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YEAR ago the problem of compulsory military
-*■ training confronted the faculty of the Uni
versity of Oregon. A proposal to place military
courses upon an optional basis was overwhelmed.
Yesterday the question was again debated and
submitted to vote by the faculty. This time the
forces favoring voluntary drill had swelled. The
closeness of the count surprised even the most op
timistic of the supporters of optional training. The
final decision was rendered by the narrow margin
of 36 to 31.
The controversy is closed, temporarily. But the
issue is far from dead. In ever increasing numbers
thinking individuals are joining the ranks of those
who protest warfare and those institutions which
serve to nourish and perpetuate a militaristic
36 TO 31
regime—those who believe that college is not the
place to train youths for soldiery. The question
will rise again and again, and upon each occasion
the protest will gain strength.
Next time the protest may prove successful. If
not next year, then later. A modification of the
present compulsory system can only check the tide
lor a time.
THE CAMPUS CALENDAR
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means of malicious albeit humorous attack, the
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necessary, since it will cause some inconvenience
and delay to users of the Campus Calendar column.
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OVERFLOW
'ITIT'E would like to use this space today to
’ ” conduct burial services for half a dozen
old friends.
They are lines, pieces of business, and situa
tions that have hung on in the movies since
the days when we used to haunt the front row
of old Castle theater on Saturday afternoons.
We propose the extermination or pension of
the champion movie tritenesses which follow:
* :K *
No. 1.—He: "Darling, you are you. It's not
whac you've been, it’s what you ARE. Can’t
you see, that’s all that matters . .
No. 2.—The haunted house gag wherein a
white sheet falls over the head of a man en
tangling him, to the extreme terror of negro
servant. The camera speeds up as he whisks
over horizon.
* * *
No. 3.—She: "I nev-ver want to see you
again.”
He: “Well, if that’s the way you feel about
it,”
She: “That’s exactly how I feel about it.”
a • *
4.—The arty sequence, wherein the
gaunt, classic heroine stands clad in a white
nightgown, hands hanging at the sides with •
pcClms forward, and gazes up into a spotlight
and whispers things about death and fate.
* * *
No. 5.—British films wherein every other
line begins with “As a mettra feet . .
No. 6.—He (gritting his teeth): “I’ve got to
go fthrough with it . .
She: “No, Harold, for my sake, please . .
* * *
(Note: Eddie Cantor’s gags about Rubinoff
have not yet passed the two thousandth repeti
tion necessary for pension.)
Majority Report
(Continued front I’at/e One)
of whom should be Mr. Campbell,
to appear before your committee
to present evidence in favor of the
change petitioned for.
There were three possibilities
before the committee, (1) recom
mend the granting of the petition,
(2) recommend the maintenance
of the status quo, (3) recommend
the maintenance of the present
status subject to certain changes
which might seem desirable to the
committee. The committee ad
journed until the following Mon
day at 7:30 p. m. Immediately
following adjournment the chair
man went to the volley ball court
and instructed Mr. Campbell of
the action of the committee. The
chairman notified Mr. Campbell in
writing the next morning.
The Monday meeting was ad
journed until A p. m. Tuesday be
cause of illness of the chairman.
Some twenty minutes before the
time of the meeting Mr. Campbell
asked the chairman if lie might
add to his committee of three
since he wanted to have it repre
sentative. He was told that the
chair had no authority to change
the instructions of the committee,
but. would be glad to take the
matter up with the committee as
soon us it met and the committee
would probably authorize him to
increase his committee. Mr. Camp
bell then told the chairman that
the present arrangements were
satisfactory and lie would be will
ing to proceed.
The chairman was then ap
proached by a member of the Law
faculty inquiring if faculty mem
bers would be called. He was in
formed that such procedure had
not been considered, that it was
supposed by the chair that the
faculty would use the privilege of
debate when the committee re
ported to the faculty. However,
the member of the Law faculty
was informed by the chair that he
would be glad to present his re-1
quest to appear before the corn j
mittee if he so desired. This fac
ulty member then disclaimed any 1
bucli desire.
If the student committee was j
pot representative it was Mr.
Campbell’s fault, who told the!
chairman in private conversation]
that he would see to it that the 1
(wilder oae.< meaning the comuiu
puits, did not get on it. To this
your chairman objected, insisting
they had the same right to be
represented as the others.
