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Vol. 78, No. 158 Eugene, Oregon 97403 Thursday, June 2, 1977 Faculty votes to keep ROTC on campus By SEAN MEYERS Of the Emerald With the calculating execution so often associated with the military, several Uni versity governors staged a successful up heaval of last month’s 86-76 vote by the General Faculty recommending that the University’s affiliation with ROTC be termi nated. The anticipated plethora of faculty, with students in attendance, voted 190-110 in favor of the ROTC program. Among the half-dozen speakers advocat ing ROTC were University Pres. William Boyd, John Sherwood, chairer of the Uni versity Senate, and Richard Noyes, head of the chemistry department. Sporting the svelte tongue that aided in precociously establishing his lofty position, Boyd chanced to quote Thomas Jefferson in the course of his arguments for ROTC. “I would have preferred to stay low on this,” said Boyd, who was urged to take the floor by sociology professor Ben Johnson. “But it seems to me to be an almost deliberate provocation to do this to the public." Boyd emphasized he felt the assembly and the University are an agent of the citi zens of Oregon, and their vote on ROTC should reflect that ideal. “We have to con sider our responsibility to, and our relation ship with, the people of Oregon. It is not a curriculum matter, but a political and sym bolic one.” said Boyd. “We should not vote to abolish the ROTC program, no matter what the military does, and I hardly care about that.” Boyd said the ROTC issue was threaten ing to disrupt the delicate rapport he says the University has been trying to establish with the public. “When there's a love affair going, there are bad nights.” Although time allotted for debate was at least twice that of the May meeting, only half the previous number rose to speak Although these kids are still enjoying themselves, the parents in the Amazon Community Tenants are not. The meeting they ar 5- l • r Pholo by Perry Gaskill ranged with Pres. William Boyd fell through Wednesday night. against ROTC. Ron Rousseve, an educational counsel ing professor, and Andy Thompson of the Counseling Center presented dissertations against the program. Thompson has been rivaling the motion’s originator — Bayard McConnaughey — as the ROTC program’s leading antagonist on campus. McCon naughey maintained his policy of reticence during Assembly debate, twice refusing in vitations to take the floor. Thompson, in a nine minute presenta tion, told the faculty that he hoped that “today’s vote will reflect that of...intellectual courage.” Bower Aly, professor emeritus of the speech department and the lone person to speak out for ROTC at the May meeting, correlated some of his conservative views with those of McConnaughey. “He’s look ing for peace and so am L.but can we be sure that Adolf is the last Hitler?" asked Aly. In other business, a motion to place the University’s minority program under the di rection of Paul Olum, vice president of academic affairs and provost, passed with little opposition. Olum informed the faculty if he was appropriated final authority on minority program controversies, as the amendment he proposed stipulated, he would strongly channel the program’s $200,000 budget towards “educational” ends and would veto most “social, cultural, political and administrative ’ budget prop osals. Olum announced that Exine Bailey, a music professor, had been elected to fill the vacancy on the Faculty Advisory Council (FAC). Another proposal concerning the FAC passed easily, and as a result, an ad hoc committee will be appointed to investigate possible procedures for establishing stag gered terms of membership on the council and to explore the practicality of requiring equal representation from both the profes sional schools and the arts and science departments. Boyd neglects to ACT By LORI PETERSON Of the Emerald A special tour of Amazon married student housing for University Pres. William Boyd, set for Wednesday, was abruptly canceled due to what Amazon Community Tenant (ACT) spokesman Dave Mason termed, "a misunderstanding.” Boyd was scheduled to go on a tour of the complex to observe the grounds and hear tenant grievances. He phoned Mason today and told him they had originally had an agreement that he would tour Amazon, however, he charged Mason with setting up a meeting between himself and Amazon tenants to which he never agreed. • Mason, who coordinated the meeting, said they had originally planned a meeting with Boyd and the tenants following the tour, but canceled it when Boyd called him Monday explaining he did not want to have the moating. Secondly, Boyd told Mason he had been informed the press had also been invited on the tour. Mason said Boyd charged him with being "a liar, and a manipulator.” Boyd said he felt he was acting in good faith. According to Mason, Boyd felt plans had been made behind his back and that he had been deceived. Mason said there was no reason why Boyd should not go public about the Ama zon issue. “There's no reason why he should not answer questions publicly,” stated Mason. “I don’t consider these things to be legitimate reasons for him to avoid tenants of Amazon and their grievances." Mason contended, “It was never our in tention to deceive Pres. Boyd. I never prom ised him anything except that he would be taken around Amazon." But at a University Faculty meeting Wednesday, Boyd told faculty members, “I know the people who are affected by this feel the frustration of no motion." He con tinued, "Let me assure you, the rent will be as low as we can make.” Boyd told faculty members he wanted to wait for the Haskin & Sells report on the matter. Haskin & Sells are independent accoun tants investigating University Housing of fice material, which justifies a proposed $10 rent increase for Amazon, effective July 1. Tenants have gone on strike charging the housing office with “mismanagement” of Amazon. Many tenants have put their May and June rent checks in escrow under ACT management. Eviction action on these people will be delayed until the State Board of Higher Educaton hears the report by the accountants in June. Boyd was not available for comment. Mason hopes ACT may reopen communi cations with Boyd. LCC board saves work-study $15,000 aids 255 students The Lane Community College Board of Education has decided to save some 255 LCC students from unemployment — at least until the end of the term. In a special meeting Sunday, the board unanimously voted to make some $15,000 of the college's contingency funds available to work-study students. The college had announced last week that their work-study funds were ex hausted even though 11 working days were left in the term. The work-study program is a form of federally financed financial aid which re quries students work for college de partments or offices for wages. Under the program the students cannot dis place regular office workers, but must provide additional services for the col lege. The federal government pays 80 per cent of the cost of the program and the college provides 20 per cent. According to LCC administrators, the college ran out of work-study funds early because of its policy of overallocating the money under the assumption that some students will drop out or not work their total allotted hours. However, Lane students were energetic early in May, and hence the budget problems. Board member Larry Perry made the motion to provide money to bail out the work-study students. He said the stu dents “should be given an opportunity to work the hours they had expected to work.” The students had been referred to the financial aid office after the original announcement of the fund shortage. The college cannot use its emergency funds without permission from the board. Lane work-study students lost a total of five working days due to the fund shor tage.
