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Vol. 79, No. 10 Eugene, Oregon 97403 _ i - Ptioto by Encfi Boekettieide Ohmygoshldon’thaveanumbertwopencil Registration tends to bring out the lightning speed and quickness of many students as they dart from booth to booth Some move so fast even a camera can't capture their cat-like swiftness. About 16,000 students suffered through registration last week in a system almost no one supports as ideal. Boyd addresses continuing student issues By MELODY WARD Of the Emerald University Pres. William Boyd welcomed new students last week with a speech '‘old-timers" could appreciate as well. Boyd said he sees several con sequences of studying at this un iversity: a "high prestige” degree and contact with a distinguished faculty and a “fine group” of graduate teaching fellows who come to the University for quality education. But he recognized a not-so positive consequence as well. "Students find themselves com peting with research for faculty at tention," he remarked. “Yet, the constant tension makes for an en vironment of intellectual richness Straub eulogizes Frazier Gov. Bob Straub eulogized journalist Robert B. Frazier on Sunday as someone who “loved people, who loved life and who would not settle for less than the best life had to offer." Frazier, editorial page editor of the Eugene-Register Guard and 1947-48 editor of the Emerald died Sept. 18 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 56. About 350 people, including journalists from around the state, attended memorial services Sunday at the University for Frazier. The half-hour ceremony included remarks by Straub, Robert Chandler, publisher of the Bend Bulletin, and Charles Duncan of the Journalism School. "He is gone now, but he will always be with those of us who knew and loved and honored him,” said Straub. All throe speakers praised Frazier s accomplishments as a journalist. Chandler called him "Oregon's best known editorialist” and Duncan described Frazier’s writing style as “scrupulously correct and beautifully precise." Frazier was with the Register-Guard for over 30 years. Aid shifts If you’ve been awarded a Work Study allocation, the financial aid office will no longer place you in a job. Find out where to go on Page 6. that is perpetually self-renewing." Boyd warned students to “keep a good skeptical mind" about themselves. He said “some of the most important things that go on happen at a non-attention getting level.” During the speech and at a later press conference, Boyd out lined some of the issues that will no doubt surface during the com ing year. •Title IX: “I don’t think the Uni versity will be in full compliance until July 1978. We ll really have to be working at it to meet the schedule. My goal has been to abolish all (athletic) grants in aid except on the basis of need to put women on an equal footing with male athletes and athletes on an equal footing with the rest of the students. But my guess is that football and basketball will enjoy immunity from any change in prac tice for the immediate future.” •MacArthur Court: “The ques tion of ownership is not one that I can speak to, because I have no voice in that decision. I intend to stay entirely aloof from it because I can’t influence or negotiate it. In terms of actual use, I still don’t understand what the problem Ups n Downs Enrollment at colleges and universities is down, but pre dictably, the cost of education rises every year. To learn more about this sorry state of affairs, see story on Page 6. is .. .I’m waiting to see (ASUO Pres.) Gary Feldman s scheduling proposals.” Boyd added that the only solution to the seating prob lem would probably be a “new pavilion” and mentioned that the city of Eugene is considering building a new sports complex which might house University games. •CSPA: “Nothing will be differ ent in the classroom this year, but a University-wide committee is being established to move toward development of more general University involvement in the shaping of CSPA course offer ings.” •Registration: “That, I am al most too embarrassed to talk about (because when I first came I made so many remarks about the existing system and it’s still here), but I have goals. I still want to de velop a really effective system. It’s not the momentary distress of the Pit so much as the fact that it masks the demand for different classes. I am not optimistic about a change happening this year, but a computer system would greatly increase students’ chances of gaining control over the courses Party Time There was a harvest festival at Skinner’s Butte Park over the weekend, where Adrienne Salinger takes you on a pictoral visit. See Page 16. they get.” Boyd added that it would not be a totally com puterized system, because “we want to retain as much of the human element of choice as pos sible.” Other issues cited by Boyd were the question of whether the University should divest its stock in South Africa-linked corpora tions and the advisability of estab lishing a tavern in the Erb Munici pal Union. “The one that worries me the most is appropriate job recruit ment policies on the campus,” Boyd remarked. “The question of whether South Africa related cor porations should have recruiters on campus is complex because people make it into a moral issue. An educational institution must make all its mistakes on the prin ciple of openness, including openness to things and ideas that are repugnant.” Boyd listed his goals for the year to improve the quality of the undergraduate experience, to im prove relations with student gov ernment, to “make some good appointments,” and to resolve the Librarianship School problem. No Nukes A new breed of protestor is ex amined in the Trojan Decom missioning Alliance on Page 10.
