Committee approves Morse chair aid
Federal matching funds of
$500,000 for the University to
help endow a Wayne Morse
Chair of Law and Politics was ap
proved Monday by the Senate
Appropriations Committee.
The chair is intended to be
used to bring in outstanding indi
viduals on a rotating basis for one
year or less. Appointments would
be made by the University presi
dent.
By E G. WHITE-SWIFT
Of the Emerald
Morse was a U.S. senator from
Oregon for 24 years and a former
University Law School dean.
In 1933, Morse gained
statewide attention for success
fully challenging a proposal for a
single university state system
with headquarters in Corvallis.
Morse's action ultimately forced
the resignation of the chairer of
the State Board of Higher Educa
tion and the chancellor.
Efforts to establish the Morse
Chair began in the fall of 1973,
with the idea that Morse would
$500,000 would help fund posts
for outstanding visiting professors
serve as the first to fill the profes
sorship. However, Morse died
July 22, 1974 while campaigning
against Sen. Bob Packwood in an
effort to return to the Senate.
The “university professor"
concept means the person sitting
in the Morse Chair could have
academic assignments crossing
department or professional
school lines.
A fund was established through
the University’s Development
Fund office to coordinate con
tributions for the Chair. Though
the fund's goal is $1 million, the
University has agreed to estab
lish the professorship when gifts
total at least $250,000.
The Senate committee ap
proved an amendment to a Labor
and Health, Education and Wel
fare appropriations bill to match
privately raised funds up to
$500,000. However, the funding
could be cut either when the full
Senate considers the appropria
tions bill or when the final Senate
version goes to conference with
the House of Representatives.
The House-passed version of
the appropriations bill does not
include the Morse Chair funds,
according to Sen. Mark Hatfield,
D-Ore., who sponsored the
amendment.
Language authorizing the one
time federal share was included
last year in a major education bill.
The senate panel approved
language in its report noting:
“Senator Morse was the leading
force in the drafting of the original
Elementary-Secondary Educa
tion Act, as well as much of other
education legislation now in exis
tence."
Morse’s feelings on the impor
tance of higher education were
the subject of his November,
1971 keynote speech to a na
tional educational conference in
Smoke Gets in Your Lungs *
(Sung to the tune of "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes ”)
They asked me how I knew
my sky should be blue.
I, of course, replied:
“Something there outside
cannot be denied."
They said, “Someday you’ll find
you won't really mind
when the summer comes
and smoke gets in your lungs."
So I wheezed a few more times
then raised my eyes aloft
and wished the smoke would go away
so I could jog without my cough.
They said, You shouldn t care
if you can't breathe the air
You just choke and say,
"who needs to see the sun?
when smoke gets in your lungs.”
cPaul Halpem 1977
'The copyright notice was inadvertently
left off Paul Halpem s song, “Smoke Gets
In Your Lungs, " which appeared with a
story about fieldburning in Monday's
Emerald. The song is reprinted here.
Denver.
“If the average American is to
perform the duties of citizen
statemanship essential to per
petuating our constitutional sys
tem of self government,” Morse
said in his address, "we must see
to it that the doors of American
colleges are never closed to the
average student.”
In addition to working for in
creased educational oppor
tunities, the ‘Tiger of the Senate”
was an outspoken critic of Ameri
can Foreign policy. In 1964,
Morse and Sen. Ernest Gruening,
D-Alaska, were the only senators
to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution that led to widescale
American military involvement in
Vietnam.
In 1960, Morse entered the
presidential race, losing to Hubert
Humphrey in the District of Col
umbia primary and to Jack Ken
nedy in the Maryland and Oregon
primaries.
Reagan featured
at GOP dinner
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tured guest at a dinner and pri
vate reception Sunday at the
Rodeway Inn, sponsored by the
Lane County Republican Central
Committee. Tickets for the din
ner, which begins at 7 p.m., are
$25. Tickets to a private reception
beginning at 6 p.m. are $250. For
more information, call 484-1872.
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