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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'
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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
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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.
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