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Oregon Undercurrent...
A powerful new undercurrent is running beneath the fabric
of the University this fall.
We saw it on Hallowe’en when pranksters passed the prank
ster class and caused damage estimated at hundreds of dollars.
We saw it on Howe Field when freshmen left their bonfire
to wage war on the landscape.
We saw It in a news story on the wires of Associated Press
telling that eight University of Oregon students have been ar
rested on charges of burglarizing a Eugene market.
We saw it in the stands at the football game, and at the
Homecoming rally.
Why, we ask, and the student voice answers:
With Current Talk...
“Aw-w-, it’s no worse than ever. You know just as well as I
do that kids were rough-necking and partying last year and
the year before. And even if it is worse—what the heck?
“Counseling in the dorms is no good, and lots of the older
guys are leading the freshmen into a big time, and lots of the
freshmen are leading themselves.
“Might be a little different if the frats could put their hands
on the freshmen—and might be a little different if the frats
had left their hands off the freshmen. But then, even the co-ops
are having trouble with their guys.
“What difference does it make? We’ll all be in Korea or
China or some place this time next year. Might as well have
some fun now while we can.”
And What's Under It
God help us if we don’t have a sober thought or two beneath
this rationalization. It isn’t that the gay belongs not to the
conservative Oregon student. It’s this feeling of irresponsibili
ty, this reckless abandon which has been dropping us into the
lap of those who still shout “country club.”
We would be happier if there were the liberal regulations pe
culiar to such schools as Reed. Or if students were doing their
own disciplining.
But for the time we’re saddled with this system of state
institutions of higher education and all its pressures. Every
citizen owns a share in the school and every citizen knows more
than the educational administrators. If the state board isn’t
happy, we lose appropriations. If the alumni aren t happy, the
pressure is exerted.
And—one of the worst weaknesses—we're forced to accept
and try to educate men and women who should never enter a
college.
It’s too easy to shout “what the heck” and “I’m only young
once” and “tomorrow will take care of itself. ’ Ours isn t the
only tomorrow we have to think about. Ours is not the easy
way. Much as we may hate it. we know we must bury one foot
in the cement of reality and anchor a generation which is go
ing to need anchoring more than any generation before it.
THE DAILY 'E' . . .
to Carolyn Oleinan and Marilyn Peterson, members of
the YWCA International Affairs Committee who showed
American voting procedures to Oregon's foreign students
Tuesday.
THE OREGON LEMON . . .
to the Oregon athlete who wrote a very interesting—but
unsigned letter to the Emerald. Signatures, please, and
we’ll guarantee the names won’t be released without the
writer’s permission.
Colleges from Coast to Coast
Oaths, Chests, Football Trips Steal Headlines
The nation is all agog over the
election, results, the University of
Oregon is all agog over fall term
rushing—and now let’s see what
other college campuses around
the country are agog over—
In Seattle, the resignation of
the University of Washington’s
dean of students has brought
forth “expressions of complete
confidence” in the dean from the
board of control. A resolution to
this effect has been sent to the
university president.
The loyalty oath again is caus
ing discussion, though no rever
berations, on the West Coast. The
recent California ruling is now
taking effect at San Jose State
College. Result is that there have
been no dissenters thus far. Sign
ers number 772.
Up the valley at Oregon State,
the Community Chest quota has
been set at $5,000—which is ex
actly one grand more than Ore
gon is required to raise.
Reaching out across the coun
try to ChapM Hill, N. C., the
school yearbook at the University
of North Carolina has lined up
Cecil B. DeMille, Paramount pic
ture tycoon, to judge its “Yack
ety Yack” beauty contest.
Last year the judge was A1
Capp of Lil’ Abner fame. How
ever, students probably got more
enjoyment hearing opera star
Rise Stevens in a concert.
Just as Oregon will hear Sum
ner Welles tonight, other Univer
sities have been hearing promi
nent statesmen and politicos
voice their opinions before stu
dent audiences. At the Univer
sity of Texas, David Lilienthal,
ex-head of the Atomic Energy
Commission, said that “ a present
law barring private investors
from entering the*field of indus
trial atomic energy is a violation
of the Amrican tradition.”
