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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1951)
"• sr* kh es*j^ssas?nff5rsai®Ksa SSESsSSaKfi- &H&*ibfw?&sS5 i: $5 per school year; $2 per Wren ICS. f j per xnuui jwi* • •• ssswasi s urss.wsajaKa “ sss e cinwult editors. Unsigned editorials are written by the editor.__ Here's Where Education Begins Three cups of coffee a day, an extra dou^mut, a couple afternoon cokes and so on. Wham! there goes a dollar. A cashmere sweater, a new formal . . . wliambo! there goes the month’s budget. And so the college student treks through his four years buy ing trifles, and what does he have when he gets out ? A bay-win dow and worn-out clothes. This is the common concept of where the money goes in college. Where else could the money go? A few students out of our 4,000 would advise spending a dime here and there on a good book. A good book. That means something that is worth reading now and will be worth reading as long as you have it. Seventy of these students are entering private libraries in the annual library contest this weekend. The collections will be either general, or in specialized categories, following the spe cial interests of the students. These are the students, few though they are, that prove to the cynic that some college students are interested in gaining broad educational backgrounds through reading—not just in the necessary know-how for making a mint in the cool, cold world. The modern trend is to go to a college for its football team, its location, its living program, its building facilities, or any other trivial attraction which makes a future student point with superficial pride to his alma mater. But what about scholarship. Its almost lost in the undergrad uate shuffle. College is theoretically the place where one finds out who has written things worth reading in all fields, and there are am ple opportunities to pick up inexpensive copies of these vol umes for future use, if nothing else. College is nearer the be ginning than the end of all learning for students who expect to to do any thinking after graduation. Seventy students is not very many out of 4.000. At least some students, in our opinion, are on the right track to getting a real education. J.P. Only One-Fourth Is Faltering It takes a patient administrator to work with University of Oregon students. And it takes tolerance and diplomacy and this time of year almost a “forgive them, for they know not what they do” attitude. Three weeks of classes plus one week of finals remain in the 1950-51 academic year. Administrative planners must begin drawing the picture of fall, ’51, but if student voice is to be heeded, the only advance planning will be done for Oregon’s men. The women can’t seem to get together. It all began back when a committee was appointed to de velop a freshman living plan more satisfactory to the entire campus than the plan in existence this year. Some students are still complaining about the makeup of the committee—but the report is now before us. We should be big enough to forget the committee. Their report—which is called the “Oregon Plan"—proposed freshman dormitories, deferred pledging for one term, a re vamped counselling and sponsoring program, and more stu dent participation in freshman orientation. It was simply intended to be “a sound basis for solving the deferred living problems, and a plan which may be improved upon as time goes by and susbequent problems arise.” However, the fraternity and dormitory men accepted it in its entirety, and now the administration is considering dormitories to house only freshman men. A third group, presidents of women’s dormitories, also ap proved the entire plan. But not so the majority of the sororities. Working hand in hand with city Panhellenic, they rejected it completely! Dormitory women who were satisfied to compromise by ac cepting the “Oregon Plan” would now be justified in going back to their preferred plan for a year’s deferred pledging. And then a rift too broad to bridge in three weeks would de velop. Sorority women would do well to reconsider their move, and show some student leadership for which three-fourths of the resident campus is waiting. THE DAILY *J£ ... to Margaret Scandling, journalism senior, for being one of the few Western women to go East as one of the guest editors on Mademoiselle magazine. Diagram