Arts and Letters Colloquium : The University in Peace and War

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This collection contains student papers from the Clark Honors College course HC 421 Honors College Arts and Letters Colloquium: The University in Peace and War. For more information on the course and the Honors College program, consult the College website

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    The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps: Protests and Perspectives on the University of Oregon Campus in 1969 and 1970
    (Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, 2005-03-14) Mosen, Emily
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    Discrimination and Diversity: The True Colors of University Athletics
    (Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, 2005-03-14) Koski, Sarah Anne
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    Little Paper Cuts: The Struggles and Demands of Black Students at the University of Oregon
    (Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, 2005-03-13) Harmon, Corey
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    Drug Use Within Vietnam-era Student Protest: Central or Coincidental?
    (Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, 2005-04-15) Freeland, Sarah
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    How Activism during the Vietnam Era Influenced Change in the Student Role on Campus
    (Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, 2005-03-13) ChapmanGraves, Camas
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    GO GREEK TO NO GREEK: A LOOK AT THE CHANGING ATTITUDE TOWARD THE GREEK COMMUNITY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, 1964-1972
    (Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, 2005-03-13) Bryans, Cherlyn
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    A War on Terror: The Civil Rights Movement and Mississippi Freedom Summer
    (Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, 2005-03-14) Blakley, Julianna
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    Successful Non-Violence? Looking at the Thirteenth Street Incident
    (Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, 2005-03-11) Stocks, Jennifer
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    “Stop, hey, what’s that sound”: Popular Music at the University of Oregon During the 1969-70 School Year
    (Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, 2005-03-14) Roby-Sage, Courtney
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    29 Years Between Protests and The Newspaper that Separates and Connects Them: A comparison between the Register Guard's representation of the 1970 ROTC protests and its representation of the 1999 anarchist riots of Eugene, Oregon
    (Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, 2003-11-21) Weidman, Katie
    For my paper, I would like to compare the rhetoric, focus, and intent of media coverage today with that of the sixties. I will discuss the stories, photographs, and editorials used by the Eugene Register Guard to depict the April 15, 1970 University of Oregon anti-ROTC riots, and compare them with coverage of the June 18, 1999 Anarchist riot in downtown Eugene. Specifically, I hope to find out how the Register Guard, as well as the culture it represents, changed (or remained the same) in regards to riots over the last forty years. Did the University of Oregon’s protests of the 1970’s set the standard, or create the form for the protests of 1999 to follow? What tactics do protesters and reporters continue to use, and what tactics were unique to the sixties? These are the questions to which I hope to offer some possible answers, while looking at how local newspapers might have worked with or against rioters in both time periods. Although my research was centered around the Register Guard, I also read Oregon Daily Emerald and Oregonian articles, newspaper clippings in the R. D. Clark Presidential Archives, as well as books discussing the media and the sixties. The comparisons in this paper will primarily be shaped by the opinions and objectives of Eugene Register Guard reporters, editors, photographers, and letter-writing citizens, as well as what I perceive are the political and social views of the time.
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    The Role of the Civil Rights Movement in Oregon
    (Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, 2003-12-10) Vitus, Stephanie
    I started researching the role of the Civil Rights Movement in Eugene with high hopes. Civil Rights as a subject is so large, and so well-covered nationally, that I figured sources would overflow. I knew that Oregon had a spotty history at best concerning the treatment of African Americans, but that knowledge lent me to expect a more fervent Civil Rights Movement in the area. As it turns out, racial oppression dates back to before Oregon became a state, when the Ku Klux Klan was a powerful force. The citizens of Oregon tried their utmost to keep African Americans away, so any Civil Rights Movement later contained mostly whites. Looking at the greater picture of Oregon as a whole, including the roles of Eugene, Portland and other cities, provides a clearer picture of the local Civil Rights Movement than studying any one city can. The role of the Movement was change, but it didn’t happen suddenly, and it grew out of a sordid history of discrimination.
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    Berkeley of the Northwest? Not quite.
    (Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, 2003-12) Nussbaum, Ben
    A wave of student activism swept the nation during the turbulent 1960’s and 1970’s. During this time, the University of Oregon earned the reputation as the “Berkeley of the Northwest” in obvious reference to the chaotic and violent campus of the University of California at Berkeley during this time period. The connections between the two campuses run deep. Students and faculty moved between the campuses for educational purposes or to participate in the powerful social movements that enveloped both campuses during the ‘60’s and ‘70’s. Driven by congruent ideologies, the atmosphere found on both campuses was remarkably similar, especially in the students’ and sometimes faculty’s stance against the conflict in Vietnam. Students challenged the administrations and attacked the status quo on both campuses with the same passion, but the movement at the University of Oregon never reached the same scale as the one at Berkeley.
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    Robert D. Clark and Hill Walker’s Idea of “Escalation”
    (Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, 2003-12-11) Nelson, Sarah
    Most occurrences, whether they are large or small, are not merely isolated happenings, but part of a greater chain of being, so to speak. Each event leads to another, following a sort of pre-projected path, either increasing to a point of intensity, or decreasing from it. This theory has been discussed in a number of milieus: evolution, international politics, and child behavior. The latter was studied closely by former UO Professor Hill Walker, and he developed a specific theory, outlining the steps of this escalation, and what can be done to prevent its reaching catastrophic levels.
