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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1950)
The Oregon Daily Emkralp. published^Monday tbrough Fnday during t ffay^ SS.1S E!5rf“ if-5 *bc Eulentolegon. Subscription rates: $5 per M ^ $2 ^“”d do not pretend to Opinions expressed » ^ ^^^theUni^r'si?^ Initialed editorials are written by •Anita Holmes, Editor___ ,Lo»na Laeson, Managing Editor Barbara Williams. Advertising Manager lUUMS*"* ----_ iw King- Ken Metzler, Don Smith. Associate Editors^ * The World--An Armed Camp Ooinion on the world situation seems almost useless. T here are so many millions of people involved, and^^?u in North Korea is so grave, that opinions and hopes see" tile in the face of the threat of spilt blood-whether that blood gushes through white flesh, or black or brown or yellow. gusiics 5. T nTTollette nretty well sum Ex-Wiseonsm governor Philip Lab ollette p y med up the whole situation with hts statement that Today .s fte product oi yesterday, and tomorrow ts the product of .0 d Diplomatic blunders of 1944-1946 have set the stage lor ' blood-letting today. And, we are so caught up in “ has been drawn around us by the actions of yesterday that S activities we could go into today to pave the way for a brighter tomorrow are limited. Our scope of action was so narrowed down .by the time the North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel last summer . that our course of act! hardly have been different than what it was. WiH there be a third world war? Will it arise in a matter of days from the Chinese communist aggression. Althoug thJre is a smattering of optimism among a few higher polit minds, Europe offers a fearful suggestion. Europeans are war-weary and war-wise, and the probability of Russia sending her armies into Western Europe soon is real enough to cause near-alarm there. The world we live in is an armed camp. The lesson that his-.. tory teaches us is that armament is never built up for the pur pose of peaceful negotiation. In addition, world-wide under standing has been nilled by communist ideology—and com munist non-cognizance of the device we call compromise. From our puny seat in the world congress of peoples, it looks like the stage is set. When the actors will begin their perform ance is a matter of time. It is more “when ’ than it is if at this moment. If the major, dreaded conflict is avoided now, what can we do to prepare for aversion at the next incident. For surely, un less that elusive factor called “miracle” happens along, there will be another incident.—S.F. Economic Umbrella Without kids Born son of the royal family of Wisconsin, Phil LaFollette had his finger in political pies before most young men had cast a vote. He and the Roosevelt boys and Robert Taft and count less others are contradictions to the “all men created equal” principle. . However, inheritance of a national name can be a dubious distinction. When the son speaks on the University of Oregon campus, listeners find it hard to judge the man on his own merits, al ways posing him in the light of his famous family. When he says “yeah” and “gunna and it s been grand to see ya,” the listener almost instinctively brands him "nothing but a politician.” And the listener knows that s an unfair judg ment, considering that it is based on only one speech and a few friendly mannerisms. But that one speech by Phil LaFollette, ex-governor of Wis consin not Phil LaFollette, son of Robert, left unanswered the question it was supposed to ask. His topic was “Is Another Depression Ahead?” His answers: . no economic, physical reason for another depression ... it will come from ignorance, stupidity, timidity ... we must keep the machines we have invented rolling at the speed for which they were designed . . . the greatest economic problem is to find a substitute for the old frontier.” True, Mr. Speaker, but we’re a little slow and need more of the how and less of the what. It sounds good, but how ?_ THE DAILY ^ ... to the YWCA Tuesday Service Commission which is sponsoring a Christmas party for the children of the Uni versity-YWCA cooperative nursery. THE OREGON LEMON ... to students and professors who are always surprised to find, when they come in late on assembly days, that clas ses are being held on special schedule. ~r>IUnes From Coast to Coast Wave of Robberies Plague Easfern Campy With final exams just a short distance away, college campuses around the country are having their final whirl—and, although they don’t have the beer prob lem that Oregon does, they have plenty to keep them busy. Lets look in on our coast-to-coast roundup and find out what s go ing on: Maybe its the war fever or maybe its sheer mass klepto mania, but a theft wave hit two of the nation’s universities, Ala bama and Maryland. The former has had persistent cases of steal ing frtom men’s dormitories since last summer; now the dorm doors will be clamped shut at 10:30 p.m. sharp. Maryland reported an entire series of robberies, 90 per cent of which were staged while occupants were in