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There la always the human temptation to forget that the erection of buildings, the formulation of new curricula, the expansion of departments, the crea tion of new functions, and similar routine duties of the administration are but means to an end. There is always a glowing sense of satisfaction in the natural impulse for expansion. This frequently leads to regard ing achievements as ends in themselves, whereas the truth is that these various appearances of growth and achievement can lx* justified only in so far as they make substantial contribution to the ultimate objec tives of education .... providing adequate spiritual and intellectual training for youth of today—the citi zenship of tomorrow. ... “ . . . . The University should be a place where classroom experiences and faculty contacts should stimu late and train youth for the most effective use of all the resources with which nature has endowed them. Dif ficult and challenging problems, typical of the life and world in which they are to live, must be given them to solve. They must be taught under the expert supervision of instructors to approach the solution of these problems in a workmanlike way, with a dis ciplined intellect, with a reasonable command of the techniques that i re involved, with a high sense of in tellectual adventure, and with a genuine devotion to the ideals of intellectual integrity. . . /’-—From the Biennial Report of the University of Oregon for 1931-32. The American people cannot be too careful in guarding the freedom of speech and tip- the press against curtailment as to the discussion of public affairs and the character and conduct of public men. —Carl bchurs. I .1 NEW TEXT BOOKS ON BEHALF of the students of the University, considerable discretion and good judgment should be exercised by faculty members in selecting text-books for the 1933-34 schbol year. As has been reiterated on countless occasions, these are not ordinary economic times, and even the dollar or so additional that a new text costs is a heavy bur den on numerous students whose families are bear ing financial loads they scarcely can carry. We hesitate to advise against the addition of any new texts at all. Such a policy would be pdhny wise and pound foolish, because in some instances circumstances and the changing of the status quo have so altered ideas and purposes that the use ol an old book would nullify the advantage of a course. But, while it is absolutely essential to require new volumes when they are imperative, professors should not be so punctilious and arbi tral y that they will insist on the sixth edition of a current text when the fifth would serve just as well. The problem calls for judgment and care. It is to be hoped that the faculty will take into con sideration the financial difficulties under which most students are remaining in college. It is not likely that the professors will forget that fact. The all-too-large salary cuts to which they them selves have been subjected make that seem likely. WITH OPEN ARMS WE HAIL YOU T TIGHEK education in Oregon lias suffered severe losses in its budgetary allotment, but it lias gained invaluable assets that cannot be recorded in cash book or bank account. The appointment of Charles A. Brand and George B. McLeod to the state board is an action that will draw state-wide commendation and awaken approval from every in stitution. From both the administrative and edu cational standpoint the governor’s selections are indeed praiseworthy. Charles A. Brand, with his extensive experience in educational affairs, will prove a welcome addi tion to our governing body. All five institutions could hope for no stronger friend to help pilot them through the storm of economic reverses. As a membei of the tax investigation committee, Mr. Brand showed unusual depth of understanding, am. his acts and judgments disclosed him as an indi vidual with strong convictions, particularly where human rights and justice were concerned. His classical background and his unusual record of pub lic service mark him as a gentleman and a scholar. Higher education will have a prized asset in the person of George B. McLeod. For more than iifty years he lias been a public-spirited citizen, making unusual contribution to the economic and social welfare of the state. His long experience as a business executive will help lighten the difficult task of guiding highci education through the cru cial period with the maximum of efficiency. His discerning judgment is paralleled by his steadfast loyalty to the high ideals that he has maintained in public and private life. Universities and colleges the nation over are staging a heroic battle for then very existence But with men like Charles Brand and George McLeod at the helm, we may be confident that higher education in this state will weather the storm, and take renewed courage in its triumphant struggle with the gales of adversity, CONFINE IT TO MeARTHUR COURT EVERY so often the A. S. U. O. constitution is good for a pretty swell laugh. A Philadelphia lawyer or a professor in the law school probably could derive considerable amusement from its more ludicrous portions. One of the funniest clauses is j that w'hich appears near the end, among the reso hitions of the executive council. It was adopted by the executive council in 1923, 10 years ago: “The executive council prohibits promiscuous1 selling of merchandise of any kind, or papers, maga zines or souvenirs upon the University property, and this shall be construed to include sales of cam pus organizations. An authorization was given to i the finance committee to approve of any such sales as they see fit." To say the above is ridiculous would be putting it mildly. Who gave the executive council author ity to bar the sglc of merchandise on the property of the University of Oregon ? Surely such power is vested only in the proper administrative author!