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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1976)
Letters— Boycott asked As one of the seven people who quit working at the Genesis Juice Company last week, I would like to briefly explain what happened. During the last three months, Genesis Juice, which had always operated as a de facto collective, came under a more and more au tocratic rule by the new owner. The people who quit did so be cause we felt that we could not remain there and maintain the self respect and mutual respect that we had felt as co-workers. I would ask you to support our integrity by not supporting the Genesis Juice Company. dents have said that whenever you deal with a bureaucracy such as we have at the University, trou ble can be expected. My feeling is i that if we accept this trouble, with- j out a word of dissent, it is impossi- | ble to improve out system. \ I have no grand illusion that this letter will help bring the adminstra- j tive shortcomings to light and j solve them. I’m sure we are all aware of the shortcomings. I want to say that it is too bad our ad ministration does not perform it’s function efficiently, and I want to be one of the voices calling for an | overhaul of administrative proce- < dures. The administration is here, in part at least, to help students get through school. I want to tell the adminstration that I will make it through school in spite of them. Roscoe J. Caron Pre-CSPA, junior No help here I entered the University as a graduate student in September of 1975. In my experience at this in stitution, I have been fairly satis fied with my department, classes, professors, and fellow students. However, there is an aspect of this University which leads me to con clude that I cannot, in all good faith, recommend this school to any prospective students: the administrative departments. From within ten minutes of my arrival here, to the present, I have endured the incredible incompe tency of the University administra tion. My greatest armegeddom has been with the Financial Aid Office. After careful examination of my experience with that office, I have satisfied myself that mine was not simply an isolated case of a person unable to fit into the work ings of the office. As near as I have been able to tell, nobody seems fit - to into the mode of the financial aid department It must be emphasized that the Financial Aid Office is not the ex ception among the administrative departments, but rather, the rule. My experience has led me to ex pect trouble and foul-ups whenever I must deal with an ad ministrative department. My philosophy toward the job per formed by the various administra tive departments has evolved to: almost whatever they do is wrong (or at least questionable), but one thing can be said—they are con sistent. I have written today because in discussing these problems with dozens of other students, I have yet to find one person who has not experienced some notable hassle with the administration. I am quite confident that a poll of students would bear this out Some stu Richard Johnson Industrial Relations Center panned I got really mad at the Student Health Center this morning by the way that they handle their pa tients, so, I want to make a few complaints here I am a student here at the Uni versity. I have been suffering from rheumatoid arthritis for quite a number of years. I have been re ceiving all my necessary medical treatment'from the Student Health Center since I came to Oregon. This morning, I needed to have my medicine refilled and so I went back to the health center. But the persons on the reception desk said that I could not see a physi cian or get my medication there because I am not going to summer school. But they also said that if I could get a prescription from a pri vate physician then I could be able to have my medicine refilled at the Student Health Center, if I pay cash for it. So I went to see a physician at the Sacred Heart Hospital and got a prescription from him and went back to the Student Health Center to get my medicine. But this time, the people at the pharmacy gave me the same story that I could not get my pre scription processed because I am not going to summer school. Would you imagine what would happen if this was an emergency case? Of all the time that they have delayed to refuse to treat a patient might be a matter of life and death! I think they need to make some changes in the man ner of how they handle their pa tients. Alexander Lam Student Vt&Lf i um to fiefcer A KteSIOG PERSON itsS ptfsu I i*>Kb UJBKHI06 dor (F tppmtvcw rime tour apiaxe. .DR MS OWKTf* 'I'd txmiN m cm D yaj.son.sut on u omk hand...' ---opinion SEARCH troubled by complacency Summer 76 at the University seems to be a time and opportunity for close and necessary re evaluation of certain student programs and ser vices which serve the student body on a year round basis. SEARCH, the ASUO program of al ternative education, is going through this same re-evaluation and thus far a few moldy and un pleasant insights have come to surface. Having been involved with SEARCH ever since my first term at the University, I have discovered that experimental education