^ Telling the Editor
(Continued from page ten)
fore the San Francisco Town Hall
on the “State University—Educa
tional Institution or Country Club".
... Your paper is concerned primar
ily with portraying the “activities"
of a group of people bent on the
pursuit of pleasure and self-exploi
tation rather than upon education
and service to an intellectual ideal.
... I am afraid the Emerald gives
one the impression of a group in
sulated and isolated from the swirl
ing world around them—a group
lost in the absorption of their own
activities. ... If the American con
ception of a newspaper is that it
should reflect the most obvious in
terests of its readers, then the Em
erald still admirably fulfills that
function. . . . (Let me) express my
y deep congratulations to you for
your editorial supporting the ex
pose of TNE. I think that I can per
ceive what it must have cost you in
a struggle between divided loyal
ties. ; . . Actually, I think the Em
erald is way ahead of last year’s—
except the interest it portrays in
the affairs of the world always are
shown in terms of an extension of
some campus activities. ...
Thomas La Fargue,
Former Oregon professor.
Some years ago in high school I
had the infantile notion that college
was where the intelligentsia got
down to the business of helping a
sickly retching world. Either some
one should stop perverting innocent
young minds or start creating an
intelligent intelligentsia. . . .
In this, like most American col
leges, there is a genuine fear not
only of questioning extant tradi
tional hooey, but of taking bold
strides out into leadership. I can’t
lay claim to an infallible truth or
value, nor even set much of an ex
ample—but I saw MAN in war and
I can question, “Need man constant
ly war ?
If not, how avoid it ? To take one
minute phase of that, editor, I
should like to say that the only
place where I happened to stumble
onto a discussion of atomic energy
control which recommended that
we give our atom bomb secret to
an autonomous central power great
er than either Russia or the United
States was in “Ethics,” under the
philosophy shelf in the library pe
riodical room.
Why can’t even a kiddy-college
newspaper take a lead in such a
discussion ? Perhaps it could be doc
tored up in a form attractive or sen1
sational enough so the students
might read it if there were no laun
dry hung out.
To oil TT
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light? Are we going to be status
quoed to atomic destruction?
Here on this campus there is not a
bit of competition to the Emerald,
not even for your job, Beaver, may
be. So why not run a mature edi
tion?
George Holcomb
Editor’s note: Both Professor
La Fargue and Student Holcomb
wish to see the Emerald take on
the serious, weighty problems
which editors of such magazines
as “Fortune” and “Foreign Af
fairs” and “New Republic” sweat
over. We feel that students inter
ested in the problems of the Unit
ed Nations, etc., look to the rec
ognized authorities for help, not
to a college daily. The Emerald
agrees with La Fargue and Hol
comb in deploring the provincial
attitude of many students, their
lack of interest in the world at
large, and their apathy even con
cerning the more significant as
pects of University living. We
have stated this viewpoint edito
rially, and have published articles
by the One World club precisely
to awaken interest in internation
affairs. However, we must also
be realistic enough to recognize
that many Oregon students are
much more interested in their
prospects for a date next Satur
day than they are concerned about
the fact that 70 per cent of the
American Negro troops occupy- |
ing Germany have venereal dis- j
ease and are infecting the frau- |
leins.
Precisely because the Emerald |
is the ONLY newspaper on the
campus, we must attempt to pre
sent matter .of interest to every
student group. It would be ethical
ly wrong to capitalize on our mo
nopoly and publish only such ma
terial as we personally support
. . . that is why the Emerald has
printed material that is detri
mental to this newspaper. We feel
that everyone, including the
world-conscious and the gossip
conscious, must have a voice.
And if the Emerald only re
flects truthfully the University of
Oregon then that in itself is an
accomplishment.
Banter
(Continued from I’ciye ten)
plunk me in a white boat for hard
ening of the arteries. For years I
have been idly dreaming of how
pleasant the companionship of an
American female would be, but
there’s more than a fraction of a
chance that by the time I get home
I’ll have long since passed the stage ,
where the difference between the
sexes is anything more than of aca
demic interest.”
Professional Life
(Continued from page nine)
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One boy, apparently worried
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with “little people” scampering at
his heels, he heads for the sancti
ty of his upstairs boudoir. His ad
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informed that Santa just went
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Santa, meanwhile is lighting a
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dent.
“I sacrificed my mut^ache to
my art,” he remarked. It seems
his Santa Claus disguise didn’t
completely hide the reveling han
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