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.
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EL SALVADOR
NICARAGUA
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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
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