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    The Oregonian: A Portrayal of the University of Oregon
    (Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, 2003-12-09) Miller, Jessica Adele, 1967-
    The University of Oregon in the sixties was a representative of the changing attitude among young people across the country. Growing hair long, experimenting with sex and drugs, and questioning all authority was among the revolutionary actions. American youth protested decisions of the government, specifically with constant controversy over the war. Violence was all around as Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were both assassinated, the U.S. Army killed hundreds of civilians in South Vietnam, and black athletes were protested at the Mexico City Olympics. The once conservative and strict attitude between the Deans of Men and Women and the enrolled students, quickly transformed to a liberal and rebellious attitude. Civil rights were a hot topic and on campuses across the country, the specific issue of student rights was debated. Many Eugene, Oregon locals witnessed first-hand the protests of the students at the University. However, most other Oregonians relied on the media to relay the information and state of the University to them in an objective and factual manner. The largest state-wide newspaper, based out of Portland, was The Oregonian. Specifically studied here are The Oregonian articles reporting on the University of Oregon incidents during April of 1970 as well as a generalized study of how mass media affects public opinion. This Portland publication used loaded language and photographs to frame incidents at the University of Oregon, and thus to persuade readers across the state that the Eugene campus was a place of liberal chaos.
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    Why Here, Why Now? The Story of Student Protest on the University of Oregon Campus, April 1970
    (Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, 2004-04-14) Hoogerhuis, Mara
    Most people know that the 1960s and early 1970s were volatile years in the United States of America, and particularly for American universities. What many do not know, is that in addition to the well-known protests at Berkeley and Columbia, Kent State and San Francisco State, there are other Universities that experienced these trying times as well. Stories, for example, like the ones that took place on the University of Oregon campus, in Eugene, Oregon: stories that have, for the most part, been lost or forgotten. I ventured into this world of protest and paranoia, students and a changing society, buried deep in the archives at the University of Oregon Library, and came out with a new understanding and appreciation for the lengths that both students and administrators were willing to go to stand up for what they believed.
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    The Roles of President Clark and the Oregon Daily Emerald In the 1970 Protests on the University of Oregon Campus
    (Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, 2003-12-11) Hoogerhuis, Mara
    Like many colleges and universities throughout the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the University of Oregon experienced a variety of anti-war student protests on its usually peaceful green campus. Students at the University of Oregon, upset with the unjust war in Vietnam, the draft, and the feeling that their parents’ generation was ignoring their voice and first amendment right to protest, took to the streets and administration buildings their demands for justice. The administrators of the University of Oregon, as well as other demonstration prone universities like UC Berkeley, Columbia, and San Francisco State, faced new challenges as the demonstrations and protests erupted into unprecedented forms of violence and student/faculty/community discontent. Different University Presidents handled the disruptions differently. On the University of Oregon campus, President Robert D. Clark’s voice of reason and calm kept dangerous situations from escalating into uncontrollable ones. The events of the late 1960s and early 1970s, on the microcosm of the university campus, epitomized an era of transition and shifting values among the younger generation of America.
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    University Political Ideology
    (Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, 2003-12-08) Hoffman, Carson; Barth, Laura; Bellis, Tyler
    Throughout the history of the University of Oregon, issues have come and gone that, at the time, seemed to play a vital role in the very nature of the institution, such as budget cuts, protests, and student power. But there was one issue that captivated public attention in 1970, and continues to do so today: how does the University respond to political issues? Should the University, as an institution of open dialogue and debate, ever take sides on an issue that is holy contested? Has it in the past? And should it in the future? In my research I have found this to be a thoroughly unexplored subject even though it has popped up so frequently in the history of our institution. As our country moves into the 21st century, and begins to encounter new perils and issues that may well threaten the very core of our ideological convictions, these questions will only become more and more pronounced, especially as we move into a period of unprecedented international involvement. As we present our system of government as the one shining beacon of truth, democracy, and national righteousness, the world’s eye will be focused on our domestic policies as well as foreign, and the example put forward by our universities may well be an important indicator on the direction our country will take. Thus, these issues hold resonance far beyond our tiny community of Eugene, Oregon, and will reverberate throughout our nation, and indeed, the world as a whole. Consequently, we must take a prudent course of action, or risk not only our national integrity, but corrupting the entire world through the significant influence our nation exerts throughout the world. In 1970, we were faced with the same issue, and the administration of President Robert D. Clark, effectively, for the most part, maneuvered our University through a time that was absolutely critical to the integrity of an institution dedicated to open debate, justice, and the rule of law. So what were these critical issues?
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    Oregon’s Silent Majority v. their Children: Challenging the role of the University and widening the “Generation Gap”
    (Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, 2003-12-10) Friedman, Judith
    Student unrest in 1970 at the University of Oregon and across the nation reflected the increasing tensions, frustrations and disillusionment that the younger generation of Americans felt toward their place in the global political drama. They felt confused about their roles as citizens enrolled in institutions funded by a government and a military whose actions and ideology conflicted with their developing attitudes about the national and local power structures. How did this enable them to be heard in the wake of the older generation? The younger generation insisted that social, cultural and political movement and sentiment of the era was unprecedented. Rather than imitating their parents, students and youth of the late 1960s were rebelling against them and creating something new—something radical. Students threw the American dream to the wayside. They went to college and many defied the morals and models their parents had established for them. Instead of following in the footsteps of an earlier generation, the youth of America was trying to create a different path. Students utilized their position as students and disputed the role of higher education. They changed the concept of the university from that which their parents cherished as an almost sacred instrument of self-improvement, to a forum for their political expression. They rebelled against both their parents and the in loco parentis role of the University. The voices of radical minority were heard in spite of the wide generation gap and answered by gasps and hushes from the silent majority.
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    Protesting the Media: The Students’ Plea to be Heard
    (Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, 2003-12-10) Haire, Lauren
    The sixties and seventies were marked by unprecedented revolution. The world was changing and people were waking up to the social inequalities and political deviations. During a time when civil rights were scarcely recognized and young men were being shipped off to fight in the Vietnam War, concerned citizens emerged to voice their opinions. One of the major sources of activism occurred on university campuses.