Photo by Perry Gaskrfi
One of the many displays during the Sun/ival Center's whale festival
captured this youngster's attention. The festival concludes today with
lectures on legislation and mythology regarding whales.
Whale festival ends today
with speakers and films
The Survival Center's whale festival winds up today with a variety
of speakers and films dealing with everything from whales’ role in
mythology to recent legislative attempts to protect declining whale
populations.
Michael Gannon of Oregonians Cooperating to Protect Whales
will speak at 10 a.m. Gannon is an active supporter of Senate Bill 345,
which would prohibit Oregonians from trading with countries that hunt
whales for profit.
At 2 p.m. Bob Schwendinger, author and historian, will present a
lecture and concert of songs, readings and slides entitled “The Lan
guage of the Sea."
The film “After the Whale” will be presented at 3 p.m.
At 4 p.m. Barre Toelken of the University's English department will
discuss "Whales in Mythology." Toelken will examine the role whales
have played in the white man's mythology and contrast it with the
whale mythology of the Northwest Native American.
At 8 p.m. flutist Paul Horn will present a concert and discussion.
Admission is $2.50 for University students and $3.75 for the general
public.
All festival events are in the EMU Ballroom and, with the excep
tion of Horn’s performance, are free. In addition, art work dealing with
whales will be on display from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the rooms across
from the EMU Ballroom.
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as lower tuition compared to
other institutions and Eugene's
living conditions.
But they did point out room for
improvement in the school. Some
of their recommendations in
clude:
• an introductory course into
the philosophy of librarianship.
• fewer students admitted for
a more balanced faculty-student
ratio.
e a stronger emphasis in con
tinued education.
• more permanent faculty and
greater quality of teaching.
• more course content to fulfill
catalog descriptions.
The budgetary issue was
clarified in a statement by
Michael Gaston, president of the
Associated Library Students, that
was prepared by Herman Totten,
dean of the library school. It
states that the addition of
$20,000 to the librarianship
school budget would make it pos
sible to secure an additional fa
culty member, an assistant to
help that faculty member and
funding for travel to attend pro
fessional meetings.
Rent hike audit obtained
Faced with a threatened rent
strike by University Married Stu
dent Housing residents, the Uni
versity announced Wednesday it
would commission an indepen
dent audit as part of a proposed
rent hike.
The University wants to in
crease rents by $10 to $12 a
month at its Amazon and West
moreland housing complexes,
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where rents now range from $60
to $113.50. A hearing on the
proposal will be conducted on
campus May 17.
Ray Hawk, University vice
president for financial affairs, said
he hoped the audit by Haskins
and Sells would be ready for the
May 27 meeting of the Oregon
Board of Higher Education, which
must approve any rent increase.
Motion revises policy
University now accepts 108 hours
transferred from junior colleges
The General Faculty passed a
motion last week that can aid in
defraying time, expense and in
convenience for the college stu
dent.
A revision of the University’s
transfer-of-credit policy will allow
students to transfer a total of 108
credit hours from a junior college
toward a University bac
calaureate degree.
Previously the University only
accepted junior college credit re
ceived in a student’s first 108
hours. For example, if a freshman
received 50 hours of credit at the
University, he or she was then
eligible for just 58 hours of junior
college credit. The faculty motion
changes that.
A student technically can now
go to the University during his
freshman and sophomore year
and work toward higher division
requirements, and then fill out his
lower division requirements at a
junior college — as long as the
student takes 45 of his last 60
hours at the University.
The supervisor of evaluation in
the admissions office, Jo-Anne
Anderson, chanced a rough esti
mate that the revision could affect
up to half the students on cam
pus. “I would say 50 per cent of
the students could take advan
tage of this,” said Anderson. “I’m
not very good at taking percen
tage figures off the top of my
head, but I know it’s a large per
centage."
Anderson added that all trans
ferable credit received at a junior
college, regardless how many
credits the student has already
earned, can be used to fill division
requirements in any field. “ I think
it’s a great idea — it was very dif
ficult to explain to students why it
had to be the first 108 hours,” she
said.
An administrative reason for
the former rule was fear of com
promising the University’s admis
sion standards. The general pre
mise was that after 108 hours the
student should have finished all
the lower-division credit and
should only be concerned with
the upper-division credit available
By SEAN MEYERS
Of the Emerald
at the University. Anderson dis
agrees.
‘‘Sometimes it works just the
opposite. Students go to the Uni
versity for a while and take
upper-division credit and then
take lower-division credit at a
junior college,” said Anderson.
The motion has been approved
by University Pres. William Boyd
and is in effect now. According to
Anderson, she’s received a cou
ple of inquisitive phone calls but
no one has actually taken advan
tage of the offer. “But the word is
getting around,” she said.
To officially transfer credit from
a junior college to the University,
a student must first fill out a peti
tion and present it to the
Academic Requirement Commit
tee. All this takes place in the
registrar’s office.
Ralph Barnhard, chairer of the
Academic Requirements Com
mittee, says he made the motion
in the General Faculty because
of some "crazy" instances where
the old rule prevailed. Barnhard
cited a case where a student
went to the University for four
years and was lacking in just one
lower-division English credit. He
then obtained that credit at a
community college only to find
that it was not acceptable to the
University.
With the revision of the credit
transfer bill, the University of
Oregon joins Oregon State Uni
versity, Eastern Oregon State
College and Portland State Uni
versity as state universities that
accept 108 total junior college
hours. Oregon College of Ed ica
tion and Southern Oregon State
College still accept only the hours
received in the student’s first 108
hours of education.
“When you play the numbers
game and subtract 108 from the
186 hours required to graduate at
the University, you get 78 hours.
Sixty-two of these hours have to
be upper-division credit, which
can’t be obtained at a junior col
lege, so it’s the remaining 16 cre
dits we re dealing with,” said Barn
hard. “It was just a matter of
when the 16 hours came in the
student’s education.”
Barnhard pointed out the major
opposition to the motion was that
it seemed to be “an attempt to di
lute what a baccalaureate at the
University means.” But Barnhard
said all that is required to
graduate at the University is that
the student take 45 of his last 60
hours at the University.
Opposition was weak as the
motion breezed through the Fa
culty Senate 29-2 and carried in
the General Faculty by a voice
count before being approved by
Boyd.
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