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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1949)
A Crisis? And How!! Final examinations start in less than four weeks and the students are entering into a period of crisis. It happens every year. Time is running out and still the work piles up. Good in tentions are a component part of every mind but academic ac complishments are as few and far between as ever. After a long hard year, the mind has run dry and it’s aw fully hard to squeeze any more studying out of it. That re search paper is due next Monday and all the shows in town are good. What a choice to have to make. All the architecture projects have to be in in the next few days but the house has to be decorated for the big dance this Saturday too. What a choice to have to make. Those chapters in American governments just have to be read but a beer at Taylor’s or the Side would taste real good on a day like this. How are you gonna choose between the two? It’s reading and conference at three this afternoon and just look at those lucky bums going on another picnic. How come they don’t have to work too? A crisis? And how!! How will it all end up? Almost everyone will make the grade. Some of the gradu ates will only make a 2.001 but that’s enough. Some of the pegged grades will be just a little short of the mark but the scholarship committee will read their petitions next fall and vote them one more term on probation. Written finals will be weaker than usual but the curve will stay the same. And when it’s all over students from everywhere in the country, from every college and university, not just Oregon alone, will settle back and ask one simple question. “How did I ever do it?” —Bud Hurst. 8 «: 8 8 Another Function Beginning next fall, the student traffic court will take on its first non-traffic duties. Any violations connected with the stu dent athletic books will be referred to the court for disciplinary action. The decision on this action came at the March 7 meeting of the executive council when Howard Lemons’ athletic busi ness manager, reported that at one basketball game 420 books were picked up and that there had been 32 cases of direct for gery. Although the exchange of books may seem harmless. Lemons reported that should be collector of internal revenue catch anyone, the penalty would be severe. It was decided that some type of disciplinary action would have to be taken and the council decided to let the student traffic court handle any violation which might come up in the future. So even before the court has had a chance to function on parking violations, the executive council has deemed it wise to turn over one more type of disciplinary problem to it. It is in such a manner that the court in time will be evolved into a body with considerably more power and jurisdiction.. D.D. 8 8 Balance Your Time The average college student faces a dual danger involving the use of his time. On the one hand, there is the temptation to look upon college life as preparation for the future entirely and to evaluate all one's activities with an emphasis on the to morrows. There is, on the other hand, a tendency to become short-sighted—to judge everything only as it applies to today. There is merit in both philosophies but a successful college career depends upon the achievement of proper balance be tween them. Oregon if - Emerald The Oregon D kit y Emerald, published daily during the college year except Sundays, Btfjondavs, holidavs, and final examination periods by the Associated Students, l Diversity ot Oregon. Subscription rates: $_\00 i>er term and $4.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Bil l. VAIKS. Editor VIRGIL TUCKER. Business Manager Associate Editors: June Goetze, Boblee Brophy, Diana Dye, Barbara Heyrvood Advertising Manager: Cork Mobley BOB REED, Managing Editor Assistant Managing Editors: Stan Turnbull, Don Smith BOB TWEEDELL. City Editor Assistant City Editors: Ken Metzler, Ann Goodman NEWS EDITORS Chuck Grell. Ifal Coleman. Steve Loy, Vic Fryer, Diane Mecltam DEl'AKTMEN V EDI l'ORS Tom King, Sports Editor Connie Jackson, Women's Editor Walter Dodd, feature r-ditor Warren (.'oilier, Chief Night Editor LITER ill'SI NESS STAFF Bill Lemon, S:iles Mgr. Eve Overbeck, N.it’l Adv. Mgr. Leslie Tooze, Ass't Adv. Mgr. Helen Sheumiu, Circulation Mgr. Bill Plummer, Ass t Auv. Mgr. lack Selmaidt, Ass’t Adv. Mur. Donna Brennan, Ass’t Adv. Mgr. Kae Evans, Ass’t Adv. Mgr. Joan Mimnauga--Assist. Business Manage* Letters Let's Act Like Adults Not Children To the University Students: Let’s quit kidding ourselves; students on this as well as other University campuses drink. Fur thermore, no one but the com paratively small prohibitionist element objects to it per se. Saturday evening I had anoth er opportunity to observe the im mature drinking habits of a min ority of University men that cling to the “high schoolish” be lief that it is a mark of maturity to appear at a house dance or other campus functions loaded to capacity. What they apparently fail to realize is the reflection not only upon themselves but on the houses of which they are members -and on the University. Furthermore, it exhibits an utter lack of courtesy to their dates who are particularly embarrassed when it is their own house dance that is being spoiled by the chur lish conduct of their invited es corts for the evening. In the last three years I have' played for many house dances both here and at Oregon State. My observations are therefore not based on one or