Switch to semester system prompts student survey
By TOM WOLFE
Of the Emerald
SALEM — The Student University Af
fairs Board (SUAB) moved 10 to 1 to
sponsor a statistical survey of University
students to test their reaction to switch
ing to a two-semester calendar system
when it met Wednesday afternoon.
Speaking for the proposal, SUAB
Chairer Andrea Gellatly said evidence
collected from the survey could be used
later even if University Pres. William
Boyd didn’t wish to switch to semesters
now.
The General Faculty voted 65-63 at its
last meeting to recommend that Boyd
make the change at the earliest conve
nient time. Several SUAB members
suggested the closeness of the faculty
vote would probably mean that Boyd
would not go ahead with the proposal.
“We have no assurance that Boyd
won’t go ahead with the semester plan,”
said Gellatly. “This may be our last
chance to have some student input in
the matter." Gellatly said she believes
students oppose semesters and noted
that if students don’t speak now, a deci
sion to change to semesters could be
made in their absence during the Sum
mer.
“Even if that doesn’t happen it would
be nice to have some hard data saying
this is the way students feel,” said Gel
latly. “We already have money for the
survey alloted in our budget under spe
cial projects. That shouldn't be a factor in
the decision,” she added.
Cost of the survey was estimated at
$200.
Kim Defenderfer, representing busi
ness administration, opposed holding
the survey, saying no one knew whether
Boyd would recommend a change to
semesters considering the dose faculty
vote. "Until we find that out I don't think
we should spend the money,” he said.
Nominations for next year's SUAB
chairer were also made at the meeting,
though the final vote on them was de
layed until next Wednesday. Represen
tatives Cathy Teamen, psychology,
Dino Cooper, education and library, and
Jeannette Bunch, history and political
science, were nominated.
SUAB chairer receives a $95 monthly
stipend and is responsible for calling and
organizing meetings, presenting and
monitoring the SUAB budget and assist
ing new members. The chairer also must
hold 10 office hours per week in the
SUAB office, EMU Suite 4.
The rest of the meeting was devoted
to informing new members about stu
dent issues now before the SUAB and
General Faculty. Five of the seven newly
elected members attended.
Senate votes unit pricing
SALEM — The Senate voted
25-4 Thursday to accept a bill
which would call for mandatory
unit pricing in Oregon grocery
stores.
The bill, HB-2242, requires
grocery stores grossing $1.5 mill
ion or more annually and stores
affiliated with a food store chain to
mark the price per unit of weight or
measurement on or near the pro
duct.
Passed by the House in a 36-23
vote last month, the bill will be
come effective March 1, 1978 if
signed by the Governor.
Gov. Straub has already indi
cated he will sign the bill. Oregon
will become the 11th state to
adopt a unit pricing law when he
signs the bill.
Sen. Mary Roberts, D-Port!and,
told the Senators that the bill
EM U Cultural Forum presents
The Annual
Undergraduate Art
Show
May 16, 17, 18
12-4 pm 167 EMU
The Following Guidelines Should Be Followed
When Submitting A Work:
1. Each artist may submit a total of
two works. They may be drawings, photo
graphs, paintings or self-standing sculp
ture. All pieces must be properly mounted,
and 2-dimensional works no larger than 4’ x
4’.
2. Each entry must have an entry card
and jury card filled out; the entry card must
be returned to the Forum by May 13 (Fri
day). Jury cards should be attached to the
works. Cards are available in Suite 2, EMU.
3. Pieces must be brought to Room
167 EMU between 12 & 1 pm Sunday, May
15- The works will be juried and rejected
works should be picked up between 5 & 6
pm Sunday.
4. The pieces may be picked up after
the show on Thursday morning, May 19,
between 10 & 12 p.m.
would save consumers about $30
million over a five-year period.
“The true cost of food is what
we re talking about," she said.
“We re trying to help the con
sumer make a wise choice,”
Sen. Walt Brown, D-Lake Os
wego, also supported the bill on
the Senate floor. "Grocers now
accept a large amount of goods in
odd weights,” he said. “That
makes it difficult for the consumer
to know what he's paying per
pound.”