Your committee met January 30
from 4 to 7:30 p. m. at which
the student committee, Mr. Camp
bell, Miss Horak, and Mr. Bruce,
not Mr. Gross, as the press er
roneously reported, appeared. The
brief presented by the petitioners
was taken up point by point for
two hours at. which time the stu
dents were excused, the commit
tee first asking them to indicate
the points to which they at
tached most importance from the
remaining points in the brief.
While all points had not been dis
cussed with the committee as sep
arate points, nevertheless all the
points presented in the brief were
discussed in the course of the
hearing. Your committee did not
hesitate to press the student rep
resentatives in view of what it
felt to be the gravity of the course
upon which it was asked to recom
mend action. No one questioned
the fairness of your committee
nor that of any of its members.
In the hour and a half which
followed the committee discussed
the remaining points of the brief
and arrived at its decision.
Your committee examined the
evidence available by measuring it
against the following points:
t. Leaving aside the point of
its required or optional status, is
the work of the Military Depart
ment desirable at least to such an
extent that it be retained as a part
of the University curriculum?
To this there was a unanimous
affirmation.
2. From the point of view of
public service, is the work desir
able ?
3. The extent and degree to
which basic military is required.
4. What would happen to the
Military Department were the
work made optional?
The elaboration of these points
will be taken up in debate. It was
the opinion of all members of the
committee that there were certain
grievances which probably existed
now at least as the student saw
the situation. However, four mem
bers of the committee felt it de
sirable that the work had a defi
nite value which should be devel
oped by careful overhauling and
p!tuning but did not Ieoh with
favor on any baste change. All
members felt that in case the
work were retained as “required"
then there should be certain ma
chinery set up which should han
dle requests for exemption apart
from the Military Department.
The Majority report is signed by ■
four members of the committee.
The chairman wishes to state
that this committee and all its
individual members, both majority
and minority, have meticulously!
observed the proprieties obliga-1
tory on them by refraining from
discussion of the report, from ap
ical to the public or the press,
and by carefully adhering in its!
report both in the outline and in
the method of presentation to the
faculty to the accepted standard
of procedure for this faculty, Rob
erts Rules of Orders, Revised.
The recommendations of the
majority are:
1. That military training be re
tained on a required basis and
that machinery be worked out for
liberalizing the administration of
it.
2. That there shall be a stand
ing committee of the faculty
known as “The Committee on Mil
itary Education." It shall consist;
of seven members chosen as fol
lows: five to be appointed from
the faculty by its presiding offi
cer. one from the student body j
appointed by the president of the
A. S. U. O., and the Professor of
Military Science and Tactics at j
it he time. The chairman shall be
[designated by the presiding officer i
j of the faculty from the number j
j of his appointees.
This committee shall report to
j the faculty from time to time, ad
vise with the military department
(>n matters relating to coordina
tion with the University as a.
I whole, and have power to grant
| exemptions from required military
courses, taking into consideration
the circumstances of each ease,
particularly physical incapacity,
[conflicting outside employment.;
unavoidable conflicts in class i
hours, and grounds of conscience 1
A minority report wilt be read ■
after moving the adoption of the
majority report, and following they
reading of the minority report l
shall speak to the question.
U S. CHESSMAN
CARLTON E SPENCER 1
O r FIT AFFORD
R. H. BACK i
A Shining Light - - - By STANLEY ROBE
SrVDEA/T/f
Minority Report
(Continued from Pui/e One)
partment is concerned, it is op
tional with the authorities of the
school, college or university whe
ther military training shall be an
elective or a compulsory course in
the curriculum.” “In June, 1930,
Willia mD. Mitchell, United States
attorney general, advanced a sim
ilar interpretation,”
2. A number of the leading edu
cational institutions of the coun
try have already made military
drill optional. Among these we
find the following:
Boston university—Catalog 1933,
p. 225.
University of Chicago—Catalog
1933, p. 33.
Harvard university — Catalog
i9S2, p. 192.
Princeton university — Catalog
1933, p. 113.
University of Michigan—Cata
log 1932, p. 26.
University of Kansas—Catalog
1932-33, p, 101.
University of Pennsylvania —
University Bulletin, 1932-33, p.
188.
Stanford university — Catalog
1933, p. 279.
University of Wisconsin (2) —
Catalog 1933, p. 447.
Yale university-Catalog 1933.
p. 145.
