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I opinion Students on Senate The Task Force on Faculty Governance has made some worthy suggestions In slimming the University bureaucracy next year — except for one. The composition of the Senate will not be improved by reducing the number of students from 18 to two. The faculty presently holds a two-thirds majority. To decrease student input on decisions of University policy to a token two students decreases the representativeness of the Senate, undermines student input into University gover nance and needlessly breaks down the lines of com munication between faculty and student opinion. The suggestions — to empower the Senate to actual ly take action on all non-controversial issues, reduce Assembly meetings to four times a year, return to a col lege of arts and sciences/professional and other schools faculty nominating process, make the Committee on Committees (how’s that for bureaucracy to the second power?) a “creature” of the Senate instead of the Faculty Advisory Council are good moves to strengthen the Senate and reduce the public hearing format of the University Assembly. As the Task Force report points out, faculty atten dance at the University Assembly is usually low, the same people come, and “in the absence of an important issue, there is a tendency to descend to the trivial level in dissecting other issues.” "The Task Force believes that the (University) Assembly would be less reluctant to give more power to the Senate if the faculty held a larger proportion of the What the Task Force fails to point out is that faculty don’t care enough to attend the Senate meetings. The student members attend meetings and because of the poor attendance of the faculty often have been a majority. They do not vote in a block except on Students University Affairs Board issues. They vote their depart ments and conscience. To proportionally reduce the number of students and faculty would have been a decent suggestion. To penalize the student voice for poor faculty attendance is punishing the innocent. Student University Affairs Board Members and ASUO officers have "specifically" been invited to attend the May 18 faculty forum on the proposed governance recommen dations, according to Prof. Sanford Tepfer of the Faculty Advisory Committee and the Task Force. Should the faculty forum concensus still recommend that students be reduced from the Senate, the current SUAB Senate members will not have a chance to vote on the motion, according to the original legislation to place them there. Students should make sure their SUAB represen tatives attend — it’s a crucial meeting to maintain their voice on the Senate. Faculty need to be convinced of stu dent interest in University policy, in case last week’s demonstration didn’t reach them. SUAB members should get to work. This is one instance where the current ASUO administration can work with the faculty to make sure future students have a voice in University government. 1985 standards The State Board of Higher Education voiced strong support Friday for the chancellor's proposal to increase admissions standards for state system schools by 1985. It’s good to hear. Recommendations called for a gradual phase-in of the admissions standards between 1986 and 1990. State Board members should start building a dam to stop the “rising tide of (educational) mediocrity” and implement the Increased standards by 1985. The 1985 date will be waived for students from school districts who could not provide the preparatory classes. For the rest of the college-bound high school students, the increased standards in English, math, science, and social studies will be an asset In making It through freshman year. The prepared freshman will not have to take remedial classes at college costs and will be better prepared to take a college load. Attrition rates for college freshman would decrease. There seems to be little doubt the higher education board will approve the fall 1985 Implementation date. They should not let unresponsive school districts and lazy counselors get the better of them. It's a good move toward encouraging, even forcing, students to prepare for college. 