Care and Development Center (CCDC) will
kick-off a door-to-door fund drive to raise
$14,000 to $17,000 Wednesday.
Students will be asked to pledge the un
used portion of their damage deposit or any
part of it to the CCDC. Funds collected dur
ing the week-long drive will be put on re
serve until the center's steering committee
decides how they will be used. The ASUO
Executive is sponsoring the drive.
Money that is collected during the drive
has been designated for three general
areas. These include increased services to
allow more students with children to use the
center, program development and maintai
nance of the high quality of the program, as
noted on the pledge card.
In addition to the door-to-door evening
drives, tables will be located at various
areas on campus, including the EMU and
library. Pledge cards will be available at the
tables. The evening drives will be con
ducted at the dorms as well as off campus.
Last year, a similar drive started during
dead week netted over S3.000 for the
Emerald and the CCDC. Because that
amount of money was raised during dead
week, with a minimum of organization, "we
figure a drive as intensive as this one
should at least raise $10,000,” says Jim
Davis, ASUO vice-president. He is coor
dinating the effort with Paul Bartell, ASUO
administrative assistant.
The CCDC Steering Board will hold an
organizational meeting with all parents and
interested volunteers Monday, 5 p.m. at the
center. Wanda Venteracci, CCDC director,
says that any students interested in working
on the drive may also call her at the center
The center is also holding a belly dancing
benefit-banquet. Thursday, May 27, 8 p.m.
at the Oasis Restaurant. Tickets will go on
sale next week for the hour-long belly danc
ing show featuring 5 to 10 dancers and a
full-course dinner, aecording to Venturacci.
She says the benefit is an "all out effort.”
The drive will be students' contribution to
the Second Century Fund Drive, says
Davis. But he noted that the ASUO
Executive-sponsored drive is separate
from that being conducted by the Univer
sity. A $10,000 goal for the CCDC has been
set as part of the University s fund drive.
Venturacci says the ASUO fund drive will
help spread sources of funding, as the
CCDC is still relying on students for a major
part of its support. She says the drive is not
“a political move to get students to fund the
center similar to the Incidental Fee Commit
tee (IFC) allocation.'’
“It’s not the Executive's intention to re
duce the IFC allocation to the center, but to
give students an opportunity to help expand
the services so more parents can use
them,” says Davis. He hopes students will
elect to give all of their unused damage
deposit to the center.
Venteracci says the pledge justifies the
request for support because it allows each
student to make an individual decision, un
like a small group of students such as the
IFC making the decision for a larger body.
"We re really lucky to have support from
the IFC this year, but next year, that same
support might not be there,” she says. "Our
goal is to get more support from the Univer
sity Administration, the School of Education
and the Psychology Department because
we service at least 200 students from those
different departments on campus,” the di
rector explained. Many students learn
about children by participating in center ac
tivities as well as using it for field observa
tions. she says.
It's not fair for the IFC to be funding the
center entirely because we re providing
educational services to students,” she ex- '
plained.