Oregon # Emerald
MARGUERITE WITTWER-WRIGHT
Editor
GEORGE PEGG
Business Manager
TED GOODWIN, BOB FRAZIER
Associates to Editor
BILLSTRATTON
Managing Editor
BILL YATES
News Editor
EERNIE HAMMERBECK
Sports Editor
DON FAIR, WALLY HUNTER
Assistant Sports Editors
WALT McKINNEY
Assistant Managing Editors
BOBOLEE BROPHY and
JUNE GOETZE
Assistant News Editors
JEANNE SIMMONDS
Feature Editor
DOUG EDEN
Advertising Manager
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Beavers Dam Clique Politics
The simultaneous campaigns conducted by the Emerald
nnd the Oregon State Barometer on behalf of better student
government and campus politics have succeeded on the Cor
vallis campus to a much greater extent than here. 1 he recen
news from the north is most encouraging—the fact that ObC
Students have elevated their student politics from a grab-bag.
■faction level to a platform level at least indicates that progress
|js possible.
Disregarding the Barometer-instigated feud between Cor
vallis and Eugene sportswriters, we congratulate the OSC
students for their forward-looking step toward demociatic
•government and we are proud of the conspicuous part played
1 ,y the Barometer in pushing that move.
. ' Thc Beavers last week voted into effect an amendment to
the ASOSC constitution which changes election procedure.
The amendment parallels attempts of the Emerald to clarify
the "platforms" of Oregon political parties—an effort which
has resulted only in promises from the political leaders that
.platforms would be drawn up and publicized.
Platform Investigations
The Proppe amendment, authored by ASOSC s third vice
president, Bill Proppe, provides for a political survey com
mittee which will investigate the platforms of Beaver politi
cal parties, and the petitions required to substantiate the plat
forms and party members.
To be recognized as a political party on the OSC campus,
interested groups must present a constructive, practical plat
form for registration, examination, and publication to the po
litical survey committee. The committee is composed of six
students and three faculty members elected by the executive
council. The groups who submitted platforms are also re
quired to submit a petition with at least 300 signatures of
students who back their particular platform and party.
The section of the amendment governing party nomina
tions for student officers constitutes a block to clique pat tv
■control by providing that nominations must be held one week
prior to general nominations. All party nominations are made
from the floor, the meetings being scheduled and open to the
public and covered by a Barometer reporter.
If, after nominations are held, need is felt lor a coalition
party the procedure will follow the pattern of the original
platform and petition presentation.
No Cure-all
Clearly, the l’roppe amendment was riot offered as a cure
all for student politics ills, it will have little or no favorable
results without student cooperation. 1 he fact that only about
one-seventh of the entire student body voted on the amend
ment would indicate that m Corvallis, as in Lugene, student
interest in their own government is apathetic. However,
of the votes cast, 834 favored the amendment as against 207
negative tallies. We would assume from those figures that
the students who arc concerned about student politics, are
very much in favor of the progressive amendment.
It should be noted that an amendment of this type would
be almost impossible to pass on the Oregon campus because
the ASUO constitution provides that one-half the student
body cast ballots and that two thirds of the ballots cast must
favor the amendment:
it is interesting to note that shortly after the Pro.ppe
amendment was passed, a new political party- named hree
Staters” was founded. One of the foundejrs of the group ex
plained that "The fundamental principle is that the party is
made up of individual Oregon Staters rather than any social
organizat ions.'
Liberal Principles
The published principles of the “Free Staters" are a direct
attack on "selfish pressure groups within social organizations"
such as the Theta Nu Epsilon group on this campus which the
Emerald has long opposed.
Included are these principles:
1. This party asks for endorsement of its policies and
projects by individuals only. It does not seek or encourage
endorsement by social group names.
2. This party strongly advocates platform politics because
such politics bring constructive programs.
3. This party believes in true representative government
and no other kind.
4. This party believes in maximum student participation
in their government.
5. This party believes, that student authority and responsi
bility must be developed to the greatest extent possible.
We shall continue to follow Oregon State’s political prog
ress with great interest, and we extend to the Beaver advo
cates of liberal and progressive student government our warm
est wishes for success.
We hope that our own politicians take as seriously their
responsibilities in bettering student government on our cam
pus. We hope that the leadership evidenced by these “Free
Staters” will find a following at Oregon.
OF ALL
THINGS!
By LeJEUNE GRIFFITH
Senatorial propwash — Senators
Lynch and Wallace became involved
in a verbal battle in Salem over a
bill to limit the practice of chiro
practics. Words turned into some
thing with a little more weight, and
Senator Wallace found himself on
the floor. Senator Lynch is quoted
as saying: “I was simply admonish
ing Senator Wallace against un
statesmanlike language — pointing
my finger—and he ran into it.”
Windy day in Wyoming—Wash
ington, D. C., does not have a corner
on windbags. In an effort to strike
back against a so-called “unnec
essary number of traffic regula
tions, port of entry rules, many
fines and penalties” in California, a
Wyoming state representative in
troduced a bill which would force
cars from California to carry two
red flags three feet square “both
fore and aft,” and two bells not less
than six inches in diameter to warn
of their coming when entering Wyo
ming.
Corneas for sale — The offers to
sell their corneas by people wishing
to get food and clothing for their
“poor starving family” seems to be
breaking out like a rash all over the
country. The sincerity of their of
fers could easily be checked by
someone actually offering to buy a
cornea. If the offers are legitimate,
then it is a sad state of affairs which
leads people to offer such a prized
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>f life. If the offers are not legiti
nate, then it’s still a sad state of
iffairs when people have to be vic
timized by publicity seekers who
prefer scheming to get money and
:ood rather than working for this
;nd.
Backwoods blues -— A local de
mrtment store has taken all the
'un out of the prospect of going to
:he country and hewing a home out
)f the wilderness. They are offer
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ABOUT CHURCHILL
I was pleased to note that The
Emerald was not taken in by all
the specious arguments of Randolph
Churchill. However, a few things
may be said in Mr. Churchill’s be
half.
He was perfectly correct in ex
posing American hypocrisy regard
ing imperialism and in criticizing
our still-prevalent disposition to
oversimplify the problems of the
British Empire. By the same token
it was unfair for us to hold the
speaker responsible for British pol
icy of the past or for the policy of
the present Laborite government.
Moreover, it must be remembered
that the Egyptian students did ask
“loaded” questions.
We should not allow our bias in
Churchill to combine with our own
prepossessions in prejudicing us
against every worthwhile thing he
said. This is particularly true with
regard to the problem of 300,000
Jews and 700,000 other displaced
persons now languishing in Euro
pean detention camps because no
country in the civilized world will
take them in. (This was not men
tioned in the Emerald’s otherwise
thorough coverage of the speech.)
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