Displays 'Oregon Plan' AGUO CABINET MEN’S HOUSING Cl J AIRMAN — WOMEN’S HOUSING GOMMITfEEL 1 RWS Vice-President 2 Head Res/dent Assistant 3 Read Sponsor * . ' 4- Off/ce of Student Affairs 5 Member-at-targe DUTIES 1 Select S tensors • 5 Direct Program men's mousing commi r i bt /. Men '5 Nousmg Chairman 2. (-/car/ Hcs/den t Ass/s/ant * 3. Head Sponsor * ,/. Office? of Student Ana S' Member af-Largo DUTIES 1 Select Sponsors 2 Di red Program MEAD SPONSORS, MEN AND WOMEN / \ n SPONSOR COORDINATION COMM I [TED 1 Tujo Nead Sponsors 2 Member, Men’s Sponsors 3-Member, Women'sCbonsors DUTIES 1 Coordinate Program 2 Social and Activities I I 1 / WOMEN’S SPONSOR ORGANIZATION DUTIES- < D/safr/tne and Tract'/t/ on £ Pa// Or&an/jat/ati 3 Pet ft/ counsel ing V _ A. _L MEN’S SPONSOR ORGANIZATION J SPONSOR <f PROSW UNIT SPONSOR d PROSW UNIT SPONSOR cSPROSH UNJIT , — ETC * P/ead f?es/dent /Iss/sfan/s uj/7/ be named by bho Office of S/udenp Affairs- Sponsor- app/icatrons cur// b& screened by tbc /Wen's arr/ l/VOrvenS /-rbusrng Comm/t/ee, and appointments cut// be approved bt/ tho OfSCO of Student /! ffairs Two of the main phases of the ‘‘Oregon Tlan” for freshman living are Illustrated In this chart up by the committee which formulated the plan. It shows the structure of the proposed counseling and sponsoring program, and It also shows the freshman consolldat- ed unit system. Right now, the entire plan has Jumped the hurdles of Interfratemlty Council, Interdormltory Council, and Interdormltory Governing Board. Heads of Houses voted it down in a meeting early this week. Parents of the “Oregon Plan” are nine students who travelled to (Stanford University early this term to study the freshman living program in that California school. This committee borrowed some of Stan ford’s ideas, added some of Its own, and came up with the “Oregon Flan.” It includes dormitories for freshmen, deferred pledging for one term, a counseling and sponsoring pro gram as illustrated in the chart, and a freshman orientation program with more student participation. (See editorial this page.) Magazine Rack Collier's Survey Illustrates Citizens' Feelings on Psychiatry r By Merge Scendling COLLIER’S this week pub lishes new survey on when Amer icans favor consulting psychia trists . . . it’s supposed to repre sent a thorough cross-section of the population of Louisville, Ken tucky, and its attitudes about psychiatry and mental illness. One of the first findings was that average person interviewed was strongly against having mem bers of his family consult a psy chiatrist or even the family doc tor about mental and emotional disturbances . , . yet an over whelming majority expressed confidence in psychiatric treat ment in general.. . most realized that old methods of handling psy- - chiatric problems, as throwing the mentally disturbed into jail, are outdated. * * * Overall responses made it clear to researchers that most people don’t quite understand psychia try and as a result, distrust it. . . yet by a tally of eight to one, the public said it was worthwhile to get a psychaitrist’s help when someone begins to act peculiarly and get strange ideas . . . others felt that such help was not neces sary since "everyone is a little pe culiar" or that many cases“aren't serious enough” to take to a pro fessional . . . only 35 of the 4,000 interviewed stated bluntly that they didn’t believe in psychia trists, seeming to indicate that The Second Cup And speaking of psychology: What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.— T. H. Key. • * • Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.—Burke. psychiatry has won its place in society. * * * As questionnaire became more specific, however, it was evident that few people recognize signs of mental illness . . . not many recognized descriptions of frank ly psychotic cases . . . for in stance, in answer to a sample story of a woman who threaten ed to kill the woman next door because her husband spoke to her one day, fewer than 7 per cent ad vised that she be taken to a men tal hospital ... 20 per cent felt that family doctor should “give her something to calm her nerves’’ ... 26 per cent favored having a minister talk with her and 21 per cent recommended that her hus band give her a good talking*to . . . altogether such nonscientific solutions won the vote of almost two-thirds of those queried about the case. *