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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1978)
New honors director plans changes Photo by Grag Gawtowski New Honors College director Alan Kimball SUAB announces ten positions open The positions open in the Stu dent University Affairs Board (SUAB) election May 3 and 4 were announced Thursday by SUAB chairer Cathy Teamen. The positions open include the following: Position #1 — Law, Position #2 — Journalism and Speech, Position #5 — Education and CSPA, Position #6 — Educa tion and CSPA, Position #11 — Art Education, Art History, Fine and Applied Arts, Position #12 — Psychology, Anthropology and Sociology, Position #14 — Positi cal Science, History and Geog raphy, Position #15 — Music, Position #16 — English, Lan guages, Linguistics, Classics, Re ligion, Philosophy, General Arts and Letters, General Humanities, Position #18 — Liberal arts and unclassified. Candidates must file by 5 p.m. Friday, April 21 at the ASUO of fice, Suite 4, EMU. For further in formation, contact the ASUO at 686-3724. Bill opponent to speak Frank Wilkinson, executive director and field representative for the National Committee Against Repressive Legislation, will be in Eugene today to speak out against Senate Bill 1437 and House bill 6869, the successor bill to the controversial Senate Bill One\ Wilkinson, who led the opposition to the defeated Senate Bill One, says the Senate Bill 1437 retains too many dangerous provisions to be acceptable. Wilkinson will speak at 12:30 p.m. in Room 221 of the law school. An evening symposium is scheduled for Harris Hall, 7:30 tonight. school supples h M ,a> CO ca Come to Rm. 108 J on Tues. April 18 i between 8:30 am - 4 pm. for the Main Desk Lost and Found .&■ % Sale & & s»e}/. & K, 'O, Vs ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ By ANN CARPENTER Of the Emerald The Honors College isn’t in for any drastic changes, according to its new director, but he does plan to do some rearranging. “I want to introduce into the core curriculum a lot more emphasis on basic rhetorical skills necessary for survival in the modem world,” Alan Kimball, associate professor of history, declares. He says the ability to “maintain sovereignty over one’s language” is essential as is the ability to critically evaluate issues. Kimball is also considering rais ing math requirements, with a special emphasis on statistical analysis. “I want to make sure that every student in the Honors College gets an opportunity to hone these skills to the maximum level,” he states. Kimball says the honors pro gram is “designed to offer the very best possible education for the most talented students whose personal financial situation would not allow them to get the kind of quality education they need and deserve.’’ He insists a public institution has an obligation to design a chal lenging program for motivated and talented sudents who would otherwise not have that kind of opportunity. The Honors College program, which substitutes for regular un dergraduate requirements, helps develop a “collegial sense of be longing to a college,” according to Kimball. He says the program also gives faculty members a chance to teach smaller classes with a more experimental and interdiscip linarian approach. The new director is pleased with the workings of the organization. “Nowhere else on the West Coast could a student from the state of Oregon have such a good education at a price that is afford able,” Kimball boasts. He is particularly proud of the placement record for Honors Col lege graduates. ‘‘The record of the Honors Col lege in placing its students in qual ity graduate and professional programs is outstanding,” he adds. Kimball denies claims that the Honors College is elitist, explain ing that “an educational system that allows both the wealthy and the non-wealthy to have the very best education is fundamentally anti-elitist.” The director observes that the budget for the program is only 29 percent of what it was 10 years ago. “The Honors College is the kind of vulnerable budgetary unit that gets hit when the University be comes underfunded,” he says. But he expresses hope that in the future “a more resonable” program budget will be allocated. « For every I TOKD you bny, we'll give1 You another at HALF PRICE. Half the music you buy is free. Since TDK D is the most reliable in its economically -priced class, we think that’s quite an offer. TDK s don't jam. They don’t hassle you with distortion and dropouts. TDK D does capture virtually the entire sound spectrum, and gives your music back to you better than many tapes that cost more. At these prices, there’s simply no bet ter tape available. We’re making it easy for you to stock up on TDK D now. We know you’ll never run out of music.
