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Akita Homes, Editor
Maitil ScboogiiI, Business Manager
Loan a Laison, Man Aging Editor___
Ton Kmc, Kim Mimn, Jackie Paitiim, Associate Editors
Fxan Neil, Advertising Manager
LETTER TQlMISS LARSON
Dear Lorna,
This is not the calmest night in the Emerald’s career, but it
is nonetheless a good one in which to write a letter to the new
editor.
Every spring such a letter is written just before the daily
ceases publication for the year. We have two more issues, you
know, before another spring is salted away.
Let me tell you a little about the months you face.
Tonight is not typical, but neither is it unique in the editor’s
life. We’ve been on the telephone half the day walking on those
sands which shift beneath a news story or editorial once it has
reached print.
Stories conflict. Answers are jumbled. \\ ords are
I hOSe weasled. And we must wait before writing that edi
Delays torial which almost writes itself.
You’ll do lots of waiting next year. And no matter how long
you consider or ponder a question, some will say your decision
was wrong. Maybe that's the mark of a good editorial page
pleasing half the people half the time, but never all the peo
ple all the time.
You’ll have freedom of decision as great as any editor in the
country. But always that “for the good of the University
phrase will stick in the back of your mind. You 11 hear it a jil
lion times next year, and every time you’ll have to weigh it
against another principle.
Should these Oregon students live in a cocoon? Should the
college paper be little more than a bulletin board? Should you j
try and do some good either in the long or short range? Those
are questions you’ll face and ultimately answer in the months
to come.
Administrative officials may ask you if the Emerald ever
considers “the good of the University,” but you’ll have to re
member that these officials have a job to do and they have no
choice but the stand they take. You’ll sometimes marvel at
their cooperativeness, and sometimes become disgusted at
their “no comment.”
••e\\A You'll find firm friends to turn to when the go
n ing’s rough . . . like “old dawg” Emerald editors
Dawgs still around and patient professors in the journal
ism school and personal friends you couldn’t do without.
And if next year is at all like this one, you’ll have an aggre
gation of the University’s best making up your staff. There’ll
be no Greek-Independent line on the Emerald staff, and you’ll
be proud of it. If a man merits a promotion, he’ll get it regard
less of affiliation or non-affiliation.
You’ll find a stick-to-gether-spirit unknown to any other
campus activity you’ve ever entered. And you’ll have a good
feeling of security when you enter that editorial office in the
Shack.
Your being a woman won’t make a bit of difference in that
editorship .. . anyway, not that you’ll ever notice. Maybe crit
ics will be a little softer in their criticism, and maybe men will
be a little more suspicious of you. They’ll all get a kick out of
referring to you as “lady editor.”
Student government will be a little wary of you. But you 11
be in a good position next year in the new Cabinet. You’ll ex
ercise no votes and won’t have to worry about being a sore
head and writing about your pet projects which didn’t win the
Executive Council’s approval.
You, Lorna Larson, have proven your ability. In the past
three years you have become an integral part of this small pub
lication. None of these things I’ve told you are new or startling,
but maybe they’ll help a little about the middle of winter term.
It’s not easy to clean off the editor’s desk and put a new name
on the door, but it’s with great confidence that I do it. Yours
is a challenging job. You’ll do it well.___
THE DAILY ...
to the cast and staff of “Anne of a Thousand Days,” who
amply displayed the result of many weeks preparation
at the Friday night opening.
THE OREGON LEMON...
in a tall glass, please, with ice added.
-—Letters-““
The Campus Answers
As It Exists
TY> the Editor:
It is high time that the Emer
ald, with it’s chorus of highly
emotional letters* to - the - editor
writers who filled the Emerald
editorial pages last week with
their unrealistic ravings, got
their ’’heads” out of the clouds
and looked at the Greek-racial
problem as it exists, and not as
they would have it in their Utopi
an society.
Having nerved as a fraternity
president last year, I feel that I
have had due opportunity to
make the following observations:
(1) When a student enters a
Greek social fraternity or soror
ity, he or she must accept the fact
that they must subordinate some
of their own desires for the gen
eral good of the chapter. The
whole future of the chapter de
pends upon its good social repu
tation.
(2) By the very nature of the
college fraternal system, it is ob
vious that it is definitely within
the confines of “for the good of
the chapter” that a member not
act in a manner that would bring
unfavorable attention to the
group, from ANV other group, or
a substantial portion thereof.
(3) It should be obvious, then,
oven to the enlightened and cru
nading Emerald editor and "cor
respondents" that, alas, in our
Imperfect society, some people
just don't completely approve of
white-negro dating.
