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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1950)
A Spade is Not a Spade? A Statement from the State Board The State Board of Higher Education was criti cized, locally by the Register-Guard, before and after its decision concerning the Oregon State Col lege major in Physical Education. The criticisms did not so much run along the line as to whether or not OSC should have the PE major, as they did to whether or not the board was continuing or abandoning the Oregon system of allocation. In addition, the Register-Guard wanted the board to call a spade a spade, and to let the public in on its policy decisions. Well, the state board has stated its policy on this matter, which appears in full below; but it still seems to leave some doubts as to the condition of the spade. The law passed by the 1929 Legislature provid ing for the control of all the state-supported higher educational institutions by a single board express ly granted to the Board the authority to eliminate unnecessary duplication. A survey commission was employed by the Board and made a report recommending certain allocations and re-alloca tions of curricular offerings to eliminate what was then considered unnecessary duplication. For the most part the Board, in its 1932 program, followed the recommendations of that commission. It must be remembered, however, that these recommenda tions were made and accepted at a time when the two major institutions had less than half the en rollment of the present student bodies and at a time when the state and the country as a whole were, plunged into an economic depression. FROM TIME TO TIME From time to time the Board, after the most careful study, has made some adjustments in these original allocations in the interest of better serving the student population. Science wras restored to the University as a major field in 1941. Similarly a dis tinctive major curriculum in Business and Indus try was instituted at the State College in Septem ber, 1942, with a later modification to a School of Business and Technology. Very large student bodies are enrolled in the Science and Business units at both the University and the State College. The Board considers these adjustments as neces sary duplications entirely within the intent of the original law. The passage of time has vindicated the judgment of the Board in restoring these units to make them well rounded and effective institu tions Other less significant adjustments have been made from time to time, some of them involving duplication considered to be necessary, in the con sidered judgment of the Board. IT COSTS ONLY SO MUCH It is pertinent to point out that duplication even of major allocations does not necessarily involve added expense to the state or to the student. It costs only so much to educate a student to the Baccalaureate, Master’s or Doctor’s degree re gardless of location, assuming, of course, that there are sufficient numbers of students to guar antee adequate size of classes and effective utiliza tion of facilities and faculties. Frequently where instructional units get too large, there is an ac tual loss in educational efficiency to the student, and the concentration of students in a single field on a single campus in very large numbers operates against educational effectiveness. California is ex periencing that very situation and is now distribut ing its educational offerings in some of the more general and popular fields among several campuses even though there is considerable duplication. THERE MAY BE SOME CHANGES MADE Oregon is a fast growing state and the needs of the state for higher educational facilities will be ever changing. Furthermore, the pattern of higher education is not static. It is constantly changing to meet changing needs. Therefore, it is very prob able that from time to time other changes will be required in the pattern of higher education in Ore (Please turn to page three) Row, Row, Row Every time it has rained for the last three years, someone has pointed out the gigantic puddle that forms in the street be tween Condon and Taylor’s. “Why don’t you write an edit?” they ask, “Someone’ll drown in there sometime if they don’t clean out that sewer.” .Always we’ve answered that we doubted if the city plumb ers would give a hoot what the Emerald said. They’d probably say, go jump in the puddle. We’ll fix it after the next bond is sue. But that wasn’t the real reason we didn’t run an edit about the mammoth puddle. Truly, we have great faith in the Emer ald’s ability to frighten people, and we had no doubt the plumb ers would la p to their tools after sufficient prodding in the edi torial pages. We had another reason for silence. It can be told now that our plans have been thwarted—for yesterday the masters of the underworld showed up with large spirals of steel rope and set to cleaning out the traditionally clogged sewer. You see, we’d hoped that the puddle would grow and grow until it became a full-fledged lake. Almost every campus has a lake or two, or even a fish pool. Not many, if any, have Mill ■ races—but then, it is only by a stretch of the imagination that Oregon has one. So we had hoped that after a few more years of neglect, cat alogs would speak of the Beautiful University of Oregon Campus Situated on Taylor’s Lake. Conveniently located, the lake would allow for swimming and boating between classes—for students and professors alike. There could be picnics on its banks and mosquitoes on its surface. It’d be wonderful! Furthermore, a lake so situated would mean that Thirteenth street would be closed to traffic. That would save the Emerald another campaign someday. But we’ve been thwarted. The plumber showed up.