their rooms. The distress at Maryland, how Tho Word Class of '51 Could Hold Reunion in Korea Area From Stan Turnbull The war jitters are really here, for fair. If all the rash statements about joining the Air Force, Army, Marines, Seabees, Coast Guard, National Guard, and R.O.T.C. we’ve heard since the “new war” in Korea, were laid end to end on the Sahara Desert, it would prob ably be the right place for them. Unfortunately the whole affair can’t be laughed off that easily. But don’t let’s lose our heads. Let’s buckle seriously down to our studies, keep inf ormed on the international situation, and see you in Korea soon. __—MwCtters— The Campus Answers One Overall Grade Emerald Editor: A lot has been said about the grading system, and the com ments of Drs. Taylor, Tyler, and Littman lend weight to the con tention that the GPA system both fails to show what a student is getting out of school, and discour ages exceptional achievement by students who have fields of spe cial interest. Take a science student, for in stance. It’s true that he should have Rhetoric, because he may have to make reports on his new cure for cancer. But the course becomes a curse and a bottleneck when he starts spending a size able part of his allotted 24 hours a day trying to cudgel a cute lit tle subjective theme out of his scientific brain in order to keep up his GPA. Some say you should disregard grades, but many students don’t disregard them, and neither do scholarship committees, the VA, or prospective employers. What would be wrong with giv ing one official letter grade each term, for total achievement? This would be arrived at by the discretion of a board for that pur pose, and would give special weight to courses that are most important to the individual stu dent. It would require each in structor to submit grades to th< board, and in some cases would have about the same effect as the present mathematical average, but would have some flexibility to allow for special needs and aims. The GPA could be figured when the student graduates, by averaging the single letter grades Of all his terms. Paul A. Norris A favorite gripe with this de partment is girls with short hair, but it did show us that girls aren’t as different from boys as we thought. They do have ears. But some of these haircuts are ridiculous. First thing you know only the pre-med majors will be able to tell boys from gals. There was the minister who was outraged at the dress of some college girls—“Just look at that young person there With the cig arette, close-cut hair and breech es,” he remarked to a bystander. “Is it a boy or a girl?” “It’s a girl,” replied the other. “She’s my daughter.” “Oh, I beg your pardon, sir,” apologized the preacher, “I never dreaiped you were her father.” *Pm not,” came the reply. “I’m her mother.” We mean no slur on freshman counseling, but someone slipped up somewhere, according to some fifth-floor Carsonites. This young man arrived at Carson Hall armed with nothing but his knowledge that he had a date that night and that the girl lived on the fifth floor. Gazing wildly about for some means of contacting her, he spied the elevator, which he rode up to fifth, whereupon he took off in search of his date. We didn’t hear whether he ever did find the object of his affections, but he certainly met a lot of interesting screams. ever, was tempered bv t pearance of BU*ga«| J cert today. ™ Down South, though . ties were vexed when ’ sity of Texas fraternity . vegetable crates and » lids from the Texas A, 41 fire. Naturally, this was to the traditional Longhj gie grid game. But the < must be paid for. At the University of ( cut, the editors of magazine, “Touchstone," nally acquitted of subversity filed by the« tration after its h sue. The American Leg) jected to an ad “lampoon! United States Army.” ] that their names have beel ged through the mud, the! have been relieved of thetl and the magazine is 1 lishing. Again in the East, at I Washington University, 29 bers of the Phi Sigma | houses were saved fromd the warnings of their mascl Terry. Fire gutted the baj of the fraternity house, 1 more than $15,000 worth 0 ages. The members were al ed by the dog’s cries and el Terry died from suffocatil In the South, Louisiana! University has $1 crease the seating capacit| football stadium — but know what to do with it I] of the recent clamp-down d struction of amusement bia by the President. Some prj On the West Coast, at j discrimination in the fol words scrawled in front j library in acid flared 1 The act was branded a ‘ against the whole student I Meanwhile, plans for Week” on campus were| ahead on schedule. The University of Wash| dedicated its new fisheries center. AndPacif: versity, with its near completion, is fra trying to find some furnilj put in it—$4,000 worth. At College of Idaho, hoj things were calm as evel only news was that officii contemplating changin| school’s name to Boone T in honor of its founder. • dent body is against it. It Could Be Oregon 1 “Boy, they sure send that ball back down th court a huff.''