In other action, the Senate pas
sed a bill which would ban the use
of plastic rings to hold metal be
verage containers together. The
bill, HB-2539, is geared toward
preventing litter. Plastic rings are
now commonly used to hold six
packs of beer and soft drinks con
tainers together.
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cause rt might come to a different
conclusion on a newly proposed
two-part evaluation form.
As proposed in the House Edu
cation Committee’s amendments
to HB-2702, the two-part evalua
tion form calls for one portion to be
released to students and one por
tion to be placed in faculty mem
bers’private files. It was proposed
in response to faculty members’
objections to releasing material in
their private files.
‘This (the two-part form) is a
totally new proposal,” said
Nelson. "It is not clear to me
how the Board would respond if
this proposal were put before it.”
But Bernau contended the
Board will still refuse to release
the evaluation because the two
part evaluation form would still be
considered a “personal record,”
since it is a measure of employ
ment performance.
Frohnmayer commented in an
interview that he wasn’t sure if the
two-pan torm wuuiu ue ouiu>i
dered a ‘‘personal record." He
added that the Board’s right to
order institution presidents to re
lease student evaluations is an
unresolved legal question.
‘‘The statute says that the deci
sion should be left to the execu
tive,” says Frohnmeyer. “But that
conflicts with the theory of the
Board’s powers sincethey employ
the executives. Theoretically, the
Board could order the presidents
to make the determination to re
lease the evaluations.”
Aside from legal questions,
Thursday’s hearing saw much
disagreement over the cost of the
program and whether the release
of evaluations would erode teach
ing quality.
C. W. Dane, head of the Oregon
State Business School, said he
feared the release of the evalua
tions would result in teachers
going easier on students, espe
cially in grading, in order to win
good evaluations.
dui uicK rennei, a university
CSPA professor, cited an article in
the Journal or Higher Education
that said no relationship exists be
tween grades students receive
and the evaluations they give their
teachers.
On the cost issue, Garrett said
that the program would cost no
thing, if the two-part questionnaire
was put on one computer form.
However, Dave Nicodemis,
Oregon State Dean of Faculty,
said that hiring at least two per
sons to supervise the evaluations
program could cost $60,000.
“I ask my son who is a student if
he’d rather see that money spent
on faculty evaluations or more lib
rary services," said Nicodemis.
“He said, library books. "
At this point the Committee
seems undecided on the bill. They
will probably schedule a work
session on it sometime this
month.
State estimates
child care cost
at $800 million
SALEM (AP) — It would cost $800 million a year to provide state
subsidized day care to all Oregon children under 12, State Children's
Services Division officials said Thursday.
The prediction came during testimony before a ways and means
subcommittee on SB928 and SJR48, which would give all parents the
right to day care, even if the state has to pay for it.
Rocky King, manager of day care programs for the children's
services division, said the estimate was based on 427,000 children
under 12 years old.
Assuming an average yearly day care cost of $1,900 a child, he
said, it would cost $80 million a year even if 10 per cent of the children
were placed in state-subsidized day care.
The division’s proposed 1977-79 budget calls for spending of $8
million a year on day care. The state gives day care subsidies only in
cases where a single parent is in a low-paying job or in a job-training
educational program.
“All day care is paid for by the public,” said J.N. Peet, administrator
of the children’s services division. "Those who can afford it are paying
for those who can’t. We might as well have it for all children since the
money comes from the same source.”
Kay Sohl and Phillipa Harrison of the Oregon Council for Women’s
Equality said they were not proposing governmental day care.
The $800 million estimate was too high, they said, because parents
who could afford to pay part of their day care costs would be required to
do so.
Another bill heard by the sub-committee, HB2459, would approp
riate $3.6 million to fund day care for low-income students.
Led by legislators from Eugene and members of the Oregon Stu
dent Lobby, the bill’s supporters said day care costs deprive single or
married students with children the chance to go to school and increase
their job skill.
campus hearing Tuesday
The Joint Ways and Means Education sub-committee will hold a
hearing at the University Tuesday on tuition, financial aid to middle
income students, the funding of minor sports, faculty salary adjustments
and other higher education related issues. Sponsored by the ASUO, the
hearing will be held from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at a room to be announced
in the EMU.