Morris says knowledge, money
better spent in neighborhoods
Lasers in supermarkets?
Disappearing people?
No, this isn’t a close encounter
of the third kind.
David Morris, neighborhood
self reliance expert, stressed
community development and
self-reliance in his speech pre
sented by SEARCH, the Survival
Center, the Cultural Forum and
the Landscape Architecture De
partment in the EMU Tuesday
night.
By ANNA HOYT
Of the Emerald
“There has been a mis
application of scientific know
ledge,” Morris explained.
He cited examples such as the
transformation of local gas sta
tions to self-service stations, in
states other than Oregon, the ap
plication of lasers for checkout
counters in supermarkets, or
going to a hole in the wall instead
of a neighborhood bank.
“People are disappearing,”
Morris explained. “The com
munities are ‘hermorrhaging’,”
money is going out of the com
munity and into the cities, or a very
few number of corporations.
Morris explained that when buy
ing a foot heater, $20 might seem
like a good investment on the per
sonal level, but people don’t
realize the social investment, the
energy wasted, the money flowing
out of the community.
Morris originated the Institute
for local Self-Reliance, a consul
ting service to communities.
Among other things, the Institute
helps people with solar panels,
urban agriculture, fish-raising and
roof gardens.
“We need to be taught what we
David Morris
can do with modem technology,
and how to use this extraordinary
abundence of knowledge that
we’ve got,” Morris added.
Morris feels people learned a lot
from the energy crisis, such as “a
sense of the finiteness of our re
sources, and a feeling of neigh
borhood power.”
Morris believes in putting
money back into the community,
instead of having it constantly
‘hermorrhage’ into corporations.
“It’s not going to be simple, by
any means, but it can be done,”
Morris concluded.
Part-timers
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significantly less than what a full
facuilty member is paid.
But as Sunderland points out,
full-time teachers do more than
teach. They advise students,
serve on committees influencing
the running of the University and
do research — the well-known
“publish or perish" doctrine.
Mike Thoele is a reporter for the
Eugene Register-Guard who
teaches an interviewing course in
the journalism school. This is the
sixth term Thoele has taught the
course, and he says he considers
himself to be fairly typical of the
part-time faculty members on
campus.
Thoele says teaching has been
an enjoyable experience for him.
While he tries to pass some of his
skills on to the students, he points
out that students often offer him
criticism of his own work that he
might not get otherwise.
Thoele is aware of the differ
ence between what he is paid to
teach the course and what a full
time professor would get, but he is
not too concerned about it.
"I’m aware that it is always
cheaper to hire part-time em
ployees,” says Thoele.
As for his qualifications, Thoele
says the students tend to think
that it is a valuable experience to
have somebody with practical ex
perience teaching them.
This view is shared by faculty
members of the journalism
Oregon Daily Emerald
school, who have been supportive
of Thoele and the other part-time
instructors.
Thoele says he spends eight to
12 hours a week on work for the
class. This is about average for
part-timers.
So while the University is forced
to hire part-time instructors be
cause of its financial situation, the
quality of teaching at the school
might not suffer too much.
As long as enrollment drops
and costs rise, part-time faculty
members will be hired to do work
normally done by full-time instruc
tors. As Sunderland points out, for
the foreseeable future, the
“rent-a-teacher system” will be a
big part of the University.
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