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VOL. 71, NO. 17
UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND
PORTLAND, ORE. 97203
4 FEBRUARY 2, 1973
Schulte: thefts are national trend
By
TONY NICOLA
Business Manager
Andrew C. VanderPlaat announced
that he will be leaving the University af¬
ter three years service as Director of Ad¬
ministrative Services. VanderPlaat will
be moving to Corvallis during the summer.
Starting Feb. 1 he takes on the position of
Fiscal Officer in Oregon State University’s
Agricultural Experimental Station.
Dr. Arthur Schulte. Financial Vice-
President. who oversees operations of
Administrative Services said that as of yet
no replacement has been found. “We are
searching for a competent person to fill
the office .... sometimes someone will
pop up right away and other times you
just have to be patient.” Schulte feels that
with the importance of this position spe¬
cial care must be exercised in the
selection.
The Office of Administrative Services
handles all non-teaching personnel files,
the book store, room rentals. Security and
all purchasing done for the University.
With a load like that only top-flight people
qualify. Until a person is found who does
qualify Schulte said the office will run it¬
self. Schulte felt sure that they would not
know who the replacement would be by
the time VanderPlaat leaves.
The question of security
At the mention of Security, Schulte was
asked what action was being taken to ward
off future vandalism. Schulte felt that the
vandalism, especially on University cam¬
puses. is a national trend. He said that un¬
til the students and faculty and admini¬
strators start exercising more care that
any attempts would be futile.
Cases have been found where Security
would lock up buildings and then, upon
making second rounds, find the doors left
open by teachers. Also dorm rooms have
been left unlocked which is nothing more
than an open invitation to steal.
The recent rash of vandalism experi¬
enced at the University is under close
inspection. Police are trying to determine
whether or not the jobs are professional.
“If they are.” Schulte said, “we could put
ten more men on and they would still get
by us.”
When questioned about student security
officers. Schulte said that they are being
utilized but a problem exists with working
late hours and on weekends since students
do need to get up early for classes the next
day.
Dr. Schulte explained that cost of ad¬
ditional men plays an important part. If
it is discovered that there is a real danger
existing and that additional men will
help solve the problem, then they will be
hired. But the economic feasability must
be considered. In other words, will the ad¬
ditional cost of more men cause less van¬
dalism thus saving money in the long run?
Dr. Schulte is currently studying the
problem in depth to determine just exact¬
ly what is needed.
Hear Niemeyer
this afternoon
Today, at 1:10 p.m., in Buckley Center
Auditorium. Dr. Gerhart Niemeyer will
speak on “The Total Critique of Society.”
At present, Dr. Niemeyer is Professor
of Government at the University of Notre
Dame. He taught previously at Princeton,
Oglethorpe, Yale, Columbia, and Vander¬
bilt. He was also a Fulbright Professor at
Munich University in 1962.
Dr. Niemeyer was born in Germany and
immigrated to the United States in 1933.
He was educated at Cambridge U niversity.
Munich University, and Kiel University.
He received a J.U.D. degree from Kiel
with a dissertation in International Law.
Dr. Niemeyer has been a foreign service
officer for the United States Department
of State and is a past member of the Task
Force on Foreign Policy of the Republican
National Coordinating Committee.
Books by the professor include Law
Without Force; An Inquiry Into Soviet
Mentality, and The Communist Ideology.
He has contributed articles to such publi¬
cations as Modern Age. Review of Politics,
Journal of Politics, World Politics, Inter¬
national Organization, Journal of Public
Law. National Review, and The Intercol¬
legiate Review.
Dr. Niemeyer’s lecture is free and open
to the public.
Two black students tell minority problems
Senate again unanimous in allocations
Tuesday night. January 23. Jerome Tar¬
ver and Adell Hollie. Senior black Politi¬
cal Science students, appeared on “Being
Black in Oregon- Black Students in White
Schools (Part
I)”
on KOAP-TV (Channel
♦ 10). Also present were two blacks from
PSU and one from Reed College, plus
Joe McHenry, moderator. Some of Tarver’s
and Ilollie’s public statements follow:
Tarver- “The structure at the Universi¬
ty is not set up at all for Black Studies or
the black experience .... There are no
Black Studies, and to hear them tell it.
there are a lot of reasons why not .... The
University policy is a European outlook,
with no deviation .... When a black enters
as a freshman, he is there to fill a quota
and the University makes sure he makes
it financially .... After this freshman
year, you are no longer ‘needed’ and are
Anne Waldron, who portrays a prea¬
cher’s wife, turns a cold shoulder to
Les Samoff in the title role of “The
Devil’s Disciple,” being staged Feb¬
ruary 9, 10 and 11 at 8 p.m. at the Uni¬
versity of Portland. The melodrama,
by George Shaw, is set at the time
of the American Revolution.
stranded financially .... The University
believes in selective recruiting -from
the Catholic schools and the suburbs. No
attempt is made to go into the inner city
to recruit brothers. They recruit the bour¬
geois black from the suburbs.”