two isolated examples of this type of behav ior. Unless the living organizations themselves take steps to rectify this type of thing, action may re sult from the University author ities which is the last thing any one wants to happen. Let’s not wait until pressure is brought to bear upon the Student Affairs of fice forcing them to act. We claim to be adults—let’s act like it. (Name withheld) LETHARGIC Letter to the Editor: The suicidal lethargy expressed in the editorial last week on world government is a fine exam ple of the old American custom of “It's just sd comfortable the way it is—why change it—may be tomorrow—.” This expression on the part of a journalist, sup posedly versed on the points un der discussion shows a deplorable unwillingness to probe into the compelling reasons for Cord Mey er’s “vision.” With the admission that “there is little doubt that a world or ganization of some kind is nec essary to world peace,” the writ er passes off the subject as some thing only remotely possible of disturbance. But for those who have known another kind of world and who have no assur (Please turn to page seven) "In MY Opinion..." A Reader Editorial Defends Journalists By Tom Brubeek Children learn the value of having scapegoats. If they can find a “sucker” to pick on—maybe he wears thick glasses—they feel con fident that they themselves are above criticism. Being allies, they would not dream of finding fault with one another. Many University of Oregon professors are like these children, disguised only by their more subtle language and dressier appearance. Journalists are their scapegoats, and the little pin-pricks go on continually. Their own profession is above reproach. Truth is what they are after, not cheap “sensationalism” and “distorted news.” They wonder how news hawks from the press can hope to write about material that has taken them years to understand. And having dared to talk back to scholars, I’ll get down to cases: First, the English department, made up of noble gentlemen with tweed coats and a far-away look in their eyes. (I can create stereo types, too.) They can feel safe in dessecting Pope and Browning within theier classroom walls. Their profound comments are not displayed daily be fore thousands of newspaper subscribers. What is more important, the backs from them! When I see men so fanatically sold on their own field, and so per sistent in their attack upon journalists, I wonder if they are frus trated writers w'ho have trouble selling their material. If that’s the case maybe they have made a satisfactory adjustment. I wish them suc cess, but hope they will learn to be more tolerant towards those who want to continue writing. If they cannot achieve genuine tolerance, maybe they can take a mercenary viewpoint. Newspapermen can, and have, helped teachers. In a large publicity campaign two years ago, newspapers devoted valuable space in trying to obtain better salaries for the educators. Paid advertisements could have been substituted for these features, news stories, and editorials. Ironically, psychology professors can be just as naive as the group just described. Are their ideas on motivation confined to textbooks? One doesn’t have to be a psychologist to realize that the best efforts follow reward rather than punishment. If they would have us improve, their sarcasm should be replaced by constructive criticism, along w'ith acknowledgment of jobs well done. Superior attitudes do not impress us. We have been through the education mill, too. Although many history professors are also on the bandwagon, a member of their group offered one of the few fair remarks I have heard concerning journalists. He said historians usually criticize jour nalists because they are jealous of their writing ability. He went on to say that a combination of the historian’s accuracy and journalist’s skill in presentation would greatly improve the dull, prosaic books teachers force upon their students. I would like to add that journalists can often dig up facts more efficiently than historians, since they deal in many fields of knowl edge, all cf them requiring research techniques. There isn’t space for describing the remarks that come from every department on the campus. It’s evident that most professions are not above criticism. Some of them literally get away with mur der, but there is some unwritten code of ethics which keeps their names out of newspapers. These doctors, lawyers, and so on, so free to criticize the press, are the same people who come into the news paper office to make sure the “editor-in-chief” has the correct spell ing of their daughther’s name, who is visiting for the weekend. (No charge for the publicity, by the way.) Some things to consider: (1) Few newspapers today hire men with less than a bachelor's degree. (2) Their product, but its very nature, is constantly in full view of the public’s eye. (3) Newspaper personnel are becoming more and more specialized. The jack-of-all-trades of yesterday is being replaced by court re porters, lumber experts, and so on. (4) A well-written article, no matter how superficial, is more valuable to the layman than one written in technical jargon. (5) Newspapers are designed for he masses, not for specific groups. (6) Newspaper and radio are the vehicles of democracy. An un informed population is not capable of self-government. W HERE TOURISTS LIVE IN CASK S—Visitors to “Cask Villa,” outside Vermilion, o.. live in cabins made from 6.000-eallon casks sold 25 years aero liy a Cleveland winery.
