Minority policy approved
The final of three motions sponsored by the Educa
tional Opportunities Committee (EOC) received
near-unanimous University Senate approval Wed
nesday.
The proposal was presented by Catherine Eaton,
chairer of the EOC, which concluded in April a six
month review of University Pres. William Boyd’s
reorganization of the minority program.
Wednesday's motion called for a definition of the
University’s policy regarding minority and disadvan
taged students. Another EOC motion, calling for
Boyd to appoint a committee to work with the Dean of
the College of Liberal Arts (or his designated rep
resentative) in revamping the minority programs,
passed the General Faculty May 5.
And the third, asking for an investigation into the
"alleged misuse of delegated authority by the Office
of Admissions, Financial Aid, Employment and Hous
ing for Special Students," was transferred to the
Faculty-Student Committee on Grievances at the
same May 5 meeting.
The policy on minority-disadvantaged students
presented Wednesday said in part,' ’’The University
acknowledges the potential contribution of the
cultural/racial/ethnic disadvantaged groups to a
broadened world view and the enrichment of the
University. In fulfilling its responsibility, the University
commits itself to resource allocations supporting di
verse modes of learning which tend to the needs of
minority/disadvantaged students within the context
of the educational mission of the University.”
"In the last two years, there has been an overriding
uneasiness that there is no definitive statement with
regard to the commitment of the University concern
ing minority students," Eaton said in support of the
motion.
In response to comments concerning specific lan
guage of the proposal, English Professor John
Sherwood said "Any of us could rewrite this, but I
recognize this as the undeclared assumptions of the
EOC, and we might as well officially declare them."
George Struble, computer science associate pro
fessor. echoed Sherwood’s support, but asked for
something more in the future.
"We should urge next year’s EOC to bring us a
more specific statement," he said. "This may turn out
not to be terribly helpful in terms of disagreements
because it is so broad."
Myra Willard, director of the University's affirma
tive action center, answered Struble by saying the
preamble to the Unived States Constitution is also
very general, but gets its meaning across regardless.
“We (the EOC) want the University to go on record,
imperfect as the statement may be," she added.
The senate, at least, did go on record, approving
the motion by a vote of 25 in favor, 2 opposed and 2
abstaining.
The senate earlier gave support to a motion by
Sanford Tepfer, biology department head, which
would bring the existing system of course evaluation
in line with the law.
Tepfer said as it is now, with a space provided for
signed open-ended comments by students, the sys
tem is in “direct conflict with state law.”
According to a memo from practicing lawyer Dean
Kauffman, which Tepfer circulated at the meeting,
section 3(f) of Senate Bill 413 provides the following:
"Classroom survey evaluations by students of a fa
culty member’s classroom or laboratory perfor
mance shall be anonymous."
Tepfer explained that since existing faculty legisla
tion dictates the comments must be signed and state
law requires only anonymous comments, one or the
other of the statutes would be violated, no matter how
the course evaluation was done.
The senate gave its unanimous approval to the
motion.
Al Urquhart, a geology associate professor, had
two motions before the senate, but only one was
approved.
His first motion, which would abolish the rank of
associate professor, went down to defeat. Urquhart
said there is no description of any of the professorial
positions and that he wanted to see meaning and
specific duties assigned to the ranks.
Opposition to the move came from Nathaniel
Teich, English composition director. "This could be a
dangerous thing to do without tying it to an accepted
plan for some sort of salary scale, " he told the group.
"I suggest that short of seeing some salary plan
that the faculty accepts, there isn’t much to be gained
by omitting the rank to be more egalitarian."
“It’s dangerous to assume we don’t have a distinc
tion between associate professor and professor,"
added Struble. “The distinctions are fuzzy, yet use
ful."
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Brown write-in vote total rising
By GREG CLARK
Of the Emerald
The dust has settled, but the
number of presidential write-in
votes is still mounting from
Tuesday’s state primary election.
Final tallies were not expected
in some areas until Friday, but
supporters of California Gov.
Jerry Brown were buoyed Wed
nesday by a rising total of write-in
votes.
