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Lorn a Larson, Editor
Abbott Paink, Business Manager
Phil Bettbns, Managing Editor
Grttchkn Gsondaiil, Bill CLOTHiEa, Dow Dkwey, Associate Editors
Just Think About It
There’s a striking spread of pictures in the current issue
of Life magazine. It might be a good idea for all those people
who haven’t yet given blood to take a look at the pictures.
We aren’t going to make a sales talk about the blood drives.
If you think about the whole situation for a few moments you
should be able to sell yourself on donating a pint the next
time you have an opportunity to do so.
U.S. forces in Korea are giving plenty of blood. U.S. civilians
are giving hardly any.
Stocks of whole blood are dangerously low—so low that
it could mean the difference between life and death to a number
of men who are giving their blood in another fashion at the
front lines.
Doctors say whole blood can save a life where plazma cannot.
They say the more whole blood used the greater are the chances
of survival of those critically wounded.
It’s very simple. Most of those soldiers and marines want
to live. Some may not live—because of us.
A little grim realization of the facts of death may shake
this seeming attitude of indifference.
Donate or don’t—that's up to you. But think about it.—B. L.
We Hope They Take The Step
Last year, and the year before, we had a student traffic
court on campus. The court handled what its title implies—
student traffic problems, including the levying of fines.
Skeptics questioned the delegation of such authority to stu
dents. But the court proved itself effective and responsible.
There remained little doubt as to its seriousness of purpose
by spring term, 1951.
The old traffic court no longer exists.
In its place, under the new ASUO constitution, is the stu
dent court. The constitution states. “The court shall have
jurisdiction in all disciplinary matters delegated to it by the
President of the University or the ASUO Senate.”
This is quite a broad definition of the court’s powers—prob
ably too broad—but it indicates the court may have more to
worry about than traffic this year.
And it looks like it will. Several administrative officials are
wholeheartedly in favor of giving the court jurisdiction in
minor disciplinary matters—-fraternity, sorority and dormitory
squabbles and perhaps cheating cases, for instance.
Court members themselves feel capable of assuming some
of this responsibility.
But no definite action can be taken until the approval of
the student-faculty discipline committee is secured. The subject
wili be brought up soon at a committee meeting. Its decision
will make or break the idea.
We sincerely hope the committee decides to the affirmative
and the student court assumes this disciplinary responsibility.
We think students will respect the decisions of a respon
sible court conducted by students.
It’s proved itself responsible in the past two years as a
traffic court. We see no reason why its five members wouldn’t
prove equally as responsible given larger jurisdiction.
It’s a move in the right direction—if the discipline com
mittee concurs.
Let s Rationalize
Maybe these pay phones won’t be so bad after all!
The new telephones in living organizations are downright
bothersome if you’re on the paying end. It’s surprising how
few individuals just happen to be carrying nickles when they
pick up the receiver. And the prospective loss of that twentieth
part of a dollar each time “Sorry, not here” is heard, gives
further cause for consideration.
For these very reasons persons forced to study within hear
ing-distance of the telephones are having an easier time of it
this year. The constant ring-and-run of previous school years
has given away to silence and studying.
Since we’re going to have pay phones whether we want
’em or not, we might as well rationalize that it was those
jangling telephones last year that kept our grades down where
they were.—D. D.
Quoit £ditoJucU
Are We Losing Our Sense of Individuality?
We picked up a copy of the Mlssissipplan, weekly
newspaper of the University of Mississippi, the
other day, and found some paragraphs in an edi
torial entitled "Some Ideas to Think About" which
we feel deserve serious consideration by students
and their elders everywhere.
Herewith we reprint a portion of the editorial:
“American college youth Is being assailed from
many sides during these chaotic days. Many of us
In searching for some key to whut Is assuredly a
troubled situation, find little consolation In the
course which our leaders seem to Ire traveling . ..
"Mink coats, deep freezes, job selling, these
are only a few of the evidences that the realm of
‘dead' things may not be limited only to Denmark.
It is a cause of great wonder as to what is right
and wrong or who is to blame for what...
"American people in general and the youth es
pecially need some goal, some signposts to pattern
their actions after, for after all, we have become,
basically, a generation of followers.
"William Faulkner, Oxford's famous author, made
some significant statements, we think, when he
talked to graduating Oxford high school seniors
last spring. Maybe he was striking close to the
sought-after key when he said:
“ 'What threatens us today is fear. Not the atom
bomb, nor even the fear of it, because, if the bomb
fell on Oxford tonight, all it could do would be to
kill us, which is nothing, since in doing that, it
will have robbed itself of its only power of us;
which is fear of it.
" ‘Our danger is not that. Our danger is the
forces in the world today which are trying to
use man's fear to rob him of his individuality, his
soul, trying to reduce him to an unthinking mass
by fear and bribery . . . the economics or ideologies
or political systems . .. the tyrants and the poli
ticians, American or European or Asiatic, whatever
they call themselves, who would reduce man to
one obedient mass for their own aggrandisement
and power, or because they themselves are baffled
and afraid, afraid of, ®r incapable of, believing in
nmn’H capacity for courage and endurance and
sacrifice.
