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Student Service Fund
^AF all the drives which compete for a portion of the stu
dent’s meager income, the world student service fund
perhaps should have first call. The annual drive brings
forth more than the usual response from the student body.
This is probably due in the first place to the fact that the
money will be used for student service. A glance at the pur
pose of the campaign reveals the following program:
1. To help salvage the student leadership of this genera
tion in the Far East and Europe.
2. To help make possible the training of this leadership
now and after the war.
3. To obey the imperative of Christian Fellowship.
4. To help create good will among the students of the
world.
5. To lay the foundations of post-war cooperation between
the nations of the world.
That it is a large program is beyond doubt. It will take
all the funds that can be raised. Last year the student body
contributed $201. This year the goal has been raised to $500.
Ideas—Not Bricks
gTUDENT government lies been under heavy fire on the
Oregon campus for many years. Not that 1 lie Oregon
campus is peculiar in this respect. 1L is probably true of
almost any university in the nation.
Mismanagement in student government is obvious. Ex
amples are so common and well-known they need not be
cited here.
Where is the blame for mismanagement of student affairs
to be laid? In the final analysis, the blame must come home
to the students themselves for they are the foundation of
the government. They arc the only reason for the existence
of student government and from them yomes the authority
for student government.
* # *
'J^IIE students seem interested enough in their government.
At least they kick it around enough and condemn those
in charge of handling student affairs very bitterly for alleged
mismanagement. But, and here, we believe, we have gotten
to the core of the. trouble, the students’ interest seems to
stop here.
They kick, they complain, they criticize, and they condemn.
But here they stop. All but an exceptional few devote little
or no time to constructive criticism. They do not even at
tempt to present a solution to the problem. They offer no
suggestions for solving the problem. They only criticize.
We feel that those students who happen to have a real
interest in obtaining responsible, efficient student govern
ment should do what they can to gain that niueh-to-be-de
sired goal. At least they might offer suggestions. — II. 0.
Love in January
'HE ROCKY path to successful marriage promises to lie
oven more filled with economic, and social stumbling
blocks in the next few years ahead as this year’s college
generation approaches life. In truth, there is no better year
than war-conscious 1941 to have a successful series of “Love
and Marrige” lectures on the campus.
The lecture series seems to have one main fault. That is
the weakness of sameness from year to year; for the three
main lecturers are always “veterans" at the job of speaking
on the subject to Oregon studdents, and generally talk on
similar topics. By tin' time a religious student of the sub
ject has been on the campus for four years and has gone to
the series each year, he has heard the same material four
times. Yet if like material is not provided—and the very
interesting basic facts are not included—the new freshman
audiences, utterly unacquainted with the subject as approach
ed in college, would be ill-prepared for the more branching
study.
'T'lIIS YEAR'S program has already been arranged . . .
aud according to Chairman Billie Christensen is slated
to handle the subject adequately and fully. Oregon students
for a long time, however, have been agitating for an exten
sion ot the study through college courses in marital relations.
So tar it has been impossible, personnel directors explain,
to add such a class to the course of study of the school. Cer
tainly it would have to be done gradually, gaining student
interest slowly through an angle that appeals to the campus
mind.
Perhaps the love and marriage lectures themselves can
this year provide an opening for the proposed course. Through
an auxiliary set ot two or three lectures for upperclassmen,
new interest in other phases of the sftbjcet might be tapped
and explored as a basis for the proposed addition. Perhaps
the fireside house talks will do that a- well.
Looked at from any angle, the love and marriage lecture
series is a timely program for the winter of 194.1 . and shows
promise of attracting more interest than ever before, l or
American youth is thinking seriously—always m war
time-—ot the prospect: for any semblance of happiness m
wright
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With TOMMY WRIGHT
just a little taste ox bitters
for some of you, and some sweet
gossip for others, to be taken
with your breakfast cornflakes
and coffee. Writing of immor
ality is not our only virtue—
sometimes something worth
while passes through this lino
typist headache.
3-MINUTE POME . . .
A lisping lizzy was Tizzy,
The Phidelts with kissing were
busy,
Their passionate pace,
Her brace did displace,
And the dentist's bill has them
dizzy.
CAMPUS WHISPERS . . .
Once there was a fraternity
that didn’t have the lights dim
at a house dance . . . The Theta
Chis went to Cornvafley to gath
er up some farmery pulchritude
for their dance last night . . .