(4) It would appear, In conclu
sion, that the find to be aware
of this fact would bo the negro in
volved, and his actions in dating
a white sorority girl can be con
sidered a deliberate and poorly
considered breach of the mores of
the society in which he lives.
1 Name withheld by request i
• • •
Things Getting Confused
To the Editor:
In regard to The Code of Preju
dice at Oregon', it seems to me
ttiat after reeding the responses
in Friday's paper that perhaps
the prejudice is getting confused
with another question that faces
the students of thts university.
Is it the sorority’s action at a
whole that heroines most pre
dominant In people’s minds over
a question so great us this?
I wonder If we are forgrttlng
that people, n o matter where
they live, have attitudes and
opinions that make them Indi
vidual. Prejudice is not limited
to sororities or any one |Hirlirular
living organisation—It exists all
about UN.
That Ih the Htartllng evidence
that has been brought to my
mind. Wn are a group of college,
students, supposedly living In a
situation whore we are exposed
to experienced that ahull ultimate
ly make ud Individual or broal
education and understanding We
are the expected Jeaderd of our
generation. Wo have excellent op
portunltlea to learn to live with .
one another. This l« the Ideal itnd
proverbial "college education."
But Hoinewliere along the line
we are forgetting the values iiw.
essary for experiencing real-life
situations with other Individuals.
Just what in an '-duration doing
for us If we cannot get along with I
each other?
There are probably very few
atudenta who have not taken
some eouroe In the university ,
which has proven in maenre, "We |
of the HUMAN HACK are all
more alike than we are different."
And to think, we Htill carry with
ua .such prcjudicea that are aAfcin
shown to be invalid. That to mo
seems the great disaster of our
educational career the diauater
that hua been ho pointedly
brought out and should be food
for thought for EVERY one of us.
Adeline Khrlleh
. r - Campon €ritle< ' ——
I
Sororities, Ruth Roman, Westerns
Crowd Sentiment in Last Column
- By Don Smith
This being my last regular col
umn before I go out into the cold,
cruel world, I suppose I should
make some sentimental observa
tions about the last four years.
But rather than take off on such
a vein, which from me would be
ludicrous, I think I shall stick to
my guns and discuss “Take Care
of My Little Girl," a film that
criticizes the sorority system.
Twentieth Century Fox, pro
ducers of the film, has sent out
ample publicity to colleges on this
technicolor movie which “will be
coming your way this summer.”
The cast is one that has pre
viously shown it has ability—
Jeanne Crain, Jean Peters, and
Betty Lynn being a few of the
younger people who have rrlade
for themselves some reputation
as actresses. Jean Negulesco is
directing, and can usually be
counted upon to turn out a dis
tinguished job.
The story of the film, which
you may see “picturi/.gd” in the
May McCall’s, traces the first
few weeks of life for freshmen
girls who rush and pledge sorori
ties at college.
Its main target is cynicism and
snobbery which it claims sorori
ties encourage. The heroine of the
film, Miss Crain, is a superb
pledge—up to a point. She suf
fers pledging guff, absurd indig
nities, and snobbery, but her ex
periences disillusion her, and she
turns in her pin.
The moral tof this seems to be
that sororities aren’t all they’re
crackad up to be, and a few fresh
man girls are smarter nowadays
than they used to be.
* * »
There is a film at the MacDon
ald that I would very much like
to see — “Lightning Strikes
Twice.’’ In it, “Ruth Roman is
all woman,’’ the ads claim. I al
ways thought she was pretty
much of a woman in her previous
films, and I’m quite eager to see
what happens in this latest of her
movies. She has Meree<les Me
Cambridge, the sharp political
s»ecrctary of "All the King’s Men,"
and Zacharay -Scott to help her
out.
* * •
A gory production called “Only
the Valiant,” with Gregory Peek
and Ward Bond, was at the Mac
earlier this week. After a slow
start reminiscent of the melo
drama “The Girl I Left Behind
Me,” the movie about half-way
through got into some vicious In
dian battles.
A group of about eight men,
none of whom likes each other
and all of whom have a desire to
kill the Captain in oharge of then],,
hold off several thousand Indi
ans to protect a fort a few miles
to the rear. After a few attempts
by the men on the life of the Cap
tain. after several Indian attacks,
complete with arrows through
bodies and battle axes In necks,
it looks like everyone will be kill
ed. But just in the nick of time,
over the only hill in the vicinity,
come the reinforcements com
plete with Rattling gun. After one
more bloody slaughter, the film
ends.
• It Could Be Oregon
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“Remember the good old days—before blue jeans, pedal pushers . .