Oregon If Emerald
MARGtlERITE WITTWER-WRIGHT Editor GEORGE PEGG Business Manager
BOB FRAZIER
Associate to Editor .
, ’ JEANNE STMMONDS BILL YATES
Managing Editor News xsditor
BERNIE HAMMERBECK
Sports Editor i
i DON FAIR. WALLY HUNTER
Assistant Sports Editors
WALT McKIJNNEY
Assistant Managing Editor
BOBOLEE BROPHY and
JUNE CiOETZE
Assistant News Editors
MKHAKA 1WKURU
Advertising Manager
PHmLIS KOHLMEIER
Executive Secretary
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Entered as second class matter at the postomce, Eugene, Oregon.
We Made It—and How!
Evidence that University of Oregon students are really
behind the student union drive should be apparent after a
glance at the figures from the campaign just completed on the
campus. Quota was $5000. This was exceeded when the drive
netted $11,234.62, or 225 percent of the quota.
That is good—especially when we consider that the great
bulk of the student body was not even approached on the idea.
The campaign centered around the organized living groups,
which is where the money is. That is proper, if only one group
is to he hit; hut it is probable that even more support would
have been obtained, had the committee attempted to nail every
student. By “every student” we mean the great unwashed and
unenchanted masses who live in no organized groups, who live
home with the wife and kid, or who have a room in some nice
old lady’s boarding house.
It was no secret that the University had to respond, if the
•off-campus campaigns were to be successful.
Well, we responded. Our 225 per cent response should
prove to any alumni or state group that the students up here
are all hot for this student union building. As the drive winds
up in Eugene, moves to the Portland area, and then into the
nation-wide stage, the campaigners can have a good student
response to use as an argument.
Perhaps it is too much to hope, hut we would like to think
that all quotas would he treated in the manner the campus
goal was.
Is Someone Slipping?
Campus scuttlebutt has it that both Oregon State college
political parties, the Free Staters and the Progressives, are
controlled by Theta Nil Epsilon, nefarious secret fraternity.
This may be just wishful thinking on the part of the local
Greek political leaders who are spreading the rumor.
We have the word of Bob Knoll, crusading editor of the
Oregon State Barometer, that tfie Free Staters, who won every
major student position in tire recent ASOSC elections, are anti
TNE. And SAE Bill Proppe, new ASOSC president and mem
ber of the Free Staters, has no sympathy for TNE methods
or policies, either. Incidentally, we also learned from Knoll
••.hat Lou Heck, Progressive who ran against Proppe for stu
dent body president, is a member of Sigma Nu. His backers,
•not Beck himself, are suspected of TNE associations.
And this brings us right back to the situation at Oregon.
Observers both on the Beaver campus and here are beginning
to wonder whether the close parallel of the political affairs
there and here is just an interesting coincidence. They are
'wondering whether it is just accident that both Beck and Stan
Williamson are Sigma Nus—and whether there is any tie-up
between OSC and UO Greek bosses. There may be some light
on this question in the near future.
But questions like this—and the fact that Beck lost the
election so conclusively—do not seem to worry the Greek lead
ers here. After all, they agree, campus politics are just a farce
anyway—why be concerned about them? The only thing that
matters is securing positions for Greeks, they say.
The record for the Independents for the past year should be
worth consideration on this point. The ISA won the freshman
election fall term; the Independents put an Independent on
.he Junior Weekend throne; the editor and business manager
>f the Oregana next year are Independents; the editor-elect
of the Emerald, the most influential student position on the
campus, is an Independent, likewise the business manager; the
winners of the Koyl and Gerlinger cups, highest honor that can
come to a junior, are both Independents.
The fact remains that the Greeks have the largest per capita
number of reallv capable and active students in their houses,
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as evidenced by the predominant number of Greeks in Friars,
Mortar Board, Druids, Phi Theta Upsilon, and other honoraries
based on service to the school, scholarship, and leadership.