University of Utah — Catalog
1932-33, p. 242.
I submit that the University of
Oregon would immediately place
itself in very excellent company
by acting favorably on the petition
presented to the faculty.
3. It is the belief and conviction
of the minority that the War De
partment. will not abandon the unit
at the University of Oregon, if mil
itary drill be made optional. Ma
jor Back says that the govern
ment will maintain a unit if as
few as 100 men register for mili
tary training. I present some
names of other institutions than
those given above institutions of
the size of Oregon or smaller
where the government maintains
a unit and where military training
is optional.
Knrollnieiit 1932-33
Gettysburg college, 560, not co
educational.
Baylor university, 1,517, coedu
cational.
Johns Hopkins, 2,294, coeeduea
tional.
University of Wichita, 2,675, co
educational.
Pomona college, 751, coeduca
tional.
If these institutions can main
tain units with enrollment about
that of the University of Oregon
or less, why should we expect any
thing different to happen here if
military training were made op
tional? Even if, for the sake of
argument, we concede the point
that 100 men will fail to register,
the minority does not take the il
ogical position that we should
force three or four hundred stu
ients to take military training in
>rder that 50 or 75 may register,
rruly, this would be the case of
he tail wagging the dog. The
jverwhelming majority would be]
tiled and their activities determ
ned by a mere minority which is
lot in conformity with the princi
>les of free and democratic gov
irnment.
4. Among the lectures present
id before the individuals who are
•equired to take military training,
ve find the following:
Obligations of Citizenship. 2
lours.
Military History and Policy. 5;
lours.
Current International
ion.-. 4 hours.
Gttua
A total of 11 hours for these
subjects.
Quoting from the R.O.T.C. man
ual, we find the following given
as the scope and object of these
lectures: “the relationship of the
American citizen to his govern
ment; consequences of lack of a
sound national defense policy (il
lustrated by War 1812, legislation
of Mexican war, first Bull Run);
important world events of eco
nomic, political and military na
ture, their international conse
quences with possible effects on
our foreign and domestic policies."
Any student knows that it is im
possible to present a critical and
analytical synopsis of these impor
tant questions in the time allot
ted.
The stage is set for a biased and
one-sided presentation - if not an
emotional and propagandist ap
peal. In the meanwhile, the social
sciences are placed upon an op
tional basis. I ask whether the
same thing should not also be true
of military training?
5. The minority does not accept
the hypothesis that war is inevi
table with the result that national
preparedness demands compulsory
drill. Even if this major premise
be accepted, it must be pointed out
that national preparedness is a
much wider field than military
training. It includes finance, ag
riculture, home economics, trans
portation, industrial organization,
chemistry, in short the whole ga
mut of human activity. Is it logi
cal to demand that the student
take military training and at the
same time not require a compul
sory course in chemistry, agricul
ture, or finance—all of which, in
time of war may be of far greater
importance ?
C. The national government as a
pronounced national policy did not
require compulsory military train
ing necessary to the right of Land
Grant Colleges to secure certain
federal subsidies, therefore, even
in land grant colleges, optional
military training is consistent with
the National Defense Act of the
United States It follows, there
fore,'that in the University of Ore
gon, not a land-grant institution,
optional training is clearly consist
ent with federal policy.
7. Quoting from two statements
made by Major Back at the com
mittee hearings: "I deny we are
making them soldiers" . . . “We
need the laboratory material for ;
the upper years" . . . (in bo‘h
cases reference was made to the
students who are forced to take !
military training.) In other words, :
it is necessary to have compul
sory training in order to have ma-;
tcrial so that the advanced cours- ,
es may be given. The University
high school is a cadet school. I
have no objection if a student
elects to become laboratory mate
rial: I oppose bitterly a condition,
which forces him into such a situ
ation.
S. The minority does not agree
with the hypothesis that full, equit- .
able, and even-handed justice is
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] clone by following a policy of len
iency in granting exemptions from
military drill. Acceptance of this
hypothesis, defended by Major
Back and which is the policy of
the military unit at the present
time, is an admission that there is
something radically wrong with
compulsion. It therefore becomes
necessary to evade it with the re
sult that 50 per cent compulsion
or 75 per cent compulsion is justi
fiable. A policy of leniency, more
over, involves spying out and pry
ing into the motives of an individ
ual. Too frequently in such cases,
the decision is based upon the a
priori convictions of the inquisitor,
a right reserved only to a prosecu
tor trying alleged criminals.