as it exists on this campus is like a pleasant oasis in the desert of parching academicity. However, this oasis seems to be in danger of dissolving simply because of its own comfort and lushness. It is time for the cara van of innovative education I educators / educatees to get off their asses and pack up their camels to seek a newer and more refreshing caravanserai of teaching and learning. In reviewing past actions and unoertaxings or the SEARCH program, it is painfully obvious that the program has become almost apathetic and structured in a business-like manner, lulled into security by a popular name and a healthy budget. In reviewing our current involvement in today’s ever-expanding ever-changing consciousness, it is embarassing to note the sparsity of our input into channels which even faintly resemble creativ ity and/or effective evolvement This is not to say that we have been sitting in our office in Suite I, twiddling our thumbs and smoking the finest that the Earth can offer; we have man aged a few projects of which we are happy; one being the opening of the first recognized center in the Northwest for the study and investigation of paranormal, parapsychological phenomena. This Psi Center is currently located within the SEARCH office, itself, with hopes to find its own office space soon. Because such subjects as ESP, astral travel, premonitions and prophetiic communications are coming to light more fre quently and more variably every day, this center retains some reflection of progressive education. SEARCH also was involved with sponsorship and appropriation of funds for the Agate Street Solar House Project, another innovative and necessary undertaking. But a handful of action in no way can be consi dered as validating our existence as a viable prog ram which continues to serve student needs and interests. And all the burden for creativity and effectuality in no way can be placed upon the individuals who staff the SEARCH office nor upon the volunteers who teach courses of an alterna tive nature. An equal responsibility must lay with the 16,000 students who populate this University community on a yearly basis; in order for alterna tive education to continue to progress and actu ally remain effective and creative within today's society, it must become energized with the juice of student involvement, student concern and stu dent participation on a more full level than ever before. SEARCH has the resources and the potential ity to become a new and progressive channel of effective and creative change on all levels of planetary existence. Education is just one small grain of sand when compared to all the other ways of life which exist for our enjoyment and adven ture. We feel that through our resource of innova tive education, we can offer individuals another possibility through which they are able to better understand themselves and their inter-relation with the world that surrounds. It is only through the active involvement of students who are honestly concerned about themselves, their education, their world and the world of their family and friends that such vital service can continue to be efficient; a student service program such as SEARCH lives because of student input. It dies through lack of same. The SEARCH office is operative all through the summer; we would like for each student to offer us suggestions and reflections regarding our role as a progressive student program. We need more instructors from both the University community and the Eugene community using our resources and our opportunities in order to share life-skills and basic survival techniques for improving and respecting the quaity of life that has been given to us. SEARCH is located in Suite I of the EMU; our minds and hearts are open to any suggestions regarding our role as instruments to provide use ful and beneficial education. Michael Connelly SEARCH Center for all Your recent article, BOARD PLANS NEW CENTER, in the June 29th edition contains two er rors: one factual and the other as sumptive The factual error was that, R.G. Kennedy, president of the Oregon AFL-CIO is in favor of locating the proposed Labor Education & Re search Center at the University of Portland. He testified at the State Board of Higher Education meet ing in Portland (which this article purports to explain) that he was in support of the proposal, which as you know advocates the center be located in Eugene. The assumptive error is in the article’s inference that the Eugene location has little, if any, support trom labor organizations, be cause the Eugene site was selected primarily on the basis that the University of Oregon of fers superior supportive services to such a center: law school, jour nalism school, adequate library facilities, to name a few of the components, the various labor or ganizations across the state who agree with the site selection felt no reason to publicly demonstrate their concurrance with the choice. It would be well to bear in mind that the proposed center is de signed to serve ALL of the state s working people, not those from a particular locality. Sincerely, Irvin H. Fletcher, Member Labor Education Advisory Committee To Chancellor