Why, then, do the Independents conic to the top where the
most crucial positions are concerned? "Why, in both elective
positions, like that of Junior Weekend queen, and in appointive
positions, like the Emerald editor, do the Independents walk
off with the prize catches? Could it be that finally this year,
merit will out? Or could it be that the Independents are really
much stronger than the ASA likes to believe. Could it be that
someone is slipping?
To those Greeks who are so confident that they hold the
coming ASUO election in the palm of their hands, these ques
tions should provide some basis for uncertainty.
Telling the Editor
ABOUT VETERANS’ SUBSISTENCE
(In answer to a previous letter on the subject of Veteran Subsistence
Allowance).
How greedy are the veterans of World War II ? Messrs. Bingham,
Deardorff, and Hollis believe the veteran students “campaigning for
a larger cut of the government’s generosity’’ unappreciative and greedy;
I disagree!
To present my view I find it necessary to postulate that it is com
pletely impossible for a student vet
eran (living away from home) to
exist on $65 per month. I believe
this statement to be a self-evident
truth. At current living costs room
and board require a minimum of
$50-$55 per month, leaving the vet
eran the extravagance of about
$.40 per day with which to care for
the miscellaneous expenses of cloth
ing maintenance, toiletries and a
well balanced social life.
It can not be done. It is not done.
A survey of a score of vets has not
uncovered one living within an $85
limit, and most were exceeding that
figure considerably.
G. I. Bill
It is significant at this point .to
note what the original intention of
the G.I. Bill was. In the text of Pub
lic Law 346—78th Congress, it
states that the law was designed
“To provide Federal government
aid for the readjustment in civilian
life of the returning World War
veteran.” And to accomplish this
end, under Title II, appears a sec
tion on educational benefits (Part
VIII) from which I extract the fol
lowing:
A. (from par. 2) “Any . . .eligible
person (veteran) shall be entitled
to education. ...”
B. (from par. 5) “The (Veteran's)
Administrator shall pay to the edu
cational institute for each person
enrolled . . . (such) expenses, ex
clusive of .. . living expenses, as are
generally required for the success
ful pursuit and completion of the
course. . .
C. (from par. 6) “While enrolled
in ... a course . . . such person shall
be paid a subsistence allowance .. .”
The whole letter and spirit of the
document would call for education
as the veteran’s just due (A. above),
with adequate funds for schooling
itself (as asserted in B.) and for
subsistence also (as provided in C.).
In this way the government hoped
to provide for the readjustment of
many of its returning veterans.
Means bf Support
But it has already been stated
that $65 per month is not an ade
quate means of support. Since a
subsistence allowance is by defini
tion a means of support, I believe
it certainly expedient at this time
for the Congress to follow the spirit
of the law by increasing to subsist
ence level the allowance provided.
Messrs, Bingham, Deardorff, and
Hollis argue that the veteran should
not tie his colors “to the bandwag
on of the spiralling cost of living.”
I wonder how 2 million student vets
can be asked to favor such a course
of action, when it is obvious that
they can not maintain themselves
at the existing level once their sup
plementary savings have been de
pleted. They have not been the in
dependent variable (their pay hav
ing remained fixed throughout)
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ABOUT INTOLERANCE
For nearly a year I have been
reading the Emerald and noting
with interest and amusement the
various editorials, letters, and com
ments written by aspiring journal
ists, disgruntled students, and “hol
ier than thou” hypocrites on the un
dying subject of race prejudice.
I was born in the South, and lived
there until a year ago. I was reared
by parents who were prejudiced, in
a town that was prejudiced. I was
taught in school by teachers who
were prejudiced, and I had friends
who were prejudiced, and I shall
probably pass my prejudices on to
my children.
I firmly believe that I am just as
entitled to toleration as anyone else.
But when the reformers preach tol
eration they fail to mention that in
the removal of prejudices they
mean to deny some people the privi
lege of keeping those prejudices.
Neither here nor in the South do
I try to force my prejudices on
those around me. I do not advocate
the abuse, intimidation, lynching,
or degrading of any person or any
race, color, or creed—but still I’m
prejudiced as H——; and as long as
I mind my own business, interfere
in no way with the liberties of oth
ers, and do not physically abuse
persons of a minority race I feel
that it is my inalienable right to
cultivate my prejudices as I see fit!
