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.