AT THE SIDE . . . CHUCK
"THE POLITICIAN CASAN
OVA” WOODRUFT’ sipping a
coke with blondie ANNE REY
NOLDS . . F'RED HITCHENS
with ALLEAN BECHILL as of
years and years . . . grad assist
ant HOLMER with a pair of
high school femmes . . . THISA
’N’ THATA . . . English prof
LESCH’S version of the "Roads
tb Hell”—also the three gals
who were always late to class,
"The Three Horrors" ... It
may be conversation but it
seems awfully important
RUBY JACKSON and BERNIE
ENGEL . . . I)R. SMITH passes
in front of the screen and has
the letterns I-r-o-n distinctly
portrayed on the bald top . . .
WALKER TREECE, one of
the barn boys gets a fine for
four in the front seat — every
thing nice and chummy . . .
brother WARREN gets plagued
by a pair of joke tellers at the
“Three Trees"—it’s a vice-filled
place TREECE old man — are
the Phidelts slipping? . . . .
BETTY HUGHES goes out
with a Phidelt one night and
picks up a Pi Kap pin the next
—isn't it a shame that you can’t
wear it, BETTY? . . . HERB
STRONG, Delta Tau Delta,
takes a mill-racing for giving
away the secret handshake of
the sleeping porch 13 boys—and
she was just there for exchange
dessert too . . . TOM ATKIN
SON also of the Delts— proxy
to be exact—makes a hurried
trip to California to visit EDIE
HEATH, and NORMA POHL,
will she just sit at home and
wait ?—this heart throbbing
drama will continue next week
at this same time. . . . The
ATOs have a mass millracing
. . . CONNIE AVERILL is still
embarrassed over the last Sig
ma Nu-Gammafi exchange . . .
Something about a lad who did
a mite of two-timing having the
two girls — CYNTHIA CAU
FIELD and CAROLYN COL
LIER in the same ward at the
infirmary so ho wrote letters
to them, not daring to go near
the place . . . HARRY WIL
LIAMS plants his Sigma Chi
pin on DG PAT HOLDER.
CONCLUSION . . .
Enough! Enough! Enough!
From
All Sides
By MILDRED WILSON
This year, for the first time
at Harvard, midyear grades
will be automatically mailed to
all upperclassmen and dropped
freshmen by the records office.
The dean’s office will not give
out any grades to inquiring stu
dents. but a complete record of
his grades will be mailed to him
as soon as they are ready—
about February 10.
—The Harvard Crimson.
The Ford is my auto
I shall not want.
It maketh me to he down m
wet places.
It leadeth me m the paths of
ridicule for its names sake
It prepareth a breakdown for
mo 111 the presence ot mine
enemies.
Its lods and shafts discomfort
me.
It anointeth my face with oil.
Its water boileth over.
Purely to goodness, if that 1.>s
rie follows me all tie us - _ of
my lit*.
"THE VISITING FIREMEN'"
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What Other Editors Think
MINORITIES AND THE PRESS
(Comment by the New York Times)
IN his report for 1940 President Butler des
cribes the flourishing state of Columbia uni
versity, presents its needs, and on a number of
subjects, such as the part of the university in
national defense, the rise of junior colleges, the de
cline of the classics, the urgent moment of modern
languages, internation relations and democracy
makes the fruitful obseravtions we expect from
him.
From one opinion of his, however, we must dis
sent :
There are in all forms of social, economic or
political organizations, individuals or small
minority groups bent upon making trouble.
These individuals or small minority groups
are stirred by an insistent desire for contro
versy which leads quickly to that publicity
which is their dominating ambition If the
activities and outgivings of these individuals
or groups can be directed against a well-known
personality, whether in public or in private
life, or against an institution of high repute,
whether academic, religious, industrial or fi
nancial, they are made happy in highest de
gree by the publicity which so usually at
tends their performances. These facts are com
ing to be pretty well recognized by the Amer
ican people, and sooner or later the press will
grow tired of giving to those individuals and
groups that publicity which means so much to
them.
PMALL minorities, as Dr. Butler seems to
^ forget for a moment, have their rights
Sometimes they turn out to be right in the end.
If they make trouble, that is sometimes part of
their business and duty. In a political, educational
or any other kind of association the majority vote
isn't necessarily sacred or final. A minority has
its role.