Meanwhile, at the University
of Connecticut Far Eastern af
fairs expert Owen Lattimore
spoke to representatives from 85
Eastern schools attending a con
ference of the International Rela
tions tJiuu.
Down South at Louisiana State
University, federal judges have
ruled that qualified Negroes must
now be admitted to the LSU Law
School—another successful fight
in the war against racial discrim
ination.
On the other hand, UCLA was
having its troubles over student
recalcitrance, although its base
ball field still is intact. Ten spec
tators were injured when its
Homecoming rally bonfire ex
ploded. Police agreed that the
blast was a result of a “delib
erately set charge of either dyna
mite or gunpowder.”
Oblivious of explosions and/or
vandalism, Texas Christian Uni
versity is more concerned about
where the “student body trip”
will be this year. Each year the
students make a mass pilgrimage
to an out-of-town football game—
the site this year to be selected
by a campus-wide vote. Wonder
how a similar scheme might work
at Oregon.—T.K.
=Sky’s The Limits
Government at Peak;
Oscar Follows Trends
By Sam Fidman
Now that elections are over,
government can start function
ing at a level that is as near to
its best as it ever will get.
We might pose a question that
would sound something like—
what’s in a campaign promise—
and then go about attempting to
ferret out an answer.
Chances are, and it is almost
logical, that the promises will, to
a marked degree be carried out.
The reason for that is a logical
belief by politicians that their
winning an election is sort of a
mandate from the people to go
ahead and set their ideas into mo
tion.
In an election there is the se
lection of individuals by the peo
ple. When we put those individu
als who triumphed together, we
get a picture, or what the intelli
gentsia likes to call a trend.
One trend that seems apparent
is that the American people are
sick of union domineering. The
Democratic party, in our estima
tion, is identified with the unions
and more, with the strengthen
ing of unions.
The Republicans then, out of
sheer orneriness, if nothing else,
The Second Cup
Speculating over a second cup
of coffee on the possibilities of a
third war:
War is the science of destruc
tion. Abbott.
War is both the predecessor
and successor to peace. Both are
inextricably bound together.
King.
A bad peace is even worse than
war. Tacitus.
These are the times that try
men's souls. Thomas Paine.
And lest we forget—on peace:
If they want peace, nations
should avoid the pin-pricks that
precede cannon-shots. Napoleon.
If peace cannot be maintained
with honor, it is no longer peace.
Lord Russell.
would identify themselves with a
policy that tended to favor a cut
ting off of any additional union
strength, with the possibility of
imposing a federal back-track on
the omnipotent cliques.
Admittedly, there was a time
when labor needed help against
an oppressive ogre of manage
ment. But that time is past.
The unions succeeded in gain
ing bargaining power; they ac
complished world’s of good for
the worker. But, unions are run
by men.
They fell to a virtual flaunting
of their awesome strength in the
blueing face of the consuming
public and the federal govern
ment.
That, even Oscar will concede,
is carrying a good thing a little
beyond where it stops being good.
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The
Campus
Answers
The Weekend Toll
Emerald Editor:
The students of the University
of Oregon, especially those mem
bers of the freshman class, should
be ashamed of themselves after
the childish way they have acted
this past week. Perhaps they
should learn, among other things,
a new definition of “having fun.’’
Not only have they behaved in
a very immature manner, but
they have gone to the extent of
actually destroying University
and private property. The blame
lies not only with the freshmen.
Some of the so called older upper
classmen can also take the blame
for the Hallowe’en pranks.
It is unfortunate that we have
not learned to grow up. I hope
that the administration will not
sit placidly by and let this matter
go unnoticed and unaccounted for.
Madelon Alder
Carson Hall
It Could Be Oregon
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“Uh—Oh—here they come out on the field now—guess we’ve got about
the most offensive team in the country.”