- j ties, and above them the state board of higher edu- j cation. Prooably the board members would be in- \ tcrested to know that the executive council was voluntarily taking care of some of their authority j for them. The resolution also bars sales 1n campus organi- I zations, unless these sales be sanctioned by the ex ecutive council. Here again, where does the council [ get. such authority? What has it to say about who ; shall sell merchandise to students in fraternities sororities, and dormitories? Insofar as we can de termine, the only place in the city of Eugene over which the executive council has jurisdiction in the matter of sales is McArthur court and its adjacent ! properties. The present executive council is not to blame | for the silly resolution quoted herein. It was passed j 10 years ago before most of the current personnel was in school. But it should be repealed at once. While it remains on the books, the executive coun cil is attempting to enforce a ruling over which it has no jurisdiction. It is usurping authority which rightfully belongs to the state board of higher edu cation, the University administration, and the indi vidual fraternities and sororities. If the council is determined that the resolution should remain on the books, it should be modified to include only Mc Arthur court. Action in this direction should be taken at the earliest possible opportunity. BTHE BENNETT CONTEST NE OF the most worthwhile events held on the campus eac hyear has been forgotten in the great consternation over dance arrangements and committee appointments. It is the Bennett essay contest, an annual event that requires both talent and knowledge in writing on difficult problems in interesting and lively style. The chairman of the faculty committee in charge of arrangements is George S. Turnbull, professor of journalism. To date he has received only two en trants in the contest. For such an obviously sound enterprise, that sort of interest is deplorable. At least a dozen more students should enter. The first prize is $2D. That should be an in ducement. On Other Campuses The Oxford Movement YOUNG men in England and this country are ! serving notice that they desire no part in the greed that starts a war and the stupidity that tolerates it. Since the Oxford union voted nearly two to one j for the resolution that, “This house will in no cir- j eumstanccs fight for its king and country," a wave j of student sentiment has swept British campuses.; and made itself felt on this side of the Atlantic ! as well. Glassgow university followed Oxford. Stu dents at the University of Leicester, Wales, Cam bridge, London, and Manchester are following the example set by Oxford and Glasgow. What has become known as the Oxford move- , merit has caught on at Victoria university in Can- j ada. In this country, Brown university students are signing pledges against bearing arms in an aggressive war. Early returns from a “peace poll” at Columbia reveal 196 students who assert that "under no circumstances” will they fight for their country. This same poll shows 271 students who would don uniforms only "in case of invasion" and but 35 who say they would care to fight and protec! citizens or investments abroad. Students at Northwestern university held a de bate in which the audience voted OK to 17 that they v- mid t ot "under any circumstances take part in international war to defend the constitution of the United States.” No one hopes that this registration of student opinion will spontaneously revolutionize the world's attitude toward war. But the opinion of bodies of organizezd voters does influence the policy of democratic nations. In contemporary Germany, Japan or Italy, public sentiment may mean little' or nothing; but it is otherwise in the English speak ing nations. President Walter Pill Scott of Northwestern1 university went so far as to belittle the pacifist is declaration of his students. He is justified in tak ing tills attitude insofar that pacifists pledges, alone, cannot prevent international conflicts. But he ignores the necessity for a peace psychology before nations can successfully proceed to outlaw war ill practice as well as in principle. The generation of President Scott and others I who would pooh-pooh student peace activity is of the war and pre-war period. They are still under j the influence of the propaganda with which nations whipped up mass hatred in the recent war-time frenzy. But today's students are of the post-conflict era. They hope they represent the beginning of a civil-1 used epoch in which war and concomitant barbarity i butchery and idiocy will become us remote as the, history of the ape man. President Scott would have spoken with greater foresight if he had commended his students for at-* tempting a rational stand, aud pointed out that ! organized pacifism can be only one step toward an end of wars, but that after the peoples of the, nation of the world become articulate and impress on their governments their desire for peace, they will have to adopt non-military weapon- .x! , tiuig their differences.