The press is no mind-reader or heart-reader. It
cannot impute motives nor suppose that a mem
ber of the minority is more eager for notoriety
than a member of the majority. It cannot report
or omit opinions merely because it agrees or dis
agrees with them, or thinks them sensible or fool
ish. As long as people say such things and do such
things as have to be reported for instruction or
amusement, the press will keep on reporting them.
It will play no favorites The responsible press will
put nobody in or leave him out by request.
* * *
"The newspaper that is dishonest is the one
that cloaks a bias under an air of objectivity
and, while wearing an impersonal mien, em
phasizes and distorts the news to suit its edi
torial purposes." - Arthur Hays Sulzberger,
Publisher, the New York Times.
MICHIGAN MUZZLING
<»|T IS THE DECISION of the authorities
of the University of Michigan that you
cannot be readmitted to the University.”
Students on the University of Michigan campus
did not read of the dismissal of 13 fellow students
through their student newspaper, the Michigan
Daily.
Throughout the Michigan case the Michigan
Daily has had no access to information from ad
ministrative sources, has had to suppress those
facts of the case that are common knowledge to
the student body—by order of the University of
Michigan authorities speaking through President
Ruthven.
But the silence of the college press has not
kept the student body from knowing of the Mich
igan case.
The Ann Arbor Daily News carried several
front-page stories about the case, as have three
Detroit newspapers. The Associated Press has
sent the story to newspapers throughout the
nation.
The story of what happened to the news that
did appear in the Michigan Daily is just as inter
esting, and even more revealing, than the story
of the news that was not printed.
Though the student paper was never permitted
to carry a story of the case, there appeared in
the public letter column a letter supporting the
action of the University administration and at
tacking “radical” activities on the campus. The
signer of the letter, a son of a member of the
administration, later admitted that the letter was
neither of his own composition nor sent of his
own volition.
The following day a short letter of reply from
the “radicals” appeared in the same column.
Shortly after this, the editors were ordered by
the administration to print nothing further on
the Michigan case.
Since then, nothing has appeared.
The silence of the Michigan Daily on a question
of vital interest to the Michigan student body is
a symbol of repression. The position of the stu
dent press of Minnesota offers an encouraging
contrast. By and large, we have had access to
University news sources. There has been no pr°ss
censorship. The University administration has
in general maintained a sensible and tolerant at
titude toward the rights of the press and student
organizations on the campus.
From the security of a campus where academic
freedom and the freedom of the student press are
present-day realities, even in these so-called crisis
days, we send encouragement to the students, and
other groups in Michigan, who are seeking to re
establish these principles at the University of
Michigan—Minnesota Daily.
J .shall dwell in the house of
nuts forever.
—The J Bird (Juneau, Alaska).
Many famous movies of yes
ter-year are scheduled for show
ing at a Washington university
during the coming spring term.
The first Mickey Mouse films,
"All Quiet on the Western
Front." "The Great Train Kob
bery. ' and "A Trip to the
Moon," will be among the old
favorites shown to University
students free of charge.
—Washington Evergteeu
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By RIDGELY CUMMINGS
Claude Ingalls, editor of the
Corvallis Gazette-Times, a news
paper published 40 mile3 up the
Willamette valley in another
Cummings
cident which in
witch - hunting
again.
Mr. Ingalls is
the writer who
recently "ex
posed" the Nazi
salute incident
in Eugene
schools, an in
cident which in
cidentally has
not yet been confirmed locally as
ever having taken place, although
Mr. Ingalls claims to have recent
ly accumulated "further corrobor
ation.’’
The Corvallis editor’s latest dis
covery is that there are 2,200 "sub
versives” in Lane county, their
names and addresses all neatly on
file with the "authorities.” The
sleuth from the home of Oregon
State College puts "subversives”
in quotes, which indicates that he
probably does not take the busi
ness so seriously. He also fails to
identify his “authorities,” although
one presumes he is referring to the
federal bureau of investigation.
Moreover the sage from Corval
lis expresses wonder that the Uni
versity should get exercised over
his "Nazi flag incident” and points
out that his inside dope about the
numerous subversives in Lane
county should not be taken “as a
slam at the University, for we
have not intimated anything about
any of the 2,200 being class room
doctrinaires.”
Now it is true that the popula
tion of Lane county is around 70,
000 and one could thus pick out
two thousand citizens without
touching anybody connected with
the University. It is true but it is
extremely unlikely.
