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
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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