—B.H. Daily EMERALD The ORKGON DAILY EMERALD, published daily during the college year except Saturdays, Sundays, holidays and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Subscription rates: $2.00 a term, $4.00 for two terms and $5.00 a year. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice Eugene, Oregon. Opinions expressed in editorials are those of the writer, and do not claim to represent the opinions of the ASUO or of the University. Initialed editorials are written by associate editors. Unsigned editorials are written by the editor. Opinions expressed in an editorial page by-lined column are those of the columnist, and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editor or his associates. Don A. Smith, Editor Joan Mimnaugh. Business Manager Barbara Heywood, Helen Sherman, Associate Editors. Glenn Gillespie, Managing Editor Don Thompson, Advertising Manager News Editors: Anne Goodman, Ken Metaler. Assistant News Editor: Mary Ann lKIsman. Assistant Managing Editors: Hal Coleman, loin King. Hill Stanfield, Stan Turnbull. Emerald Photographer: Gene Hose. Women’s Editor: June L'itrgibbons. Office Manager: Karla Nan Loan. Assistant Business Manager: Cork Mobley. National Advertising Manager: Bonnie Birke* iricir. Spirts Editors: John Barton, Sam Fidman. Chief Night Editor Lortia l.arson Copy Editor: Marjory Bush. Desl: Editors: Marjory Bush, Beb Funk, Cietchen Grondahl, Lorna Larson, Larry Meiser Zone Managers: Sue Baclielder, Shirley Hil lard, Barbara Williams. Virginia Kellogg, Barbara Stevenson, Jeanne Hoffman. Ofjjfhand ObleSivatiowi The Morning After The House Dance by Rill Kayeki House dances? They say there were six of them Saturday night, but when the smoke cleared Sunday no one seemed to know for sure. It was 11 o'clock in the morning when con 4 L t X * PIERCE vers a t i o n a 1 noises brought Josh McHay se e cl, w h i t e hope of the Elio Rho fra ternity, out of his com a. Slowly he open e cl one blood-shot eye arid let the ob ject over his head swim in t o focus. 1 t turned out to be a ship’s lan tern, swinging lazily in its gimbals. He watched its gyra tions critically for a moment, then suddenly shuddered and shut the eye again, waiting for the eels in his stolnach to settle down and be have. “What in the name of good old Rho Rho,” he thought, “is that pink bat doing flying around the lantern ?” Then it occurred to Josh to wonder what a ship’s lantern was doing over his head. A horrible thought crept into his b.rain. He tried to put it down, but it kept arising to plague him. The thought grew in to conviction, and he lept to his feet in terror. “I’ve been shanghaied!” he screeched. “I’m on a tramp steamer headed for outer Mongolia!” The eels started to writhe and squirm. Rough hands grasped him by the arms and tried to quiet him. Some one drop ped a feather on the floor and the concussion threatened to blow the top of his skull off. “Easy, Josh. Easy does it,” said a voice. Josh thought for a second and then stopped (Please turn to page tliree) Gnatchetif, Old Vet Back in The Groove With Tongue in Cheek < tyf Steve Jloy If you are one of the 5 million readers of Life you no doubt read the spread on the Sig Chi’s. (That's the name you can’t call 'em.) By way of local adaptation, they, (the Sig Chi's) have set a five dollar fine for all under classmen caught without at least five copies in his immediate possession. S’wonderful what they did with that uncouth, poorly dressed, illiterate varsity basketball player. Too bad they didn't hear about my "pang-ini” ability when I was an illiterate, poorly dressed freshman. I have been asked to apologize to mv Greek friends for underestimating their number, k ORRECT I OX ; I have 4 Greek friends. My home town paper had an interesting want ad this week. The thing read "wanted, secretary, from IS to SO. Must be able to take dictation and put in long hours. (Average Apply first floor of the court house. I he windows have bars to keep out the wea ther. I he guy is laying out a fine for reckless driving. 1 he ground owl meat award of the week goes to the brainy Motor Boat gals who sug gest that we install the activity point system again. In reverse that is. Found a dilly of a proof error the other night in a story about a wedding. Seems the happy couple were going to establish double residence in his house and on her farm. The story read, Mrs. Cleoporia Clabbertwitch’s form is one of the original Lane county lancL grants.