Be it resolved, therefore, that
the faculty of the University of
Oregon grant the petition of the
students, thereby making military
drill optional, and transmit this
recommendation through the prop
er authorities to the State Board
of Higher Education.
WALDO SCHUMACHER.
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i
Innocent Bystander
By BARNEY CLARK
i npHE choicest bit that has come
i our way for lo, these many
moons drifted in the other night.
: It seems that it was the night of
i the Kappa Sigma “treasure hunt”
i and a group of brothers -were
i cruising along in a car, looking for
1 their pledges, in order to trans
i port them to still farther hellish
j distances into the country. They
{ spied a lone figure trudging along
i the street and, swooping down on
j him, hauled him aboard. A blind
I fold was placed on his eyes, and
the lads headed for the great open
! spaces.
On the way they begin to ask
him cruel and brutal questions and
eventually get around to the old
perennial:
“Which is the best house on the
campus ?”
“Sigma Chi,” is the prompt an
i swer.
“What?" say the brothers in
! horrified chorus.
“Sigma Chi,” comes back the
dogged answer.
I “There is something decidedly
putrid in Peru,” stages one of the
i lads and reaches forward, jerking
j off the blindfold. And, lo, there is
| none other than John “Jughead”
Holloway, prize pledge of the
White Cross men.
All of which should prove that
(1) the Kappa Sig brothers had
not been formally introduced to
their pledges, and (2) Holloway
was very, very tired.
And then there is Irvin Hill,
who declares that every time
Georgie “Battleship” Bennett
passes by, he (Hill) wishes he
had a harpoon. Probably an
instinct handed down from his
New Bedford ancestors.
A petition has been filed with
the dean of women, requesting
that the Sigma Chis no longer
play “Foxhunt” with the D. G.’s,
as the last time this occurred, Kay
Larson says she was so intent on
escaping from the Sigma Chi
“hounds” that she failed to notice
a curb and as a result was laid
out as cold as a herring, and al
most lost a kneecap to boot.
It’s that Sigma Chi hunting' in
stinct!
* 3: *
The Coed Capers may have been
very torrid stuff, but the Senior
Cops’ post-mortem, held in the
back room of College Side, went
them one better. The high point
of the evening was a dance done
by Helen Burns and Jean Failing
on a table-top. THEY said it was
the Carioca, but it looked more
like a cambination of the Dance
of the Seven Veils and Cab Callo
way throwing a fit. Featured
song of the evening was “Frankie
and Johnnie.”
I. B. hasn't seen anyone have
quite such a good time since the
night the bed fell on Barde!
Henry Minger, Theta Chi fresh
man, was the lad that crashed the
Coed Capers. He has the “skin
you love to touch” and was a
unanimous choice for the difficult
job of deceiving the Senior Cops.
The slipper he lost in escaping
from the irate Cops belonged to
J. Mervin Rodda, his roomie. It
was given to Elizabeth Bendstrup.
E. Bendstrup is J. Mervin Rodda’s
ever-loving sweetheart, and if you
don’t think J. Mervin got his slip
per back, despit ethreats to the
contrary, you are in a precarious
mental condition!
OGDEN GNASHES
“Then pass the loving cup
about
And drink to dear old Lambda
Pi
And when the mortgage
comes around
We’ll pop the landlord in the
eye!”
* * *
’ Yeah, Joe is a scream when
he's tight!”
TOUGH IT IS, TO LEARN
ANEW ONE’S ABCS
(Continued from Payc One)
NRA—National Recovery ad
ministration.
CCC—C i v i 1 i a n Conservation
corps.
TV A—Tennessee Valley author
ity.
HOLC—Home Owners Loan cor
poration.
CWA—Civil Works administra
tion.
The ten administrative depart
ments under the president, name
ly, state, treasury, war, attorney
general, postmaster general, navy,
interior, agriculture, commerce,
and labor, (the writer is indebted
for this information to an eighth
grade geography book) are still in
existence, and the new additions,
or perhaps subdivisions have
evolved to meet economic and so
cial problems.
The newly created alphabetical
combinations are taxing on the av
erage college student intelligence,
and many weary minds give up in
despair, and sigh—
I said my ABC’s with EE’s
Until the Brain Trust came,
A.nd now the blooming alphabet
Is never twice the same.
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