Subversives, so-called, are not
considered dangerous until they be
come articulate. On the Univer
sity of Oregon campus is proba
bly the most articulate group of
people, by and large, in the state
of Oregon. Words are their stock
in trade, their daily tools. Or per
haps I should say that ideas are
their stock in trade and words are
the medium by which they express
those ideas.
The chances are when Mr. In
galls talks about "subversives” he
means not those who tend to over
throw and ruin manhood, justice,
generosity, truth, charity, etc., but
those whose influence might weak
en the power of the state. That is
the presupposition if the authority
referred to as collecting the names
is the FBI, whose function is pre
sumably limited to investigation
and apprehending violators of the
laws of the United States of Amer
ica.
So although Mr. Ingalls may
consider the collection of the
names of 2,200 "subversives” as a ^
matter for good-natured ribbing of
a rival town, to this department
the whole business is a matter to
be “viewed with alarm." If the
FBI has that many suspects on file
I’d be willing to bet that 10 per
cent, or 220 of them are walking
around the campus today.
It is in fashion to ridicule the
Japanese "Dangerous Thought”
policemen as an absurd example of
the lengths to which a fascist state
will go to retain power. I’d hate,
to see the FBI develop into a sim
ilar sort of organization.
Although thinking and talking
are not necessarily synonymous
still I don't place much stock in
that old bromide about still wa
ters running deep. The University
campus is the habitat of thinking f
men, and men who think are apt
to talk a lot; men who talk a lot
are very apt to be misinterpreted,
or even interpreted correctly but
disagreed with violently. Such men
do not belong on any “subversive”
list.
If Mr. Ingalls’ list exists at all
then I confess myself a little wor
ried over the welfare of some of
my friends when and if the war
hysteria runs higher. Also I would
bet a cup of coffee against a
plugged nickel that my own name
appears inconspicuously some
where near the bottom, flanked by
some harmless single-taxer on one
side and a Russian immigrant
clothing merchant on the other.
so be it...
By BILL FEND ALL
like tobacco smoke in an ill
ventilated room, the type dished
out by campus writers often
gets thick and stale . . . but
such is not the case in the type
writings of OLD OREGON'S
two-place-at-once-man, ROY
VERNSTROM ... his descrip
tions out TIME'S TIME . . . his
comparisons are more unusual
than the usual unusuals. . . .
typical VERNSTROMIC sen
tences of the UofO—"aged by
a history as ancient as the firs
that stand sentry beside Eriend
ly hall" . . . “our student popu
lation provides a panorama of
dynamic life as representative
as the Lynd's would want for
their “Middletown" . . “here we
as youth play the major part;
here progress and education are
bed-fellows; here the University
of Oregon sprang up from a
legislative act 100 years after
the Declaration of Indepen
dence became a document” . . .
other VERNSTROM versions
of campusites ... of DEAN
ONTHANK — “tall, thin,
threadbare of hair" . . . of E. D.
KITTOE, Instr. in Eng.—“cook
ie-duster clad” . . . of W R B
W1LLCOX, Prof Emeritus of
Arch., “the MR. CHIPS of the
UofO" ... of the school of
ARTS and LETTERS—“school
slangstcrs deem its curricula
good cultural cement for foun
dation to professions". . . .
flame on AOPi candle burns
at both ends . . . DELTA GAM
MA coeds come into campus
cokeries like cops on water
front — two at a time . . . AL
PHA PHI dates pack a lot of
weight . . . CHI OMEGA coed
accentu-weighting her figure
in-betwcen-meals . . . HEN hall
fag-fans blowing up smoke
screen in the SIDE . . . SIGMA
KAPPA can keep secrets—take
the whole house to do it though
. . . ALFAKI coeds have smooth
takcniquc ....
Phi Delt: “I don't know”
FIJI: ‘‘I am not prepared” V
BETA: "I don’t remember”
ATO: I don’t believe I can add
anything to what has been
said” . . .
campus quips . . . congrats to
BUCK BERRY - - and ‘‘STO
NEY” . . . sleeping in class is
the triumph of mind over chat
ter . . . things can get awfully
complicated if a fellow forgets
to sing when partaking of wine,
women and song ... it is only
a rumor that the University
chess team has been subsidized
. . . “up and atom!” cried the
molecule to the electron as the
anti-synthclic disintegrating ray
started for the group of pro
tons ... so be it .. .
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