“ 'Tills is what we must resist, If wo nro t»
change the world for men’s peace and security, it
Is not men in the mass who can and will save'
Man. It is Man himself, created in the image of Hod
so thut he ahull have the power and the will to.
choose right from wrong, and so be able to save
himself because he is worth saving.
" Man, the individual, men and women, who will
refuse to be tricked or frightened or bribed Into
surrendering, not just the right but the duty too. to.
choose between Justice und Injustice, courage and
cowardice, sacrifice and greed, pity and self; who
will believe always not only In the right of man to
be free Of injustice and rapacity and reception, but
the duty and responsibility of man to see that
justice and truth and pity and compassion are done.
" 'So never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise
your voice for honesty and truth and compassion,
against injustice and lying und greed. If you. not
just you in this room tonight, but in all the thou
sands of other rooms like this one about the world
today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not
as a class or classes but as Individuals, men and
women, you will change the earth.
“ ‘In one generation all the Napoleons and Hitlers
and Caesars and Mussotlnis und Stalina and all the
other tyrants who want power and aggrandisement,
and the simple politicians and time-servers who
themselves are merely baffled or Ignorant or afraid,
who have used or are using, or hope to use, ilTfcSi'"
fear and greed for man's enslavement, will nave
vanished from the face of it.' ”
Have we become a generation of followers? VVc
believe that there are telling indications that we
have; that the general outcry against corruption
in high places is mingled with a helpless shrug
and a “what can I do about it” attitude.
If, as we believe, democracy as a system is es
tablished because through the exercise of the in
dividual voice it best secures the right of the in
dividual, what is its future if the individual has
lost his individuality?
So TMMMS Ms Oregon
The Acid Test of True Love
Is Given By Living Organization
——-By Jim Kjycox
There used to be a fellow here
who, when things got terrible
dull, turned to his friends and
said, “Come on, let’s all go out
ana gei. pin
ned.” What a
cynic. He cer
tainly had no
conception o f
the real mean
ing behind the
giving or re
ceiving of fra
ternity jewel
ry.. Getting
pinned is a
yery serious
business.
In the first JIM HAYCOX
place, and with no exceptions,
girls just don’t get pinned to boys
like that. A man, be his intentions
honorable, has to fight an up hill
battle and, so they tell me, It is
no less strenuous on the lady.
The gentleman must carry on his
campaign for several months, or
at least serveral weeks (certain
ly seven days seems a reasonable
minimum).
For her part, it is the girl’s
duty to keep up the role of in
terest in other men, distasteful
as it is. She must not let the man
in pursuit become sure of himself.
Though it tears her heart out,
she will say, as he offers his
brass, “I’m sorry Ronald, but it’s
so much fun to go out with dif
ferent boys and besides, I haven’t
made my mind up yet.”
It is a strain on both of them.
Her friends tell his friends to
tell him (and visa versa) that she
(or he) is quite mad about him
(or her). This little pipeline prob
ably keeps both of them from
going mad. Anyway, pretty soon
she becomes sure of her self ....
And they get pinned, promising
loyalty, fidelity, and morality.
The smart ones use only the first
two, perhaps hoping time will
take care of the rest.
She forgets her past fellas and
he his former girls . . . They are in
love. Now if one or both parties
are fraternity or sorority mem
bers, they are in for a little at
tention. It’s tough to take but
perhaps weathering the first
storm together is the true acid
test.
Her girl friends think it’s
sweet, wonderful, a perfect
matrh, and something they kind
of “knew it all the time.” Ills
friends paint, tub or shower him
(and sometimes they force them
to kiss right out in public). Men
are such beastly realists.
But back to our cynic, the guy
who just wanted to go out and
pin some body. What a bum. How
we all hate him. Maybe if he, and
the few like him, read this they
will begin to understand and take
a more liberal view. For the sake
of this old and honored tradition,
we hope so. Honest!
—To the Editor—
To A Coed
Emerald Editor:
To the good-looking brunette
with the red purse, black coat,
and purple and white checked
head scarf silting in the SU
with seven other girls between
5 and 5:15 Monday afternoon:
Perhaps it Is the unjust opin
ion of two old conservatives
that women should not smoke
In public that causes us to write
this letter. However, nothing is
more disturbing than to see a
beautiful young lady detract from
her charming, wholesome, ordin
ary self with a graceless cigar
ette dangling between her lips.
If you by chance recognize
yourself in this letter, take time
to light up in front of a mirror
and look at the results. Are you
satisfied ?
Two old conservatives*
It. VV. Court right
It. tV. Hickman
-;—acaflL
But Not at Oregon
“This will always work if you foci you’re burdened with an e\V.V
large class.”