Final figures Wednesday
showed Idaho Sen. Frank Church
with 41 per cent of the vote. Jimmy
Carter with 32 per cent and Brown
with 27 per cent. Those results,
however, did not include write-in
votes still being hand tabulated in
many counties.
Once those votes are counted,
Brown supporters say they could
finish as high as second in the
state — edging out Carter.
But they won't know for awhile,
according to some county election
officials.
On the Republican side, Pres.
Ford emerged with 52 per cent of
the vote, to Ronald Reagan's 48.
The win gave Ford a comfortable
lead in delegate votes.
Brown finished first in only two
counties — Lane and Benton —
where he visited students at the
University of Oregon and Oregon
State University respectively last
week. His support in University
precincts was heavy, figures
showed.
He finished second in four other
counties: Clackamas. Mult
nomah, Washington and
Josephine, and close thirds in
Marion and Jackson counties.
In Jackson, Brown had
gathered 3,795 votes by
Wednesday, according to elec
tions officials in that county. That
Oregon Daily Emerald
was only 764 behind Carter s
4,559 and 388 behind Church’s
4,183.
Write-in votes could put Brown
in first place there, according to
campaign supporters, although
county officials said final tallies
won’t come "probably until late
Thursday."
In nearby Josephine County,
Brown has 2,245 votes so far, only
154 behind Carter, Church finish
ing with 1.468.
The write-in totals there would
not be known until Friday, a
county spokesperson predicted.
In Eugene, Brown campaign
coordinator John Stewart was
pleased with what has become
Oregon's largest presidential
write-in campaign ever.
He said the campaign was suc
cessful "when someone could
Jerry Brown
come to a state and get that kind of
support where the other candi
dates had been working.’’
Stewart said efforts would have
been more effective "if we could
have had a few more weeks to
work.” The campaign effort was
not bom until May 12 — less than
two weeks before the election.
But while Brown campaign
workers basked in the good show
ing, they were haunted by reports
that a number of voters failed to
write in the office Brown was seek
ing on their ballots. Such votes,
according to state rules, must be
thrown out.
Stewart said the campaign
might challenge such a rule “if it
looks like it might change the de
legate vote. We ll just have to wait
and see how he finishes first."
Church's victory came as 'sur
prise'' to Stewart, who said he
thought "a lot of voters were wav
ering between Church and
Brown."
In Sacramento, Gov. Brown told
the Associated Press that his
better-than-expected showing
was a signal that “the Carter
bandwagon is finding difficulty
going that last extra mile."
“It's very easy to come almost
to the top of the hill and then the
rock begins to roll back. I have a
hunch that that's what’s going to
happen to Mr. Carter," he said.
Brown's showing in Oregon,
coupled with a win in the Nevada
primary, gives him about 20 dele
gates towards the nomination in
July. Carter now has more than
800 of the necessary 1,505 for
nomination.
Brown is favored to win in his
home state of California, which
would up his delegate total to
about 300. That primary will be
held June 8.
Medicine man visits
Leonard Crow Dog, a Sioux medicine man and spiritual leader of the
American Indian Movement (AIM), will discuss his experiences in the
movement today at noon in the EMU Ballroom.
In January of this year, Crow Dog was convicted of assault with a
deadly weapon by an all-white jury in Rapid City, South Dakota. He is
presently free on bail, but faces imprisonment in South Dakota if the
U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear his appeal.
In 1975, Crow Dog was tried for offenses he committed at the
Wounded Knee Siege in 1973. He was charged with interfering with four
armed postal inspectors who entered the occupied site during a truce in
the 71-day occupation. He was convicted and given an 11-year sus
pended sentence.
Also in 1975, Crow Dog was convicted on assault charges. At dawn
on September 5,100 armed FBI agents landed at the Crow Dog home in
helicopters and other vehicles. In the course of the raid, members of his
family were searched and abused by the federal agents, Crow Dog
claims.
As a result of the raid, Crow Dog was sentenced to the maximum
three years in prison and was held on $25,000 bond. He spent four
months in solitary confinement at the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg,
Pennsylvania, before the National Council of Churches heard of his
case and raised his bail.
His speech is sponsored by the Native American Student Union.
Appearing with Crow Dog will be his wife Mary and his father Henry
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