—Miuuesota Daily. It Doesn’t Fit ... By STANLEY ROBE KALEIDOSCOPE [News and comment from and about persons and institutions prominent in current educational circles. | I EXINGTON, Va.—Radical de parture from what is being lone in other American universi ties features a new program for students of journalism in the Lee School of Journalism of Washing ton and Lee university here. Re oorted by William L. Mapel, direc tor of the school, to President Prancis P. Gaines of Washington and Lee and to members of the Southern Newspaper Publishers association, sponsor of the journal ism school, the revised curriculum makes drastic reduction in techni cal journalism courses and throws great emphasis on comprehensive aackground training in history, economics, political science, lan guage, and literature. These back ground subjects and journalism courses which correlate newspaper >ractice with current economic and political issues, are cited as "more necessary than any thing else if preparation for journalism is to be training of university caliber." “If journalism is a trade,’1 Pro fessor Mapel’s report says, "it has no business in the curriculum of a college or university. If it is something more than that: a pro fession or an art, it must comprise more than the relatively easy task of non-interpretative transcription of the minutiae of run-of-the-mine news. For that reason, the Lee School of Journalism chooses from now on to limit instruction in newspaper technique to a mini mum and to require in place of advanced technical courses an equivalent amount of student time spenl in studies in the background field. "The time has come, the report continues, “when our school of journalism should take the long view in training young men for journalism. Instead of looking at our graduates in the light of what they will be six months after they finish college, shouldn't we think of them as of 20 years from now? Behind our change, therefore, is the belief that modern conditions favor t lie informed newspaper man capable of coping with perplexing problems of national and interna tional economy. This doesn’t mean that we plan to neglect technical subjects. From now on we shall put on more pressure and do more work for less college credit.” * * * Three main objectives are out ined by Director Mapel. They are: 11 > To present a realistic picture of the press as a social force, with frank analysis of strength and weakness replacing blatant and of ten ignorant popular criticism of Ihe American newspaper and of its dace in contemporary civilization: 12' to acquaint students with at least the fundamentals of business :lnd editorial practice; and t3> to correlate the mass of miscellan eous information and methodology required in various college courses end apply it to the reportorial and editorial treatment of public ques tions. "From now on," the report ex plains. "we shall grant the bache lor of arts degree in journalism only to those students who have completed with distinction three years in English language and lit erature. two years of foreign lan guage three years of history and, contemporary civilization, three i ears of economies of political sci ence tv o years of natural science, sad a year each of psychology or sociology, and mathematics. This is what we call background work; it occupies the full time of the stu dent for his first two college years, and more than half of the time of the junior and senior years. “With the aforementioned back ground work will be correlated the following journalism courses, each taken for half a year: History and Principles of Journalism, News Writing, Law of the Press, and Copy Reading. These courses will i be given in the junior year, along j with a one-semester course, meet i ing one night each week, in me j chanics of journalism. “In the senior year students ap plying for the certificate in jour nalism along with the A.B. degree may elect a course called Corre lation of Journalism, in which they study problems of history, econom ics, and government as they pre sent themselves to the newspaper man rather than the layman; or they may continue their study of | social-directive aspects of journal , ism through studies in the forma ! tion and control of public opinion and the application of logical methods to interpretation and judgment in the field of current events.”' Washington and Lee's new cur riculum comes as what may be the final step in an evolution that has been in progress for the last four years. Since 1929 there has been a constantly progressive move ment toward less technical work and more strict background re quirements. In 1931 the school at tracted professional notice by re ' striding technical journalism re quirements to 22 per cent of a stu dent's work in four years of under graduate study. The new program cuts this percentage down to 17. and specifically states in what oth er fields a student may do back ground work. This is done, the re port says, "to spare us the embar rassment of declining to approve work we feel below university