Hollie- “A person in college, especial¬
ly a black student, is left suspended finan¬
cial aid-wise .... You can get a degree in
history, but what can you do? . . . Some pro¬
fessors will tell you when you first enter
their classroom that 'I’m not going to give
you higher than a C’.”
Tarver - “There are institutions in this
state which I don’t think a black should
even consider attending- Willamette,
Linfield. Reed, the University of Port¬
land .... I view many Black Student
Unions (BSU), not all, as super-black cul¬
tural clubs. Cultural, not political."
Gift received for
Computer Center
The University is pleased to announce
the receipt of a $50,000 gift from the Mil-
licent Foundation. The purpose of the gift
is for the establishment of an endowment
fund for the Computer Center. This en¬
dowment fund will be used for investment
purposes.
In accepting the gift, Father Michael
Heppen, Assistant Senior Vice-President,
expressed the sincere appreciation of
the University to the Millicent Foundation
for their generosity and expression of
confidence in the University. He pointed
out that the University recently installed
a new computer configuration which
greatly strengthens the teaching and re¬
search capabilities of the University's
computer, especially in the scientific and
engineering areas.
Mr. Michael Arts, Director of the Com¬
puter Center, pointed out that there are
about 135 students taking courses this
semester, which involve the interfacing
of the students and computer, and that
there has been a continual increase of
student utilization of the Computer
Center.
Attention Seniors
Graduation announcements nave ar¬
rived. Seniors who have ordered theirs
may pick them up during office hours at
the alumni office in West Hall.
The ASUP Senate, meeting in regular
session Tuesday. January 30. rescinded
$1,200. allocated $950. and did some “fast
endorsing.”
It was brought to the attention of the
Senate by ASUP President Marc McDevitt
that last week’s allocation by that body of
$500 to the Black Student Union (BSU) for
Black Week was out of order because
there was less than $500 left in the general
fund at the time. In response to this, the
Senate rescinded the $1,200 which Tim
Egan, ASUP Vice-President, had had for
an entertainment fund for first semester.
This passed unanimously.
The Senate then unanimously passed a
motion, tabled last week, that would allo¬
cate a total amount of $450 to the Hawaiian
Club for their festivities during Interna¬
tional Week. Earlier in the year, the Sen¬
ate had allocated money to the Interna¬
tional Club, and the Hawaiian Club was to
be the recipient of some of those funds.
The amount the Senate allocated Tuesday
night was to be in addition to this first al¬
lotment, in order to bring the total alloca¬
tion to the Hawaiian Club to a $450 level.
' A new motion was then introduced to
allot $500 to the BSU for Black Week. This
passed with one dissenting vote, cast by
John Kuchler of Christie Hall.
Finally, the Senate endorsed the BSU
fast for victims of the Nicaraguan earth¬
quake. to be held at dinner tonight.
Senate President Craig Sanders also
called for volunteers to serve on a Com¬
mittee on Campus Security and Vandal¬
ism. This committee hopes to meet with
University President Fr. Paul Wald-
schmidt, Financial Vice-President Dr.
Arthur Schulte, and Security Director
John Bash to determine exactly “what has
been happening” in the last few weeks, in
the way of campus thievery.
The next meeting of the ASUP Senate
will be held Tuesday night. February 6.
at 6:30 p.m. in West Hall 310. All meetings
are open to the student body.
Holy Cross priests plan new home
Rev. James G. Anderson, CSC, head of
the Holy Cross Congregation in Oregon
and Professor of Chemistry at the Uni¬
versity, has announced the Holy Cross Or¬
der’s plans to build a house for priests
and brothers near the University campus.
The single-story, apartment-style building
will be located immediately across Ports¬
mouth Avenue, and will be built in the
block “surrounding” The Delaunay
Institute.
The Congregation owns most of the prop¬
erty in this block, as they have been ac¬
quiring it over quite a few years.
The finances for the structure, a "place
that the priests can call home, which will
provide for greater adhesion of the com¬
munity," in Fr. Anderson’s own words, is
to be obtained from retirement funds.
Although no final plans have been adopt¬
ed, construction will hopefully begin this
Spring.
The building will house approximately
20 priests and brothers, but there will be
room for expansion as funds accumulate
in the future.
Fr. James Anderson
Photo by Tony Nicola