1_ EL SALVADOR NICARAGUA |[ letters Intrinsic Those who support the forc ed compliance of ROTC with affirmative action policies are accused of using this as an underhanded means of obtain ing a different, unrelated end: the banishment of ROTC from our campus. Do people honestly believe, however, that the military’s discrimination against homosexuals has nothing to do with ROTC’s questionable presence here at a liberal arts institution? The U S. military is a machine which functions sole ly by its power of coercion; it teaches its officers to obey without question. They must align themselves with military/poltical policy created within a centralized, hier archical system of power which finds its voice in the Pentagon. What if these policies are wrong? What if they serve only to encourage Central American genocide or wreak global destruction through the use of nuclear weapons? An officer who may come to ques tion these policies cannot ex press his/her views in the public/civilian sector. Rather, such leakage would be viewed as disloyal and unpatriotic. There Is no room in the military for philosophical debate; only for the mindless, technical expertise that col lege students have to offer in an Increasingly dangerous war effort against Russia. Western society's dictum concerning homosexuals — that they are perverted and subhuman — springs from the same source of white-male domination that threatens the peace of our planet and the lives of our children. I challenge people of Insight to affirm this Intrinsic connec tion and take a moral stand. Let ROTC comply to standards of equality, or else Idt them pack up and leave. Sarah Barton Junior, English Lit. Noble military In recent weeks, the ROTC has generated a great deal of controversy and dismay among students. The Universi ty Assembly’s decision to postone Cheyney Ryan’s pro posal, which would have forc ed ROTC to allow gays into the scholarship program, has left many students angry. Well, I think I have a viable solution to this matter which calls for a change in attitude. As citizens of the United States of America, we should all take great pride in our cam pus ROTC. ROTC should stand as a symbol of all the Vietnamese, Koreans, and Central Americans that have been killed as a result of fighting against the Imperial Military Machine of the United States. In the name of ROTC, we should all feel proud of our country's noble military achievements all over the globe, including the annihila tion of Vietnamese villages and the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Had our brave soldiers not been so successful we would probably have ’’commies’’ in the EMU at this moment. It gives me a warm feeling inside to know that ROTC is )ust steps away from class. Perhaps we should com memorate a national holiday on the steps of ROTC in memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We could call it “Nuclear Pride Week” or bet ter yet, “ROTC Awareness Week.” Paul Olum and Steve Wolfgram could be the masters of ceremony. Folks, ROTC is not just another in stitution, but rather a place on campus to preserve our capitalist ideologies and re mind everyone that we are not going to surrender our 7-Elevens, McDonalds, and Chevrolets to a bunch of filthy and agressive Third World guerrillas. Stove Pacheco Baseball people I join a great many people in education and sports fans in congratulating Larry Hansen, Sandy Vaughn and those peo ple who breathed a bit of life back into the only 100 percent U.S.A. American sport — baseball. Historically, sports have been a rich part of our American education heritage. Historically, more and more Universities have gone the route of “pay more and get less” in their sports program. This is a subject that is easy to research either locally or at any geographic area. What does it cost for a "free lunch” at the University level? It is so futile, and so academically irresponsible. Larry Hansen of Don Kirsh’ era stepped forward and of fered to “coach." Sandy Vaughn of Oregon Team sports, the Erb Memorial "Team Sports," responded postively, “if you have enough people to compete.” The result has been a com petitive opportunity for young men of Oregon that has as tounded, pleasurably, the followers of sports in general and baseball in particular. Let us join the baseball peo ple In keeping this great American game at a realistic, educational place in Oregon, and at “Oregon.” Bill Bowerman alumnus, Eugene Oregon doily a . emerald The Oregon Deity fnvnt<! is published Monday through Friday •»<«()! during eram v»ee* and vacations, by the Oregon Daily E met aid Publishing Co at the University ot Oregon Eugene 0« 97403 The Emerald operates independently ol the University with offices on the third floor ot the Erb Memorial Union and is a member of the Associated Press Nears and Editorial Display Advertising end Business Classified Advertising 5*6 5511 6*8 3712 6*6-4343 MS4UI 8*05511 Circulation Editor Managing Editor News Editor Assistant News Editor Editorial Page Editor Photo Editor Sports Editor Associate Sports Editor Entertainment Editor Night Editor Associate Editors Higher Education Departments and Schools Student Government Features Politics Student Services/Community Affairs General Siatt Advertising Manager Classified Advertising Production Manager Controller Marry Esteve John Healy Marian Green Cort Fernald Joan Nyland Bob Baker Mike Riplinger Paul Danger Jonathan Siegle Frank Shaw Sandy Johnstone Frank Shaw Richard Burr Sean Meyers Michele Matassa Aieta Zak Darlene Gore Sally OI|ar Victoria Koch Jean Ownbey