Don’t the people who are trying
to reform the world realize that by
condemning prejudice they are only
entrenching it deeper into those
who are prejudiced. The Emerald
would contribute much more to
ward this noble end if it would de
vote the space given to these re
formers to the publication of data
on “how to beat the races” or to a
survey on “the average age of pros
titutes in Siberia”!
Why is it that down in Austin at
Texas University (in the middle of
the “ignorant, nasty, bigoted”
South—where everyone says “nig
ger”) the school paper seldom, if
ever, has to go to bat to protect the
rights of some poor abused stu
dent; while here in the liberal, open
minded northwest you can’t pick up
a paper without reading about
someone being mistreated?
The Emerald in its policy of harp
ing on race prejudice is just like the
little boy with a big sore—if he
would leave it alone it would even
tually get well, but instead he reg
ularly scrapes the scab off just to
see it bleed!
WHAT THIS SCHOOL REALLY
NEEDS IS A CAMPAIGN TO
ELIMINATE THE PREJUDICE
AGAINST “PEOPLE WHO ARE
PREJUDICED”! Amen.
—James D. White
First color picture ever used in an
Oregana appeared in 1938.
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Browsings
with LARRY LAU
Pinnings and d'e-pinnings by the
dozens over the big Weekend. A
lot of steady couples aren’t that
way any more, and a lot of people
that didn’t know each other last
week are in each others arms now;
jolly old spring term! The very
charming Marilyn “Andy” Ander
son showed up at the Prom with
an all-ruby Phi Psi sweetheart pin.
A beaming, delighted Don Stewart
identified himself as t h e donor.
Wally Johnson, after winning the
battle for the SU, lost one with
Jit Archer and was handed back
his Theta Chi pin, (some say there
lurks a darkhorse in the back
ground). Wally Hunter, same'
house, is doing nothing but well
with Chi O’s bubbly Kay Schneid
er. There’s still all kinds of time
for picnics, and o’ course you
gotta’ have a portable. Well . . .
Endieott’s Radio Service has a
batch of smooth new ones in for
only $41; extra batteries $3 per.
Sigma Kappa’s coltish Pat
Thompson is having a wee bit of
trouble with her dates. Last Sun
day Marv Butterfield had the aft
ernoon date and Bob Miller took
the swing shift. Lindy Shuterlee
was just a little confused when her
man Cas Cross returned suddenly
to find her with a Prom date. The
SAM’s teriffic house dance, sched
uled for Sat eve, will feature tap
ping of three new members of the
Casanudicknus local. Only men
with long service records and well
rounded personalities will be con
sidered. By way of cleaning things
up, especially after this past week
end, let you gentle people not for
get the location of The Best Clean
ers. After handling the rush last
week with professional deftness,
they’re a cinch for this one.
Quickie Dept.: Meredith Sterns
picked' up Art Wahlers Phi Sig pin
over the weekend. . . Hear Jack
Donald is bringing Reid Grasle’s
old flame, Shirley Crump down
from Portland for the annual Han
dle's party. . . Right on schedule
came the pinning of Mary Jo Ex
tra by SAE’s Don Edwards. . Rich
Hopper and Sue McAdams, going
strong after nearly three terms
(well?) . . . Helen’ Gatewood took
Bill Seal’s D Upin. . . Theta’s very
pretty Dian Krieske accepting the
attentions of Sigma Chi’s debonair
Lynn Hamilton. . . Hen Hall’s real
cute Betty Burkett (who gets 3.8’s
by the way) took Shelton Session’s
Fiji pin. . . Helen Arneson and Jim
Dyer secreting. . . . Kappa’s Ce
celia Sensor announced her en
gagement to Mike Reed. . . . Cal
Smith doubting his chances for
Mortar Board. . . . Webfoots get
ting their shoes fixed at the Cam
pus Shoe Shop of course. A fast
job at the lowest price, what more
do you want ?
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