i standards." In the final anlysis, technical journalism requirements at Washington and Lee take the place of free electives found in the usual college course of study. Washington and Lee journalism men have freedom of electives, but only in certain fields of study. "We make this move advisedly and with no claim that it will re sult in a better type of training than is being offered at half a doz en other and excellent schools of journalism." Professor Mapel says. “We are convinced it will be best for us as we view journalistic in struction. that's all. This program comes as the result of three years of intense study of journalistic curricula combined with nearly 500 interviews or correspondences with editors, publishers, practicing newspapermen in other capacities, and graduates of all recognized schools of journalism including our own. "This research convinces us of two points: tli Newspaper editors employing journalism school grad uate.-- want young persons who un derstand the mechanics of news writing and of constructing a head line: have some definite under standing of news values; and arc possessed of sufficient formal edu cation to understand what is be hind surface appearances: and t2> the bos' tool v cd in the practice of journalism as anything more ! than a trade are written in terms I of basic understanding of the prob lems of history, economics, govern ment. and literature. “We know our new curriculum is not without criticism at the out set. In our files are several com ments from newspapermen that there is a ‘a mighty thin coating of practical newspaper work, which after all, is what the editor has in mind when he hires a cub reporter.’ Without quarreling with this view—shared by many schools of journalism wherein technical in struction occupies from a third to half of the college course—we ob serve that to anyone with aptitude for newspaper work the technique of writing a simple story is easy. “Students who take our news writing course are juniors in col lege with two years of college Eng lish behind them. If in one semes ter we can't teach a college junior to write an average news story, there's something wrong with the junior or with us. If editors want men willing to spend their entire lives covering fires, hospitals, and police court, they should be en couraged to grab high school grad uates. A boy wastes his time spending four years in college learning little more than newspap er technique. “To be of collegiate caliber, journalism must dig deep into the sciences and the philosophies. The school of journalism finds its ulti mate usefulness in its ability to take utterances of historians, economists, and political scientists and teach the application of these utterances to everyday life as in terpreted by the newspaperman to the average reader so often inca pable of that interpretation him self.” Washington and Lee's school of journalism is small in number of students and purposely will be kept so by the faculty of seasoned newspapermen and by the new curriculum, which will result in a bachelor’s degree with certifica tion in journalism for those who complete the work with better than-the-average marks based on ; an index number higher than that i required for graduation from any | other division of the university. i * * * , The school points with pride to i the fact that when Gen. Robert E. Lee was president of the institu tion in 1869 he originated the world's first collegiate instruction for journalism. This instruction was a far cry from what now is taught in the schools of journal ism, but the idea behind the work was the same. Journalism stu dents of 1869 confined their labors to regular college studies plus a course in stenography and labora tory work in a Lexington print shop. General Lee's jdea languished | soon after the death of the Con federate leader in 1870. to be re vived a decade ago when the southern Newspaper Publishers' association endowed the Lee School of Journalism as a memorial to the farsightedness of the man who en visioned college trained newspa permen as one of the greatest fac tors in the rebuilding of a shat tered South. ashington and Lee s new cur riculum will go into effect with the beginning of the next university session in September. At that time half a dozen of the best stu dents of journalism will be enrolled for courses leading to the certifi cate and degree. Other journalism students will continue with such technical journalism courses as they wish to elect. They will not win a degree with certificate in journalism but will be given the regular university a B degree with a major of journalism just as majors are given in history, Eng-1 lish, and other subjects. The plan, Professor Mapel pre dicts, will be in an experimental stage for two or three years. * * * Many prominent newspapermen have endorsed the plan, including Paul Bellamy, editor, Cleveland Plain Dealer; Karl Bickel, presi dent. United Press; Kent Cooper, ’•eneral manager. Associated Press; James G. Stahlman, pub lisher, Nashville Banner, and pres ident S.N.P.A.; Willis J. Abbot, Christian Science Monitor; Victor J. Hanson, publisher, Birmingham 'Jews and Age Herald.—From Ed tor and Publisher. Mafch 25. Contemporary Opinion . . . Putting the Finger on Monmouth A S THOUGH the announced ne cessity of cutting a vast sum from the already heavily-pruned higher educational budget had not caused enough unrest and appre hension on the various state cam puses, a sudden campaign to close Monmouth normal has appeared. Apparently no member of the i state board of higher education has had a hand in the unexpected movement. The thrust at Mon mouth seems to be another mani festation of the uninvited interfer ence that every now and then dis rupts educational machinery in Oregon. It is to be hoped that the ill-advised statements made by Dr. William J. Cooper, U. S. commis sioner of education, during his re cent visit to Portland, will not be allowe'd to add power to the cam paign. Dr. Cooper, apparently in re sponse to direct questions, advo cated the closing of Monmouth as an economy measure. Grounds for pointing his finger at Monmouth were, as quoted, that many of its structures are obsolete and that most of its work can be carried on at the larger schools, particularly the University. A little later, Dr. Cooper is allowed to point out that the state should be able to find use for the Monmouth buildings for an orphanage or other state school. Wouldn’t it be splendid to make an orphanage of these alleged ob solete buildings? Obsolete build ings are so frequently recommend ed for orphanages! Why not be honest about it? If Dr. Cooper and the fellow seekers after econ omy in education are so positive the Monmouth plant is obsolete, why don’t they come right out and demand that the normal school be moved and the buildings razed ? The answer is, of course, that this is hardly the time to recom mend destruction of any public property. It’s quite the thing to recommend consolidations be cause that word has come to carry the implication of lessened ex penditure, whether expenditure would be lessened or not. And any way, one mustn’t talk of taking something away from any com munity without throwing out a sop in exchange. it every public building in the state were to be closed up because of its obsolescence a good deal more than half the institutions would be homeless. There would be no statehouse, no penitentiary, no insane asylum, no state train ing schools, few city halls, few courthouses, few schools. Most of the school districts of the state would like to build new schools now because prices of materials and labor are so low, but they can’t afford to build. They are making the best of obsolete build ings and equipment, happy if they can fulfil present obligations. They’re glad they have buildings and equipment of any kind, no matter how obsolete. The obso lete-building argument 'simply will not stand. At the November election it was proved decisively that the people ’of Oregon want separate institutions of higher learning, the work of which is co-ordinated but not consolidated. Every attack upon Monmouth and the other normal schools failed because it V- -.. Emerald Of the Air The regular program of news over KORE at 5:45 today will be enlivened by Jessie Steele, the wo man's editor of the Oregon Daily Emerald, with a complete cover age of the women's and society page. This will be a part of the Thursday broadcast for the rest of the term. ignored or twisted important facts. Monmouth stood then and still stands as an integral part of the state's system of higher education. The picture now is unchanged ex cept for the greater shortage of expense money. That shortage is not yet so great that any insti tution must be closed.—Eugene Morning News. 2,000 ON DECK BUT NOT LADS FROM CORVALLIS (Continued from Page One) of flesh rolling and struggling over the mat, the puffing and grunting plentiful, and you have the pic ture. Both were exhausted at the end of the first five minutes and the final two falls were chiefly the result of both being too tired to get up. Chris Wins, by Cracky Christensen took two out of three falls for the verdict, al though his opponent displayed more grappling ability. Clark just couldn't get up after George landed on top of him two or three times with all his 240 pounds. Bernie Hughes, the rough and tough co-captain-center of the Oregon grid eleven, fought a three-round draw with a hand some Salem amateur heavyweight named George Beechler. Referee Bill Hayward called it even-steven, although Bernie had the best of the slugging, cutting up the valley battler’s face in the final round. Beechler, a former O. S. C. stu dent, came all the way from Salem to meet Hughes. Mahr Rcymers fought an old grammar school opponent in Comet Gibson, well-known in southern Oregon boxing circles. Both boys showed plenty of abil ity, but neither seemed to be in the best of condition and clinching was rrequent. “Badger” Fight Is Okeh Other events included a three round wrestling-boxing affair be tween Marlon Mann, a grappler, and Wayne Warner, with gloves. The wrestler didn’t give his op ponent much chance to land and pinned him twice. In the opening boxing match cocky Eddie Vail proved to be too large for Ivan Bergman, courageous little Eu gene high school fighter. Referee Hayward obligingly called it a draw. The “badger” fight, with Roland Rourke and Earl Parker, provided the most laughs of the evening. The two were blindfolded, tied to gether, and pummeled each other with rolled newspapers. The bat tle royal, with six frosh numeral men, ended with Joe Gordon, yearling baseball star, the winner. 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